It's The 2010 Sort-Of-Halloween Arts and Crafts Contest

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  • edited October 2010
    Americans. Non-Americans also tend to think that it's odd that we put ice in our sodas, in my experience.
    GinnyN wrote: »
    Americans in the concept of Continent. Or at least in Chile
    Avistew wrote: »
    Where do you keep it? I would have put it in the fridge, too, that's where I put pasta sauce. However, ketchup makes me nauseated due to how sweet it is, so I never buy any. I'm spared the trouble to decide where to store it!
    puzzlebox wrote: »
    Anyone who reads the label and does everything the big corporations tell them to. Heinz knows best!

    I am so, not talking to all you guys untill you start putting ketchup in your cupboards.

    Also, put your bread in the fridge, it'll last longer and stay softer!

    EDIT: That thing above me is creepy as get out
  • edited October 2010
    Well, I put my ketchup on the cupboard...until the day I have to open it, they I put it on the fridge.
  • edited October 2010
    my ketchup is staying in the fridge. so there
  • edited October 2010
    Would anyone like to see one of my four photos of me dressed as a character?
    Also, that Cake of the Damned is amazing. If something has anything to do with cake, it is instantly awesome!
  • edited October 2010
    JedExodus wrote: »
    Also, put your bread in the fridge, it'll last longer and stay softer!

    No when you buy bread everyday. That's part of been us.
  • edited October 2010
    @Nin:Sure why not :)
  • edited October 2010
    Right, here is my Superball one. Not as awesome as the other entries I've seen, maybe because it is sort of easier to dress up instead of paint/draw. I had a lot of fun though! :) Some really talented artists here. Plus brilliant cooking skills!
    Attachment not found.
    Sorry about the size.
    Guess what the other three ones are!
  • edited October 2010
    JedExodus wrote: »
    I am so, not talking to all you guys until you start putting ketchup in your cupboards.

    Well I'm not talking to you until you read the posts you quote. I don't have ketchup, so I'm not going to put it in any cupboard.
  • edited October 2010
    I just sent mine in, 1:40 PM Telltale Time, 20 minutes before the entry deadline. My entry was terrible but I made a promise that I would send it in so there it goes. It feels kind of rough and unfinished and it's terrible but technical difficulties and the like kept me from producing it with anything close to proper standards.
  • edited October 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    Well I'm not talking to you until you read the posts you quote. I don't have ketchup, so I'm not going to put it in any cupboard.

    Neit! Buy some, then put it in your fridge, then take it out of your fridge and put it in your cupboard. Then never use it because you hate it. Then we cool :cool:
  • edited October 2010
    Can't.... fight.... temptation...

    Ahh. That was some fight. Well, I guess i'll post one of my entries.

    VIRTUAL REALITY GOGGLES INFOMERCIAL!!!!!!

    Give feedback please (preferably positive, but whatever floats your boat)
  • edited October 2010
    And the entry period for the contest is over. Thanks for playing everyone. Stay tuned for the winner announcements later this week.
  • edited October 2010
    JedExodus wrote: »
    Neit! Buy some, then put it in your fridge, then take it out of your fridge and put it in your cupboard. Then never use it because you hate it. Then we cool :cool:

    Let's pretend I did that, and I'll pretend you spelt "nyet" properly. (I would have accepted "niet", too).

    Congrats to everyone who took part in the contest, and good luck to all of you!
  • JenniferJennifer Moderator
    edited October 2010
    Here's my entry: Halloween Short Shorts (an homage to the H*R Short Shorts) :D

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOAf33NVn8

    I wanted to make sure every game so far released (or announced) got represented. :)
  • edited October 2010
    @Nin: Hahaha, looks pretty good honestly. What would the other 3 be? Papierwaite? Sam? Max? Sal? Bosco? XD

    @dent: It was nice, but it really could've used some music honestly.
  • edited October 2010
    I know I've sent that poem entry nearly two weeks ago, but here it is:

    CLOSE TO HALLOWEEN AND ALL SOULS' DAY:
    A Poem of "Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 4" from the Perspective
    of Video Game Players in 2009


    By Deborah L. Kearns

    Close to Halloween and All Souls' Day...
    We had played in a game
    about your new adventures,
    Guybrush Ulysses Threepwood.
    From Chapter 1 all the way
    to Chapter 3,
    your journey had led us:
    the time you were infected
    by the Pox of LeChuck;
    your adventures throughout
    Flotsam Island;
    your encounter with
    the maniacal Marquis De Singe
    and the femme fatale
    Pirate Hunter Morgan LeFlay;
    the meeting with
    the Vaycaylian merpeople;
    your survival inside
    the belly of the manatee;
    the taming of the Leviathan;
    the miraculous discovery
    and healing powers of
    La Esponja Grande that cured you;
    your sudden betrayal by Morgan.

