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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.
vitis: (nice package)

[personal profile] vitis 2017-10-23 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
more likely than not
also hey, trick or treat
mr_fancy_car: (♘ seas would rise)

[personal profile] mr_fancy_car 2017-10-23 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
You may have a treat.

One would think that if these people knew anything about trick or treat, they wouldn't offer us the trick after giving the treat.
vitis: (( roots pulse attractively ))

[personal profile] vitis 2017-10-23 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
they don't know a whole lot about much, other than programming some flawed game while they should be working on that anomaly
:) or literally anything else.

your turn, by the way
mr_fancy_car: (♘ choirs are singing)

[personal profile] mr_fancy_car 2017-10-24 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps if we play along, we can appease them.

Trick or treat?
vitis: (like straight-up cracked out damn)

[personal profile] vitis 2017-10-24 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
oh heck no
i'm only doing this because it's kinda funny

so trick me :)
mr_fancy_car: (♘ I used to roll the dice)

[personal profile] mr_fancy_car 2017-10-25 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
Are you sure? I'm not as imaginative as my students.
vitis: (mm lovely day for some bloodshed)

[personal profile] vitis 2017-10-25 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ john blinks down at his phone. so he's a teacher, huh... ]

that's ok
you could always just take inspiration from em
mr_fancy_car: (♘ I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing)

[personal profile] mr_fancy_car 2017-10-25 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Then it wouldn't be a trick because you'd be able to anticipate what I'll be doing.
vitis: (c:?)

[personal profile] vitis 2017-10-25 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
aww, you gimme too much credit
what are these students? middle schoolers? high school, college?
mr_fancy_car: (♘ and pillars of sand)

[personal profile] mr_fancy_car 2017-10-25 12:42 pm (UTC)(link)
High school.

[And after some deliberation, he...just vandalizes the guy's userpic with a typical black mustache.]

I hope you consider this as a new look for you.
vitis: (like ^ u^ except shittier)

[personal profile] vitis 2017-10-25 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
gotcha.
and thanks!! i'll try to work this as best i'm able
mr_fancy_car: (♘ I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing)

[personal profile] mr_fancy_car 2017-10-26 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm confident that you can. Besides, you only have ten minutes.