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Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2017-10-03 12:34 pm

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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.
fabrefactions: (61)

[personal profile] fabrefactions 2017-10-12 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[DON'T TALK ABOUT EATING CRABS, PLEASE.]

Fiddler crabs are far too small for that.
Other types maybe, but not fiddlers.
evidentiary: pixiv 2135044 (SMILE ► future down)

[personal profile] evidentiary 2017-10-12 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't mind attending. Is it open-invitation?
redarm: (drink)

[personal profile] redarm 2017-10-12 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[BUT THEY'RE DELICIOUS]

yeah guess so.
itd be more work than its worth.
fabrefactions: (67)

[personal profile] fabrefactions 2017-10-12 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[I mean, this is true, but he loves his pets too much.]

perhaps.
fiddler crabs are quite happy as long as they have the space and the food to get by. If you're ever looking for a unique pet, they're a good choice, I feel.


[he's also biased, but.]
redarm: (huh wow)

[personal profile] redarm 2017-10-12 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
ha. i could relate to that.
already got a unique pet as it is but
maybe if i ever want another one.
fabrefactions: (46)

[personal profile] fabrefactions 2017-10-12 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
oh? Which pet do you have?
redarm: (congrats on getting this icon)

[personal profile] redarm 2017-10-12 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
one of those golem things?
but with teeth.
fabrefactions: (6)

[personal profile] fabrefactions 2017-10-12 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
A golem thing?
I think I've heard of them, but I haven't seen them.
saburai: (ashamed ♙ courtesy and honor)

[personal profile] saburai 2017-10-12 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It was incredibly unsettling to watch. I'm fairly certain it goes against a few laws to record us without our consent, but that doesn't seem to be a concern of theirs.
saburai: (serious ♙ to mold the mind and body)

[personal profile] saburai 2017-10-12 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
If anyone has figured out how to uninstall the app from our devices, they have yet to share that information with the majority of the userbase. I imagine most of us would prefer to have that option.
roseblooms: in case you didn't notice, that was sarcasm (BEHIND ❁ you suck and that's so sad)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-10-12 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you sure? It's not a touch of the green-eyed monster?
usurpers: (Default)

[personal profile] usurpers 2017-10-12 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
it’s good to meet someone who takes it seriously.
belligerentwarrior: (How's this make us lucky?)

[personal profile] belligerentwarrior 2017-10-12 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
hell of a purse if you've got room for anything after three bottles

just you watch. it's gonna be important, just because you said so. like bad foreshadowing in a novel
embraves: (03)

[personal profile] embraves 2017-10-12 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
well
i mean did you have an idea of what you wanted to dress up as?
i'm not going to be the one to derail that
godshand: (13. |)

[personal profile] godshand 2017-10-13 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Seriously??
That's amazing
Did you know where you were?
godshand: (24. |)

[personal profile] godshand 2017-10-13 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
False, you always look great
I can help you with it
It's not too late!
godshand: (04. |)

[personal profile] godshand 2017-10-13 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry but what?
godshand: (26. |)

[personal profile] godshand 2017-10-13 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Aren't most of those usually a sort of warfare
I don't think that's retrospec's...deal. whatever their deal is? It sounds more like
Computer glitches
standalonehuman: (TogusaTalk2)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-10-13 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't quite call it a handle? We looked up his research, and it seems to be related to memory recall, trying to improve it through deep-brain stimulation. Sounds exactly like what Retrospec would be interested in. But nothing conclusive so far.
doitrockapella: (HURT ❖ it's cool it's only a flesh wound)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-13 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Last year I went as Irene Adler, from the Sherlock Holmes stories.

I'm still debating whether this year I should try dressing up as something people can actually guess at a glance, instead.
godcards: (13.)

[personal profile] godcards 2017-10-13 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Why not? I just did, and it'd be easier for you to just give me one.
godcards: (10.)

[personal profile] godcards 2017-10-13 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Why?
abovethefold: (pic#11293917)

[personal profile] abovethefold 2017-10-13 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Two, Mafuyu. Two... if one person hits a grand slam, then only one other person could bat two runs in and that would be six.

But Katherine isn't a math teacher, and she's merely trying to interest the other girl in learning, so...]


Is math so bad when you're thinking about it like that?
abovethefold: (pic#11293919)

[personal profile] abovethefold 2017-10-13 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
If only I could! Trust me, I tried the first month I was subjected to this app to see if we could bring a suit against them for invasion of privacy. (It was the month they were sending us photos of ourselves from behind, if you were here too.) Unfortunately, when I tried to show anything about it to someone who didn't have access to the app, he wasn't able to see anything at all. Even if I opened Retrospec and handed him the phone, it would just crash as soon as I handed it over! From what I've learned since, it seems like that's par for the course.
abovethefold: (pic#11102942)

[personal profile] abovethefold 2017-10-13 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
It's nice to meet you, Celandine! I hope that you're able to collect a lot of candies from this game.