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Recollé 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.
doitrockapella: (COLLAR ❖ it makes me look cool)

❖ DEREK

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-04 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[continued]

That's the long and short of it, in my experience. At least this time we're getting a warning that's slightly helpful, along with being cryptic.

Hmmm...well, talking to you is a treat, but you seem like a fellow who could appreciate a trick.


[TRICK IT IS]
blondferret: (Default)

Re: ❖ DEREK

[personal profile] blondferret 2017-10-05 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Derek spends the next five minutes playing a mini game until he is able to get back into the app.]

That game was actually amusing. Much better than the stupid Queen song my friend Tatsuo sent me as a trick.
doitrockapella: (BOW ❖ holy shit was that an honorific)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-05 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Oho, what a small world. You're friends with Tatsuo, are you? Are you also work colleagues at the police department?
blondferret: (i got you)

[personal profile] blondferret 2017-10-06 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, we're both childhood friends and co-workers.
How do you know him?
doitrockapella: (TRIUMPH ❖ i win again player)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-07 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
We have an interesting habit of crossing paths on a regular basis. And we have some common interests — he teaches martial arts, albeit a different discipline than the one I like to practice.
blondferret: (amused)

[personal profile] blondferret 2017-10-07 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
Oh really? What kind of martial arts to you do?
Have you and him ever sparred?
doitrockapella: (HATCH ❖ chronoskimmer gets us gone)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-07 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
We won't for a while, I'd imagine, with his shoulder being the way it is. But I favor capoeira, if you're familiar with that.
blondferret: (i got you)

[personal profile] blondferret 2017-10-08 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Well, when it happens I hope both you and Tatsuo invite me to watch. I would love to see Tatsuo get his butt kicked. I also wouldn't mind seeing capoeira in person. The YouTube videos I'm seeing can only give you so much of the experience.
doitrockapella: (CONFIDENT ❖ why yes i speak jive)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-08 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm flattered by your confidence in my skills. I like the versatility of the style, personally — it's designed to allow for fast responses to a changing sparring environment, and well-suited to defending from multiple assailants at once.
blondferret: (relaxed)

[personal profile] blondferret 2017-10-09 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Have you ever had to deal with multiple assailants in a real life situation?
doitrockapella: (CAUGHT ❖ a real punslinger showdown)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-09 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I have. I don't recommend the experience.