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[tarotcards]

WHO: Souji Seta (tarotcards) and anyone else!
WHERE: Recolle Square
WHEN: 03/07 - all day
WHAT: Souji recieved a mysterious letter from Retrospec and has called for everyone to discuss about the company and to share information. This will be an open mingle post, so feel free to tag others or create your own top-levels!
WARNINGS: N/A

Prompts and threads below!

Comments

[parodeity]

I don't think I have been - I know which one you're talkin' about, but we usually go to the boardwalk one. Does the arcade you work at have anythin' different?

[ since. he's never been. ]

[notbunaga]

Well, honestly? We rely on the fact we try and get all the older games the boardwalk doesn't have any more. Stuff like knights of the round, the old 2d pavement fighter games, ridge racer...

It's basically a shameless attempt at grabbing people with nostalgia, but it isn't like those games aren't classics to begin with, you know?

[Despite everything...she likes her job, really.]

[parodeity]

Huh. Bro and I might swing by sometime, then - we're both into the shameless nostalgia shit. It can be more fun than the modern stuff sometimes? Even if the controls are a little less forgiving. That can be part of the fun, too.

[notbunaga]

Pretty much. Everyone thinking games aren't as hard anymore are mostly thinking back on the fact they were playing games with janky controls when they were like 8.

You should come by Friday if you're free; we're having double credits night. There's no better time to check if you like what you see.

[It's how they get ya.]

[parodeity]

I'll ask Dirk if he's free and come by if so. Are you workin' then, or is the sales pitch just second nature by now?

[ it sounds second nature ]

[notbunaga]

...both.

[As much as she hates to admit it.

But money for the arcade is money for her.]

I'm around most of the time. We're a small place with a small number of staff, so you're likely to see me more often than not, no matter when you come by.

[parodeity]

In that case, I'll keep it in mind - and, hey. If it's not weird to ask, have you remembered any other shit?

[ she'd had a kind of violent memory and she has red eyes so. maybe...? she remembers stuff as weird as he does? ]

[notbunaga]

...not yet. Not since the first time.

[Nobunaga's life was too wacky and intense for all this SOL shit she goes through in recolle.]

Why? Something happen?

[parodeity]

Uh. I guess? Mostly just still gettin' back weird as fuck memories. Like. Fish hitler bein' a thing apparently and also alternate universe brothers and just - so many people talk about normal shit they remember and I was hopin' there were more in the weirdo brigade?

[ PLEASE ]

[notbunaga]

...did I ever give you the exact details of my one, when you first asked on the network?

[Did she leave out the part with the maid and the train car because

it might not be equally as strange but it's not exactly normal.]

[parodeity]

Uh...not really. Just grabbing a sword, I think.

[notbunaga]

It was a swordfight on a moving train with some samurai girl while a maid watched, cheering her on to beat me.

So...I mean, it isn't as weird I guess, but...

[It's not exactly mundane.]

[parodeity]

Well...it's a little more weird?

[ not the Weirdest he's heard (...or had), but it's less normal-people. dave's shoulders relax. ] Honestly, so many people seem to have normal mundane shit I was startin' to go "why", you know?

[notbunaga]

I guess we're not all remembering the same thing.

So distinctions like weird versus not weird and violent versus not violent are going to pop up, inevitably..."why" is still a good question, though.

But we're not gonna have an answer to that until we figure out just what we're remembering.

[parodeity]

I've heard lots of theories and lots of things people would prefer aren't theories. Personally? I think another life ain't a bad guess. My Bro agrees with me, I think.

[ that doesn't answer some of the questions raised, though, like why the fuck. ]

[notbunaga]

Hm...

[It's not a bad theory, at least. Reincarnation could absolutely be a thing.]

So what do you reckon? We were all forced to forget, or we're remembering things we shouldn't?

[The former being artificial living circumstances, the latter being how usually you're not meant to remember anything from a "past life".

She isn't sure which one sounds worse.]

[parodeity]

I reckon [ with full texan twang ] that maybe it's both at once. I mean...either we were "reborn" or just brainwiped, and either way I don't know if we're supposed to be rememberin' shit. Except the whole "chance to remember" prize kind of puts paid to that, you know?

[notbunaga]

So...retrospec is making us remember when we shouldn't be?

But what would the point in that be?

[Did they all forget for the wrong reasons?

Or for the right ones? Is this stupid company good or bad...]

Were we all important?

[parodeity]

I would say "yes", but someone I talked to remembers nothin' but eatin' watermelon, so my answer is..."tbd". Whatever the point is, there's clearly gotta be one or it wouldn't be happenin'. We're just not up on enough info to know the whats or whys - yet.

[ HE HOPES...they learn eventually, god. ]