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Post by Killix on Oct 31, 2013 2:52:17 GMT -5
Mine's up.
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Post by Gelquie on Oct 31, 2013 14:34:13 GMT -5
I think I'll try to participate. Just need to think of an idea for my Trick or Treat house...
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Post by Alyssa on Oct 31, 2013 14:51:20 GMT -5
This looks so fun but i'm gonna be gone all evening ;-;
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Post by Ginz ❤ on Nov 2, 2013 23:10:08 GMT -5
The event is now over, and all the threads have been moved to Memory Lane. You can find them there!
Thank you everyone who participated! I hope you had fun! ^_^
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Post by Lizica on Nov 2, 2013 23:20:12 GMT -5
Thanks, Ginz and Icon, for putting this together! ^__^ Everyone had such great houses (almost too many great houses), and I had a blast. ...Also, uh, I knew I should have gotten on the computer earlier today. >_> I thought the event had ended after I went to bed last night, but then it was up for today, too, so I started belatedly replying. I finished just before I realized it'd been Memory Lane'd. I hope you don't mind if I post it here for all the good people who kept wandering around in my house? "Ooh, a library," were the first words out of GLQ's mouth as she tried to get the water out of her clothes and costume. (Turned out it was hard to swim in that costume. She probably should've done more about that before going in.) She then looks down and frowns at her dampness causing the books below her to get wet, but it was too late now. She absentmindedly wondered what kind of books were in here and if there might be something interesting that could oh gosh what's that? GLQ stares in awed horror as the book golem rises. Uh oh, it seems mad. Man, why did a water passage have to end up in a library? She takes off her flippers onto a non-booky place and backs away. "Hey, uh, sorry, you see, I'm just trying to get out of here or figure out what this place is and I didn't know you were here and I'm sorry and and..." GLQ begins to run away, scampering towards the hatch, trying to get towards the courtyard. Perhaps there was a way out that way. If there was a way, she tries to close the hatch behind her. The sooner she was away from the tome monster, the better. The hatch slams shut with a satisfying clanggg, and you catch your breath in the relatively quiet courtyard (relative because you thought the library would be a safe, quiet place and look what happened there). The courtyard has some lovely, innocuous plants and a bower that leads back into the beige walled interior of the house. (You feel like you hear banjo music, but you can't be sure.) And above the hatch, a long series of rungs leads to...you squint up across the distance (is that a skylight?), and you see that the rungs lead up a huge tower with a brightly lit door at the top. You look around the courtyard again and check the air for flying assailants. This suspicious calm is sort of freaky. Welp. Back into the house, or up the many, many rungs to the tower? The kid frowns as he hears the slithering and snapping noises emanating from the corridor. His mind flashes back to the scrabbling sounds from before, and he realizes that he's never played a game of Slither in his life and he doesn't have the cards to play Snap. This thought is suddenly interrupted by the appearance of a giant plant. Better than poorly-name games, at least. He wouldn't describe himself as a particularly violent person, but the kid decides to throw caution to the wind and push at the walls. Knocking them down might be the clue to a way out, and he can always compensate the ghosts' property damage later. The wall comes down in a soggy shower of drywall and plaster. All of you are now covered in white dust, making you look almost like ghosts yourselves. Meanwhile, the gigantic carnivorous plant is screeching in pain because it must have gotten some plaster in its eye. (It had an eye? You were so preoccupied with staring at its jagged mouth you forgot to check for other features.) Additionally, a furious ghost with "security" inscribed on her jacket has materialized before you and is also shrieking her ghostly lungs out. It's hard to hear her over the carnivorous plant, but you distinguish the words "BLATANT," "VANDALISM," "NOT THE PROPER EXIT," and "WE'LL HAVE YOUR HEADS, YOU MISERABLE MISCREANTS." Somehow, in spite of all this chaos, the dust from the wall clears, and you can see--the outside! Yes! If you could just get around this security ghost and escape the plant's lashing vines, you'd all make it out homefree! Also, it might be your imagination, but you think you can see the first ghost just outside, grinning from ear to ear and scrawling down notes on his clipboard at a frantic pace. BANJO DUEL! Always, always, always banjo duel. Statistically the best option, and any doppelganger Coaster impersonator worth its salt would make a Banjo Hero III battle out of it anyways. 