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OPEN MINGLE
WHO: EVERYONE...
WHERE: the garden area generally!
WHEN: all month but particularly evenings
WHAT: pumpkin carving & trick or treat. also the skeletons are like There i guess
WARNINGS: probably badly carved pumpkins
He's also supplied carving tools (finally, a fucking use for his Pile Of Knives, thank you harpy quest) and some paint so people can trace out what they want to carve or like...just Go For It. Or paint the pumpkins. The world is your oyster.
It seems like the entire garden area (which takes up maybe two plots of land at this point) has been surrounded with a crude and somewhat shoddy fence, but it seems to be capable of keeping the skeletons out of the garden. It does look like the shambling skeleton horde sort of walked all over the strawberry patch before Dave put up skeleton defenses, though. Bummer.
The trick or treat trail has an actual trail with places for treat givers to hand out treats, with little signs posted in the various areas. There's the Strawberry Kingdom (with sadly trampled strawberries), the Onion Grove, and so on and so forth. People can even pick up really shitty maps for the trick or treat trail, even though you can literally see the entire thing just by glancing. The map sells the experience.
You can:
1) Carve pumpkins! There even seems to be some sort of pumpkin carving contest going on? The prize is a pet rock, though, so like. Maybe don't get too excited.
2) Paint pumpkins, if you're a loser who doesn't want to carve them.
3) Hand out treats!
4) Accept treats!
5) Pull tricks if you are so inclined?
6) Shore up the garden defenses if a shambling skeleton manages to finally knock over some fence. Please protect the plants, we eat those.
7) Just like, gaze at the shambling skeleton army outside the fences. It's a very nice view, maybe.
8) Do whatever you want, basically.
WHERE: the garden area generally!
WHEN: all month but particularly evenings
WHAT: pumpkin carving & trick or treat. also the skeletons are like There i guess
WARNINGS: probably badly carved pumpkins
He's also supplied carving tools (finally, a fucking use for his Pile Of Knives, thank you harpy quest) and some paint so people can trace out what they want to carve or like...just Go For It. Or paint the pumpkins. The world is your oyster.
It seems like the entire garden area (which takes up maybe two plots of land at this point) has been surrounded with a crude and somewhat shoddy fence, but it seems to be capable of keeping the skeletons out of the garden. It does look like the shambling skeleton horde sort of walked all over the strawberry patch before Dave put up skeleton defenses, though. Bummer.
The trick or treat trail has an actual trail with places for treat givers to hand out treats, with little signs posted in the various areas. There's the Strawberry Kingdom (with sadly trampled strawberries), the Onion Grove, and so on and so forth. People can even pick up really shitty maps for the trick or treat trail, even though you can literally see the entire thing just by glancing. The map sells the experience.
You can:
1) Carve pumpkins! There even seems to be some sort of pumpkin carving contest going on? The prize is a pet rock, though, so like. Maybe don't get too excited.
2) Paint pumpkins, if you're a loser who doesn't want to carve them.
3) Hand out treats!
4) Accept treats!
5) Pull tricks if you are so inclined?
6) Shore up the garden defenses if a shambling skeleton manages to finally knock over some fence. Please protect the plants, we eat those.
7) Just like, gaze at the shambling skeleton army outside the fences. It's a very nice view, maybe.
8) Do whatever you want, basically.
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... she kind of wants it.]
I, uh, trust all is well with this odd tradition?
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Oh... this? [ His hand pulls out a chunk of pumpkin guts, shoving it into her face. ] It's going as good as it gets when you clean out fruit. Did you want to give it a try?
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Uh... perhaps. It's not really something I've ever tried before...
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[ He pauses briefly, hand dipping into the pumpkin as fingers curl into some more of its insides before tugging it out. ]
I can teach you.
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[THAT LOOKS ICKY.]
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[ No isn't an answer... obviously. ]
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[She does not remove them. EVER.]
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[ He asks as he puts the now fully-gutted pumpkin aside, pushing it along the table and reaching down to grab another. Revealing a provided knife before he begins to cut into the top. ]
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Have you done this sort of thing a lot in your home realm?
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It's miserable, where I'm from, and human activities like this aren't commonly celebrated by vampires... the only reason why I'm even familiar is because the person I used to hang out with was the eccentric type.
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Was your friend a human?
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Nah, he's a vampire. All the human friends I had spent their time chasing girls or learning how to properly use a sword. Or praying.
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That does sound like a good chunk of the Shepherds...
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Shepherds?
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Ah? And you were part of that? [ He looks skeptical. ]
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[so suck it.]
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[ As per usual.
But he takes the top of his pumpkin off, pointing a finger at the pulp hanging down. ] Take this off first and throw it into a bowl, we can save the seeds and roast them for later.
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[She suddenly remembers what they were doing in the first place. She takes a breath, and then reaches in to grab the goop, yanking it out with one hard YOINK-]
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Great job! [ He even offers her a (lonesome) round of applause. He's genuinely proud of her!! Listen... ] I really wasn't expecting you to actually go through with it.
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[Besides, she's seen worse, being a healer and all.]
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[After a roll of her shoulders, she resumes the yanking!]