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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

[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

[roseblooms]

They coded an app together. That's hardly pairing the spares.

[adoringpast]

yeah but that doesn't mean they're going to hit it off??

what is this, love at first html???

[roseblooms]

Once upon a DOS prompt dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many lines of application code rendered in C —
While I nodded, nearly sleeping, suddenly there came a beeping,
As of some one gently tweeting, pinging me to my PC.
“What is this?” I logged in saying, “pinging me to my PC?"
Quoth the message: less-than-three.

[frostythehitman]

They're practically siblings. That's gross.

[roseblooms]

Maybe it's all a cover to hide their love from our prying eyes.

[frostythehitman]

God, I hope not. I didn't break up her big monster wedding just for her to turn around and start making out with Maurice.

[roseblooms]

Her big...monster wedding?

[judgementkazzy]

That would be pretty sweet.
They must have spent a lot of time working on this together.

[roseblooms]

It seems harmless enough, and I've heard good things about Joanne in particular, so I'm willing to believe that whatever this is, it probably really is intended to be nothing more than a genuinely fun game for us.

[judgementkazzy]

She seems pretty alright.
Her and Maurice are really good at getting stuff done.
If they put their heads together to make more harmless stuff like this, that'd almost make Retrospec seem not so bad.

[roseblooms]

I wonder if there's an irony to the fact that the youngest members of this organization seem most sympathetic to our cause.

[admiringly]

omg
i hope they are or even if they're just really good friends
they're a better poster couple for retrospec

[roseblooms]

They do seem to get along quite well, don't they? Coding an app together and all.

[admiringly]

they do they do!!
i don't know much about coding but could you say
they had to share a language all of their own to make a game together?
it's a really cute game too!!

[alitaba]

but boring maury is just so boring

[roseblooms]

The heart chooses what the heart desires. Far be it from us to judge.

[alitaba]

can't we sacrifice someone else instead

[lalliho]

she's sixteen

[roseblooms]

Because, as we all know, sixteen-year-olds have never experienced romantic affiliations of any variety, ever.

[lalliho]

isn't Maurice like an adult or something

[parodeity]

its not real shipping until improbably hard to understand shipping names are involved

[roseblooms]

Is "Mojo" too easy to understand? I feel as though that's more of a power couple name, Maurice and Joanne as MauJo.

[parodeity]

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