the shadow before

TIME UPDATE

Sunday, October 29th - Saturday, November 4th
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29th:
Weather: A sunny, clear day with a bit of a breeze; 58°/42°

EVENTS
→ A quiet, beautiful day in town.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 30th:
Weather: Another beautiful, sunny day; 60°/53°

EVENTS
→ Spooktacular is having an end of 'season' sale! Everything in store is 75% off. If you haven't gotten your costume yet, come around and take a look. There's still plenty of awesome costumes left, but time is running out!

→ A small volunteer group of four people head out to Cooperdale Tunnel in the morning to paint over the graffiti and remove the hook that had been placed there in 'poor taste'. They finish up around noon with no incident. The tunnel doesn't exactly look 'good as new', but the graffiti is gone, at least.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31st:
Weather: A bit of rain in the morning, but the skies clear up by lunch time and it's a breezy, cloudy day; 59°/46°

EVENTS
→ What a lovely night for Halloween! Along with the usual trick or treating going on in the neighborhoods, Halloween Fest 2017 has also taken over Main Street! Several blocks are closed to traffic, and most of the merchant shops are open for trick or treaters of *any* age, as long as you show up in costume! There are dozens of booths set up along the street where you can buy a Halloween themed drink (only those with proper wristbands will be served the adult beverages), bob for apples, buy popcorn balls, paint pumpkins and more! Enjoy face painting, scary hair styles, puppet shows and a photo booth to commemorate the festive night.

→ For the 21+ crowd who wants to actively avoid the young-uns, Dragonfly is hosting their own Halloween party. Costumes are encouraged, and there will be plenty of Halloween themed drink specials.

→ Around 9:00pm, the festivities all over town take a strange turn. Anyone who happened to buy their costumes from Spooktacular (and is wearing it tonight) will find themselves transformed... into their costume. A pirate will believe he's actually a swashbuckler searching for treasure. Spider-man may actually believe he can scale buildings and fight crime. A werewolf will be on the prowl for human flesh. Things get a bit dicey as plenty of residents begin to act strangely and run amok. There is an influx of calls to the PPPD who, once again, find themselves woefully understaffed for such chaos.

If anyone is alert or intelligent enough to realize Spooktacular is the common denominator, congratulations! Unfortunately, the shop itself is completely empty and deserted by this time. It was like it never existed at all. Weird. Things return to normal as soon as the clock hits midnight, leaving a bunch of confused, upset and potentially injured (or worse) townsfolk. What could possibly be the explanation for this?

Birthdays: Reagan Kelly WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1st:
Weather: A drastic dip in temperature, a bit unusual for this time of year in Point Pleasant, and there is a soft, but consistent snow fall from morning until well past sunset. Thankfully there is not much accumulation and most of the snow has melted by Thursday morning; 31°/23°

EVENTS
→ Everyone is still is reeling from the events of Halloween night, with some massive clean up happening around town. The PPPD are still trying to figure out what the hell happened when the Mayor releases a statement about candy laced with PCP. Case closed! ..... Say what? As usual, there are people willing to take the explanation at face value and move on, but the skeptics will wonder how many weird ass things in this town can be explained away by drugs.

Birthdays: Zeke Miller THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd:
Weather: Significantly warmer than the day before, but wet and gray throughout the day with a few scattered storms; 45°/31°

EVENTS
→There's an uneasy feeling settling over the town today, though there's really no explanation for it. Maybe it's the weather, the knowledge that winter is on its way. Maybe its the aftermath from a strange, chaotic Halloween night. Maybe its something else. Everyone experiences the ominous feeling in their own way, and will probably chalk it up to whatever makes them feel better. But there's no denying that things feel a bit dark and foreboding all day today. Is it a sign of things to come?

Birthdays: Miriam D'Onofrio FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd:
Weather: Partly sunny with a soft breeze; 56°/41°

EVENTS
→ For the high schoolers, there is a huge pep rally in the gymnasium during last period to cheer on the football team as they play round one of the playoffs tonight. It's win or go home! Attendance is mandatory, even for those not exactly full of 'school spirit'.

→ The Chamberlain Wolves play their first playoff game of the post season at home tonight at seven o'clock this evening. Unfortunately, it's also their last - the team gets clobbered and loses by twenty one points. Embarrassing. Their season is over, but of course the town is proud of their Wolves anyway! And basketball season will be starting up in a few weeks, so... yay?

Birthdays: Caius D'Onofrio SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4th:
Weather: Not much change from the day before, Partly sunny, breezy and comfortable; 55°/42°

EVENTS
→ With the Fright Series complete, the Orion will be playing a bevy of 'classics' every Saturday night at 7pm and 10pm. Tonight will be the fantasy, romance, action adventure The Princess Bride.

→ Tonight is the full moon. If you lock your doors, that will keep the badness out, right?