Happy Halloween 2023 & BWP

Happy Halloween

For those of you who don't know, staff here at RoW love Halloween and are excited to kick off the 2023 festivities. This year we have three events to participate in if you would like.

Pumpkin Bags

This year staff have created 15 special REs (some you may recognize and some are brand new), you can claim one per character using the code

Code:

[bag=#]

replacing the # with the treat bag you would like for each character. Threads completed using these prompts will be eligible for RE life points! Threads must be started no later than October 31st 2023.

#1	#2	#3
#4	#5	#6
#7	#8	#9
#10	#11	#12
#13	#14	#15

Word Swap

This one is just for fun! Are you able to spot the 20 silly swaps that staff came up with?

Pumpkin Hunting

And last but not least is the return of the pumpkin hunt! Ghost has hidden 13 pumpkins around the site, if you hover over the pumpkin it will reveal a letter to you! Find all 13 and unscramble the secret phrase before October 31st and you will win a prize (send a message to the SoW account with the unscrambled phrase to claim). Ghost will make you an animated avatar with a halloween tag line as a reward.

Please note, it is a good idea to double check where your letters are coming from as sometimes the same text appears multiple times on the site from the same code. For example there are multiple ways of getting to certain library articles, territory descriptions, gossip wall, calendar etc. The letter only counts once from each location, even if you found it in multiple different ways.

End of the BWP

Thank you to all who participated in the BWP this summer! BC has come off of their state of emergency and the NWT is expected to follow suit this week. In turn RoW's smoke problem will also be resolving, though you are free to still mention it in threads and play it out for the next few weeks as things slowly get better.

As a reminder, Ghost will be matching donations up to $150 and you have until October 15th to donate and send a screenshot to a staff member to be eligible for the donation matching.

Clover, Your Treatbag Reveals: The night is extraordinarily dark and spooky sounds can be heard outside your den. Hope you're not afraid.
Rochus, Your Treatbag Reveals: Was that a wolf flying across the moon? Laughing? Surely not...
Deirdre, Your Treatbag Reveals You take cover from rolling fog in a rocky cave, but on closer inspection it seems as if someone has been clawing at the walls - as if they were desperately trying to escape...
Tuwile, Your Treatbag Reveals: A nearby pond has become filled with fallen apples, time to start bobbing!

Viorel, Your Treatbag Reveals: A spider just dropped down onto your face!
Finley, Your Treatbag Reveals: The night is extraordinarily dark and spooky sounds can be heard outside your den. Hope you're not afraid.
Khalon, Your Treatbag Reveals: Uh-oh, you managed to get your head stuck in a pumpkin!

Nash: Your Treatbag Reveals: The night is extraordinarily dark and spooky sounds can be heard outside your den. Hope you're not afraid.
Archer: Your Treatbag Reveals: Uh-oh, you managed to get your head stuck in a pumpkin!
Llinnea: Your Treatbag Reveals: Was that a wolf flying across the moon? Laughing? Surely not...
Daegal:Your Treatbag Reveals You take cover from rolling fog in a rocky cave, but on closer inspection it seems as if someone has been clawing at the walls - as if they were desperately trying to escape...
Jacynth: Your Treatbag Reveals: Yesterday you stumbled across the biggest pumpkin you've ever seen, but when you came back today you can't find any trace of it!
Diantha: Your Treatbag Reveals: Spider webs in the trees leave a spooky shadow over you.

Chan, Your Treatbag Reveals: Was that a wolf flying across the moon? Laughing? Surely not...
Addison, Your Treatbag Reveals: You had something big plans for tonight and now it's cold and raining, you'll have to figure something else out.
Atara, Your Treatbag Reveals: A huge howling wind picks up for just a second, but that's long enough to knock a nearby tree over which misses you by mere inches.
Asmund, Your Treatbag Reveals: A nearby pond has become filled with fallen apples, time to start bobbing!
Clouse, Your Treatbag Reveals: Spider webs in the trees leave a spooky shadow over you.
Dacian, Your Treatbag Reveals: You hear a cat yowling in the night, is it just a harmless creature or something larger and more sinister?
Eros, Your Treatbag Reveals: Yesterday you stumbled across the biggest pumpkin you've ever seen, but when you came back today you can't find any trace of it!
Magg, Your Treatbag Reveals: Somehow a deceased deer's skeleton has remained fully intact and upright, it's both intriguing and frightening all at once.
Marigold, Your Treatbag Reveals: The night is extraordinarily dark and spooky sounds can be heard outside your den. Hope you're not afraid.

Ra for Your Treatbag Reveals: A nearby pond has become filled with fallen apples, time to start bobbing!

Seri, Your Treatbag Reveals: You've been having a reoccurring nightmare all week and tonight it seems like it's becoming a reality.