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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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It's a bit sad that I'm grateful we're allowed to turn off some of these features, but it is what it is.

[Cat ears on her profile picture are not her.]

I rather wish you'd prioritized returning the color towards us instead of the world. I could have lived with the others not acknowledging the color if it meant I got my eyes back.

[ absolutely attaches a screenshot of her with the cat ear filter because why the hell not ]

It suits you though, Prof.

You're antagonizing a person in control of your grades. Erase that.

Is it antagonising if there is no malicious intent behind them? It's merely an observation of something that suits the Halloween mood.

that said: trick or treat, Professor!

It's antagonizing if it's you. You're sarcastic enough as it is.

And trick, I think. If nothing else, I'm eager to see what you might come up with. Going to run from class again, are we?

I'm going to take that as a compliment, I hope you don't mind.

You're wasted teaching introductory classes, Professor.

[ and well since he already has a screenshot of her with the cat ears, he's absolutely going to make her play the Halloween maze game to get back to the app and have it blare out 8-bit video game music while it's at it. ]

I'm timing this.

[ of course he is. :/ ]

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omg...(◉◇◉✿)

I told you, professor, why fight the inevitable? Good to know they're people after the twins' hearts.

...Trick or treat.

I realize this isn't in any way your fault, but nonetheless: I blame you for this.

And no. I'm hardly in the halloween spirit.

Completely my fault. I take all the blame.

Do you not like halloween altogether? Or is it just too early for this?

I'm English. The holiday doesn't have the nostalgic allure for me it does for others.

But no, it's more that it's a bit early. It's only the first, we've all month.

Halloween isn't really a thing back home. The Hallow's Eve - All Saint's Day connection isn't really strong. Tradeoff is we have so many other opportunities to dress up and have festivals. So this is kind of close.

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Honestly? Given how much the app forces on us, I found the opt-out button rather refreshing as well. At least we can control this one thing.

Indeed. Still, I can't help but feel like a lab rat offered a scrap of cheese.

Very true. It is certainly the illusion of choice, though I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume it wasn't meant mockingly.

What color are your eyes supposed to be, anyway? It's been so long I don't even remember.

Blue. A perfectly lovely shade of blue that I miss very much.

Weird. I don't even know what that would look like any more. You just look like you're supposed to have gray eyes.

I honestly can't tell if that's a compliment or an insult, though I'll err on the side of the former.

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[he absolutely has embraced his pirate lifestyle. whoops. But, far be it to criticize the lady's judgment here.]

Green... or blue?

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[Ah. This man.]

Blue.

I should be greatly interested to compare and contrast, your eyes now, and when restored to their natural hue.

My own eyes were practically grey already. I can't truly appreciate the loss.

Even the tint ought to bother you. And I'd promise you a photo once the color returns to our eyes, but that seems a bit forward for a man I've only spoken to twice.

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You and me both. It's been months and I'm still not used to seeing myself with gray eyes in the mirror.