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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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[scythegun]

Unfortunately, it seems to be the truth. Or at the very least, Retrospec believes it to be the truth.

[imaginex]

Apparently what Retrospec believes and what I do are separate entities.

But that's fine. I've no interest in dwelling on it, or telling other people what to think.

[scythegun]

I do wish you the best of luck with it - that's not sarcasm, by the way! Dealing with this is very troublesome, to say the least.

[imaginex]

I don't know how any of you have dealt with it for so long.

Or is this the first time they've been forthcoming with information?

[scythegun]

You get used to it. Somehow.

They usually aren't this forthcoming about anything, so this is a nice change of pace.

[imaginex]

If they were going to eventually tell everyone this information, I think they should've done it sooner rather than later.

... But it's unwise um

looking a horse in the mouth with a box?

[scythegun]

Close! "Looking a gift horse in the mouth" is the phrase you were looking for!

And I do agree with you, I'll take this over the very unhelpful and often condescending messages we were getting before. It's nice to have some idea of what sort of craziness we're in for.

[imaginex]

To be honest, I have no idea what looking at horses has to do with being grateful...

And true. I can't imagine how we'd be forced to handle future... events if we weren't told about them beforehand.

Half the users would be rioting.

[scythegun]

Oh, we rioted plenty several months ago! But they don't respond to these posts so there wasn't much we could do. Retrospec's smart enough to keep their doors closed most of the time.

[imaginex]

Ah, of course they would be.

... Would it bother you, Jaeger-san? If you turned out to be more like your memories than you realized?

[scythegun]

[There's a hesitation before Jaeger sends the text, but he doesn't see any sense in lying to her about it. He's not going to go into too much detail since this is on the network, but he's trying to be more honest about this sort of thing.]

Yes, it would. The person in my memories doesn't seem to care for anyone but himself, after all.

Have you received many memories yet?

[imaginex]

I see.

And no, not many, but enough to wish I could decline receiving anymore.

[scythegun]

Believe me, I understand! Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any way to opt out of regaining memories. I hope the ones you gain from here on are nicer, however.

[imaginex]

In that case, I'll just have to deal with it like everyone else. No skipping work for me.

But thank you. I'm sure that girl has some happy memories, hopefully.

[scythegun]

I didn't expect you to try to skip work! If you're having a particularly hard time with it though, please do let me know. I'm not a complete monster, you know!

[imaginex]

[ooc: continued here]