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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.
saburai: (thoughtful ♙ and through correct and)

[personal profile] saburai 2017-10-15 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
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: (The dreams that you wish)

[personal profile] keystaff 2017-10-16 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
So you think once we figure how they did this, we might be able to stop the monsters and all?
saburai: (ashamed ♙ courtesy and honor)

[personal profile] saburai 2017-10-16 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It's certainly possible.
keystaff: (It's the only way)

[personal profile] keystaff 2017-10-17 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
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: (thoughtful ♙ and through correct and)

[personal profile] saburai 2017-10-18 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
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: (Sentiment)

[personal profile] keystaff 2017-10-19 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
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!