The Halloween Anniversary Extravaganzas

**The Halloween Anniversary (Costume) Extravaganzas**, also known as **The Mother's Day**, is the annual celebration of the server's birthday (it's as sad as it sounds), to commemorate when the LOM was truly born, on a date around October 31st 2018, also sharing the date with another more popular annual event, Halloween.

Not much is remembered of the server's first birthday in 2019, as there wasn't really an event for it. Thus it's not officially remembered as the first extravaganza. Though during the months after the first anniversary, traditions were set, such as Rusty's 'Who Has The Least Life Competition', the scores of whom in the server have messaged the most. Alongside another tradition of Kellogg's changing the name of the server each year, with 2019's name changed to 'The Senate of Mothers' throughout that year. In the following years, the occasion has been more planned out, with it becoming a costume party, as well as from 2021 onward, videos being made for the event.

#### **2020**

*Written by Shmexi*

To celebrate the server turning two years old, on the 31st of October 2020, the server held a Halloween/anniversary call, named 'The Halloween Anniversary (Costume) Extravaganza'. At the time, Covid-19 had made personal meet ups near impossible and most people would have to self-isolate rather than meet up with their friends IRL. So over Discord they came together, with a large amount of members joining at some point, the majority wearing a costume. One by one revealing their weird and wonderful costumes:

* Kelloggs - **Hulk Hogan/Bulk Bogan** (based on his character in the D&D campaign of Baldur's Gate: Decent into the Sewers where he played a mix of The Amazing Bulk and the wrestler Hulk Hogan)
* Elyag - **A Parrot** (arguably one of the better costumes, his full body parrot costume was something to see. He did look like Al from Toy Story 2 though)
* Rusty - **Hacker Man** (as he described to Shmexi, it ended up just being dark clothes with the only light being his monitor making him seem like a floating head)
* Shmexi - **A Priest** (his priest slowly turned into a pissed priest as the night went on and he drank way more than he should)
* TheWoman - **Society Man** (initially showing up in her fast food outfit for her job, the group convinced her to use her makeup to look like the joker, otherwise known to the group as society man)
* Beauty - **Himself** (he didn't need a costume, he showed up to laugh at us and be very sexy. This is one of the few times he partook in server activities and made it an even greater night).
* Bilbo - **Ass Ketchup/Storm Trooper** (initially showing up in his stormtrooper jumper, he changed into his Ash Ketchum outfit being renamed 'Ass Ketchup')
* Winnin - **Pirate** (showing up in pirate regalia and two pistols in hand)
* Joker - **Gay Man** (at first showing up as himself, the group made him wear a gay pride flag turning him into even gayer man)
* VOR - **A** **Cat** (with cat ears, the voice of reason showed up. Outing them-self as a furry, though she didn't know)
* Pops - **Wizard** with Hat (literally just a wizard with a pointy hat from Harry Potter)
* Razza- **Spider-Man Symbiote Suit from Spider-Man 3** (at first not wearing a suit he was bullied into becoming the best character in Spider-Man 3)

The night started out with the reveal of each costume, laughing at each one. The typical shit posting and talking as usual on a LOM voice chat occurred, until the highly anticipated (by Shmexi) bi-annual "who has the least life" award. Where Rusty created a chart showing who has posted the most on the server. Since the servers creation, Elyag has held the lead by thousands, but due to a mix of quarantine and an overuse of the music bot to play his 'tunes' playlist, this year Shmexi managed to pull the lead this game by just under one thousand.

This was followed by a reveal by Kelloggs who revealed a 'Mister Blue Sky' edit of photos of the members of the server and its close friends. The server has always held photos of its members whether they waned to or not, whether it was an embarrassing photo from when they created a band (Elyag, I'm looking at you), a photo of them unconscious at their 18th covered in graffiti from their family and friends who found a marker (RoxyVelma) or a wholesome collage of everybody in the server. This edit was definitely welcome and a brilliant way to commemorate the servers two year run and allowing the group to stay in contact for so long. Kelloggs also did his tradition of renaming the server to something new, this time being named 'The Republic of Mothers' for the following year.

