{"id":503,"date":"2018-11-01T05:29:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2018-11-01T05:29:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:29:30","slug":"halloween-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Winners!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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$\"\"$ Our Grand Prize winner was\u00a0Jake<\/strong>, with his incredible \u201cMaze Macabre!\u201d Jake managed not only to create a compelling and interesting haunted house, but he built a whole experience around it, very successfully emulating the feeling, experience, and enjoyment of a real-life corn maze, and he even tried to be present for each person who reached the end of the maze to help them celebrate, to give them goodies, and an impromptu fireworks display for their efforts. In $\"\"$ included a genuinely challenging maze, riddles, challenges, and a fun haunted house in the center. Great work, and a huge congratulations on your prizes for next wipe!\u00a0 We\u2019re looking forward to seeing what you do through $\"\"$ November!<\/p>\n

We had a two-way tie for our first runner-up was Jakolantern, with The Pumpkin Corporation\u2019s genetic research lab. Throughout the facility, and as you wandered deeper and deeper into the bowels of this site, more and more $\"\"$ layers of secrets began to be peeled back, revealing that the doctors working to cure people of their ailments were actually creating deranged pumpkin\/scarecrow\/human hybrids, and running extensive, murderous experiments on them. The overall theme was unique and moving, and a unique take on the horror genre, that even managed to illicit not one, but two jump-scares with well-placed lights and turrets.<\/p>\n

Our second-first runner-up was Dasbronco, creating an old rural church-<\/p>\n

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turned-funeral home. While the theme was a little bit of a trope, the\u00a0execution\u00a0<\/em>on that theme was absolutely top notch. Where the other winners showed an interesting and creative step outside the box, this one took what was in the box, and polished it to a lustrous shine.<\/p>\n

Our second runner up was Killer Jermz with what appeared at first to be a $\"\"$ simple, straightforward mansion, but one that held a secret. As you explored the themed, dark, and oppressive rooms, it became more and more clear that the owners of this home had dark appetites that demanded satisfaction, and upon delving into the cellar, you find that it\u2019s no cellar at all, but a torturous dungeon, complete with a supply of captured island survivors, including our long-lost Mrs. Muerte. $\"\"$ Also within the dank dungeon were a number of ritual pieces and coffins for collecting those who didn\u2019t survive the dungeon\u2013which makes us beg the question, \u201cWho was on display in the funeral chapel out back, and who fills all of those graves in the \u2018family\u2019 cemetery plot?\u201d $\"\"$ <\/p>\n

A huge shout out for all of our winners, and congratulations!\u00a0 Thank you all for your hard work, your dedication, and your creativity!\u00a0 We can\u2019t wait to see what you come up with next, as we celebrate Valentine\u2019s Day in February by ripping out hearts and eating them, with the spoopy return of our late winter Halloween redux!<\/p>\n

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