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[recollecters]

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ENCASED. "They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose." Marjory Stoneman Douglas The message on the first was probably not that encouraging, but for the next couple of days it appears as though the city remains the same as it was. The paintbrushes from the previous month don't disappear, and the city remains half-painted into existence and a happenstance of colors. The city's quiet and preparing itself for summer...but on the third somewhere around midnight, every user will receive a mass message in their inbox from Zee Carlisle, a man many have heard of by now but that some may not be as familiar with. Okay. The reason we don't reply to you guys when we post to you every month isn't because we don't care and we're sinister, it's because we're busy. Not an excuse, I know. But you're thinking too hard about it. The city itself isn't being hacked, literally. It was a figurative comparison and it's kind of like this. This city and the world you're currently living in exist. Everything about this world is real, you're real, I'm real, etc. But the layers exist in another kind of...realm, I guess? It's freely manipulated beyond the base of the world and that's what's being messed with. Did you know it's hard to trace IPs when they're blocked? Leave that to us. We found a way to break through the blocks on the districts though, but it's up to you guys. Level one. Ready to start generating and get this place back together? Well that's not ominous, is it? THE NPCS What blocks? What the hell is he talking about? It becomes clear the moment you take your first step and a strange, almost invisible ripple appears around you. This ripple might happen right at midnight, or it might occur before or after the time. But not long after daybreak on the 3rd of June, every Retrospec user will notice a few things. The only people they'll be able to notice around the city are those who are also on the Retrospec networks. Friends and family members without the app seemingly have disappeared before your very eyes. No matter where you go to look for them, they've vanished. Animals are still around, and items still exist, but it's just the people who are lacking. The strange thing, however, is that even if you can't see them you can still hear them. Maybe you can hear your parents making dinner in the kitchen, or you can hear your professor lecturing about the importance of showing up for your finals on time. Your annoying co-worker is definitely doing that tapping thing with his fingers against your desk and the worst part is that they can't see or hear you. No matter how hard you try to get their attention, it's as if you aren't there. Trying to call them is a futile effort. Calls are distorted and disconnected, dropping after a few rings. Calling to those outside of the city, however...works? It works! After months and months of being disconnected from the outside world, calls will go through and last for a grand total of 90 seconds. Toward the end, a low, growling noise will filter through the line and distort the phone call and repeated calls to the same person will grow increasingly hard to understand. But hey. At least that's one thing fixed. THE MAINFRAME As of last month, several Retrospec users repainted most of the city into existence but there are still pieces missing! The brushes haven't gone away and while the task of reviving the city is easier now, everything that's been brought back remains a bit unusual. Purple bushes are bright purple and the orange roads are dusted with dirt and drips of colored paint. A lot of the large buildings such as the hospital, the university and more are back though and will need their interiors re-organized. Take some time out of your day to restructure the world around you. You'll never know when you'll need it. THE SOUL ENERGY As you begin to notice the veil that separates you from those not on the app, it becomes quite clear that there are two sides of the same city. Everything you know and love is still in one place, but as you hear the NPCs nearby you'll find that there's no way to get near them. Or is there...? Not long after the first text message, another message from Zee is sent along. The fastest and easiest way to change what layer you're existing on is to generate the energy. It's hard to explain in its entirety but working together will produce the energy needed to bring them back to this layer. It's not a drain or anything, but only you guys can do it. You know. Given where you exist right now. Your energy is staying with you, but the levels will change enough to break down the veil. It's not the same as extracting. We're not doing that here. Pick a district and pick a friend or six. I believe in you guys. Not long after the text, six different links will pop up in your messages, one for each of the districts in the city. Clicking on the links will bring up a map of each district, and each map will have a list attached to it. TRIBUNAL TERRACE Over in Tribunal Terrace, the buildings have mostly been repainted but the NPCs aren't present. With the need to reorganize and bring back the police, the fire department and more, there's a list of tasks assigned as written by Zee. -Volunteer with ReVA to create a community event such as a dance, party or other. -Create decorations and hang them in the children's ward at the hospital. -Clean up Recollé Square. -Discuss crimes or wrong-doings you've committed in this life or the past with one other person. -Solve a mystery. -Talk to the dead. -Take care of the firestation dogs. Suggestions, mostly. Leaving this up to you what any of this means, but go forward with good intentions to accomplish them. APPRASSAGE Several Retrospec users might be stressing about finals and graduations, but it's hard to worry too much when their teachers and classmates are missing. Though the buildings and landscape might be hit and miss, there's a list of tasks assigned as written by Zee. -Help someone study for their finals. -Teach someone a new skill and learn a new skill in return. -Tell someone your favorite story. -Repaint