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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.

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[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!!!

[standalonehuman]

Already?? Treat.

I see how this is going to be...

[destiny_key]

yeah lol it looks like this is gonna be the thing for the month
but its kinda nice so i dont mind i think

[standalonehuman]

I love it. Joanne and Maurice are so nice. Halloween is not really a thing back home so I never went trick or treating for real.

[destiny_key]

no halloween???
where are you from???

[standalonehuman]

Japan, Kawasaki, in Kanagawa Prefecture, specifically.
We celebrate, but trick or treating isn't part of it.

[glaciers]

I know a little bit about Dr. James Halliday.

[standalonehuman]

From what someone else was saying, he was a memory researcher? Shuji looked up some of his papers for me, seems he was interested in deep-brain stimulation to try to increase human recall of memories.

Do you know how he was associated with Retrospec?

[glaciers]

That's what his research and lab implied. That was also what his resume had on it. Making people remember things but not suffering any shock from it, if I remember right.

I don't think there was anything specific tying them together.

[standalonehuman]

Then where was his lab located? I know, in one of the unreality twists, but what was around it?

I also thought one of the founding families was interested in him? Vanderweele?

[This is Togusa scrambling through his notes.]

[glaciers]

It was in unreality. I think we were in his office? And then we went into one of those doctor waiting lounges. And then there was a big lab, but I'm not sure if it was his? Another docter was splicing people together with animals. There was a human-llama splice and a harpy.

The harpy lady had a file and she'd been there for almost a century.

[standalonehuman]

Fuck.

Wait. A century? Does Recolle go back that far? Does Retrospec go back that far?

[toobigtohandle]

[Jirou pestered him enough that Kenta just... picked someone at random, sorry, random person.]

Trick or treat

[standalonehuman]

[Hello in return, random person. Togusa tilts his head at the screen.]

Decisions, decisions. The kids have been getting the candy for free, but I haven't seen what happens when I push trick yet...

[toobigtohandle]

[Wait, no, he doesn't know what to do if you do that!]

I'm... not sure what it does either...

[standalonehuman]

I actually dont know what happens if you tell the kids that come to your door, either.

Let me push it, see what happens.

[Well, congrats, Togusa, you gave Kenta the option to play a trick on you!]

[toobigtohandle]

I'm not sure what to do now.

... Wait I have a few options here.

{Kenta will press one of those at random. Immediately, the app on Togusa's side switches to the lock screen with little animated bats flying all over. The app will only unlock after Togusa has managed to tap all of the bats so they all disappear at the same time.]

[standalonehuman]

[What? No, hang on. Aargh. But the entire time that Togusa is playing the game, he is laughing. Oh, this is so much more clearly something that Joanne and Maurice coded.]

Oh no, that was actually really cute! It was a game!

Oh, that's the best trick, I might have to say that more often to see what else they have in store.

[vitis]

fresh outta info on that dr. james halliday
why're you asking bout him specifically, though

[standalonehuman]

So, what I have found out so far, he was a memory researcher about fifty years ago. And one of the Founders, Vanderweele, was interested in his work.

Might have had something to do with his death. (That one's speculation.)

But his research was specifically looking at deep-brain stimulation to the entorhinal cortex, which is where the memory structures are located. Got my brain checked, just to make sure, and there's no change in my brain function.

[vitis]

1. how'd he die
2. why would you suspect there to be a sudden noticeable change in brain function after learning that

[standalonehuman]

Uh, for question one, I think you want people from Team...Yzma? (Whatever that means.)

For question two, well, we've been getting memories implanted into our minds. I've been on here since the original group, so if that was how Retrospec was doing it, if there was a change to be noticed, it would be in me?

[vitis]

wouldn't that depend if you got a brain scan before being forced into this retrospec nonsense
like you have to have something to compare it to, right

[standalonehuman]

Grell said that the function looked normal. I mean, I have had a previous scan, I got thrown off a horse years ago. But she was confident about it anyway.