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News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 7:34 pm

Centuries ago, before the war, at the beginning of the Inferno, a dingy bar on the outskirts of a long forgotten city, an old forgesmith invited the Darkness for a drink. Stingy Jack as he was known, didn't like to pay for his own drinks, so he some how convinced the Darkness to transform himself into an Energon credit, the Darkness, for whatever reason, obliged.

Stingy Jack, being the stingy mech that he was still skipped out on his bar tab. Fixing the energon credit with a transformation inhibitor, he kept the dark Energon credit at his side.

Jack eventually freed the Darkness, under the condition that he would not bother Jack for one year and that, should Jack die, he would not claim his spark. The next year, Jack again tricked the Darkness into climbing into a tree to pick a piece of energn. While he was up in the tree, Jack carved engaged a transformation inhibitor field around the tree so that the Darkness could not come down until the Darkness promised Jack not to bother him for ten more years.

Soon after, Jack died. As the legend goes, such an unsavory figure could not be allowed into the AllSpark. The Darkness, upset by the trick Jack had played on him and keeping his word not to claim his spark, would not allow Jack into the Inferno. He sent Jack off into the dark night with only a burning optics to light his way. As the centuries passed, the ghostly figure of Stingy Jack roamed Cybertron, his burning optics acting like a lantern, as his name drifted into mythology, Cybertronians began to refer to him as "Jack of the Lantern", or "Jack-o-Lantern" for short.

But Jack has grown tired of roaming, he has been witness to The Great War, he has witnessed the destruction of Cybertron, enraged, Jack has spread his ghostly influence, possessing Cybertronians with his influence, using them to spread his influence further until Cybertron is his ...

IT'S HALLOWEEN!
The first to fall under Jack's influence is the Autobots! Now available to them for a limited time only is the all new SMASHING PUMPKIN alt!

For the first time ever, BITE comes to the Autobots. Will you fall under the influence of Jack-o-Lantern? And how long until the Decepticons fall under the ghostly mechs influence ...

by **Wingz** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 7:41 pm

It has begun :twisted:

by **turbomagnus** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 9:34 pm

Has anyone seen Ichabod Crane? I seem to have found an old friend of his...

by **Light Metal** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 9:38 pm

This is awesome! I need to reformat one of my ‘Bots as soon as I can.

And I need to read that book one day, too. It’s already done enough of a fine job collecting dust on the top of my bookcase. lol

by **Wingz** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 9:43 pm

Light Metal wrote:I need to reformat one of my ‘Bots as soon as I can.

The sooner our Hell Missions are filled by an army of biting pumpkins, the better :twisted:

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 1:16 am

Awesome.

Pumpkins vs Sharkticons.

Let's ****ing do this!!

by **Light Metal** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 2:30 am

Wingz wrote:
Light Metal wrote:I need to reformat one of my ‘Bots as soon as I can.

The sooner our Hell Missions are filled by an army of biting pumpkins, the better

It’s about time the pumpkins did the eating instead of being the eaten. :twisted:

by **turbomagnus** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 6:33 am

turbomagnus wrote:Has anyone seen Ichabod Crane? I seem to have found an old friend of his...

If anyone's interested, I've finished and added Horseman's full bio to his character page...

Light Metal wrote:This is awesome! I need to reformat one of my ‘Bots as soon as I can.

And I need to read that book one day, too. It’s already done enough of a fine job collecting dust on the top of my bookcase. lol

I actually remember that before I ever read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", I grew up listening to it on a cassette tape (full-sized, not microcassette like Ravage et. al. and I'll avoid any references to how old that makes me feel...)

Psychout wrote:Awesome.

Pumpkins vs Sharkticons.

Let's ****ing do this!!

Alright, pumpkins, let's get chunkin'!

by **ThunderThruster** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 6:49 am

turbomagnus wrote:
turbomagnus wrote:Has anyone seen Ichabod Crane? I seem to have found an old friend of his...

