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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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[fiddlestick]

Oh no...
No wonder you're worried.

[elevelvetor]

quite.
who would you like to check in on? if it isn't too prying.

[fiddlestick]

It's not!
I did ask first.

There's some classmates that I keep having memories about.
I think we were friends.
I know one of them is here, but I don't know about the others.

And well-
The other me, his dad was still alive.
So I'm worried about him too.

[Even if he barely remembers this other dad, if he wasn't one of the souls brought to this world...then that'd mean losing two dads. ]

[elevelvetor]

[ ...still alive... perhaps it's reading too much into it, but... well, if the other Elizabeth had parents and they were alive, she supposes she'd want to make sure they were alright, too. ]

i hope they're well and safe, for your sake. it's a terrible thing to worry over.

[fiddlestick]

[Nope she's not reading too much into it. His parents are as dead as batman's]

Thanks Elizabeth.
I hope your boss is okay too.

[elevelvetor]

[ SAME, DUDE. SAME. ]

thank you.
he seems to be a very powerful individual at least, or at least i believe he may be? so perhaps he is fine, but it's a very curious thing for him to be absent...

[fiddlestick]

[LETS BE BATMAN TOGETHER THEN!! ]

Yeah, sounds like...
What was your job in that other life?

[elevelvetor]

[ YEAH!!! ]

i was an elevator attendant.

[ .....i mean...... she's not wrong........... ]

[fiddlestick]

...Really?

That's a lot more mundane than I was expecting, if I'm honest...

[elevelvetor]

it was a very special elevator, if that makes it any better?

[fiddlestick]

A little...
What was special about it?

[elevelvetor]

[ you can fuse Personas there.

it's always ascending upwards.

you enter it by a blue door with a butterfly floating around it.

it's full of doors covered in sheets that lead to various other places, probably. ]

it was a very big elevator.

[fiddlestick]

Ha. Ha.

[elevelvetor]

i'm afraid those who aren't already in the know of the elevator can't hope to understand its true purpose, thus you're left with a simply unsatisfying answer.
my apologies, Elliot.

[fiddlestick]

[SIIIIIGH]

It's alright.
I feel a little put out because I wanted to know.
But it's your memory to share or keep quiet.

[elevelvetor]

[ NO... DON'T MAKE HER FEEL BAD ABOUT THIS... ]

i promise you're better off not knowing.
if i could forget such a place existed, i would...

[fiddlestick]

[;o;]

Oh...
I'm sorry.

[elevelvetor]

[ IT'S HER OWN PERSONAL ISSUES, ELLIOT, IT'S OKAY... ]

it's quite alright.
the fact of the matter is i cannot, and that's simply my burden to carry.
it was a place that was very important to my other self as well, for various reasons...

do you have anywhere like that for you? if that isn't too prying to ask.

[fiddlestick]

[BUT HE WANTS TO HELP EVERYONE. Especially his fellow questionable hairstyle buddy.]

Still, it sounds rough.

Me? I dunno.
I just remember going to a military school.
I don't know if it was important or not though.

[elevelvetor]

[ THANK YOU... ]

a military school?
...do you get conscripted when you're enrolled? are you expected to serve after graduation?

[ ??? ]

[fiddlestick]

I don't know.
I hope not.
Then again I've gotten memories of fighting monsters and stuff.

So who knows.

[No don't worry Elliot, you won't get conscripted. You'll get to work towards your dreams.

And then the moment you start to get anywhere with them, your country will fricking implode and derail everything #TrailsofRealitySucks ]

[elevelvetor]

[ #LetElliotLivePeacefully ]

i see.
it's no offense to you at all, Elliot, however
i cannot imagine you fighting anything, much less a monster?

[fiddlestick]

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