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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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[compendiem]

Maybe not an absolute fact, but... not an impossibility?

[stagemagic]

I'd need more than one mailbox to convince me, but I'm willing to entertain the possibility not everything that was said here is a lie.

[compendiem]

Presumably, there's only one mailbox... Would these new memories convince you? Or do you believe the brain is capable of making anything up, and that thoughts aren't the same as reality?

[stagemagic]

I know the brain is capable of making anything up. It's a complex organ that eludes full understanding from even itself. I could have a memory of being a house cat or the queen of some ancient and long dead civilization, but it doesn't make it true.

[compendiem]

Like a dream that feels real, but in the end, is just a product of one's imagination. That's what it seems like to me too.

[stagemagic]

Vivid dreams and reality are very different matters.

[compendiem]

But in a dream, that *is* your reality. There was something said by the philosopher Zhuang Zhou, about a man dreaming he was a butterfly. About being a man dreaming he were a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he were a man.

[stagemagic]

Now you're getting into dangerous territory. How do we know anything around us is real, or that we aren't all the product of a dream? And if we are, then who is to say it's even our own? If we're tossing out philosopher's quotes should we also use Descartes' cliche? I think therefore I am, but what defines thinking? Is our very concept of thoughts themselves an echo of some other being's mental process that we simply cannot fathom?

When you launch into this sort of unclear definition of reality and what defines us, then you could make the argument that we could be anything, including beings that have never actually existed at all.

If there's no way to disprove this type of reality, then I'd rather trust my own senses. I can't prove that I what I think and perceive with my physical senses is real, but without a better alternative this is the closest I can come to solid evidence of my own existence.

[compendiem]

Dangerous doesn't mean we should avoid it. It might be better if it's considered seriously as a possible answer. I can't prove anything either. It's possible everything in existence is simply a product of one's imagination. A dream. Waking up wouldn't prove anything, because waking could be dreamt. No point in talking about it more, but it's possible, and something that can influence the situation. Minds are powerful. So I don't want to discount it.

[stagemagic]

And just like that my logic is turned around to make me sound narrow minded.

I'll allow the check, but I won't give you the game yet.

[compendiem]

Are we opposing players? Or collaborative partners?

[stagemagic]

Why can't we be both? We've already agreed that the possibilities in our existence are endless.

[compendiem]

That's true. Something like that is called a rival, isn't it? Best of both worlds.

[stagemagic]

Rival? Yes, it does have a nice ring to it.

Alright then, should we declare today the very first day of our newfound and hopefully long lasting rivalry? ♪

[compendiem]

Of course. An auspicious day as this should be commemorated with the exchange of names. Name's Arisato.

[stagemagic]

I suppose some tradition should be adhered to.

Natsume Sakasaki. It's a pleasure, Arisato.

[compendiem]

Same. I'll see you around.

[stagemagic]

Hopefully.