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- When wispy clouds creep across the harvest moon
- this month, will you be out shivering in the cold
- -- or snug inside, rubbing shoulders with ghosts
- and goblins on GEnie?
-
- Besides a costume party and the great files you'll
- read about in a minute, you can have a high time
- during two system-wide Halloween events this year.
- Both begin on Thursday, October 27th, and run
- through All Hallows Eve itself, Monday, October
- 31st. They promise gobs fun for the whole family.
-
- Scavenger Hunt
-
- GEnie's Halloween Scavenger Hunt will have you
- romping quickly through Bulletin Boards and
- Libraries in search of hidden Halloween treasures.
- And you won't go hoarse hollaring, "Trick or
- Treat!" because these goodies will speak to you
- with obviously Halloween-type clues. Just to keep
- things interesting, some hidden treasures may fade
- like ghosts, so collect every one you see when you
- see it (you'll know it when you do) since GEnie
- members who find the most will win delightfully
- ghoulish prizes including free time online.
-
- You won't have to hunt blindfolded since a list of
- RoundTables and Services where Scavenger Hunt
- treats are hidden will be available at a
- not-so-secret place online. Type HALLOWEEN at any
- GEnie prompt to get there, and then start
- scavenging.
-
- Monster March
-
- Keep your eyes wide open while you're in Real-Time
- Conferences (RTCs) throughout GEnie in late
- October, too. You could be the victim of a GEnie
- monster! Rather than scaring you, these monsters
- will award GEnie Gifts of Time to clever members
- who recognize them for who -- or what -- they are.
- Be sure check out any SKELETON or VAMPIRE you meet,
- or anyone calling himself FRANKENSTEIN.
-
- Learn more about GEnie's Scavenger Hunt and Monster
- March (including likely RTC haunts) by typing
- HALLOWEEN at any GEnie prompt starting on October
- 21st. That's where you'll need to report your
- Scavenger Hunt finds, too. Another hint is that
- Scavenger Hunt treasures will be uploaded and
- posted by the same monsters that roam the RTCs.
-
- Winning Scavengers will be announced on the
- HALLOWEEN Page on November 1st.
-
- Hold On!
-
- Those aren't the only high Halloween times you'll
- find online.
-
- The Family RoundTable is throwing a Haunted House
- Costume Party in their Real-Time Conference on
- Sunday, October 16th, starting at 9:00 PM Eastern
- Time. Wear your best ASCII Halloween costume so you
- can visit with vultures and hobnob with the other
- hooligans there. Virtual hot cider and doughnuts
- will be served while everyone enjoys a rousing game
- of Bobbing for Answers Trivia, with the highest
- scorer being treated to $6 in GEnie usage credit
- and truly untold fame. Type the keyword FAMILY or
- M1235 to get there from any GEnie prompt.
-
- For more productive fun, visit the WordPerfect
- RoundTable and check out their great collection of
- WordPerfect Halloween clip art along with a couple
- of nicely creepy fonts you can use in your own
- documents. File names and numbers are shown in this
- month's FileFinder (a separate file named
- LW9410FF.TXT that accompanies all multimedia
- issues), and in the clickable Halloween button in
- the multimedia issues on the page you're reading
- now, right over there to your left.
-
- Other Halloween files are being organized as we go
- to press, including a magnificent collection of
- Amiga Halloween art that's being converted to GIFs
- so that all types of computers can display them.
- Visit the *StarShip* Amiga RoundTable Gallery 44
- Library (Page 555, keyword AMIGA) for a truly
- special graphics treat. And the Multimedia
- RoundTable (keyword CYBERSPACE) is working on a
- multimedia Halloween presentation for
- IBM-compatibles that features a horrifying graphics
- slide show complete with spooky backg round music
- -- just the thing for entertaining your Trick or
- Treaters. Check the banner on Page 2000 for
- specifics.
-
- And what's Halloween without a good scare? Round
- out your holiday with some great horror from the
- original "penny dreadful" novel being serialized in
- the SFRT1 Library on Page 470. A new chapter of
- "Varney the Vampyre, or The Feast of Blood,"
- thought to have been written by James Malcolm
- Rymer, has been uploaded there every week since
- late last year. The opening chapter is in File 7381
- VARNY001.TXT. Find the others easily by selecting
- menu option 3 in the SFRT1 Library and searching on
- the term VARNEY. Each quick download is a scarey
- treat, perfect for reading outloud by the light of
- that spooky harvest moon.
-