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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

[wherethewildthingsare]

Both, kinda.

From all I can tell, there are people actually in retrospec and they have some sort of goal...so I imagine these anomaly are side effects of whatever they're doing.

[matchbreaker]

Oh yeah? See, I've taken it to mean that they get buffed by these anomalies and try to push them down.

[wherethewildthingsare]

If they know what's coming, they'd be actively malicious to not say what. And at least some of them aren't.

So I assume at this point, it's random.

[matchbreaker]

Maybe.

It could also be that by nature of what they are, it's a little bit random. Like when you change a storm and it becomes monsters.

[wherethewildthingsare]

That could also be true.

I dunno if it being random really matters though, cause they're still doing it.

[matchbreaker]

Probably? Wasn't the whole august thing caused by a storm?

[wherethewildthingsare]

Well yeah

But I don't think they had any idea anything bad would happen, is all I mean. Even randomly.

I didn't talk to them though.

My point is more that at this point they know weird stuff is gonna happen so it doesn't really matter if they're intentionally doing things or not, anymore.

...So I guess my vote is actually neither cagey nor ignorant, callous.

[matchbreaker]

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