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Halloween comes to an end!

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You’ve decided this will be your last run to Minerva’s greenhouse-maybe you’re starting to feel bad because the poor Griffin has had to deal with enough of your shenanigans, or maybe your feet are just tired of all the running you have to do to dodge her.

To your surprise, Minerva isn’t even there! Instead, you find Pablo, a bag over their shoulder half-filled with broken shards of glass, trampled plants, and candy wrappers. “Kids these days," they mutter, “destruction and trash wherever they go. Oh well. Some of these will make fine materials…"

You have a very good idea of the lecture that would come if you stuck around long enough for them to see you...so off you go.

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Congratulations to Greta’s Implings on surrendering the most candy to their overlord!

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And to the victors go the spoils…

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Implings will receive a copy of the Greta’s Impling Vista 2017! This will be applied directly to your account-go to Settings > Edit Account > Forum Settings to use it!


For everyone else, you can find Greta's Impling Vista 2017 and Aketch's Minion Vista 2017 in the Seasonal Shop!
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Top participants on each team will get a special title based on their karma! These titles are Sweet as Candy and Trickster for positive and negative karma respectively!
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Everyone who participated in the event (meaning you donated something or helped with one of the sub-events) will receive the Candypocalypse 2017 Trophy!


Come spend your candy and pumpkins on all kinds of neat Halloween-themed HA items, collectables, vistas, and more! Just keep in mind that the shop closes at 11:59 PM AST on Friday!

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The Seasonal Shop is now open!




Fancy a gamble? Well...

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The Skull Balloon will give you one random item from the 2017 Halloween advent calendar!

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This bubblicious Cauldron Potion turns your active pet into one of the shop pets and can be found in Trash for Treasure, while its creeptastic cohort, the Monster Smash Potion turns your active into a special Halloween Rare Pet!

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Fancy a snack? Head on over to Claude’s Cook-A-Rama and make yourself a special Apocalypse Loaf, which will turn your active pet into one of four new Koaf colorations that honor the Apocalypse Unuses!


We have a new USD shop purchase!

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The Candypocalypse Bundle is available for $10 USD and, when opened, provides you with a copy of both the Impling and Minion vistas and the Sweet as Candy and Trickster titles!
It will be available until Friday at 11:59 PM AST!

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Our favorite Halloween Concoction #13 has some new linesets added to it!

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The Pumpkin Patch will stop taking deposits tonight (the 5th) at 11:59pm AST!

That’s right, you will no longer be able to deposit things into pumpkins after tonight! You’ll still be able to grab a pumpkin once every ten minutes until they’re all gone, though.

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Trick or Treating and Minerva’s Greenhouse will close tomorrow night (the 6th) at 11:59pm AST, along with Frankenstein’s Lab and Rowan’s Potion Brewing!

After tomorrow night, you will no longer be able to Trick or Treat or harvest plants! You will also no longer be able to cook up pets or potions, so be sure to finish up your mad science experiments soon!

Please note that this is different timing from the Pumpkin Patch!



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Rowan looks around the garden, wincing a little at the mess that had been left behind; Halloween always seemed to come with a lot more destruction than anticipated. Her hands grip her broom a little tighter as she looks around, planning where to start when a voice calls out to her.

"Rowan, is that you?"

The Quetzal shifter broke into a grin as she heard Minerva's voice, looking around again to try and find where it came from.

"Minerva?" she giggled. "Where are you?"

"Follow my voice. You'll find me."

Rowan gave a puzzled but amused look as she hops on her broom and starts to look for her. "You know, it helps if you keep talking if I'm meant to follow your voice."

"I thought you said you'd know where I was anywhere in the world?"

"I apparently thought I was a better witch than I am," she grinned, honing in on her voice and flying faster in that direction.

The deeper into the garden she flew, the darker it became - until all of a sudden there was a faint glow. Curious she pressed onwards, hopping off the broom as she comes to a pathway lit with black and red candles.

"Minerva..?"

"Follow the path." The voice seemed slightly exasperated - apparently she wasn't following some very pointedly laid out directions.

Rowan slowly walks up the path, looking around her to make sure this wasn't one her elaborate Halloween tricks, ready to thwack her with her broom if this was another jump-scare like last year.

The path eventually opens up to a clearing, candles hanging from lanterns on the tree branches, a sea of red and gold snapdragons etching out the shape of a heart. Minerva stood at the centre, looking a little pleased with herself, and more than a little nervous.

"I managed to save them... it was hard to stop those little b- people from ruining everything." She smiled and ducked her head a little, not quite sure how to take Rowan's silence. "So I... erm. I know how special today is for you, and... Well I'm hoping I'm not about to ruin it." She coughs a little, fidgeting nervously. "I mean, we've been together a while now, and I... well, you know. I care about you. A lot. And I want to keep caring about you, and for you... and, well..."

She holds up a ring with a sheepish smile.

Rowan stands perfectly still, staring at her silently.

Minerva palms the ring with an embarrassed flush. "But obviously not. Forget it, forget I said anything, I sh-"

She doesn't get to finish the sentence as Rowan flings herself at her with a squeal. "Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes - give me that ring, you stupid woman, how could you ever think I'd say no?!"

