Editing The Tale of Woe

[[Image:TOW Gypsy Camp1.gif|frame|right|"It's no accident that so many legends and myths surround this place; in fact, I was reading about one just now."]]
'''The Tale of Woe''' was a [[plot]] set in the [[Haunted Woods]] that began on 2 October 2006, and concluded on 20 November 2006. It introduced the town of [[Neovia]], whose residents were transformed into monsters when they discovered a potion that promised their hearts desires. 

It starred [[Gilly]] of [[The Castle of Eliv Thade]] fame, and [[Sophie]] who had previously featured in the ''[[Neopets: The Darkest Faerie]]'' video game. It introduced [[Bruno]] and the mysterious [[wikipedia:Snake oil|Hissi oil salesman]] [[Mr. Krawley]], who taught the Neovians to be satisfied with what they had. In participating in this plot, players took on the roles of the lead characters and helped them surmount the obstacles they face in the story. 

The plot used the [[wikipedia:Frame story|framing device]] that it was a tale being told to the player by a mysterious [[Pink]] [[Elephante]] they met at the gypsy camp - who in fact is Mr. Krawley in disguise. Nested within this story, the Pink Elephante appears again to tell Gilly about the history of Neovia. 

==Synopsis==
A mysterious stranger, [[Mr. Krawley]], visited the town of [[Neovia]] with a potion that promised to fulfil anyone's heart's desire - but it transformed the townsfolk into twisted, monstrous versions of their desire for their greed. Desperate to save themselves, they made a deal with the [[Spirit of Slumber]], who 'cured' them of the potion by making the entire town into ghosts that only appeared once a year on [[Halloween]]. 

Ten years later, after hearing the story of Neovia, [[Gilly]] accidentally reunited the only two survivors, brother and sister [[Bruno]] and [[Sophie]] and together they find a way to summon the Spirit and undo his spell. The Neovians were restored to life, but were still the monsters the potion made of them. Thanks to the surprising assistance of Mr. Krawley himself, Gilly and Sophie were able to devise the potion's antidote. 

==Story==
[[Image:Tow mob.png|thumb|300px|left|Bruno faces down the angry mob.]] 
Gilly was lost in the Haunted Woods. As night drew in, she found shelter at a [[Gypsy Camp]]. There, she met a mysterious Pink Elephante with glittering, golden eyes. He offered to read her a story before she went to sleep. 

Somewhere in the Haunted Woods was a quiet town called Neovia. A [[Gelert]] named [[Bruno]] lived there, who was was besotted by [[Lily]], a local [[Pink]] [[Aisha]]. Bruno wasn't strong enough or charming enough to win Lily's affections from her boyfriend [[Oscar]], and thought that he would always be lonely. 

One day, he met a stranger to the town, a [[Krawk]] with bright gold eyes. He offered to sell Bruno a potion, Hissi oil, that would fulfil all his desires. Overnight, the potion made Bruno stronger and more confident. 

Bruno wasn't the only Neovian to be offered the potion. His father, Edmund, found it made his business a success again and his debts disappear, and his younger brother Reginald found the potion made him smarter. They encouraged their friends and neighbours to try [[Mr. Krawley]]'s potion, and all their wishes - from being taller, or more beautiful, or younger - began to be answered. Only the innocent, like Bruno's sister [[Sophie]], who wanted for nothing, didn't drink the potion. 

The effects of the potion did not end there, however. Bruno kept becoming stronger and stronger, until he was a grotesque muscular monster; Edmund became paranoid that people would want to steal his new fortune; Reginald become so intelligent that no one else could understand him any more. The entire town began to suffer for their greed and wanted answers from Mr. Krawley - but he had disappeared. The town turned their anger on Bruno and his family instead. 

While Bruno distracted the mob, Reginald smuggled their sister Sophie, the only one unaffected by the potion, out of the town and into the Woods. The [[Earth Faerie]] [[Ilere]] appeared to them, and took Sophie away to care for her. Reginald returned to Neovia and hid with his parents as the towns people drove Bruno out of Neovia. 

[[Mayor Thumburt]] managed to stop the mob before it turned on itself, and together they summoned the [[Spirit of Slumber]], a powerful ghost who haunts the Woods. He agreed to end Neovia's suffering, but for a "terrible price". 

