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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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[darkinferno]

we won't forget

the people that have forgotten, they've said it's because their soul slips out of place, right? but if we manage to do whatever it is retrospec's working on, our souls will still be in place

even if they try to make us forget by erasing our memories, our hearts will still remember the people we've left behind. and as long as they're in our hearts, we can't ever really forget them

[notyourutopian]

But if they 'fix' these worlds and send our apparent souls back
It won't matter if we remember.

Also
Just
That's not how hearts work
They're mostly meat and muscle not
Memories and hope

[Eleanor Lamb: Rationalist.]

[standalonehuman]

Wait. Maybe Dante's right.

Okay, hear me out on this. The other soul, other-Togusa, whatever, it isn't finished remembering. Maybe once that process finishes, that ghost finishes developing, it can go off on its own, it stops messing with us.

Because sure they forget, but then sometimes they remember.

[notyourutopian]

...Okay, maybe.
But even so.
We're not talking about the soul forgetting
We're talking about it leaving.

[standalonehuman]

Our soul or theirs?

[notyourutopian]

Theirs.
If it goes back to the world.
It's not like we go with it

[standalonehuman]

But that's good for us, if they go. And it might be Retrospec's plan. So long as we get our lives back at the end of it all?

[notyourutopian]

But if it works the same as forgetting
We lose all the time between February and whenever it happens.

[standalonehuman]

But we still retain our experiences. Gentiana. She remembered. She remembered the time we'd had together. That wasn't something that was a memory from the other Gentiana, this was something that happened to her. We keep the experiences that truly happened to us.

[notyourutopian]

But did it make sense for her?
How did she deal with the gaps in her memory?

[darkinferno]

why? the other me could apparently go to other worlds, why couldn't we do the same thing?

[Of course, he's still not entirely certain if he means other worlds or other datascapes, but that's not the point right now.]

and you can tell that to those monkeys we fought back in august. they're created from the darkness in people's hearts

they seemed pretty real to me

[notyourutopian]

But they weren't.
Because the people from my memories are people
Crazy insane lunatics but still people
And yet they showed up during that stuff
And disappeared like smoke when you killed them.
So. Not real.

How do you travel between worlds?

[darkinferno]

these ones weren't, but the ones in his memories were

i could tell you about a whole bunch of different types

i don't... really know how he did it. in one memory there's this woman talking about a ship, and he was trying to build a raft in the beginning, but i've got another memory of a machine he used to go between places

i just know it was possible

[notyourutopian]

A raft.
He went rafting between worlds.

...

A Raft.

[darkinferno]

i never said the raft worked

the ship did though and it wasn't some sort of spaceship, it was some giant wooden ship

[Look don't question it Eleanor, you'll just get a headache. It's time to put realism aside!]

[notyourutopian]

That doesn't make any more sense than a raft!!

[Realism is everything man.]

[darkinferno]

neither does me being able to pull a sword out of midair

or being able to see perfectly while wearing a blindfold

or being able to jump off the tallest skyscraper in enprise without getting killed

but i can do all of that right now

[notyourutopian]

There's a bit of space between mild superpowers
And intersteller wooden boats.