Minerva flushes even redder as she slips the ring onto Rowan's finger, kissing her hand with a smile. "I love you."

Rowan gently takes Minerva's face into her hands and kisses her softly. "And I love you. This is the best Halloween present ever."

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Back at Rowan and Minerva's cottage everyone was waiting in anticipation of the good news... all except two conspicuously missing persons...

No one really missed that Aketch wasn't there - they usually were asleep. But Greta? Greta never missed an opportunity to sour any good occasion - and yet was nowhere to be seen…

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Rowan and Minerva, at the very least, seem to have their happy ending! But what will become of Greta and Aketch? Tune in next time to find out!

The Jeweled and Rock custom bases will be coming tomorrow!

Posted by 🐼Kaiyo🐼 (#489) on Sun Nov 5, 2017 6:52pm

Comments: 125


Aurelian IN SPAAACE! (#71991)

Posted on: Mon Nov 6, 2017 2:41pm

Sorry, still haven't quite figured out how to tag someone. Your welcome, though. I always enjoy recognizing those who put in hard work.

Voluspa is on Hiatus (#67552)

Posted on: Mon Nov 6, 2017 2:57pm

you do the same as when you ping people in the forums (@ + ID) and make sure you use the right numbers *coughs looking at Dax* Aurelian (Inactive) (#71991) :)

OKami_hu (#23130)

Posted on: Mon Nov 6, 2017 3:05pm

I concentrated so hard on trick'n'treating that I did not adventure much and now I'm sitting here with 15 melo pumpkins. And 2K+ candy.

RavenFeather (#49189)

Posted on: Mon Nov 6, 2017 3:13pm

Anbu (#1599)
Not sure if you got a response already but I had/have the same issue and was told that the title is given based on whichever karma you had for the longest amount of total time. Like say you had treat karma for only 5 days and then trick karma for 7 days, you'd be given the trick title.

I still think I was given the wrong title though because I could swear I had treat a lot longer than trick.

Viri - See Profile (#597)

Posted on: Mon Nov 6, 2017 3:57pm

Congratulations, Minerva and Rowan! Please invite us all! <3

I hope Greta is ok...

- V

Tae (#66637)

Posted on: Mon Nov 6, 2017 4:07pm

I think with how widely the outcry of wtf, why does nothing cost candy makes it quite obvious that staff was not as clear as they thought they were being about candy use. As others have said, cany was a completely separate shop last year. I mean if I knew there was going to be so little for sale that cost candy I wouldn't have bothered with ToT as much as I did... and I'm sure a number of other users feel the same way. Also many others have been saying that they seem to have gotten less pumpkins dropping in adventure, so it seemed like you guys were balancing it so that the candy would be worth more ...
And there's also the fact that two "big ticket" items are actually really cheap and more than half of users, because I believe Greta's team had more, got one of the items for free... so it's kinda a cop out to say there are big ticket items when it's something you are giving away for free. Most of the time when you guys say Big Ticket Items it's things like breeding items, custom makers, engagement rings. Things that are "big ticket" items ... not a new, and pretty inexpensive item that most people already have ... I think that if you guys do the ToT again next year you need to look at how much items cost that require candy. Because candy is so easy to get, and if it's said it's being used for a shop most users are going to save most of their currency to shop with and not use on the event, that having things cost 5-20 currency ... is like what? I mean with the premium item some people got enough candy to have left over from just passively doing other things on the site.

Koaf (#57119)

Posted on: Mon Nov 6, 2017 4:10pm

as the others have said and in this case I agree with them I would like a trading option also

Leoak LL Swap (#77104)

Posted on: Mon Nov 6, 2017 4:57pm

Well, as a new player, I'll give my two cents. Given that everyone, staff and players alike, referred to the event shop as the "Candy" Shop, not the "Pumpkin" Shop, I assumed the main currency to use in the shop would, therefore, be candy and the pumpkins (since the staff did say there would be a use for them) as a currency to turn in for a special collectors item or something. Since it seems, from the comments I've read from veteran players, the same issue happened last year, then the Candy Shop is a misnomer and should be called the Pumpkin Shop so it's crystal clear what the main currency is whether you are an old or new player or whether the staff says anything or you simply don't read the news posts.

DeDra [leaving] (#67796)

Posted on: Mon Nov 6, 2017 5:00pm

I have like 4000 leftover candy :/ I thought it will be like you have to choose if you help your team but won't get much from the shop or keep all for yourself. There are so few candy items I wish I gave away all my candy but thought there will be at least a clothing trunk or alcohol for candy :c

Leonidas (#64689)

Posted on: Mon Nov 6, 2017 5:13pm

Leoak T4T (#77104)
I'm not sure where you're getting that from. Last year, there were separate shops using pumpkins as currency, and using candy as currency, and this year they're both mashed into one, and I'm pretty sure the same didn't happen last year other than maybe some issues FINDING the shop using candy as currency. And even if you change the name of the shop, that doesn't change the fact that candy is still a major currency and there's nothing to do with it despite being told that there were still going to be some items to buy with candy, including two supposedly big ticket items.