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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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[standalonehuman]

Is that really what we're doing, though? We can interact with the unreality, the twists, and I'm assuming that's how we got those temporary powers and weapons. But it's like they need to keep something constant (themselves?) in order to affect anything else?

I just. There was some reason why they couldn't just go in themselves.

[toobigtohandle]

They could have been afraid to die. I mean, isn't it convenient that we, who would have loved not to be involved in any of this, ended up being sent to repair what they messed up?

[He says 'we' but he didn't get to do much of anything last time and he is very salty about that.]

[standalonehuman]

If that's their motivation, I can't really fault them.

We did it, though. We succeeded. And I know some people were tossing around ideas that this might have been Retrospec's half-handed way of recruitment. So I don't know.

I don't feel like I could just abandon them to danger any more than I could the other people in this city, though.

[toobigtohandle]

What do you mean, recruitment?

And given what they're putting us through, you'll excuse me for not putting them on the same level as the people who have to suffer through the effects of whatever they're doing.

[standalonehuman]

It was just an idea someone had, based on the idea that people who have higher 'security clearance' with Retrospec seem to have more information, and are affected by the unreality more.

I understand. You're not alone in that regard. But I can't ignore that they're people, probably trying to do what they think is right. Not going to save them from eventually paying for their crimes. But, I think I get it.