retrospec | loading...

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
Retr

spec 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
Retr

spec 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I didn't.
Elaborate.

No, thank you.

wait are we not supposed to tell people what we found there? ☹️

No, the information is free to share.

[ SHE JUST OBJECTED TO BEING TOLD TO ELABORATE IN SUCH A BRUSQUE MANNER... ]

...naoto just asked you to tell him, though.

do...you and naoto have a problem with each other?

[you're her favorite detectives please dont fight]

We've never spoken much. There is "asking" and there is "demanding without any lead-in", however, and that read far much more the second to me. I don't think I'm obligated to do anything other than respond in kind.

[holy shit]

soooo...basically Naoto didn't ask nicely or say please

I guess it does seem kind of suspicious....

Naoto is kind of like that sometimes, but he always means well!! He's also super smart and has helped me learn a lot about all of this retrospec business...I think you two would be able to have a lot of good intellectual conversations and stuff–stuff i cant really keep up with, at least. I'm glad i seem to attract such smart friends, though! It was kind of fun being your assistant when we were checking out that bunker

Oh he also saved my life so i promise you can trust him

It's not "suspicious" and has nothing to do with trust. I simply do not appreciate being more or less ordered to do something by someone I don't know. I'm perfectly willing to share information, but I object to that sort of treatment.

[Wow okay note to self Kyouko is scary when you are rude to her.]

Oh...i don't think i can really blame you there, then...
I'm sorry that i butted in, but i do think you guys could be good friends so i hope that he can be a little more cordial to you about it...

By the way, i was wondering, maybe the founders from the bunker are related to the people who work at retrospec now? Maybe some of them come from the same family line or something...

[ things makoto naegi Learned ]

I believe so. Apparently at least the Wisemans are related to the Mahoneys?

(no subject)

kagepuro - 2017-11-02 06:12 (UTC) - Expand

evidentiary - 2017-11-02 06:21 (UTC) - Expand

kagepuro - 2017-11-02 07:25 (UTC) - Expand

evidentiary - 2017-11-02 07:27 (UTC) - Expand

kagepuro - 2017-11-02 07:31 (UTC) - Expand

evidentiary - 2017-11-02 07:36 (UTC) - Expand

kagepuro - 2017-11-02 07:41 (UTC) - Expand

evidentiary - 2017-11-02 07:43 (UTC) - Expand

kagepuro - 2017-11-02 07:45 (UTC) - Expand

evidentiary - 2017-11-02 07:48 (UTC) - Expand

kagepuro - 2017-11-02 07:51 (UTC) - Expand

evidentiary - 2017-11-02 07:55 (UTC) - Expand

kagepuro - 2017-11-02 07:58 (UTC) - Expand

evidentiary - 2017-11-02 22:02 (UTC) - Expand

Is it sensitive information?

All information could be considered as such.

Obviously.
But there's something about it, then, that makes you reluctant to share.

No. I simply do not appreciate being ordered to do something.

What? Don't be ridiculous. I wasn't ordering anyone to do anything. It was a request.

Is that so.

Yes, it is?
Do we have time to spend on pleasantries right now?

evidentiary - 2017-11-03 23:27 (UTC) - Expand

n
Naoto you should say please when you're asking someone for information...

This strikes me as somewhat too urgent to bother with pleasantries like that.

isn't it important to remain cordial in even the most pressing of times? : (

I don't believe I was *im*polite...

I know you weren't naoto!!

But I think a good tip would be that if you want to best information you have to approach it with a kind and gentle touch...

Also I should say that Kyouko and I were in th bunker together
soooo
I can explain what we found if things don't work out with Kyouko...
Though I hope they do I feel you'd be good friends...

I'd rather be efficient and direct about it, but duly noted.

What did you experience in the bunker with her?

have i ever mentioned how i love how civil you are?

Anyway we experienced a lot of stuff in there together

By which i mean like

A lot happened...We were in the retrospec building, and then we went through this open door and there were all these vines trying to grab us and holes in the floor that led nowhere, and voices laughing and I saw an apparition it was really scary

We ended up in the forest by this bunker, somehow. Inside...it seemed to belong to the founders of retrospec themselves, four people, with one room for each. There were some letters about how one of the guys betrayed the others, and stuff about the destroyed universe....

Interesting. I went into the maze and encountered vines, but didn't find the bunker.
Can you tell me anything about them? Did you save the details?

kagepuro - 2017-11-15 03:43 (UTC) - Expand

truedetective - 2017-11-15 04:45 (UTC) - Expand