[HH23] The Pumpkin Spice Must Flow

[Food_Truk]

"The Pumpkin Spice Must Flow"

The Licensium Empire's naval army has found the CLOans' secret pumpkin smuggling operation on the Halloween Town Pier! Prepare for battle!

OBJECTIVES:
Control the most pumpkins at the end of the battle, destroy the enemy army's forces.

OVERVIEW: HALLOWEEN TOWN PIER


OVERVIEW: LICENSIUM EMPIRE FLEET

Halloween Town details

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Two Civilians in the Spooky Garden, four Minifigs and a Pilot near the Pumpkin Boat.


A Leader and eight Infantry units near the Batty Shrine


HEROIK ARTIFAKT: The Orb of Hallow's Eve
Heroik Cliché: The Orb of Hallow's Eve


Fortification with projectile launcher (d6)


Ritual Shrine, for Ossum secret stuff

Licensium Fleet details

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Munchdoll Pilot and Munchdoll Gunner operating a Hot Air Balloon (Weapons: four troll head bombs)


Three ships with Fiend Pilots, two equipped with a d4 magik talisman, one with a projectile launcher (d4) on the boat
Six Munchdoll Cannon Fodder
Two Vermin

Hero: "Little Liar"
Hero Cliché: Attack Helicopter Pilot
Equipment: Attack Helicopter

[Food_Truk]

TURN 1


"Little Liar" wastes no time and immediately prepares to turn the citizens of Halloween Town into pumpkin spice latte with his helicopter blades! [Heroic Feat]

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[Success!]


He smugly hovers over the pile of corpses, performing the ancient traditional rite of "tea bagging".


The Munchdolls all attempt to jump onto the pumpkin boat to get their hands on that orange goodness, while the Fiends begin to shoot at the Halloween Town faction!


The Orb of Hallow's Eve's beautiful flower bush has been set aflame!


One skeleton gets shot right in the head, another one starts to burn!


"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"How about now?"
"No."


The Orb of Hallow's Eve lights up spookily! [Heroic Feat]

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[Success!] The pumpkins on the boat begin to grow tentacles-


-and they devour the heads of the nearest enemies, taking over their bodies!


One of the civilians wakes up from the sounds of war, stretching before looking at the burning skeleton nearby and nonverbally asking if the other Civilian wants to go roast some marshmallows. The other one silently nods.


"Can I come with you? I love roasted marshmallows!"


[New unit: Civilian (Tree)]


The skeleton gives up and reluctantly accepts his new purpose as a campfire.


The Leader attempts to motivate his skeleton infantry by yelling and threatening to poke them with his pointy stick.


The skeletons all unite as one! And as they feel their bones strengthen with this source of violent verbal calcium-


-They decide to use him as ammunition!


With all the bonuses added together, they use teamwork to turn their Leader into a projectile! "Little Liar" has little time to react-


-Before a screaming blur of white and black crashes into his attack helicopter and sends it crashing to the ground!


"Little Liar" survives, but is Disrupted until the end of his next turn!


The Batty Shrine continues scheming. What it's scheming, I don't know. He won't tell me.

END OF TURN 1 OVERWATCH

[Food_Truk]

TURN 2


"Little Liar" uses all his attack helicopter pilot training to swing the helicopter blades at the pumpkin monsters!

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[Success!]


With the power and strength of of high quality Licensium-made attack helicopters, "Little Liar" manages to free the captives from the pumpkins!

They're bald now, though.


One of the Fiends manages to burn down part of the Orb's foliage. (Much to its dismay.)


The other one manages to headshot another skeleton!


"We there yet?"
"..."


Since everyone seems to love little useless vermin so much, let's make some more!

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[Succe-OH CHEESE AND RICE WHAT THE FUDGE-]
All the objective pumpkins are now spiders.


Knowing that CLOan skeletons solely live on a diet of cheap fast food, one decides to use the remaining gas inside its dead teammate as a propellant.


It works! A bit too well!


As the prankster is burning to death in noxious fumes, the dead body speeds forward like a homing missile!


"You've got to be kitten me."


The corpse slams into the boat, which explodes and kills everything within radius.


The Civilians are having a pleasant and peaceful time around the campfire corpse.

