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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.
Congratulations to Greta’s Implings on surrendering the most candy to their overlord!
And to the victors go the spoils…
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!
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!
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!
The Seasonal Shop is now open!
Fancy a gamble? Well...
The Skull Balloon will give you one random item from the 2017 Halloween advent calendar!
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!
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!
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!
Our favorite Halloween Concoction #13 has some new linesets added to it!
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.
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!
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."
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…
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
- Diva
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Posted on: Sun Nov 5, 2017 9:55pm
I DIDNT KNOW THEY WERE DATING...... I MISSED OUT
- Hikaru
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Posted on: Sun Nov 5, 2017 9:55pm
TBH I'd just like more stuff/consumables to get with candy. There's not nearly enough worth spending candy on and a seemingly large deficit of melo pumpkins all around. Even if it was just the concoction being for candy so we could sink our candy into the custom maker! Though being able to convert candy to melo pumpkins would be great.
- Draylin (Saphire)
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Posted on: Sun Nov 5, 2017 10:11pm
yeah, I will be honest when I heard "big ticket items" I was NOT thinking Vistas. Special items, perhaps a collectable (a candy hoarder ribbon) or something would be cool XD As someone who collected 25k candy and know others who collected 10k for the shops it was kind of a let down. Last year there was 2-3k worth of items in the candy shop (like the dusty cauldron? How is there NOT something like that?) I'm not complaining as much as confused/ wondering why the staff didn't at least go with a candy to pumpkin ratio if they were going to put SO much into the pumpkins and so very little into the candy.
- DelennDax7
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Posted on: Sun Nov 5, 2017 10:15pm
The News Post didn't mention when Haunted Lake closes - is there a set time for that?
- Arianna
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Posted on: Sun Nov 5, 2017 10:34pm
Yeah, I'm kind of with everyone else on the pumpkin/candy exchange. It was really cool when we could switch between melo and Halloween pumpkins, and it would be great to see that back, or at least a candy to pumpkin exchange. I mean, if there's a legitimate reason that we laypeople are just missing for why it would be a bad idea, that's totally different and I'd love to hear it. As it is, I'm a busy person and I don't have the time to be hunting around the forums and trading post trying to figure out how to trade items and pets...and as mentioned, ain't no one gonna be trading for candy stuff. It's way faster and more convenient to be able to trade the currencies myself, and is way less of a pain in the neck. And if there's no option for that, then all the pumpkin items/pets are way overpriced. I don't know. Just me complaining, I guess. It's just frustrating that the only way to do things would be to go through convoluted workarounds that I don't have the time or patience for.
But on the bright side, there are some super cool pets and things in the shop, and some of the Halloween events were pretty fun this year. And ToTing was much improved from last year, I think. That karma bar really helped lol
- remy
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Posted on: Sun Nov 5, 2017 10:48pm
I'm loving that my two favorite NPCs got engaged, that's the best thing to come out of this whole event.
- XerxesTexasToast
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Posted on: Sun Nov 5, 2017 10:56pm
THE SHIP HAS SAILED
- Laura [W]Tashians
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Posted on: Sun Nov 5, 2017 11:12pm
Well this sx. I thought the candy collecting was the main point of the event, or at least those would be the main currency... Now I wish I played the whole month differently. What am I going to do with 5 vistas
- Grace
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Posted on: Sun Nov 5, 2017 11:25pm
Awwwww~ So adorable!! I'm glad Minerva got a sweet Halloween treat after all the tricks we've played on her <3
(I'd also like to say that I *love* how this event's narrative and storyline were done!)
Posted on: Sun Nov 5, 2017 9:42pm
Yea, I think there really should be a way to exchange pumpkins, as different people value them differently and it can get tricky trying to organize... anything. As for candy, I would say it might be nice to be able to buy pumpkins with Candy, especially since there are barely any valuable items, or items at all, to buy with candy, and while there might be some high-ticket items later, they're going to be very limited, of course, so not everyone who has a surplus of candy will be able to buy them.