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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.
darkinferno: (★ so here's to drinks in the dark)

[personal profile] darkinferno 2017-10-06 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
season two

by which i mean how long before something like august happens again and we find out more about joanne and maurice since i doubt we'll learn anything else about any of them until then
roseblooms: can you stand against my hierophant greenery (GLASSES ❁ this is my kakyoin impression)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-10-07 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
I think it's hard to say, frankly. Not enough data to make an accurate prediction, when you need at least two points to make a line and we really only have one.

I realize you were being rhetorical, but it seemed worth remarking on anyway.
darkinferno: (★ he said give me all you got)

[personal profile] darkinferno 2017-10-09 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
cynical would be the better word

but i think we all agree it's a matter of WHEN, not if
roseblooms: this is an asspull but it's cool so it's fine (LASH ❁ my hair is a deadly weapon)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-10-09 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, it's certainly a matter of when. Everything we've been discovering has indicated that there's some sort of master plan for us, and we've only yet seen a small portion of it.

I've my theories on why that is, but they're only theories. Controlled exposure, like a vaccination. That sort of thing.
darkinferno: (★ the loss of friends you didn't have)

[personal profile] darkinferno 2017-10-10 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
what are your theories?
roseblooms: excuse you i am obviously erika, asshole (DAFUQ ❁ wait whoa why am i whitney)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-10-11 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
That if they were simply to dump the magnitude of what's really going on here onto us, our minds wouldn't be able to cope with the strain of it. Whatever it is they're doing, they're introducing it to us slowly, through things we find familiar — an app, for example. The slow-trickle return of memories echoing back instead of being forced upon us all at once.

They're slowly building up our tolerance. Doesn't it seem that way?
darkinferno: (★ end of the night it's goin' down)

[personal profile] darkinferno 2017-10-11 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[The response takes several minutes to come. Not because Dante doesn't know his answer, but because he's struck upon an idea that Dante's been trying to avoid for a while now.]

...yeah

i think i said something like that a while ago, how the baseline of what we think is weird is gonna keep changing as we remember more. back in february we probably would've freaked out if someone had turned up with magic, but now it's no big deal

so what do you think they're building up to?
roseblooms: motherfucker these pants were gucci (CROUCH ❁ well this is slightly awkward)

[personal profile] roseblooms 2017-10-14 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Whatever it is that makes us useful to them, I imagine.

This many people with this many bizarre and multifaceted talents? More likely than not they'll ask us to do something on their behalf. Something only a group like us could accomplish.

Like August again, but moreso.