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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.

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[abovethefold]

A case that's being presented in a court of law. I'm a law intern at LJ&H and was working on compiling evidence, witness statements and preparing testimonies, and assisting in creating the lead prosecutor's opening statements.

So you can see why I'd be loathe to do something like that.

[frostythehitman]

Oh, a legal case? Well then, if that's what it is, I hope you're putting together a lawsuit against Retrospec.

[abovethefold]

If only I could! Trust me, I tried the first month I was subjected to this app to see if we could bring a suit against them for invasion of privacy. (It was the month they were sending us photos of ourselves from behind, if you were here too.) Unfortunately, when I tried to show anything about it to someone who didn't have access to the app, he wasn't able to see anything at all. Even if I opened Retrospec and handed him the phone, it would just crash as soon as I handed it over! From what I've learned since, it seems like that's par for the course.

[frostythehitman]

[ Yeah, figures. He's had this talk with Togusa often enough that he knows it couldn't have really worked. But at least she made an effort, he supposes. ]

So we need to wait until a judge gets access to the app? If Retrospec even allows that, they probably pre-screen everyone who can actually do anything about them.

[abovethefold]

Even then, I have to wonder if we'd find any results.

[frostythehitman]

Ugh, probably. If they ever do let a judge on here, it'll only be because they already figured out how to get around them.

[abovethefold]

Exactly. Not to mention I wonder if a judge's decision would be permitted to pass muster in the absence of any legal documents or evidence that's visible to the rest of the judicial department? It seems to me it would be very easy to claim the trial was a farce otherwise.

[frostythehitman]

So basically they've covered their tracks since day one by making sure we're the only ones who can ever know about it.

[abovethefold]

That's right. As far as I can see, any attempts at touching them within the legal system will be met with failure until those without the app are aware of Retrospec's existence and doings.

[frostythehitman]

Any ideas on how we do that, then?

[abovethefold]

Unfortunately, no.

But trust me, if I come up with anything at all, I'll let you know.