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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.

Comments

[standalonehuman]

Uh, for question one, I think you want people from Team...Yzma? (Whatever that means.)

For question two, well, we've been getting memories implanted into our minds. I've been on here since the original group, so if that was how Retrospec was doing it, if there was a change to be noticed, it would be in me?

[vitis]

wouldn't that depend if you got a brain scan before being forced into this retrospec nonsense
like you have to have something to compare it to, right

[standalonehuman]

Grell said that the function looked normal. I mean, I have had a previous scan, I got thrown off a horse years ago. But she was confident about it anyway.

[vitis]

right
so then it's some undetectable magic or actually legitimate

[standalonehuman]

It means that however they're doing it, it's not directly what Dr. Halliday was proposing. There's another piece we're missing, perhaps.

[vitis]

and what do you think we get done
once we find that missing piece

[standalonehuman]

I don't know yet. But we need to know how Retrospec is doing this to us before we can even discuss how to stop it, maybe. Even it it's impossible, I think we'd all do better to know the truth.

[vitis]

maybe. depending on what that truth is

[standalonehuman]

Would you really rather not know? The truth is always preferable, isn't it?

[vitis]

i'd rather it all just quit, frankly
don't need to know all the nitty-gritty details for myself.

[standalonehuman]

I'll admit, not what I would have expected you to choose, but I'll respect it. I think we need to know some of the details if we hope to stop any of it, personally.

[vitis]

i mean, yeah, that's probably not wrong
they do say that the devil's in the detail

trick or treat by the way

[standalonehuman]

Oh no. It is so tempting to pick trick, because so many of them have been really funny.

But I'll be nice. 'Treat.'

[Yay virtual candy!]

Which does make me wonder what you're doing for the real event.

[vitis]

oh, thank you!
for the mercy, but i do also love fake, inedible candy :)

[ ... okay, sarcasm's hard to tell through text, but is he genuinely grateful that togusa didn't pick that annoying maze-- ]

halloween?? it's a tuesday, so probably school and work.

[standalonehuman]

Maybe it'll become real?

Oh? No party? At least handing out candy to the kids. That's my favorite part.

[vitis]

sounds like too much to hope for

[ ... ]

i'm an optimist, usually. promise
but anyway, no and no. no parties that i know of yet, anyway, but i'd be a lil surprised if there wasn't a huge one thrown by some retrospec user later on this month

[standalonehuman]

Jirou said he was doing a thing. I think I'm required to show up. All you have to do is bring good booze and you'll be his new favorite person.

[vitis]

[ ... ]

oh yeah, that retrospec invitation's already happened, huh
hahaha
you don't think he'd hate me too much if i DIDN'T show up with good booze?

[standalonehuman]

Pfffft, nah. Jirou's not a person who really holds a grudge. Not over something petty.

If he were ever to hate somebody, they would have to be a royal asshole.

[vitis]

good to know
so if i didn't wear a costume either, that also wouldn't reach levels of royal asshole i'm guessing

[standalonehuman]

Oh, on that one, you are taking your fate in your own hands. I have been instructed that I'm showing up in costume or my costuming is left in the hands of two drag queens.

I'm not brave enough to tempt them.

[vitis]

[ oh ]

thanks for the heads-up