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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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It's a bit of a long story, but I'm willing to try and explain. But to start with, there's no getting rid of the app. We're all stuck with it.

Edited 2017-11-02 01:20 (UTC)

might as well go for it if you're okay with that

is this some weird glitch?? am i going to have to get a new phone

Getting a new phone wouldn't fix anything. It would just show up there as well. The app will appear on any device you use.

Well to begin with, when they talk about us receiving items and physical changes, they mean it. Everyone who uses the app begins to remember things, things that seem like they happened to someone else in another life. And sometimes that includes physical changes as well, like if you're a red head, but you get back memories of being a brunette, your hair will eventually change to match.

We're not sure what it all means. But apparently everything we remember is suppose to be our real memories.

well that's getting firmly into creepy territory

also that seems... idk i don't want to be like "you're lying" but that doesn't seem like a thing? if those are our real memories that means what we remember now is fake and that's way too conspiracy theory-ish for me

The whole thing is pretty creepy.

Yeah. It's not like any of us want to believe it either. I'm still not sure if I totally believe it. But the changes that happen to people are convincing.

Maybe you'll feel differently once it starts happening to you.

so what's the weirdest thing that's happened to you

I had to steal a key from the pocket of a sea monster pirate Captain while my friends distracted him.

It has to do with the "unrealities" they mentioned. Another long story.

congrats on your lovecraft-ish victory

i mean that makes me incredibly curious if you're cool with sharing the rest of this story

Well someone at Retrospect screwed up pretty badly and causes a bunch of rifts to open up and allow monster through to swarm the city. The ocean turned into a giant gaping mouth monster that kidnapped half of us and threw them into different dimensions. The rest of us remained in the city working with Retrospect to fix the problem.

We had to visit a couple different places. The underwater ship was just one of them. There was also this really pretty place that was all natural and it's main inhabitants were alien looking but really nice. They gave us the item we needed after we picked some herbs and caught some fish for them.

ummmmm

does stuff like that happen often, because holy shit

Being whisked away to other dimensions? No, that was the only time so far.

But a lot of strange things do happen on a pretty frequent basis around here.

ughhhhhhh

are most of them things that i can comfortably ignore or is that a no

It depends. There are little things, like the lack of certain colors, that are easy to ignore. But there are also bigger things that tend to draw everyone in no matter what.

ughhhhh i don't have time for these shenanigans i need to stay on honor roll

I know what you mean. But, if you ever feel like you're struggling, I'd be happy to study with you. I tutor on the side so I might be able to help.

nah i'm good

i mean i've never had an issue studying on my own, my only worry with shenanigans is that i wouldn't have enough free time to study and tutoring wouldn't fix that

Well thankfully nothing too serious has happened during the school year so far. All the unreality stuff lasted a month, but it happened in the summer. So you should be able to find the time to study still.

i bet that was a really fun summer vacation

yikes

It was eventful at least. Kept us busy. The month before we were all playing a giant game of bingo and that wasn't so bad.

what were you trying to win?

We were trying to collect the QR codes that were on our bingo pages. Once the monsters invaded and everything went crazy, the people who won their QR codes gained special abilities for the month. It really helped us out.

so basically nothing normal is going to happen to me again

got it

It's...doubtful.

But we're all in this crazy stuff together at least.

[Which is...supposed to be encouraging.]

i guess that's better than the alternative

how long have people been dealing with this?

Since last February.

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