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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.
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Re: TATSUO

[personal profile] blessmefather 2017-10-07 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
Don't make me start to crave it too!

Those anomalies better not have anything to do with the local candy supply. There will be riots on the streets.
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Re: TATSUO

[personal profile] thisloveisjustice 2017-10-08 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
chocolate chocolate chocolate chocholate

I'll check a convenience store in the morning. If we start getting candy with faces,
I'm going to be mad.
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Re: TATSUO

[personal profile] blessmefather 2017-10-08 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
I don't want to even begin imagining that. If more food starts wiggling I will join the angry riots. They don't want to get me angry. I'll start breaking things with my cane.

I can't believe anyone enjoys eating them.
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Re: TATSUO

[personal profile] thisloveisjustice 2017-10-09 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)

i nearly swore off fruit entirely. thank goodness it's just four types of fruit instead of all of it.

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Re: TATSUO

[personal profile] blessmefather 2017-10-09 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I won't lie I came dangerously close to crying tears of joy when I found regular apples at the grocery store today.
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Re: TATSUO

[personal profile] thisloveisjustice 2017-10-10 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
yessss i can finally bring apples to work for lunch again
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Re: TATSUO

[personal profile] blessmefather 2017-10-10 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
I have a new appreciation for fruit now. Especially apples. I think they are officially my favorite.
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Re: TATSUO

[personal profile] thisloveisjustice 2017-10-10 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)

any apple, or is there a particular variety you prefer?

blessmefather: (just showing)

[personal profile] blessmefather 2017-10-13 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
Gala or Honeycrisp. Unless we're talking baking.
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[personal profile] thisloveisjustice 2017-10-14 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)

nah. just snacking. i'm not surprised you like the sweet ones.

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[personal profile] blessmefather 2017-10-15 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
What? Why? I'm not big on candy like a regular old Sweet Tooth.
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[personal profile] thisloveisjustice 2017-10-15 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
having a sweet tooth, or lack thereof, have nothing to do with apple preference. i just can't see you snacking on a tart granny smith.
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[personal profile] blessmefather 2017-10-16 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Does anyone truly like their apples bitter? Granny Smiths were meant to go into pies if you ask me.
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[personal profile] thisloveisjustice 2017-10-16 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
tart, not bitter. and granny smiths go good with peanut butter.
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[personal profile] blessmefather 2017-10-16 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't thought of peanut butter and apple in ages. I think the last time I ate it was before I was at the orphanage.
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[personal profile] thisloveisjustice 2017-10-17 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
really? the first time i had it was in college.
my first roommate introduced me to it. mind blown.
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[personal profile] blessmefather 2017-10-17 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
Really? I thought pairing peanut butter with fruit was something everyone did.
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[personal profile] thisloveisjustice 2017-10-17 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)

nah. i always ate them plain as a kid. though my mom had this way she could cut them that made the slices look like little rabbits. i don't think i tasted peanut butter until pb&j sandwiches in elementary school.

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[personal profile] blessmefather 2017-10-19 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
I'm unfamiliar with rabbit slices. Shows every family is different.

[ Matt had eaten a large amount of peanut butter as a child. When his father was unable to come home in time for a meal even a very young Matthew could spread some peanut butter on bread or fruit, and it didn't cost too much either. ]