This challenge is starting the first day of Halloween Snowman on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 and will run through midnight Mara time on Sunday October 20, 2024.
If Ian changes the date, that will affect the dates of the contest.

Get as much questing done as possible this week because Character Trick or Treating starts on the 21st.

You will win Halloween Snowman prizes at the same time as you complete the club challenge. This will also help you to get Rewards from the Royal Faerie.
The higher your numbers increase, the better the prize will be. Everyone who enters will win a random Maraween related item from my attic. It could be a Halloween treat or a prize from Beelzebub, Elger, Halloween Snowman, Halloween Alien, or the Pumpkin Hunt.

All entrants were sent Little Ghost Story from Elger's Trick or Treat 2017.
1st Place: Witch Azul Potion (retired) (7.5 mil in trades) - Aimee
2nd Place: Enchanted Vampire Renat Plushie (2.5 mil in trades) - Swetanew
3rd Place: Halloween Ushunda Potion (500K) - bebbs

Prizes will be award to the person who does the most quests in the allotted time. In the event of a tie, the winners will be assigned a number and a random number generator will decide winners

To enter, First, post your username. Then, post your beginning number of Snowman quests below in the comments section. Go to the Snowman Quests page. toward the top left you should see your total.

Example of what an entry looks like:
Gwylynnsgarden
START: You have completed 3,070 Snowman Quests

At the end of the contest (or earlier if you feel you are done questing) , go back to the Snowman Quest page, copy and paste your finishing totals on the blog below, along with your username.

Example of what a finishing entry looks like:
Gwylynnsgarden
START: You have completed 3,070 Snowman Quests
END: You have completed 3,863 Snowman Quests

Winners will be announced here and in club chat.

Aimee START: You have completed 14,200 Snowman quests END: You have completed 16,200 Snowman quests Prize List TOTAL: 2.000 FIRST PLACE

bebbs start You have completed 26,242 Snowman quests
end 27,061 TOTAL: 819 THIRD PLACE

Trick or Treat examples from previous years:

Nice to see you again
Pulls out big bowl and pours into your bag a
lollipop
candycane
rose
a plushie toy
some chocolate
and whats that - a wormy apple ewwww.
Happy Maraween

"You scream I scream we all scream for ICE CREAM!"
Eat it before it melts!

Happy Halloween Enjoy your goodies

digs a Glowing Halloween Egg and Milk Chocolate Addow out of her bag for you

A rather large lady wearing a pink tutu (real scary) surrounded by three tiny dogs also wearing tutu's (again scary)greets you when you knock on the door and tosses some assorted goodies from a ginormous bowl on the hallway table into your bag

My bag of goodies knows we have been to this door before and is shaking like mad as it is so scared of those **EYES** boring into your brain so he throws some goodies onto the step and then flees....
elger candy dispenser
sumo feliz trading card (Idon't know I am not the one giving them out)
dark chocolate doyle
dark chocolate equilor
You know dark chocolate is good for you.
Happy Halloween!!!!

Trick!!!
**runs up to your house and pelts eggs at it*** Muahahahaaa!!

Gwylynnsgarden was the neighborhood’s Kool-Aid mom. Her home was a safe and comfortable place. She’d had loads of children come Trick or Treating before it started to pour. She was just about to turn off her porch lights when a child from a few doors down dressed as a princess rang her doorbell. The costume the child’s mother had made her especially for Halloween 2024 was sticking to her body, her makeup was dripping down her cheeks, and she was shivering. “HAaaachew!” “Have you no brain at all, child?” Gwylynnsgarden mumbled as she looked down at the miserably wet girl. “I have a dold in my dose,” the girl explained. My mom and dad said dot to, but I had to say Twick or Tweat to you.” “Take these and run right home as fast as you can,” Gwylynnsgarden said in an I-Mean-It voice as she wrapped the child up in a Reverse Patchwork Quilt and handed her A Box of Tissues, Chicken Soup in a special protective wrapper, Chocolate Mice, a Grape Gummy Brain, Liquorice Gummy Renat Legs, and an October Booser. A Box of Tissues, Chicken Soup in a special protective wrapper, Chocolate Mice, a Gra

Hi everyone,

I hope you have been enjoying Marapets' 21st Birthday. As of the time of writing this, you have about 1 day and 6 hours to finish getting whatever you need. I've been finishing up the last of my gourmet foods for my 16 everything pets.

Once again, thank you to all who have been generously donating items to the club to benefit everyone. If you would like to help out with September quizzes and raffles, here are the items we will focus on in September:

Zodiac Treasure Chests & items (Aquarius, Aries, Cancer, Capricorn, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Pisces, Sagittarius, Scorpio, Taurus, Virgo) , pirate (talk like a pirate day Sep 19th) , Buccaneer, scurvy, swashbuckler, bootleg, Fake Hieroglyphics for Bootleg Pyramid, mafia, dukka, smuggler, items from the Smuggler shop, hieroglyphics for Transmogrification Pyramid, Kamilah codes for Kamilah Pyramid, scholarships, school items, sports items, skater, Sk8er, hairy, hobo, burnt, camouflage, calico, cowboy, western, detective, olive, beige, plum, new stamps & stamps that don't fit in another month, crystal ball items, September

All donations are always welcome, even if they don't fit the items above. Your donations get sorted into swaps, club shop, quizzes, and raffles. Items that fit another month get stored in our club gallery until we are ready to use them. You can always check club items to see what we currently have available to use for quizzes and raffles. Check out the club gallery to see other months. Once you get past all the potatoes, maps, etc. the items are sorted by month.

