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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.
eyestitch: (☺ huit)

[personal profile] eyestitch 2017-11-02 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
100% certain

i'd never mix the guy who got baren's d in a vice shortly thereafter up with anyone else.

like, also it was just you me + senabanana for a while there
destiny_key: (lol whut)

[personal profile] destiny_key 2017-11-02 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
i understand how you feel

but also shes minako
she wouldnt ever be disappointed in you
daemonized: (63)

[personal profile] daemonized 2017-11-02 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
They're persistent. And not always pleasant.

Though maybe you'll be fortunate? Maybe you'll avoid all the memories of violence and monsters and magic and this whole ordeal may prove easy for you. I can't say.
robitussin: (when i thought you might be dying)

[personal profile] robitussin 2017-11-02 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
but the fact that it happened so recently means we get a break from shenanigans for a long time now right

right
liberal_arts: (break the incredible)

[personal profile] liberal_arts 2017-11-02 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't mean to imply that. I'm just saying that it's as much out of their hands as it is yours, in your current state.
destiny_key: (SUPER!)

[personal profile] destiny_key 2017-11-02 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
YES ITS CHRISTMAS ALREADY
liberal_arts: (daylight breaking overhead)

[personal profile] liberal_arts 2017-11-02 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
In all honesty, and please understand I'm not a scientist so take this as you will, it doesn't really seem limited by what we understand as physical size.
windeity: (CALM ♫ a pleasant boy)

[personal profile] windeity 2017-11-02 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
always taking cracks at me, aren't you?
...but sometimes i know what's going on.

that's good at least! i like to think they really do want to help us by telling us things but that they are holding off on a lot of stuff because it would be a lot to process.
good information or bad information?
saburai: (wince ♙ to cultivate a vigorous spirit)

[personal profile] saburai 2017-11-02 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know what to make of either of it, honestly.
concasse: (huh↠ go on)

[personal profile] concasse 2017-11-02 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
if only certain people are allowed on at a time, I'm guessing certain requirements gotta be met before they allow more members

that or they don't wanna face the shitshow each time someone asks what's going on

whatever, I'm not saying I believe any of this. dead worlds? please.

[personal profile] compendiem 2017-11-02 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I guess I don't look for blue in general. I don't paint with it often, so it's not something I noticed.
headpatmenace: (pic#11791354)

[personal profile] headpatmenace 2017-11-02 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
political science

but if we're being honest that's mainly cause I haven't decided on anything else
sotenbori: (damn it kazzy-kun's postcard again)

[personal profile] sotenbori 2017-11-02 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
usually the changes people talk about don't happen until after youre on retrospec so its probably different
but it also
that sounds really rough
the eye thing isn't so bad i mean
it sucks its gone
but i can still see
concasse: (talk↠ the sound of my lack of caring)

[personal profile] concasse 2017-11-02 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
exactly

then who else would be sneaking you candy between assignments?
admiringly: (48)

[personal profile] admiringly 2017-11-02 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
idk but failsafes makes it sound unpleasant?
curiosity killed the cat and he said it's not lethal but that doesn't mean it's not painless?

only in my dreams
or my nightmares
cupcakes for the win!
mincingminuet: (Well.....)

[personal profile] mincingminuet 2017-11-02 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
I know it is, my man.

I've been dealing with this since February. It's easier for me to swallow after all this time. But I understand why you feel like you do.

I can prove to you that stuff's not right though.
ohrlyeh: (memory)

[personal profile] ohrlyeh 2017-11-02 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
i'm confused about the rest so i'm just asking about the one thing that does make some sense
dandyofawolf: (Cheesing it up)

[personal profile] dandyofawolf 2017-11-02 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
That would depend on what you find interesting, I think.

[personal profile] compendiem 2017-11-02 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
It's not impossible. Minako is human too.
sivard: (☁ another day to run away)

[personal profile] sivard 2017-11-02 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
It's not the most optimistic thought of mine, I know.
chaoticwhimsy: (Hmm.)

[personal profile] chaoticwhimsy 2017-11-02 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe you'll get a ticket for the poofy dress.
concasse: (wut↠ y'know jesus died for your sins)

[personal profile] concasse 2017-11-02 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
oh trust me, I'm seeing no benefits to this shit so far
windeity: (GAZE ♫ yeah about that...)

[personal profile] windeity 2017-11-02 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
first of all, i never said i would break it! i just want to see what happens if you put other stuff in there.
but also...that means you want to keep getting stuff back from them?
stagemagic: (Every single sense in me is heightenED)

[personal profile] stagemagic 2017-11-02 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Unless we want to face absolute annihilation then we have no choice but to accept our fates of becoming more us than the current us, is that right? If we really are the distorted echoes of whole creatures then I suppose the partial annihilation you're proposing we take as our alternative is a fair price to pay. After all, you did manage to save our souls, or are they the souls of others? That point wasn't entirely clear, neither is how these souls were saved despite the fact that they have never been prosed to have a tangible form to save. Unless, of course, we're meant to take this salvation in a more biblical sense?

I look forward to how you tie it all together in the next installment of this story. ♪
wantnotneed: (pic#4718825)

[personal profile] wantnotneed 2017-11-02 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like an app-wide survey is in order!
Though, for another day.
I've been scrolling for so long...