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[harpoolebayrp]

“HAPPY HALLOWEEN, HARPOOLE BAY!!”

What: Halloween at Harpoole Bay Where: Main Street, St. Paul’s Church, Elmore Woods & Red River, The Harbor Hotel When: Saturday 29th, till Monday October 31st.

;; WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE FESTIVAL

The last weekend is the celebration of Halloween! Main street, St. Paul’s Church, and Elmore Woods are all getting ready for you! From now till the 29th, don’t be alarmed if you see people working diligently to ready the town. Everything from vendors bustling to get everything together for their booths, to shop owners decorating and buying out the town’s candy for trick-or-treaters, Harpoole is flooded with people working!

NOTE: Trick-or-Treating in all areas of Harpoole runs from 6 PM till 8 PM. After 8 PM no more doorbells should be rung, or shop fronts entered for candy.

Main Street

Vendors have dotted main street once again with their wares, though fewer than there were in the Autumn Fest. Baked goods of pumpkin spice, and chocolates- shaped like bats, eyeballs, skulls, and the like are available to buy, along with costume vendors, and some cool games of “what body part is in the box”. (Hint: it’s probably peeled grapes or wet spaghetti). Most everyone who’s feeling the spirit are beginning to decorate their shop fronts with varying cute-to-scary decors.  This year, Maine Street is even doing Trick-Or-Treating! Feel free to pop by any store’s shop that has a sign indicating they’re participating for some candy!  ⇨  Bertie’s has made a whole desert menu Halloween themed. Make sure those are fake spiders in your soup. 

St. Paul’s Church

St. Paul’s church will be opening their grounds to a pumpkin vendor and face painting- fifty percent of proceeds will be going to St. Paul’s church, so go pick out the best pumpkin! It being a good cause is a great excuse! Near the church door will be a table with candy, hot chocolate, and apple cider. Please, do try to not spike it. This is a church, after all. The pumpkins will arrive October 20th. There will be a children’s costume contest on Halloween in the early afternoon, before the children get to Trick-or-Treating.

Tall Oaks; Elmore Woods & Red River

The edge of Elmore Woods and the bridge over the Red River are being decorated with ghosts and lights. Though it is illuminated, do not be surprised if you are... surprised by people jumping out in costume. Elmore Woods will once again have the Haunted House in the old abandon house on the edge of the woods- This goes on all weekend. Unfortunately, the maze will not be done this year. Please, if you would like to volunteer and help set up/work in the Haunted House, do so by contacting Sean. (Or, just showing. Really, just show up.) Again, there will be cider and candy.

The Harbor Hotel

The Harbor Hotel will be holding the first ever Harpoole Costume Contest on Halloween, courtesy of a very special surprise guest. There will be drinks, and finger foods. This is adult-friendly. Call it the adults’ trick-or-treating. Choose between regular cider, and drunken cider. Indulge in candy. Buy some food. All the vendors have complimentary candy since you had to watch kids get it all day, and give it away. There will be other games- bobbing for apples, corn hole, etc, for you to indulge in as well. 

If you’re not feeling the party vibe, or want somewhere to go when the Hotel begins to die down- I’m sure someone will be holding a bonfire down on the beach! 

;; THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND, you’ll find:

Pumpkins (October 20th - 31st)

Special Halloween Menu at the participating Restaurants and bars.

Some vendors & games on Main Street

Illuminated Elmore Woods and Red River

Face Painting, Cider, Candy - St. Paul’s (October 29th - October 31st)

Haunted House (October 29th - October 31st)

Trick-or-treating (October 31st, 6 PM to 8 PM)

Children’s Costume Contest - St. Paul’s (October 31st, Noon)

Adult Party & Costume Contest - Harbor Hotel (October 31st, 8 PM - into the night)

;; OOC & GAME INFORMATION

The core of this event will take place for three days, from Saturday 29th October right though to the end of Monday 31st October. HOWEVER, feel free to mention your characters decorating for the event today or talking about pumpkin picking starting October 20th. This way, everyone has a chance to get thinking. You’re all invited to plot with your fellow members for the duration of the event and post open starters with the tag used for the last Halloween event: harpoolehalloween (you can also use the standard harpevent tag). Use this time to plot with people you haven’t before and get new conversations going. The event is for the whole town, so there’s no reason why character a can’t bump into character b.