The story at an end, Gilly went off to sleep. The next day, she left the camp and ventured back into the woods. 

[[Image:Tow reunited.png|right|thumb|300px|Gilly discovered the survivors from the Elephante's story.]]

Following a path out of the camp, Gilly found herself at the town from the story, Neovia. It was deserted, and in a burnt down house, she found a silver locket. She wanted to return it to its owner. She found a shack in the Woods, and asked the witch who lived there if she knew anything about the locket or Neovia. The witch snatched the locket and shooed Gilly away, threatening to turn her into a stink beetle. 

It started raining and Gilly took shelter in a cave. Inside, a monstrous Gelert was frightened by its own reflection and chased Gilly from the cave. She ran back to the witches shack, and made a shock discovery: the Gelert was Bruno from the story, and the witch was Sophie, his little sister. The siblings were amazed to see each other again. 

They swapped stories - Bruno had hidden in a cave to escape the townspeople and had lived there ever since, while Ilere took Sophie to the shack and gave her a magical chest of supplies to live off. Sophie had discovered that since that final night, the Neovians had disappeared from the town. They only appeared on [[Halloween]] as intangible, ghost-like beings. "Their faces were entirely blank, and their bodies looked like they were only going through the motions."

[[Image:Tow ilere spirit.png|left|thumb|300px|Ilere explains what she knows about the Spirit of Slumber.]]

Sophie had spent the last ten years trying to devise a cure, but had had no success. Gilly remembered the Elephante's story and realised that this must have been what the Spirit of Slumber did. Sophie decided to ask Ilere if she knew anything about Spirit of Slumber - and at Bruno's insistence, Gilly was allowed to come along too. 

After navigating the swamp, climbing down a cliff face, and encountering some [[Ghost]] [[Meepit]]s, they finally came to Ilere's tree. They explained that they wanted to find the Spirit of Slumber to cure Neovia, but Ilere didn't want to help at first. Sophie had to break up a fight between Ilere and Bruno, and Ilere saw how strong her charge had become. The Spirit, she said, had once been a Neopet, but he became a powerful spirit of the Haunted Woods when he died. 

They went in search of more information from other denizens of the Haunted Woods. The [[Brain Tree]] agreed to tell them the Spirit's real name if they told him when he died, but the [[Esophagor]] could only tell them when someone died if they told him their real name. Sophie came up with another solution - they had to dig up every grave in the Haunted Woods. She had a potion that would tell her when they found the right bones.

[[Image:Tow grave robbing.png|thumb|300px|right|They had to exhume every burial in the Haunted Woods.]]

They enlisted the help of the [[Caretaker]] to help find all the graves - but his indices had been stolen. They managed to [[Fetch!|recover them]] from a maze and the Caretaker guided them through the graveyards. 

After exhuming many graves, they finally found a bone that glowed silver when exposed to Sophie's potion - they had found the Spirit's grave, but the headstone was broken. Reluctantly, they came to a conclusion: they would have to go through the Caretaker's register and cross off the names on every other grave. The remaining name had to be the Spirit of Slumber's. 

Now they knew who he was in life, Sophie could prepare a potion to summon the Spirit. One of them would have to drink it, though, and become possessed by the Spirit - Bruno volunteered, and Sophie reluctantly agreed. 
[[Image:Tow bruno spirit.png|thumb|left|300px|The Spirit acted through Bruno's body.]]
The Spirit, speaking out of Bruno's body, agreed with a sly smile to reverse his spell. As they walked to Neovia, Sophie reassured Gilly there weren't any [[Werelupe]]s in that part of the Woods. Gilly reassured Sophie their plan would work. 

It was Halloween, and the ghostly impressions of the Neovians were roaming the town. The Spirit undid his spell, and they all began to become solid again. Sophie was thrilled - her parents were back to normal. 

But only for a moment. As soon as they stopped being ghostly, the townspeople transformed back into the twisted versions of themselves Krawley's potion had created. The Spirit had undone his spell, but only that - he hadn't undone the potion as well. Before her eyes, Sophie's parents became monsters again, and she fled, leaving Bruno and Gilly to fend for themselves. 

