Halloween 2011 Brainstorming

[Vallikat]

I am really at a loss this year on any good ideas. However, I do want to put my vote in for spiderweb bikini.

[Jezebelle]

If you're stumped, you can always look up last year's thread, right here in this forum, and either it will spark some new ideas or you can just pick a couple favorites to repeat. I'd rather keep it fresh than just copy previous suggestions, but if it's still what you really want, it should still be on the list.

[Synnthetik]

And "Marilyn Manson" is a perfect example of someone else's IP. His image is his trademark and it's pretty unlikely FC is going to be making any marketing deals with him to use his likeness to plug his music, like they did with Ariya. Parody is fair play, but some people don't see it that way. MM strikes me as the kind who takes himself way too seriously and would take offense at parody. Besides, a parody of Marilyn Manson without the music would just be an exaggerated stereotype of a horror-freak Goth.

Agreed totally on that last point exaggerated stereotype horror-freak goth or a Juggalo. I say a Kimberly Freeman costume, Met One-Eyed Doll at Dragon*Con the same year as Ayria and she can't be that expensive, OED is in Adventure Quest Worlds already though so there may be something contractually binding already. Her dress from the "You're a Vampire" video would be cute. I'm only half-joking here.

The devil costume mentioned for girls and guys would be awesome, males need some better outfits we always get screwed when it comes to special social gear...

- (shameless self plug) right clickable black shirt with red "sinner" or white "saint" hehe

- color changing tutu

- skele-squeaky (not sure if you noted that one) obtained from killing special duckling mobs

- pimp hat (color change of course)

- Unicorn Commander nanomorph

- Kyr'Ozch themed binkini

- Ankh tattoo (back with female version like stars tat and/or arm tattoos)

- AO logo halloween edition shirt black w/ orange or orange w/ black

- striped tights with all the new color changing options

- Horizontal-striped sleeves or shirt with color change (sleeves could be worn with shirt for layered shirt effect)

- Floating skull lantern

- micro-LOTV gargoyle style lantern

- pet nano Skel-leet / clownLeet / female devilleet

- ripped opaque tight gloves/sleeves

- cybergoth looking respirator/gas mask

- cool looking goggles

that's all i have for now.

[Sprkly]

How about GSP tattoos? Just the logo, in color, for back and/or chest.

[Synnthetik]

one more, along the lines of the afro wig:
- Liberty spike mohawk wig (green/blue/purple/bright red/orange/black)

[Sprkly]

Another new placard, maybe called "sweet placard" that changes between "This Means Cake", a picture of a cupcake, a picture of Cheerleet, "It's So Fluffy!", a picture of a lipstick print (like a kiss), "Free Love" with a peace sign... or whatever else that would fit the theme of sweetness.

I love the placards

[Jezebelle]

Ooh, lots of good stuff there, Synn! I'd love to have that dress from "You're a Vampire". Yeah, not likely, I know, but wishing out loud is what threads like this are for.

And I wouldn't expect much specifically GSP-related stuff, but GSP tats would be awesome! I'm not sure I'd want them to be Halloween loot, though. I'd rather see them added to the Tattoo Artist's regular inventory or some simple quest in Reets.

New ideas from Klinical's show today:

- jack-o-leetern / pumpkinhead leet

- headless leet (not a pumpkin, no head)

- leet wearing a Funny Arrow

- fake boobs (like Black Adder?) maybe it would work if it were tank armor shaped like falsies, but I think that's outside the Teen rating, no matter how fake. I could be wrong, so it's on the list anyway.

- wearable leet tail

- shoulder leet (like the parrot, but fuzzier)

- collect drops like the Tinker's party favors to summon a Grim Reaper raid boss like that Desert Rider fellow

- deathleet - a leet in a ragged black cloak like Uncle Pumpkinhead's, with a scythe taped to his back

- trick-or-treating leets - a little empty bag held in his mouth to collect candy and some random simple costume, like a ghost sheet, skeleton costume, black cape, neck bolts, devil horns, angel halo, wizard hat, viking helmet, pirate eyepatch, ninja sword, whatever.