8D Coaster removes the exterior portion of his arms and extracts an item from each--a banjo and a tennis racket. With banjo in hand, he bursts through the door and starts playing some tappity-tap on the banjo. You launch into "Drama Llama Went Down to Tabloid Town" and play your banjo fiercely. The ghosts inside are totally overwhelmed by your mad banjo skills and surrender. They even give you a nifty item out of respect. You receive Year-Old Floating Bubble Gum! You always knew there was a good reason you bought that banjo and tennis racket. Anyway, now that you've won the ghosts over, you take a look around the room you just burst into. They've got television screens all across the walls displaying the other trick-or-treaters who got trapped in here. You're almost disappointed. When they said you'd be closely monitored, you kind of thought they had more... ghostly and mystical means. The ghosts catch you looking at some of the screens (a young lady in scuba gear, a sideways heart, a cat with zombies, a kid, a faerie, a Dalek, and a carnivorous plant), and one ghost tries to hide the monitors. (Fruitless, since the ghosts are transparent.) "You're not allowed in here!" he says desperately. "That would ruin our test results!" "He can play a mean banjo while wearing a costume!" another protests. "Cut him some slack!" "Security will be furious if we let him go!" The second ghost glances at one of the monitors. Then she leans towards you and cups her ethereal hand around her mouth for privacy. "Listen, kid," she whispers. "Our security personnel is currently busy. If you promise not to ruin our results and blab to any of the other test subjects about this, we'll show you a way out." The ghost hiding the monitors gives an indignant squawk. ...You can use your imagination for how it ends? Anyway, thank you again, you guys! =D (And sorry for being so crazy and bad about timing this year. Dx)
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Post by Ginz ❤ on Nov 3, 2013 0:00:08 GMT -5
Aw, man, I'm sorry, Lizica. D: I could have waited for you! The event was going to end last night, but the board still looked kind of active, so we decided to leave it open until today. I checked the board before I moved it and the last reply had been made 12 hours ago, so I thought no one was going to post anymore. ;_; I can move back your thread to the Splatterboard so you can reply there, and then move it back with the rest, if you want!
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Post by Lizica on Nov 3, 2013 0:17:24 GMT -5
Aw, man, I'm sorry, Lizica. D: I could have waited for you! The event was going to end last night, but the board still looked kind of active, so we decided to leave it open until today. I checked the board before I moved it and the last reply had been made 12 hours ago, so I thought no one was going to post anymore. ;_; I can move back your thread to the Splatterboard so you can reply there, and then move it back with the rest, if you want! No, no, it was my fault for not getting back sooner! I don't want to cause a lot of hassle, but if you wouldn't mind terribly doing that, I promise to be very prompt (just copy-pasting) so it can be put back in Memory Lane where it belongs. Sorry for being so much trouble! D8
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Post by Ginz ❤ on Nov 3, 2013 0:30:26 GMT -5
Aw, man, I'm sorry, Lizica. D: I could have waited for you! The event was going to end last night, but the board still looked kind of active, so we decided to leave it open until today. I checked the board before I moved it and the last reply had been made 12 hours ago, so I thought no one was going to post anymore. ;_; I can move back your thread to the Splatterboard so you can reply there, and then move it back with the rest, if you want! No, no, it was my fault for not getting back sooner! I don't want to cause a lot of hassle, but if you wouldn't mind terribly doing that, I promise to be very prompt (just copy-pasting) so it can be put back in Memory Lane where it belongs. Sorry for being so much trouble! D8 No trouble at all ^_^ I moved it to the main Splatterboard, here it is: ntwriters.proboards.com/thread/50540/full-size-candy-bars-strange
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Post by Gelquie on Nov 3, 2013 0:33:01 GMT -5
It's not a problem, Lizica. Your thread was quite fun, even if none of us got to the end, and putting the post with the others is hardly problematic. ^^
Everyone else's houses were fun too, even if I couldn't manage to visit every one due to time management. (Sorry!) Thanks for the event!
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Post by Lizica on Nov 3, 2013 0:34:02 GMT -5
Thank you so much, Ginz ❤! ;_; I will try to never be that late again. Aw, thanks, Gelquie! I'm glad you had fun with it. I had a ton of fun with it, too, and you guys made it work! =D
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Post by Ginz ❤ on Nov 3, 2013 0:51:20 GMT -5
Okay, all done! =D
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Post by Layla "Nimbus" Karimi on Nov 3, 2013 8:04:02 GMT -5
This event was really fun! I wish I could have participated more, though, because I was fairly busy on Halloween and away for most of the next day. Hopefully next year I'll be able to get more in-depth with it Great houses everyone, by the way!
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