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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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people keep offering to be my tutor but its hard sitting still for extra time outside of school, its like MORE SCHOOL

[ that she doesn't go to in the first place, but. ]

whos your cousin? whenever my cousin visits me at school its sort of... ehhh

true...it does sound boring when you think of that, but Terra would be a cool tutor I think

do you know Sora Pu'uwai? And who's your cousin??

the coolest tutor wouldnt be able to make school any more fun

yeah i know sora! were not close friends but i know him-- did you know he doesnt make summer plans? IMPOSSIBLE. how could anybody not have anything to look forward to during the summer? its the best season

yaboku. yato? whichever name hes using

never say never!

he had his soccer things, I know, and that takes a lot of out of him...what did he tell you though?

omg so you're the one he gives all his cupcakes too hahaha aw what a good cousin

n e v e r. ive been in school for so many years already and it just gets harder and harder

he said he didnt like bingo a couple months ago and i was agreeing with him bc it meant less people wanted to hang out doing nonbingo things w me, but he didnt have any nonbingo things

hey! i earned those cupcakes! but yeah i dont think anybody else would think to get them for me, so hes a pretty good cousin

this is me being a little nosy, so you don't have to answer, but do you hate school, or do you hate learning?

huh...that's strange, he's such a friendly kid, I thought he was busy hanging out with everyone from his school during the summer...thanks for telling me, Mafuyu

yeah, I can definitely see the similarities between you two now!

i think theres more fun and important things than school so it feels like a waste of time

yeah tell him we can play soccer whenever too! im always kicking around a ball by myself, or shooting hoops or whatever and we can play! do you play soccer? we can play keepaway with three people too!

...........is that a jab at yaboku? hes not like me at all

fair enough!

sure thing! I'm a volleyball girl myself, so my hand-eye coordination is better than my feet-eye coordination, but I'll give it my best shot!

no it's a compliment to you both omg you're both very driven to do the things that make you happy!

[With...very little regard for how it affects other people, granted.]

soccers easy, you just have to kick really hard and run really fast! but if youre better at hand-eye, then maybe you can be goalie? no one ever wants to play goalie

oh. thats how it should be, right? do what makes you happy!

that I can do!! I'm sure Sora would be a better challenge for you than I ever could be anyways

yes, but I don't think you let anything get in the way of that. People like me, who have worries and things to be self-conscious about, sometimes let those stop us from being completely happy, but you're very determined

what are your worries? i was talking to someone else too who said that its great that i dont have anything that bothers me, but it's not that- i just dont let them bother me

oh, the usual

school, work, money, dating, the things my friends are worried about

i literally worry about none of those things and dont know anybody who does

haha guess I'm just a weird outlier then?

yeah you are
thats a lot of stuff to worry about too- you should just stop

sometimes I wish I could!

but I have too many important things I want to do to stop, even if it stresses me out a lot

whats the worst that could happen if you just do nothing for a day
or two
every week. theyre called weekends, thats what weekends are for

everything would pile up and I'd get buried under more work...

then dont do as much work?

you make it sound so easy...

thats bc it is
what kind of work do you have?

homework and organizing events for ReVA, mostly

isnt that stuff other people can help with?

yeah...but I'm still the coordinator, I have a lot of responsibility...

doesnt a coordinator coordinate people? like... you have a bunch of people working under you and you tell them what to do and make sure everythings done okay. that way everyone only has to do a little bit of work and everything gets done and youre not doing everything yourself

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