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Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2017-11-02 04:30 pm

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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.

This is an overflow to the post located here. Feel free to continue old threads on it or to post new ones.
roseblooms: yoga pants are not an invitation to stare (PONY ❁ hair up sweats on chill now)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-11-02 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
They've graduated to making posts together now. This is clearly a "grumpy and cheery" partnership dynamic.

Also, thank you for letting us know in advance about things that will kill us, whether definitely or "kind of".



[Originally here, still open to new tags! Overflows will also go under here as they become needed.]
roseblooms: sorry olaf but i got some bad news for you (SIDELONG ❁ is somebody going to tell him)

❁ MAJIMA

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-11-03 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[From here!]

It's so strange to think back and remember how bizarre this all seemed when we were the new kids. I remember being so disturbed by how jaded some people seemed to all of it.

Now I'm the jaded one, and their surprise seems surreal to me.
sotenbori: (running now i close my eyes)

[personal profile] sotenbori 2017-11-04 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
must be weird for the people who have been around forever
roseblooms: these poor bastards, they've got me surrounded (VICTORY ❁ i have a cunning plan)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-11-04 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
We're all the wide-eyed bushy-tailed new kids on the block to them.
sotenbori: (the greatest the greatest)

[personal profile] sotenbori 2017-11-04 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
no kidding
it probably still feels like we joined yesterday
roseblooms: she owes me at least three trips to space camp (PONDER ❁ so where is carmen sandiego)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-11-05 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
It's strange to think we've come so far in so relatively short a time, though, isn't it? For us, it's been what...six months now?
sotenbori: (damn it kazzy-kun's postcard again)

[personal profile] sotenbori 2017-11-10 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
shit youre right
thats a long time when you think about it
roseblooms: LET WAR COME TO ISHVAL (WOOBIE ❁ but i wanted a teeny beanie)

❁ SHUJI

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-11-03 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[From here!]

So, not even "hope for the best but plan for the worst"? Just plan for the worst right from the start.
Edited 2017-11-03 21:54 (UTC)
thesettingsun: smile (I won't ride along in your helicopter)

[personal profile] thesettingsun 2017-11-04 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Not much that's happened in the past few months has inspired a lot of hope in me.

[And he was a nervous wreck before that.]
roseblooms: quick hold me back so i look wild and dangerous (SLEEVE ❁ let me at him let me at him)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-11-04 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm.

[Hang on while he switches this over to private.]

Is this about what happened with Chuuya?
thesettingsun: smile (everyone's fucked)

private from henceforth

[personal profile] thesettingsun 2017-11-04 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been in a bad way for months before that, but that didn't help.
roseblooms: excuse you i am obviously erika, asshole (DAFUQ ❁ wait whoa why am i whitney)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-11-04 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Retrospec, then? Or something else?
thesettingsun: neutral (you're sitting on your brains)

[personal profile] thesettingsun 2017-11-05 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Both. Monsters I couldn't fight against, people I love about losing their memories of what was going on, memories of a past life I don't want to have anything in common with, people I care about dying and coming back, memories of dying...

It's been a lot.
roseblooms: quick hold me back so i look wild and dangerous (SLEEVE ❁ let me at him let me at him)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-11-05 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
And no one to talk to about it, besides. And it's been that way for months now, but you've been hiding it?
thesettingsun: smile (I won't ride along in your helicopter)

[personal profile] thesettingsun 2017-11-06 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
It sounds deliberate when you say I was hiding it. But you're not wrong.
roseblooms: oh my god why did that season even exist (MOODY ❁ thinking about three kings again)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-11-06 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't deliberate?

That sounds judgmental. I just meant...I know I do that myself, deliberately. Hiding things. For a variety of reasons.
thesettingsun: smile (but then there's women on bikes)

[personal profile] thesettingsun 2017-11-07 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe semi-deliberate.

It's not like everyone else I could talk to about it isn't going through the same stuff.
roseblooms: what a whole new meaning to giving them the finger (GUN ❁ so it's just point and shoot)

❁ MAY

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-11-03 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[From here!]

I'm not sure I follow. What does being rich have to do with it?
me_matey: (in loving you with my whole heart)

[personal profile] me_matey 2017-11-04 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
i dont wanna make assumptions about u, but this kind of depends on perspective
roseblooms: yoga pants are not an invitation to stare (PONY ❁ hair up sweats on chill now)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-11-04 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure why it would take wealth to understand the logic of a scientific theory.
me_matey: (things are so passionate times are so re)

[personal profile] me_matey 2017-11-06 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
because real life dont always follow the logic of a scientific theory.

u know what that all means in the context of a textbook. in real life, it usually means somethin different when it comes to people like me, and people like them. and this aint new either. i may have dropped out, but i still remember readin about a little somethin somethin called "social darwinism".
roseblooms: just sit over there and try not to mess up my groove (PETALS ❁ sorry i'm busy being fabulous)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-11-06 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Which is why it's a scientific theory, instead of a scientific certainty. No one is saying it's applicable in every circumstance, but moreover I'm also not particularly interested in derailing the conversation into an in-depth discussion on something like social Darwinism because of an idle comment that was fundamentally a passing and apparently ill-received bit of humor.

So I'll refrain from making assumptions about you, either, and you can maintain whatever perspective you want.
me_matey: (even now the feeling seems to steal away)

[personal profile] me_matey 2017-11-06 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
-Foot in mouth. Or on keyboard, at any rate.-

hey im not like

tryn to pick a fight or anything

sorry to derail like that. just have a lot on my mind. u cool
yakan: (031)

[personal profile] yakan 2017-11-10 10:12 am (UTC)(link)
like the age old "good cop, bad cop" partnership dynamic? except theyre not cops. or are they?