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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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Jim, Janet, and Joanne. Am I seriously the only one who thinks these are fake people....

That said, I am going to collect every single one of these virtual candies. 😈

hey pitou ill trade you 3-way, ill give you a treat if you hit up terra and give him one and he owes me something else

You're both a little young for this three way, but I suppose

heck yes youre the best!! candy for you and also
are those halloween decorations any good as weapons or no

They're mostly plastic, Halloween is more style than substance.

lame lame lame
i bet you decorate w real skeletons and stuff huh

I do have some bone pieces, I also like custom ball-joint dolls.

ive never played w dolls in my life, i didnt really think you would either

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Joanne's real, at least. She may be in cahoots with Jim and Janet, but she's real for sure.

Is that the Halloween shelf at a store around here somewhere? I gotta stock up on this, those skeletons look incredible.

I mean I don't think that's their real names.

And yeah! They have them around some of the bodegas.

Fine, okay. Jim and Janet, Jack and Jill, Dumb and Dumber, whatever we wanna call them, Joanne's definitely real. Unless you think she's lying about her name too. Maybe they're actually Dumb, Dumb, and Dumber.

They're not gonna have those skeletons for long, then. I'm gonna line my room with them all. And probably our front yard too.

Are you a particularly big DD&D fan? Somehow that wouldn't surprise me.

And apparently very big on Halloween.

I didn't realize making a reference once made you a big fan of something.

And yeah no duh, who wouldn't want a ton of black metal skeletons?

Twice, in as many sentences.

I can think of plenty of people who wouldn't want to decorate with skeletons.

Yeah, it's called keeping your metaphors consistent.

What's wrong with them? It's October, what else are you supposed to do? Besides, they'd make great set pieces for my band.

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I met Joanne she's okay

Just okay? You don't want to take her home to mother, or what?

I'm 20 and male I can't be a mother

[He might not...have understood...]

That is not how that turn of phrase works.

Olen suomalainen. En ymmärrä.

[Just gonna play the foreigner card despite being a citizen for many years now...]

I am too lazy to translate that.

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lame. there's no color in that display at all.

to think for the longest time i figured janet might secretly be jim's love doll or something. too bad i was wrong and she's a spineless scumbag like the rest of them! 💗

[Somebody's petulant...possibly has something to do with the newly-one-eyed person being given the pirate userpic.]

You could always customize any of those items,
I'm sure there are paints available a few aisles over. I'll customize them for you,
for a fee.

I don't think they don't exist, I just think they're using fake names. They're the most boring whitebread names out of a list of J names, and their last name is lierally Wise Man. Sounds fake.

we're always paying more for convenience, i guess! but if i'm going to pay more i want the umberest of burnt umbers, the leafiest orange!

from the get go.

hmm...now that you mention it, it DOES sound kind of fakey. they could also be disgusing themselves! like you know, hiding their identities physically too

which would be stupid because we never see them!

Whatever you want, I charge for supplies and labor.
Although you can have it for free if you run errands for me for a week :)

Maybe we have seen them.