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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
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.

[personal profile] promisedyou 2017-11-02 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, so clearly I'm new to all of this, but how much of it can actually be trusted?

[ JUST CURIOUS ]

[personal profile] compendiem 2017-11-02 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
...
Is this a game?
livens: (UPBEAT ♪ sunshowers)

[personal profile] livens 2017-11-02 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
haha what
i'm not tooooootally sure what some of that means! but it sure sounds important ♪ so someone should summarize for me please ☆☆☆☆

also while the monochrome aesthetic is nice sometimes i'd like it if it stopped being a thing with my eyes please and thank you! (;*△*;) i'm also 100% against my soul being dissipated or whatever why is that an option?? is this one of those virtual reality games because i usually get banned from those for "doing stupid things"

more importantly, what is your favorite emojicon?? i really like the excited ones best .゚☆(ノё∀ё)ノ☆゚. share yours!! or if you want to play a different game let's plaaaaay word association! with a twist! the first person (who is me right now) says a word and then the next person has to say the word they think of, but finish it with a sentence! Then the other person (who would be me again) has to start a sentence based on the last word of that sentence...it's like a constant story chain, you know?

the word i pick is: genuine!
thesettingsun: smile (okay you won't die)

[personal profile] thesettingsun 2017-11-02 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Holy shit, this was actually really helpful and informative and reasonable?? I opened this post expecting to comment about blue being back for clothing (still excited for blue jeans!) but thank you for all of this.
parodeity: mrharrisonford @ tumblr (CHUCKLE 🎧 you knucklehead)

[personal profile] parodeity 2017-11-02 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
holy shit the intern got promoted
though
quick question
do we consider being put in charge of the mail system "promoted"
or is that like "haha fuck you sisyphus" levels of an employment move
i guess its not as bad as running a complaints department would be

also i feel weird
its a holiday and we havent been given any kitschy holiday bullshit to do
where is the commandment to share what were thankful for
why am i not being compelled to go like
yo im dave im thankful apple juice is a thing
and also that this place continues to be a goldmine of shitposts
i feel wrong that i am not being ordered to conform to weird holiday nonsense

clearly i have to do it anyway to feel better
yo guys what are you thankful for
lets fill the stupid holiday shaped hole in our hearts
i like to imagine this one is like shaped like that turkey giblet thing
is that the word i want
the throat thingy
you know
whereas like the holiday hole for santa would obviously be idk a reindeer or some shit
mincingminuet: <user name=axiometric> (Serious (Witch Hat))

[personal profile] mincingminuet 2017-11-02 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
It isn't.

Sorry. It's real as real can be.
dandyofawolf: (Seriously?)

[personal profile] dandyofawolf 2017-11-02 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Well I can officially say that this is the first time I've gone online to check fashion and music news and come across information about my soul being destroyed.

Bravo. You win for having a new one there.

Now, I'm going to assume there's no way to remove the app that tells me I might die?


[He's already tried and nothing.]
notbunaga: (Default)

[personal profile] notbunaga 2017-11-02 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
"how much could i have possibly missed in two months"
a lot, apparently
spirithacker: (spam)

[personal profile] spirithacker 2017-11-02 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
okay so
for the people who just got this weird app

what the heck is any of that talking about
and why did it have to be so long, that took ages to scroll down
destiny_key: (lol whut)

[personal profile] destiny_key 2017-11-02 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
i think this might maybe be the most confusing thing theyve ever posted

so like
our past selves are going to become our current selves???
or something like that???

i guess im glad were not getting a repeat of august though
that sucked


also happy first day of christmas everyone!!!
storytelleroftime: (In Thought)

[personal profile] storytelleroftime 2017-11-02 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
...A target, huh?

But wait, saving from the dark? Is Retrospec trying to wake us up inside?
evidentiary: art credit unknown, please contact (COFFEE ► sipping future)

[personal profile] evidentiary 2017-11-02 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Some of that seemed almost important and useful. While we're on the topic of "important"...how many people found that bunker in the woods last month, and what did you discover while you were there? I want to know if it was the "same" for everyone.

Also, does anyone have one of these "item tickets" that I can examine? Thank you for your time either way.
lesinset: (theres a guy)

[personal profile] lesinset 2017-11-02 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
im not sure if im relieved or not
on the plus side good advice
on the minus side still vague
btw think their mailbox has my inspiration in there
lost it with pumpkin spice hell
impulsives: (pic#10303064)

[personal profile] impulsives 2017-11-02 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
they actually explained things in detail? damn that's actually nice of them for once.

also

seems like the color blue is back on items and shit i can't believe that it's back.

MY KANPLA COLLECTION IS NO LONGER RUINED.
skald: (yhdeksänkymmentäseitsemän)

[personal profile] skald 2017-11-02 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Hi new people welcome to the app, this is the most details we've ever gotten about anything, yes this is real and it's not going to make sense, okay now please skip the rest of my post for your own sake

Guys a few days ago I found some sort of weird gas mask (gpoy) which was fine on its own if sort of alarming

But yesterday I got these REALLY REALLY CREEPY pictures of some sort of idk flesh eating bacteria or something (seriously content warning super gross/scary pictures/whatever the word for that fear of holes is called, also the lady is probably dead in the last one, please don't say I didn't warn you: here)

Four things:
1. why
2. can any medical type people tell me what is going on here
3. I would really appreciate it if people could come up with some explanation for gas mask that fits me + whatever this is because I'm really freaking out and the best I have is like infectious disease specialist or something
4. why!!!!!

jkhfhg worst Halloween gift ever who wants to come with me to give these back to Maurice and/or erase this from my memory too
Edited 2017-11-02 01:19 (UTC)
impulsives: (Shinn | !?)

[personal profile] impulsives 2017-11-02 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
wait

you remembered everything again???
grumpei: (sheepish ∫)

[personal profile] grumpei 2017-11-02 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
not that i dont appreciate the soul survivor shit
but uh
i cant tell if this is some weird creative writing thing or a legitimate psychotic breakdown
so go see a doctor or something maybe?
coinflipped: (2)

[personal profile] coinflipped 2017-11-02 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Okay this is great and all, but useless. Tell me how to delete this app please. I'm not really interested in this kind of spam on my phone nor am I really interested in playing games.

Thank you.
fiddlestick: (ohhh noooo)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2017-11-02 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
All this information is a little worrying...
But thank you for telling us.

I don't suppose there's an easy way for us to know which souls were snatched from the destroyed worlds, is there?

[personal profile] promisedyou 2017-11-02 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Did you seriously have to link that song?

[personal profile] compendiem 2017-11-02 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
If you say so... It's sort of disappointing. Sounds like it would make a fun game.
unenvied: (exasperated ♔ iii.)

[personal profile] unenvied 2017-11-02 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
For those who have any idea what this means:

I demand an explanation now. Is there some sort of trend or slang that I've missed?
notbunaga: (Default)

[personal profile] notbunaga 2017-11-02 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
seems that way
hey, shin
Edited 2017-11-02 01:10 (UTC)
anguinous: (☼ 11)

[personal profile] anguinous 2017-11-02 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
I don't see how complaints are separate from mail.
It could be one and the same, honestly.
alienated: (006)

[personal profile] alienated 2017-11-02 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
"knocking your souls out of alignment"
Great. At least they're not being vague about THAT.
Do we know WHY can't they just forget company directives and tell us the rest of what they know? Getting incomplete information doesn't actually make things better.