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

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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
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.
frostythehitman: (fear is how i fall)

[personal profile] frostythehitman 2017-10-02 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
You say that like we had any control over August in the first place. Yeah, sure, I'll just not summon a giant ocean-eating monster this time, no problem.

But sure, I'll bite. Treat.
abovethefold: (pic#11102944)

[personal profile] abovethefold 2017-10-02 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, it gives you a virtual candy! How cute.

No, I wasn't referring to people here being responsible for what happened. I was talking about how many people came home injured after everything was said and done. A friend and I were running aid stations around the city during that final battle, and the number of people we saw injured was worrying. I'd like to avoid that this month if possible.

Should I be taking your comment as an admission of guilt with regards to the ocean-eating monster? :)
frostythehitman: (this lack of self control i fear)

[personal profile] frostythehitman 2017-10-02 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
There's no way that's all it does. Retrospec wouldn't make the game this simple and this painless.

You should take my comment as an admission of sarcasm. And kicking ass, because that's what I did to that monster.
abovethefold: (pic#11293917)

[personal profile] abovethefold 2017-10-02 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know about that. The bingo game a few months back wasn't so bad, was it? I was a bit too busy to play, but I saw a lot of silliness going on in relation to it.

I see. All by yourself?
frostythehitman: (against my will i stand)

[personal profile] frostythehitman 2017-10-02 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah, bingo was great. I loved the part where everyone and their mother came up and slapped me across the face without even asking.

You weren't there? There was dozens of us trying to fight that thing. It was massive!
abovethefold: (pic#11293916)

[personal profile] abovethefold 2017-10-02 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I see someone broke into the Retrospec building. I'd say it serves you right, but I'm willing to excuse some things when it comes to Retrospec. I'm sorry you wound up getting slapped so many times.

[Unfortunately she doesn't think James will find the teasing in her comment (he's missed the rest of it, after all!), but that's all right.]

No. I don't know much about fighting; I would have been more of a liability than a help... Li-Na and I ran the aid stations and tried to patch people up instead.
frostythehitman: (i can't cONTROL MYSELF)

[personal profile] frostythehitman 2017-10-03 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Well, did you slap anyone during bingo?

[ Answer wisely, because this will determine how he regards you for the rest of this conversation. ]

Aid stations, huh? Good to know we had some. I didn't even think about first aid during that whole mess.
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[personal profile] abovethefold 2017-10-04 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
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