The crowd of Neovians turned on them, just as Bruno spotted a familiar pair of gleaming golden eyes. Mr. Krawley was on the other side of the crowd - he sent Gilly to follow him as he held back the mob. 

[[Image:Tow gilly krawley.png|thumb|300px|right|Mr. Krawley took Gilly to an abandoned building.]]

Mr. Krawley led her through a graveyard where the gravestones came alive with gnashing teeth. When she had fought he way through those, she reached trees that grew eyes and mouths at Mr. Krawley's touch, and swung swords made of wood at her. 

She caught up with him at last at [[Meepit Oaks]], an abandoned asylum. He said he had led her there because she needed something from inside. She ran inside to escape from the hoard of [[Zombie]]s coming up behind her. Inside she found the skeleton of a nurse, and growing from her a single, glowing flower. She took it with her when she left.

Bruno managed to escape from the mob, despite Mayor Thumbert's urgings. From his hiding place, he saw his own parents were among those who had turned against him. 
[[Image:Tow cure.png|left|thumb|200px|With Mr. Krawley's flower, the cure was complete.]]
Sophie ran all the way back to her shack, where she collected herself and started preparing a potion to reverse Krawley's Hissi oil. She finished a concoction, but couldn't help but think it was missing something. On her way back to Neovia, she ran into Gilly - and recognised the flower she had found as the final ingredient. 

Sophie blasted her way through the townspeople with her magic until she reached the well. The mayor tried to stop her pouring her cure into the water supply, and as they fought grew stronger and stronger. With Bruno and Gilly's help to distract him, Sophie was able to transform him into a [[Moquot]]. 

The well water dosed with Sophie and Gilly's cure, they decided to return the next day when everyone in the town had had a chance to drink it. Sure enough, everyone was restored: no longer the Spirit's apparitions, and no longer Krawley's twisted versions of their own desires. 

Bruno could not be cured - Sophie thought he had been under the effects of the potion too long, but he revealed he actually didn't mind looking like that. Edmund welcomed back his son anyway - their family would be together again, and that was what was important. 

Sophie made her apologies - Neovia just was not her home any more. Nevertheless, at long last, her family was restored.

Gilly saw Mr. Krawley watching the happy reunion from the shadows - the people of Neovia had learnt that there were no easy fixes to their problems. He vanished in a puff of smoke.

==Participation==
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While participating in this plot, players took on the roles of the main characters, resolving the problems they face as the story developed. By participating, players learnt more about the events of the plot that weren't explored fully in the narrative. 

When the player had completed each step but before the next step had been released, they saw a "TO BE CONTINUED" message. 

This plot featured a ''Quest Inventory'', a separate inventory where items relevant to the plot were stored. Items in this inventory could not be used, traded, or stolen like items in the user's [[inventory]] can. In previous plots like the [[Lost Desert Plot]], puzzle [[items]] that were discovered could be stolen like normal items, but retrieved again by revisiting the page that had given them. 

===The locket===
[[Image:Tow burned house.png|frame|right|The locket was hidden in Bruno and Sophie's old house.]]
[[File:Tow locket1.gif|left|frame|The locket.]]
After the final part of the prologue story was released, players could follow a path past the [[Gypsy Camp]] and find the deserted town of [[Neovia]]. There was only one part of it they could explore, the burnt down ruin of the house that Bruno and his family used to live in. 

The player had to investigate the house and find a lost locket. They could click on every pixel in the image, but there were only ten parts of the house the locket could be hidden in. Which location it was in was random for each user. The different locations were:

*(67,201) -- Chair
*(80,135) -- Fireplace
*(147,218) -- Couch End
*(150,115) -- Bookcase
*(175,145) -- Crack in the Wall
*(186,186) -- Sofa Couch
*(210,130) -- Broken Staircase
*(235,232) -- Broken Boards
*(308,199) -- Pillow Spring
*(364,195) -- Table Leg

The player could input the co-ordinates directly into the URL - ''<nowiki>http://www.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/neovia.phtml?hvh=</nowiki>'''''[House Code Identifier]'''''?'''''[x,y]''' to visit the locations quickly. 

After the locket was found, the player had to take it to the [[Deserted Fairground]], where Gilly could ask the following four characters if they could help her identify it.

