recollecters: (Default)
Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2017-10-01 07:59 pm

loading...

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.
roseblooms: but really that boy is quite literally a monster (HEARTS ❁ equal parts smarm and charm)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-10-02 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
It seems harmless enough, and I've heard good things about Joanne in particular, so I'm willing to believe that whatever this is, it probably really is intended to be nothing more than a genuinely fun game for us.
judgementkazzy: (熱くなれ 熱く誘えBoys… movin' on!)

[personal profile] judgementkazzy 2017-10-02 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
She seems pretty alright.
Her and Maurice are really good at getting stuff done.
If they put their heads together to make more harmless stuff like this, that'd almost make Retrospec seem not so bad.
roseblooms: can you stand against my hierophant greenery (GLASSES ❁ this is my kakyoin impression)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-10-02 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
I wonder if there's an irony to the fact that the youngest members of this organization seem most sympathetic to our cause.
judgementkazzy: (I gonna show you my power)

[personal profile] judgementkazzy 2017-10-02 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Makes sense if you ask me.
Older people can be pretty out of touch.
They don't realize how hard it is for us.


[ This might be the first time Kaz has actually acted like he isn't over 30, incredible. ]
roseblooms: she owes me at least three trips to space camp (PONDER ❁ so where is carmen sandiego)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-10-02 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
And if that's true, I wonder if that isn't also why they've chosen to reach out to us through the use of a phone app. That speaks of a certain tech-savviness that I wouldn't precisely expect of someone older, don't you think?
judgementkazzy: (脇役お断り)

[personal profile] judgementkazzy 2017-10-02 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. If they were going for an older crowd they'd have done some kind of message board or something.
I bet Jim was the type to have a Geocities page.
Meanwhile Joanne and Maurice actually know how to do this stuff.
roseblooms: it takes actual effort to be that oblivious (UH ❁ youuuuu dense motherfucker)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-10-02 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Do you think his Geocities page had flame gifs on it for extra cool?
judgementkazzy: (icon 77)

[personal profile] judgementkazzy 2017-10-02 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Without a doubt.
roseblooms: this is my vash the stampede impression (YOSH ❁ la-di-da-di-da an ocean of blood)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-10-02 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll bet they were full of artifacts, too. And also 3D text spinning in a slow and perpetual circle.
judgementkazzy: (ノリたいのよ)

[personal profile] judgementkazzy 2017-10-03 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
He probably had a launch page with a view counter.
With flashing text and borders everywhere.
roseblooms: just sit over there and try not to mess up my groove (PETALS ❁ sorry i'm busy being fabulous)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-10-04 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
I wonder how many views he got.

Or how few, as the case may be.

Maybe he's compensating for it at this point, now.
judgementkazzy: (We don’t need the reason for joy)

[personal profile] judgementkazzy 2017-10-05 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
No one wanted to sign his guestbook so now he's taking it out on us.
It's pretty sad.