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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. 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.

Comments

Haru

[imaginex]

You know... I never thought about it. Or maybe they'll just be a very vivid green or blue! I wouldn't mind that for a while. <(￣︶￣)>

... Really? You wouldn't mind a stranger coming into your home? That's such a generous offer of you to make!

Silver

[imaginex]

You know what this means, don't you?

Obviously you should show me the best stores to pillage.

Mizuki

[imaginex]

... I had no idea the app kept a record of names. (-_-) How embarrassing...

[matchbreaker]

For one, they've tolerated Mr. Halloway's crimes.

But perhaps more than that the fact that we've been deliberately kept in the dark about things potentially traumatizing to people. Some of it could be - was - fatal.

And according to someone we ran into during my August Adventures, this is them being comparatively open.

[matchbreaker]

"this is absolutely not in my job description but the intern's busy and half of r&d is still banned and hr is on honeymoon."

Who refers to people by their department titles? That's strange.

But you're right, that's more in not defining things.

[imaginex]

Okay fair but that's so lacking in holiday spirit...

You could put on a bed sheet and pretend you're a ghost.

[imaginex]

Hmmm, how about.... treat!

Re: @ Togusa

[standalonehuman]

The scope of it seems to blow the question of telecommunications violations and weapons restrictions out of the water.

Seems to, but, sorry, Jim, not going to stop going after you for them.

I'm- willing to believe that these other people are real. If they're real, it suggests the idea of other worlds are real. I'm still hung up on the connection between us and them, though. We're us, they're them. Retrospec might just be manipulating the memories so that they're self-referential, so that we believe we are these other people. So that we become them.

If it's to save those worlds, they might even be able to tell themselves it's for a greater good. And that fits the model of their behavior.

[imaginex]

Yes, that one is delicious!

I also really like the cherry blossom flavor.

... Soybean was a bit strange, though.

[imaginex]

... So it's better to be more paranoid than less so, you mean?

[matchbreaker]

Honestly... I'm not sure how I feel about the connection between "us" and "them." Certainly, I'm more me than that woman and I sincerely doubt that's going to change anytime soon, irregardless of what other people have experienced. But at the same time, I have come to refer to the things freely as memories and short of utterly impractical hair and nails, I seem more or less identical to "her" these days.

But that's besides the point, or at least the one I hoped to make.

The "outside of reality" those 40 people were in during August, were those worlds they were on real too? What does Retrospec even mean by "reality?" Those might need to be answered in the course of your investigations too, ultimately.

... I'm glad you're still in the fight, officer. I might be a private citizen, but I'm willing to do all that will help you, as I said before.

[matchbreaker]

Is this a situation where I should scold you for being too old to trick or treat, or too young to come looking for those sorts of sweets from me?

Re: toplevel + overflow

[odapologist]

It's

a little reassuring? I can't remember which Retrospec employees are good/well-liked and which aren't as much.

Polls a are good though. I learned that people love fruit and the color blue! It's not the most useful, but it's interesting.

[matchbreaker]

I wonder if it is. I mean, Gou called Janet all of HR and Jim half of R&D. If we take that at face value (and it seems like if has some backing if Mahoney was the only admin around in August) that sounds more like they have a skeleton crew.

Which would be absurd for what they can do?

So I'm not sure what I believe.

[sunnymerc]

a little from column a and a little from column b
stop worrying so much about ages jeez!
its just a number
whether its love or cute costumes it doesnt matter!!!

[imaginex]

Aah, adorable! o(≧▽≦)o

Okay your turn, trick or treat!

Minako

[imaginex]

That's so adorable, I want one...

This is what I get for asking for tricks over treats.

[vitis]

[ heh!! ]

your turn

[vitis]

i'd rather show up unfestive over that
if it's gonna look lazy either way, why bring a perfectly nice sheet along

[imaginex]

Except it's so lazy it comes out looking brilliant under scrutiny. (๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ

[vitis]

but not when it's been done billions and billions of times before

[ but, well. ok. ]

i'll think about it

Re: TOGUSA

[standalonehuman]

"Uh. Yes. So..." With a tone of 'how do I explain this quickly?'

"A few people were afforded extranatural abilities thanks to Retrospec's 'weapons protocol.' The first time, it was a reward for the Bingo game, the second time, as a reward for retrieving Retrospec employees and resolving problems."

"Telekinesis, telepathy. Moving objects with my mind, and speaking to other people mentally. It was-" Incredible? Almost addicting? But a total pain at the same time? "Enlightening. But I wouldn't have wanted to keep it."

[selfloving]

That's a good addition. Thanks for mentioning it. You've always been a costume master!

And you're so friendly to strangers on the internet.

[usurpers]

leave it to the pros, but don't forget to keep on your toes either
they'll need someone to watch their backs

[skald]

I guess so. I mean, Janet is HR, right? Is she the only person in their HR department? I guess that's a little weird. But also not super surprising from a Retrospec employee? I'm willing to just blame them for not explaining things again.