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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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Ok then.
Trick.

Edited 2017-10-02 02:48 (UTC)

[ huh... john pretty much just chooses the first option: vandalization. and then some gnarly horns, because why not. congrats on looking vaguely demonic, katherine. ]

:)
hope you like your new pic

[ ...Okay thats pretty cute in a gnarly Halloween sort of way. ]

Thank you.
Thats actually really cute.

Trick or Treat?

Edited 2017-10-02 03:06 (UTC)

[ well... he didn't think she'd find it cute, but he supposes that also works. ]

no prob
and treat, all the way

Thank you.
This seems to be a refreshingly mundane activity in comparison to what we've dealt with in the last few months.

Edited 2017-10-02 03:14 (UTC)

right?
instead of putting more effort into fixing that upcoming anomaly, they decided to program a game of some useless virtual candies
it's great

Yeah.
I'm not a big fan of fan app games.
But this is pretty cute.

not to mention a massive waste of time
but even i'm using it, so to each their own i guess

Isn't it, though?
A lot of app designers go for a design where its repetitive and addictive, like that Hoppy Fish game that circulated for awhile.
Its a little scary to think Retrospect can execute that idea.

[ And yes she almost broke her phone when she had Hoppy Fish. ]

no clue what that is
my phone may as well be from the 1960s, so thankfully those things never caught on for me much

Really?
Its a wonder how they get the app on all these different devices.

no, not really ;) haha. early 2000s, though.
see? now that's the real scary thing. hell, even if my phone did blow up, i bet they'd make sure to replace it for me

My phone is a bit outdated as well.
I try not to spend too much money on the latest technology like some people..

It really is: I actually tried cutting off the wi-fi on my laptop once, and the app still worked somehow.

if you don't really have to, then why do it, right

were you among that group that went into the forest to explore a while back
outta curiosity

I wasn't a part of that one.
I was one of the people sent to another world.

ooooooh well
sounds like you definitely wouldn't have reception there

Definitely not there of all places.
Why do you ask?

well, a while back, even before august
a group of people decided they wanted to go explore the woods pretty far in
and i remember mentioning that i wasn't sure if they would have service, or would even be able to access retrospec there, either
and i never actually followed up on finding out whether that turned out to be true or not

so curiosity, mostly

I see.
I don't think I've heard about that.
I'll have to ask around.

Apparently there are a lot of old Retrospect things out there.

how do you mean by "old" things
you mean happenings you didn't know about?

More like old Retrospect facilities or something along those lines.
A friend of mine was in a group that went out there during the monster incident and found some old bunker.

they find anything neat in there?

Apparently she talked to a high-ranking Retrospect employee.

[ While naked. ]

oh? and what did this employee tell her?
besides probably giving her the runaround and avoiding telling her anything of actual use

I'm not sure.
If it was anything we didn't know already, she hasn't told me.

[ Though she's fairly certain Maggie takes this seriously enough to not hide anything. ]

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