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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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[vitis]

well, a while back, even before august
a group of people decided they wanted to go explore the woods pretty far in
and i remember mentioning that i wasn't sure if they would have service, or would even be able to access retrospec there, either
and i never actually followed up on finding out whether that turned out to be true or not

so curiosity, mostly

[totallynotanoni]

I see.
I don't think I've heard about that.
I'll have to ask around.

Apparently there are a lot of old Retrospect things out there.

[vitis]

how do you mean by "old" things
you mean happenings you didn't know about?

[totallynotanoni]

More like old Retrospect facilities or something along those lines.
A friend of mine was in a group that went out there during the monster incident and found some old bunker.

[vitis]

they find anything neat in there?

[totallynotanoni]

Apparently she talked to a high-ranking Retrospect employee.

[ While naked. ]

[vitis]

oh? and what did this employee tell her?
besides probably giving her the runaround and avoiding telling her anything of actual use

[totallynotanoni]

I'm not sure.
If it was anything we didn't know already, she hasn't told me.

[ Though she's fairly certain Maggie takes this seriously enough to not hide anything. ]

[vitis]

well, so much for that

[ he can't help but sigh a little bit... but anyway, ]

i'm john becket, by the way, even if my username's probably given me away at this point.
it's nice to meet you

[totallynotanoni]

I'm Katherine Takada.
Its nice to meet you as well.