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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.
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[personal profile] freeskies 2017-10-03 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Dr. Rosalind Lutece, PhD in Quantum Physics, though your research specialised in atomic suspension.

Is the brief research I've done accurate?
originallutece: playing with a blowtorch and doing dabs seems like a terrible combination but you do you (talk; uncertain)

[personal profile] originallutece 2017-10-03 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[It's nothing that isn't public information, but it's a little startling to see it all laid out like that.]

Precisely so, well done.
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[personal profile] freeskies 2017-10-03 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
I looked at your earlier work. It is far above my understanding of the subject, but I believe your expertise could be more useful for our present challenges.

Someone so talented, that their course work extends far beyond their area of expertise... I admit, it is entirely likely I was far too glib in our first conversation.
originallutece: mine are being unnecessarily drama and also smoking (talk; everyone has a vice)

[personal profile] originallutece 2017-10-03 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
At the very least, you weren't rude. And now you know better, hm?

But yes, my work rather applies to the subject of what's happening to all of us. I can't say I'm happy at all the changes this app has brought, but at the very least, it's fascinating on a personal level.
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[personal profile] freeskies 2017-10-03 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
It is not a mistake that will be made again, no.

Then... I've a video with evidence of the unreality. I thought it might interest you.
originallutece: playing with a blowtorch and doing dabs seems like a terrible combination but you do you (talk; uncertain)

[personal profile] originallutece 2017-10-03 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh. Well.]

What kind of unreality are we talking about?
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[personal profile] freeskies 2017-10-03 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
The sort encountered by the group that disappeared. One of them had the wherewithal to take video, and she's kindly provided it to me.

I intend to dig into it, as any proper journalist would. But... I need help.

Shall we discuss in person?
Edited 2017-10-03 03:41 (UTC)
originallutece: awful tough lately (talk; you've been acting)

[personal profile] originallutece 2017-10-03 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.

I've a free stretch of time at one. Come to the physics building; I'll be in my office.
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[personal profile] freeskies 2017-10-03 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
I look forward to our meeting.