Pumpkin Pie

With the dawning of halloween comes the usual stream of messages on facebook proclaiming costumes, drinking and generally good times.

The downside to this is, of course, the supposed evil undertones. Until I grew out of it I was prevented, by my parents, from partaking in halloween activities of any sort. Supposedly halloween was the work of the devil, and they didn't want me celebrating it. As far as I can see, if it brings people together does it really matter where it came from? Times change. Scary movies come out all year round not just on halloween. That said, I wouldn't want the children I may have in the future going trick-or-treating simply because I wouldn't want them on the streets at night, no matter how safe I thought our neighbourhood was.

Television is going halloween crazy too; there was always The Simpsons, sure, but even Glee has gone a bit crazy. Though the slaughter of the Rocky Horror Picture Show isn't really halloweenie, I mean that musical is popular at any time of year. I really am going to have to go and see it when it next rolls into town.

Guild wars is also celebrating halloween with an ever more accessible quest chain making the gain of sweet points, party points and drunken minutes all the more available and the market for such items flourish. With the quest chain currently set at three quests long and only the middle one a bother, halloween has become profitable for normal players and not just the elite and farmers out there.

The new costumes have also been added to Guild Wars, for a small fee you can dress up as the court members of The Lunatic Court (presumably the court of Mad King himself) or the fallen angels of Grenth. I must say, along with being highly dyeable and very slutty, they are also rather fun to run around in. The Lunatic set comes with three pieces: a flaming pumpkin head, a dress and a headless version of the dress. Running around as a headless monk was a strange feeling.

The return of Mad King Thorn is to be looked forward to as it is every year, with his pumpkin head and apparently new and lively sayings and games and jokes. He's also a symbol of new hats, and I hope, much better ones than last year. A witches hat of some kind would be what I'd like, but I won't hold my breath. But at least this year's celebration won't give us all a feeling of deja vu.

Enjoy it readers.