REMINDER - Halloween Snowman is coming up quickly. Be sure to restock items from the Halloween Treats shop. My personal goal is to try for 200 of each item -- 100 for questing and 100 to sell. Probably won't happen lol, but goals are important Smile

For our newer members, I combed through last year's news releases and put together information about what kind of pet costumes you need for Elger Trick or Treating, which wardrobe costumes you can use for Character Trick or Treating, and which pets get free training. Not a guarantee, but they have been pretty consistent each year. You can find all this on my Maraween Planning Blog.
https://www.marapets.com/blogs.php?entry=503941&id=2039393

HELPFUL HINT: Ian usually releases a lot of AU items for Maraween, Thanksgiving, and Elfmas. Stock up on AU now before it gets even more exp

CLOSED

9/12-9/20


Thanks Cygnet for this wonderful banner!

Ahoy mateys! The scuttlebut is that International Talk Like a Pirate Day started in 1995 when friends John Baur and Mark Summers started using pirate slang during a racquetball game. It was so fun they made it an annual event every September 19th. For several years it stayed an inside joke, but gained recognition in 2002 after their idea was shared with Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Dave Barry, who wrote a column about it in the Miami Herald titled "Arrrrr! Talk like a pirate — or prepare to be boarded."

In honor of this fun and light-hearted holiday, I put together a little Talk Like a Pirate Day Scavenger Hunt. All questions are Marapets related.

Send me a Maramail with your answers no later than September 20th. Please do not post answers in club chat or on the blog. Club points for correct answers will be awarded as posted below. Everyone who gets all 15 correct will also be entered into the lottery for a One Hundred Dukka Coin. The grand prize winner will be chosen using an online random name picker.

grand prize lottery - One Hundred Dukka Coin


WINNER: Cygnet

5 Questions Correct - 5,000 Club Points
10 Questions Correct - 15,000 Club Points
15 Questions Correct - 25,000 Club Points & entry into the One Hundred Dukka Coin Lottery

Have fun and fair winds!

1. What world is the Smuggler located in?
2. Who has 30 bags of loot for you to open?
3. Who keeps track of all shop price changes?
4. Where can you buy an Illicit?
5. Where can you find a Potion Commotion CD?
6. Visit Anagram Sam in the Dukka Caves. What species is Sam?
7. Why can’t the Dukka Fairy leave Dukka Town?
8. What is the largest Dukka Coin denomination?
9. How can you win Pirate Movie?
10. How many pets can wear the Pirate Costume?
11. Where can you buy Pirate Diary?
12. How much does a Pirate Mocktail cost?
13. Where can you win Unauthorised Autobiography of the Smuggler?
14. How many different Dukka Town Scratchcards can you win?

2026 CALENDAR
9/1-9/7- Hits of the 70s Word Scramble - DayravenB
https://www.marapets.com/blogs.php?entry=503501&id=5312326
9/16 Stamptember 16th

EVENTS:
9/1-9/7 Hits of the 70s Word Scramble (DayravenB )
Fifteen song titles to unscramble. The scrambled titles will post on August 31st. Everyone who enters will be awarded 10K club points and everyone who finishes all 15 songs wins a gourmet food item from DayravenB's attic.
https://www.marapets.com/blogs.php?entry=503501&id=5312326

RAFFLES/QUIZZES:
SEPTEMBER (Stamptember 16th)
Zodiac Treasure Chests & items (Aquarius, Aries, Cancer, Capricorn, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Pisces, Sagittarius, Scorpio, Taurus, Virgo) , Hieroglyphics for Transmogrification Pyramid, Kamilah Codes for Kamilah Pyramid, Scholarships, School, Sports, Skater, Sk8er, Hairy, Hobo, Burnt, Camouflage, Calico, Cowboy, Western, Detective, Olive, Beige, Plum, Mauve, new stamps & stamps that don't fit in another month, Crystal Balls, Pet Day items (Cookie Cutters, Jelly, Pie, Pinecones, Paddle Balls, Pancakes, Pop-Up Books, Boosters), September

2025 CALENDAR:
9/6 - 9/12 ATM Farming Quest Challenge (Huckster) -
https://www.marapets.com/blogs.php?entry=504562&id=7037348
9/12 - 9/20 ATM Talk Like a Pirate Day Scavenger Hunt (gwylynnsgarden) - https://www.marapets.com/blogs.php?entry=504740&id=2039393
9/16 Stamptember 16th
9/22 - 9/28 ATM September Apple Scramble (Huckster)
https://www.marapets.com/blogs.php?entry=504563&id=7037348

BANNER CHALLENGE
Time for all our creative and tech people to shine. Earn 25,000 Club Points for each ATM banner you design. We especially need banners for non-holiday and autumn, but we would also love new Maraween, Thanksgiving, Elfember, and winter banners. Draw your own or use AI. Maramail me the image link so I can award points and add it to our banner list.
Theme ideas:
September/Autumn - back to school, Stamptember, autumn, pirates (Talk Like a Pirate Day is 9/17.)
October - Maraween, Halloween
November - Thanksgiving
December/January - Elfember, Christmas, Holiday, New Year, winter


ADD REMINDER to restock for Halloween Snowman

Collected info about which pet costumes you need for Elger ToT & free training, which wardrobe costumes you need for Character ToT on the October Planning B