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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

[saburai]

It's not particularly reassuring, honestly. But there's not much we seem to be able to do about it so far...

[keystaff]

No, I guess not. But the more we learn about the app and these other lives of ours, maybe that might help?

[saburai]

If you mean in terms of gaining back various "abilities"... I'm not sure if anyone has been able to take on Retrospec even after regaining them. I imagine we would've heard about any successes.

I don't know if that's because they possess abilities beyond ours, or because nobody has regained anything of note.

[keystaff]

Maybe we just need to regain more abilities or powers? But then....you're right. The ones in charge of the app doing this are probably more powerful.

[saburai]

I suppose only time will tell. I haven't regained anything like that myself, so for now it's all hearsay. There's no harm in hoping for the best-case scenario.

[keystaff]

I hate waiting but. It seems like the only option for now. To wait and see what we get. What we remember.
It probably doesn't help that I only got the app more recently too.

[saburai]

Some people seem to regain things more quickly than others. But it definitely seems that the longer you've been here, the more you're able to recall.

Of course, it also means that you have to put up with the other effects of the app for longer as well.

[keystaff]

And right now we don't get a choice. If we got back some sad memories or powers we didn't want or something, there's no way we can just delete the app. Or, as far as I figure yet.

[saburai]

If anyone has figured out how to uninstall the app from our devices, they have yet to share that information with the majority of the userbase. I imagine most of us would prefer to have that option.

[keystaff]

If I knew, I'd tell everyone. But I guess we haven't figured that out yet. If there is a way to. I mean, I assume there has to be, if there's a way to get it onto our phones or computers in the first place.

[saburai]

You would think so. Even if it's not a purely technological issue, there should be some way to undo whatever has been done.

Perhaps the issue is that we're not sure how they've done it in the first place, and so cannot counteract it or prevent it from happening again.

[keystaff]

So you think once we figure how they did this, we might be able to stop the monsters and all?

[saburai]

It's certainly possible.

[keystaff]

I'm still not sure how I can help. Besides figuring more with these memories. But I guess all we can do is wait and see. Try learn more about the app where we can.

[saburai]

If nothing else, you can always help orient those who are new to the app while you gather that knowledge. That may help alleviate any feelings of not contributing.

[keystaff]

That's true. It is one way I could try help! If others get involved with the app. Or, I could try answer some questions at least. I'm not sure others who had it longer might be able to explain some of it better than I could, but. It's something!