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[recollecters]

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.

Comments

[evidentiary]

Some of that seemed almost important and useful. While we're on the topic of "important"...how many people found that bunker in the woods last month, and what did you discover while you were there? I want to know if it was the "same" for everyone.

Also, does anyone have one of these "item tickets" that I can examine? Thank you for your time either way.

[chessking]

didn't go to the bunker so I can't help you there

but if I get an item ticket i'll let you know

[evidentiary]

It contained what seemed to be a mission charter for the company, if we assume those "families" comprise it?

[chessking]

hm, the founding families thing? what did the charter say?

you'll have to bring me up to speed on what you know, I've only gotten piecemeal information at best

[reticence]

Do you mean at the same time that there were all those monsters roaming the city? Or was there another group looking into the forest bunker after that?

[evidentiary]

No, last month. If you went into the Retrospec building, a hallway let out into the forest, and there was an old bunker there. I went there several times with others.

[reticence]

A hallway from the Retrospec building leading out into an old bunker in the forest... I would say that I'm surprised but what with everything else going on in this city, I suppose it's hardly the most ridiculous thing I've heard of.

Having explored the bunker, or at least a similar one, during the reality unrest, I'd be interested in knowing what there might have been discovered this go around.

[sunnymerc]

bunker? woods???

have you never seen a horror movie? that is the exact sort of thing not to be doing in october

[evidentiary]

I didn't know where it led when I entered it.

[sunnymerc]

YOU WENT INTO IT???
that sounds like something i'd do! i thought you were supposed to be a brainy girl

[saburai]

Are you hoping to learn something about Retrospec's operation from the tickets themselves?

[evidentiary]

At the very least I'd like to see what they're like...it's a bit of a pain to hear about a feature and not have it available to investigate, isn't it?

[saburai]

I suppose. It's certainly worth trying to investigate how these defense mechanisms work, I imagine, if only to avoid triggering them accidentally.

[truedetective]

I didn't.
Elaborate.

[evidentiary]

No, thank you.

[kagepuro]

wait are we not supposed to tell people what we found there? ☹️

[kagepuro]

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Naoto you should say please when you're asking someone for information...

[lecturehall]

Isn't bunker in the woods the title of a horror movie?

[evidentiary]

That's no reason not to investigate one. Or not a very good reason.

[sketchythief]

if its one with their logo i got it today...

should i come over right now?

[evidentiary]

Please do as soon as you're able. We have a cake, if you'd like some with tea while I examine it?

[ PERHAPS ON HER INBOX SINCE ACTION ]

[optimistical]

Do you think that they would have left any clues on the tickets?

[evidentiary]

I'm not certain. Mostly, I want to see what he's speaking about so I can identify one and get a good feel for it...I also plan to observe the mailbox on the third.

[commandertoolbelt]

wait, last month? not august?
the bunker came back?

[evidentiary]

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