    Close to Halloween and All Souls Day...
    And then Chapter 4 arrived.
    When we read a title
    that still mentions your name:
    "The Trial and Execution
    of Guybrush Threepwood"...
    we thought for certain
    that you were going to die.
    So in no time flat
    we downloaded Chapter 4
    onto our computers
    and started playing
    your continued adventures,
    many filled with excitement
    and expectation
    at what was going to happen to you...
    yet unaware that LucasArts
    and Telltale Games
    had a trick up their sleeves...
    or two.

    Close to Halloween and All Souls' Day...
    We were now seeing
    the beautiful bounty huntress
    silently sailing
    onward from
    the Screaming Narwhal
    back to Flotsam Island
    with you in tow
    and guilt
    as she handed you over
    to the mad doctor De Singe
    for 30,000 pieces
    of silver,
    much like Judas Iscariot
    handed the Lord Jesus
    over to the chief priests
    for 30 pieces of silver
    in blood money.

    And just like the chief priests,
    a crowd of Flotsamites
    were out for blood
    as well,
    as they arrested you
    and brought you
    before the court
    of Flotsam Island
    as Morgan and De Singe
    watched helplessly,
    and we were watching
    helplessly along with them,
    as we were wondering
    what would happen to you.

    Close to Halloween and All Souls' Day...
    You were now in
    what was known as
    the "Trial of the Century-y-y-y",
    as you were charged
    with four heinous crimes
    that the Right Honorable Judge
    Wallace P. Grindstump
    and the inhabitants
    of Flotsam
    accused you of.
    With Smilin' Stan S. Stanman
    as prosecutor and salesman
    and you representing yourself
    as both lawyer
    and client,
    you were now given a chance
    to call a recess,
    gather evidence,
    prove your innocence,
    and avoid a terrible fate
    as the title suggested.

    While you were out
    gathering evidence
    at Club 41,
    De Singe was
    pleading with Morgan
    to try to bring you back
    as a test subject
    for some Jus de Vie experiment,
    but she had been filled
    with guilt over betraying you
    after your friendship with her
    had flourished,
    and she refused to aid him.
    He soon found out
    that you had been cured
    of the Pox of LeChuck
    and were about to cure
    your dear wife Elaine,
    who had earlier been
    infected by the Pox,
    and he rendered you useless
    as a test subject
    as he stormed away
    in search of your wife.

    Close to Halloween and All Souls' Day...
    With skill, luck, and evidence
    you managed to clear
    the four charges against you
    one by one
    back at the courthouse.
    But just when you were ready
    to get off the hook,
    you ended up having been charged
    with spreading the deadly
    Pox of LeChuck,
    and trying to prove
    your innocence
    was easier said than done.
    Just then, your darling little
    plunder bunny arrived,
    but she was not the same
    since you both had been hit
    with the Pox weeks ago.
    It seems that the Pox
    had now taken control of her,
    and when she assumed
    that you had an affair
    with Morgan,
    your wife went out to Club 41
    to exact revenge on her.

    Close to Halloween and All Souls' Day...
    And what an odd, spooky feeling
    in Club 41
    when Ladies' Night looked similar
    to a Halloween party,
    decorated with skull candles
    on tables...
    except that this Halloween party
    was a swordfight
    with Elaine Marley-Threepwood
    and Morgan LeFlay.
    Somehow you managed
    to steer clear of the swordfight,
    stick a voodoo summons
    that you had onto a dartboard,
    and lure Elaine into
    getting the summons
    so she could be sent back
    to the Flotsam Island Courthouse.

    Close to Halloween and All Souls' Day...
    Back at the courthouse,
    after a lengthy questioning
    with your wife,
    you were demonstrating the efforts
    of the legendary sea sponge
    and attempted to rub
    the sponge on her face,
    hoping that it would
    absorb the Pox and cure her.
    But then you discovered
    that the sponge's power
    was not enough
    to cure her of the Pox.
    And very soon
    the Pox-infected honorable judge
    was starting to impose
    a death sentence on you,
    and we were all
    holding our breath
    as you put both your hands
    on your neck
    in fear of the gallows,
    and a thought came to you
    as it did to all of us:
    "I guess this is it!"
    ...Or was it?

