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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.

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[promisedyou]

Then that begs to wonder why they would be evasive to begin with, wouldn't it?

[heroforall]

To appease us? To make us think they're trusting us more in the hopes of getting us to trust them? They've been a little more forthcoming since all of us had to help them fix the unreality awhile back. Maybe this is their way of paying us back.

[promisedyou]

[ Well, this is definitely news to her! ]

Do you have more details on the whole 'fix the unreality' thing? I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the angle they're going for, but it's still a whole load of crap. I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them regardless.

[heroforall]

Well back in August Retrospect messed something up real bad, I'm not sure of the specifics, but it opened up portals around the city that allowed monsters through. And then half of us got throw into other unrealities while the rest remained here in the city. My group investigated the basement of the Retrospect building, and there were doors down there that would take us to strange dimensions-one was a sunken pirate ship that had a talking octopus for a chef!

We ended up finding out a lot of fragmented information about Retrospect and the city then. I guess that made it possible for them to be more forthcoming. I think someone compiled the information and distributed it not long after we were all back. You should look for that if you want to know more.

[promisedyou]

A monster. Really. Sounds like some early bad Halloween joke, if you ask me. But duly noted. It might be important to know for later.

[heroforall]

Not just one monster, but dozens of them. They were all over the city for the entire month.

[promisedyou]

You expect me to believe this and I didn't notice any of it?

[ WHAT GIVES. ]

[heroforall]

No one who isn't on the app notices any of it. You can try to talk to them about it and they'll think you're crazy. Or they'll think it's normal.

We had monsters stomping around town and everyone thought it was perfectly natural. Exscept for us.

[promisedyou]

That's strange, though! I mean, yeah, I'd definitely think someone was crazy if someone told me that they saw a monster... please tell me someone took pictures of it, though.

[heroforall]

I think most of us where too busy fighting them off. But if you ask around maybe someone did?

[promisedyou]

I guess I'll just have to try doing just that.