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[blondferret]

Derek Matthews shared a video. 11/4 near Tisse

[The video open to Derek with a serious face. When he starts speaking, it comes out in a English accent. (ooc. The clip is mildly spoilery for Season 3 of The Flash).] So... it's been two days and I think I've calmed down a bit. I've spoken to a couple of people about it, but I'd like to know if anyone else has had to deal with this. I know on this app people have acquired entire languages, such as Japanese and Russian, however, I have yet to come across someone who has received an entire accent. I am originally from England, but once I moved to America I completely lost it and I've been speaking with an American accent since... until now I guess. [Derek pauses for a second before speaking again.] Bloody hell, please tell me I'm not the only one who has had to deal with this? [Derek attempts to speak in an American accent but comes out horribly with a really bad southern flair to it.] I can't even do a proper American Accent anymore! [Derek reverts back to his English accent.] I sound like a complete tosser!

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[drydrown]

Wither away and die, I'd imagine.

[At least he's fairly obvious about it when he's being facetious.]

[blondferret]

Really? I'd say flourish now that the weed is gone.

[drydrown]

Oh, come now. What did I do to deserve that?

[blondferret]

I don't know. I'm in a mood. You'd understand if you had an abrupt change in accent. It makes me more sarcastic.

[drydrown]

I wouldn't know, given that that's sort of my established status quo in the first place...

That said, thankfully I've been spared from any truly bizarre changes in anything at all so far. Even the hallucinations have been relatively tame, if uncalled for and occurring at rather unwanted moments. Fortunate for me, I suppose.

[blondferret]

Yes, fortunately for you. My first memory was anything but tame.

[drydrown]

Precisely how bad are we talking? You've told me that the last month or so has been hell - on par with that, or...?

[blondferret]

[Please give Derek a few minutes to stop laughing as he thinks about which was worse.]

Well... considering my first memory haunted me six times last month... I'd say last month was worse.

My first memory was of a dementor, which I mentioned earlier. The effects a dementor has on a human, feeling as if you won't feel happy again and feeling a chill, I felt them for a while after I had the memory. They also have the ability to suck out your soul... so I consider myself lucky to be alive.

[drydrown]

Goodness. Where on earth were you the day they passed luck around?

[cumore, for fuck's sake.

granted, given that his sense of empathy is a case study in "and then it just didn't", this is just how he deals with things. if he likes you well enough he at least tries to listen and not immediately ollie out with the general sentiment of THANKS, I HATE IT, and in the end he's kind of a flippant asshole but at least he's still around, which has to count for something. he tried, no one should criticize him, etc.]

[blondferret]

I probably ran out of luck a long time ago.

[drydrown]

Don't worry, I'm not really one for shameless optimism myself, so I know better than to preach the power of sunshine and a positive outlook at you.

At the same time, I do believe in making one's own luck. Perhaps an opportunity will present itself eventually, at least in that regard.

[blondferret]

I don't even know if I believe in luck, fate, or destiny anymore. I mean, Retrospec seems to be taking it all away from us. What is peace? Haven't experienced that for a few months.

[Uh-oh, philosophical Derek is coming out.]

[drydrown]

[Let him, really, it's not like Cumore minds. Philosophy is easier than feelings anyway.]

Honestly, I'd argue that there are some things that they aren't capable of taking away from us in the first place - destiny can definitely be manipulated, don't get me wrong, but I wouldn't say that it can be influenced entirely outside of what's already meant to be in some way or another. And that's largely decided by the individuals involved, whether separately or as a collective.

That isn't to say that the manipulation aspect itself isn't horribly tedious, because it certainly is - but it isn't like we're dealing with some sort of omnipresent beings here, either.

[blondferret]

How do you know their not omnipotent or omniscient? Apparently they can mess with worlds. Overnight they can change how I speak. Where are their limits? Do they even have limits?

[drydrown]

I know they aren't because they've said as much themselves, in a way that would make very little natural sense to lie about. Honestly, they sound more like harried IT workers as opposed to people with some sort of god complex, warranted or otherwise.

[blondferret]

OK, if the Retrospec workers are the IT, then who is the CEO with the god complex controlling them? There is always someone higher up.

[drydrown]

Usually, at any rate. Either there's someone else in charge or this is what happens when we leave the lunatics to run the asylum.

[blondferret]

Hey now, don't make it sound like we are crazy too.
Some of us yeah, but not all.

[drydrown]

With all the fairness this situation is due, we are all having vivid hallucinations of other worlds and blaming it on a social media company.

[Like, there are a lot of ways to describe that, but "sane" isn't one of them.]

[blondferret]

Well, we got to blame someone, and why not the questionable blue app we all also mysteriously have?

[drydrown]

Oh, I'm not arguing the logic behind doing it in the least. At the same time, it's not precisely something that's easily explained without sounding absolutely raving mad.

[blondferret]

Well, there is one advantage of the NPC's not knowing what is going on. They don't notice anything.

[drydrown]

...Goodness, are we actually calling the people not on the app "NPCs" now?

[THAT SEEMS A LITTLE RUDE?]

[blondferret]

NPC's... sleepers...your choice.

[drydrown]

Oh my god. Seriously? The former is unbelievably rude while the latter makes it sound like one day they're all going to be activated by the CIA and kill us all.