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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
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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
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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).

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not that i dont appreciate the soul survivor shit
but uh
i cant tell if this is some weird creative writing thing or a legitimate psychotic breakdown
so go see a doctor or something maybe?

what, this entire post?

answer is neither, actually.

then weird cult?
guess thatd explain the forcing it on me too

weird cult sounds about right only if it happens to be like, us willingly joining it. I'm about 99% sure this is not the case

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Oh, hello.
Did you just get the app?

not sure gets the right word
but yeah

It was forced on us, yes.

I'm not entirely sure if everything they're telling us is true.
It's hard to say and we don't really have definite proof saying either way? So it depends on you whether you want to take them by their world.
But it's also not a prank.

yeah its a little hard to believe all this when it makes no sense
itd be different if there was some proof but dunno how youd prove that

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Not even a doctor can cure one's love for LARPing!
But nah, it seems to be legitimate from how much I had to scroll back.

i dont think a lot of posts makes it legitimate
a shared delusion is still a delusion right

There has been cases of mass hallucinations, but I only remember mild ones like a disease spreading in a school when there was no disease in the first place but everyone got sick anyway!
Belief is a strong thing.

that just sounds like a bunch of kids wanting to get out of school anyway
this is like some wild conspiracy theory website i somehow got subscribed to

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oh hey
arent you hallmark movie guy

i want a new movie
this ones shit

its not even the third yet

I used to think this was a mass hallucination. But it's pretty difficult to hallucinate that all horses have become janky, long-leged, giant golden chickens.

officer junpei?

Is that you? From the local station?

if only.
but ok the real question is if it were a creative writing thing what kind of critique would you give them? because i am thinking they are definitely lacking some details.

I don't think they have a doctor in their building but they probably should

like a doctor doctor anyway