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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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There are only a few people I know over the network who see ghosts normally, but I think I just saw one surprise a few people across the street, then they stopped being able to see him after.

Be careful while walking I guess. Never know what a dead person's going to do while they're bored.

Actually, maybe it wasn't so "person" in shape. This is new. Should I talk to him or is it rude to ask someone why they kind of look like a gooey, disembodied head.

I don't know that much about ghosts, but I feel that's roughly on the level of commenting on someone's weight. Don't ask.

Wait normies can see ghosts now? Or are these special ghosts?

Either way we're screwed but I have run into them already. Thanks for the heads up on that detail though.

[earlier Tifa's userpic was dolled up as a vampire, now she looks to be some sort of princess, tiara included.]

Hi everyone! Tifa here. Or Tiffany, if you want to get technical like the app has
I'm new, nice to meet anyone I haven't met yet. Thnx to everyone who helped with the dancing fruit last month

I'mmm not going to think about anomalies because we can't really do anything about that, right? We may as well think about what we *can* do
Jas mentioned candy and other volunteer efforts in her post, but I wanted to pop in to add that something much appreciated for kids would be, drumroll...
Decorations and costumes!
If you've got a talent for making either, or a few bucks to chip in for a costume drive, or can even donate your time to a community center, it would be awesome
Bonus: costume selfies! Kids love that, and you get to feel like a superhero
I'm dressing as Liberty Lady so get on my level
That's all
Smooches!

Edited 2017-10-03 18:35 (UTC)

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I worked at a cafe for a while. Those are always low-pressure in this city
And that many, huh? It seems so...intrusive. Do you have a way to cope?

Maybe I'm a fruit bat vampire
Mwahaha!
All your freaky singing fruit is mine!

I saw an opportunity and went for it
Not cheating at all
But thanks!
I do mean it, though. I'll keep my eyes open
We'll have to look out for the people who aren't in this secret app club too

I think it randomizes, so you won't be stuck as a bunny forever
Even though it's adorable
Thank you for the treat! ❤️
Do you have a real costume in mind?

Haha! Charming
Do you know when this wears off?
Trick or treat right back at ya

Thanks!
You get virtual candy when the person picks "treat" and some sort of harmless prank when they pick "trick"
It's cute

How long is it going to take them to make water blue again? It's still weird seeing gray water because all I can think of is those pictures of polluted rivers in other countries. Not a nice sight. Also, did the banned half of R&D get unbanned like that Wendy person mentioned in the other post?

Is there a point to the game? Or is it just for the sake of the season?

[alison is decked out like a cyborg, complete with one glowing blue eye.]

the answer to "what kind of anomaly, joanne?" is going to be a resounding lack of an answer, so i won't waste my time. please remember to stick to groups and stay safe during the holiday season, which is something we should all be doing anyway.

an easier question to answer: trick or treat? if you can't beat them, join them. i'm getting all the digital candy i can.

there's a point to me commenting here other than rehashing what everyone else has been saying. my dad's back home, but he immediately has to go to this summit on technology in medicine in connecticut, so he can't help me on making our house as scary as possible. as an avid halloween fan, this is devastating to me. does anyone want to pitch in? my dad's been competing with the neighbors for years and we've kicked their asses every time. i can't let him down.

it'll be sometime this weekend. snacks and entertainment (in the form of horror movies) will be provided but you are free to bring your own. if you're afraid of watching scary things you can leave before nightfall. i won't judge.

i am so ready to help spook your shit up

trick huh? that's a first. wonder what it does...aha

ok, that's kind of funny.

literal ghosts
you can see them, like sorey?
are they...doing anything?

now geese are terrifying. here's your trick.

aww. cute and informative.

that's a great one.
i've always liked extraterrestrials. nightmare on pine street was good too.
sfx doesn't hold up though.

ok, ok.
i never thought i'd be the person giving advice on how to be fun in a social situation to anyone, but here goes.
you really don't have to say much at all. just listen. play along. people love to talk about themselves. and be yourself. you're fun to be around.

Edited 2017-10-03 20:10 (UTC)

The only trick I've gotten so far gave me elephant ears
On the app, not rl. thank goodness
So I guess I should count myself lucky!

That and it's an easier way to organize groups when something does go down.
Strength in numbers 💪

you're the best, thanks. my dad goes nuts about decorations every year, so there's no way i can pull it off alone.
do you have a spooky movie and/or snack pref?

No idea?
Maybe after halloween?
Or until someone else tricks you.

Mmmmm.

Treat!

Then trick.

Those are adorable.

Also rather creepy?

Creepy adorable.

I hope it's like the stuff last month
The sound stuff was pretty fun

This game seems pretty fun too! I'm down to play!

School and practice has been keeping me from wandering around
I think I have maybe 5?? Its being covered by tp right now

Edited 2017-10-03 20:52 (UTC)

[It takes a moment, but a dog remix of Sandstorm plays for Jirou]

How was that?

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