For whatever reason Elyag wanted to torment everyone on the call, as if to remind everyone of the season he played a looped version of a Spooky Scary Skeletons Trap Remix, though muted my most, the trap remixed played through the night to torment hose who were drunk enough to cope with it. Through the discussion of the music, Beauty brought up the topic of Minecraft rap battles. Drunk enough to not really care, Elyag and Shmexi put themselves forward to have a Minecraft themed rap battle. Elyag taking the victory as the minecraft rap champion, they tried to push the others to do it but they couldn't budge them to rap against each other, instead having them work together to sing a Minecraft parody version of Jake Paul's 'It's Every Day Bro'.

The night continued with the server members bobbing in and out of the call with the few constant members playing an online version of cards against humanity and the popular game scribl.io. Eventually abandoning the idea of the game, they talked, eventually finalising their idea to start a podcast and to continue with their youtube channels. So be on the lookout for the LOM podcast coming soon... (it happened, scroll down)

#### **2021**

*Written by Kelloggs*

Once again, the server returned (though on the 30th rather than the 31st) to celebrate the LOM's 3rd birthday with a Halloween/anniversary call. Whilst last time the reason for it not being in person was due to Covid-19, this year most of the group had gone to university and so would be unable to see each other face to face. However to relive like last time they grew some balls and a big chunk of the server got a costume on, one by one revealing themselves:

* Bilbo - **Gay-Man** (taking over the place of Joker last year, he took on the form of Gay-Man. Wearing mostly pride-coloured attire (even a bow tie). He truly claimed the title.)
* RoxyVelma - **(Bin) Bag-Man** (though not showing up to the call itself but sending a picture of his costume, being clearly on a budget, he made his debut with (Bin) Bag-Man, a bin bag made outfit (where he almost looked like he was off to a KKK rally) and also looking somewhat like a superhero, protecting the mean (champagne socialist) streets of Cambridge. "The Bin is silent" - RoxyVelma.)
* Pops - **D.Va** (though promised to much of the League for what felt like over a year, our resident fem-boy arrived in a very well done cosplay of D.Va, the Overwatch tank, and damn did they pull it off. One of the best costumes of the night.)
* TheWoman - **Becky** (luckily for the woman, she didn't have to do much for this one as she already looked strikingly similar to the iconic meme character 'Becky', the female version of 'virgin'. Was rather an upvoted costume you could say...)
* Bradders - **Camo Soldier** - (making his debut with a social gathering for a change, our Lord arrived fully cladded in his airsoft get up, looking like a Rainbow 6 Siege character. His keyboard, which had a multicolored system, made this even more accurate (he also appeared to try and kill himself multiple times with a handgun).)
* Beauty - **Sexy/Condom Man** (like last time, he didn't need to wear a costume, he showed up to laugh at us and be very sexy. However, this time he was anointed as the character Condom-Man. Many pictures were taken of him being an utter chad.)
* Rusty - **Inflatable T-Rex** (one of the best costumes presented on the night. At the start of the event, they would frantically rush to get some batteries, with the league wondering what he was going as. When they returned they revealed themself as a large inflatable T-Rex. A complete surprise and just pure king (rex) like (wp big man gg).)
* Elyag - **Maui/Hagrid** (though slightly unfair as he has a whole cupboard of epic costumes, the man made another rather impressive appearance(s), first appearing as Hagrid with a pink umbrella, then later as Maui, another 'god like' costume (see what I did there).)
* Kelloggs - **Caesar/Imperator** (in his words "rather a basic bitch costume" and didn't hold a candle to the other outfits, he would present himself as the first citizen of Rome (a Roman emperor in case any of you reading are just a pure plebeian).)
* Shmexi - **Minion Tuxedo Suit** (arriving a lil later on due to going to Wetherspoons (as you do), he would reveal himself looking completely dapper in his minion tuxedo suit. He was drowning in women the entire night I'll tell you now.)
* Razza - **Ted Bundy** (even though he was out to the pub, he'd rock up in the discord call as the infamous American killer Ted Bundy. At one point going all the way to Pops's house to pay him a visit...)

