source taken from UO.UHallpostedby Draconi UO Designer





It was a dark and stormy night. Rain rattled on the recently renovated rickety rooftop of the rundown guard post right across the road from the West Britain Bank. Suddenly, a scream shot into the still night air.

"Aiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" the voice screamed. It sounded quite silly, but still scary.

A guard burst from the door: "It came from the graveyard!" he cried to his fellows inside. And began running all the way across town. They turned the corner when they suddenly saw something they couldn't believe.

(Augustus)
An actual GameMaster. It wasn't an automatic bot response, but an actual live GameMaster. "The world must be coming to an end," the villagers shouted.

(ChinChin)
The real live Gamemaster seemed to be acting strangely. His red robe was bedraggled and torn, slashed with the mud of the graveyard.

A voice that came from him but sounded alien to the villagers' ears was proclaiming that all the bodies in the graveyard had been duped and were being body snatched by the Luna vendors to be dyed Lurid Colors and sold as a rare for millions......

(Jyhm)
A blonde woman stood, in the center of the road, her golden clothes ripped and covered in blood and gore. Impossibly upon her head was a maze of hair and fruits, built into shapes that hurt the eyes to capture. She held a small dagger that slowly dripped a long tongue of deep red, viscous liquid. Her eyes were glazed, with an odd tinge of red as she imperceptibly turned her gaze upon the startled men before her.

And smiled.

Jordon, the guard captain, said, "....

(Petrify)
"Wouldst thou like to join me in a game of dice?" Then he proceeded to shake the cup and dice but just at that moment a .....

(ChinChin)
gate opened

Meanwhile, a short moment before...

(Olahorand)
The most of the guards comrades looked at the weather, felt the scream still in their bones and decided, not to follow the crazy one. Instead the took the short trip and teleported themself to their warm and convenient homes.
Only two remained, still undecided, what to do.

(Flutter)
Flutter, being one of the two, rummaged through a corpse and took an item, it was a magic sledge hammer of cry-baby bashing "I have an idea!" she whispered to her comrade...

(Tyrath)
NO flutter dont hit yourself with
Meanwhile, after the two started paying attention they looked at the gate...

(Jhym)
and out walked three beings in black hooded robes, holding with boney hands gleaming green scythes that sang something unintelligible.

They surrounded the woman, who continued to smile... until they touched her and pulled her back into the gate. She screamed as they pulled, her eyes beseeching the men in front of her. The dagger, impossibly, still had the dripping liquid attached, following behind the woman as she was dragged away.

The creatures winked out through the gate, which pulsed in an obscene purple/red glow, glaring at the men.

Jordon the captain said... "

(AesSedai)
“Err... But I have a major problem: I can only guard the city, same as the rest of my unit; union rules. Say, perhaps you folks could assist Britannia and help us vanquish these haunting figures? Scaring the locals, they are.
I’m not positive we have any bright neon green dye left; but I’m sure we can muster up some sort of reward. *sighs* Sometimes you city-folk truly confuse me. Just ridding the land of these grim ghouls will be reward enough for me, sir.”

*Mutters* - “Then maybe we’ll be able to deal with some of the garish goblins after that. If only...”

(Lia)
At that moment, they saw a young nightmare straining up the hill, pulling a huge wagonload of pumpkins. Pushing the cart from behind, Lia puffed and wheezed. As the cart drew closer, they noticed that the pumpkins were carved with all sorts of interesting names.

"What in the world is a tamer and her fierce mare doing hauling a load of pumpkins out here?" asked Jordan.

Lia paused, wiping her brow. "Whew! I came across an entire field of the pumpkins growing, with these names carved in them already, and I have no idea what happened. The next thing I knew I was racing everywhere, trying to grab them all at once. I'm going to collect them all!! I have to have them all!!" Jordan noticed uneasily that she had a tic near her right eye, causing her face to twitch uncontrollably, and she seemed more than slightly obsessed with pumpkins than most people he knew.

"Um, indeed. Well, we are experiencing another wave of undead and other strange occurrences. We would appreciate any assistance from our mightier citizens."

"Will there be pumpkins?" Lia asked excitedly, the tic seeming to speed up.

"Um, there is certainly a possiblity of more pumpkins, as pumpkins that grow in fields with names already carved into them is indeed a rare occurrence. Who knows what other strange things may appear?"

"Truly?!? Then, sign me and Bella up, Sir!" The mare snorted, rolling her eyes at the captain as if to say "This girl needs help." Privately, Jordan agreed.

Turning to his soldiers, he said "

(Lord Franklin)
"Men, this pulsing purple gate still troubles me. What with that crone Inu spouting her nonsense and all that blackrock piling up, I order you to close it immediately." Jordan looked satisfied with himself, and wandered off to munch on a caramel apple he had been given.

The guards thought hard and tried to find the words to close the gate, but none of them could come up with the right combination. Their cries of "Xal Vas In Por Ex Mani Ho!" and "An San Gran Flan!" yielded no results. Feeling none too bright, they eyed the cart of pumpkins, wondering if they could just sort of... hide the gate instead...

(MoonLyte)

They quickly pushed the heaping cart in front of the gate. One large pumpkin fell off the the cart and rolled into the gate. Each of them held his breath, not sure what to expect. After about one minute (that seemed like an eternity!) the pumpkin rolled back out of the gate...and it was black!

The captain snapped when he saw the twisted pumpkins...

(Skroof)
Jordon the captain said..."By the moons of Sosoria! what in gods name were those?!"

Quickly captain Jordon composed himself and barked out orders to his men.

(Jordon) "Well don't just stand there! Quickly! for ranks men! We must aid that woman!"

In quick time the guards had organized a small makeshift army, with some voulenteers from the crowd joining them. Sweat was dripping down the faces of the gaurds as they waited for the order from Captain Jordon to move into the gate...

(Jordon) "Move out! into the gate men! this evil shall not claim one more victim! we shall take back the honor of Sosaria one robed figure at a time! Onward!"

And with that the troups entered into the obsceane purple/red gate...

Skroof clutched his dagger tightly and was heard muttering under his breath as he walked into the gate....

(Skroof)
"I knew all this wheat I found in those fields of strange punkins would come in handy eventunally! I don't recall seeing any bodies under those hooded robes... looks like scarecrow stuffin' time to me!"

With that he dissapeared into the gate leaving only a trail of wheat stalks behind him...

Cryton the guard was heard saying as he walked into the gate behind him "...

(Lord Franklin)
"That's another fine day's work guarding the kingdom, men! Just like with the undead, lizardmen, Ophidians, heck, even the rats!" You know, what we need is..."

(Noxin [LB])
Some sort of neon green or bright blaze reward for you all!

(Brothers Grog)
Grog (it is not sure which of the Brothers) sat back and watched the action. He then proceeded to pick anything (Merchant Grog it is!) that looked saleable. Beggar Grog was surprised at what he got when he proclaimed "Gimme Gold!" to what next came through the gate...


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