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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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[toobigtohandle]

I'm still not quite sure of why I am doing it, to be honest. I really don't get the point of it.

Do people really find this enjoyable?

[daemonized]

It's silly, I admit. Especially when the the candy is only virtual, but people seem eager to get into the Halloween spirit.

The real thing often does require a costume. That's half of the fun.

[toobigtohandle]

I have never really celebrated the holiday, I must say.

[daemonized]

Then what better year to start than this one? Tell me, what costume would you choose?

[toobigtohandle]

Honestly I would probably let Jirou choose. He's better at this than I am.

[This is totally what will be happening at their end-of-the-month Halloween party, to be honest.]

[daemonized]

Not even the smallest preference? Use your imagination. You have the freedom to be whatever you like.

[toobigtohandle]

Imagination is not my greatest quality, Professor.

[Mostly he just wishes he were normal, but that doesn't count right?]

[daemonized]

That's a terrible shame. There's little worse in this life than an imagination wasted.

[But to each their own.]

Watch a frightening movie. Read a scary book. Maybe an idea will fly into your head.

[toobigtohandle]

I know Jirou is planning a party and he will have thought of some sort of costume for both of us.

[daemonized]

Matching costumes. I can't wait to know what they are. You'll let me know, won't you?

[toobigtohandle]

I think it's something to do with Egyptian gods.

The party will be open house so you could come if you felt like it, Professor.

[daemonized]

You're far too generous. I may just have to take you up on that, merely so I can see just what costumes you've donned.

Which means, of course, that I'm going to have to put some thought into my own.

[toobigtohandle]

Not at all. You've been very helpful.

I think Jirou has planned something for people who show up without a costume, so if you feel like tempting fate...

[He might have forgotten to mention that 'something' is 'being dressed up by two drag queens'...]

[daemonized]

Sounds terribly ominous.

[He's mostly kidding.]

[toobigtohandle]

The worst that will happen is that you'll be the most fashionable you've ever been in your life. Probably.

[daemonized]

Oh my, I hope that's not a bad-veiled criticism being thrown my way!

[toobigtohandle]

Of course not!

It's just that Jirou's mother is a fashion designer and he's a model, so he's really good at dressing people in flattering ways. That's all I meant,
really!

[Oh my god has he managed to offend someone with saying the wrong thing again?]

[daemonized]

No need to fret, my friend. I'm only joking. You see, commenting on my particularly "eccentric" tastes in fashion seems to be something of a running joke with a few people.

[toobigtohandle]

... Really? I didn't notice anything particularly unusual.

[Although let's be honest here, Kenta basically doesn't even remember what Ardyn was wearing the last time he saw him, apart from 'clothes'.]

[daemonized]

That merely means you have an eye for fashion, even if you don't realize it.

[That's probably not what that means at all.]

[toobigtohandle]

[Actually Kenta does have an eye for fashion when he bothers, but that's only because his boyfriend has been teaching him for the past 15 years.]

In any case, you are more than welcome to the party, with or without costume. I mean, if you don't anything more important or family time planned.

[daemonized]

I may take you up on that offer. If I'm allowed to bring a plus one?

[toobigtohandle]

Absolutely. We have the entire floor rented out so there is more than enough space.

[daemonized]

Well then. You may see me there.