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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.
doitrockapella: (HURT ❖ it's cool it's only a flesh wound)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-13 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Last year I went as Irene Adler, from the Sherlock Holmes stories.

I'm still debating whether this year I should try dressing up as something people can actually guess at a glance, instead.
embraves: (61)

[personal profile] embraves 2017-10-13 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
and what were the defining features of the irene adler costume?

[Somehow he thinks it suits her, though.]
doitrockapella: (SMIRK ❖ leaving only her grin behind)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-14 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
A New Jersey accent and a picture of me with the King of Bohemia.

So, not quite what you'd call highly distinguishing elements.
embraves: (03)

[personal profile] embraves 2017-10-16 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[King of Bohemia...? Oh, right. He so very vaguely remembers the story, but now that she's mentioned it, he does recall why this would fit.]

you were surrounded by a bunch of not-so-well-read individuals
but to be honest i might've been ?? at it at first, too
doitrockapella: (PIN ❖ the better to burst your bubble)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-16 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Thus proving that Cloud is a literal saint for indulging these shenanigans of hers, because really, no one should be expected to keep up with leaps of bizarre logic like this.]

Well, it serves me right, probably. Costumes are a little like jokes — the more time you have to spend explaining them, the less effective they are overall.

I'm sure I'll come up with something eventually. Miss Scarlet? The Red Queen? Red Riding Hood? Something red would be nice, that's what half my closet is already.
embraves: (18)

[personal profile] embraves 2017-10-17 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Cloud is a patient young man, more or less.]

why red?
because it's a bold color?
doitrockapella: (BOW ❖ holy shit was that an honorific)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-17 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you know that the Russian word for "red" comes from the same Slavic root as the word for "beautiful"?

Renaissance painters used the color red as a way of drawing the viewer's attention. Of all the colors, it's the one most associated with visibility.

I always liked that. "Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out", and so on.
embraves: (32)

[personal profile] embraves 2017-10-18 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
no, i didn't know that
but now that i do, i have to say it fits you
doitrockapella: (POCKET ❖ it's my bar of chocolate)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-18 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmhmm. "Red" is "Кра́сный", and "beautiful" is "красивый" — which would be a lot more effective if this were an audio recording instead of text, come to think of it.

[And so, in a minute, a voice clip follows, featuring a surprisingly deft Russian accent as she pronounces the two words, krásnyy and krasivyy.]

...Which part fits me, again?
embraves: (31)

[personal profile] embraves 2017-10-19 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's impressed by the Russian, starting to wonder if there's anything that she's not skilled in. And then Cloud is hit with that very direct question, one that leaves him staring down at his phone, trying to figure out how to respond. Good thing this is text or else she'd see just how easily he's flustered.]

well

[Well. Well wHaT CLOUD]

красивый

[The power of copy and paste.]
doitrockapella: (DUH ❖ it's called a royale with cheese)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-19 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's a really good thing this isn't video on either side, because if it were, the way her eyebrows instantly shot up practically to her hairline would've been put on open display — and so would've the way that the corner of her lower lip caught beneath her teeth as she mulled that over.]

Я рад что вы так думаете.

[She's just going to lowkey refrain from translating that one, so he might have to go find someone else who speaks Russian to work it out, because sadly he can't just hover his cursor over it and let hovertext do the work for him.]

My, my, your pronunciation is superb. Are you sure you're not a native speaker?

[BECAUSE ALL HE DID WAS COPY AND PASTE A TEXT YEAH COVER OVER IT WITH HUMOR IT'LL BE FINE]
embraves: (12)

[personal profile] embraves 2017-10-20 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Text makes this so hard to judge reactions. Did he just make a fool of himself? Did she just laugh at it and think nothing of it? Which was worse? Why can't he go back in time and respond differently?

Ugh.

He rubs at the back of his neck, and tells himself that, well, joking is not a bad response. (Why is he so terrible at this? He's an idiot.)

His reply is delayed regardless.]


i'd be a better native speaker if i could actually read whatever it is you just wrote me
doitrockapella: (PASSPORT ❖ which way to the casbah)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-20 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Uh-oh. Is he delaying his response because he's put off? Is he in the middle of something and just had to step away for a minute? Is his silence nothing? Is it Something? Hm hm hm hm.]

"Я рад" is "I'm glad."

[Well. Nori-kakatta fune, as her mentor would gently chide her — in for a penny, in for a pound.]

You said красивый suits me. I said I'm glad you think so.

[Hmm.]

That you, specifically, think so.
embraves: (30)

[personal profile] embraves 2017-10-23 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[The awkward questions that will forever arise from text conversations. Maybe someday they will have a moment like this face-to-face, so she can see Cloud be awkward in real time.]

i'm sure i'm not the only person who thinks so
or would call you that


[Uh. Beautiful, he means.]
doitrockapella: (CONFIDENT ❖ why yes i speak jive)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-23 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[May that day come sooner rather than later.]

You're probably right.

[HIGH SELF-ESTEEM IS ESSENTIAL TO A HAPPY LIFE.]

But I'm glad that you did. And do.
embraves: (59)

[personal profile] embraves 2017-10-24 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[HE WON'T ARGUE THAT POINT??]

i'd have to be blind not to
doitrockapella: (PLACATE ❖ lol okay whatever you say)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-24 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose that means you won't be dressing up as Oedipus for Halloween, then.
embraves: (05)

[personal profile] embraves 2017-10-26 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
i mean, you think i'd look good in a toga?
doitrockapella: (GIRLISH ❖ the miss in misdemeanor)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-26 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I think if you were dead-set on wearing a toga you could do a lot better than Oedipus.

For example: Romulus, founder of Rome, raised by a wolf.
embraves: (15)

[personal profile] embraves 2017-10-27 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah but when i think of romulus i just think of

that statue
the one where him and his brother are breastfeeding off of their "mom"


[Cloud, just casually stating the facts.]
doitrockapella: (PLACATE ❖ lol okay whatever you say)

[personal profile] doitrockapella 2017-10-27 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[AN ART HISTORY REFERENCE. THIS IS THE BEST DAY.]

Oedipus wouldn't be that much better of an option, when it comes to mothers.

[boy this conversation is going places]

Maybe you should skip the middleman entirely and just be a wolf. I have a pair of black furry ears you could borrow, and given your profile picture, we already know you look good as one.