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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]

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.

[thesettingsun]

That's so cute that it feels weird associating it with Poe.

[roseblooms]

I really should've gone into English Lit, but no, I decided to become a physicist.

[thesettingsun]

Was it the prospect of actually having a job in your field that paid enough to live on that swayed you?

[roseblooms]

What makes you think I'm being paid enough to live on right now as it is?

[thesettingsun]

I didn't mean 'right now', I meant 'ever'.

[roseblooms]

Well, that's part of it, at least.

The other part of it is that a doctorate in physics is relatively more impressive than a doctorate in literature, as appearances go.

[thesettingsun]

It's a lot more impressive. Will I have to call you Dr. Fawkes?

[roseblooms]

It has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?

[thesettingsun]

It suits you. I'm looking forward to using it more often.

[roseblooms]

Frankly, the part I'm most looking forward to is getting to regularly say "Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a [whatever]" when Retrospec shenanigans are afoot.

[thesettingsun]

I am way more jealous of that than any of the normal parts of being a doctor.

[roseblooms]

For example: dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a trick-or-treater.

(Trick or treat.)

[thesettingsun]

Treat, obviously!

It's a good thing you aren't a dentist. Then we'd have some problems.

[roseblooms]

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[adoringpast]

[ oh wow. no wonder ros adores him... not that sena knows the guy anyway ]

did you really just make up a rehash of poe's work on the fly and waste comment space like that just to prove a point to me

im soooooooo impressed

[roseblooms]

I certainly did. My nefarious scheme has worked and now there's slightly less comment space for all of the rest of you because, as we know, comment space is a finite quantity and I've wasted it.

[adoringpast]

[ moved here! ]

[twelfthspark]

I'm surprised. That actually works pretty well.

[roseblooms]

Truly, love can bloom even in cyberspace.

[twelfthspark]

Jim and Janet are *married*. Are we sure love is still real?

[roseblooms]

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