[Jezebelle]

Not much Spooky going on at Sprkly's Snuggleparty today, but the beginning of Joan's show, with ARKs Anarrina and Fairwolf blowing up Borealis, made up for it.

- scythe prop / social weapon that looks like the one Uncle Pumpkinhead uses (if it's actually usable, it should have mediocre stats, like a Longmoon perhaps)

- devileet t-shirt, just a simple pic of a devileet on a plain black t-shirt. Or maybe the t-shirt is ragged. Or maybe clicking it cycles through various Spooky pets

- t-shirt with Vallikat hugging all the Halloween leets

- pirate leet pet

- catgirl pet - a 50% scale Grind Girl following you around and dancing whenever she's idle and running away at the first sign of danger (if the pet pathing can manage to make her come back)

- tavern wench costume, to go with Maria's Pirate Outfit and the new Eyepatch

- cowboy hat (I think this should wait for the new engine to do it right, but if you can do it now, it wouldn't be too soon. We've been wanting it for years.)

- glowing jewelry (I'm not sure that's plausible in this engine, but maybe bracelets worn as gloves could put a light source effect on both hands?)

- Christopher Walken costume with cowbell accessory (parodying a parody is Fair Use, right? And this one's such a ubiquitous meme, it's hard to imagine it not being public domain by now.)

- Bieber costume with atrocious agro - that was a joke, please don't vote for it. As funny and satisfying as it might be to see whole playfields gang up on one Bieber fan, you know they'd be wearing it in the high suppression areas too, shouting lyrics and dancing badly. It's just not worth it. Besides, an effect like that would be too easy to exploit.

- pet Uncle Pumpkinhead (doll-sized) - or maybe that's a Nephew Pumpkinhead following you around like a leet and then laughing creepily when he leaves

[Jezebelle]

I didn't get to any shows on Thursday, so I'll just pull a couple of my favorites from last year that I still like.

- handbra top

- more striped tights, either just like the stockings/tights from 2007 or (I'd prefer) cut more like the Bunny Legs than the Entertainer Legs. Black and fuchsia, black and white, and black and red stripes would be good options. Which style and what colors did you mean, Synn?

- 2 Moon Wolf shirt - a two-headed wolf standing on a mountaintop, howling at two different moons at once.

- Pumpkinhead bikini - top has ragged black cups that look like they're ripped from his robe, leather back strap the color of the shaft of his scythe, and silver shoulder straps. Bottom has ragged black panels and silver string with little teddy bears hanging from hip ties. Matching ragged black boxers (also wearable by females!) with a silver drawstring.

- a black rose - holdable and placeable, like the action figures

There was a lot of good stuff on last year's list, but I don't want to just cut and paste them. If I have time later, I'll look over the whole old list and see if it gives me new ideas. If anyone else wants to give that a try, it's right here: Halloween 2010 Brainstorming

[Jezebelle]

I managed to make it to more shows than I expected today and got a nice pile of last day ideas.

- kilts - even if the old engine makes them look like short shorts. The new engine will do better someday, right?

- placeable hot tub for even RK apartments - so, a pretty small one, and we'd walk right through the sides of it, but I think we can live with that for a hot tub

- aquarium poster that looks like a window in a wall with water, aquatic plants, possibly a few little fish darting around behind it. Simple color-cycling texture animation is possible, right?

- wall-hangable shark jaw trophy, or whatever those sharklike critters from Adonis are called

- teddy (lingerie, not stuffed animal) in beWitching black satin, ghostly (translucent) grey, white spiderwebs, blood red lace, and orange with a jack-o-lantern grinning cut out on the belly. All opaque where necessary, of course. The grey will probably have to be opaque and just colored like it's slightly translucent in the old engine. Will the new one have an alpha channel for layered textures?

- Cthulhu-inspired facial tentacle mask or a figurine of some nefandous cyclopean cephalopod. All names changed to protect the sanity of the viewer, of course.

