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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.

Comments

[standalonehuman]

I love it. Joanne and Maurice are so nice. Halloween is not really a thing back home so I never went trick or treating for real.

[destiny_key]

no halloween???
where are you from???

[standalonehuman]

Japan, Kawasaki, in Kanagawa Prefecture, specifically.
We celebrate, but trick or treating isn't part of it.

[destiny_key]

oh yeah
i thought they did trick or treating in some parts of japan???
or maybe thats just for really little kids idk

ive never been to japan
minako says she wants to take me there someday

[standalonehuman]

Some parts, but it just wasn't a thing, especially not when I was a kid.

[Make me feel old, here, Sora...]

You should go! Even if it's just for a vacation, you should so go! See a baseball game! It's so different at home!

[destiny_key]

lol i think minako wants me to meet all the family there ive never met XD
but id like to go someday!!!

its like
a whole half of me i dont know lol

[standalonehuman]

You have family in Japan? I guess I never asked, I'm sorry. What part?

[destiny_key]

yeah!!! im half japanese lol
but ive never been there and my moms only been there like twice

i think like tokyo area???
i know theyre kinda near the city
id have to ask minako

[standalonehuman]

Are you and Minako related, too?

Nope, that means you're the next person I have to start showing all that culture you're missing out on. Pick a style of music.

[destiny_key]

yes!!!
minakos my cousin
her grandma and my grandma are sisters
theyre twins too so i guess it runs in the family lol

???
pop music i guess???

[standalonehuman]

Uh oh, is this another family tree I have to start mapping out?

It's a little older, but have this for a starter.

[destiny_key]

lol maybe???
good luck though my family is huge
and ive only told you about my moms side of the family

that sounds like a song from one of those dance arcade games
ddr or whatever

[standalonehuman]

I can get one of those really wide rolls of paper they print posters on.

Was it on DDR? I wouldn't be surprised. Hunh. But yeah! She was really big when I was a teenager in Japan. You couldn't go anywhere without hearing her for a few years.