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I gotta say, my ghost outfit was quite the hit. In fact, I couldn’t get the spirits to stop talking to me.  Let’s just say I now know the entire Skelly family tree’s personal idiotic grudges that they still hold onto even in death. Did you know that one year, Frideswithe’s pumpkin patch encroached onto some cousin’s turnip field and the whole thing turned into an ugly legal battle? Well now you do, and you didn’t have to sit through a three-hour lecture on it.

I finally got around to asking if anybody had heard of any legendary creatures, and they all got deathly quiet. One finally spoke, and in a very ominous tone said, “Turnip Head Ambrose.” Apparently, about a century ago, a giant prize-winning turnip was stolen from the Shadowglen Faire. They never found out who did it, but a string of arsons happened out in the woods soon after. The locals spoke of a cackling ghostly with a turnip jack-o-lantern head prowling wherever the fires popped up, and eventually, people learned to steer clear of the area. Only tourists and fools visit this part of the forest anymore, but I guess that’s what this thing prefers. It really, really likes fire and pranks and I’ve got first-hand experience.

I stumbled upon a headless scarecrow in the middle of a FOREST and that really should have set off some alarm bells, but no, I had to investigate. Suddenly, this giant purple tuber is screaming down towards me, the scarecrow body has burst into flames and is thrashing about, and the air is filled with the most unsettling screechy laughter I’ve ever heard in my life. Then I realize that something’s set me on fire so I just start running and flailing. I can only hope I didn’t look as stupid as I felt. My ghost outfit is, quite literally, toast.

The good news is that Ambrose left behind this Shadowglen Backwoods Legendary Track, so we can give him some payback.

Riverside Meander Legendary Track will retire on November 1.

Which spirit calls out to you?

Note regarding Morostide: We will be shortening the times for trick or treating and the pumpkin patch on November 1st and 2nd instead of October 31. Enjoy!

Hello everyone! Subeta.net experienced a site-wide outage that began around 2:00 AM last night. The error was identified and has now been resolved. Our database had filled up - which caused a partial database outage, impacting all parts of the site. We have now significantly increased the disk space available, and have added additional alerting for this case in the future.

Taking this into account, Morostide will be extended until November 2nd, 11:59 PM. The battle challengers will also remain available until then, giving you a little extra time to tackle them! Thank you for your patience with this unforeseen issue, and we hope you still have a fun and spooky Morostide!

Rouland is here and ready to fight! Can you defeat him before Morostide ends?

All Morostide challengers will be retiring at 11:59pm on October 31.

Periwinkles the Custom Lilac Blob has won the Pet Spotlight!

Pete is the weekend quest! Do those quests for increased prizes and special rewards!

How do you react to the moon and stars? Do you turn into a hairier form or are you filled with magic?

Nereida the Custom Hydrus Montre has won the Pet Spotlight!

Still alive? Great! Maybe you’ll survive this last wave of terror. Maybe not.

Rouland will make an appearance later this Morostide. May the odds be in your favor when he does.

You’ve waited so patiently. Now it’s time for you to step in front of the Human Zapper and hope luck is in your favor because we have three new human skins this year: Experiment 0101, Experiment 4423, and Storm!

Peanut the Chibi Escalade has won the Pet Spotlight!

Be careful when fighting this third wave of frightening challengers. We want you to live to see the next wave!

Landen the Galactic Kora has won the Pet Spotlight!

It’s time for the second wave of treats, just for you!

This is the last wave of new items for Trick or Treating. Enjoy!

You survived the first wave. Good. Good. Think you have enough luck left to defeat the second wave of Morostide Challengers?

Skyrime McCloud the Custom Glade Archan has won the Pet Spotlight!

Saggitarius is the weekend quest! Do those quests for increased prizes and special rewards!

Perfect to keep your tushy warm as the weather cools.

There's a chill in the air. Get your weapons ready because the First Morostide Challenger Wave is here!

We will have four waves total, not including the return of the terrifying Rouland. Make sure to rest, eat candy for good luck, and pray you survive this Morostide.

Vacutainer the Custom Bloodred Kora has won the Pet Spotlight!

Wow, these aren’t terrifying at all. Are you sure you want to create one?

Starflare the Blacklight Devonti has won the Pet Spotlight!

Are you brave enough to enter the Pumpkin Patch? If you happen to find Snowflaik, send her back to Jaxon, please! As a treat, every single previous Jaxon related minion has a chance of being found.

We’ve adjusted the times for the pumpkin patch to have no more than 18 minutes between wait times on a normal Morostide day instead of the 30 minutes of previous years! On October 31, instead of a 15 minute wait time, you will only have to wait 8 minutes between exploring.

This is the only wave of items for the Pumpkin Patch this year.

Item not found: blue razzberry gummy eyeball

Trick-or-Treating is officially open! You can visit your friends' houses by their profiles, though you might get hexed instead of a treat. ;) If you get tricked with a hex, you can always take that as a sign that you just gotta throw an egg or TP roll or two at them!

This is the first wave of two waves for trick or treat! Unfortunately, this year there will be no ragdoll items. The artist that usually does them is currently on maternity leave and we couldn’t just pass it on to someone else.

For every 5 people that trick or treat at your house, you’ll get an item too!

Use the following sCode in your forum signature or status so people can easily trick or treat at your house:

Code:

[tot=USERNAME]

There's a link to random trick or treating on the news sidebar. Enjoy visiting stranger houses! If you use this option, you will have a 5 minute wait time between trick or treating. This will decrease to 3 minutes on October 31!

Euclid will have some new skins ready for you later in the holiday, but feel free to try for older ones right now!

Like previous years, we haven’t added any new carveable pumpkins, but you can still carve the floating pumpkins or keep them for Fantine’s Pies in November.

