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2nd Event: Choices We Make

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Not all characters (known as Wickie, singular or Wickies, plural) arrive at the same time, surprisingly enough! That’s life for you. Some Wickies find their way to the island at a pivotal (or very mundane) point in their life, or even after or during their death.
Wickies who were standing or walking often find themselves entering the town South Sister, located on Lighthouse Isle, through an open doorway. Those that were laying down, or sleeping, tend to be found lying prone in beds, bathtubs, showers, couches, and similar places within the cottages on Cottage Row. There’s no rhyme or reason to it all! To Wickies familiar with the era, they will realize that everything looks as if it’s come from the ‘90s.
The house which a Wickie finds themselves within could already be occupied. This includes walking into a fellow Wicke, waking up in the same location, or accidentally scaring a room full of people with their sudden appearance.
Oops.
C-C-Changes
Thankfully the fog has gone down to what it was before, a slow creeping crawl over the ground. And too, the monsters of before are gone, leaving the town much like it was before. Well...close to what it was before.
For now the season's have changed, from a lingering summer to a cooler fall.
There’s new foods to try, even if some things like lattes cause people to slip into warm boots and tie up their hair, and soups make people curl up under blankets on the couch. And it also means decorations of all sorts, made of the leaves from the forest, orange, yellow and red things and...we can not forget...
Pumpkin overflow
Pumpkins! They're everywhere. Wickies will find pumpkins infused into all sorts of things, like coffee, ice cream, even spaghetti options! It's wild.
There’s also many jack o'lanterns. They have been placed everywhere in town, outside homes, and even small ones have been made into table decorations. The Jack o lanterns have very cheerful faces, and seem to watch Wickies every single move.
That is, until a Wickie bashes or otherwise abuses a pumpkin. That's when it changes- there seem to be more of them. Their expressions change to that of anger, sadness and disgust. None of them attack- yet. But their faces become more and more horrifying, as they follow the Wickie more and more- outside of the bathroom perhaps, or found on top of them as the Wickie wakes up in the middle of the night.
It shouldn't matter right? They're only pumpkins.
What a ride
Funny enough, with the pumpkin invasion, there also comes a dull colored horse wandering about the island. Its head is drooped, and it looks depressed and lonely. The horse is tame on approach and will accept pats and treats, even from those who are obviously not human.
But it also wants something, for all that it seems to be begging for attention. It wants someone to ride them, seems to even be begging for it with its big eyes. The horse will help Wickies to figure out how to mount; it will even stand beside the Town Center benches, rocks, or even go down in order to make it possible for the Wickie to get onto the horse’s back.
That’s when it changes. The Wickie is immediately wrapped in chains from their barrel to the Wickie’s waist. The horse turns a coal black and the Wickie’s clothing changes into that of a soldier's uniform, with a hand either holding a whip modeled after a human spine, or a jack o'lantern.
The Wickie cannot get off the horse on their own, no matter how much they struggle. As the horse moves throughout the town, they will go anywhere from a walk to a full canter, seemingly impervious to any magic or physical attacks. The same cannot be said for their unfortunate rider.
If the rider is hit, or simply in pain, the Wickie will feel an impulse that grows and grows until they scream a name of someone in town, someone they know.
And the named will drop, paralyzed. Paralyzed wickie are likely to die within minutes, more so if they are too close to horse and rider. The horse will happily trample anyone on the ground to death.
Even without the impulse, should the Wickie rider use anyone’s name, that person will drop, paralyzed, and unable to breathe.
There is only one way to possibly save the rider: scatter golden objects in their path. The horse will shriek, and promptly buck the rider off, before running away. Just make sure to catch the rider, or at least cushion their fall: they have no way of saving themselves until they hit the ground.
Heart game: confession
Current residents of the island may remember this particular beeping alert, and how it doesn’t go away, no matter what they do! That is, unless they open up the Heart Game, and answer the question.
Welcome back everyone! It’s so good to see you again! Now let’s play that game, Confession! And the question isssssss…
How do you celebrate the changing seasons! Don't be shy!
pumpkins;
Run!
[There's a horde of pumpkins with angry expressions somehow sort of levitating a little off the ground and floating around with the sole intention of devouring their tormentor, or at least that's how Jiro imagines their motivation goes. Maybe they'll go for Kurogane instead.]
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Hey, kid! [ He starts running after Jiro as the pumpkins come together to form a bigger group. ] What the hell did you do to them?
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Nothing!
[That's a total lie, and it's another a few seconds before he details what happened.]
Okay, maybe I smashed a couple- more than a couple... and lit some on fire!
[Also poured hot soup and a few lattes into their heads, but that is, in hindsight, so stupid and he's not going to admit to doing it.]
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Why would you light them on fire?
[ Smashing them he gets so he's not even going to say anything about that. But he does wonder if Jiro had a reason for it. ]
Is it because they're watching us?
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Yeah! They're fucking demons or some shit!
[It's important to know the best way to get rid of them.]
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But they really can't just keep running like this, so Kurogane starts to look around for somewhere, anywhere they can go. ]
There's a building over there. [ Looks like some sort of grocery store... there should be plenty of aisles they can try to lose the pumpkins in. Maybe a closed space can deter them some.
Regardless, that's the only warning Kurogane gives before he starts running that way. ]
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They're communicating somehow!
[Or it's paranoia, but he's willing to bet on telepathy.]
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[ Maybe they are, honestly Kurogane wouldn't rule it out. He doesn't sound very concerned at least and when they finally get to the store, he swings open the door so Jiro can slide through after him before it shuts.
He heads into one of the nearby aisles. Maybe the doors can momentarily cut them off. ]
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Looks like that might hold them off for a while.
[Jiro heads into a different aisle, picking things up and idly reading packaging, opening a box of dried cereal and munching on it while he continues his wandering. He shoves a handful of cigarette lighters into one of his many pouches. Gonna light some more pumpkins on fire later.]
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Seemed to slow them down at least.
[ Not for long, it seems, because now there's a pumpkin on the top shelf of this aisle, watching them menacingly. Kurogane stares at it for a second. ]
...You're kidding me.
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Did they... come in the back?
[They're strategizing. Maybe this one is a distraction.]
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[ He picks the pumpkin up by the stem, and its face twists into anger. ]
Tch. I'd smash the thing if more wouldn't appear.
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Stick it in the freezer?
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Why not?
[ Kurogane starts to head to the back of the store, looking for a freezer. ]
I wonder if it'll get frozen enough that it can't move.
[ It's worth a shot. ]
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Upon opening it, there's.. five frozen pumpkins in there with their twisted expressions. Other people have had this idea.]
Huh...
[From the ventilation system, there's soft thudding.]
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But before Kurogane can say anything about it, there's a sound coming from the vents and he frowns. ]
I guess that answers how they came in.
[ He looks up at the nearest vent. ]
We could stay here and see what happens or we could try to lose them again.
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[He grabs a carton of ice cream from the other freezer and chucks it at the vent. Antagonize them. He will fight them all right here.]
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[ The vent covering falls as the pumpkins get angrier and a few of them spill out from the vent, floating in the air. Kurogane moves immediately to smash two of them. Right as he does that, the other pumpkin's faces turn into different expressions, some of them disgust and the rest sadness.
A few of them disperse, floating around to different parts of the store to lie in wait. ]