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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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i can read your name just fine next to your icon, you know

i mean who are YOU exactly? and what do you need these notes for?

That is traditionally the answer given to "Who are you", since who I am is not what I do.

However, in this case, I'm a journalist. And I am trying to compile everything we know.

yeah yeah whatever, don't be too pedantic

anyways here

[ slides into his PMs to send him photos of those records. apparently they're just NPC names of random people that shouldn't look too familiar to anyone. ]

it's unreadable by everyone except retrospec employees, which is why it's called their company code

[thank you Sena, he's definitely flipping through the pictures, and then immediately forwarding them to a secured email. He'll save them to disk later.]

My gratitude for the pictures.

A question-- do you not want these shared? I ask because that is the nature of what I do. Technically, I should have asked if this were on the record when we first spoke.

i did share them to the class during the big hubbub about sharing the information we'd found last august.

you can keep those copies if you want, im already talking to someone who's working w the CSI of the police department to have them checked but im pretty sure they won't find anything else on it

those records are apparently written in some sort of dead language. wendy told me that it's basic for most retrospec employees to know all that gibberish, and it's why she mentioned that it's some sort of "company code". she's working at security, btw

She was under this Baroque fellow, was she not?

And even if we cannot understand them yet, if it is a company code that is basic, there is a chance that they will leave a key at some point. A rosetta stone, if it were. Especially since so many in this lot were inquiring about employment.

i think so? im still not familiar with anyone else who works at retrospec aside from her and dr mahoney

speaking about employment, one of our team members asked if anyone can be hired to work for retrospec. apparently it's possible, but they had to undergo through rigorous tests. we had a taste of how their "exams" were like when we ventured into the crypts at the graveyard those past three weeks

wendy also mentioned that in order to be hired for retrospec, one must have nothing to lose
maybe that's why she chose to work for them
because she has nothing left

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