Please remember, if you plan for anything super dramatic during the event will take place, that you still need to run it via the admin first.

The new starter rules apply here!!!

EVENT-CENTRIC STARTERS are to be tagged with the EVENT-SPECIFIC tag! NOT the harpstarter tag! This is to prevent confusion after the event is over, and make it easier for people who decide to put threads on pause for the event.

Speaking of the last Halloween event, it’s here. I tried to make this loosely based off of the last event, so that the continuity department doesn’t bite us. The characters who have been here longer than a year, and the natives are welcome to talk about it.

You’re still welcome to play things outside of the event if you wish to, but this will be our primary focus for this weekend and we hope you’ll all want to get involved. It’s up to you if you choose to leave replying to your current threads until after the event is over or not. 

In addition to this event, we will be sending out tasks and/or prompts to those of you who like this post. If you have side blogs, please message the main if you want them included. If you have any ideas for this for your character (or maybe even others), but don’t know how to get them rolling- let us know! To avoid complications and plot problems, these will be very simple, will be up to your discretion to bend and be creative with, and completely and totally optional.  

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please message us!

Have so much fun! Happy Halloween!

[ingridxmonteagudo-blog]

Sober, jumping over the fire would have been a serious no no, but three or four cups of wine in, Monti was feeling just brave and “sober” enough to do it, their long legs extending past the Bonfire, the warmth of the flames heating up their feet in the process, and causing embarrassingly loud giggles. Monti landed quite ungracefully, their shoes ended up pretty covered in dirt and the fact that they didn’t land face first was practically a miracle. “Did you see that!? Did you?” They shouted at their friend, who was just across the pit. “It’s your turn!"

[valxxcastillo]

The seasons were not the only thing that changed since Val moved to Harpoole Bay. She was a different person -- healthier, happier. She was on a steady road to healing from all the trauma that had made life difficult before leaving America, and it showed. Valentina was beginning to get more comfortable in her skin, she was starting to sing again, and she was even starting to dress a little more like the way she used to. She was barefoot in the sand in ripped jeans, a tube top, and a leather jacket, just drunk enough to turn the song that was currently playing into her own brand of karaoke. Val took another sip from her drink and danced along to the music, belting out the lyrics to a Zeppelin song that had somehow gotten thrown into the mix. She grabbed the wrist of the person standing closest to her and commanded, “Dance with me.”

[jamesaderleen-blog]

She lounged on her back porch in the hammock, the chilled autumn air rolling off the ocean carrying the scent of beach and salt as she relaxed in the sunlight. Main street was buzzing with visitors and locals all clammering to get through to the festival and James just wanted a minute to relax on the beachfront before getting her feet wet with social activities.

When a shadow passed over her face, she frowned and peeked up at the other grumbling, “I didn’t work all week for you to come trespassing on my little piece of heaven, y’know. Can’t a girl get fifteen minutes to just breathe?”

[violettebeaumont-blog]

There was a definite crispiness in the air, exactly as she always remembered it. The Autumn festival had been one of her favourite town events as a child and it seemed nothing had changed since then.

Violet was walking through the market, trying specialities here and there, feeling happier than she had for a week or so. She caught sight of someone she knew and smiled over at them. “Fancy bumping into you here.”

[alliexburgess-blog1]

"Have you seen this petting zoo? I swear to God, all these little animals are the cutest things in the entire world." Allie beamed, holding her hand out towards the goat that sniffed at her hand before butting it's head against it gently.

