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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.

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[fabrefactions]

You seem very excited for this time of year.

... I hadn't even considered costumes. What were you planning on wearing for the holiday?

[complementing]

oh hi Yusuke! And yes!! It's such a fun holiday, I never got to do anything with it when I was still living in Japan

I'm going as Red Riding Hood, with my dog as my Huntsman, but since the hood has been easy to make I might try and find another costume to wear

[fabrefactions]

Hello to you too, Minako.
... You're right. I don't remember trick or treating when I lived in Japan, only when I'd moved to Recolle.

[Admittedly he was only six, but he's fairly sure he'd remember something that combines free food and artistic creativity.]

Oh, you have a dog? And you're including him in your Halloween costume plans... [That's. Adorable.]

[complementing]

yeah it's definitely a more American thing O:

yes!! His name is Koromaru and he's the sweetest puppy around~

[Cue a ton of pictures of Koromaru that I'm too lazy to link rn.]

[fabrefactions]

Although I remember seeing articles about special Halloween foods being sold in chain restaurants in Japan, so perhaps they are starting to celebrate in their own fashion...?

[ Oh no he's adorable. What a lovely puppy. ]

He looks very sweet! How long have you had him?

[complementing]

I hope they are! Halloween should be a holiday for the entire world!!!

since March!

he was actually a present from Retrospec (´◕ ◡ ◕｀)

[fabrefactions]

I... take it you're a bit lover of Halloween then.

Retrospec gives away pets as presents now? Σ(゜゜)

[complementing]

it's the best holiday next to Christmas imo!!!

yeah, a lot of people have gotten pets before

Koromaru was in my other self's memories so I guess he counted as something I could get as a present, somehow

[fabrefactions]

There's something very enjoyable about Christmas as well, but with prep starting so early I tend to feel tired by the time it happens.

I had no idea, I thought it would just be things like... physical items. I wonder if there's a pet out there I can't remember that is waiting to be remembered and regained...

[That's a nice thought...]

[complementing]

ooh yeah, holiday burnout...I usually try to finish a week before the week of Christmas so I have time to decompress, but it doesn't always happen

but that's when you just let yourself enjoy all of the days leading up to New Year's too, for maximum relaxation time!

if there is, I hope it comes back to you soon, Koromaru has been a great cuddle buddy for when things get bad around here

[fabrefactions]

And the build up starts far too soon. There is Halloween to enjoy first... late November is a good time to start considering Christmas spirit, I feel.

Yes. There is a nice long period of time where everything feels relaxed and renewed. Appropriate for a start to a new year, certainly.

You prefer cats to dogs then? Seeing as you have one.

[complementing]

exactly!!

I have both a dog and a cat!

well the cat sort of belongs to my other roommate more than he belongs to me, but Koromaru is mine

I'd say I'm more a dog person more than a cat person? But I love both!

[fabrefactions]

Animals are joyful, regardless of what they are really. There are a couple of cats in my current home and my friend has a lot of cats, so I suppose i could say I am quite fond of them. But I haven't come across many dogs, so my views may be skewed.

[complementing]

as long as you don't HATE dogs then we can still be friends

[fabrefactions]

I don't hate any animals, so I suppose I'm on safe ground then.