*[[Harker]] the [[Lupe]], at the [[Bagatelle]] stall.
*[[Lyanka]] the [[Aisha]], at the [[Cork Gun Gallery]].
*[[Leeroy]] the [[Quiggle]], at the [[Coconut Shy]].
*[[Ssidney]] the [[Nimmo]], at Ssidney's [[Deserted Fairground Scratchcards|Scratchcards]]. 

The conversations appear bellow the games themselves. Each of the characters would say one of four things at random. For the player to proceed, they had to visit the carnies in a certain order, so as to have the conversations in a certain order. The four possible conversations began with the following opening lines:

*"Why, certainly, little miss... Well, what a pretty little trinket this is.  I haven't seen one like it in years."
*"Amazing!  I haven't seen such metalwork in, oh, must be ten years.  Where did you say you found it?"
*"That piece of junk?  It looks like a hundred other lockets I've seen."
*"It looks familiar... where did you get it?  I know someone who'd pay a thousand Neopoints for that locket, though.  At least, I used to.  Haven't seen her in ages."

The player had to hear the conversations in that order - beginning with the conversation that used the word "one", then the conversation that used the word "ten", "hundred", and then "thousand". When the characters are visited so that the conversations appear in the above order, Gilly will decide that nobody will help her there. Back in Neovia the player can now follow another path to Sophie's Shack.

===Bruno's Cave===
[[Image:Tow cave food.png|frame|right|The monster stops to eat the food.]]
After visiting Sophie's Shack, Sophie shooed Gilly and the player away. Fleeing in terror took Gilly to a dark cave. 

The cave is unique to everyone, but consists of a 3 x 3 grid of rooms, which all have at least one doorway into them. In the cave, there are several items, some of which can be carried and some of which can't. The chest and the table cannot be picked up, but the lamppost, chair, mirror, rotten food, and key can. Additionally, at least one of the rooms will have a pool of moonlight in the centre.

The user can pick up one object at a time, and can be placed down at a certain co-ordinate in the same way as the user searched for the locket in Neovia.

When moving about the cave, occasionally the message "Something seems to be following you..." will appear under the picture of the room. A creature would eventually catch up with you, and it will scare Gilly into a random room. 
[[Image:Tow cave objects.png|left|frame|The trap is set.]]
Gilly could lay a trap for creature by rearranging the furniture. If the rotten food was placed in any room except for the room with the garbage, the creature would stop and eat, but become nauseated and dizzy. If the mirror was in right place, the creature would see their reflection, panic and flee. If the lamppost was in the correct place, they would trip over it, and if the chair was in the right place, when it tripped, it would hit its head and lie on the floor in a daze. If all this was done in the moonlight room, Gilly would be able to see the creature - it was Bruno. 

The user must set up a trap in a moonlit room in order to illuminate the creature. To do this, they had to place the following items in the room with the moonlight shining in. They had to be placed in the correct positions, within ten pixels.

*Mirror at (240,330);
*Lamppost at (240,215);
*Chair at (235,160);
*Rotten food anywhere in the room.

When the monster follows Gilly into the room, it will eat the bait, see its reflection in the mirror, stumble backwards over the lamppost, crack its head on the chair and collapse into the light.

==Prizes==
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="float:right;width:360px;text-align:center;"
!colspan="3"|Task Trophies
|-
!Trophy
!Criteria
!Ranks
|-
|http://images.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/trophies/hwp_trophy_digs_82cf57ce1c.gif
|Individual Digs
|'''Spoon Scraper''' 1 - 77 - ?<br />'''Shovel Flailer''' ? - 89 - 370 - ? <br />'''Digmaster''' ? - 425 - 1805 - ?
|-
|http://images.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/trophies/hwp_trophy_graves_6a69cce8fd.gif
|Completed Graves
|'''Grave Digger''' 1 - 4<br />'''Bone Thief''' 5 - 21 - ?<br />'''Mortician''' ? - 25 - 110 - ?
|-
|http://images.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/trophies/hwp_trophy_testing_4d60381703.gif
|Bone Testing
|'''Potion Spiller''' 1 - 2<br>'''?''' 3 - 10 - ?<br>'''Scientist''' ? - 12 - 15 - ?
|-
|http://images.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/trophies/hwp_trophy_potions_71d801d938.gif
|Potion Fetching
|'''Gopher''' 1 - 2<br>'''Stuffbringer''' 3 - 10 - ?<br>'''Spirit of Carrying Things''' ? - 12 - 47 - ?
|-
|http://images.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/trophies/hwp_trophy_names_73d295f746.gif
|Name Elimination 
|'''I Can Read�''' 1 - 3 <br>'''Bookworm''' 4 - 25 - ?<br>'''Head Librarian''' ? - 32 - 204 - ?
|}

