Apeiron Lore: It’s Summoner’s Eve — Dood o’ Ween!

As the celestial calendar turns, we’ve reached a peculiar day when the Dirac Dimension and the physical dimension overlap to the extent…

Oct 26, 2023

As the celestial calendar turns, we’ve reached a peculiar day when the Dirac Dimension and the physical dimension overlap to the extent that spooky things happen all over the godiverse. Originally known as Summoner’s Eve because the Apostle Summoners would spend the day calling and chatting with the spirits of the past, now it’s become a godiversal celebration named Dood o’ Ween, where doodlings run about the villages for sweets and mischief!

On this fun and spooky day, you can see doods donning themselves in costumes of all stripes, masquerading as different creatures or dabbing makeup on their faces to look especially silly. And of course, it all leads up to one big delicious dessert feast at the end of the day that goes long into the night. But more on that later!

And as it’s a fun time of the year, we’re also inviting our community to participate in our SPECIAL SPOOKY SEASON SOUL EVENT! This will run from today until November 4th, 2023. The event’s got two elements to it: TELL-A-TALE and DOODOWEEN FAN ART TRIBUTE. For the Tell-a-Tale, you share with us your own spooky godiverse story and get rewarded with SOULS. Same thing for the Fan Art Tribute — share with us some art of a villainous doodoween themed dood or bood of your own design, and put together a brief little bio and sweet sweet SOULS are yours for the taking. As always, hit up our Discord for more info.

NOW THEN: prepare yourselves, and hold onto your masks, as we dive into all the deets on Dood o’ Ween!

Major Doody Events

The Spooking

The Spooking is a competition where doods vie to tell the scariest story. When the suns in the Axis Mundi start to set and dinner has been had (but the Sweets Feast yet to begin), doods will gather at the village square and sit around a crackling bonfire. Then, storyteller doods take turns at reciting their specially crafted spooky stories, impressing the crowd with surreal sagas and fearful folktales, and doodever tells the most spine-chilling narrative gets to take the first bite of dessert at the Sweets Feast, sort of like a ribbon cutting ceremony except they take a bite out of a giant candy pommegranny. The level of scariness is measured by the screams and chills that the judge doods get, though most of the time it’s the screamings.

Cirque du Carnevil

Amid the pranks and sweetness, even the most quiet and law-abiding doods find time for some grooving at one of Lady Protea’s biggest events held at the undersea Grand Arcade — the Cirque du Carnevil — a costume dress-up party like none other. Doods that come here like to dress up in all kinds of colorful costumes and masks and dance the night away amidst the darkness of the deep seas. Besides dancing, there’s also tents set up with entertainment that are replete with paranormal activities like traditional Summoner seances, card readings, and cryptic rituals. One particular tent that always manages to be full-house is the tent where the Doody Boody Boo costume contest is held. Doods that come here means business, they will exhibit themselves with the most dramatic flair — as monsters, god parodies (cautiously), godiverse creatures, you name it, they have it. And sometimes a god will show up in disguise to participate! Of course, in these cases, the gods always win.

Sweets Feast

At the very end of the day and night, after The Spooking is finished and the doodlings are done running about, the doods that were hiding from the horrors will eventually come out and everyone joins the annual Sweets Feast that marks the end of Dood o’ Ween. Each doody village would have its own enormous array of desserts, a big candy buffet with friends and family! Imagine — a creamy marshmallow choco fountain set in the middle of the village with hot koko overflowing, fruity forest tarts, ribbon heart booberry parfait, volcanic molten lava cakes, jell o’ jellies, whirlpool raindrop cakes, cin-nomnom pommegranny pies, hickleberry cheesecakes, koko mousse, flour flower pudding, cosmic veil thousand layer cakes, caramel powpowcorns, stretchy gobnobs, twelve-tier doodweeny corns, cooey cannoli, maple syrup nutfruit cookies, glittering galaxy cakes, rooberry crème brulée, star-sprinkle choccy cupcakes, flippy floppy hickleberry-coated churros, pink wooly floof on a stick, mini blackhole chiffon rolls, and more! All kinds of confectionaries of the godiverse, filling the very bench table set up under the twinkling candleflies’ lights. And of course, how can we forget the glistening mega candy pommegranny that is waiting for the Spooking’s content winner under the Dood o’ Ween moonlight.

Dood O’ Ween Candies

Candy Pommegranny

It’s not unusual on Dood o’ Ween to casually spot a few doodlings holding candy pommegrannies down the street as they ask for more treats from door to door. This type of confectionery originated in Clintina’s realm as a gift from the Goddess of Earth herself to a particular prayerful family of doods, who quickly opened their own candy pomegranny shop — the Underground Trader’s Store. Back then, doods would queue up for these pommegrannies overnight, camping outside of the store even. Nowadays pomegrannies are grown everywhere and candy pomegrannies — which is to say — pomegrannies that have been covered in a sweet and syrupy sauce — are a commonplace (but still special) Dood o’ Ween treat.

Stretchy Gobnobs

Another beloved candy in the godiverse. These are long candies that stretch super duper long; doods can walk up to one of the many dispensaries placed in Axis Mundi and start slurping on these candies like noodles. And the good thing about this treat is that they are free! They must have been placed around by Cosmos to celebrate Dood o’ Ween. All hail Lady Cosmos!! (Editor’s Note: She absolutely did not have time to do that but maybe her steward Lublub had something to do with it…)

Doodweeny Corn

This 12-tiered colorful candy is a toothsome treat that pops up during the Dood o’ Ween season. Each color represents a mythic galaxy with the Axis-Mundi color on the tip. These corn-like shaped sweets are both crunchy and gooey, made from mysterious ingredients only known to Horticult. They are procured from one of the faraway farmlands of Horticult and he makes sure these candies are distributed all over godiverse for every single dood to enjoy. Pop one of these in your mouth and it melts and fizzles out, leaving your taste buds tingling with explosive sweet and sour flavors.

