October has arrived, and with it, Eglaf has started to prepare for the Oktoberfest and Halloween festivities. Posters have gone up about parties on the last Saturday of the month, and trick-or-treating events have been coordinated in the shopping district for kids and kids-at-heart.
The thing everyone seems to be looking forward to, though, is the annual
corn maze that has been set up the edge of town, complete with food vendors for hot apple cider, kettle corn, and pumpkin spice everything. So much fun!
Except, this year, the corn maze is not exactly made for fun. Not for everyone that actually goes in, anyway. The cornstalks sometimes move and rustle as if someone is trapped within them. It will seem like nothing but a special effect added to scare people until hands come out of nowhere to pull people in. Not everyone who enters the maze will be affected, but locals and Supers alike are at the mercy of whatever is behind it as people begin to go missing. Some will go missing for a few hours, others for a day, others for up to four days. The missing will be in crypts or trapped in another underground maze and be released in different spots throughout the city to avoid any real patterns. They won't remember what happened past the point at which they walked into the maze.
The cherry on top, though? Throughout the maze, there will be spots where a sort of spray will fall on the attendees. It will feel like drizzle at first, nothing out of the ordinary, but within a minute they will start feeling the effects of the hallucinogens that have been converted in liquid form to give people a “unique” maze experience. The hallucinations can be whatever you want your character to see, and as strong as you’d like them to be - from something as simple as spiders coming out of the cornstalks, to seeing their greatest fears coming at them. The effects will last an hour, so it’s up to you if they’ll ride it out there or make it out while being high.
The corn maze opens today, October 1st, and will be taken down on Sunday, November 1st. There's a lot of ways people can be involved: by being trapped, creating or joining rescue parties for those that the maze swallows up, being hit by hallucinations during a visit, or anything else your imagination can come up with!
Have fun, Eglaf residents, and best of luck! You’re going to need it. :)