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Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2017-11-01 05:49 pm

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hey. first matter of business is that you won't be getting items in the mail any longer. i'll send you tickets if i get something and you can ignore it if you want or pick it up from the mailbox. it's your choice. if you ignore it whatever it is stays in storage. the original thought was that you would like your things back, but since that isn't always the case this seems like the easiest way to avoid problems.

i'll be upfront and say that you shouldn't try to put anything in the mailbox that doesn't go there. you can put in items registered in our system but anything else will trigger the failsafes. while these failsafes aren't lethal or anything, they're designed to be about as much of a pain as it would be for me to sort out that kind of thing. so that's your warning to maybe avoid triggering them?

please do not attempt to destroy the mailbox. it took me a while to set up. it's over by the building. you'll recognize it because it is blue. instructions on how to use it will come with any tickets i mail out. if you have an item you want stored which is in our systems, go over and put it in. if you want one unstored, it'll give it back. easy as pie. no one else can pull your stuff or store it; it's locked to specific users with specific items.

by the way, this isn't going to be working fully until the third. i'll be sending out tickets anyway though, so just keep tabs on them.

can't do anything about physical changes without knocking your souls out of alignment, which is technician work anyway, and also would kind of kill you. joanne will address that in a second.

Maurice Fitzwilliam
Mail Department
Retrspec Incorporated

Hello! Like Maurice said, the physical changes are a result of your souls being as they are! What the mind forgets, the soul remembers. As long as you're you, you will become more "you" physically. It's a little like an echo coming back? I'm trying to be understandable, but the actual explanation is way more technical, sorry! That said, the only way to "stop" that kind of thing would be to let your soul dissipate, which is possible but 1) would kill you! and 2) would definitely be a thing I don't want to do because of point 1 and 3) is entirely against the company directives anyway. Maurice doesn't think saying this will help much, but I don't see any reason to not! Well, actually what he said was that people always need a target and he doesn't mind us being one, but he's a gloomy dork so he doesn't get a say. My great-grandmother liked people who were honest, not people who sighed and didn't bother to say things!!

Also, I did try to explain unreality effects earlier when I spoke to some of you, but I don't think I was as clear as I could have been. At least, I'm not sure how to say things clearly and still be allowed to say them, but! There is something that causes unreality on the whole that I can't really say much about. But it was very connected to what destroyed all those poor worlds. We can't do much about that, but sometimes we can snag a few souls from those places, so we do, because we can. Not everyone liked that, you know, but what's the point of saving only yourself from the dark? Anyway, they had that argument way before I was ever born, but even if they'd had it when I was alive, this would definitely be my answer.

We do manage to stabilize things sometimes. I'm afraid I need to let you know that some of it we're going to have to let go. The changes might be a little confusing, but it shouldn't be dangerous. We're going to be moving some resources into better defenses against that kind of huge storm. Please don't worry too much if some things move around or shrink! It's a lot to maintain, you know?

I'm sorry that we can't be more exact. This month shouldn't be more than residual effects from what we're doing, though. So it won't be any uncontrolled unreality. Mostly! For the record, we don't really control what those effects are! I can't really address everyone but I know that came up a lot last time?

Joanne Wiseman
Technician 2nd class
Retrspec Incorporated

As of this post, clothing and personal items have now regained the color blue! This includes all items your character had in their AU plus any regains your character has obtained. However, this does not include physical features.

As a reminder, this month's freebie regain can be earned with one thread on this post with five consecutive comments from you with a new character. We define "new character" as any of the incoming new characters from the application round regardless of TDM tags or any in-game character who your character has not threaded with. Once you have those five comments you may turn in the regain request as usual with "November Freebie" as the explanation (and the thread link).

Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently.
scythegun: (LILY ⇝)

[personal profile] scythegun 2017-11-02 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh really? That's fascinating! If that's really the case then you're quite lucky; having someone else to talk to about these sorts of things will probably make it a bit easier.

[...i mean he's got cumore now? he doesn't want cumore. someone please take cumore back.]
fabrefactions: (63)

[personal profile] fabrefactions 2017-11-02 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
If it were, it would be a poor and unfinished one.
lalliho: (it's still funny)

[personal profile] lalliho 2017-11-02 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
oh

I got mine from magic pearls
glacian: by ponponpon (❄Is also great)

[personal profile] glacian 2017-11-02 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Surely you've heard of this infamous quote: with great power, comes great responsibility.