the stars and go stargazing. -Paint a self-portrait and have someone analyze it. -Discuss a dark period in your life and create a display based on that. -Gather the horses and chocobos and have a race. -Guide a tour through one of the museums. Suggestions, mostly. Leaving this up to you what any of this means, but go forward with good intentions to accomplish them. CHATA Even with everything a total mess, there's always time to be kind and try to better humanity. Not sure where to start? Don't worry, there's a list of tasks assigned as written by Zee. -Help someone with their grocery shopping. -Donate items to the orphanage. -Attend to the animals at the animal shelter and hold an adoption drive. -Steal from the rich and give to the poor. -Start a food fight. -Reorganize Freshens and move items to different levels of the store. -Create a Kickstarter for a new business and pitch your ideas to people. -Start a petition about something you're passionate about, collect several signatures. Suggestions, mostly. Leaving this up to you what any of this means, but go forward with good intentions to accomplish them. VIEA VILLAGE Home is where the heart is, but what is it that you love and value? There's a list of tasks assigned as written by Zee. -Plant flowers in front of someone's house. -Create and organize a game day in Hollingberry Field. -Set up a stall at the Farmer's Market and sell your goods. -Do yardwork for a neighbor. -Egg someone's house. -Talk about your family and why you love them with someone. -Do something nice for your neighbor like give them flowers or bake them cookies. -Tell someone about a family secret you've been keeping. Suggestions, mostly. Leaving this up to you what any of this means, but go forward with good intentions to accomplish them. ENPRISE Businesses and empires, items and wares. Enprise's important for those with big goals and big dreams. While those dreams may be on hold, there's a list of tasks assigned as written by Zee. -Host a fashion show. -Return wild animals to their cages in the zoo. -Swim with the sharks. -Volunteer to deliver packages around the city for the day. -Rent/buy paintball equipment and start a city-wide game, tagging buildings as you go. -Analyze your dreams/nightmares with at least one other person. -Engage in a duel of your choice with someone. -Pamper someone. Anyone. Any way you can think of. -Have a public debate with someone. Suggestions, mostly. Leaving this up to you what any of this means, but go forward with good intentions to accomplish them. TISSE Entertainment makes the world go round and there's plenty of entertainment to be found in Tisse. Even if it's just you in the city now, there's a list of tasks assigned as written by Zee. -Complete the Big Bang Burger challenge (or try, anyway.) -Buy a dozen cupcakes from the Confectionary and hand them out to strangers. -Teach a dance lesson at Dancinerate...any kind of dance. -Beat someone at a video game at the Hubbub Hub Arcade. -Steal someone's coffee from the pick-up counter at a coffee shop. -Write a poem about your feelings and share it with someone. -Create a work of art using whatever you can find. -Create a large game of crack the whip at the Stardust, skating and convincing people to skate with you. -Buy someone a drink...anyone...they can even be underaged. (Not that we're condoning that, but trust me, it'll work.) -Host a performance of any kind at the Atrium. -Perform one embarrassing stunt in public. Suggestions, mostly. Leaving this up to you what any of this means, but go forward with good intentions to accomplish them. What do "suggestions" mean here? It means that while these are ideas, things that push and challenge you and encourage building bonds will work the best. But never fret. There are things outside to do, too. OUTSIDE The paint-thinner monsters from last month begin to phase out throughout the month, but several of the creatures around the perimeters of the city begin to move inward, starting to appear around the places that aren't quite filled in yet. Areas that aren't fully painted or areas where tasks aren't being attended to are more prone to being infested with monsters that will need to be defeated. The roads to Pesgare, Respatrum, Bosuma and Magatus seem to have vanished and any attempts to leave will reroute citizens into the woods or into the ocean. The subway tunnels underground are empty and silent, the sound of trains running echoing through them but no trains come. Working together to clear out these areas and ensure that certain areas are receiving high enough energy readings is just as important as completing the above tasks. But then what..? ZEE I know, doing tasks for us is getting old, but given your connection to the world you're the only ones with the right kind of souls to generate the energy field needed to wear down the blocks. Work together. Get to know each other. Make this city your own. And report to me as you cross off tasks so I can track the readings of the district. We'll bring them back. Promise. Welcome to recolle's June log! The information above provides loose guidelines of things occurring this month, so please feel free to make your own prompts based on these. You are also free to create your own logs and inbox threads. Characters will not be able to travel to places outside of the city at this time! As you do these tasks or tasks similar to these, please report them to the correct headers on the JUNE OBJECTIVE REPORTING post in the mod journal! This will help us track what's being done and how it will impact the city for June and July. As a reminder, you may qualify for a memory freebie in June by threading out one district-objective with at least one person you haven't threaded with before. This thread will qualify when there are at least five consecutive comments from you. Finally, if you turn in six threads (one for each district) with your character performing an objective, you will qualify for a memory freebie! The threads must be at least 5 consecutive comments long and at least two of them should be with people you have not threaded with before. Any questions you have regarding this event may be directed to the mod comment here.