Like the previous year, the LOM chatted for a bit, waiting for the various members to show their wonderful costumes. As a call back to last year, Beauty and Elyag attempted to do a Fortnite rap battle, but this didn't get very far (thankfully). As more people rocked up and flatmates were shown to people on the VC, Kelloggs got the server together to show them something special. On the LOMCast channel, Kelloggs had collaborated with the legend himself 'Big Man Tyrone' in making a video that the server seemed to very much enjoy (link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru49JWJEEyw).

Rusty would once again make the members of the server feel like shit with their 'Who Has The Least Life Award'. Once again Shmexi took the lead by thousands, with Elyag coming second and surprisingly TheWoman beating Kelloggs (you don't hear that everyday do you) and taking third place.

The night continued on, with Kelloggs returning back from watching the film Dune (which he thought would never end). The group got into a discussion on Pringles and other random shite, with later the much anticipated reveal of Ash's first chapter of his book, 'Coaches Don't Play'. To wrap the night up, once again Kelloggs did his tradition of renaming the server to something new, this time being named 'The Empire of Mothers' for the following year.

#### **2022**

The League convened once again on the 30th, for the LOM's third costume extravaganza and to celebrate its 4th Anniversary. With most of the people joining currently at university, they would all join again via a call. However, this time it was hosted on the LOM's second server, the LOM UNI, letting people from other unis (the majority mainly from the Burgersluts) join the celebration. When everyone was convened, the ones in costume one by one revealed their epic attire:

* Pops - **Velma** (Though again they had revealed for quite some time who they were going as, they went as the "Jinkys!" girl Velma (not to be confused with RoxyVelma) from ScoobyDoo. Though noticeably more whitewashed than the current version.)
* Shmexi - **Nacho Libre** (Probably the one who spent the most time on his costume as he made it himself, he would go as Nacho Libre, both a monkified and a half naked version, truly a sight to behold (and the package he had too;), though in some pictures looked like he was just naked.)
* Ash - **An anime perso**n (Or wearing the scalped head of Tom Dutton, his flatmate whom Ash had used to make his wig.)
* LouStar - **Hatsune Miku** (Probably one of the best costumes on the night, fair play to LouStar123.)
* Benny - **Werewolf Monster Prom** (A high schooler from the game Monster Prom (very damn sexy ngl).
* Kelloggs - **Garfield/Gorf** (Betraying the Lord KB and Rusty just for the night, he would dress up as the vilified Garfield, also known to the LOM as Gorf (I swear I'm still a Boomnade!).)
* Rusty - **Cat Ears & Maid Dress** (What was perhaps the most shocking reveal of the night, they would appear in a full on maid costume, make up and all, truly shocking.)
* Jon - **Cara Danvers/Super-girl** (Looking as if she's retired from being a superhero and now a full time Twitch streamer, as showed by the quality of her camera being the best by far.)
* Bilbo - **Owl Doctor** (Literally how it sounds, a witch doctor mask and underneath an owl costume, Very good costume though *bastard*.)
* IrishChad - **Shaggy** (Growing a lil beard out and all for Shaggy from ScoobyDoo, fitting very well with Pops's Velma costume.)
* Beauty - **Mega Condom-Man** (Once again himself but mega condom man this time, putting them on his mic and head, the life and light of the party and truly the funniest of the LOM, would've been poorer without him.)
* Ty - **Character from Monster Prom** (He looked more like a pixelated monster, literally as it was impossible to see what he was as his camera quality made him look like Minecraft real life.
* Elyag - **Pikachu** (Though sadly not able to be there for the call itself, he would send his high regards on the night and a picture of himself currently in a lil Pikachu costume.)
* Razza - **Ted Bundy** (only joining for a bit and not originally in costume, he'd get his old costume of Ted Bundy from last year back on again for the hell of it.

