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[recollecters]

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.

Comments

[hauhra]

Because it's a waste of everyone's time.

If they're going to drill these patterns into our heads like this, then why can't they just do us all a favor and get whatever they're going to do to us this month over with?

[blessmefather]

Maybe they like to make fun of us? Watch us suffer? Again, bad taste on their part.

Maybe it's their way of saying trick or treat.

[ He's going to joke about the anomaly trick and game treat but he just said the magic words and now the game is kicking in and prompting Bakura to respond. Matt winces at the sound of the game but bursts into laughter again. ]

[hauhra]

I wouldn't be surprised. I can't imagine why else they'd -

Goddammit all! No!

[ Guess who gets to play a trick. ]

[blessmefather]

[ Knowing how long the candy list was Matt really doesn't want to sit there waiting for his phone to read aloud all the trick options. ]

I'm going to just hit something. No idea what it will do. Let's get this over with.

[ He taps his screen and Bakura gets treated to an animation of a jack-o-lantern dancing on his phone to Gangnam Style for a while. ]

[hauhra]

Well, what do you know... another song that was actually somewhat tolerable! That's the second of three.

Either today is my lucky day or Retrospec seriously needs to step up their game.

[ No, Bakhura.

You just have The Worst taste in Music. ]

[blessmefather]

[ Well now he's curious. ]

What songs did they choose?

[hauhra]

The Arabic alphabet song and screamo on loop.

Only one of the two was tolerable.

I'll give you three guesses as to which one that was.

[blessmefather]

On one hand Screamo is a very specific kind of music that people of a certain taste enjoy and others often detest. On the other many people find children's songs annoying.

Did you prefer Screamo?

[ He's guessing based on Bakura's age. Teens do enjoy shunning things made for children and tend to like music that matches a rebellious image. ]

[hauhra]

Ding ding ding! We have a winner.

Not that it was much of a contest, of course... even if I wasn't already listening to screamo on the regular, I'd still choose it over something I haven't needed to listen to since I was two.

Wouldn't you do the same?

[blessmefather]

It might feel like an insult to my intelligence if they started looping a children's song. Unless it was a really catchy one. Then I'd just sing along.

[hauhra]

Even then, wouldn't singing along to a song meant for two-year-olds when you're not actually two years old just prove their point?

[blessmefather]

Sometimes singing is the only way to keep it from getting stuck in your head.

[hauhra]

Yeah, I guess that's true.

However, even when that's the goal, then I'd at least make sure that nobody else was around first... without proper context, other people may not see it that way, you know?

[ Gotta be in that judgment-free zone so he doesn't lose his Edgy Rebellious Teenager points. ]

[blessmefather]

[ Someone is very concerned over appearances. Sheesh kid. ]

Teens can be brutal. A lot of people calm down about that kind of thing by the time they're in college. Life is too short to judge others for singing kids songs.

[hauhra]

[ LOOK. Fitting in is Very Important at his ag - no, he's a tryhard no matter how he tries to spin it. ]

And the ones that aren't in college...? What about them?

[ Yeah, guess who has zero intentions of going. ]

[blessmefather]

Depends on if they continue maturing after graduation.

[hauhra]

That's a pretty big "if"... though the same can be said of the ones that go to college, too. In other words, no matter which path you take, the results will probably still be the same... it all comes down to what kind of person you are in the end and everything else is just a waste of time. Good to know lol

[blessmefather]

Choose wisely who you worry about impressing. That's what I stand by.

[hauhra]

Thanks for the advice... I'll keep it in mind.

Or at least, I'll try to, anyway.