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Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2017-10-01 07:59 pm

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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
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.
frostythehitman: (i'm convinced that there's just)

[personal profile] frostythehitman 2017-10-02 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
Joanne's real, at least. She may be in cahoots with Jim and Janet, but she's real for sure.

Is that the Halloween shelf at a store around here somewhere? I gotta stock up on this, those skeletons look incredible.
playdolls: (animu | hmmm)

[personal profile] playdolls 2017-10-03 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
I mean I don't think that's their real names.

And yeah! They have them around some of the bodegas.
frostythehitman: (there's something inside me)

[personal profile] frostythehitman 2017-10-03 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Fine, okay. Jim and Janet, Jack and Jill, Dumb and Dumber, whatever we wanna call them, Joanne's definitely real. Unless you think she's lying about her name too. Maybe they're actually Dumb, Dumb, and Dumber.

They're not gonna have those skeletons for long, then. I'm gonna line my room with them all. And probably our front yard too.
playdolls: (animu | hmmm)

[personal profile] playdolls 2017-10-03 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Are you a particularly big DD&D fan? Somehow that wouldn't surprise me.

And apparently very big on Halloween.
frostythehitman: (that pulls beneath the surface)

[personal profile] frostythehitman 2017-10-04 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't realize making a reference once made you a big fan of something.

And yeah no duh, who wouldn't want a ton of black metal skeletons?
playdolls: Commissioned, please DNT (illu | oh please)

[personal profile] playdolls 2017-10-04 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Twice, in as many sentences.

I can think of plenty of people who wouldn't want to decorate with skeletons.
frostythehitman: (fear is how i fall)

[personal profile] frostythehitman 2017-10-04 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's called keeping your metaphors consistent.

What's wrong with them? It's October, what else are you supposed to do? Besides, they'd make great set pieces for my band.
playdolls: (illu | heh)

[personal profile] playdolls 2017-10-04 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's what's wrong with you.

What kind of band... no let me guess. Are you in a rock band?
frostythehitman: (somebody get me through this nightmare)

[personal profile] frostythehitman 2017-10-05 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Emo, if you want to get real precise about it.
playdolls: (illu | heh)

[personal profile] playdolls 2017-10-07 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Do you play in someone's garage? I think I'm getting the picture.
frostythehitman: (Default)

[personal profile] frostythehitman 2017-10-08 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
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