Jorvik Star: Issue 7

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Issue 6 ★ Week of October 18 - 24 

Halloween in Jorvik!

Galloper's Keep Has Returned.

Halloween has returned to Jorvik, but with a Pandoric Twist. Galloper's Keep is back, but Ydris has discovered it and decided to crash the Halloween party!

Here's a summary of what you'll be able to do at Galloper's Keep this year.

•Throw soul shards into the cauldron for prizes. This year's shards are pink and you'll find them in a new way this year.

•Experience Galloper's Past Race; The scarecrow hill race; and a brand-new Haunted Trail Ride.

•Explore the shops! There's one for spooky magic powders for your starter horse; a shop that sells masks (including brand-new masks); and one that sells clothes and tack including two new sets: a Cat Witch Costume and a Magician Costume.

•Buy the Black Cat and Gourd Pet from last year's pumpkin hunt, as well as a brand-new pet, a skeleton ghost cat

•Pepita, Woodear, and the Galloper Thompson Whinfell have returned along with a brand-new horse: A Skeleton Ghost American Quarter Horse called Tombhoof.

The New Haunted Trail Ride

This new trail ride can be started by going in the portal for it at Galloper's Keep. It's the same style trail ride as the Red String Trail Ride, but takes place the same route as the Light Ride: The new trails at Goldenhills. It's a random encounter trail ride. It is very scary and has not just ghosts, but also many creatures that chase you through Aideen's Whisper including a wolf, bear, possibly snakes, and a very large spider.

Also, if you like ghost stories, sit at the campfire and the NPCs will tell a Ghost Story. So far I've experienced two: One about a yeti and one about the Glue Man.

The first time you complete the trail ride each day you'll get horse experience, but you can do the trail multiple times, just no reward at the end (Well, except for escaping the place, that's rewarding enough)

The Great Pumpkin Hunt Has Returned!

Or at least, I think its great fun. The locations are the same as last year (2 locations in the Forest, on the hill near Jasper's Pumpkin Farm, Between the Pumpkin Farm and championship, and by Scarecrow Hill.), but spawning times have changed. 

After starting the search by talking to Jasper at Jasper's Pumpkin Farm and collecting the first pumpkin, you can get 5 more.

After these 5, you'll have to wait 20 minutes for the next pumpkin.

Once you get this one pumpkin, you have to wait 40 minutes, and so forth.

Check the board beside where you can turn in your golden pumpkins (both the one at Galloper's Keep and the Pumpkin Farm) to see how much longer until it spawns.

Instead of needing 50 Golden Pumpkins like last year's prize, you only need 20 for this year's, which is a purple and white striped gourd pet. The rest of the prizes are a hat, shirt, pants, shoes, saddle, bridle, saddle pad, saddle bag, and then shards, horse treats, magic powder, or horse experience. 

Remember, like last year, when you click to turn in for a prize that's listed multiple prizes, it randomly chooses one for you. 

Ghostnado!

This year for collecting soul shards, instead of the usual search-and-find, you'll have to look for a ghostly tornado. It appears once an hour and is easy to spot. Once you see it, find it and there will be a ghost. Talk to the ghost and the soul shards will appear. Collect all 20 to receive 1 soul shard to get prizes. You'll need 5 soul shards to turn in per prize, but with the extras from races and the ghost maze it shouldn't be hard to collect them all!

The Castle Maze Game

The Spooky Halloween maze has returned to Silverglade Castle, with an awesome new change: You can now move around with the minimap on. Simply cluck the "Surveillance Camera" button. You're character will have a green circle around it with a green arrow. The arrow is what direction you're facing. Move like you normally would to navigate the maze.

I totally recommend this if you find the maze too hard or maybe too overwhelming. This way it's no different than a Halloween version of Pac-Man! After getting used to the controls I found it a lot easier to navigate through and avoid ghosts and not panic because I missed just one pumpkin - you can get them all

The Ghost Train

The Ghost Train is back at it's usual spot again.

Halloween lasts in Jorvik from now through November 4th!

Other News, About News?

SSO added a new news pop-up that comes up when you login. It'll only come up if you have the content unlocked. To see it again, click the button that looks like a megaphone that's now next to the photomode button.

Until next week!

-Ruby Skywalker ♥