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[recollecters]

Hi, everyone! There's a fairly high level anomaly coming up which we did our best to damp down, but please be careful! It should be safe as long as you're cautious and don't take any unnecessary risks. Also, R&D gave us more of those poll results (I'm not sure why we're doing this by poll? I'd rather just spend all our resources on blue) so we fixed a few things! Also also, Maurice and I programmed a really fun game!! You don't have to play if you don't want to but Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday sooooooo! Please take care and try to stay safe, okay? Joanne Wiseman Technician 2nd class Retrspec Incorporated As of this post characters will find their application decked out in cheerful Halloween colors, and their userpics in a randomized (work safe) costume. Since this is Joanne's work, however, there is a very visible and easy option to turn off Halloween Mode if characters would prefer to use the usual application. She's helpful like that. The biggest feature of Halloween Mode is the Trick or Treat function. When speaking to others, users who are asked "Trick or treat?" will have the option to give a treat. If they do, a virtual candy will be gifted to the other user. If they do not, the user who asked the question will have the option to play a "trick". Tricks are fairly harmless and include: vandalizing a userpic with animal ears or noses, choosing a new color/design scheme for the other user's application, making the other user play a round of a cutesy halloween maze game to get back on the application, playing a song of the user's choice at the nefarious non-candy-giver, or similar very easy things. None of these effects last over ten minutes. This is one of the methods to earn a freebie memory for the month. You must have 5 threads with at least 5 comments each (25 comments total) playing the trick or treat game! This can be done on this post or in inboxes or wherever there is a network. Also as of this post: -Normal oranges exist alongside the dancing variety! -For the color BLUE: Media as a whole and NPCs begin using the names for the color again. Songs and books regain the ability to say the words appropriately, and NPCs acknowledge the color as real. -For the color GREEN: Photographs begin to regain this color. Text of this color also becomes visible again in books and online. 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.

Comments

[destiny_key]

ahhhh its joanne!!!
she seems really nice i like her

i wonder what the game is???
i hope its more fun than that bingo thing was

[complementing]

you didn't like the bingo game?

[chessking]

while I'm not objecting to the fact that you have an excellent taste in games

giving us some more details of these anomalies would be helpful?? how bad are we talking about and are they worse than monster attacks :/

just so we know what we're getting into

[ guess who has absolutely gone through most of the app options and things already rip ]

[complementing]

Lelouch!!!

trick or treat!

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Oh. Well, thanks, Joanne. This actually looks like fun. See, this is why I was saying that the other employees are cool, and Jim is not. It's really important that we get to choose. Here we go again.

Hitori Togusa If people are okay with talking about August again, anybody who got information about Dr. James Halliday can we talk? I need to clarify a few things.

[destiny_key]

trick or treat!!!

[matchbreaker]

Okay poll: CAGEY or IGNORANT?

Do they know what these anomalies will end up being and just decide to leave us hanging for the surprise, or do they just know that there will be an anomaly but not what it'll do once it reaches us?

Other options will be accepted too.

[standalonehuman]

Ignorant. At least, that would be my vote for Joanne and Maurice. When Retrospec was sending us into unreality twists, they couldn't tell precisely what was inside. Sometimes they could get limited information, but never tell us 'this is exactly what you're facing.'

[adoringpast]

you're damn fucking right that you all should've spent everything on blue, i still feel like im blind or something
if i got my silver hair back at least bring back the blue in everyone's eyes so that i'd actually look even better than being all washed-out grey, christ

but whatever
thanks for the heads up about yet another anomaly i guess
and for actually putting in an option for turning off this stupid halloween feature
who would've thought someone in the company actually gives a shit to its userbase

[youraffection]

idk how good the heads up is if we dont have any idea what were up against
i mean their anomalies r kind of a mess either way

[roseblooms]

Well, now that Jim and Janet are married, I suppose we all have to move on with our lives to the next most vital question:

Are Jojo and Maurice an item?

[adoringpast]

is this really the time to pair up the spares

[blessmefather]

They tell people to be careful but don't specify what the anomaly is...

This is my first time on the app when a game is involved. Are the games typically safe?

[standalonehuman]

Based on what I saw when I was in the Retrospec basement? They don't entirely know. They might be able to get limited information on what was inside an unreality twist, but not what, specifically, was there.

But the bingo game was totally safe! Especially if it's coming from Joanne and Maurice? This should be harmless.

[refate]

[ Happy birthday month to Kon, apparently. No surprise there. ]

i feel like calling them anomalies is sort of just like, i dunno.
you guys trying to push the blame off of yourselves?
especially for something supposedly "high level."
that's not entirely comforting, yk.

[lecturehall]

What would you call it?

[flowrite]

oh god not another one... I know you're not going to respond back, but isn't there anything we can do to stop this one? fight something or... something??




...that being said, the Halloween theme is super cute ♥

[buncho]

hey!!!!! do you think were going to get to group up and fight things again like august?!

[sketchythief]

"safe as long as you're cautious and don't take any unnecessary risks" sounds like a disclaimer for everything in life so i can only wonder what it is...

but she seems nicer than the other people i heard about

[admiringly]

daisuke... that makes me worry about you

[saburai]

I think this is officially the least obnoxious Retrospec post I've seen. Glad to see they have at least one decent employee.