    Close to Halloween and All Souls' Day...
    And then LeChuck arrived.
    We all knew that he was not
    the same Zombie Pirate he had been,
    as we all thought he became
    a good natured human pirate
    when your plans to destroy him
    had been botched up
    by stabbing him
    with the Cutlass of Kaflu
    and causing him to create
    an outbreak of the Voodoo Pox
    that had infected you and your wife
    and everyone else across
    the entire Gulf of Melange.
    With a solemn truth
    he explained the whole mess
    and concluded that you were not
    the source of the Pox.
    And then he started explaining
    that the Voodoo Lady
    was behind the plot
    of his releasing the Pox
    by manipulating his every action
    along with your actions
    through the years.
    With LeChuck and the Voodoo Lady
    jailed for manipulative plots
    and your wife
    taking off somewhere,
    you were free to find a way
    to cure Elaine
    and everyone else of the Pox,
    and we were glad
    that you had avoided
    a predetermined fate
    that the chapter title suggested,
    all thinking that everything
    was going to be all right
    in the end...
    or was it?

    Close to Halloween and All Souls' Day...
    Just when you were on your way
    to enlargen the legendary
    Esponja Grande
    with the Feast for the Senses menu
    the Voodoo Lady had given you,
    you noticed a distressed
    Marquis De Singe
    running away
    from his laboratorium,
    and, noticing that
    something was wrong,
    you went in to investigate.
    There, you found the lab
    in a complete, utter mess,
    and discovered Morgan LeFlay
    lying there terribly wounded
    with her Blade of Dragotta
    in her chest.
    She told you that she tried
    to rescue your Pox-infected hand
    she had cut off
    in her attempt
    to make amends with you...
    and then something had
    happened to her.
    In her very short breaths
    she mumbled something to you
    in your ear...
    you just didn't know what...
    and then she died in your arms.

    Afterwards, you felt
    deeply grieved at her death
    that hit us very hard,
    and after positioning her body
    in a sad, beautiful fashion,
    you looked up from the balcony
    in the beautiful night sky
    and muttered in a deep snarl
    of anger:
    "De Singe!"
    And then you walked away,
    yet never realizing
    that the man who murdered
    the bounty huntress
    was not the mad doctor De Singe
    as you had thought,
    but rather the man
    who saved you from the gallows...
    the man who waited
    for your every effort
    to enlarge La Esponja Grande...
    the man who carefully waited
    for an opportunity
    to set up a trap
    while in jail...
    the man who would soon
    take your life.

    Close to Halloween and All Souls' Day...
    With the five senses fed
    to the legendary sea sponge,
    you made a long, hard trek
    to the Flotsam Island Jungle
    where the Vaycaylian
    Wind Control Device
    and the final sense course
    had been located.
    Unfortunately, this was
    no easy task,
    for the mad doctor entrapped you
    and your Pox-infected wife
    in clamshell traps.

    He then told you
    that he believed that
    the Pox of LeChuck
    that you once had on your hand
    would be the ingredient in the form
    of the "Threepwood Strain
    of the Pox"
    for some youth serum called
    the "Jus de Vie"
    to keep him young
    and alive forever.
    He also added that since
    Elaine had the pox,
    he would plan to use
    the Wind Control Device
    to pulverize her
    and scatter her pieces
    around the Caribbean
    in hopes that her Pox
    would infect everyone
    and give him an infinite supply
    of the Jus de Vie
    to make a fortune in
    selling it to others
    and to keep himself young
    and alive forever.

    In his attempt
    to sedate your wife
    who was fighting back
    against him,
    you foiled his mad plans
    by having the fireflies
    and the moths
    target the one source
    for his mad powers
    of the Jus de Vie:
    the turban that was powered
    by your poxed hand.
    With the turban destroyed
    and your hand released,
    the mad doctor De Singe
    became weaker than ever,
    and made a mad goose chase
    for your hand
    by following it into
    the wind control device,
    where it pushed him inside
    with a scream
    and turned on the device,
    pulverizing him and
    scattering his pieces
    across the Caribbean
    and out of sight.

    Close to Halloween and All Souls' Day...
    With the sponge back in your grasp,
    you gave it the final sense
    by tossing it into
    the wind control device.
    After a few seconds,
    La Esponja became Grande again,
    and the power of its
    dazzling aura
    surrounded the entire
    Gulf of Melange
    as it absorbed all the Pox out
    of Elaine and everyone else.
    With a sigh of relief
    you both smiled at each other...
    and then you wondered
    if you were ever going to get out
    of the clamshell traps,
    but at least we all knew
    that everything was going
    to be okay
    and maybe have a happy ending
    to Chapter 4...
    or so we thought.

