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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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No more than any other at this time of year.

So if there is an ulterior motive, it is but the usual commercialisation of Hallow's Eve.

You think the anomaly will end up giving us more memories?

I'd rather say you're the one that's more likely to know than I.

It was more a rhetorical question.

Honestly, I'm concerned. It's never, ever good when that happens.

Do you have any way to defend yourself, yet?

You mean, like I did in our previous life?

How disappointing it is to admit no. I've memories, but no ability.

A shame.
Hopefully soon. I'd rather not see you hurt till we know more about our past selves.

While I am aware of the difference in the type of danger... I should remind you that I am also no stranger to it either.

So... Trick, or treat?

You don't need to remind me.

And let's say Trick.

[well, that was quite nice.

You get a pirate themed app. All buttons now end in 'arrgh' or 'aye aye', and appropriate keywords have been swapped.]

Ah, but perhaps I do, at least to appease your worry.

I hope that suits your taste?

Yo ho, yo ho.

A pirate's life for us.

We pillage plunder, we rifle and loot.

Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.

Makes you think, doesn't it?

Were we pirates?

It's possible. Even probable, based on what memories I've received.

What have you remembered other than the one we shared?

Dead bodies, a kidnapping, stealing through the sewers. Considering that going the "old fashioned way."

In fact, perhaps I should ascribe more certainty in my former profession.

Fun. A lot of mine involve being kidnapped, going on wild adventures, and seeing exotic places.

Also being on the run from the law.

I'm seriously thinking that may be a yes.

Time to buy an eyepatch and carry 'round a bottle of rum.

'Tis the season to embrace it.

I haven't seen a ship yet though.

At least, not a sailing ship. Definitely seen some weird airplane things.

Perhaps they're called "air ships."

Yet they look like something out of Battlestar Galaxica.

And modern ships look much different from their traditional wooden counterparts.

fair I guess.

In any event, hopefully this month will be as drama-free as last.

Exactly the opposite of what we've been promised?

Or do you mean in the interpersonal sense?

Interpersonal.
Been quite a month, with all the memories coming back. My girlfriend's had it bad.
And dealing with the fallout from august.

That kid that died really shook a lot of people.

Forgive my ignorance on the matter.

But I doubt you'll have much control over that sort of drama-- even less so, if this month promises to be similar to August.

It's an unfortunate fact about life.

It may not mean much, but you've my condolences.

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