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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

[windeity]

it'll be fine! what's a dumb ol' mailbox going to do anyway?
i am just curious.

but seriously, i am very happy about that.
did those raccoon things ever come after you again?

[admiringly]

idk but failsafes makes it sound unpleasant?
curiosity killed the cat and he said it's not lethal but that doesn't mean it's not painless?

only in my dreams
or my nightmares
cupcakes for the win!

[windeity]

maybe.
maybe the handle of the mailbox has a joke buzzer taped to it or something.
if i promise to be careful about it will that help?

sweet!
i mean. not still dreaming about them because they were kind of creepy, but at least they aren't real anymore.

[admiringly]

that'd be ok if that was the worst of it
that depends
what does being careful mean to you?

i
was that pun on purpose
and i can wake up from nightmares so i ended up fine

[windeity]

i will take backup.
and it will be fine.
being careful means...not...getting really badly hurt? it counts.

psh, no. why would i make puns? that is just silly, chiyo.
at least the nightmares aren't the kind that we can drift through anymore. i think. i hope.
i guess i will find out when i go to sleep tonight.

(ps i was kidding, the pun was kind of on purpose.)

[admiringly]

i don't think i can stop you but i don't want to enable you
it's a dilemma
your definition is as vague as retrospec staff but you get a gold star for trying

optimism will get us through november!!
hopefully the fog and the nightmares are tied together but them being tied together also means i'm going to be afraid of every fog that rolls in now
... that's not optimistic everything will be fine!!!
(you're silly and that's a-ok)

[windeity]

i do like stars at least.
ok, what about if i said i was taking DAVE as backup? does that count?

that's the spirit though! and i think it is up to people like us to make sure other people do not forget that.
the scary and depressing stuff was bad enough last month. we just have to move forward even if it can be hard.
if the fog comes back and it freaks you out, text one of us. it makes it easier.
(i will definitely take that as a compliment.)

[admiringly]

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