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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
Retr

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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
Retr

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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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you reach out to grab the bottle but you can't because it's a hologram. the woman sighs at you

> look woman
> talk woman
> select another program
> inventory
> enter own prompt

> Ask Woman for Code

you ask the woman to give you the code that will let you play LFXIV on the computer. she takes a drink from the bottle before answering. she sounds tired and unhappy.

"finish the mission to secure the assets or go home to play it."

> look woman
> talk woman
> select another program
> inventory
> enter own prompt

> Ask what the mission is

you ask her about the mission and she makes a face that makes you not want to like her. she tells you that you were put on a team to help fix something called an unreality twist or else the city is going to collapse and people will die.

"you're a member of team daiquiri. you should be clearing the monsters in the basement. stop wasting everyone's time."

> look woman
> talk woman
> select another program
> inventory
> enter own prompt

> Give the woman the Minotaur eyeballs

you bring out the minotaur's eyes and try to give them to her but she's still a hologram so they fall to the floor with a gross noise. she saw them so she nods and says it was good you killed that monster but there are two other unreality twists in the basement. at least one more is a monster. she still sounds annoyed.

> look woman
> talk woman
> select another program
> inventory
> enter own prompt

> Retrieve Minotaur eyeballs
> Show the woman the colorful map
> Ask for directions

you put the eyes back into your inventory and show the woman the map. she tells you that the map is for the disco room, which is through the door on the left.

"you can use that map to cross the floor and get to the teleporter. there will be another unreality twist to fix past there."

> look woman
> talk woman
> select another program
> inventory
> enter own prompt

> Ask woman about the blue pearl

you ask the woman about the blue pearl. she explains that if you find Joanne Wiseman, she'll be able to use the pearl to give you a weapon or magic power.

"the blue one is the water magic" she says except very seriously in a science way

> look woman
> talk woman
> select another program
> inventory
> enter own prompt

> Return to computer
> Open maze

the woman takes another big drink when you go back to the computer and select the program "MAZE". a popup pops up saying "ARE YOU SURE YOU WISH TO ACTIVATE "MAZE"?"
- "YES"
- "NO"

which option do you select?

> look woman
> talk woman
> select another program
> inventory
> enter own prompt

> Yes

you decide to activate "MAZE". the computer and woman disappear and you are now in a different room. ahead of you is an opening made out of bushes.

> look
> enter maze
> inventory
> enter own prompt

> Walk through bushes

you enter the maze and try to walk through the bushes but they're really thick. you think you can hear a giggle coming from nearby

> left
> right
> inventory
> enter own prompt

> Climb over bushes

you start to try to climb over the bushes but they're really tall and have sharp stuff higher up. climbing does not seem like a great idea. you start to hear footsteps

> left
> right
> inventory
> enter own prompt

> Remove Minotaur shirt
> Wrap shirt around hands
> Climb over bushes

you unequip the minotaur shirt and wrap it around your hands to protect them from the thorns. you start to climb, but you are unable to find the top of the bushes to go over. the footsteps grow louder

> left
> right
> inventory
> enter own prompt

> Go left

you climb down the wall and go down the left path with the shirt still on your hands. you hear footsteps and a giggle coming from your left

> left
> right
> inventory
> enter own prompt

> Continue left

you take another left and are faced to face with a goblin.

> look goblin
> talk goblin
> attack goblin
> run down other path
> inventory
> enter own prompt

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