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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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[robitussin]

i can't live without my laptop

why do they have to hit me where it hurts

[alienated]

Because they're jerks.
The app gets easier to ignore after a while. Unless they pull something we can't ignore, anyway. You get used to it.

[robitussin]

so what you're saying is that it's easy to ignore unless it isn't

can you break down the easy to ignore/unignorable dichotomy for me? are we talking like 80/20 or 60/40

[alienated]

Uh.
50/50, I guess.
It started redirecting all our texts the month I got it.

[robitussin]

wait like

if you texted someone it randomly sent it to somebody else?

[alienated]

Yup.
Told you it was a mess.

[robitussin]

oh my god that's the stuff of literal nightmares

that is right up there with dreaming you missed your finals

[alienated]

Missing your finals is more dire than randomly texting a stranger.
But, yeah.
It was pretty bad.

[robitussin]

well yeah but it at least partly depends on what the text says

like what if you were pouring out your heart to someone and then SURPRISE

[alienated]

Then maybe you shouldn't have poured your heart out over text.

[robitussin]

jesus christ it's like i can feel the judgment just reading this

would you prefer pouring out your heart over snail mail

[alienated]

I'm not judging. I'm just SAYING, maybe it's better if you don't pour your heart out at all.
What's the point??

[robitussin]

are you asking me what the point in talking about your feelings is??

[alienated]

Don't make it sound weird.

[robitussin]

i’m just stating what you implied there

[alienated]

It's a logical question!!
Why would you want to pour your heart out over text???

[robitussin]

maybe you were already texting them and it came up naturally and at that point calling them instead would make it seem like weird and important

[alienated]

You're already making it seem weird and important by talking about it. Change the subject.

[robitussin]

see there you go with the changing the subject thing again

sometimes it's better to just say things