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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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[...Mafuyu how are you both a tiny terror and the most adorable thing ever??]

You're right. I mean, not about you fighting, but about the team. I'm sure we'll all have each others' backs no matter what happens ♥

speaking of which, you know you can come to me if you need anything, right? Even if it's just to snitch a few pieces of bacon while I'm cooking (◠‿◠✿)

YES!!!! IM ALWAYS HERE FOR BACON DAY you gotta tell me what youre cooking every day too though

are you playing the trick or treat game? ask me trick or treat

HAHA yes I'll start sending you a status report of what's in my kitchen every day (◠‿◠✿) Except the days I have late class, of course. Those are usually takeout nights :)

[It's happening. Believe it.]

Of course I am! Trick or treat!

i can come over for takeout nights too!! what class are you taking? you have to go to school at night? that sucks

haha one more step before you get a treat from me
if you havent played with terra yet, i need you to give him a treat first, were helping eachother out

[Did Mafuyu just... invite herself over for dinner any time she feels like it?? He's known her for how long now and he's still kind of impressed.]

I suppose you could if you want. What about your family, though? do you ever eat dinner with them? (I'm taking psychology classes, I have to take them at night so I can work during the day)

helping each other out?

oh. if youre doing school and stuff at night then i wont bother you. mom and dad work pretty late sometimes so its easier if they grab something to eat on the way home instead of any of us waiting around to guess who came home to make dinner

and yeah im going around asking people to go to him, and hes helping me with schoolwork