Comments

[reaquila]

I. Chata

[So, Nanashi's hanging out at the orphanage with many large bags. He didn't steal random objects from people earlier, nope. (He totally did) You shouldn't suspect that anything's wrong here until you take a look at the bag's contents. There's a bunch of expensive looking objects....some of them look well used or hard to obtain. Please don't ask why this child has all this junk! He won't answer honestly if you start feeling suspicious. ]

Can you help me carry these inside? There's a lot.

[Become his partner in crime, thanks. ]


II. Viel Village

[You better watch out! Nanashi's throwing eggs at one of the homes down the street. He isn't watching them all that closely. One of them might land on you. If he eggs you by accident he'll run to you screaming....! That wasn't supposed to happen! ]

I'm sorry. Are you okay? I didn't mean to do that.
[Please be okay.]

III. Enprise


[Nanashi walks up to you looking so exhausted!! He hasn't been getting much sleep lately because he keeps hearing spirits at night. They won't shut up and leave him alone. He lets out a tired yawn and covers his mouth while doing so.]

Hey, I keep getting nightmares whenever I go to bed. It scares me so much...sometimes. I can't go to sleep and I stay up late. Can I tell you what's bothering me?

[If you don't feel like talking he'll poke you until you feel like responding!! ]


IV. Tisse

[Guess who's got a bottle of booze? Nanashi's indulging himself with some underage drinking. He looks a little too comfortable with that bottle of beer. ]

This is good. Do you want one? I've got more bottles for some reason....not that I'm complaining.

[He gently passes you a glass bottle of beer!! Drink up friend!!]

It's just beer.


Wild card.

[alternatively, you could wild card me or ping presages for custom prompts!!]

III

[memoryshifter]

Avery opens his mouth to say something, and by the look on his face it wasn't going to be very nice. Then he closes his mouth and softens, shaking his head.

"If...you really feel like it will help, but I doubt it will."

But his sister would prod him into being nice to the poor guy; he can just hear her now telling him don't snap at the kid, he's had it hard enough, just listen.

[reaquila]

Nanashi nods his head once and turns towards Avery.

"I think would help a little. There's no harm in trying, right?"

He really wants to believe that talking about his nightmares might put a stop to it. Bottling up your issues just makes it worse.

"When I sleep I dream of dying. I don't even know how I'm killed or why. Do you ever have nightmares like that?"

Getting killed in your sleep isn't an uncommon occurrence. It happens to people every so often.

[memoryshifter]

"No, I suppose not." Listening didn't cost much of anything, even if it was with someone he barely knew. Who even was this kid? His mouth twitches down as Nanashi speaks and he turns his face away as he thinks.

"Not dying, perhaps, but falling." Though there was no end to the fall, of course. Such a strange dream. "I cannot deny that it seems to be a common nightmare."

IV

[toobigtohandle]

[Now, kenta is never gong to be against drinking. H eis marryin Jirou, after all, and while most people wouldn't know it by looking at it, ht can drink quite a lot himself. But there are a few things he frowns at and underage drinking is one of them.]

You look much too young to be drinking this, even if it's just beer.

[reaquila]

Don't worry about it. I've already had three bottles? I'm used to it.

[ Kenta's concern is only natural. So Nanashi will pass Kenta some beer and shrug once. ]

If you don't want me to drink anymore then help me finish up. Do you drink?

[toobigtohandle]

I do, but that's not the point. You're too young for this and there are still police officers around.

[Guess what, the force has officers on Retrospec and while he would not normally voluntarily do this, underage drinking is really something he dislikes a lot.]

How did you get those? Did you just take them from a store?

II

[ascatic]

[ well. this is a little disappointing. ]

Nanashi?

[ he quietly flicks some of the egg white and yolk off of his robes with furrowed eyebrows. ]

... where were you aiming?

[reaquila]

Oh, hey. Leon! [Nanashi frowns at Leon and makes some vauge apologetic gestures. Sorry friend. Didn't see you there.]

I was aiming for the house down the street. Some of the bullies from high school live in that area. I felt like getting back at them.

[Sweet revenge. Poor Leon got caught in the cross fire.]

