OPEN MINGLE

[parodeity]

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

Welcome to the garden! It looks pretty much as usual, except with more...spooky designs? There are a bunch of pumpkins gathered onto a table Dave dragged in, and he's hung up some truly shitty artwork of ghosts and various Halloween monsters. There's also a vague attempt at some paper chain decorations, which may be improved upon by people more capable of doing that.

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.

Comments

[troubadamsel]

One mustn't be picky, especially in a place like this. And the needs are nutritious!

[asano_san]

But are they good?

[troubadamsel]

Any food can be delicious with the right work! Even bear meat!

[asano_san]

As long as I don't have to go anywhere near the bear before it's meat.

[troubadamsel]

[She chuckles, faintly amused.]

On that, we can both agree.

[asano_san]

So then what kind of work would it take to make the pumpkin or its seeds good?

[troubadamsel]

Many vegetables can be baked, especially with the right spices.

[asano_san]

I have blue cinnamon.

[troubadamsel]

That would do perfectly!

... Wait, blue?

[asano_san]

I don't know why it's blue. [More weird color stuff like the wrong-colored animals.] Someone named Maya was walking around offering it because she got a whole box of it.

[troubadamsel]

Oh, that's fine. Maya is very reliable.

[asano_san]

But I didn't know that, and I just took suspicious cinnamon from her!

[troubadamsel]

... If you didn't trust her, why did you take it?!

[asano_san]

She seemed okay at the time, but now you made me worry about it!

[troubadamsel]

Maya is a respectable and good woman, there's nothing to worry about!

[asano_san]

OK, I'll take food from Maya, but what about everyone else?

[troubadamsel]

Oh for... am I supposed to just give you a list of who you can trust? We do all have to live together.

[asano_san]

No.

[Grumble grumble.

Oh look, it's time to pretend he's suddenly intensely interested in finishing the mouth of his pumpkin because he doesn't have a good argument.]