[h3][center][b][i]The[/i][/b] Pumpkin King![/center][/h3]
[quote=Cassim][color=035096]”If any of you happens to see a tall skeleton accompanied by a ghostly hound, they are allies! The King of Halloween is a friendly figure I have already run into tonight.”[/color][/quote]
[color=orange]"Over here, everyone!"[/color] Jack waved his hand over to the cast of characters. Oh boy, that's a lot of characters. There wasn't any need for him to introduce Cassim once again, but he did notice the arrival of a few other characters from the books kept in his library as well. There was a well-known swordswoman from the far east, an heir to a throne in a country where everyone spoke like dirty bathwater. The large gentleman that Jack had stepped on earlier was unfamiliar, but he might've been your standard 'big strong man' character in the cast of a book, though he thought twice when he uttered something about a beast. Wasn't that... oh well. There was also someone that was known through his lands as a fairly funky emperor, who would no doubt be a delight to meet under other terms, but as it stood right now, these shadows had to go. 

That was, unfortunately, all the characters that the King of Halloween had recognized before he felt something in the air. Something strong, something tantalizing. Something... scary.

[color=orange]"Oh, does anyone feel that in the wind? It just makes me feel that tonight..."[/color] Jack said as he opened up the top of his bag, an orange light shining out of it's opening.

[color=orange]"... will be an absolutely [color=orangered][b][i]HORRIFYING[/i][/b][/color] night for these shadows!"[/color] 

Just as he finished his proclamation, Jack dropped the bag onto the ground, the contents that were once in it having been vanished from anyone's sight, at least for the time being. Might it have been a clever illusion, nobody knew, but Jack certainly knew what to do. He stepped onto the empty burlap sack, a pillar of bright orange flame rising out of it and enveloping Jack's entire lanky and creepy form, completely covering him long enough for him to release a positively joyful cackle.

[sup][h3][b][color=orangered]"AH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"[/color][/b][/h3][/sup]
The fire sunk back down, revealing none other than [url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/thenightmarebeforechristmas/images/9/98/Scarecrow.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20140109144209]the Pumpkin King[/url] in his full luster, a Jack-o-Lantern head topping the raggedy red shirt he was wearing, as well as the woven hay that covered his arms and legs. On top of that, it was unclear that he had actual fireballs in his hand or just really hot pumpkins, but it was evident that some amount of fire was involved. In the end, it was very clear that if there were any more civilians around, they'd certainly have left at the sight of the Pumpkin King.

It was almost as if you could hear a [url=https://youtu.be/s5rzbttiMxA]tune[/url] in the cold wind of the night...

[color=orangered]"Halloween's come early this year, everybody! Though, it's not a matter of simple Trick-or-Treating right now!"[/color] Jack announced to his untimely comrades, smiling all the while. [color=orangered]"I'm all for a bit of trickery, but these shadows have pulled a trick that not even I'd pull! Mind giving this old sack of skulls a hand at handling these naughty shadows?!"[/color]