Fuzzles, motes, EYD...running in all directions...Oh No, what in the world is that??? Casting my most powerful spell to block the massive stone from tumbling down and crushing the Guild Council Table, and NO!!! NOT THE BAR!!! Once stabelized, you can see it is covered with strange totems and icons...

I approach with caution, and make a paper overlay of these strange symbols...

The portrat home of Twinkle catches my eye, ut oh, she sees it too...Common, Twinkle, we gotta figure this out...

I notice Easydamsel she seems to be in shock, blown straight out of her teacup, and grab her for assistance. One more, where is Cutup? I hear the whistling for the EYD...here ducky ducky ducky...There she is! Help!!!

Oh, boy...looks like we really did it this time...Fear Not, we shall decipher these symbols and post whatever this incredible mass of stone has to say...*sorta embarassed* its the least I can do, I helped cook it...

*POOF* To the End of the Universe~where else would one go for the answers to such a strange creation, I would like to know...

Hurrying through her Home Painting, Twinkle with a scroll and quill at hand, she rushes to the bar and stands next to Laurie, before the HUGE stone that crushed into it.
*Turns head, looks at Laurie.*
*Looks back at the enormous stone thing.*

Starts copying the strange icons on her scrolls while trying to remember where she had seen them again.

In an ancient Ook down by Mundaynes Library, she recalls! A small paragraph, the ink almost erased by time..

"Laurie ..
I think there is only ONE way to get this terabyte of a stone out of here. Although our Magic Powers alone might not be enough. We need to double them! As I barely recall from the ancient Ook..:

".. a legend far in the eastern plains where Droids are in Power... the circle of stones which they called their Home, was hit by a terrible disaster. One of them had fallen to the Ground. ..The Master Droid gathered his Council and people, and with a powerfull spell that can be done only once a year, when there is no moon and spirits crawl from the Abyss.. he made a mirror out of everyones self. The power was doubled and ... !"

The rest was erased ..we have a hint but the rest, we have to figure it out, I guess.."

*and driven by an unknown hand, she mysteriously started writting down a list of all the Guild Members with her dragonwing quill...*

The rocking of our guild home has shaken me from my sick bed.
I run into the Guild Hall rummaging threw my pockets for a neonapkin.(sniff) Looking up I see an increadable mass of stone frightfully close to the bar with Twinkle, Laurie, and EasyD standing around it.
The pot is no where to be seen. I think I should NOT apply for the position as apprentance to EasyD.(good idea)
There is writing on the stone Laurie and Twinkle are writing down the runes. I should also not help with this task. (a miss spelling could cause yet another disaster)
I know I will find EYD!
Here duckie duckie duckie! (cough)

Now if I was an Evil Yellow Duckie where would I hide?
I have looked just about every duckie sized hiding space in the Guild.(Iwander out the door)
(Gazzing up at the moon I ponder the spots I might have missed...wait one min. Is that a EYD sillouett on the roof?) IT is, it is, an EYD sillouett on the roof!!!!

Me: EYD you get down here right now!

EYD: You have got to be out of you mind I am not coming down from here. NO WAY!

Me: The pot is gone. Besides you look more like a chicken up ther than a duck, where is your pride?

EYD: You are not just saying that so you can test that fowl brew on me are you? There are laes against animal testing you know?

Me: No It's Gone come on down.

EYD: Ok, but no tricks.

(we walk into the Guild Hall)

EYD: *whispers*I thought you said it was a big stone? That's the first stone I have ever seen with a green leave growing out of the top.

Me: ??????????

Catching a whisper in the air, brought in by the soft breeze entering the open door, I freeze for a second.
I turn around and see Cutup and EYD waddlewalking towards us.
I gaze up at the ..huge thing but see nothing. I take 10 steps backwards, still looking at it, my gaze fixed on its top ..

-"What the ...?!"

twinkle " Orange?! .. "

Catching EYD's remarks, twink stumbles to her feet again.
Looks at the ..thing, on the bar.
Rushes up the staircase and looks down from the attic, half hanging from the rail.

"WIZARDS OF OZ!
This is DEFFINETLY NOT a stone, or an orange! ..is it hollow or is it my big-bang dust playing tricks on me?!"