If anyone's interested, I've finished and added Horseman's full bio to his character page...

Interesting transformation scheme. Sure I've heard of something similar before...

Like Optimus_Prime007 on Facebook · by **Optimus_Prime007** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 7:00 am

Don't mind if I do..

by **turbomagnus** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 7:15 am

ThunderThruster wrote:
turbomagnus wrote:
turbomagnus wrote:Has anyone seen Ichabod Crane? I seem to have found an old friend of his...

If anyone's interested, I've finished and added Horseman's full bio to his character page...

Interesting transformation scheme. Sure I've heard of something similar before...

Pretty much. :-D

(Actually, it was inspired by a 'Big Lots' knock-off of the Red Ranger and the white unicorn that I still have, but it's the same transformation sequence.)

by **ThunderThruster** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 7:16 am

It's actually a nice figure, so I don't blame you for wanting to use it ;)^

Like steve2275 on Facebook · by **steve2275** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:37 am

so...……...where the orange lightsabers at?

by **turbomagnus** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 9:14 am

Those were lightsabers? I ate them thinking they were some kind of new glowing popsicles...

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 9:48 am

steve2275 wrote:so...……...where the orange lightsabers at?

Glowsticks, actually. We've been using them at the raves in Psychout's HQ.

Like steve2275 on Facebook · by **steve2275** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 11:21 am

ctrlFrequency wrote:
steve2275 wrote:so...……...where the orange lightsabers at?

Glowsticks, actually. We've been using them at the raves in Psychout's HQ.

rave out man

by **sumowrestler** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 2:35 pm

IT'S HALLOWEEN!
The first to fall under Jack's influence is the Autobots! Now available to them for a limited time only is the all new SMASHING PUMPKIN alt!

For the first time ever, BITE comes to the Autobots. Will you fall under the influence of Jack-o-Lantern? And how long until the Decepticons fall under the ghostly mechs influence ...[/quote]

Looks like Botanica and Rat Trap had a kid. Will the pumpkin have the nasty overbite of his father? Is this Unicron in Disguise?

by **S.o.L.** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 5:59 pm

The giant monster battle no one was expecting.
https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/view_mission.php?mission_id=104303

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 11:00 pm

Stingy Jack's influence spread rapidly, a number of weak minded Autobots fell to his possession. The war was already chaos, already on the back foot, the Autobots now found a new threat amongst themselves.

But Stingy Jack cared little for badges, he didn't need no stinkin' badges, he wanted sparks, so he turned his attention towards the Decepticons.

The Decepticons had seen what had been happening, and had mounted a feeble defense, they had no idea what they were doing, they believed Jack shared the Decepticon beliefs, but they were foolish, none more so than the Decepticon simply named Burn who could only watch in dismay as the first Decepticons fell to Jack's influence.

"Well that ain't bloody right!" he muttered "That bloody alt is set to unavailable to the Decepticons! I wasn't going to make it available until at least tomorrow! Bloody game!"

Thus, the Smashing Pumpkin found it's way into the Decepticon ranks and Stingy Jack's influence spread faster than expected...

by **turbomagnus** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:26 am

I'd like to register a minor degree of disappointment with fellow Smashing Pumpkin commanders on both sides...

No one's created The Great Pumpkin yet, Charlie Brown. How is he supposed to rise out of the pumpkin patch at midnight on Halloween and bring everyone presents if he's not on anyone's team?

News Credits: 1 · by **Cheetron** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:28 am

Changed my latest bots alt mode. Since he's a bit soft in the meleon, he's a blue pumpkin. Lol

by **White_Noise** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 2:03 pm

turbomagnus wrote:No one's created The Great Pumpkin yet, Charlie Brown

Say no more, say no more :-D

White_Noise

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 4:30 pm

Dressed up for Halloween!!

Hope you lot are also having a great time!

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 4:40 pm

Well I just spent five minutes trying to make the Pumpkin NOT available to the Decepticons, and it STILL didn't work.

So that's how much fun I'm having.