On the January 4, 2007, The Neopets Team released the [http://www.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/stats.phtml user statistics] page which marked each step of the plot the user had completed. Additionally, the statistics for the user's fights in the Battledome opponents were included along with minor trophies and ranks associated with other tasks during the plot. At the same time, the official plot solution was released.

{| style="text-align:center;border:0;margin:0 auto;"
!style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;" colspan="7"|<big><big><big>Trophies</big></big></big>
|-
|http://images.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/trophies/hwp_trophy_1_e29fdb5cca.gif
|http://images.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/trophies/hwp_trophy_2_0cff20b5ca.gif
|http://images.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/trophies/hwp_trophy_3_5e76bf00fa.gif
|http://images.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/trophies/hwp_trophy_4_df9d1168a0.gif
|http://images.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/trophies/hwp_trophy_5_56b107e4f4.gif
|http://images.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/trophies/hwp_trophy_6_ca33aee5fd.gif
|http://images.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/trophies/hwp_trophy_7_baef4b8eef.gif
|- style="background-color:#00aa55;color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-size:90%;"
|Swamp Slorg
|Asylum Inmate
|Vine Weaver
|Meepit Wrangler
|Neovian Citizen
|Master Chemist
|style="padding: 0 2px;"|Honorary Mayor of Neovia
|}

Overall plot points were not given until March 2, 2007, when a new trophy for a [[User Lookup]] was given showing the total number of points given based on the overall participation in the plot. [http://neopets.com/halloween/hwp/shack.phtml Visiting Sophie's Shack] awarded the user with the Tale of Woe [[sidebar]] theme and the ''Tale of Woe - Krawley'' [[avatar]], providing the user had participated in the plot. 

Additionally, Sophie now offered a selection of 32 prizes for users to 'purchase' with their plot points. 'Spending' the points did not result in the player losing the points that had earned them their rank. Most of the plot prizes were references to the activities of or user responses to the plot.

The prizes to choose from were:

