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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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[admiringly]

i'm sorry to say that some of this info is new to those who've been here a while too
but until the app decides to disappear by itself you'll be experiencing a lot more weird things
it's definitely not the new meme of the week

[unenvied]

I am not very informed when it comes to these "memes", so I wasn't certain...

Which parts are not new, in that case? I can't believe this has been going on for a while.

[admiringly]

what's not new are that people do get weird things in the mail
people do get physical changes like my eyes are now violet
we've experienced unreality effects
and that the people from retrospec like to be or have to be very very vague
the stuff about souls is new

[unenvied]

Thank you for the explanation.

... None of it was reassuring, but thank you nevertheless. What do you mean by weird things or unreality effects?

[admiringly]

what i can say is that at least you're not alone! everyone on here can sympathize
a while ago we had to fix some unreality twists
we had to do a bunch of.... i guess quests? and after that was all said and done weird things happened like sound taking on visible shape like if you sing music notes would pop up in the air or if you were happy you glowed
stuff like that
um... last month the fog made scary things appear
a few months ago people shrunk

[ She's deliberately not mentioning monsters because she's already not being reassuring. She doesn't want to dig her hole deeper. ]

[unenvied]

[...]

To confirm, we have not all somehow ingested hallucinogens, have we?

[admiringly]

that is a theory that has been brought up but how did retrospec just drug people who have the app and not everyone else?
my mom doesn't notice that any of this is out of the ordinary and i drink and eat almost all the same things she does
and we all breathe the same air
so it's just ??????
it makes the talk of past lives and souls something to think about

[unenvied]

I admit that you have a point... though this is not what I thought I'd spend the day contemplating when I woke up this morning.

[admiringly]

hahaha yeah... i don't think it's on anyone's bucket list?
unless they want to be really philosophical or something
or have a really wild imagination
but please remember that you are you and it's your choice how to deal with whatever memories you get!
there's no wrong way

[unenvied]

Thank you... though I still don't even know how to prepare myself for such an event. What is it like, regaining these memories?

[admiringly]

i don't think there's a proper or easy way to prepare but this is how it's been for me
usually i was talking about something or doing something similar to what i regained
for example i was watching some friends play video games and then i remembered playing video games with people i've never seen before
just like suddenly remembering something?
idk people did call them hallucinomemories before info was found that these memories could be real
it's still a lot to take in for me and it's been months

[unenvied]

So in other words, you never get used to it?

[admiringly]

yes and no
you expect things to happen but sometimes those things go beyond your expectations
does that make sense?

[unenvied]

Yes, unfortunately. Is there any sort of pattern behind what happens?

[admiringly]

usually once a month something weird happens
new people get added to retrospec almost every other month it looks like

[unenvied]

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