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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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[complementing]

hehe always glad to do it! I know I can ramble on sometimes

what about you, though, what's your perspective on it?

[lalliho]

days are days and people are people stuff changes but it doesn't matter a lot usually

in sounds nice in theory but it never is how people say

[complementing]

hm

maybe it's just a matter of changing up the people you spend the holidays with?

a party could have all the best decorations and things but it's not fun if you don't enjoy other people's company

[lalliho]

I don't like people but I don't spend holidays with anyone so I don't think that changes anything

[complementing]

ohhh...yeah probably not huh, if you don't like people

what about them do you not like in particular?

[lalliho]

hold on

[He has to do some thinking. And then some tip-tapping on this tiny phone keyboard.]

in a generalization they're loud and crowded and mean they're confusing to talk to and don't react how I want or expect and then it's my fault I guess for some reason

they don't like questions or answer them patiently because what's different is wrong and should be obvious

and if you want to sit under a table at a crowded loud party someone drags you out and says it isn't socially acceptable

[complementing]

hmmm

it's really unfortunate that you've only met so many people who are like that to you

because it sounds like you're an introvert, from what you're saying, and I know that introverts get misunderstood a lot

my brother was the same way

[lalliho]

it's a mix of introversion and autism and some jerks

was?

[complementing]

[Don't mind her she's going to take about ten minutes to berate herself for using the past tense just then.]

sorry, back!

sounds more like a lot of jerks...I'm sorry you have to deal with such rude people

and um

I was talking about when he was little

I'm the extroverted one between us so I tried to help him make more friends

gently, of course!! Never forced him or anything like that

so yeah, I can empathize

[lalliho]

oh because you made him sound dead

[thanks lalli]

[complementing]

nope, not dead yet

[She's really hoping and praying he isn't...]

[lalliho]

that's good

death happens to everyone eventually but it's not a good feeling when it's family

[complementing]

[And now she's having flashbacks to Ryoji's funeral...]

yeah




here's hoping that you and your family can have health and happiness for a long time to come, yeah?

[lalliho]

[ye-ah missed the boat a little on that one, but Tuuri and her brother still count, so...they can have all the health and happiness wishes? maybe it will make it a more concentrated effort.]

hmn

you too