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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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[abovethefold]

A "fairly high level anomaly?" Considering they're warning us about it this time, I have to wonder how dangerous this has the possibility of being... please everybody, stay safe this month. Let's not have
a repeat of August.

That all being said, this Halloween theme is pretty cute! Maybe I'll have to find the time to give it a try.

Trick or treat, Retrospec?


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james

[abovethefold]

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[Luckily, her answer is easy.]

No, I didn't. For one thing, I was far too busy with a case to play. For another, I'm not going to commit assault just because a social media network tells me to do so.

I wish we'd been able to get the word out to more people that they were there, but it was kind of a last minute thing. Hopefully nothing like that will happen again, but if it does, we'll be sure to be there for everybody.

[frostythehitman]

Well good. Nice to know some people wouldn't stoop that low. Yet, anyway.

What's a case supposed to be?

[abovethefold]

A case that's being presented in a court of law. I'm a law intern at LJ&H and was working on compiling evidence, witness statements and preparing testimonies, and assisting in creating the lead prosecutor's opening statements.

So you can see why I'd be loathe to do something like that.

[frostythehitman]

Oh, a legal case? Well then, if that's what it is, I hope you're putting together a lawsuit against Retrospec.

[abovethefold]

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.

[frostythehitman]

[ Yeah, figures. He's had this talk with Togusa often enough that he knows it couldn't have really worked. But at least she made an effort, he supposes. ]

So we need to wait until a judge gets access to the app? If Retrospec even allows that, they probably pre-screen everyone who can actually do anything about them.

[abovethefold]

Even then, I have to wonder if we'd find any results.

mafuyu

[abovethefold]

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[Goodness. Katherine's beginning to see why she has so much trouble in school--she doesn't listen.]

That's why I'm trying to help you find an alternate way of learning. Not everybody is meant to sit and listen to lectures! But if you can find a way to make it interesting, whether that's by going outside to study or by hands-on learning, you'll find a lot more success--and maybe find out that it's not so boring after all.

[buncho]

[ That's exactly it, she needs somebody who would sit her down one and one and go over things, not speak to a room at large without holding her accountable, no teacher is paid enough to have to do that. ]

alt learning like that means not going to school, and thats what im already doing anyways. theres stuff like summer camp that i liked but you cant make everything fun and hands on- how would you make math fun??

[abovethefold]

Well, let's see. What's something you like to do? What would you do if you were free to do anything you wanted?

[buncho]

uhh go see if anybodys free to play baseball or soccer or something prob

[abovethefold]

All right, so let's pretend you're playing baseball. You've got to end your game after this inning, and your team's down by six runs. The bases are loaded.

How many people at least need to bat runs in for your team to win?

[buncho]

7?

li-na

[abovethefold]

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Yes, but a lot of people dress up in costumes like witches and Devils and other questionable beings like murderers from horror movies. Some people believe that celebrating Halloween celebrates and even encourages practicing paganism and the occult, indoctrinating children from a young age when they aren't likely to think about the consequences of their actions, so they refuse to have anything to do with it.

I think they're reading a little too much into it.

Re: li-na

[invocate]

yes it does sound that way

[she barely understands any of what Katherine said, as hypothetically... she is one of those pagans, not that she thinks of ancestor worship as being religious :| she's had a few christian friends, but they were not super observant (and thus were chill with halloween)]

[abovethefold]

You see why it gets a little old!

But that's besides the point. Don't you want to ask me back?

[invocate]

Oh! Yes! Yes I do!

Trick or treat, Katherine!

[abovethefold]

Of course I'm going to give you a treat!

[invocate]

Thank you! You are so sweet!

celine

[abovethefold]

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Treat, of course!

Did it give you one this time?

[hadeir]

Yes. Thank you.

[abovethefold]

Oh, I'm glad! You're very welcome :)

I'm Katherine, by the way.

[hadeir]

I'm Celandine.

[abovethefold]

It's nice to meet you, Celandine! I hope that you're able to collect a lot of candies from this game.