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Halloween 2010 Welcome to Halloween 2010. It isn't so much a month as a state of mind. That and it isn't a full month, it's a mini-month running until November 1st. I know that Halloween isn't practiced around the world, but how many things really are done everywhere? For those of you who aren't normally involved in it, this is a chance to experience something new. Well, not overly new, this is going to be an almost exact rip off of the wildly successful Prince of Persia month, except spookier! (yes, that might include a PoP Mafia style bloodbath, just give me time) Halloween Avatar Contest It's simple, it's fun, it's a chance to win a prize in the form of tag or title. Plus it's a chance to have some fun! What to do: Spook up your avatar! That's it. You can take your normal sigfig and dress them up for Halloween or recreate your favourite scene from a horror movie, abuse a staff sigfig Halloween style, or just do something spooky and silly. Whatever you do, make it a crowd pleaser because there will be voting at the end and prizes awarded. Put your spookiest foot forward, or 3 feet, or claws, or some tentacles. Whatever you've got. The Rules: There are no rules except to include LEGO or the drawn representation of LEGO and post your new avatar here (and use it, of course). Once you've done that, you're entered! Now get spooking!

Under normal circumstances I would find this to be a negative topic without much point and just close it. BUT... having recently experienced this myself, it stays! (for now) So yeah, last time I was in Walmart, they had the big airport and a few TS3 sets on clearance for full price. Big ugly red stickers on otherwise pristine boxes indicating a savings of exactly $0.00. Nice job, Walmart. Nothing makes me spend my money faster than no discount and ugly stickers marking up the boxes.

It is a tough call, but if we put it in order of occurrence, it at least raises some suspicions. On night 1, she investigated our fruity fashion designer and found him to be impartial. We saw that happen, it's also when she was converted by the scum. On night 2, therefore, it seems reasonable to assume that she either lost her investigative skill in favour of something scummy, or was one but would have no reason to help us. By that logic, anything she said should be a lie designed to trick us, or the truth designed to trick us (that's the tricky part). Since she told me she investigated Eric King and found him innocent, but she was scum at the time, we either can believe or doubt her words. The next day, faced with the truth of her attempt to kill me, she got desperate and said she had investigated you. That means one of two things... she forgot her previous claim, or she was making a new one for a purpose. If she simply forgot, it means she was making the previous one up. If she was making the new one up (very likely), it could only be for the same reasons as her claim about King, either to trick us into trusting you, or trick us into not trusting you. For some reason, I think that the results of today will tell us what to make of her other claim. Maybe you could offer some kind of evidence to help us figure this out? Honestly, it's all very confusing, but it's all we've got at the moment.

That's right. She told me Erik King in the pm she sent the morning she tried to kill me (crazy bitch) and then publicly stated that she had investigated Mr. White during that next day. Since she clearly didn't investigate anyone while trying to kill me, I find both claims suspicious. I have no idea what you just said. I'm still not taking the word of scum. I see a lot of logic in what you're saying, enough to take a chance here. Vote: Erik King/ KingoftheZempk As I say, it makes some sense, but I'm still open to alternatives if someone has a better lead.

*makes his obligatory post on the subject* If anyone happens to secure multiple sets and wishes to make one available to an appreciative member in the US, please PM me.

Are we supposed to trust that based on the word of a proven scum? I think I'll wait for something a little more solid.

Don't feel too bad, we're all limited. I can only invite an additional 498 people to an existing conversation.

The lack of deaths. I suppose they could exist but just be uncertain who to target, and I'll admit that if so, it's good they aren't just randomly killing.

If the ability to convert is unlimited, we can't win. Logic dictates that there is a limit, probably no more than 5 or 6 per family, given their limited start numbers. If it's much more than this, then the voice in the sky has given us an impossible task. It would be like expecting one person to kill 6 or 7 others to succeed and not giving them the ability to kill. As it is, the town seems to be without vigilantes, and I'm not even seeing the usual random killers you'd expect in a town like this. That means that at the moment the mob can recruit new members and kill citizens and we don't have a lot of options to stop them, unless we get lucky as we did yesterday. Further, we don't know what other abilities they may have, and there are two families. That's a lot to account for. It's hard to say, Carrie wasn't particularly bright. Still, I agree that it isn't enough to start a vote, it's just enough to perhaps do some investigating. If someone decides to do that, or has already, feel free to contact me and I'll weigh the validity of the information and then share it if it seems reasonable. I'm in a good position to do that without risk of attack from the scum, so it's worth trying, and it'll keep you safe. Same with the remaining Night Watch members who should now feel a lot more secure about my trustworthiness.

Yay, I'm sane! I'll confess to being just a little bit more than worried that I was either crazy or being deceived with my Night Watch results, so it's a great pleasure to see that I was right. That said, all the stuff that didn't happen last night is incredibly confusing. But first, we have something to figure out ... Carrie, the crazy scummy bitch, told me privately (before she knew that I knew that she had tried to kill me) that she had investigated Eric King and found him to be loyal. Publicly she said she had investigated Mr. White and found him to be innocent. Truth is, she isn't likely to have investigated either, so why make the claim? Who wants to bet that one of those two is scum? It certainly makes sense, but at this point I have no information to prove it. Anyone know anything useful about that? If not, let's be sure to check it out tonight, ok?

