We Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Story ...

When we last encounter our heroes, they were off to the forbidden forest, in search of the world's only unpicked pumpkin patch and a prize Jack o' Lantern.

Despite high spirits and song-singing, however, they couldn't help but notice the forest seemed dark and...well, forbidding. As the trees closed over them in a tight canopy --

-- the first signs of evil emerged from the shadows!