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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

[kagepuro]

PROS:
- Joanne seems very nice and fun!
- I like my spooky witch costume!
- The redesigned app is really cute! Hopefully we get one for the holidays!
- They made a game for us to play! I'm starting to believe these guys aren't so bad after all...Ooh! Maybe be can have one of those for the holidays too? Like a Naughty or Nice thing? We can send presents and stuff or lil jingle bells...this brilliant idea is yours for free, Joanne I'm not even gonna ask royalties

CONS:
- "There's an anomaly its probably not a big deal but please be careful" is usually what someone says before Washington, D.C. is obliterated in most sci-fi movies so it was nice knowing you all

I just want to make it to Halloween with nothing else bad happening to me is that too much to ask....

[penalizing]

that's a really smart christmas idea!!!
i wonder if they'll customize the app for every holiday
like hearts and kisses for valentine's day and fireworks for new years

[kagepuro]

in my opinion, it would reduce the somewhat terrifying reality we're all living in by at LEAST like 5%

I don't think that's too much to ask of our retrospec overlords? I hope that everyone can find little ways like this to enjoy themselves ❤️

[penalizing]

it really isn't!!!
and joanne seems like a nice lady from this post
halloween's her favorite holiday but that doesn't mean she won't make other games for us too

gotta keep our spirits up somehow!!

[glaciers]

None of us are in Washington D.C. but we might all die.
I wouldn't be too surprised after everything that's happened so far.

I like my vampire costume though. It's very princely.

[kagepuro]

in this movie we ARE D.C.

yea you're pretty cute!! Vampires are pretty much the best one a guy can get imo!!

[glaciers]

I don't think the president lives here.

You think so? Ghosts can be pretty cute too.
Ah, but they're not exactly cool.

[lastcomfort]

Yes...it is a pretty big con, isn't it...

[kagepuro]

it is pretty enormous in comparison to the pros, definitely

[lastcomfort]

Well, hopefully it's something we won't have to worry about! This seems fun so far.

[cattack]

Normally I'd protest comparing real life to a sci-fi movie.
But given what things have been like here recently, that seems likely, actually.

[kagepuro]

yeah sometimes we make the movies look like they dont have enough imagination

[cattack]

Frequently, even.
Were you around for the time everyone was shrunk?

[buncho]

are you playing the game? go play with terra and tell him i sent you!

also

i want presents, what sort of game is it where i get presents?

[kagepuro]

[THAT FEEL WHEN YOU CANT TAG YOUR OWN CHARACTER BUT LETS JUST SAY SHE AGREES AND FORGETS]

it would be like this but instead of candy we get presents and maybe they give us cute stuff to put on our profile pictures or something.....i think its a good idea!!

[buncho]

[ don't forget!!!! -1 hw for mafuyu :( ]

omg we need to make that a real holiday, knocking on peoples doors and being given presents
we can call it
helloween

[protegge]

this is extremely genre specific ur not wrong
hopefully we arent in a sci fi thriller and instead its like
an ensemble comedy

[kagepuro]

or maybe a sci-fi comedy?

Soft sci-fi?

Fantasy?

[protegge]

scifantacomedy

no that just kind of looks like the soda doesnt it

[sunnyspot]

You think so too? It's a really ominous statement. Of course you'd want to make everyone think everything's okay.

But I'm glad you're enjoying the game and the changes to the app. You're good at coming up with new ideas for things.

[kagepuro]

i have some very interesting ideas on french fries as you know

Trick or treat, Kouhei!

[sunnymerc]

AYANOOO

TRICK OR TREAT ＼（Ò3Ó）／

[kagepuro]

treats!!! All the treats for the bestie!!!!

[evidentiary]

It does feel like the lead-up to a large-scale disaster film, doesn't it?

[kagepuro]

yeah 😖

For the sake of you and your pretty clothes, i really really hope not

(And also our lives)

It's scary because it probably means there's going to be more after this, right? And one's that they can't "damp down" at that, so...

😬