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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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considering they have not given us much of a reason to like them, i cannot blame people for feeling that way.
i mean. unless you count keeping people alive but given that everything that happens is partially their fault that should be taken with a grain of salt.

still giving them a little too much credit, but i appreciate your generosity.

Honestly, I just couldn't think of a meme off the top of my head that hit the right level of 'you did something, but not much'. And this was more fun.

hoping they will be able to see it loud and clear then.

Thank god we didn't lose yellow.

what if that's next though?
from what i have heard there really is no warning before stuff changes.
not like this, anyway. let's not give them any ideas.

I keep forgetting that they read these posts.

which is weird since. you know. they should maybe have better things to do with their time but whatever.
since they ARE reading this though...
trick or treat?

Treat! Enjoy your inedible internet candy.

my favorite kind! you shouldn't have.
haha, thanks dude.
hopefully we'll see some good changes soon.

The chocobos are kind of cute. If the horses come back and chocobos are still here, I'll be willing to call that an improvement, ultimately.

that is definitely a possibility! i mean it is happening with the fruit, isn't it?
if horses and chocobos existed together i could at least deal with that.
let's hope for the best.

I'd be happier if the creepy dancing fruit with faces were just gone forever, but I guess that's too much to ask.

i am very, very sorry for them now that i remember them.
but it could be worse? at least it is only those four!
try imagining a watermelon with a face.

God no. The beach parties where you split a watermelon in half right there...

annnnd now we took it way too far.
who knows?
maybe they will make a poll to get rid of the faces all together, too.

Where else was I supposed to take it??

NOT smashing an entire watermelon? i meant like just cutting it up!

That's what people do!!

when was the last time you smashed a watermelon???

A beach party when I was twelve.

oh.
i have never actually done it that way.
and i think i missed beach season here, so maybe next summer i will take a faceless watermelon and try it.

It's actually pretty fun. You should do it at least once in your life.

maybe i will then next summer!
but since it is october, pumpkins seem to be in season more than watermelon.

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