Pumpkin Lord

* Pumpkin Lord
* Pumpkin
* Voicelines
* Gallery
* Trivia

The **Pumpkin Lord** was a 2023 Halloween exclusive boss that could be summoned by bringing the pumpkin found near the HECU spawn, and bringing it to another area next to the HECU spawn and Black Mesa Facility entrance on topside.

## Special Attributes

### Damage

Stomp (55 damage)
Axe Attack 1 (45 damage)

Rage Swing (50 damage)

Axe Strike (50 damage)

Roar (30 damage)

### Theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBuM2zq6US8

The **Pumpkin Lord** is a tall, armored, axe-wielding humanoid who has a pumpkin for a head. No part of its body was exposed except for the head. Red markings similar to veins are visible on its legs, and its shoulders are completely fortified. Its hands were protected with titanium and lined with spikes. It wears a vest with a Black Mesa logo on it, suggesting that it is affiliated with Black Mesa in some way. Its face is melted and its eyes are hollow. A red light inside the eye sockets are meant to be its eyes. Two long, pointed horns appear where its ears should be. It wears a cape on the back of its torso. A Fast Headcrab can be seen on the top of its head. It's unknown if the Fast Headcrab is dead, or if it is controlling the Pumpkin Lord.

## In-Game

The Pumpkin Lord is a dangerous adversary. It has numerous abilities, all of which are focused on dealing heavy damage. Its fast speed allows it to catch up to enemies fast, and anything close to it will be cut by its massive axe. Taking on the Pumpkin Lord with numerous people still poses a challenge, as it has AoE abilities that could damage everybody. Its high health of 25k makes it difficult to kill. Anybody who wishes to kill the Pumpkin Lord by themselves will need to acquire almost all of the guns in the game, since you will run out of ammo on all weapons before killing him if you do not have all the weapons in the game yet..

## Abilities

### Axe Attack

The **Pumpkin Lord** will swing its axe, dealing 45 damage on a successful hit. The axe will leave a white trail behind it.

### Stomp

The **Pumpkin Lord** will stomp the ground, creating an explosion that deals 55 damage to anything near it.

### Rage Swing

The **Pumpkin Lord** will thrash its axe around, dealing 50 damage per successful hit. The axe will leave a red trail behind it.

### Roar Laugh

The **Pumpkin Lord** will stop and play an animation of it laughing. White rings will emanate from its head, dealing 30 damage to anything near it.

### Axe Strike

The **Pumpkin Lord** will swing its axe downward in front of it, driving it into the ground, causing an explosion. This heavy attack deals 70 damage to anyone hit by it.

## Strategy

In order to be rewarded for killing the Pumpkin Lord, you are required to have contributed 30% of damage towards it. If you did not, the game will tell you. So, the best way to kill the Pumpkin Lord while still being given the rewards is to work with another person in a private server. The reward can still be achieved in a private server, and with two people the Pumpkin Lord can be killed faster than with just one person. There are many ways to easily cheese the boss, too. You can climb a mountain inside the arena to shoot at the Pumpkin Lord. The Pumpkin Lord cannot reach you and its AoE attacks cannot damage you. You can also shoot at it from outside the arena, but this cheese has some blind spots. The **Pumpkin** was an interactable object that used to summon the event boss, **Pumpkin Lord**. It was found on the top of a rocky hill, in the HECU Spawn on Map:Black Mesa Topside.

## Pumpkin

Pumpkin, hovering near its spawn location.

## Special Attributes

### Theme

Heavily slowed down version of Dance Macabre

The Pumpkin is a floating pumpkin that constantly emanates an orange aura and yellow rings surrounds it. This gives it an appearance similar to that of an atom. When someone approaches the pumpkin, it will begin to follow the person. When a person leads it to the arena, the pumpkin will move on its own to the middle of the summoning area. The rings surrounding the pumpkin will expand and multiply, and the pumpkin will disappear. Then, the Pumpkin Lord will rise and the boss fight will commence.

The Pumpkin used to say different things while following a player, and respawned every 15 minutes after the boss is killed. If the person holding the pumpkin dies, the pumpkin will no longer talk but instead hover and wait for another person to approach it.

## Pumpkin Lord

### Being Summoned

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"I'll show you true power"

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### Attacking

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"Pitiful, foolish decision"

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"I'm not impressed."

"GRAAAAAAH"

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"Don't waste my time"

"This is too easy."

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(Laughter)

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(Growl)

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## Pumpkin

```
Sometimes it's lonely...
Are you sure..? Seems you aren't...
Where..? W-whe..? Who are you..?
Blind...
Sometimes.. I dream about cheese..
N-never..! Never back down..! Never WHAT..?
O-o.. Zzak.. Ozzak... Do you know him..?
Science..
Sometimes.. I hate Twitter...
Chickenpox... I had them...
Sometimes... It's better end it all...
Philippines...
What about... To stop trying..?
Is it really time to kill everyone..? Seems inhumane...
I once tried to feed the rats... They feasted on my hands instead...
Nervous system..? I've lost it all... Can't feel anymore... Just coldness..
I cried once... But it stopped...
Been happy... Only once... Just wishing for better tommorows...
You made it all worst... But at least you had some impact...
Genshin Impact... Did you played it..? Hope not...
Aren't you bored..? Headcrabs...
Head... Humpers..?
Sometimes... Existence becomes boring.., Yet you still continue with it...
Oltar..! We need find Oltar..!
If you ever gonna feel really bad about your life... Then just try remember if you ever felt good...
If your life sucks... Then don't worry, it will get worse over time...
Everyone have some sort of downfall... Soon or later, everyone gonna experience it...
Fear... Fear... Never experienced it really long time...
Soon we gonna be just soulless boxes without personality, you never gonna be unique anymore, everything you do will already exist...
Empathy..? Sad to see it's on edge of extinction...
So much planned... But no energy...
Snarks... They're bugs... Do you like bugs..? Well i do...
Did you ever noticed these ropes coming from ceiling..? We can actually use it to climb up...
Isn't nature just beautiful..? Sometimes i wish to be in cocoon, but once again, i'm not.. Butterfl-...

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### Extra

* The Pumpkin Lord is the first Boss to have voicelines
* Pumpkin has no voicelines, instead it displays text.
* The Pumpkin Lord will laugh when being summoned.
* When using his laughter ability, he will growl then laugh.

The Pumpkin floating near its spawnThe Pumpkin stating one of its voicelinesDittoThe Pumpkin Lord being summonedThe Pumpkin Lord ragingThe thumbnail of the game during the Halloween EventThe Pumpkin Lord using his "Axe Strike" attack.
### Videos

Video 1: The Pumpkin speaking

Video 2: The Pumpkin Lord using his roar ability. (Shows his growl and laugh voiceline)

* Pumpkin's voicelines indicate that they may have once been human or felt alive at one point
* Pumpkin's voicelines indicate that they are the Pumpkin Lord
* Pumpkin's voicelines indicate that they know much about Black Mesa and Xen.
* Contributing 30% of damage or more to Pumpkin Lord rewards you with the Witch Vortigaunt skin.
* Pumpkin could only respawn if the Pumpkin Lord has been defeated and 15 minutes have passed. Therefore, if someone takes the pumpkin but does not summon the Pumpkin Lord, they would stop the possibility of the Pumpkin Lord being summoned at all until they die or until Black Mesa was nuked.