- glowsticks, shorter than the current glowing swords, and hiltless, in a variety of colors and/or constantly changing, possibly summoned by a nano

- voodoo shrunken head floating above the shoulder

- Jack-o-Lantern pasties (just as far over the line as the skull nipple shields, I know, but it's up to FC to decide how far is too far)

- Rocky Horror Picture Show costumes, for all the main characters. That's got to be Fair Use, right? I mean, it's mimicked in theatres all over the world every midnight. You don't have to label them as such. We can figure out which is which.

- Medusa's Treats - candy that restores nano on use, stackable, nodrop, drops in 10 level increments (so you don't wind up with 20 stacks) roughly the level of the mob that dropped it

- French Maid miniskirt (fix the graphics of the French Maid Miniskirt of Xtronica Entertainment)


Then I went over last year's list and came up with a whole bunch of new ideas based on those.

- candy corn bikini - we now have a perfect example in-game of what the cups and panels should look like. Just resize four of those Candy Corn nanosprays and tie them on with black string.

- black hood that changes the wearer's head to a skull and matches the plain Black Robe for a “Charon” / "Grim Reaper" look.

- Kappa Berry Shortcake dress, like this one, but with a fruit that grows on Rubi Ka: http://www.yandy.com/-Country-Girl.php

- Cherry Pie bikini - similar idea, but skimpy

- Banana Surprise boxers - for the boys, troxes, and G.I.R.L.s

- Jack-o-lantern decorations in a variety of faces: silly atrox-sized grin, pointy Opifex ears, Nanomage circuitry overflow, average friendly-looking Solitus, big leet eyes, long Rollerrat nose, Uncle Pumpkin's head, etc, and the default should be a whole, uncarved pumpkin

- animated display screen / junk television / poster (depending on which junkyard you get it from?) that, when placed on the ground, displays a jack-o-lantern during the Halloween event, a Christmas tree during the Christmas event, and the AO logo during the Aoversary event.

- T-shirt “Muffin or Bust” ("Muffin or Nuffin" was suggested last year, and since Muffin is on a trip atm, this is what immediately came to mind. I laughed so hard I couldn't resist throwing it in.)

- Flying Spaghetti Monsters to go with all those meatball pets

- Ms. Squeaky - all those Mr. Squeakies have got to be getting lonely... unless they're all... odd ducks?

- Pimp cane to go with that Purple Tuxedo and Crunk Goblet, maybe a big, leaning felt hat, too. Is that the kind of "pimp hat" you meant, Synn? Or more the feathered fedora or something?


Once I went to one of my favorite online costume stores to look up that Strawberry Shortcake outfit, I left it open and browsed around for more ideas.

- Oktoberfest costume - http://www.yandy.com/Beers-On-Me.php

- a dark purple gothic dress - http://www.yandy.com/Dark-Dollie-Costume.php

- scary clown and sexy clown - http://www.yandy.com/Sexy-Clown-Costume-4280.php - outfits to go with that rainbow fro wig

- Beer Mug costume - http://www.yandy.com/Adult-Beer-Mug-Costume.php

- fairy costume to fly around in with a jetpack and butterfly wings - http://www.yandy.com/Sweet-Butterfly-Costume.php

[Jezebelle]

It's July 23, and voting has opened. GSP DJs, Dancers, and Staff are picking their favorites, after which I'll write them up with details and examples as needed and post the results here and send them to FC. That email will contain a link back here, so if you have more to suggest, you can still tack it on to this list. Even if it's too late to vote on, someone at FC might follow that link back here to see the whole list.

[lutzie]

oh I so vote for the pimp hat and cane

[Synnthetik]

- more striped tights, either just like the stockings/tights from 2007 or (I'd prefer) cut more like the Bunny Legs than the Entertainer Legs. Black and fuchsia, black and white, and black and red stripes would be good options. Which style and what colors did you mean, Synn?

Hmm I was thinking just like the old ones, except adding red&black, red&white (for medical fetishists, would go great with omni-med suit), maybe black&white, black&fushia, black&pink, black and just about any attention-getting color works, really.

