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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 Retr ![]()
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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I'm still debating whether this year I should try dressing up as something people can actually guess at a glance, instead.
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[Somehow he thinks it suits her, though.]
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So, not quite what you'd call highly distinguishing elements.
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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
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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.
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why red?
because it's a bold color?
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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.
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but now that i do, i have to say it fits you
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[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?
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well
[Well. Well wHaT CLOUD]
красивый
[The power of copy and paste.]
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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]
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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
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"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.
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i'm sure i'm not the only person who thinks so
or would call you that
[Uh. Beautiful, he means.]
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You're probably right.
[HIGH SELF-ESTEEM IS ESSENTIAL TO A HAPPY LIFE.]
But I'm glad that you did. And do.
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i'd have to be blind not to
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For example: Romulus, founder of Rome, raised by a wolf.
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that statue
the one where him and his brother are breastfeeding off of their "mom"
[Cloud, just casually stating the facts.]
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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.