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[recollecters]

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.

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[surprising]

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???

[frostflowers]

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?

[surprising]

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...

[frostflowers]

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. ]

[surprising]

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?

[frostflowers]

That's what the other me said, too. That the money was for the shrine so she can't take any?

[ Kouran just thinks it's kind of weird for her to say it like that, it makes because how would she be related to a shrine in any way??? ]

I don't know a lot, but at tsukumogami is the spirit of an object that is over 100 years old. Like they became old enough to gain a soul, I think is the best way to put it?

[surprising]

you're pretty conscientious! or, it has to do with your past life — or wherever these memories are coming from.
you could have been affiliated with a shrine in the past, you know?

[ that sounds pretty accurate. then again, as someone who once lived in a shrine and has no recollection of it, he's not one to talk. ]

keep this a secret, but i'm approaching my thousandth year! i mean, my sword is
so it qualifies as an object that's over 100 years old, right?

[frostflowers]

That's a good guess, it sounds like the other me lived there...

Eh? Over a thousand? Σ(･口･)
It does, yes!

[ If it's that old, wouldn't it be something that gets put into a museum? ]

[surprising]

but can people actually live in shrines? i thought they just took care of them...

in my 900's, but pretty close! i still look like a university student, though
— if this tsukumogami theory turns out to be true, i mean... otherwise, i'm just 21

[frostflowers]

I know there are priests who live near the shrine they're in charge of, but not living in there.

So you remembered something that made you think you might be one?