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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

[doublesmall]

...okay yeah i do remember you talking about that

just curiosity then, i guess

[thesettingsun]

Does the name 'Dazai Osamu' mean anything to you? Apart from it being past me's pen name.

[doublesmall]

no, that's the only time i've heard it

why?

[thesettingsun]

You got plenty of memories back. You just forgot all of them.

[doublesmall]

shuji what the fuck are you talking about

i never forgot anything

i remember everything about retrospec

people are supposed to lose that if they forget shit, aren't they

[thesettingsun]

You mistexted me once when that was a thing Retrospec was doing. What was that conversation about?

[Because it was entirely about things Chuuya remembered.]

[doublesmall]

there's not a conversation like that in my phone

[which is because it was entirely about chuuya's regains...]

[thesettingsun]

Give me a second.

[And in a private message to Chuuya - private, because he knows how Chuuya felt about this - he sends Chuuya a screencap of the start of this conversation, on his phone.]

(also private)

[doublesmall]

??

what are you trying to show me shuji

i don't see anything weird

(private from henceforth)

[thesettingsun]

What are you seeing that's not weird?

[doublesmall]

it looks like a normal conversation i don't get why you're sending it to me

[thesettingsun]

Have you ever tried to show Retrospec to someone who didn't have a connection?

They just thought it was a normal app, right?

[doublesmall]

i

yeah

shuji what are you getting at here

[thesettingsun]

You're looking at a screenshot of a conversation about the mafia thing your past self was involved with and you're telling me that you don't see anything weird about it.

You haven't lost your memories of the app, but you've lost your memories of your past life and everything related to it, and there's a block there. Just like someone who forgets the app completely won't recognize what's going on no matter how much you wave the app in their face.

[doublesmall]

i need to go

[the first part probably looks normal again? but-

the idea of having a block there is about as unsettling as knowing he'd been dead, really. it's not something he wants to deal with right now.]

[thesettingsun]

[Someone had to tell him.

But even so, Shuji can't help but feel guilty.]

see you at work

[...In the backroom at the Inkwell when Chuuya comes in today, there's a calligraphy kit where he usually sits, with a note saying only 'Sorry. -Shuji'.]