Spooky Season

EVENT FROM: Oct 4- Oct 31 (10/4/2024 - 10/31/2024)

=== Welcome to Alumy's very own Halloween Event! ===

Every year, lots of activities take place during the infamous Ghost Hive's festival, a time for all Alumy to pay tribute to the ghost hive and gather to celebrate the fall season. The journey through their territory is a harrowing one filled with frights, but if an Alumy can make it to the festival on time they will be rewarded handsomely– let's just hope they remembered to bring some candy as tribute…

TO BE CONTINUED…
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During this event you can earn event-exclusive items, Halloween currency called candies, and have a chance to obtain the new Halloween Alumy, soon to be revealed in this year's comic!

Designed by our very own carlos_claee!
You can obtain raffle tickets for the design shown above by participating in the prompts below!

=== Prompts ===

This year we have two prompts for the Alumy community to participate in:

The Main Event: https://alumyworld.com/prompts/14

Each year the Ghost hive makes a sport out of putting the Alumies visiting them through many events, some fun, some mischievous, and some more sinister. This prompt is both a writing and art prompt and uses the Criterion prompt selection for rewards introduced in the last event. We’re also happy to announce we’re allowing poems for this prompt, so if you would like to submit poems please check out the new tiered rewards found below:
Drawing | Writing | Poem

The Hunt for Pumpkins:

There’s been a recent infestation of mischievous little pumpkin creatures so a few Alumies have come together to set a bounty to try to take care of the problem they’re becoming and are hosting a site-wide scavenger hunt in which you can earn candies for finding these pesky little pumpkin creatures.

This prompt may not look like the prompts you’re used to and with good reason! We’ve added a brand new scavenger hunt extension to the site which you can read more about here:  https://alumyworld.com/hunts/1 & https://alumyworld.com/hunts/2

For finding these pumpkins you will get these new gift boxes:

You might even get a little something special for finding them all…

(Make sure you use them before the end of the event as they’re filled with candies which will be useful for the event shop and community candy tier goals)

-> Please make sure to read the prompts and learn more about the requirements for each prompts at this link <-

=== Community Candy Tier Goals and Event Shop ===

This event we have another exciting new mechanic to introduce to you: a community participation-based candy meter which will determine the final price of the items in the event shop! For every candy you earn, candy will be added to the ghost hive's candy pile, as the pile grows larger and larger with everyone's entries, the more the community will appease the controller of this hive and the better the event shop prices will be!

Katak is working hard to make enough inventory to meet this year's demand and will be here soon with a new event shop. This temporary shop is view only until the event ends and all candies earned can be used to determine the final price of the items in the store!
The event store will be:
Viewable from October 6th - October 31st during which the prices will change depending on the candy tier.
Open for business from November 1st to November 30th

>> You can view the shop here <<

The candy pile will be stored on the event page. to see the most up-to-date amount of candies earned by the community, please check HERE!

=== Ghost Potions Return! ===

Ghost Potions will be available in Katak’s Swamp Store from October 4th to November 30th for 60 crystals

When used, these potions give an Alumy the Rare Ghost Parts trait:
“An Alumy has ghost-like ethereal parts that are transparent and wisp-like. These parts are noncorporeal and objects or other beings can pass through them.”

Don't miss out on this Halloween-exclusive trait item!

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As a reminder, to submit your prompts, and get your rewards, please use the submit a prompt button!
You can also submit your prompts at the link here: https://alumyworld.com/submissions/new

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If you have any questions about this event, please contact us through the Alumy discord!
We have a submission sharing, ref sheet sharing, and a discussion channel for this event! If you are not in the Alumy Discord, we greatly encourage joining so you can interact with the Alumy community. We also have a question channel if you have any questions about any of the prompts, and it's faster to contact us there.

Thank you all and we hope you have a frightful and wonderful Spooky Season!

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Credit notes:

Thank you all of the people who took part in the creation of this event!:

Thank you Event Coordinators and Admin team for putting on this event.
Event banners and sticker - carlos_claee
Event Alumy design - carlos_claee
Discord Icon - ikowa
Comic - carlos_claee Philologique (sketch), Astr0fish (lines), Vilagyent (color)
Ghost Potion - Catko
Candy & pumpkin design - MarskyMessier
Wallpaper design - Nightspirit

Huge thank you to MarskyMessier for adding 3 new extensions to the site to make this event possible