Morostide will last until 11:59pm on October 31. We will keep the Morostide Forums open until November 5 so y’all have time to settle any contests.

We will have previous challengers brought back throughout the holiday, so don’t be worried that none are released just yet! We’ll have them showing up in waves so y’all won’t be too overwhelmed. ;)

Later during Morostide, a special quest giver will be giving out old Morostide restockables. Keep an eye out for the news post about it!

Roller the Common Experiment #1536 has won the Pet Spotlight!

OoooOoooOooo haha! Hey there, didn’t mean to scare you! I want to do something more in the “spirit” of the season, specifically good old-fashioned ghost-hunting! And no, this isn’t a simple costume, this get-up is gonna help me blend in. I’ve heard rumors of some legendary supernatural beings and I figure the best way to coax them out is to convince them they’re among friends, right? That’s probably why all those ghost hunter TV shows never seem to make contact, they’re not thinking like poltergeists. Anyway, I’m sure I’ve got everything I need: An EVP recorder, this little electro-magnetic field doohickey, some motion-activated cameras, this excellent handmade camouflage, and most importantly a spooky locale.

I even brought along a spirit board, thought maybe we could communicate directly and see if any of these specters have anything useful to say. Apparently, you just put it down like this, put your fingers lightly on the planchette and... ooh it’s moving! “N...I..CE...S...H...EE..T....I..D..I..OT” Huh. Well... Y’know what, how ‘bout you come find me, and we’ll get some practice time in. Then we’ll wipe the undead smirks offa those sassy specters’ faces.

Sloppy the Scribble Terracoon has won the Pet Spotlight!

Quentin is the weekend quest! Do those quests for increased prizes and special rewards!

Who recycled these perfectly good glasses?

Helen the Nuclear Ontra has won the Pet Spotlight!

What will you grab from this Token Shop restock?

We've changed the special item for our Subscription Quester, Councilor, and Goddess plans. We will be changing this special item slot every month.

Note on the special item from the subscription plans: Based on your feedback, we've improved our special item system to ensure that you do not receive duplicate special items that have to be manually swapped out by staff! If the special item hasn't updated by the time your subscription renews, you will not get an item when it renews; instead, you will receive your item prize later when the new item is released. The rest of your subscription perks will go out on your renewal date, as usual. Enjoy!

Additional note: This update may not be perfectly retroactive, so if you do happen to receive a duplicate this month, please file a ticket: a User Administrator will swap your item out, and a Programmer will make sure it is not an issue for you again moving forward.

Bok bok BAWK.

Elowe the Custom Common Pherret has won the Pet Spotlight!

Ikea the Common Experiment #3164 has won the Pet Spotlight!

Winter Wonderland the Glacier Rreign has won the Pet Spotlight!

Winter Wonderland won the Pet Spotlight on August 24, 2020. This is part of a catch up on pets that didn’t receive news posts for their wins.

Wizard Quests is the weekend quest! Do those quests for increased prizes and special rewards!

More weapon revamps just for you!

Raymond the Reborn Jollin has won the Pet Spotlight!

Raymond won the Pet Spotlight on August 23, 2020. This is part of a catch up on pets that didn’t receive news posts for their wins.

You may have noticed that the Pet Spotlight has been stopped for about a month and a half. While we've tried to keep an open stream of communication between users and staff about problems regarding site functions, we held back on this particular function until we had some solid information to provide.

The Pet Spotlight in August was having some issues running every night, this was a combination of code not doing the news post/awarding the spotlight but also in our winners queue there are a lot of pets from the same few users. As those familiar with the pet spotlight know, "after a pet wins, there is a two (2) week cool-down period before another one of their pets can win".

So, we pondered as a team how to address this. The code issue was taken care of, but what about the few users?

Starting October 7, the pet spotlight will be awarded every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. We thought about doing just weekdays as we have in the past, but that wasn't really cutting down the days enough. We thought about doing every other day, but we wanted concrete days y'all could expect a spotlight to happen.

We will be doing news posts this week to catch up on the last few spotlight winners from August that didn't get news posts and then it'll be back to new spotlight winners!

We love that so many of you care about your pets. We're looking for more ways to encourage users to apply for spotlight for their pet.

We know a lot of users are worried about the planned changes to how pet profiles work. We want to assure you that any coding done before the change can be kept as legacy coding. Furthermore, we are not planning to do such a big change before the end of the year so you still have time to create!

RELEASE THE (very colorful) QRYKEES! You can now own your very own spectrum or blacklight qrykee.

The Blacklight Potion can be purchased in the Cash Shop while the Spectrum Potion can be restocked at the Apocalypic Apothecary.

May I offer you a blob plushie in this trying time?

Are you seeing double in the newest Monthly Collection from the Cash Shop? Be careful, you may be in trouble.

You can also purchase one of our older October Donation Presents or Collections!

Maleria is the weekend quest! Do those quests for increased prizes and special rewards!

We’re giving you an extra day to grab any September Collection you may need from the Cash Shop!

While you wait for the October Collections, we encourage you to take a moment and check out the Morostide 2020 Suggestions thread. We’d love to hear what you’d like to see this year for the Pumpkin Patch, Trick or Treating, and other spooky things. :)

Note: Don’t suggest bringing back older Morostide items. We have plans for older items that won’t be rereleased via Patch or ToT this year.

The Freyalise Trading Co. has closed up shop and the crew is back on the ship until next year.

Did you know the first week on the ship is painfully boring? First Mate Rita is hoping you will help get everyone back in shape by battling them before they get too far out to sea.

You’ll have until 11:59pm on October 8 to defeat the Freyalise crew.