Shouts at easyd to come take a look.

slurping my coffe speddily, i run over to tkae a look at the strange behemoth...tripping over my robes and dropping my glasses to the floor...

my fuzzles crowd around me, as they are curious beasties, and make it difficult for me to get close....

love and other mysteries,
e

after slugging down four or five more cups of super-caffeinated coffee, and therefore becoming more rational, i scamper up to my teacup for my wizarding tools and books ot more carefully investigate this beautiful specimen of orangeness with the EYD.

love and other mysteries to solve,

easydamsel " returning with my tomes and trinkets "

returning to the guild hall and the immense orange puzzle, my fuzzles and i carry piles and piles of dusty tomes, and whirring, whizzing, spinning magic tools...i resolve to solve this mystery before nightfall!

love and other accessories,

argle!
sometimesy our easydampsel can be so sillinessing! since we are the fuzzle minyuns, and of courses more smarter than you silly wizurds, we are wanting to tell you that the giant orangey thingy is a POMPKIN! POMKIN< POMPKIN POMPKIN! it is goink to be helloweany sooner, don't you am to remember that?

silly hyuman beans!
the fuzzle minyuns

//".. a legend far in the eastern plains where Droids are in Power... the circle of stones which they called their Home, was hit by a terrible disaster. One of them had fallen to the Ground. ..The Master Droid gathered his Council and people, and with a powerfull spell that can be done only once a year, when there is no moon and spirits crawl from the Abyss.. he made a mirror out of everyones self. The power was doubled and ... !"

The rest was erased ..we have a hint but the rest, we have to figure it out, I guess.."

*and driven by an unknown hand, she mysteriously started writting down a list of all the Guild Members with her dragonwing quill...*//

Rushing to the ook tree, *splat* picking herself back up, and starting anew...this legend sounds so familiar...

*A strange chanting is coming from the North Ook Wood near jade_fighter's folks' cabin! One of the Ook Trees must be attuned to the Droids in the East.*

Chorus:

The Droids,
The Droids,
The Droids are in Power,

We don't need no Humans,
Let the Silly Humans run,
Run, Silly Humans, run.

...what does it mean?

*jade_fighter quickly runs to the North Ook Wood, armed with only a set of restraining bolts and a mini-protocol-droid who speaks binary. She passes the IceBrook, hearing the chanting grow louder, not really wishing to confront this mysterious Magic, but needing to protect the IceBrook.*

of the Ook tree, I notice that Twinkle has taken out her dragonwing pen and started writting furiously...

I look at the symbol that has caught her attention so completely:

<()__CRAYOLA__()

Meaning to make list, and make haste...

I would stop to question this further, but watching Twinkle work with such fervor, I feel compelled to do the same.

*grabbing a claw from my Kougra necklace, I whip up a potion of crushed blue and black sand, and a drop of potion from "e"'s magical cabnet...I start to do the same...

*perhaps we ALL should*

*jade_fighter knew AI was going to get out of control one day. She casts a containment field around the Ook Tree in the FrozenMeadow where the chanting is coming from. At least now, she can begin negotiations with the Droids for the safety of IceBrook. She holds the restraining bolts ready, just in case they wanta try anything.*

*jade_fighter looks down at the snow beside the Ook Tree in the FrozenMeadow...disbelieving, she sees an identical

<0_CRAYOLA_O

Etched in a stone. She realises that, somehow, this mystical symbol is providing a link between the North Ook Wood and the Eastern Droids.*

*Before jade_fighter has time to examine the properties of the strange symbol, a Data Stream hits her full-force, sending her brain reeling and causing her to hit her head on the Ice:

0111101011000110101010010
0000110101000101010001101
1111101111101010100011010
1111111010101000101010101

...still stunned, jade flicks on her mini-protocol droid, who begins to translate:

'We have come from the Eastern Ook Wood, seeking new lands. We have the technology to disrupt your containment field. You will not be able to stop us.'

jade knows time is of the essence...she begins to think furiously about how to stall the droids further.*

"Eat this, you bucket-of-bolts!"