    Close to Halloween and All Souls' Day...
    And then along came LeChuck.
    With the Merfolk key
    that he had made with your help,
    he freed both you and your wife
    from the clamshell traps,
    but then we suddenly noticed
    that he had a Cutlass of Kaflu
    in his hand...
    And then he started catching you
    and many of us off-guard
    when he told you
    that getting out of jail
    was "the only way
    to win Elaine's hand
    in unholy matrimony."
    You were getting confused
    for a second...
    and then he made an ambush
    using these two words
    that he had learned from you:
    "Unholy THIS!"

    And then he thrust his cutlass
    into your chest,
    impaling you, piercing you
    so deep, so close
    to your very heart...
    and we all became
    as shocked as Elaine
    and felt as though
    we had been stabbed
    in our hearts by the same sword.
    And then, before we knew it,
    he unexpectedly flung you
    like a rag doll
    onto an encased wind idol
    in such a violent way,
    knocking you out unconscious
    and leaving us reeling
    our heads in shock
    and screaming out in
    the same manner as your wife,
    calling out your name:
    "GUYBRUSH!!!"
    And then we quickly realized
    that everything was not going
    as well as we had hoped...
    that the title of Chapter 4
    was about to be fulfilled...
    that this was not going
    to be a happy ending.

    Close to Halloween and All Souls' Day...
    And now we were watching helplessly
    as she ran up to your side
    in her desperate attempt
    to revive you,
    to comfort you,
    to console you,
    to soothe you...
    holding you in her loving arms
    as you were slowly dying
    in her gentle caress,
    becoming lost in her warm embrace,
    and pouring crimson regret,
    betrayal, and anger.
    And as LeChuck discussed his plans
    for La Esponja Grande,
    and how he double-crossed you both
    after acting friendly all along,
    she still refused his advances
    of making her his demon bride
    by telling him to "go to hell".
    Nevertheless, he decided to
    do this the hard way
    by coming closer
    to the legendary sponge
    and gaining his
    voodoo powers back.
    And then the unthinkable happened...

    Though you tried to stay alive,
    your body started to shiver,
    to give in,
    to succumb to your
    terrible stab wounds.
    Your heartbeat was becoming
    fainter and fainter,
    your vision was fading fast,
    it was becoming harder
    and harder to breathe,
    you were losing
    your will to live,
    and then you weren't afraid
    of dying anymore.
    In your final tender moments,
    you spoke to a grieving Elaine
    using your final words
    about LeChuck:
    "Kick his two-faced butt
    for me..."
    And then she accepted
    the promise with:
    "From Mêlée to Monkey
    and all the islands
    in between, my love."
    And as she was on the verge
    of tears,
    she shared a passionate kiss
    with you before
    you both looked at LeChuck,
    now back as a zombie pirate,
    as he said,
    "Aren't you dead yet?
    I've got wedding plans to make!"
    Unfortunately, that was
    the last thing you heard,
    as you took one last
    look at him
    before getting your last gaze
    fixed on your wife...
    and then your heart
    stopped beating...
    one final, silent gasp...
    and then your body slumped
    down to the ground
    as you breathed your last
    in the arms of
    the angelic Elaine,
    embraced the cold,
    gentle caress of
    the eternal slumber of death...
    and then left her,
    and many of us,
    in tears.

    Close to Halloween and All Souls' Day...
    And then we felt as though
    All Souls' Day came too early,
    as you and Morgan LeFlay
    were on the list of the souls
    who had gone too soon.
    And yet this was not the end
    of your adventures.
    Little did we know that in
    the upcoming Chapter 5,
    in over a month or so,
    you would end up in the Crossroads
    of the afterlife,
    where you would arise from the grave
    as a spirit with a Shred of Life
    and make your journey there
    before finding a way to return
    to the world of the living,
    unite in spirit form
    with your own zombie body,
    shrink La Esponja Grande,
    save your wife Elaine,
    and stop the villainous LeChuck
    once and for all...
    before returning to life
    and reuniting with Elaine
    in your renewed body
    in a glorious resurrection.

    Close to Halloween and All Souls' Day...
    Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 4
    was done...
    and yet Chapter 5
    had already just begun.
  • edited October 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    Let's pretend I did that, and I'll pretend you spelt "nyet" properly. (I would have accepted "niet", too).

    Congrats to everyone who took part in the contest, and good luck to all of you!


    In my defence, I just typed the I and E in the wrong order, I do it all the time, honest! I needs me a copy of Mavis Beacon teaches typing badly

    Good luck to everyone as well, i'm looking forward to seeing a few more entries shown when its results time
  • edited October 2010
    SunnyGuy wrote: »
    @dent: It was nice, but it really could've used some music honestly.

