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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

spec 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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oh, it was another app user
i'm not sure if retrospec employees know much about holiday spirit, actually...
at least they gave us green back before christmas

Oh, that was still nice of them to do...
It's a shame if the Retrospec employees don't, though! But at least the colour green is back.
Can you imagine a Christmas without green? The Christmas trees would look very strange!

i'm grateful for green back in time for the holidays, but no way!! there's nothing festive about grey trees at all
putting on tinsel and ornaments — one of the best parts of christmas — would become meaningless

That's true! It wouldn't look nice at all
I hope this year I get a chance to try doing that o(≧∇≦o)
I've never done it before

you've never decorated a christmas tree before?

[ there's a first for everything, he supposes, but he wants to be sure. ]

I have not!
My family gives presents, but we don't decorate for Christmas at all. I'd like to do it at least once.

hmm... that's pretty interesting! does your family celebrate another holiday, or do you guys just not celebrate anything around that time?
if you don't have the room for a big christmas tree, you can try one of those small, potted trees instead.
they're a lot cheaper — and since they're so tiny, you get to spend less on decorations, too!

We don't celebrate anything, really. Mother and Father don't really feel the need to do anything special for Christmas.
I'll ask my uncle if we can get that! It'll be fun.

hmm... then, i hope your uncle lets you have a tree, it's a lot of fun!
there are things like tinsel, ornaments, and light-up decorations
but the star on top is the most important! i don't know why it goes there, but it's nice to look at?

It's super nice to look at! I can ask my sister and brother to come help decorate, too.

it's always fun having more people to help decorate, even if it's a tiny tree...
by the way, do your sister and brother go to the university here? but if not, i might've seen them around anyway!

Oh, they don't. My sister works at an arcade, and Yanagi is younger than me.

yanagi's your younger brother? i've met him a few times!! he's quiet, but nice.
he told me that he's from a traditional family that knows about flowers and swords. i thought it was kind of strange, but it makes more sense now

[ he'll just. gently leave out the part where yanagi ran off with his slipper and he threw his entire sword at him... ]

[ Rindou what did you do ]

Oh! I'm glad he's making friends (ノ^∇^)
You thought it was strange?

[ look... yanagi was okay ]

not in a bad way — most kids his age aren't informed about things like that, right?
he told me that the hamon of my sword was pretty, and i had to ask him what that was. he also knows about the flower in my name
it just surprised me, that's all

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I guess so...

[ It took her a while to realise that the traditional upbringing her parents tended to insist on wasn't actually the norm for most people. ]

Wait, you have a sword?

yeah!! retrospec sent it to me, and i just carry it around
haven't they sent you anything yet?

I haven't received anything yet, but I did remember something strange...

out of nowhere, right? a lot of people think those could be memories of their past lives
which means we would have died somehow, but wouldn't that be pretty cool?

[ the memories being their past lives, he means... not dying. dying isn't cool. ]

Like reincarnation? It'd be really cool!
Though I'm not sure if my past self is very cool, since I was pestering someone into buying ramune for me.

ohh, you get me!! but did you convince them to buy the ramune for you?
it means you might have been really persuasive in your past life, which is even cooler

i think i used to be some kind of spirit — which is inconvenient, like how do i ask people to buy drinks for me if they can't hear me???

I did, but I think she just gave up because I kept bothering her...it was weird because apparently I didn't earn any money?

Eh? A spirit? Maybe you could write your request down if people can't hear you?

maybe you didn't have a job back then...?

i could haunt someone and just ghost-write it myself, too!! but no, i think i'm more of an object spirit? you know, like the spirit of an item.
i'm not sure if that's actually a thing, though...

I guess, but she mentioned something about a donation box at a shrine too...

oh, you mean a tsukumogami?

[ She had to pause for a moment to get the romanji down and not just type it out in kanji. ]

no way, using donation box funds to buy ramune is like stealing!

[ he's kidding, she probably wouldn't do that? but his eyes may or may not light up at that last part; not that it's clear over text. ]

so it really is a thing... do you know a lot about them?

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