Now, if we could only get concrete information from these announcements, then we'd be set.

[complementing]

we never do unfortunately, it's against their rules

[redarm]

holy shit
can we keep halloween layout forever??

[ITS HIS AESTHETIC.]

[glaciers]

You like it that much?
It's pretty cute.

[crushcard]

Does R&D not take into account the opinions of other Retrospec staff, Ms Wiseman?

We appreciate the concern, vague as it is, regardless. Are you not entitled to tell us what we should expect?

[ fucking. deja vu. ]

[godcards]

You know she isn't going to answer, right?

[manufactured]

Well, will you look at how much more tolerable you all are when you're actually pretending to be useful.

Perhaps next you'll move up to telling us exactly what these 'anomalies' are in advance - though I do appreciate the far less ominous wording this time around.

[thesettingsun]

It's way less ominous when they're telling us to be careful and try to stay safe from something high level than when they're talking about misfired texts and thought bubbles. Huh.

[mincingminuet]

Thanks Joanne. You're not on my shitlist.

Halloween is such a good holiday. And a trick or treat game? Heck yiss.

This might actually be fun. Like bingo with pranks.

[destiny_key]

trick or treat!!!

[lastcomfort]

Is this anomaly anything like the monsters coming through inter-dimensional portals?
Because I think we should call it that...

But games are fun! Assuming that the game also doesn't have anything to do with the monsters!

Oh, wait, what is this? I love the colors!

Wow, this application itself doesn't seem so bad.

[mincingminuet]

The colors are definitely great.

I like the halloween skin I hope I can keep it after.

[complementing]

omg finally someone whose thinking I can get behind

I'M SO READY FOR HALLOWEEN YOU GUYS!!!!

sound off, tell me about your costumes! (ʃƪꈍ∇ꈍ)

[kagepuro]

its so cute.......i love pumpkins.....

i haven't decided on a costume yet though!! I wonder if ill get invited to a party or something?

[liberal_arts]

Are you open to some criticism?

This is a bit garish.

Also I really hope this game is safe. You'll understand if I'm a bit skeptical.

[loudmouths]

it's probably full of malware

not that the app itself isn't already malware, but y'know

[parodeity]

i love games what the fuck
hey everyone
trick or treat
i want to use this feature immediately
even if theres always like a 90% chance of idiocy or nefarious bullshit afterwards
actually while were at it why is real candy so far away its like 30 days from now

[kagepuro]

trick or treat david!!


ps they sell candy at most stores

[tire]

i like the idea of costumes!!! it is very festive!!!
but i have 2 QS
1. WHY AM I A RABBIT???
2. can i change it 2 be sth tough??
3. y did u add glasses ?!?! was it 2 make me a smart bunny??? I DONT LIKE EITHER OF THOSE
4. where did the top of my shirt go
5. wat should i be instead

ok that was 5 qs
STILL V IMPORTANT THX

[undergrowl]

Once again your priorities are amazing.

[totallynotanoni]

Katherine Takada Honestly I've sort of been dreading Halloween for the last few weeks now, especially after the monster incident.

Katherine Takada Though the game they've given us looks pretty mundane in comparison to whats happened before.
Katherine Takada I guess I should thank Joanne for that.

Katherine Takada Also the anchor on the news said "blue skies", so I think their at least doing something about this.

[blind_badass]

Light Averly: I suppose everyone getting some colors back might make people feel a little better?

[originallutece]

It's a bit sad that I'm grateful we're allowed to turn off some of these features, but it is what it is.

[Cat ears on her profile picture are not her.]

I rather wish you'd prioritized returning the color towards us instead of the world. I could have lived with the others not acknowledging the color if it meant I got my eyes back.

[chessking]

[ absolutely attaches a screenshot of her with the cat ear filter because why the hell not ]

It suits you though, Prof.

Jinjing Sawyl Longwei

[longwei2go]

are you talking about games as in
putting everyone in some wacky real life RPG
complete with life or death consequences
or like
Bejeweled?

because when I think of you guys and Halloween I get a chill up my spine and the urge to punch someone
so I know what's safer for staff involved if you catch my drift

[playdolls]

Trick or treat~

[kagepuro]

PROS:
- Joanne seems very nice and fun!
- I like my spooky witch costume!
- The redesigned app is really cute! Hopefully we get one for the holidays!
- They made a game for us to play! I'm starting to believe these guys aren't so bad after all...Ooh! Maybe be can have one of those for the holidays too? Like a Naughty or Nice thing? We can send presents and stuff or lil jingle bells...this brilliant idea is yours for free, Joanne I'm not even gonna ask royalties

CONS:
- "There's an anomaly its probably not a big deal but please be careful" is usually what someone says before Washington, D.C. is obliterated in most sci-fi movies so it was nice knowing you all

I just want to make it to Halloween with nothing else bad happening to me is that too much to ask....

[penalizing]

that's a really smart christmas idea!!!
i wonder if they'll customize the app for every holiday
like hearts and kisses for valentine's day and fireworks for new years

[imaginex]

Um, this anomaly isn't going to hurt the people who don't have access to this app, will it...?

But otherwise cute layout!! (๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ

I hope we can keep it after Halloween.

[mr_fancy_car]

Perhaps if it and its features are popular enough.

I mean, they have their priorities in order.