END OF TURN 2 OVERWATCH


UPDATED OBJECTIVES:

• SURVIVE THE SPIDERS
• Oh who am I kidding
• Just go and murder each other
• If the spiders don't get you first

[Food_Truk]

TURN 3


"Little Liar" tells the spider a lie about his involvement as an attack helicopter pilot in the civilian massacre of BR2017. The spider isn't very convinced, but it's a heroic feat attempt nonetheless.

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[Success!] "Little Liar" breaks off his grown nose and uses it...


-To sweep away the spiders...


-Which all end up near the skeletons! "They're your problem now!"


On top of that one of the Fiend spellcasters tries another fiery spell, but misses and ends up burning one of the spiders.


The other Fiend continues to burn down The Orb of Hallow's Eve, starting another flame on the building!


"Alright, you can start dropping them now."
"FINALLY!"


The munchdoll gunner eagerly releases one of the troll head bombs, which soars down upon its target...


-And blows up another piece of The Orb!


"Alright, screw this!" yells The Orb, before activating his heroic feat.

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[Success!] The Orb activates flight mode!


The skeletons rush towards "Little Liar" to enact murderous revenge upon him! They're totally not running away from the spiders.


The Batty Shrine stands there, ominously. Something's about to happen...I think.


The Civilians pulled out more snacks for by the campfire.


The rest of the spiders react violently to "Little Liar" and his aggressive wood swinging, and a couple of others focus on the Fiend spellcaster!


One of the skeletons seems to be boned as well.


The combined assault of vermin eventually overpowers both "Little Liar" and the Fiend spellcaster, as they suffer a gruesome death of venomous bites and flesh chewing.


The others fail to kill the skeleton, but do end up snaring him in their webs and disrupting him!

Turn 3 End Overwatch

HALLOWEEN TOWN:
- Four Minifigs, one Disrupted
- Three Civilians, being useless
- Hero: The Orb of Hallow's Eve
LICENSIUM FLEET:
- One Fiend spellcaster (1d4 talisman)
- Two munchdolls, one Pilot and one Gunner

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TURN 4


The munchdolls prepare to drop another bomb, and...

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-They miss, blowing up a pillar of the ritual altar instead.


The Fiend bravely continues her assault on the skeletal army...


-But sets a spider on fire.


The Orb of Hallow's Eve creepily drifts towards the hot air balloon...

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[Success!]


The hot air balloon's ropes snap, sending the basket's passengers and bombs dropping into the water!





"Let's mess up that leftover Fiend!" "YEAH!"


"We can use that projectile launcher up there!"


"Nah, I was thinking we should lob spiders at her." "What."


While one guy actually tries to use the launcher, the other two decide to throw themselves at the spiders with a predictable outcome.


The launcher hits, slicing off the Fiend's head with an RT disc!


The Batty Shrine shrieks! "IT IS TIME! PREPARE FOR THE DARKNESS FROM THE BRIKVERSE'S LOWER END!"


The Buttman Who Laughed His Ass Off has entered the game!


...Oh. Never mind.

WINNER: HALLOWEEN TOWN


"...Hey, you guys roasting marshmallows?"


The citizens of Halloween Town have fended off the Licensium Empire's forces, and they can finally enjoy the Hellhunt festivities.

They'll just have to replace the pumpkins in their recipes with spiders instead.

I hope you like spider pie.

[ninja_bait]

[MadMario]

Gameplay: 3
Photography: 4
Violence: 5
Writing: 4
Overall Appearance: 5

Well, that was a creepy, unhinged rollercoaster ride. With all the things a Hellhunt needs - Skellies, spiders, bats, pumpkins and of course over-the-top violence. Well done!

[Valiant]

Gameplay: 3
Photography: 3
Violence: 3
Writing: 3
Overall Appearance: 4

A decent battle report: so many pumpkins!
You did a fantastic job embracing the theme of the contest.
Photography, writing, gameplay and violence were good. Your photography and blocking skills in particular have improved noticeably over last year's entry - well done.

[The PumpKing]

Gameplay: 4
Photography: 5
Violence: 4
Writing: 3
Overall Appeal: 5

Fantastic use of all those custom figs, and bits and bobs. The pumpkins all turning into spiders was a delightfully spooky twist.