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RecollΓ© 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.
loudmouths: (🌟 i'm here for ART sir)

[personal profile] loudmouths 2017-10-28 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
whatdya mean to what extent??? all of it!! don't you know what malware is?! it infects shit and makes ads pop up and viruses and tracking your every move!! so it's like that only with your brain! and the memories and shit are the pop up ads!!

[ w h a t ]
loudmouths: (🌟 fuck this coy shit)

[personal profile] loudmouths 2017-10-28 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
well they should take that into consideration!! i do whenever i take photos! i want my stuff to be accessible no matter how far into the future it is!!
sakeplz: (Don't You Wanna Play?)

[personal profile] sakeplz 2017-10-28 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
brb

[He's off to do some research. It takes him a bit before he finds this person who had a sword that was a laundry pole but when he does he finally gets some sword information. And then.......]

mines way longer
hadeir: (pic#11640715)

[personal profile] hadeir 2017-10-28 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you going to put me in your spam filter? How will I walk your puppies now?
thesettingsun: smile (well it's a beautiful place)

[personal profile] thesettingsun 2017-10-28 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Black-and-white photos have a sense of timelessness, though - maybe your photos will be that way even when we have super camera technology?
frostflowers: (from the bottom of the pits)

[personal profile] frostflowers 2017-10-28 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess so...

[ It took her a while to realise that the traditional upbringing her parents tended to insist on wasn't actually the norm for most people. ]

Wait, you have a sword?

[personal profile] buncho 2017-10-28 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
not as awesome as an actual candy bar but enjoy i guess

[ terra won in the end so it's fine and two days later mafuyu forgets any of this ever happens haha ]
flowrite: (fai-jealousy)

[personal profile] flowrite 2017-10-28 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean... that would be really nice, but! A whole place to just hand over to someone like that? I can't even imagine what you must have paid for it D:
admiringly: (60)

[personal profile] admiringly 2017-10-28 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
it's weird to have purple without blue but i'm not asking for purple to get taken away
idk at this point i'm happy to get what we can back even if i'd like for ALL the colors in EVERYTHING to be back instead little things here and there
sotenbori: (damn it kazzy-kun's postcard again)

[personal profile] sotenbori 2017-10-29 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
the color thing is kinda weird but
its not as bad as people say it is
liberal_arts: (who got the keys to the jeep vroooom)

[personal profile] liberal_arts 2017-10-29 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
You're really stretching this metaphor.
surprising: ❙ surprising, dns (pic#10758200)

[personal profile] surprising 2017-10-29 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
yeah!! retrospec sent it to me, and i just carry it around
haven't they sent you anything yet?
mr_fancy_car: (β™˜ when I gave the word)

[personal profile] mr_fancy_car 2017-10-29 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Then it would be no different from recess.
mr_fancy_car: (β™˜ just a puppet on a lonely string)

[personal profile] mr_fancy_car 2017-10-29 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
No, just your messages that have nothing to do with you walking my dogs.
penalizing: (pouty β˜… baccarat)

[personal profile] penalizing 2017-10-29 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
so??
as long as we're doing physical things it'd count as pe
frostflowers: (From beyond the darkness)

[personal profile] frostflowers 2017-10-29 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't received anything yet, but I did remember something strange...
matchbreaker: (In ADOBODOBODOBO)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-29 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
They're both on the app too. Just in case. Oh, Fynn Izunia. Though the other one is his brother so he can direct you too.
matchbreaker: (Jokes it's not Zelda)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-29 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah I was overjoyed when we got blueberries back to normal, but the whole thing's a little

okay a lot absurd.

It comes up more than horses at least.
surprising: (pic#10758084)

[personal profile] surprising 2017-10-29 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
out of nowhere, right? a lot of people think those could be memories of their past lives
which means we would have died somehow, but wouldn't that be pretty cool?


[ the memories being their past lives, he means... not dying. dying isn't cool. ]
admiringly: (58)

[personal profile] admiringly 2017-10-29 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
i think it's because chocobos aren't ugly to look at
and having so much grey is depressing
saburai: (thoughtful β™™ and through correct and)

[personal profile] saburai 2017-10-30 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
I imagine it would still be best to contact them via alternative means, even if Retrospec is able to keep tabs on us?
matchbreaker: (She-Hulk!)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-30 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah thats true

and i can bring horse riding skills to chocobos a little too
matchbreaker: (She-Hulk!)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-30 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Probably, but the fact is that Retrospec sometimes stays up when everything else is down. Don't hesitate to use it if you're in danger.
saburai: (thoughtful β™™ and through correct and)

[personal profile] saburai 2017-10-30 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Understood.

Has this information been publicized, so that other users are aware of whom to contact?
matchbreaker: (the one below was the worse option)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-30 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Technically this is public and I know Togusa puts out his announcements...

Oh, right, I think Minako Arisato was working on some contact list for police and doctors and other specialists.