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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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[longwei2go]

back up
you're talking about last month, right?
after the convention and all hell broke loose
literally

[lalliho]

time lost all meaning for me a while ago but I think so

[longwei2go]

yeah I know the feeling.
I lost access to the app a while back for a few weeks
I knew all this stuff was happening but at the same time time it didn't feel real
so hearing people talk about it afterward is about the same to me as someone recapping the last season of Game of Bones
interesting, but I'm not invested in it

[lalliho]

game of bones isn't that interesting imo

anyway I don't like people but Joanne is okay hasn't done anything to be treated like the others

[longwei2go]

no offense but I can't really trust the word of someone I don't know when it comes to things I didn't see for myself
I can't even trust what's in my own head these days.

[lalliho]

that's too dramatic

ignore that. >.> mis-clicked

[longwei2go]

haha are you for real?

[lalliho]

yes? are you?

[longwei2go]

certifiably
but any more than that is between me and my court-appointed therapist

[lalliho]

I have no idea how to respond to that

[longwei2go]

okay look
how about you don't call what I know is going on inside my brain cage as me being "dramatic"
and focus on your own experiences for a minute
you have to be having random visions or memories or dreams of shit you've never heard of before
unless you're brand new to all this, or lucky

[lalliho]

okay but this conversation feels very 2007

you don't have to say you can't even trust the certifiably crazy random memories in your brain and talk about court ordered therapy welcome to the dark side

next you'll allcaps SQUIRRELZ and talk about distracting sparkles or something else offensive I'm tired of hearing

[longwei2go]

idkwymOMGLOLZ XDDDD


okay that physically hurt to write

[lalliho]

gee take my eyes out with your spoonz I have none

[longwei2go]

I was serious about the court-appointed therapist by the way.
There's a police record and everything.

[ which, there is, but the attendance isn't mandatory and Yin hasn't been arrested since so no one's twisted her arm to go in. hurry for skirting the boundaries of the law? ]

And I meant what I said about questioning a lot of things.
I mean, it's not every day you wake up from a dream where someone calls you a name you've never heard before, but it's familiar.
Too familiar.

[lalliho]

I believe all that I just don't understand why you had to say it in a dramatic way and make it sound weird instead of something that's just happening

[longwei2go]

dude if you're just going to tear into how I say things and not the context you're going to be in this conversation longer than I will

[lalliho]

I'm not tearing into it I'm just telling you I don't know why you're being that way when you really don't have to what's the point

[squints at that argument]

[longwei2go]

you're taking this way too serious when there's more you could be focusing on
seriously
lighten up
go play trick or treat like the others

[lalliho]

I don't understand how I'm being too serious?

[longwei2go]

you're way too focused on what I'm saying, or how I'm saying it, and I think there's a bigger picture here. the idea that it has to be said at all.

I mean, what do you know about these people that I apparently don't?

[lalliho]

I guess that depends on which person we're talking about but I don't know a lot about anyone

[he's still doing it???]

[longwei2go]

you were white knighting Joanne pretty hard there at the start of this
now you're saying you don't know her?

[lalliho]

oh her

I don't know a lot about her but I met her and she's fine? she didn't do the stuff that makes people mad so why be mad at her what's the point

[longwei2go]

spoiler alert: bad people can do good things
the world isn't so fucking black and white
just because she was nice to you in person and she has the sense to be nice on social media where everyone can see her words doesn't mean she isn't pulling the strings on the bad shit happening to us
I wouldn't trust any of these people without more hard evidence they aren't screwing us on a daily basis
but fuck my cynical ass, right?