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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.
matchbreaker: (Kanye West)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-05 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
"this is absolutely not in my job description but the intern's busy and half of r&d is still banned and hr is on honeymoon."

Who refers to people by their department titles? That's strange.

But you're right, that's more in not defining things.
skald: (kahdeksankymmentäkahdeksan)

[personal profile] skald 2017-10-05 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
I guess so. I mean, Janet is HR, right? Is she the only person in their HR department? I guess that's a little weird. But also not super surprising from a Retrospec employee? I'm willing to just blame them for not explaining things again.
matchbreaker: (TV Atlantis)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-05 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
What sort of big company only have one person in HR?

Or two in R&D?
skald: (viisi)

[personal profile] skald 2017-10-05 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
IDK what sort of big company doesn't have any customer service support, is constantly in beta in just one city, and is probably manipulating the universe?
matchbreaker: (Kenn Lobb)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-06 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Well yes, yes, I'm not ignorant!

It's the fact it is breaking up the universe which means they need more HR. That's got to put a lot of stress on them all.
skald: (viisikymmentäkaksi)

[personal profile] skald 2017-10-08 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
And us! They should just staff psychiatrists or something to cover everything they're putting us through!
matchbreaker: (Get off my dick)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-12 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but would that really be affordable to everyone?
skald: (seitsemäntoista)

[personal profile] skald 2017-10-12 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh haha right US healthcare

Uhhh Retrospec has to cover the costs since they're the ones creating a need for it?
matchbreaker: (Wow cool...)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-17 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately.

They ought to, or at least cover people's insurance!