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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.

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[originallutece]

And are you going to dress up?

[standalonehuman]

If I'm not on shift, definitely! Still deciding on what, though.

[originallutece]

. . . what are your choices?

[standalonehuman]

I dunno, this is giving me ideas.

[Togusa's current profile picture is now of a wild west sheriff with a huge shiny badge.]

Might depend on where I go for the night, itself. I could go with a running joke from a few months ago and dress up as a samurai. But I've also never done Sherlock Holmes.

[originallutece]

Care to explain why a samurai is a joke?

[standalonehuman]

I was in the first group of people on the app, but I didn't get any memories for a long time. Or, at least, I didn't realize I was getting them. Or something. It's hard to tell now.

So, we started a poll for 'what is Togusa repressing?' Turn it into a bit of a joke, helped people cope. Samurai was one of the more popular options. Then when I told people I had seen a giant spider robot, people started changing it to 'cyber samurai.'

[originallutece]

A giant spider robot . . .

[Ooh, buddy, they're definitely gonna talk about that at some point.]

Well, I suppose samurai would offer the most humor, then, but Sherlock Holmes would be a great deal easier.

[standalonehuman]

A giant spider robot tank, that other-me knew how to drive. It has a grenade launcher, and it sings.

I suppose I'll have to see what I can find for either costume.

[originallutece]

Were you some kind of solider in your other life?

[standalonehuman]

I'm thinking the man was paramilitary? I know he worked with the police. So closely that a few memories just blended in with my own, I didn't realize that they weren't just things I had already done, until someone pointed out inconsistencies.