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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

[elevelvetor]

perhaps they're colorblind and missing green doesn't matter because it'd simply be blue to them anyway.

[adoringpast]

all of them can't be colorblind, elizabeth
unless that's a must-have for every retrospec employee

[elevelvetor]

well, my working theory of everyone having an "a" as the second letter of their name was thoroughly crushed beneath their heel
so i do need another
and this could be it!

[adoringpast]

the letter A
elizabeth
that's not

do you really think all of them should have something in common?

[elevelvetor]

why not? we all certainly do.
that is, we're evidently the saved souls of destroyed worlds, or whatever.
isn't it natural they all should?

[adoringpast]

yes but that still doesn't make sense
i know wendy came from a destroyed world herself but
so would the others
it'd be very unlikely that retrospec just rounded up randos from other dimensions and chose them based on naming
not to mention dumb as fuck

[elevelvetor]

and you don't believe Retrospec wouldn't truly do something as pointless and "dumb as fuck" as that?

[adoringpast]

touche
but either way, that's not it
and we'll never know unless they reveal a list of their workers and we check out their names and credentials to see if there are any matches
which should be unlikely

i hope

[elevelvetor]

[ elizabeth 1 sena 0 ]

Joanne already disrupts the pattern anyway, being "Jo" and before even that, Maurice ruined the potential "Ja" pattern by being "Ma"... i theorized Jim could be James to make that one work.
but it's harder to tell on paper if anyone is colorblind, save going into actual medical records
which i assume we will never be able to find.

[adoringpast]

exactly
either they paid the hospital a large sum not to talk about their records or they have their own medical facility inside that building
which leads me to wonder whether they actually go outside at all

[elevelvetor]

perhaps they're simple basement dwellers?

[adoringpast]

now that's a reality i don't want to accept
i can't let some no-life neets dictate the way i used to live and have them fuck up our lives???
Disgusting

[elevelvetor]

[ WOW........ ]

you have some very strong opinions on people who enjoy being inside rather than being out, don't you.

[adoringpast]

why wouldn't i?
unless they have a deathly illness or whatever, people should at least go outside and absorb sunlight and fresh air whenever they can
shut-ins like that irritate me more than anything else bc they think they can just sit on their asses and do nothing while shit gets handed on their platter no problem
they don't work and yet they still get what they want
it's fucked up

[elevelvetor]

[ ...well she's never gonna tell him she was basically someone who prior to like the last couple of months never went out unless she needed to—!! ]

your incredibly important points have been dutifully recorded for the sake of future generations, to inspire them to go outside and enjoy life.
thank you for the lecture, professor.