Doodling Prankings

On Dood o’ Ween, anything goes. Doodlings will run around in capes and try not to get caught for various capers while stuffing their faces with candies and sweets. Some will even paint themselves as boods or dress up as vegetables to give the older doods a real fright, and that’s just the most innocuous of the prankings!

The Hellfire Fruitcake Prank

The Hellfire Fruitcake Prank is one of the most popular pranks in the books, it’s almost impossible to fall for it anymore, and yet, some doods have farty brains, especially older doods. What happens is that doodlings would hand out slices of cakes that look yummy but actually little do the victims know, the teensy bits of fruits that’re hiding in the layers of the cake have been treated with the spiciest herbs known to dood-kind that will send the eater running and screaming for the bathroom. But over the years, because this prank makes doods poopoo themselves, Sparkle and Joy, the Twin Gods of Cleaning, have banned it in order to maintain the godiverse to a sparkling clean state. So later this prank evolved into simply tricking stupid enough doods into eating something that looks like one thing but tastes like another.

The Bloody Well Prank

Beware when you’re getting water from a well during Dood o’ Ween — you may just reel in a bloody dood corpse in your bucket! Or is it? A closer inspection might reveal an eerie crimson red liquid instead of the expected water. It’s giving off a sweet scent yet tangy aroma though and you will see it’s…it’s…it’s just ketchy berry juice — PHEW! The Bloody Well Prank! Doodlings will drench themselves in ketchy berry juice, cling onto the well walls and wait for the next water-fetching dood. Once an unsuspecting dood lower a bucket and haul the waiting prankster out of the well, they will jump up and frighten the life out of the victim. Most doods try to play it off cool, but angry doods will fight back and this usually ends up as a ketchy-berry punch fest! Which is both delicious and a little violent.

The Stinky Spikefruit Prank

As a Dood o’ Ween tradition, Summoner doods would offer stinky spikefruit to the dead dood spirits as an effort to recruit them as a frequent collaborator. They did this because it is said that the stinky spikefruit has a special effect of granting spiritual power. However nowadays, mischievous doodlings would wear the spiky shells of stinky spikefruit on their heads and pretend to be hangry dood ancestors, going from door to door, asking for candy from their neighbors. If their neighbors decline their request, they’ll perform merciless headbutts, and OUUCHIIE, they’re really sharp! (And stinky too!)

Spooky Stories

To feed your curiosity, we’re going to fill in the bits and pieces of scary tales. Though these were told during the Spooking, there were rumors that these events had actually happened, and so these became some of the most popular and frequently related legends.

The Monster

There was once a group of Shaman Apostles who despised a dood so much that they decided to bestow a curse upon him. That night, when the victim dood retired to bed, he fell into a nightmarish dream — he watched himself morphing into something unknown and there was no way to stop this fiendish transformation. He witnessed his arms sprouting thin and growing longer and longer until 5 limb appendages stretched out from one arm then the other. 10 of these weird floppy sticks also grew on his feet. His limbs became VERY long, just like the stretchy gobnobs that he had eaten. Long straw started growing on his head until it densely covered his entire head. He didn’t know how to live in this weird monstrous body. He only wanted his doody body back, but it was not going to happen…

The Extra Doodling

It’s not surprising that doodlings are always playing around — they’re playful little scamps. Once, there was a group of 6 doodlings in an outlying village and they decided to play hide-and-seek. As the suns set, darkness approached and it became ever more thrilling to hide from each other, so they began to scatter into different spots, waiting for the catcher to find them. When the last doodling was caught, they gathered again at the village square. However, the catcher dood was nowhere to be found. Indeed, when they tried to recall, they had never met the catcher dood before, and they had no idea who that was. The weirdest thing was when they counted their heads, there’s no one less from the beginning — there were still 6 doodlings.

Madame Delphine LaDoodie

Delphine LaDoodie — a popular socialite, an affluent figure in the dood society — with a big mansion right on the edge of the White City, very special for a dood. Everyone thought of her as regal. But then rumors began to make their way through the hills, alleging that Madame LaDoodie was mistreating her dood maids. It seemed as though behind closed doors, this madame had a dark secret. Then one day when the Cosmodoods were patrolling the area they overheard a loud CLANG and YELP coming from the estate, and they ended up discovering Madame LaDoodie forcing her dood maids to eat water-boiled vegetables and perform a routine of hardcore exercises for her own amusement. Madame LaDoodie was immediately brought in and exiled for her crimes. Since then, her estate had been overtaken by Lublub and converted into a hotel for visiting doods, but Madame LaDoodie’s unsettling actions still scare even the bravest of dood hearts…

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And that’s a typical Dood o’ Ween in the Axis Mundi, rather orderly but still scary. But did it ever cross your mind how Dood o’ Ween might look in Chaos’ territory? No? Let’s dive into that SOMETIME NEXT YEAR, did you think I was going keep going? HAH But seriously though, boods are evil so we can assume it is probably downright chaotic on the other side of the godiverse, better to stay away.

For now, I’d suggest you hug your dood plushies tight so lost souls from the Dirac don’t ACCIDENTALLY find their way into your cute companion. Also, roll over to our Discord and tell us more ghost stories.

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