[Ickk]

I like the spiderweb bikini idea. I also am all for anything with the GSP logo on it but I may be a lil bias

[Jezebelle]

I wonder if we could train spiders to spin webs in the shape of the GSP logo and wear them as bikinis. I know they say spider silk is strong for its size, but it would still take an awful lot of it to provide any support. So, what's the solution to everything on Rubi Ka? Throw nanos at it. Program some nanobots to infuse the spider silk with notum. That could work.

[Chessiee]

i've never had halloween, in ao, only in wow.
hope its better than the 10th anniversery event, wasent that impressed with it tbh !
or was it 11 ?

[Tastyvixen]

The anniversery events usualy don't get that much funcom involvement which is why they aren't the awesome. And this year had even less involvement then last year. At least last year some devs showed up with devshirts.

Funcom goes all out for halloween though.

[Nesual]

Hellhound Cheerleet gets my vote. "grrr" *giggle*

I just nearly fell off my seat.

[Jezebelle]

The following is the email I just sent off to FC. It's a little late, but there should still be time before they start planning and designing. Feel free to make notes, additions, or corrections if I misunderstood one of your suggestions or you've come up with something since then.

Especially if you have a link to Tarryk's "Hell Leet" skit, please post it. Most of what took so long was trying to find that.

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I asked for Halloween ideas at GSP parties for two weeks at the end of the 10th Anniversary event and got 144 ideas. A lot of really good ones, too. I then asked the GSP DJs, Dancers, and Staff to pick their favorites for me to write up and mail in, and it was tough to choose. This list represents the preferences of GSP, but the full brainstorming list includes suggestions from a sizable segment of the social players, both paid and froob.

The full Halloween 2011 Brainstorming Thread is at http://www.gridstream.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18825

1) spiderweb bikini

I'm sure it comes as no surprise at all that GSP's number one favorite idea is something sexy and very skimpy. It's a spiderweb bikini that's only solid and opaque where necessary and mostly just transparent with sparse spiderweb-pattern white threads. Like shrinking the spiderweb nanosprays down and wearing three of them.

One interesting option that came up for this was to give it multiple forms, including the snowflake bikini that was suggested for Christmas, and red or black fishnet versions as a holiday-neutral form. Then give it away for both Halloween and Christmas before making it available in the item shop.

Several other bikini ideas were suggested and got a few individual or "Any of those bikinis" votes:
- palm leaf bikini (or whatever passes for a fig leaf on Rubi-Ka, for all the naturists out there, because obviously there are no nudists in a Teen-rated game)
- pumpkinhead bikini (top has ragged black cups that look like they're ripped from his robe with leather straps the color of the shaft of his scythe across the flat back and silver where it's curved over the shoulders and around the sides. Bottom has ragged black panels and silver string with little teddy bears hanging from hip ties. Matching ragged black boxers, also wearable by females, with a silver drawstring.)
- writhing tentacle bikini (color cycling textures apparently work, so how about cycling the edges between tentacle and transparent to make it wriggle just a bit?)
- invisible bikini (as in The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, not actually a completely transparent bikini. Maybe make the bikini lime green, one off from the "transparent" color, and have it change the wearer's skin tone to "transparent", to turn them into ghosts in "almost" invisible bikinis... but only the outside of the bikini would be rendered, right?)
- Kyr'Ozch themed bikini (I'm not sure what that would look like, other than green, but it sounds creepy. Probably something kinky. Those aliumz are pervs. Mounting bracket for a biotech rod, sold separately.)
- Candy Corn bikini (shrink down four of those Candy Corn Nanosprays and tie them on with black string)
- Cherry Pie bikini (beige bikini, the color of pie crust, with a polkadot pattern of triple cherries and slices of pie, with red trim and ties, the color of cherry pie filling)

2) tail back item

This is something like the Catgirl Costume's tail, but preferably not temporary or part of a whole outfit. Just a costume tail that can be worn on the back slot. Bunny and kitty tails were the favorites, with fox and leet varieties getting fewer votes. Classic Halloween fare like demon tails are always good, and something more unique to AO, like translucent Silvertail tails would work, too. Preferably changing between the various options with a right-click.

