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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

[notbunaga]

sakura and i have a lot to talk about
dont worry about that

[sotenbori]

i'm glad youre back

[notbunaga]

thanks
how've you been keeping?

[sotenbori]

october was shit
but new month new set of retrospec problems

[notbunaga]

hey, if i can get by being a worthless shut in while i was gone
im sure everyone else actively trying to survive can get through anything
so its not all bad

[sotenbori]

hey no matter what happened you werent worthless

but yeah i guess
things came out of the fog and attacked us
a lot of people had to confront things they didnt want to

[notbunaga]

relax it was hyperbole
it's like how everyone says "i wanna die" on the internet now
most of them do not actually want to die

mind if i ask what kind of stuff?

[sotenbori]

people on the internet are stupid

i think memory stuff
i fought a lot of fucking dudes

[notbunaga]

no offense but that doesnt surprise me
you always gave off that kinda vibe

[sotenbori]

i mean ive always been that kind of guy
though i know the missing-an-eye thing doesn't help much
generally my face just kind of gives that impression

i dont mean to put it lightly
some people found some really traumatic things wandering around at night
and there were times we were in each others dreams, i think?
and
something really fucked up happened to a group of people that had nothing to do with either of those things
someone snapped and hurt them
for shits and giggles i guess

[notbunaga]

[Jesus...there is a lot to unpack here.

So she's gonna take this one step at a time.]

which group of people? like civilians around here or?

[sotenbori]

[ she asked.... ]

civilians

[notbunaga]

was it retrospec?

[sotenbori]

i think everyone involved was a retrospec user
but i dont know if it was retrospecs fault

[notbunaga]

jesus
i guess it was only a matter of time until some of the weirdos around here started getting loose with their morals
and what happened? did it resolve or is someone still out there?

[sotenbori]

cops showed up
people ended up in the hospital
honestly ive tried not to ask too many questions out of respect but
it sounds pretty horrible

[notbunaga]

thats fair
youve been really informative already, majima, thanks

the only other thing ill ask is...do you know anyone who ended up in hospital?

[sotenbori]

i do
but i think if you know them you should hear it from them and not me
i'm sorry

[ pretty much bc he wouldnt want people to hear about how he was tortured from anyone but him ]

[notbunaga]

no, it's alright. you dont have to apologise
if i was in your position id say the same thing

besides
until i hear from anyone it means its noone id be overly worried about

[sotenbori]

yeah

so did you remember everything since you came back?

[notbunaga]

i remembered everything that happened while i was on retrospec
and i remember all the memories from my past life...

but i lost the other stuff. my sword, red eyes, the golden skull they sent me
same goes for magic, if that's what we're calling it

[sotenbori]

i hope you can get that shit back

but its the memories that are the most important i think

[notbunaga]

continued here!