Which was inspired by a complaint made about GLaDOS's idea of a cake recipe, leading to me being told that I am: Blasphemous to Cake [ Mmmm, Fish shaped ethyl benzene. ]

Sandcrawler: I can't imagine it ever being remade. It's a big set with a limited demand and it was available for a long time. Sail Barge: Maybe, but also unlikely. What could they really do that would be even vaguely new about it? Millennium Falcon: Iconic. It's coming back. No question about it. The next one should be RotJ themed. Mos Eisley Cantina: Maybe. Lots of room for improvement over the last one. Cantina band, anyone? One new mold for 4 new figures. That's all about the win for TLG. Jabba's Palace: Maybe again for the same reason, the old one sucked, but it's a good potential playset. Hoth Rebel Base: We have 4 Hoth sets out now that fill the need. I don't see a lot more Hoth in our future. Twin Pod Cloud Car: Boring vehicle with no real action potential. I'd be surprised. TIE Bomber/Fighter: Fighter, yes. Blue. Always blue. I'd just build my own from Bricklink parts orders and whichever instructions you like best.

Nothing, but it's a pretty nice bag with one of three silk screened Halloween based minifig heads on it (skeleton, black skeleton, pumpkin). It's free, it isn't crap, it's free.

Did you remember to snag a free LEGO trick or treat bag? They're really cool, and also free with a $20 purchase (and they let you do both).

Right, the old ones were temporary icons quickly thrown together, the new ones are much nicer. No, you may not blame me, that was Hinck's work. And other changes ... wait and see. They'll be everywhere eventually.

You know, I had hoped that all of you would look better in my reflected glory, as I am the most capable of brilliantly reflecting visible light, but it hasn't helped much. Then again, how can any of you hope to compare? I'm soft, ductile, malleable, and lustrous with the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of all metals. My Sterling (an alloy of 92.5% silver and 7.5% copper) or Britannia (an alloy of 95.8% silver and 4.2% copper) cousins are used for jewelry and silverware. I colour the food you eat, aid in your photographic endeavours, solders, electrical contacts, and silver-cadmium and silver-zinc batteries. I paint your electronic printed circuits, seed your clouds, and successfully prevented infection in World War I. Ah, now I see why you all look so dull, you are dull.

107.87 [ Please stop staring at my mole. ]

Does my being a professor, or from out of town, somehow mean that I can't be civic minded enough to join the Night Watch? Even our disgraced cop admits that much. As for the rest, I haven't always been a professor, I used to be a Navy Seal. Our pasts are as important as our futures, as one leads to the other. I make good use of mine. Plus I eat a lot of toast.

I'm sure the line is close to being discontinued since there seems to be no reason to continue it, sadly. This was a case of the LEGO being better than the property it came from. If this topic continues to be more about prices and locations of availability, I'll eventually move it to B/S/T/F.

I meant screws in terms of them being loose in the original set and requiring installation. That's what I thought he was referring to. As for the pics, I don't even remember those, but I don't doubt they're there. Now I want to find a set and take them apart to see if it would be possible to mix and match to create a new colour combination. The one article I read on that subject never mentioned screws (but did refer to a lot of prying apart), so I have to assume that not all hulls had them. Since I can't argue with pics and you made so much effort to take them, I'll concede half the point. Fine. I give up. I read that too quickly and thought the screws were in the bags.

Had a corner ripped, but he's not alone! [ A cautionary tale of international shipping, a white Boba Fett, and tears. ] 101010 [ It's October 10th, 2010, or 10/10/10. 101010 is binary for 42, thus the day needs proper recognition. ]

I need proof, please show me where any past (or present) Pirate set had screws. Set inventory on Peeron or BL will do. Instructions would be even better, but aren't really necessary as I have all of them (and no screws). You've lost your mind or you have a really different definition of screw than I do.

Oh well, I was hoping for something more exciting to end the day. Let's try the direct approach. Carrie, why did you tell me you'd investigated stutteringboy then say it was Mr. White during today's topic? Don't bother lying, people have privately seen proof of this. What's up with that? Toast? Where?

You know, you could at least throw a fit, or laugh maniacally and taunt us, oink like a madwoman, throw potatoes... something, anything! I mean, due to the completely messed up structure of the voting day, you get an opportunity that isn't available in most games, the chance to do something crazy or memorable, make a bit of Mafia history that we can harken back to for years to come. Instead, you're making almost spammy posts for their lack of content or value. You're just rolling over and playing dead. I expected more of you. I'm disappointed, you didn't even write back when I confronted you via PM. Bad enough you told me you investigated someone completely different than you are claiming during this day, but then you failed to try to make anything exciting up to cover your trail. Or even just babble endlessly. Maybe cluck. Nobody has clucked before, and believe me, you clucked it up trying to kill me, so why not? Show some style, girl, go out with a bang, not a whimper. Amuse us for the next 182 hours of this never-ending day, be a good sport, or a bad sport, or something!