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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
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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
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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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awkwardly, poorly or not at all. well, i guess some people managed by hitching rides on their dogs or something.

you'd see a dozen people carrying pizza boxes around and teams of people driving. started really raining around that time and even the smallest flooding was an issue. we found out what its like being a prey species, that's for sure.

That sounds more than a little distressing. And somehow I was a part of that and had no conscious clue of anything until two months ago?

pretty much. all the sleepers just woke that day and went 'yeah,
this is normal. time to go about my life as usual!' apparently.

you can lose the app, too. everyone that happens to goes back to acting like the rest of the city.

I've heard that happen to someone I know. Their brother was on the application and then they lost it and their awareness of everything.

Being aware of things just makes me feel...unsettled.

yeah, i was just talking to someone that lost it and got it again. it's as weird as it sounds.

yeah, all said, being aware of it all blows. but a lot of us feel the truth's more important than that peaceful ignorance, despite everything we've been through.

not saying you should feel the same. that's up to you. everyone's got their own visions to grapple with.

[To be fair, he's not grasping with ANY vision, but this person has been so helpful that he doesn't feel like quibbling with the sight idioms.]

So if somewhere were to leave and then got the application again, it's like their memory come back? Amnesia doesn't work like that.

[She unfortunately does not realize he's blind yet.]

yeah, neither does waking up four inches tall. or colors disappearing from the world. or horses vanishing from the world AND from media, paintings, books,
you name it.

hell, i remember BEING an amnesiac in one of my memories. pretty sure it doesn't work that way, either. nothing's sacred.

You remember not being able to remember? That must be more than a tad confusion.

no clue what makes you say that.

[#sarcasm]

waking up on a cold metal floor, no idea how i got there. knew i was there for a reason, but that was gone, too. could tell someone else was there, but a little fuzzy on who

That almost sounds like you've been kidnapped and then woke up in a strange place.

hell if i know. maybe? anything goes, i guess.

all of her distress seemed to come from the amnesia. there was something important in there. think someone's life counted on remembering. she hardly spared a thought where she was, from the little bit i saw

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