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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.
ohrlyeh: (sweet ermengarde)

[personal profile] ohrlyeh 2017-11-02 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
"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."

that's pretty vague if you ask me

it could be like a pain like it's super annoying instead of actually painful
robitussin: (or if they just fake it)

[personal profile] robitussin 2017-11-02 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
give me an explanation for how you could use a shotgun underwater and we'll talk
wherethewildthingsare: (BUTCH DEADLIFT)

[personal profile] wherethewildthingsare 2017-11-02 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
It might be some fundamental 'essence' of us without literally being a soul that goes to the afterlife or whatever.
frostythehitman: (too much pressure to take)

[personal profile] frostythehitman 2017-11-02 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
well screw them
if they're doing this to get less complaints then i don't give a shit, i'm gonna keep complaining about every single last ticket they give me
anything they try to make their own lives easier i'm gonna be there to spit in their faces over it
stagemagic: (Every single sense in me is heightenED)

[personal profile] stagemagic 2017-11-02 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Any good mystery is supposed to raise more questions the moment they answer one, up until everything comes together in a satisfying conclusion, correct?
amodelidol: (*is excited*)

[personal profile] amodelidol 2017-11-02 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
which mobage? I'm trying to get one but I think I might have to download it on my tablet I don't have a lot of room on my phone

that's such a cute rabbit!

don't worry I forgot about green too!

odapologist: (yagen52)

[personal profile] odapologist 2017-11-02 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know how other people deal with it, but I personally wanted to act like my life was normal. As for how it would have looked from your perspective back then, or for anyone without Retrospec...

You just don't notice. It's a blessing and a curse, really.
belligerentwarrior: (How's this make us lucky?)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2017-11-02 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
you're probably thinking of our turnout gear. that's the yellow stuff.
the set i wear under it and when i'm not on a call is navy.
alienates: (pic#11569658)

[personal profile] alienates 2017-11-02 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Hahahahaha

Seriously though.
notbunaga: (Default)

[personal profile] notbunaga 2017-11-02 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
no, it's alright. you dont have to apologise
if i was in your position id say the same thing

besides
until i hear from anyone it means its noone id be overly worried about
wherethewildthingsare: (BUTCH DEADLIFT)

[personal profile] wherethewildthingsare 2017-11-02 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
You might still grow extra limbs or something.
sketchythief: (pic#11812076)

[personal profile] sketchythief 2017-11-02 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
thats fair... i guess i would be curious too if i thought my memories were okay to deal with

but we only have enough time to deal with one life and thats now! so i feel like thinking about the other life all the time is better spent doing something else...
destiny_key: (lol dis bitch)

[personal profile] destiny_key 2017-11-02 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
well yeah
theres like
an infinite amount of worlds

any worlds we went to before were like
an itty bitty portion of them
its probably impossible to go to all of them

but even if the one was a simulation i dont think they all were
ohrlyeh: (celephais)

[personal profile] ohrlyeh 2017-11-02 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
i'm not going to put a squirrel in there.

i'm just curious. and this isn't just a mailbox it's apparently magic or something so that makes it more than a mailbox
belligerentwarrior: (Thought there'd be more than flowers)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2017-11-02 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
oh don't you dare start too
grumpei: (suspicious ∫)

[personal profile] grumpei 2017-11-02 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
then weird cult?
guess thatd explain the forcing it on me too
thesettingsun: smile (so forget the inner me observe the outer)

[personal profile] thesettingsun 2017-11-02 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Does the name 'Dazai Osamu' mean anything to you? Apart from it being past me's pen name.
scythegun: (THOUGHTFUL ⇝)

[personal profile] scythegun 2017-11-02 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Part of me wants to believe that there's more to it than that, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's all this is.
darkinferno: (★ a dream is a wish your heart makes)

[personal profile] darkinferno 2017-11-02 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
we won't forget

the people that have forgotten, they've said it's because their soul slips out of place, right? but if we manage to do whatever it is retrospec's working on, our souls will still be in place

even if they try to make us forget by erasing our memories, our hearts will still remember the people we've left behind. and as long as they're in our hearts, we can't ever really forget them
Edited 2017-11-02 02:46 (UTC)
truedetective: (12)

[personal profile] truedetective 2017-11-02 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Why would you not consider them bizarre?
elevelvetor: (52. two of cups)

[personal profile] elevelvetor 2017-11-02 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
because i have perfect health.
more pertinently, her reflection was quite clear in the fountain she was looking at...
i've also received a book i know to be hers, as there is no other like it anywhere else, as far as i know.
grumpei: (melodramatic ∫)

[personal profile] grumpei 2017-11-02 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
not sure gets the right word
but yeah
sketchythief: (pic#3576368)

[personal profile] sketchythief 2017-11-02 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
i got the app two months ago :(

... and in one of my memories, i had white hair so i feel like thats what im gonna get later on ,_,
imaginex: (♢ observe)

[personal profile] imaginex 2017-11-02 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
[...]

That's true. It's the same for me.

I barely have any memories of the past, I suppose.

They just... aren't very pleasant? So I might've blown this out of proportion.
ladytakamaki: (don't need no hold up)

[personal profile] ladytakamaki 2017-11-02 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know, to both of those.
I feel like they like keeping us in the dark? They're kind of assholes like that.

And the staff? I think they're from HR or something.

Are you new?