3) broomstick skirts

They'd have to be full length for now, due to engine limitations, but even stuck with only two possible lengths, we could really use some more skirt options. Separate skirts, not whole dresses. The bottom half of the female "Play Costume - Third Edition" is the basic idea. Earthy colors are good, like browns and dark reds. Maroon. Plaid would be great. It was mentioned that pleated boyshorts would be an appropriate alternative for men and troxes, but I don't see anything wrong with having both available for anyone, male, female, or otherwise.

4) minikitty pet

A leet-sized pet sabertooth kitten. Hopefully you can manage to make them lie down, curl up, or at least sit and lick their paws when idle, like the wild sabertooths never do. Multiple colors and patterns would be nice, too. Grey and orange work well for the stripe pattern they already have, but completely black is better suited to Halloween. New colors and patterns, like solid silvery grey, calico, leopard spots, or even ocelot, would be a nice bonus. Or something more Rubi-Ka, like purple, green, and blue. Separately, of course. Purple green and blue on the same cat would look terrible.

5) Hellhound Cheerleet

There were lots of leet pets suggested, but only one got enough votes to make the short list: A Cheerleet with a spiky black collar and Gothic Lolita dress, saying "Girrr *giggle*" a lot. In two of Tarryk's more popular GridStream Conundrums skits, Yxxil bought a leet pet and got a Cheerleet, then he tried to teach it to be doomy and menacing anyway. He failed. I can't find a link to the first part, where Yxxil buys the nano, so I'll try to quote it from memory here:

Salesman: Welcome to Leets 'R' Us. How can I help you?
Yxxil: I want to buy a familiar.
Salesman: What are you, a druid? This isn't "Mazes and Trolls", *bleep*tard.
Yxxil: I am Yxxil, Lord of Hatred and Anger, and I wish to acquire a Hound of Hell, to represent that fact.
Salesman: Well, that's better, but we don't sell hellhounds.
Yxxil: What do you sell?
Salesman: Leets.
Yxxil: Okay.... I'll take a very mean tempered leet, then.
Salesman: Well, they're random when you summon one, but the odds are good that you'll get one that's just right for you.
Yxxil: Fine. Here's your creds.
Salesman: And here's your leet!
*summoning effect*
Cheerleet: Hehe!
Yxxil: What the *bleep* is that?
Salesman: It's a leet... with tits.
Yxxil: Augh! The image! It stays when I close my eyes!
Cheerleet: Hehe!

The part where Yxxil tries to train Cheerleet to be doomy is in the middle of "GridStream Conundrums Episode 5 - The Catapult" which can be found on AcidPlanet, under the artist "Epicene", here: http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?PID=763617&t=7192

Several others got a vote or two each, enough that adding them together would have made #13 on this list "more leet pets", but there isn't much to say about them individually:
- Pirate Leet (black hat, eyepatch, peg leg)
- Ghost Leet (a leet tail sticking out from under a sheet with big eye holes in it)
- Skeleeton (either a skeletal leet or a leet wearing a skeleton suit like the one we got a couple years ago)
- Clown Leet (rainbow afro, big red nose, huge shoes)
- Female Devil Leet (either Cheerleet in a red devil costume with plastic horns and an arrow point on her tail or just a busty version of the current Devileet)
- Jack-o-Leetern / Nephew Pumpkinhead (black robed leet with a jack-o-lantern for a head, or just wearing a Pumpkin Helmet)
- Trolleet (a puff of blue or green hair like the "Troll" pencil topper toys, and extra annoying taunt phrases)
- Deathleet (black cloak with the hood pulled up and a scythe duct taped to his back)

6) GSP tattoos

I try not to encourage GSP-specific suggestions, but they always come up anyway, and I can't say I wouldn't like a tattoo of the GSP logo (not the letters, but those would be on the name and description) for the back, chest, or preferably shoulder. For females, the back or chest options would involve a string bikini top like the Back Stars tattoo (or less... skull nipple shields were mentioned, but oddly GSP logo pasties weren't... at the time.) The top of the shoulder might make more sense for everyone. A shoulder tat would actually be an arm item, so it would go with any top.

