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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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[matchbreaker]

Yeah you mentioned it back then but it was a little hard to believe at the time.

Are you alright now?

[notbunaga]

i did? right, sorry
still a little hazy on stuff

but yeah im fine
what made that happen in the first place is gone now anyway
which is ironic since id just learned to stop it

[matchbreaker]

I think you did? Maybe I'm projecting.

Either way, I'm glad to hear that. So you left the app entirely?

[notbunaga]

yeah
forgot everything
lost all the weird stuff they sent me
lost the dumb powers

ive spent the past two months doing what i used to do before this mess started, thinking all this was normal
it wasnt half bad honestly

[matchbreaker]

Probably unsettling for some people, but yes, that doesn't sound that bad.

[ She hopes her son feels the same way, even if she can't ask. ]

[notbunaga]

the unsettling part is everyone on the network acting strange
it gets really bad
when my gf insisted on all this retrospec stuff it escalated into a fight
i wouldnt back down

[matchbreaker]

Oh wait I think I remember that.

Were you the one that the one girl thought went missing, by chance?

[notbunaga]

yeah, that's me
i wasnt even missing, really...

but i cant blame her for thinking that, considering what happened in august

[matchbreaker]

Yeah August was insane. Both of my boys went missing and I had to fight all sorts of strange things.

[notbunaga]

i think that's the shared experience by this point
did you guys find out anything about what's going on while you were gone?

[matchbreaker]

Well I wasn't on the other side, I was still here. But everyone did collect all they learned together. Hold on.

[ Five minutes later... ]

HERE. There was also an in-person meeting but nothing else that much new there.

[notbunaga]

thanks, i must've missed this
you get props for being the most helpful person ive spoken to so far

by the way, you said you had two boys? like sons?

[matchbreaker]

Yes. Only one of them would allow me to word it that way, though.

[ Hence the more vague wording. ]

But of course, better to be helpful than not.

[notbunaga]

[So then...]

just how old are you?

[matchbreaker]

Forty-one. My birthday was a few days ago.

[notbunaga]

huh
well, you look great for your age
i didn’t think you were that old that time in the arcade

[matchbreaker]

Oh thank you! I do work hard to try to keep up my youth.

[ I mean, genetics help and she ... is also really short. ]

These days, the purple hair helps in a strange way.

[notbunaga]

i guess it would. the older you get the more unlikely you'd be to dye your hair an unusual colour like that
i take it everyone treats it like it's normal?

[matchbreaker]

I got a lot of looks the first month, but it's normal now. Same for my eyes (which are red and light sensitive)

[notbunaga]

continued here!