I've grown quite accustomed to my quiet mundane life. I wish not for it to change.
Edited 2017-11-02 19:29 (UTC)
alienated: (005)

[personal profile] alienated 2017-11-02 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
It installs itself on all the other stuff you use.
Even the public computers.
fabrefactions: (6)

[personal profile] fabrefactions 2017-11-02 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
... for apple juice?
lalliho: (why are you pulling me)

[personal profile] lalliho 2017-11-02 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
the minotaur roars as you turn away from him and move through the door on the right and down the hall to the next room. in fleeing the battle, you drop one of your many pens from your pile of office supplies but you believe this is a fair trade for your life. through the door behind you, you hear loud footsteps approaching

> look
> exit back
> exit forward
> inventory
> enter own prompt
alienated: (121)

[personal profile] alienated 2017-11-02 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Not really, but I don't have the full story. Whatever happened, it was before I got the app.
coinflipped: (52)

[personal profile] coinflipped 2017-11-02 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I might have two someones. There's a girl that swears she knows me, too. It's bothersome.

[He knows her name is Magilou at least...]
robitussin: (half the time afraid)

[personal profile] robitussin 2017-11-02 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
i can't live without my laptop

why do they have to hit me where it hurts
notbunaga: (Default)

[personal profile] notbunaga 2017-11-02 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
well, if
it's not a very big if, considering what theyve made this process sound like
but it's still an if

[personal profile] compendiem 2017-11-02 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
The interface is lacking, but a game in development isn't always bad. That means the user base can influence it.
cardcaptured: <user name=fleeting> | DNS (And I treat you like a girl)

[personal profile] cardcaptured 2017-11-02 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, unfortunately. [He's even argued with a few of them on the internet too] They think because they can't see the curvature of the Earth when they're in an airplane, it doesn't exist. Never mind we have photos and half a millennium's worth of proof that it's round, but there you go.

[personal profile] compendiem 2017-11-02 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
>Turn back
> Retrieve pen
selfloving: (X.)

[personal profile] selfloving 2017-11-02 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[The metaphor just gets messier with her sister, also named Rose, involved. Never mind that this was the man Tiffany said she remembered knowing. There's so much to regret here.]

I don't believe so. After all, no one is forgetting things. [There's a 'yet' there, hazy and implied, but she doesn't bring it up.]

The memories in this case are new ones, not necessarily replacement ones.
scythegun: (RELAXED ⇝ hahaha wow)

[personal profile] scythegun 2017-11-02 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Aren't you just incredibly lucky, then? Though I imagine right now it's very bizarre to hear. Try not to be too annoyed with them, they're probably just doing their best to help!
commandertoolbelt: (reasoning)

[personal profile] commandertoolbelt 2017-11-02 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
okay out of the two i personally would say the magic pearls are a little weirder
but we also followed a bear through the desert doing chores for a bunch of strangers to get to the magic book
so who am i to judge
glacian: by glacian (❄I know of Winter's Kiss)

[personal profile] glacian 2017-11-02 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I cannot claim I'm currently fine with these sudden changes but there's nothing that can be done. Do we simply lament over what will be or do we adjust?

That is the question.

[personal profile] compendiem 2017-11-02 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I see. I won't ask around, then. I plan to sit down this weekend and read through everything since the application launch in February. But I don't expect it to be publicized.
maidofmistakes: Depressed. (Friday night watching House.)

[personal profile] maidofmistakes 2017-11-02 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
From how people are talking, they don't really seem like happy ones.
faeblooded: (bwuh)

[personal profile] faeblooded 2017-11-02 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
RNGesus, man. Word is that you should consider yourself lucky you got picked.

I think it's a load of bull.
Edited 2017-11-02 19:35 (UTC)
lalliho: (oh shit did i leave the oven on)

[personal profile] lalliho 2017-11-02 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah that's definitely pretty weird

probably cooler than retrospec's basement
frostythehitman: (NO ONE WILL CHANGE THIS)

[personal profile] frostythehitman 2017-11-02 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
okay fine if you want to be pedantic about it
the company that runs this app took it
glacian: by ponponpon (❄I think I know enough of hate)

[personal profile] glacian 2017-11-02 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Why must your current self be deemed as false? Can they not both be true?
maidofmistakes: Annoyed, lifting something. (Why are you in my phone)

[personal profile] maidofmistakes 2017-11-02 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Should I ask what the harder ones are?