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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. This is an overflow for the original post HERE! Please feel free to continue threads from there or to make new toplevels as you like.

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❁ SHUJI

[roseblooms]

[continued]

Very well, I'm feeling benevolent (and naturally, I'm a doctor, not a dentist).

A treat for you!

❁ ARLENE

[roseblooms]

[continued]

Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.

❁ BUCKY

[roseblooms]

[continued]

I do. I'm "Foxy", of his Fantastic Five — which makes us sound unsettlingly like an atrocious nineties boy band, but so it goes.

❁ FUTABA

[roseblooms]

[continued]

...

Methinks someone doth protest quite a bit, given the circumstances. You aren't secretly entertaining designs on bidding for the lady's hand yourself, are you?

❁ LALLI

[roseblooms]

[continued]

Job in this case is used in a figurative sense.

[redarm]

oh cool
would i know you from anything?

[glaciers]

You know that show that started last year with the world ending and robots?
I've been a reoccurring role on that for a while.

[cornets]

That's a relief! I think anyone who bakes that much can't possibly be a cheater in real life

OVERFLOW, STILL OTA

[doitrockapella]

[original here!]

That's a very valid question, actually — why ARE things being fixed by poll?

That said, if this coming "anomaly" is anything like the last one, we may all want to go a little further than just being cautious while we go about our daily lives.

[Feel free to trick or treat her!]


[+ thread continuations below!]

❖ BUCKY

[doitrockapella]

[continued]

It has nothing to do with making them look innocent. I can disapprove of what they do while still wanting to know how they did it to begin with. They're two separate considerations.

❖ SENA

[doitrockapella]

[continued]

Really! And how does color theory apply, when it comes to fashion?

[oh shit sena you in danger now you've got her interested in a thing that interests you, now you have to tell her ALL ABOUT IT]

❖ DEREK

[doitrockapella]

[continued]

That's the long and short of it, in my experience. At least this time we're getting a warning that's slightly helpful, along with being cryptic.

Hmmm...well, talking to you is a treat, but you seem like a fellow who could appreciate a trick.

[TRICK IT IS]

[doitrockapella]

[she just PHYSICALLY RECOILED FROM HER SCREEN]

What on EARTH?

[burningblossoms]

IDK.

Okay.

[And the trick is definitely a round of halloween themed pumpkin galaga or something.]

[thesettingsun]

Thank you, Dr. Fawkes!

There used to be a dentist living on my street when I was growing up. He gave chewing gum as Halloween treats. After a couple years I just stopped bothering with his house.

[embraves]

you say that
watch this last for the rest of the month

[maskreant]

ohhhHHhHHHhhhhhhHHhh.

yeah, it's really his passion and sometimes it gets in the way of important stuff like eating. have you seen his pieces?

[skald]

She wasn't that bad! Proof: I'm ESL and I knew what she was talking about.

Well okay I didn't really know what she was talking about, but that's because the people who work at Retrospec like to talk about things without explaining them. You know what I mean.

[maskreant]

[ it's because Akira entirely forgot about it. Stopping Ann from eating too many pastries is probably more important? ]

why don't we tag-team?

[skald]

See I remember specifically that I didn't have powers, but my family did. It really killed a lot of the fun!

I can't think of a song that would be that bad.

[missingache]

Don't they just need some of those scientists that specialize in that stuff?

Because when you're an adult, you can't go trick-or-treating. It's creepy. Adults just go to dumb parties and get drunk, and then do stupid things because it's Halloween.

[Not a fan.]

[missingache]

[ANN... ugh. He'll play along.]

Trick.
As long as this game doesn't make us lose more colors or something.

[maskreant]

you can have both.



also, to answer your question, it really depends on their age.

[maskreant]

what is that supposed to mean?

❖ CLOUD

[doitrockapella]

[continued]

You sound absolutely thrilled about it, too. Don't tell me you'd rather be hibernating while he's off being a party animal?