Best Costume: Damsel Mikayla (chainmail bikini) 
Best Ghost Story: Marquessa Catalyn 
Best Decorated Pumpkin: Damsel Mikayla 
Honorable Mention: Night Aurelia 

The winners of each contest received a Jack-O-Lantern candle holder. 

GHOSTS FROM THE PAST 
As it was All Hallow's Eve, it seemed only appropriate that the Court was 
visited by two spirits of the departed.  These spirits belonged to Floyd 
and Reed, two of the three Unknown Mercenaries that accompanied Baron Ptolomei and Dame Endraneth in their encounter with Shadowcast all those years ago.  Fittingly enough, one of the pages was given a quest the week before to learn the tale of the three mercenaries and tell it in Court.  Floyd and Reed had with them a copy of the contract signed by Sir Aeric, Sir Marduk, and Illuminatrix Karissa on Aeric's quest for his Caerna dagger a few years back; Marquessa Catalyn gave one of the pages the quest of fufilling one of the contract's outrageous demands in as 
creative a way as possible. 

COMPANION...PREMIER...ASSASSIN?? 
The Fortune's Folly pages told the story of their Rock Guard this e'en, 
including a disturbing account of assassination by who appeared to be 
Duke Lorath Hawksmoor Zandofar.  The pages claimed that the assassin 
looked exactly like Duke Lorath, right down to his clothes and Zandofar 
medallion.  The premier commented that his Zandofar medallion had been 
missing for some time, and also claimed that he was in the company of the 
herald, Dame Jassurande Heruthane Zandofar, during the time of the 
attack.  Nevertheless, he was placed under voluntary house arrest until 
the truth of the matter can be determined. 

A.W.W. YEAH... 
An elderly gentleman by the name of Don Giovanni visited the Court 
briefly this e'en, to promote and seek participants in a very special 
brand of performance art: Armored Women's Wrestling.  With him was one of the participants, an amazon dressed not unlike Damsel Mikayla. 

TERROR IN THE TUNDRA 
Sir Marduk told the tale of how he travelled to the frozen north, where 
he matched wits with a werewolf and found Sirrah Nazgul and a companion (small "c") recently returned from the Blue Dimension. 

MOLLARI UNLEASHED! 
Marquessa Catalyn announced in Court this e'en that all of her permanent 
magical wards mysteriously disappeared this past Sunday, only to reappear just as mysteriously.  She explained that such wards should only be able to be dispelled by their caster, and that once dispelled, should not pop back up.  To further complicate matters, Sir Mollari apparently took the opportunity to escape from his cell in Gaul. 

A PORTAL TO EVIL 
Sir Aeric Bannier Caerna announced to the Court this e'en that he has 
commissioned a team of mages and craftsman to create a large 
magical "gate" to the Blue Dimension.  Following the directions given to 
him by Sirrah Vox, Sir Aeric had ordered mass quantities of the 
components for the one-man (-golem) transporters gathered over the course of the past month.  With the sovereign's blessing, his team is now going ahead with the construction of the device; once Sirrah Nazgul can be reached for reconaissance info, a plan for opening the gate and rescuing 
the Warwickian peasantry currently being held prisoner in the Blue 
Dimension can be drawn up. 

QUOTE OF THE WEEK 
Sirrah Adder: "And so the two mercenaries--" 
Mercenaries: "THREE mercenaries!" 
Sirrah Adder: "THREE mercenaries...." 

WEEKEND REPORT 
This Sunday, the Companions gathered at Creek Park to do what they do best--kill each other.  A lot.  See portraits of the bloody event at: 
http://siraeric.aokp.org/specialreport02.html