{| style="margin:0 auto;"
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
|
*'''Hissi Oil Keychain''' - 25 points
*:''Guaranteed to solve all your key-storage problems, or your money back.''
*'''Package of Assorted Vines''' - 50 points
*:''Ooh! Its got a yellow one!''
*'''Titanium Grave-Digging Spork''' - 75 points
*:''It will never rust, which is good because it will take you ages just to dig a single grave with it.''
*'''Surplus Bone-Testing Kit''' - 100 points
*:''If only there were any bones left to test.''
*'''Talking Tombstone Alarm Clock''' - 500 points
*:''Mostly it just talks to itself.''
*'''Haunted Woods Graveyard Reference, 57N1064 through R51-8AHS''' - 500 points
*:''Alphabetical order? What does that mean?''
*'''Eau de [[Esophagor]]''' - 750 points
*:''Contains hints of refuse, muck, and bile!''
*'''Gluten-Free Potion Composites Cookbook''' - 800 points
*:''For witches and wizards with sensitive digestive systems.''
*'''[[E-Z Brand|E-Z� Brand]] [[Chemistry for Beginners]]� Cross-Promotional Play Set�''' - 999 points
*:''Sophie heartily endorses this event and/or product.''
*'''Two-Bobbleheaded Hissi''' - 1,000 points
*:''They bob to avoid being poked with a stick again.''
*'''Open Grave''' - 1,000 points'''
*:''A perfect place to take a nap.''
|
*'''Graveyard Reference Book [[Plushie]]''' - 1,000 points
*:''Some of the least fun bedtime reading in history.''
*'''Neovian Genealogy''' - 1,000 points
*:''Skeith plus Zafara equals... Ixi??''
*'''Ghost Meepit Dance Party Ultra Remix''' - 1,200 points
*:''Features the Hokey Pokey and other spin-around-in-a-circle favourites.''
*'''Villager Pitchfork''' - 1,500 points
*:''Wait a minute, Neovians arent farmers...''
*'''Haunted Chess Set''' - 2,000 points
*:''Sometimes, the pawns move THREE spaces when you arent looking!''
*'''Damp Cave Feng Shui''' - 2,000 points
*:''How to best arrange the furniture you have scavenged over the years.''
*'''Ominous Stone Plushie''' - 2,000 points'''
*:''Doubles as a handy, yet spooky pillow!''
*'''Nurse Skeleton Bobblehead''' - 2,000 points
*:''What is she so happy about?''
*'''Potion Cabinet''' - 2,500 points
*:''With pull-out shelves for storing extra-large bottles of mysterious goo!''
*'''Ilere Plushie''' - 3,000 points'''
*:''Do not take this plushie lightly, for it is vastly more powerful than you can ever imagine!''
|
*'''Accursed Mittens''' - 3,000 points
*:''They pack quite a punch, just dont try to pick anything up with them.''
*'''Tale of Woe: The Untold Story - by Reginald (Autographed Copy)''' - 3,000 points
*:''To my biggest fan - Love, Reggie'' 
*'''Rusty Asylum Cell Door''' - 3500 points
*:''Repeat after me: The red stuff is RUST.''
*'''Behind the Rusted Door: The True Story of the Meepit Oaks Sanitorium''' - 4,000 points
*:''Madness! Madness, I tell you! No, seriously, the book is about madness.''
*'''Enraged Mayor Thumburt Plushie''' 4,000 points
*:''[[wikipedia:Hulk (comics)|MAYOR SMASH]]!''
*'''Creeping Shadow Hammer''' - 4,500 points
*:''Your opponents may have trouble dodging it, as its hard to tell where the hammer is...''
*'''Mysterious Potted Flower''' - 5,000 points
*:''That extra special final ingredient for making your garden look lovely!''
*'''Spirit of Slumber Plushie''' - 6,500 points
*:''This plushie will keep you in a very, very deep sleep at night... heh heh...''
*'''Ghost Paint Brush''' - 8,000 points
*:''This spooky looking paintbrush will give your Neopet a scary new look.''
*'''Thumburts Cane''' - 10,000 points
*:''Wise politicians do not rule with an iron, er, cane.''
*'''Rusty Lamppost''' - 12,000 points
*:''[[Wikipedia:Big Stick ideology|Walk softly and carry an absurdly large metal pole.]]''
|}

==Behind the scenes==
[[Image:TOW Neocam Apology.jpg|frame|[[The Neopets Team]] worked hard to combat the errors, requiring them to post a notice on the [[Neocam]] that they were on the problem.]]