[ascatic]

[ he looks at the house, then he looks at Nanashi, then he looks BACK at the house... ]

That's pretty far. Can you really throw an egg that kind of distance?

[ is it really cross fire? Leon's not exactly convinced. ]

I

[lostapprentice]

[Don't ask, huh? Sounds like a job for Ren, who has never been good at following instructions or ignoring his curiosity. He is going to pick up the bags, however, even lifting a few with his telekinesis so that they're simply floating alongside him. At this point his powers have become so useful he wonders how he ever lived without them.]

Where'd you get all this?

[There's almost something knowing in his slightly narrowed eyes, though he's not frowning. He's more amused if anything, really.]

[reaquila]

They're donations from people in the town. [Sounds like a lie. Just play along with it, or something.]

I'm helping them sort it out. [That's also a lie. Nanashi's not that good at keeping his mouth shut. He'll spill the beans eventually..but for now he's carrying on like normal. There's work to do, Ren!]

Do you feel like lending a hand?

[lostapprentice]

[There's the briefest hint of a smirk on his face as he replies to the "answer," which is quite clearly a lie by the fact that... you know... nearly all of the city has disappeared on them. Donations, indeed.]

Of course you are.

[Ren is already nudging the door open by the time the question is asked, and he glances back at the kid as if asking him what he's waiting for before heading in with the several bags he's picked up.]

IV

[thebeastwithout]

Dude.

[Gar stares in slight apprehension.]

We're like... fifteen. Right? I'm still fifteen?

[Despite being a goof-off, his Superheroism(tm) runs too deep.]

Re: IV

[reaquila]

Last time I checked you were still fifteen and so was I.

[He says that and starts drinking from the bottle anyways like it's no big deal.]

You aren't gonna have any, are you?

iii

[idolworship]

Well, I don't see why not. Would you like to find a cafe or something first, though, to sit at?

( maybe some coffee for this poor stranger, too? )

I wonder if you won't collapse while we're talking, and it's making me worried.

[reaquila]

That sounds good. Let's go sit somewhere nice and chat for a bit.

[Nanashi nods in agreement. ]

Yeah, I dunno about that either. My health is in bad shape. I figured it'll be okay as long as we have something to eat first.

[They need energy to discuss serious topics! Food is important.]

IV

[imaginex]

[-- Hehe, oh Nanashi.

Sakura has no right to scold him, she drinks every other weekend at this point, but it's still a little weird to be handed a beer by someone she knows is that much younger than her]

Well, it'd be rude to turn you down, wouldn't it?

[reaquila]

Maybe it would be rude. I've had people tell me I'm too young for this.

[ Sakura's so nice! She didn't get mad at him for underaged drinking and she wants to join? That's a surprise. Nanashi smiles when she approaches. ]

You're cool with beer? This one isn't too strong.

ii

[compendiem]

[ Why are all these options Nanashi being a degenerate???

I guess Minato will be staring at him egging that house... honestly just thankful it isn't his own apartment that Nanashi and Akira were going to destroy or something. ]

Eggs are expensive...

[ You're throwing gold there, buddy ]

[reaquila]

[ He's a good boy who did nothing wrong!! Wow.

But really, Nanashi didn't expect to see Minato standing there. He's throwing eggs everywhere at high speed. A stray egg lands next to Minato. Better watch out??]

Sorry, I didn't see you. Egging your senpais wasn't part of the task.

[Ooops.]

III

[hananobooks]

[Robin has wondered and been worried about him since the day she found him exhausted on the bench. She hoped that things had become better since the last time they talked, but it doesn't look like it.]

Yes Nanashi, I would like to know. How come you haven't been sleeping at night? What kind of nightmares are you having?

[reaquila]

I don't sleep at night because it's scary. I feel like I might die in my nightmares.

[ He frowns at Robin. ]

Do you ever have those dreams? [ Let's be real, it's not too uncommon to have dreams of being killed or nightmares that seem to make no sense. ]

I. Chata

[flametheif40]

[AL smiles and grabs a few bags,just to be of help today...trying to be a reformed theif and all, some good deeds should help!]

Sure! I would love to! Where ya heading to?

[Instinctively he peers through the bags, at 1st just to see what he could possibly grab for himself, hey, no one said he was perfect at the NOT stealing thing....however he sees some of the tell tale signs of stolen goods, and thus questions start to from in his mind already]

[reaquila]

Thanks a bunch! I'm trying to bring these donations to the orphanage.

It's a little too heavy for me to carry myself.

[Nanashi passes Al a bag filled with random objects.]

Just take it. You're doing me a huge favor.