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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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@ Minako

[matchbreaker]

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That seems to be the common answer here unless people are particularly dour.

[complementing]

if it's as big an organization as we think it is, there's only natural that some people are grunts and some people are the execs, right?

they talked about levels of access and clearance

in the end they're all responsible, either way

[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.

[complementing]

if they have a lot of fancy machines that take care of the work for them, then maybe they don't need much more than a skeleton crew?

[matchbreaker]

Honestly that's probably the heart of it. Maybe their repair staff is huge.

[complementing]

yeah, especially since the lack of blue and green is such a big thing that they've been working on for a while...

wonder if they have any branches outside of this city

[matchbreaker]

I've wondered that too! Other cities, maybe even other worlds? I'm not sure there's a good way to know, but they sure have some cosmic roots.

[complementing]

the only way to find out would be to go to another city, but which city would we even try first?

[matchbreaker]

New York?

[complementing]

a good a start as any

only problem is, who's willing to basically put a hold on their life here to try and look for something that might not even be there in NYC?

[matchbreaker]

Well, over a weekend, I suppose I could? It's not that much.

[complementing]

["Not that much"..........]

you should find someone to go with you, though

the buddy system is important!

[matchbreaker]

[ Look she's really wealthy... ]

Are you open to it?

[complementing]

sorry Elda! I wouldn't mind a trip to NYC at all but I'm still a student...can't get away without getting behind

[matchbreaker]

I should have named that as a trick, right?

No I thought as much.

[complementing]

maybe you'll have some takers once winter vacation rolls around

[matchbreaker]

Yeah. Plus I'd be wary to leave my boy alone this time of year - Toushiro's a good kid, but the minute everyone shrinks or ghosts eat us or something it's better for me to be there. So it'd have to be when he'd consent too.

[complementing]

exactly!

hopefully your guys' schedule opens up a bit soon!

[matchbreaker]

Well, he's got the benefit of no longer needing to deal with Retrospec's nonsense. Soccer season'll finish up soon too.