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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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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.

The colors are definitely great.

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

Me too! I love the little pumpkins! This is such a fun time of year.
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It's the best time of the year for sure! I'm so psyched up for Halloween this year!

Me too! I haven't decided on my costume yet. Do you know what you're going to be?

I do! I'm going to be a pirate.

Oh that's such a good idea!! Are you going to have a parrot?

No, just a tomato.

On your shoulder?

Absolutely. He's about the same size.

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the anomaly can really be anything... they're never specific about what it ends up being. just if it's "big" or "small."

What did the monsters count as? Was that a "small" one?

[ Because that sure seemed like a big deal... ]

[ LET'S GO! ]

its super fun!! do you want to play it?

with terra

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i didnt think about the games maybe bringing monsters thru and already trick or treated 2 ppl
having some regrets
hope u didnt jinx us

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Isn't it great, Hime-san?!
I love the change for Halloween!
Everyone's profiles look so cute and seasonal! (^u^)
I can't wait to try out this new game, too! ~ <3

HIME!!! TRICK OR TREAT! ۹(Ò3Ó)۶

ikr? It's so cute!
Trick or treat?

So far the game seems mostly harmless, but would you like to test it out together?

Trick or treat.