Do you have what it takes to topple the monarchy? Do your skills rouse revolution and regicide? Are you skilled enough with a knife to become... The pump-king (or pumpqueen, or pumpregent)? Announcing a pumpkin carving competition for Mayaween! Send in your various carved pumpkin designs, and instructions on colour and ambient effects, and have a chance to win some credits for first, second and third place! These designs will be showed off in a dazzling display of spooktacular lights at the mayaween jamboree hosted by our beloved CIJ.

I have included one of my own pumpkin designs as an example for what I'm looking for:

This fat pumpkin used to be heavy, but has since been hollowed out and made home to several lit candles. The light of the flickering flames shines through a wicked grin that has been carved into the side of the vegetable, projecting a crooked smile on the wall. Two big eyes sit above the smile, the left one disproportionately big compared to the rest of the face, and on closer inspection this eye has firecracker as its pupil, its fuse precariously close to the candles inside the mayaween decoration. The back of the pumpkin is painted black, with its stem painted grey with a piece of rope sticking upwards, making the back profile of this mayaween decoration look like a comically large bomb.

Ambient light: colour 2, A spooky red light flashes from inside the pumpkin, its top briefly jumping up as a small explosion goes off inside.

I eagerly await your submissions of pumpkin mutilation!


Penned by my hand on the 19th of Phaestian, in the year 1016 AF.