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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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Honestly... I'm not sure how I feel about the connection between "us" and "them." Certainly, I'm more me than that woman and I sincerely doubt that's going to change anytime soon, irregardless of what other people have experienced. But at the same time, I have come to refer to the things freely as memories and short of utterly impractical hair and nails, I seem more or less identical to "her" these days.

But that's besides the point, or at least the one I hoped to make.

The "outside of reality" those 40 people were in during August, were those worlds they were on real too? What does Retrospec even mean by "reality?" Those might need to be answered in the course of your investigations too, ultimately.

... I'm glad you're still in the fight, officer. I might be a private citizen, but I'm willing to do all that will help you, as I said before.

Hanging on to ourselves while getting the memories of these other people, that's the big goal, isn't it? I'm glad that you feel like you're still yourself.

I would have to believe that those worlds are real, partly because of all of the evidence that people brought back. Retrospec has operated on those worlds, or is perhaps using them for resources. One group found the lab of one of the Founding members of Recolle. Another saw blueprints for the Retrospec building, itself. I'd argue not only are they real, but that Retrospec employees might be able to travel between them.

But, again, there's that pesky 'no evidence' thing.

You. You've got more stake in this fight than some other people. I think I've said this before, but I know better than to tell you not to get involved. So I appreciate your help.

Everyone has a stake in this fight. Even if I've got children involved of my own, that doesn't make me too different than all of the parents of the children who are on here. Even if they're ignorant, they have something of a stake in this too.

I appreciate the vote of confidence, but I'm not that special.

I wonder if there is a means of getting evidence for any of this.

[This is Togusa looking at his own hand in real life, when Elda asks about how to get evidence. Well. Funny damn story. And something Togusa is going to have to test out.]

The fact that you're willing to stand up and do something, I think, makes you special.

The next path I'm looking down is that research by James Halliday. If one of Retrospec's founders, or the city's founders, let's go with that, if one of them was interested in it, I want to know if there was any merit to it.

Oh we've got a handle on some of that? That's really interesting.

It's not really doing much if I don't know what I'm doing, officer.

I wouldn't quite call it a handle? We looked up his research, and it seems to be related to memory recall, trying to improve it through deep-brain stimulation. Sounds exactly like what Retrospec would be interested in. But nothing conclusive so far.

Oh it *definitely* does. I've never heard all that much about this man, but the fact of the matter is that is pretty close to what they claim they're doing. Worth following just as much as looking into the founders all the more.

I'm trying to make sure the name gets spread around, please just take it and run with it, I don't even know what to do with the information from here, so do what you will.

But on a personal note, I got myself looked at, just to see if there would be any sign of deep-brain stimulation in the memory areas of the brain for us users? Nothing.

There aren't any physical signs? That's actually very surprising.

I will take the name and try to spread it. I'm not sure I got my planetarium information out enough before myself.

The section of the blueprint? There was one group in August, I want to say Snow White? That saw the full layout of the building. I don't know if there's a connection there, but that might be a place to go with that info.

Blueprint? No, I meant that it looked like they have maps of other planets than the ones in the solar system but then deleted everything except the folder.

Okay, WHAT?

This one is new to me. The person I spoke to who made it into the planetarium came back with a blueprint corner. So. Other planets. God damn it, I don't want to go back and tell Matt he was right.

You don't remember any of the names of them?

No, but this is more evidence by way of absence. I'll back up.

It was in their main exhibit where the planetarium shows the surface of other planets in the solar system on slides, and the view of the sky from the northern and southern hemispheres. I got on the desktop computer running this show, and then in the trash bin I found an empty folder with the Retrospec label on it titled "ADDITIONAL"

Nothing in it, like someone mass deleted the files but forgot to nuke the folder.

Got it. I know what you mean. I would wonder who would be that careless, but Retrospec is running with such a skeleton crew, it's actually not surprising.

A few people remembered names of the 'worlds' they came from. God, what did he call it? Cocoon? And, Eleanor, I think she just remembered a city, but it was all underwater.

We've gotten enough testimony that we're all coming from different worlds, some evidence would be nice.

I'm fairly certain "she" was from Japan, or at least spent her adult life there. That makes me think for me it's just some other earth which has vampires and ghosts on it.

An underwater city? Wow.

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