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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
Retr

spec 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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All of the buttons and stuff got covered in toilet paper!

that's a pretty good one!!
i'll have to remember it if i do any more tricks

We can play again
There doesn't seem to be a limit

wait really???
hmm.... okay then
trick or treat!!

I might try to farm candy this way
Trick again just for you

that's not a bad idea
though do we get anything for having candy???

also: toilet paper for you!!!

[ as promised: a tp-ed interface. ]

I don't know but maybe we get real candy on Halloween??

NOT AGAIN!!!

that'd be nice!!
halloween seems like kind of a silly holiday to me
but any excuse for candy is a good one i guess

wait i thought you gave someone ELSE toilet paper before???

We didn't really trick or treat when I lived in Okinawa
It's kind of nice to dress up and get candy!

We tped each other to see what it would do but it got annoying after a while

yeah i've only done it since moving to america
it's a funny holiday but at least it's fun!!

oops...
next time you should be more clear...

It's okay. It's just annoying to lift the toilet paper to do anything but it goes away after a while

Want to see? Trick or treat

it's only fair to say trick, so!!
trick

[Now Kotone's Retrospect UI has toilet paper with jack-o-lantern prints hanging off the buttons, menus, and text windows. She has to tap and drag the ends to lift it up in order to use the buttons for at most 10 minutes.]

Did it work?

it did!!
but now i'm seeing what you mean about it being a little annoying at times

oh well

Edited 2017-10-06 00:48 (UTC)

It goes away after a while
Like in real life

well in real life it doesn't go away unless you clean it up
so at least it doesn't require as much work this way???

Huh I always thought the rain would wash it away

it might get soggy and melt a little, but there'd still be a ball of toilet paper left behind, i think
and if it doesn't rain at all then it just stays there forever...

[He's left wondering what happens to tp in the toilet but that's probably getting away from the point.]

That's pretty gross
Yeah it's a good thing it's just virtual toilet paper then

yeah....
it's why i wouldn't do it in real life, but it's ok here!!

It's
Something you considered though
?

Edited 2017-10-07 06:28 (UTC)

in real life???
no, not really
i've just seen it in tv and movies and stuff

Really?
I haven't seen it done on tv in a long time

oh, i dunno how recent they are!!
but i've seen it in a bunch of tv and movies since coming here

Where are you from?

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