7) pimp hat

A color-changing, wide brimmed, fur trimmed felt fedora, with a feather. Not quite as wide-brimmed as the sombrero, but maybe half that. Definitely must include royal purple with a leopard band to go with that purple tuxedo. Matching all the tuxedoes wouldn't be a bad idea, but purple and green definitely. At least one of the other three, for those who didn't buy the tux and made do with the anniversary drops. An all black version would be an entirely different look, and appropriate for Halloween. A cane was also suggested to match this and the purple tux and the Crunk Goblet, completing the outfit.

8) pumpkin / jack-o-lantern backpack

I'm guessing the system wouldn't handle a hand-held backpack very well, so just adding container functionality to those Pumpkin Baskets from previous Halloweens wouldn't work. Maybe you could enlarge them a bit, add shoulder straps, and make them back items. Maybe have it start as a placeable pumpkin decoration, looking like it was freshly picked from that patch in Avalon, then use a knife on it to carve it into a jack-o-lantern, or use a screwdriver on either version to convert it into a backpack, which would no longer be carvable. Maybe use a low-QL treatment lab to revert the jack-o-lantern back to a whole pumpkin, before the backpack conversion, of course. Or add a piece of notum (any QL) to the jack-o-lantern to make it glow. You could even make a bunch of different faces to carve into it, perhaps by cycling a jack-o-lantern pattern object through "Scary" (like Uncle), "Happy" (less fang, more grin), "Funny" (crossed eyes), "Opi" (pointy ears), "Troxy" (little eyes, silly grin), "Soli" (average, pleasant, and normal), "Magey" (little circuit lines), "Leety" (huge eyes, no ears), etc, and then using the pattern on the pumpkin. Lots of fun details to throw in here.

9) black and purple clothing

Not separate black items and purple items, but new items that are black and purple. Stripes, swirls, plaid, polka-dots, washes, whatever the engine can handle that looks good. I'm guessing paisley fails on both counts. Specifically, we need boots, skirts, stockings, and low cut shirts, or better yet, corsets or bustiers. A polka-dot black and purple miniskirt with black and purple striped thigh-highs would be perfect. Something along the lines of http://www.yandy.com/Dark-Dollie-Costume.php but that skirt obviously wouldn't work in this engine.

10) Rocky Horror Picture Show costumes

Is cosplay "Fair Use" in a game? R.H.P.S. has got to be one of the most common cosplay shows on Earth. You wouldn't even have to explicitly name the items after their respective characters. Calling them "Domestic", "Scientist", "Handyman", "Groupie", etc. would be fine. Just give us the parts to work with and we'll figure it out. Close enough will do and one costume per character would be plenty, but if you wanted to go all out and make the costumes change to match different scenes, that would be awesome. I don't have to include reference links for Rocky Horror, do I?

11 (tie) glowsticks

Something like the Kyr'Ozch Rapiers we're currently using for glowsticks, but smaller, hiltless, usable by anyone, and with more color options. Maybe even cycling through the rainbow as you wave them around. There is some nano effect that kind of looks like a gymnastics ribbon. I don't know what nano it goes with in-game but some ARKs can invoke it socially. Having the glowsticks cast that on their user once in a while would be cool. Just the visual effect, of course, not the nano.

11 (tie) fairy costume

Something really cute to wear while flying around with fairy wings and a jetpack. There are different opinions on how much fairies should wear. Some insist that nature spirits wear just a couple leaves and vines at most, but the "Leaves" outfits have that "covered" already. (See also "Palm Leaf Bikini" above.) Others would have them dress like pretty little princesses, which would be another good costume option by itself. And of course, the classic Disney example wears a simple, short, brightly colored dress and leaves a trail of sparkles everywhere. Sparkly clothing might have to wait for the new engine, but contrast works in this one. Maybe something like http://www.yandy.com/Sweet-Butterfly-Costume.php would work. Or http://www.buyfairycostumes.com/womens- ... stume.html

13) tradable Trick-or-Treat bags

Put Uncle Pumpkinhead's drops in Halloween versions of the Christmas Gift so we can trade them later to friends who missed the event or give them away at parties. Of course, this could encourage farming pumpkins with higher level alts to give the lowbies their phats later, but no more so than the Christmas Gifts do, and Christmas doesn't have Lya's Sangi armor to encourage hunting for you own stuff. Christmas is traditionally more about giving and Halloween more about greed, but I think the AO player base is trending closer to the handing out candy or chaperoning the kids age than the trick-or-treating age, and part of the fun was always trading the licorice for peanut butter cups back home anyway.

