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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
Retr

spec 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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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?

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.

Joanne and Maurice are a couple of the good ones then? [ He's chuckling under his breath but Toyama can probably still hear the amused quiver in his voice when he talks. ] Good. I'll tell my niece.

I can't believe Retrospec won't at least be honest about what they don't know. If they're trying to keep it under wraps to look professional they should know that ship sailed a long time ago.

[Whoops, Togusa keeps forgetting, and he swaps to voice, sorry, Matt!]

"They are! I met them both. They really just come off as a couple of people trying their best to do their jobs, even if it's for a strange company."

"Maurice, he lives in the Retrospec building. For whatever reason, it seems like they can't ever leave. We've staked it out a lot, and never seen people go in or out. Likes science fiction and super heroes, studying biology. You could just tell a lot about him from seeing where he lived."

[ Matt thinks nothing of it. Voice is simply the easier option, which he'll take when he can while talking to friends. People text out of habit all the time and he has gotten pretty good at telling his phone what to write. Last month he even figured out voice command for emojis. ]

Have any of the Retrospec employees been seen outside of the building?

Re: [voice]

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blessmefather - 2017-10-04 23:58 (UTC) - Expand

the last time it happened in July it was relatively harmless, although there were a definite slant towards embarrassing or ridiculous situations

So the only harm done was to people's egos. Good to know.

Are we talking about activities that are embarrassing in the moment or something that will get a person fired from their job or kicked out of Yale?

Trick or treat, Matt

Is this that game? What do I do? Is there a button I need to push?

if you type treat it'll give you a selection of candies to pick from. i think you should be able to toggle through them. if you type trick it'll give me access to play a trick on you.

[ooc: makes shit up]

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blessmefather - 2017-10-05 00:40 (UTC) - Expand

I think this game is stupid, but I figured I'd get on the bandwagon anyway. Trick or Treat Matt!

Not sure if I want to trick or treat at this age but I guess I'll return the favor later. After I figure the game out...

[ He scrambles to figure out the command or where on the screen to poke to get that treat to him. With a few attempts and a little instruction the digital candy is sent successfully. ]

Judging by the happy sound it just made I believe it worked?

Yes it did. Thanks man. Also, there is never an age limit to actual trick or treating. I did it a few time in university in the dorms. It's a great way to meet people who live near you.

blessmefather - 2017-10-05 00:33 (UTC) - Expand

nothings typically anything with retrospec tbh

that said: trick or treat (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

Fair point.

What happens if I say trick? All I've done so far is give imaginary candy away.

[Does that count? Mista's pretty sure that counts. Even if it doesn't, Matt still has to deal with a truly garish green and orange plaid design scheme for the next ten minutes.]

interior redesign my man

blessmefather - 2017-10-05 00:06 (UTC) - Expand

this isn't the first time they've implemented a game like this on the app but this one is simpler compared to last time

it involved a citywide bingo of all things. it happened last july. didn't you know?

I heard about the bingo game. I didn't hear anything about the content of the cards and whether or not it was "friendly."

[ moved here! ]

We'll probably get something if we play along, so yeah.

Hopefully something worthwhile? What prize were they giving away the last time?

Superpowers!

Except we didn't get to keep them. 😡

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we only had one thing close to a game before
it wasn't unsafe! just weird
but this one looks super harmless

ps is this who i think it is??

For all the danger and stress Retrospec puts people through they still make innocent fun games. That's really something.

Who do you think this is?

[ Matt asks his phone to tell him who the message is from. Kurt Wagner? 18. Doesn't ring any bells off the top of his head but maybe he was forgetting something. ]

it's something alright! sometimes silly or a little embarrassing, but i guess not everything they're capable of is outright horrible

um a person who goes to my church? we don't really talk, but i think you're the guy i'm aware of!

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