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RecollΓ© 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.
loudmouths: (🌟 don't ruin this for me with the truth)

[personal profile] loudmouths 2017-11-02 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
i don't get what else they could mean, really. if we're getting all of these memories from a life we didn't live, and if those are our "real" memories, then...

i dunno. it's hard to really figure out where they're goin with it. it feels out of our control at this point, especially if they're essentially threatening us with death for noncompliance.
parodeity: (Default)

[personal profile] parodeity 2017-11-02 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
lalliho: (but what if you didn't instead)

[personal profile] lalliho 2017-11-02 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't really know how that's different
elevelvetor: (β…©β…¦. the star)

[personal profile] elevelvetor 2017-11-02 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
well, no one ever said all birds were dumb...
there are quite intelligent birds, after all. i think "birdbrain" should be a compliment more than an insult.

[personal profile] compendiem 2017-11-02 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
> Move around and attack from behind
doitrockapella: (BOW ❖ holy shit was that an honorific)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-11-02 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
...That's interesting. Are you familiar with the thought experiment, the "ship of Theseus"?
loudmouths: (🌟 one day i'll be me)

[personal profile] loudmouths 2017-11-02 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
i know i don't. it'll end up bein a lot of stress for people i care about.

but yeah, that helps, thank you. if it just stays that way, then really all we need to worry about is staying alive, i guess.
parodeity: (Default)

[personal profile] parodeity 2017-11-02 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ continued here ]
headpatmenace: (pic#11791354)

[personal profile] headpatmenace 2017-11-02 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
you're the first person under fifty I ever heard say that


well, I mean

all the weird stuff with the colors.

and the fruits with faces.

and stuff like that

why make up new, unrelated weird stuff?

[personal profile] promisedyou 2017-11-02 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't, either, so here's hoping...
hauhra: (and that's everything) (rifraff street rat i don't buy that)

[personal profile] hauhra 2017-11-02 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope... though I sure wished I could back in August. But that's all right. You and a few other people in our group could, right? So it all worked out in the end.
doitrockapella: (HURT ❖ it's cool it's only a flesh wound)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-11-02 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
It comes down to a question of what makes you who you are, I suppose — your nature or your experiences.
parodeity: (Default)

[personal profile] parodeity 2017-11-02 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
roseblooms: can you stand against my hierophant greenery (GLASSES ❁ this is my kakyoin impression)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-11-02 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
The advance warning?
roseblooms: seriously this is like the third one this week (LISTEN ❁ another fucking love confession)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-11-02 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Unrealistic?
matchbreaker: (N'Zoth)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-11-02 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Minds, souls, worlds, reality. I can tell you for true that monsters were roaming the streets in August if you don't remember that and I and a few dozen others had to pick up the pieces.
parodeity: (Default)

[personal profile] parodeity 2017-11-02 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
stopbleeding: <user name=lovikov site=livejournal.com> (wow greer you're not funny)

[personal profile] stopbleeding 2017-11-02 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[beep]
roseblooms: no one stays dead in this show and i think that's beautiful (ASIDE ❁ that's bullshit but i believe it)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-11-02 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Something like that, yes.

We got a warning of sorts last month, didn't we? Not a great one, mind, but something more than nothing.
parodeity: (Default)

[personal profile] parodeity 2017-11-02 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
liberal_arts: (it keeps me up at night)

[personal profile] liberal_arts 2017-11-02 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I take it they've had a difficult life, then?
roseblooms: this is an asspull but it's cool so it's fine (LASH ❁ my hair is a deadly weapon)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-11-02 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Frankly I'd be more concerned about a person who abruptly decided to stop being "scurd" of dying, since that's not exactly a normal part of the human condition.
roseblooms: this is my vash the stampede impression (YOSH ❁ la-di-da-di-da an ocean of blood)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-11-02 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
...More, frankly. They can't hide what's in plain sight for all of us to see.
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[personal profile] parodeity 2017-11-02 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
hauhra: (gotta eat to live)

[personal profile] hauhra 2017-11-02 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT. ]

Nine paragraphs of telling us exactly what's going on beats the two paragraphs of cryptic garbage we usually get.

Of course, I'm still not sure if I buy it... but that's a different story.