*An [[Aisha]] resembling [[Megan]] can be seen in images of the Gypsy camp.
*The plot appears to be based off the [[Wikipedia:Something Wicked This Way Comes (novel)|book]]/[[Wikipedia:Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983 film)|movie]] '''Something Wicked This Way Comes'''.
*When part 3 of the plot was released on October 13, 2006, the new section of the plot came upon many database issues (such as [http://images.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/items/meepit_0ad0b6fa0d.gif Ghost Meepits] appearing in the users plot inventory at random), requiring [[The Neopets Team]] to move the database, replacing all pages relating to the plot with the following texts (as the errors were happening more than once)
**'''TEMPORARY DB MOVE - WILL BE BACK SHORTLY'''
**'''MORE DATABASE ISSUES -- GEEZ THERE'S A LOT OF YOU GUYS -- DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH'''
*Sophie's saying of how she had a "bad experience" with the [[Brain Tree]] and [[Esophagor]] probably refers to the Brain Tree Quest, which a user must complete tasks for the Esophagor to fulfil the Brain Tree's request. The rewards for completing the quest are almost always lower in value than the cost it is to complete them, which is probably why Sophie is upset about them.
*On October 23, 2006 around 6:25 NST, the following message appeared when any user tried to access the graveyards or any other related pages along with an [http://images.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/graveyard/femur_glow_edbd8280f3.gif image of a glowing bone]...<blockquote>''heavenest found the Spirit of Slumber's bones!''<br><br>''The bones glow with an unearthly silver light.''</blockquote>It is currently believed the user ''heavenest'' found the bones, and as such there is no reason to continue searching graves. About 1 hour after this, users who roamed around the Haunted Woods received the following [[Random Event]]s, with different [[Ghost]] [[Neopets]]:
{|align=center width="450" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"
|-style="background:orange"
!colspan=2| Something has haunted!
|-
|http://images.neopets.com/pets/angry/koi_ghost_baby.gif || '''BOO!'''<br><br>Uh oh! It looks like all that digging up of graves has disturbed some of the more... eerie denizens of the Haunted Woods. A peace offering would be nice... or perhaps you should just RUN!!
|}
It's unknown what will come from this, and what the ghosts of the defiled graves will do in the Haunted Woods.
*There are considerable differences between the plot's information and the flavor text of the Haunted Woods Expansion Set for the Neopets TCG; while characters, names and settings remain constant, the "plague" mentioned on the card, "Curing the Plague" (which depicts a slightly-altered Spirit of Slumber, who appears to be a mutant Lupe with an earring) is nowhere to be found. Likewise, Ilere is a Villain in the TCG, but a reluctant aide in the plot. Also most notable is the lack of a TCG card of Gilly.
*The Caretaker in the plot bears a resemblance to [[The Foreman]] of the [[Lost Desert Plot]] and [[Altador Plot]], the difference being The Caretaker is a blue Yurble, while the The Foreman is an Orange Yurble.
*Upon the closing of the name-finding activity, a dialogue appeared at the Caretaker's Shack in which Gilly revealed the name to Sophie: Jubart Igig.  "Doesn't sound like most of the other names we found.  Maybe it's an anagram of something...Nah."  This is an inside joke reference to the game [[The Castle of Eliv Thade]] which Gilly originated from.
*The user [http://www.neopets.com/randomfriend.phtml?user=marina_87 marina_87] is credited to defeating the 3rd form of Mayor Thumburt, receiving 100,076 points to her battle score.
*Neopets like the [[Gnorbu]] and [[Bori]] are part of the inhabitants of Neovia, even though these Neopets weren't released until a few years ago.
*After the plot, a [[Wocky]] Gypsy claimed there was never any pink Elephante in the [[Gypsy Camp|camp]]. This may be a reference to "[[wikipedia:seeing pink elephants|seeing pink elephants]]", a euphemism for alcoholic hallucination, as in the 1941 movie ''[[wikipedia:Dumbo|Dumbo]]''.

==External links==
*'''Plot Info:''' [http://www.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/gypsy_camp.phtml The Gypsy Camp], [http://www.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/comic.phtml The Tale of Woe (comic)], [http://www.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/neovia.phtml? Neovia], [http://www.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/shack.phtml Sophie's Shack], [http://www.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/neovia.phtml?hvh=7e82eb43e7bf50a688a9c729ab116780 Burned-down House], [http://www.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/cave.phtml Bruno's Cave], [http://www.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/maze.phtml Haunted Woods Maze], [http://www.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/caretaker.phtml Caretaker's Vault], [http://www.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/graveyard.phtml Graveyard], [http://www.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/lab.phtml Sophie's Lab], [http://www.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/asylum.phtml Meepit Oaks]
*'''Plot Solution:''' [http://www.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/solution.phtml Tale of Woe Solution]
*'''Plot Score:''' [http://www.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/stats.phtml Tale of Woe Score]
*[http://www.neopets.com/halloween/hwp/quest_inv.phtml Quest Inventory]
*'''Neopets TCG:''' [http://www.neopets.com/tcg/displayCard.phtml?edid=11&id=28 Mr. Krawley], [http://www.neopets.com/tcg/displayCard.phtml?edid=11&id=89 Hissi Oil]
*'''Editorial:''' [http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=editorial&issue=262 262], [http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=editorial&issue=263 263], [http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=editorial&issue=264 264], [http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=editorial&issue=265 265]
*'''Selected Fansites:''' [http://sunnyneo.com/taleofwoe.php SunnyNeo - Tale of Woe Solutions]

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