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Gourdon the Rotten

the pumpkin that would not stay carved

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Gourdon the Rotten

DEFEATED

the pumpkin that would not stay carved

0 / 60,000 HP (0.0%)

October 1 to October 7 · Eastern

Who is this?

The patch behind the camp had a good year. Too good. Members were still trading recipes for the harvest when the first green seeped up between the roots, and by morning every gourd in the field had a face nobody had carved.

Gourdon was the biggest of them and the only one that stood up. It does not speak. It does not need to. It walks the rows at dusk, and every pumpkin it passes splits open and follows, and the ones that fall get up again wearing somebody else's grin.

Cut it down and it comes back rounder. Burn it and the seeds pop and take root where they land. The camp has worked out that the only thing that helps is to keep hitting it until there is nothing left worth carving.

Camp defenses: +60% No Sugar Rush. Eat a candy first.

Gourdon the Rotten has fallen (October 6). The fight is over.

Fight Old Clucco now

Top damage

  1. 1 Pezman 5,986
  2. 2 FrostyFeet 4,929
  3. 3 madcat 4,291
  4. 4 Fluxflashor 4,037
  5. 5 SpookySpooky 3,626
  6. 6 Demonxz95 3,468
  7. 7 sule 2,449
  8. 8 aepoth 2,030
  9. 9 GoddammitDontShootMe 1,719
  10. 10 lukipr0 516

The story so far

  1. Chapter 1 DEFEATED

    Gourdon the Rotten

    the pumpkin that would not stay carved

    Gourdon came apart in the middle of the field and the grins went out one by one, all the way down the rows. What is left is seed and pulp and a green stain in the soil that nobody wants to touch. The harvest is ruined. The camp is not. Somebody has already started carving a wall out of the pieces.

  2. Chapter 2 DEFEATED

    The Bone Broker

    who sells what he steals

    The Bone Broker came apart at the joints and the sack split with him. Everything he had taken is back on the grass, and so is everything he took from wherever he was before. The tier two patterns are in camp hands now and the forge can finally move past copper. The ledger burned. Nobody is sorry.

  3. Chapter 3 DEFEATED

    Mother Spindle

    matron of the silk woods

    Mother Spindle folded into her own web and the woods went quiet for the first time in a fortnight. The sheets are still out there, acres of them, and they belong to nobody now. The tailors have not stopped working since. Half the camp is wearing silk and the other half is queuing for a loom.

  4. Chapter 4 DEFEATED

    Sir Hollowmere

    the knight with nothing under the helm

    Sir Hollowmere went down on one knee, and then the armour went down, and there was nothing inside it but cold air and a folded pattern. The camp's iron held. The plate is scrap now, good scrap, and what came out of the helm is worth more than the fight cost.

  5. Chapter 5 DEFEATED

    The Oozelord

    the flood with a face

    The Camp Holds. The Oozelord broke against the wall at the hour it should have come over it, and what went down the hill afterwards was only water. The pumpkins are still lit. The bells have stopped. Somebody is already asking what happens to all this silk in November, and somebody else has opened a shop. Oozefest is over and the camp is still here.