entranceway | [video] Astral Pumpkin

Okay okay okay okay. So I know there's an event coming up and we're all freaking out about it, and it's probably gonna be horrible like usual, but I gotta say this before we get too deep into October. So, you know how Halloween is the best holiday, and October is the best month, and autumn is the best season, and all that? And you know how the best thing about all of those is...

[Dramatic pause.]

Pumpkins, obviously. I was thinking, we definitely need to have a pumpkin chunking competition.

[She grins like a wild person.]

So for the uninitiated, pumpkin chunking is when you build something that can launch things--like a catapult, or a trebuchet, or a giant slingshot, or a cannon, and so on--and then you compete to see how far the thing you built can launch a pumpkin. It's literally the best thing, after Halloween and autumn leaves. Since I figure most people don't really know how to build stuff like that, people could team up. You could have team names and give your pumpkin chunker a name like they do with monster trunks. I mean trucks. The only rules is you can't use anything gas powered--it has to all be mechanical. And you also can't, like, murder people with pumpkins.

And knowing Wonderland, there's probably gonna be some crazy ass shit happening for Halloween, but I figure we can pick a day near then and that's when we have the competition. We can roll out our stuff to the checkerboard hills and launch from there, that way we got wide open space and people won't get hit by flying pumpkins.

[She gives the camera a really eager look.]

Whaddaya guys think?

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I'd ask about wizard economics but that sounds like retaking my civics class, but with like, a fantastical spin.

I suspect you're not far off, though I've never had a civics class. We have our own stores and markets, our own banks as well.

I guess you'd have to, huh? You can't go into like Wal-Mart and be like "yo where's the magic wand aisle?"

No, you really can't, though we have a store devoted to them in our part of the world. Just wands and nothing else.

That sounds like it could either be really cool or really boring.

I suppose the answer is yes? When you're eleven and getting your first wand, it is amazing. After that, you really have no use for it. Thankfully there's a new class of wizards and witches every year.

Well jeez, what happens if you break it or it gets stolen?

There are magical ways of retrieving it, but they often break wizard's wands during punishment. Such as if they have betrayed the wizarding world.

That seems kinda harsh. I could see that if you needed to like, go to jail, but I hope it's not the sort of thing where like--oh man, you made a mistake, time to lose your personalized magic wand that lets you do the thing that makes you what you are. Sorry! Now you have to become an accountant.

We have a prison as well. We aren't talking about a mistake. I am speaking of those using killing curses, those that attack the muggle community, and those that would work to destroy the wizarding world.

One such was trying to raise the muggle dead and turning them into inferi to turn on the muggle world and kill them all.

Oh...okay. So we're talking, like, real crimes. Jeez...

Also, wow, that's terrible. [She's not entirely sure what a muggle is, but it sounds like a type of people. So either way, it's awful.] What ended up happening?

Yes, certainly. This isn't pulling a prank with your wand, but trying to take over the world and such things.

He's gone missing. In hiding. Some think he's dead, but I don't believe it. He's waiting. Somewhere? He's waiting.

Okay, I get it. I guess your wand just gets confiscated if you do a smaller crime or something, huh?

Also, wow, that's like. Ridiculously ominous. Jeez. Spooky.

Typically possible, yes. The prison is fairly dismal. There's creatures that literally suck the joy and happiness out of you.

That's really what he is. Spooky and ominous.

Wow, that's horrible. Jeez, I hope no one who's innocent ever gets sent there by accident...

[LOL.]

Spookimous.

Not that I have ever known of, though I suppose it is possible. I hope as you do though that it never happens.

[He can't help but chuckle at that.]

I like that word. Definitely.

It's basically a perfect word, let's be real here.