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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]

Do you know many scientists specializing in the practical applications of unreality? I can only think of one, off the top of my head, and she's my cousin.

[And has been getting memories back about parallel universes and the like. She's not exactly been classically trained in the art...]

That's not entirely true. Some people might do that, but why can't you give candy to the children trick-or-treating? You get to watch them having a good time.

Come on, why not try it? Trick or treat, Shiori?

[missingache]

Then why not a your cousin and see what she thinks?

Would kids even trust a teen giving them candy?

[....... Fiiine]

Treat.

[abovethefold]

Because the reason she knows all of this is due in part to the memories she's been getting back thanks to Retrospec. That doesn't exactly help.

[Oh, she hadn't quite been expecting him to go with treat! Kath's smiling at her phone though; it looks like someone over there isn't quite as big of a grump as he'd like to pretend to be.]

Why wouldn't they? I started passing out candy to trick-or-treaters when I was fifteen, and never had any trouble with it.

See, that wasn't so bad, was it?

[missingache]

She's getting memories back? That sounds like a common theme around here.

[Look, in the long run he's still a kid at heart.]

We didn't really have Halloween celebrations at the school I was at.

No. But what am I supposed to do with a virtual treat?

[abovethefold]

Do you need to do anything with it? You just look at it and know that it's there. It's something sweet that somebody chose to give you.

[missingache]

[......... that's kinda weird.]

So it's just something that's there to remind me of this event?

[abovethefold]

I think so.

Surely it isn't doing you any harm by being there though.

[missingache]

I guess so.

Just thought it would be something more useful.

[abovethefold]

If it's useful, that's when you'll want to watch out. A couple months ago we were all challenged to play a game of bingo, and the people that completed their challenges were rewarded by some sort of powers.

[Which she still doesn't like having to face as being real, though there's no way to really deny it.]

Immediately after that the city was full of monsters.

Try not to look a gift horse in the mouth!

[missingache]

Bingo? That's a weird game to play with a lot of people...

I remember the monsters. That was really weird.