It works! As the Power-hungry Droids try to Byte the Binary Scrambled Eggs, jade pulls out her trusty Electromagnetic Disruptor and fires it through the Ook Tree. Being a thing of Magic, the Ook Tree is unaffected, while the Droids are disabled. Having saved the IceBrook and the North Ook Wood for now, jade_fighter returns home to work on her Anthropology midterm, a much more serious problem.*

while i was researching these strange symbols, i came across a forgotten recipe in my potion book, and quickly brewed up a batch! so i can bestow upon all guild members (especially laurie ^_^) "madame borokovich's magical youth potion" which has the amazing ability to invalidate your last ten birthdays. please see me for your bottle, i need will proof of age, becuase i certianly don't want a guild full of toddlers running around!

for laurie though:
       ___
      (___)
         | |
       / 0 \
     /_ 0__\
       / 0 \
(____0____)

love and other mystical brews,
e

laurie1961
" Twinkle, I found something "

^-^ 42 42 ^-^ 42

According to the ook, I was able to translate it...

"A costume for you, a costume for me,
the law states the ending four two there must be"

*pacing rapidly now, thinking aloud...(no surprise there!)

<()__CRAYOLA__() translated into:

Time draws to a close, a list you must make,
make haste Council members, Halloween is at stake!

something stranger then usual has happened here

Listening to Lauries translation of the mystic runes carved on the Big Pumpkin that has crushed into our Bar, I sit on the wooden floor in the centre of our Hall looking at the humangus orange vegetable.

Must think..it's so confusing!

----
It's a pumpkin.

It crushed a few days before Halloween.

"A costume for you, a costume for me,
the law states the ending four two there must be"

"..The Master Droid gathered his Council and people, and with a powerfull spell that can be done only once a year, when there is no moon and spirits crawl from the Abyss.. he made a mirror out of everyones self.."
----

I look at my scrolls, mysteriously enough I have written a list of all Guild Members. Next to each there is a blank space and a "_42". Gazing up at the pumpkin, I lift my dragonwing quill and name the scroll ..:

The Halloween Records.

I will give it to our Guild Leader, Alombar42. He keeps all records, he will keep this one as well, and will know what to do with it, I'm sure.

I'm close to solving this Laurie! I'm close!

*A slightly distinctive glow starts appearing around the pumpkin*

Within the Council Chambers: (An extra chair has been placed for easyd as the ambassador of the Guild.) Open scrolls everywhere, pieces of pumpkin scattered on the Council table, alombar munching nervously at a cigar, easydamsel underneath the table trying to catch a yellow fuzzle, laurie bitting on her nails and anxiously holding on to a mysterious potion bottle..
I sit up *cough*..

"This Councel now is in session. After hours of elaborate research, translations and midnight spells, we have finally solved the mystery sourrounding .. THE PUMPIKIN!"

*everyone nods to each other*

The Pumpkin was a created after the Cauldron exploded. All who assisted in molding the unamed sustance within the cauldron, were responsible.
BUT! ..
This would never have happened, if there was no good enough reason for it to happen, especially in our Wizardhood.
*glares at Laurie*
When the passing of time, comes to a complete circle, for a Council Wizard such as you, my Dear, who is born on the Day of Halloween, nothing lesser could have happened than ..a pumpking crushing into our bar!!

Now, to cut things short, there is only ONE way to rid of it, and get our Bar back the way it was. Double all Guild's Members Powers! And since it IS your birthday, my dear Laurie, we could break the spell, by partying ON THE VERY DAY OF HALLOWEEN!

Thus .. we shall announce the beginning of the .."Laure's Pumpkin Competition!"

Only members who have written more than 5 messages until now(Oct27-2:20pm NST) can participate.

What you have to do:
1.Create a second account (in order to double your powers and so on..)

ATTENTION!
The second account MUST have the "_42" attached to the end of the username, in order for it to be valid.
ex. frankie_42, melina_42 If not, you will not be accepted.

2.Alombar42 will hold the records. After creating the second account, neofriend alombar from your new account and don't forget to sign up in the Guild again!. Only HE will know the true identity of ALL OF US!

3.the goal is to try and figure out WHO IS WHO on the Day of Lauries Birthday ..HALLOWEEN!

4.There will be prises given out for those holding the best performance and those holding up until the end!

If all goes well, the HUGE pupmkin should vanish in a blizzard of light (and seeds probably!) the day after Halloween!

Do NOT use this competition for mundayne purposes. I will personaly have twinkle_42 adopt the new pet and delete the second account which will been made for this purpose ONLY.