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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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[longwei2go]

what, you didn't know?

[ she will happily attach an image of her flexing her new "toy". ]

[notyourutopian]

[It's a good thing this is text so she can't see Eleanor basically drooling over that.]

Huh.
It looks very advanced...

I'd love to see it sometime.

[longwei2go]

oh yeah it's leaps and bounds ahead of what you can actually get these days.
Retrospec mailed it to me a couple months ago. I'm just getting in the habit of wearing it all the time when I'm awake so, like, you can check it out whenever.

[notyourutopian]

Thank you.
I'll admit I have a bit of a weakness for fancy hardware.

So it's something from your memories then?

[longwei2go]

I can tell.

well... sort of. some of the dreams, but not all of them. doesn't make sense to me.

[ actually it does, but she doesn't want to think of how that "other version" lost her arm in such a similar state. ]

[notyourutopian]

I know that feeling.
I'm still barely piecing together the things I see in those memories...

I'll admit though
Some of the things they send us are nice.
Even if they don't make sense.

[longwei2go]

I hate to admit it but you're right.
I mean, I didn't think I'd ever be able to take care of a dog but Zwei is so low maintenance.
I still don't know how he can work a can opener but at this point? not questioning it.

[notyourutopian]

Your dog can use a can opener?
What?

[longwei2go]

not an automatic one either.
the kind you have to latch on and twist.
I feel like I should film this but I bet everyone will just think it's fake.

[notyourutopian]

Please film it.
I will give you five dollars if you film it.

[longwei2go]

well if you're *paying* me...

[notyourutopian]

I am!
Five whole American dollars.

[longwei2go]

sold!

[ Yin goes quiet for a few minutes, coming back later with an upload to a private video starting with her loyal corgi first opening a case of beer (e.z. mode, as she says) and then finally setting him down with a manual twisting can opener and a big can of beans.

it shouldn't be possible, but it's amazing how it works considering there's no prehensile tail or opposable thumbs in the mix. ]

I believe you owe me and Zwei a happy meal

[notyourutopian]

Huh.
That's amazing.

Also impossible?

but just.

Happy meal well earned.