14 (tie) GSP trenchskirt

Yeah, a third GSP-themed item, but that part of this is optional. The "trenchskirt" that's already in game is a whole one-piece outfit that doesn't mix or match with anything else. This suggestion is like the bottom half of that trenchskirt, but black with a blue GSP logo on front, blue designs starting at bottom in a light blue matching the Blue Boots, then “GSP” on back, darker blue toward the top. Just black and blue without the logo would be fine, too, as long as it's a separate skirt and not too much like the Aquaan trenchcoat.

14 (tie) dancing devil opi girl toy

Similar to the Dancing Mrs. Claus, but a little Opifex girl in a sexy red devil outfit with horns, tail, and pitchfork. That should be an easy one. All that's missing is the tail, and if you're going to make a tail for the doll, you may as well make it wearable for us, too. A new devil costume instead of just using something red we already have would be nice. Maybe something like a red version of the Bunny suit.

14 (tie) cybergoth looking respirator/gas mask

Black and green stylish technological solution for adventures in places where breathing is an unpleasant necessity, like those filthy sewers under the abandoned subways and the caverns under BioMaRe. Google images of "Cyber Goth Respirator" and you'll get a whole lot of different examples. DJ Synnthetik suggested it and is wearing one in his forum avatar, so this is probably what he meant: http://www.gridstream.org/forums/profil ... ile&u=4829

14 (tie) tavern wench costume

Something for us landlubbers to wear when everyone else is dressing up as pirates. Something like these:
- http://www.costumeexpress.com/Tavern-We ... etail.aspx
- http://www.buypiratecostumes.com/tortug ... stume.html
Anything like that would be good, but it's got to be showy or it's missing the point. These are the renaissance equivalent of the Hooters outfit, designed to keep everyone buying more beer, just to watch you pour it. The advantage of having all your clothes painted on is not worrying about anything popping out when you jump around, so there's no actual risk to making a dress look like it's just about to fall off.

18 (tie) black rose

Now that we know figurines can be both decorations and hand-held props, how about doing the same with black roses? Maybe right-click to switch them between lying flat on a surface and standing up in a vase. Or make the vase a separate item to combine with. I think the last time I suggested this, I included something about picking them like Carbon-rich Rocks in the dark, foggy fields where the pumpkins roam. I still think that would be neat, but it's not a requirement. What is important is making them tradable, but apparently that's a given for decorations anyway.

18 (tie) scary bunny costume

The first example that comes to mind for me is "Frank" from Donnie Darkko ( http://www.bunspace.com/groups/group_index?gid=160 ), but DJ AndyZ pointed out another example in this music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzkJYoyHqdI The basic idea is a cross between the Easter Bunny, a werewolf, and a generic slasher from some cheesy B-movie. It could even have a changeable head like the panda to switch from happy bunny to scary bunny. It's not just the face that's scary on Frank, though.

20) goggles

We have visors, and sunglasses, and monocles, even a funny hat with built-in goggles, but no separate goggles yet. Is it the headband that's the problem? Throw some nanos at it. Affix them to the temples with dermatologically safe quantum polarized nano-adhesive. A couple different styles would be nice, like spooky glowing red lenses, steampunk chrome with gears, angular black plastic with blinking LEDs, or whatever you guys can come up with that looks like protective and/or useful eyewear.

And there are over 100 more ideas already on the brainstorming thread. Not much more has come in since the voting, but the thread is still open, so they might.

That URL again: http://www.gridstream.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18825

I hope you like something on this list, and we're all looking forward to seeing what Uncle Pumpkinhead brings us this year.

- Jezebelle

[Sprkly]

Fantastic job on this, as always, Jezebelle! <3