[Amalette wasn't lying, however. There is a giant pumpkin problem.]
[Indeed, right where she said past all the houses and in the westmost clearing, a jack-o-lantern the size of a house has swelled to horrifying proportions. For some reason, the clouds are thickest in this area, draping it all in a darkness that makes the pumpkin's leer cut through like a knife. Thick vines coil and writhe around its base, lashing out with vicious force at anything close enough in its nearby vicinity.]
[Fortunately, this seems restricted only half of the clearing's total area, at the spots nearest to the pumpkin behemoth.]
[Unfortunately, curving out from the pumpkin's position in a crescent facing the road into it, there are dozens of smaller jack-o-lanterns. They're only regular sized, some even tiny, but that seems to be working to their advantage. They'll try to trip anyone close enough, and sometimes even use their vines to latch onto a person so that they can drag themselves closer and gnaw on them.]
[...Being that they're made of pumpkin, it's not very effective.]
[All the power seems to be in the giant pumpkin, so taking it out is obviously a priority. However, with its powerful vines and the smaller pumpkins getting in the way, that's going to be a little tricky.]
[For the particularly observant, they may notice that a few pumpkins don't seem to be involved in the combat at all. Instead, they're nestled the furthest in, closest to the giant pumpkin's mass, and glow in a rainbow of colors instead of the typical jack o' lantern leer.]
Pumpkin Fight
[Indeed, right where she said past all the houses and in the westmost clearing, a jack-o-lantern the size of a house has swelled to horrifying proportions. For some reason, the clouds are thickest in this area, draping it all in a darkness that makes the pumpkin's leer cut through like a knife. Thick vines coil and writhe around its base, lashing out with vicious force at anything close enough in its nearby vicinity.]
[Fortunately, this seems restricted only half of the clearing's total area, at the spots nearest to the pumpkin behemoth.]
[Unfortunately, curving out from the pumpkin's position in a crescent facing the road into it, there are dozens of smaller jack-o-lanterns. They're only regular sized, some even tiny, but that seems to be working to their advantage. They'll try to trip anyone close enough, and sometimes even use their vines to latch onto a person so that they can drag themselves closer and gnaw on them.]
[...Being that they're made of pumpkin, it's not very effective.]
[All the power seems to be in the giant pumpkin, so taking it out is obviously a priority. However, with its powerful vines and the smaller pumpkins getting in the way, that's going to be a little tricky.]
[For the particularly observant, they may notice that a few pumpkins don't seem to be involved in the combat at all. Instead, they're nestled the furthest in, closest to the giant pumpkin's mass, and glow in a rainbow of colors instead of the typical jack o' lantern leer.]