The Tale of Woe

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The Tale of Woe is part of the new Haunted Woods plot (perhaps even its name) which began on October 2, 2006.

Plot Summary

When users venture into the Gypsy Camp which appeared in the Haunted Woods on Octoer 2, 2006, they are greeted by a Pink Elephante who begins to tell a legend about the dangers of the Haunted Woods: Gilly was wandering lost in the Haunted Woods, when she happened upon a Gypsy camp, where she met the same Pink Elephante, who began to tell a story to Gilly in the same fashion he was doing in present time.

The Elephante began his tale of a family of Edmund and Alice, and their 3 children (Bruno, Reginald, and an unknown daughter(likley Sophie). They lived in Neovia, and had many troubles. Bruno sought the affection of Lily, but was always attacked by the stronger Oscar, her current companion, and she never paid much interest to him. Mr. Krawley then comes forward, offering him a potion that would make all his troubles go away. After drinking the potion, the very next day he was handsome and much more presentable to Lily.

Edmund claimed Bruno was foolish to take such an action, but when he began to met finacial hardship, he took took a potion from Mr. Krawley, and became rich within the next few days. Soon after Reginald took a potion as well, becoming extremely intelligent, and word of the powerful potions began to spread. Soon everyone was taking the potions to help, seeking to have their wishes granted with a simple potion, and only the innocent were free from taking the potions (one of which was the unknown daughter).

And the potion seemed to give everyone in the little town happiness, but as the days passed the effects of the potion continued. Neopets were changing, the potion was turning them into ulgy monsters, or the opposite of what they wished for. It was cursed. The town searched for the strange man that gave them the potions, but they couldn't find him anywhere, so they decided to put the blame on the family that advertised the potion. Edmund, his wife and their children were locked inside of their house.

Their youngest was unaffected by the potion since she hadn't drank it, so Reginald snuck out of the house while Bruno defended the family. Reginald and his sister ran deep into the haunted woods, where they came upon the mysterious faerie named Ilere. Reginald left his sister in the care of Ilere and ran back to his mansion, only to see Bruno being chased by the town. He went into the mansion and escorted his parents to another abandoned mansion on the otherside of town. The story stops and Gilly goes to sleep, after a night's rest she sets out into the woods only to stumble upon Neovia itself.

The small town is now in ruins and as she looks through a burnt house she finds a strange silver locket with a burnt picture inside. Gilly heads to the fairgrounds and askes about the locket to four of the game owners. None of them knew anything. She headed back to Neovia only to discover a path leading to a hut in the swampy part of the woods. Possibly the house of the daughter/Sophie the Swamp Witch. Afterall, she is the town's last hope as told on her TCG Card.

Triva

• An Aisha resembaling Megan can be seen in images of the Gypsy camp.
• This plot is probably based off the movie/book Something Wicked This Way Comes.

External Links

• Plot Info: The Gypsy Camp, The Tale of Woe (comic), Neovia, Sophie's Shack, Burned-down House