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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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[matchbreaker]

Oh I've been here for five, myself. I'm not a spring chicken.

[godcards]

Then you should be well aware what an incompetent mess Retrospec is... aren't I right? They're perfectly aware that things go wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's all their doing. They just don't want to take any responsibility for it... not directly, anyway. Just the vague "we're trying to do our jobs"-type posts.

[matchbreaker]

I am increasingly inclined to think incompetence more than malice from all but Mr. Halloway, yes. However, that incompetence doesn't have to be universal, there could be ignorance in the lower ranks.

[godcards]

Whatever it is, it doesn't help that someone knows what's going on and relays it to the posters or dumbs it down for them. Tell me, do you actually think it's helpful to be told in uncertain terms that "something" is going to happen? Anyone on the app by now should know to be wary! These warnings mean nothing!

[matchbreaker]

So you're the sort who prefers things to be totally silent?

I'm okay with that too, just trying to read through the dramatics.

[godcards]

Yes, I wouldn't mind never hearing from Retrospec again. Might do them some good, actually, if they focused on their work instead of making posts.

[matchbreaker]

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