After everyone had revealed their costumes and multiple condoms had been put around people's mic equipment to follow the trend set by Beauty, Shmexi would show the LOM+ a video he had conceived. Doug Walker, otherwise known as the 'Nostalgia Critic' had done a review of the League of Mothers, saying that Kelloggs was not in fact a big man (but did have a larger willy than him (yay!)), Shmexi needing to stop playing Overwatch, TheWoman being the token woman of the group and Rusty going to live with Bilbo in Salford, then finally saying the LOM does not allow any opinions and any will be treated as un-based (he ain't wrong, much love to Doug though). You know what just go watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW8weqgRtdA&t=3s. After people had recovered from Doug's Critique of the server, Kelloggs would show his two video creations, one being made by him and directed by Pops, being a YTP of Sheldon Cooper running over Brian the dog from the hit comedy show Family Guy, truly side splitting hilarious stuff (tumbleweed goes by): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkRFy6Qx0Ac. Then showing his own creation of LOM Slander, a collection of shots at the people in both the LOM and some in its 2nd server: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyalFXk9Tsg.

To continue with tradition, Rusty would show off their computing skills alongside his 'Who has the least life' competition, with Shmexi and Elyag still on top, but with Kelloggs and Pops dethroning TheWoman from third place. As the time got late and others started to leave, the remaining lot (Shmexi specifically) betrayed the words of Doug and played a 3v2 on Overwatch. Kelloggs and Rusty vs Shmexi, Bilbo and Benny, with the former team winning. Afterwards, the LOM would go on to play one of the most intense and closest Left 4 Dead 2 versus games the server would play. Kelloggs, Benny, Pops and IrishChad vs Shmexi, TheWoman and Rusty, with again just barely the former team taking the victory. After that, Kelloggs would continue the tradition of renaming the server annually, being called the 'The Caliphate of Mothers' for the following year.

#### **2023**

This year's Anniversary Extravaganza was a special one, marking not only the 5th anniversary of the LOM, but also 10 years since most of the group would meet each other for the first time when starting at their high school. So they got together in a call, on the night of the 28th, in LOM UNI, with some Burgersluts joining in. Likely the largest anniversary call so far, all active members of the LOM showed up, including some irregulars like VOR, Joker, and as is the tradition of these nights, Beauty, showing up to make everyone have a cheeky chuckle. Due to this one celebrating two anniversaries, the night was centred around the theme of the LOM more so than past extravaganza's, looking at its culture and history, alongside looking back at the 5 years before its inception. As such, there were many callbacks to iconic LOM characters, events and memes, showcased in what people were dressed up as, or what people had made for the night (some of which is showcased below). As Shmexi called this one "the Secret Anniversary", some media made for this extravaganza is more private compared to previous ones. As such, most videos made for the night (currently) can not be viewed publicly.

When everyone was ready, every (single) man revealed themselves. To spice things up a bit, this year some members made an intro/reveal video, put on the LOMCast channel, and showed to the rest of the party just before putting their cameras on:

* Matt Bradley (& Barry) - **Undead Matt/Zombie** (After a great deal of trying to persuade God himself to bless the LOM on their special day, Matt got in costume, in the appearance of a zombie, beside him his trusty side-kick, Barry the Boomerang Grenade, the unofficial mascot of the LOM. Making a video and putting it on his Youtube channel, wishing these random idiots a "happy Halloween bitches". Twas truly special to have him start the occasion off, especially after being such an iconic figure in not only the LOM's lifetime, but also years before.)
* Razza - **Bray Wyatt** (A highly anticipated costume after Razza had revealed to some what he was going as before the night, it was made better after revealing he was making a WWE wrestler intro video to show just before he put on his camera, emerging from the darkness of his living room, holding a dimly lit (electronic) blue lantern. It'd be scary if you were Razza's mum and walked in on that, though it was a fantastic attire. And of course, RIP to the great Bray Wyatt.)
* Shmexi - **Red G\*\*\*** (A costume that scared Shmexi as much as the rest of the group, due to what he used to make this monstrosity. He would cover himself in red dye/paint, as a reference to an iconic LOM image of Shmexi, where he looks like he's about to rage or go into cardiac arrest. In response to Razza making a video, Shmexi put his media studies to work and created a Hammer Films esc horror clip, of himself turning into Red G\*\*\*, with the help of his hunchback assistant, Dean, handing him the formula, a bottle of the holy Buka. This resulting in him going skits and turning into the Red monster that we all love him as. It was truly a beautiful site and surprisingly looked a lot more red than expected, though his lower half and back were still majorly white, thus making it look like he'd gone on holiday and stayed on the sun lounger a little too longer than he should've. Also, the iconic image of Red G\*\*\* can be found on this wiki, if you look hard enough, though Shmexi may not appreciate you finding it.)
* Dean - **A Penguin** (Dean's love of penguins was put on full display with his costume/hat. And of course, his portrayal of the hunchback, handing Shmexi his formula, with the words "Buka my lord", was Oscar worthy, just a beautiful performance.)
* Beuaty - **Homeless Santa** (In the past few occasions, Beauty has always appeared with at least one condom near his face. Many LOM members were wondering how the funniest member of the group could outshine his last appearances. Well would you guess it, but he did, dressing(?) up as a homeless Father Christmas. Equipped with Heinz beans, mayonnaise, tuna chunks (in brine), and occasionally he'd take a swig from his giant Coke bottle, taped to his chest. Still the humorous soul of the LoM, we love him greatly, never change Mr Funny.)
* TheWoman - **Hovis Bread Warrior** (Whilst the Femoid had been at past Anniversaries before, she had not properly been able to dress up in costume before. However, this time she completely went all out. Similar to Shmexi, TheWoman did a DIY home (kitchen) made costume, forging a legendary armour of Hovis Bread Plate. One of the most powerful costumes ever revealed at an anniversary, and though there are no official winners for the costumes, if there was one, it'd probs be the the femoid herself. Wp foid, I suppose she finally learnt where she belonged.)
* Kelloggs - **Chicken (Boy)/ColonelKelloggs** (A costume that Kelloggs had been intending to do for many years, he was finally able to get a costume representing his iconic character/animal, the cockerel. A fuss to put on, but as Pops said, fitted the theme of not only the LOM, but also the past 10 years in which many people had known Kelloggs as the one and only, ColonelKelloggs/Chicken Boy.)
* Elyag - **DrewEF (McDonald's Worker)** (Dressed as the evil, the vile, the disgusting, the c..., the racist, DrewEF, an iconic and controversial past LOM-UNI member. Due to Elyag meeting Drew whilst working at Maccies, he put on his old fast food armour, alongside his headset so he could take the rest of the LOM's orders in call, with Kelloggs ordering a Zinger Burger, perhaps not realising not every fast food place sells KFC. Nonetheless, a wacky costume, a callback to both a period of Elyag's own life, whilst also to such a wholesome and definitely not touchy figure of LOM history.)
* TheIrishMan - **Patrick Bateman** (Perhaps one of the best costumes on the night, the not-so Welsh man came dressed as the sigma male Paddy Bateman. Raincoat and axe in hand, he delivered an Oscar-worthy monologue from the film right before killing Paul, played by THE Jared Leto himself. Such an alpha appearance.)
* Pops - **Nikki** (A character which has just become synonymous with Pops for a long while now, they would come dressed as Nintendo Swapnote Nikki. Their hair looking very identical and wielding a giant green pencil, they were just a spitting image of their costume.)
* Rusty - **WW2 Fighter Pilot** (A slight confusion at first as when speaking to Kelloggs, they said they were coming as the English monarch, Elizabeth I, since the last extravaganza. Though in fairness, how they'd pull off looking like the Tudor queen would be an extreme challenge. Still, they were able to pull off a mocking attire in front of Kelloggs, referencing "the total annihilation of his cities when playing Civ V for the first time" (Moo you monster). Wearing a WW2 fighter pilot goggles, hat and jacket, and to be fair they looked fair dapper in it. *Though the slander of the poor Cosmodrome will never be forgotten*...)
* Abbie - **Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz** (Though quiet as a mouse throughout the night, it would be revealed she was in costume as the villian from that Disney show, Phineas and Ferb. To her credit, it did seem quite legit.)
* Jonathan - **Pennywise**
* Bradders - **Suicidal Thug**
* VOR - **Wolf**
* Joker - **Minion Onesie**
* Bilbo - **Bamboo Pot**
* RoxyVelma - **Poker Tuxedo Suit**