NPC INBOX 2.0;

[recollecters]

Zee Carlisle

A wise duck once said: "Let's get dangerous."

VOICE | TEXT | VIDEO | ACTION

Zee Carlisle, #55891
Retrospec Hiring Manager

Newly housed in a remote location attached to the Recollé Public Library, one only has to pass through the invisible door scanners to access Zee's current office. Upon entering, users will see an upgraded suite, three unmarked (and closed) doors along the wall behind Zee's desk, and windows overlooking the city.

-Threads with Zee may be used for AC/bonus points should players choose to do so.
-Threads with Zee may be used to gain mission assignments or discuss plot points, game events, etc.
-Threads with Zee may be cut short if they are irrelevant solely to save on mod-time as well.
-Unless stated otherwise, assume that he is always reachable for Retrospec users.

Old inbox can be found here.

Comments

[recollecters]

That's because being a grown-up is really, really boring. [As someone much older he's allowed to say that...but he does gesture for Shinji to follow to a small stack of cardboard boxes with lids they can pull off.] Why would anyone want to be one?

[spirithacker]

'Cause nobody takes kids seriously. [Shinji starts pulling off lids and setting them aside.] And you're not allowed to do anything. Grownups say you should just let them handle stuff and be a regular kid.

Like you can be a regular kid when there's a dome over the city, or your teachers just say the same stuff over and over again. That's dumb. Grownups are dumb.

[He's as much a part of this as any other Retrospec user, whether they like it or not.]

[recollecters]

[What Shinji's currently unveiling are stacks of books. They're small and light enough that he can lift them out, and they seem to be a mix of books that are non-fiction and text books and medical journals and also fictional novels. And some manga. It's a mess of his stuff and stuff from headquarters.]

Grownups are incredibly dumb, you're right. It's a lesson you learn the hard way because they try to keep it a secret. [A bemused sort of expression takes over.] You know adults say that because they care about you and want you to be safe even with all of this weird stuff going on, don't you?

[spirithacker]

[Okay but what is Zee's taste in manga, he has to know.]

...Yeah.

[He knows. It's frustrating. He can't even get mad about that part.]

But I don't want them to get hurt either.

[recollecters]

[He's an embarrassment and there's definitely a bunch of your typical shounen stuff, including probably every volume the rec-equivelent of Shaman King and Bleach. So that was Bad.]

I know. That's where it's even more unfair. [He'll open another book and start pulling out small knick-knacks, and also things for his dogs. Wild.] That's where we have to start planning and strategizing. I think we all want to minimize the damage here.

[spirithacker]

Do you think we can do it? So nobody gets super hurt anymore?

[Despite Zee's terrible taste in manga, Shinji still trusts him to have the answers to these questions.

[recollecters]

...I'm going to give you a grown-up answer. I don't know. [Thanks, Zee.] I believe we can, and I think we can, but in the end someone's going to get hurt. We just have to make sure it's not us.

[Vanderweele and his associates? Sure. That's fine.]

[spirithacker]

[At least he's treating Shinji like a grown-up. Shinji still doesn't like the answer, but he'd like being lied to even less.]

Okay. ...Okay. We'll try super hard so only the bad guys get hurt.

[That's better than the alternative, at least.]

Hey, Zee?

[recollecters]

That's the spirit. [But it's a lot to ask and he knows it.]

...what is it?

[spirithacker]

You have really bad taste in manga.

[recollecters]

[There's an indignant kind of squawk, but it sort of melts into a laugh.] Oh yeah? And what would you recommend instead?

a wrapup

[spirithacker]

[And so Shinji spent probably the next fifteen minutes recommending actually good manga to Zee, and also helping unpack. He did two useful things today!

Maybe it's not as impressive as fighting robots, but it's something.]