    Yeah I realized that after.
  • edited October 2010
    Debbie82 wrote: »
    I know I've sent that poem entry nearly two weeks ago, but here it is:
    tl;dr

    Let me sum it up:

    The ending of Tales Chapter 4 was really sad.
  • edited October 2010
    JedExodus wrote: »
    In my defence, I just typed the I and E in the wrong order, I do it all the time, honest! I needs me a copy of Mavis Beacon teaches typing badly

    So I wasn't the only one subjected to Mavis Beacon? huzzah.


    Seriously though, the entries I saw looked great, totally looking forward to hearing the results. Good luck, all.
  • edited October 2010
    Debbie82 wrote: »
    I know I've sent that poem entry nearly two weeks ago, but here it is:

    CLOSE TO HALLOWEEN AND ALL SOULS' DAY:
    A Poem of "Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 4" from the Perspective
    of Video Game Players in 2009


    By Deborah L. Kearns

    Close to Halloween and All Souls' Day...
    We had played in a game
    about your new adventures,
    Guybrush Ulysses Threepwood.
    From Chapter 1 all the way
    to Chapter 3,blah, blah blah

    Wow, that made the Epic of Gilgamesh look like a brief memo.
  • edited October 2010
    SunnyGuy wrote: »
    @Nin: Hahaha, looks pretty good honestly. What would the other 3 be? Papierwaite? Sam? Max? Sal? Bosco? XD

    Thanks! Oh, and you are right with one of those guesses. However, what version of him is it?
  • edited October 2010
    My guess is Noir!Sam for one of them, with that subtle hint.
  • edited October 2010
    Or Bosco, there are around 6 or 7 versions of him afterall, maybe 8 if we count Vegas Stripper as a version XD
  • edited October 2010
    SunnyGuy wrote: »
    Or Bosco, there are around 6 or 7 versions of him afterall, maybe 8 if we count Vegas Stripper as a version XD

    :D That made me laugh. I can show my other ones now, or wait to see the winners. Unless you want to see them now of course.

    @Cheri: Oh, and you'll have to wait and see. Or click the not necessary spoiler tag.
    It is indeed "Noir" Sam! Only human obviously, ;)
  • edited October 2010
    Though it's not really art/craft related, My friends pulled a hysterical TTG-related prank on me. While at a party, my friends rigged the bobbing for apples station and replaced an apple with...Onion bubs.
  • edited October 2010
    Question; if one was to get runner's up, would it be first come first serve for the prize packs?
  • edited October 2010
    Cheri wrote: »
    Question; if one was to get runner's up, would it be first come first serve for the prize packs?

    You can choose one of the prize packs. Sam and Max Pack, ToMI Pack, or 50 Telltale Bucks.
  • edited October 2010
    dentbuds wrote: »
    You can choose one of the prize packs. Sam and Max Pack, ToMI Pack, or 50 Telltale Bucks.

    Well, yes, but say two people wanted the same prize pack, would it be whoever emails back first or what?
  • edited October 2010
    I read it as in each can pick the one they want and all three people (is it going to be three of them?) might get the same one.
    It's not like they have limited supplies of them after all.
  • edited October 2010
    ^^^

    Telltale, you can announce the winners anytime now. I won't be disapointed.
  • edited October 2010
    dentbuds wrote: »
    ^^^

    Telltale, you can announce the winners anytime now. I won't be disapointed.

    Yup, any time at all. I won't feel a bit of disappointment either. Well, unless you call me fat and award the grand prize to someone that dressed their pet rabbit as Max.
  • edited October 2010
    How can you even "dress" a rabbit like Max? He doesn't wear clothes!
  • edited October 2010
    How can you even "dress" a rabbit like Max? He doesn't wear clothes!

    My point exactly. =P
  • edited October 2010
    How can you even "dress" a rabbit like Max? He doesn't wear clothes!

    Tie a Luger to his foot.

    Or...
    How can you even "dress" a rabbit like Max? He doesn't wear clothes!

    That's none of your damn business.
  • edited October 2010
    I wonder how many entries they got this year...
  • edited October 2010
    Winners are posted! Thank you to all who entered and congratulations to the winners! Happy Halloween!
  • edited October 2010
    Congrats to the winners! That Hidden People video is really something!
  • edited October 2010
    I can't stop smiling. :D

    Congratulations to the winner and all the other runners up, you guys all did some crazy awesome stuff.
  • edited October 2010
    Congrats to the winners!
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