[harpoolebayrp]

Hello members!

Good news: The tasks for the event are almost done and some of them will be posted on the Gossip Blog within the next few hours. To avoid any confusion when it comes to those tasks and how to get them going, please find a few instructions below the cut.

--Miri

As soon as the task for your character has been posted on the Gossip Blog, you can begin planning on how you want to start, but please do not post any starters yet. There will be a post on the Main on Friday as soon as the event has started which will probably be at around 9 pm GMT (4 pm EST).

The tasks are not mandatory. If you don’t feel comfortable with a task or feel it is something your character wouldn’t do, you do not have to play it out, but -- of course -- I encourage everyone to give it a shot, since it will be an interesting way to get new connections and plots going.

Some of the tasks involve two character which will be stated in the post (@/characterA & @/characterB). If this is the case, your task is supposed to be played out in a closed gif chat, mini para or normal para, depending on which format you want to use.

If you have received a task which includes another character, it does not mean that you are not allowed / not supposed to reply to other people’s open starters or to post your own open ones. However, the usual starter rule “reply to open ones before posting your own” still applies!

Make sure you post your open starters with the tags harpautumn and/or harpevent as well as our starter tag harpstarter.

Please use this opportunity to move outside of your character’s usual IC (and OOC, since everything else would be considered bubble-roleplaying) (friend-)ships and plot with people you haven’t plotted with before! 

And the most important one: Have fun and enjoy yourselves at the event!

[harpoolebayrp]

Fall has always been my favourite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the GRAND  FINALE.

--Lauren DeStefano

What: Annual Harpoole Bay Autumn Festival When: Friday, 30th September until Monday, 3rd October, 2016. Where: The Bay, Main Street, Elmore Woods.

;; WHAT’S THIS ALL ABOUT, THEN?

With autumn around the corner and officially starting on September 22nd, Harpoole Bay would like to invite every resident and visitor to take part in its annual Autumn Festival which will take place from Friday, 30th September until Monday, 3rd October 2016, to welcome the new season with a bang and get excited for all the wonderful things that autumn has to offer.

;; OKAY, SWEET. BUT WHAT CAN I DO THERE?

Dine at the outdoor food court on Main Street where local farmers and fishers will be offering their produced goods throughout the whole weekend.

Visit the farmers’ market on Main Street throughout the whole weekend

Take part in the bonfire night at The Bay on Saturday night

Pet some incredibly cute goats, sheep, guinea pigs, rabbits, and many, many more at the petting zoo in Elmore Woods throughout the whole weekend.

Get a glimpse of how local basket makers, coopers, shepherds and pottery makers work and try their crafts out yourself.

Release sky lanterns into the night sky on Sunday night.

;; ANY FURTHER INFORMATION THAT MIGHT BE IMPORTANT FOR THE MUN?

The event will take place for four days, from Friday, 30th September right through to the end of Monday, 3rd October. You’re all invited to plot with your fellow members for the duration of the event and post open starters with the tag harpautumn (you can also use the standard harpevent tag). Use this time to plot with people you haven’t before and get new conversations going. The event is for the whole town, so there’s no reason why Character A can’t bump into Character B.

Most importantly, please like this post if you’re planning on attending (if you have several characters with sideblogs, please shoot me a short message letting me know which of your characters will be attending), as I am planning on sending out secret tasks over the course of the weekend, in which random messages will be sent to several members/characters involving prompts that you should include in a starter or a thread you currently have going. If you’d rather not be involved in this particular part of the event, feel free to let me know and I will take your character off the list. 

Please remember, if you plan for anything super dramatic during the four days that the event will take place, that you still need to run it via the admin first!

You’re still welcome to play things outside of the event once it’s going if you wish to, but this will be our primary focus for that weekend and I hope you’ll all want to get involved. It’s up to you if you choose to leave replying to your current threads at that point until after the event is over or not.