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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]

Together with some things we learned about how Retrospec used to play things even closer to the vest than they currently do... I wonder if that means that Mr. Halloway has embraced the ideals of their new director, for better or worse.

[standalonehuman]

So, the employees we spoke to were even more cagey about that. What do you know about this new director? And, we're also back on the question of 'how the hell does Retrospec do their recruiting?' in order to GET someone new. But one question at a time.

[matchbreaker]

The only thing I know is the changeover was recent by some older man's standards. They've been changing things so they talk with us at all. I mean again, I'm just basing this on Baroque's words.

... That said, given that Baroque was a cyborg and that those people who went "outside reality" found all sorts of things about the founding families, I wouldn't be surprised if they recruit from other worlds.

[standalonehuman]

Crap.

I hadn't thought of that. Okay. So, what, were some people right all along, and are they trying to recruit us? If they think we're from other worlds, do we eventually become part of the company?

[matchbreaker]

Maybe? But if that's the case, why do they need to replace the world force through such means? I mean worker turnover would have to be insane, really?

[standalonehuman]

Everything we saw says that they're operating on a skeleton crew, though.

Jim, Janet, Joanne, Maurice, Wendy, Dr. Mahoney, Cavendish, Ron, now Baroque.

...Gracie, I suppose she counts.

And this mysterious new head of the company. Everything they were saying indicated that this might be all they're working with for active employees.

[matchbreaker]

Yeah unless Gou's just a huge weirdo she did make it sound like Janet was the only one in HR and Halloway - Jim - is one of only two in R&D.

Okay, so maybe they're expanding?

[standalonehuman]

Which would leave Jim's co-worker as Dr. Marguerite Mahoney.

If this is all a recruitment tool, it's risky, but maybe they have no choice. If other people just can't see Retrospec at all.

[matchbreaker]

[ Mmmm... She hates thinking along these lines, mostly because she doesn't like Red, but she'll work through it. ]

Does Retrospec just operate on this world, or on others? That's probably another question.

[standalonehuman]

This is so stupid to think about. But IF they are trying to affect other worlds, then they have to operate on other worlds, but their headquarters are only on this one?

[matchbreaker]

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