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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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Again, I did it in the dorms. We decked out hte hallways, played music,and everything. There were not any little kids in the vicinity, just a bunch of college students.

And both. I got chocolate and I got to wear a fun costume.

Still that was an organized event among college students. So maybe there really is a cut off age for trick or treating? Post graduate studies?

Maybe. But on the other hand you can have so much fun giving out the candy. Scare the kids to the point of making the wet their pants. Make them WORK FOR THE CANDY!

Great way to make little kids cry. I'd save that for teenagers if anyone.

You've obviously never had the joy of tormenting young siblings. Halloween was prime time for me to prank my younger siblings. By the end they expected it and enjoyed it thoroughly.

If they're friendly pranks I guess that's okay. What did you do?

Friendly pranks? It's like you don't even know me!

I did the typical fake spiders, fake body parts, making them close their eyes and have them stick their hands into buckets holding 'internal organs, and grabbing their ankles from under their bed.

But my best prank was when I hid a CD player in one of their rooms and I had it play an hour long track set on repeat of a simple catching noise. It drove my sibling insane because the rest of us kids pretended we didn't notice anything. This went of for days and eventually I placed a different CD in the player that had multiple shorter tracks of scratching on it but the last track and a blood curdling scream at the end. It was the most beautiful Halloween pranks of my life. My sibling was practically in tears.

And did the others ever prank you back?

[Of course they did, but Derek isn't going to admit that.]

They wouldn't dare.

Oh really? None of them? Even with the kind of gal several of them have?

[Of course they did, but again, as if Derek will admit that.]

Of course not. They love me too much to prank me.

You sure you didn't mean "They love me too much not to prank me"?

Matt, would I lie to you about my adorable siblings?

[ If Derek could see his face Matt wouldn't need to send a reply. ]

Hm... Yes?

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

It's not lack of faith. It's just that I know you so well.

Did you miss my Star Wars reference? It was from episode four. Come one Matt!

[And this is how Derek changes topics.]

Wait. Is that why when my phone read that I heard Darth Vader talking in my head? Or was it the Emperor? It's been too long since I sat down for Star Wars.

Yes, that is exactly why you heard Darth Vader in your head, because it was Darth Vader who said it. Matt, please tell me you have at least seen episodes 4-6. Those are the most important ones.

Yes when I was little. The neighbor let me borrow the VHS tapes. Since then it's only been a couple times.

As long as you've watched/listened to them, that is the important part. You're welcome to skip episodes 1-3.

I haven't listened to either of the new movies yet. Were they any good?

Episode 7 I found disappointing on the grounds of lack of creativity. ~~Rogue~~ Rascal One was good. However, episode 7 is better than episodes 1-3.

Maybe I'll find time for them.

[ Which means Derek or someone else will have to sit him down and start the movie immediately if they want him to listen in. It's miraculous Mr. Workaholic takes time away from his papers to socialize with Tatsuo and him at all. Retrospec had him talking and texting far more and with more people than he ever had in his life so at least one good thing came from it. ]

You do that. But, if you don't have them watched by May, then I'm gonna sit you down and make you listen to them.

[In Derek's mind, May 4th is the perfect time to do a marathon of these movies.]

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