Halloween Project

**Halloween Project** is the first game in the Halloween Project series, created independently by Kit. The game currently has not been released publicly, but it was revealed for the first time on October 30th 2022 on the *AccurateFox Games Halloween Special Stream 2021*. It was the final AccurateFox game to be made using the *RPG Maker MV* engine before Kit's transition to its follow-up, *RPG Maker MZ*.

The game is confirmed to be receiving an updated public launch some time after the final entry in the series - *Halloween Project 3* - is revealed, as a full trilogy.

Halloween Project serves as a celebration of AF, containing appearances from multiple of its most popular characters. Many characters' backstories are similar or identical to their respective games, meaning that the game does include lore hints, though overall remains non-canon to the Primary AF Canon or any other AF titles outside of the Halloween Project series.

## Plot

### Before the Story

An unclear amount of time before the events of *Halloween Project*, Fuan, discovers Kit and realises that they are the creator of the Antagonists Drawing, as well as everyone within it. He also realises that Kit, as his creator, had the ability to choose when he succeeded or failed at a goal, angering him. How he discovered Kit's existence has yet to be explained. He approaches BB to create a remote that can access the "network" consisting of the Antagonists Drawing and everyone's homeworlds. BB agrees and eventually manages to get one working. This would be Fuan's remote, which would be used to set his plan into motion.

### Beginning

During the *AccurateFox Games Halloween Special Stream 2021*, Kit opens up the Antagonists Drawing to find all the characters looking directly at them. The stream cuts and Kit is transported into their laptop and into a game.

### The Field

Kit wakes up in the Field, then spots a blue mask and puts it on, not ready to show their face. Confused, they begin walking through the Field until they approach a Poll Machine for the first time. They quickly learn how it works and send a poll out to their stream chat, learning that they are still watching and can see Kit. Relieved, Kit advises their chat to "stay sharp" and continues through the Field.

After some more exploring, Kit stumbles upon Carrot and Ax. Carrot orders Ax to bring him his mech suit, but then realises that in his excitement, he left it at the Glass Plateau. He flees the scene, ordering Ax to attack while he escapes. Kit initiates a fight but quickly learns that Ax has no intention of fighting, so drops the battle and offers to let him tag along, which he nervously accepts.

The two then walk across the Bridge together, where Ax reveals that he has low status in the overall plan of bringing Kit into the game, but does confirm that the end goal is to kill them. Kit also shares their retelling of events to Ax. Ax then reveals that he was forced into the plan with no say in the matter. The two finish talking as they get to the end of the Bridge and enter the Forest.

### The Forest

Kit and Ax walk through the Forest together until they see a shadowy figure for a split second. The two press on until they find Ivy, who had just arrived at the scene. She talks to herself for a moment, before spotting Kit and getting ready to attack. During this time, she doesn't see Ax behind Kit, and so when Kit asks him if he wants to say anything, Ivy is caught off-guard and asks Ax why he's following Kit. Ax attempts to convince Ivy to not attack them, and Kit seals the deal by offering to let her follow along too. She begrudgingly accepts and joins the team, with the condition that if Kit "do anything stupid, I'll go back on that promise".

After Ivy joins the team, Kit notices that there are two possible paths that they can take - northern and eastern - and spots another Poll Machine, quickly making the decision to use the machine to ask their stream chat for a decision. Ivy reveals that she doesn't know how the machines work, and so Kit demonstrates by creating the poll. After the poll ends, Kit's stream chat decides to take the northern path, and so Kit leads the team north.

After walking through the next part of the Forest, the trio find Reyon, waiting for them to arrive. Kit initially appears happy to see Reyon, but this is cut short when Reyon interrupts and threatens Ax and Ivy for switching sides, asking them, "Would you prefer to be locked away in this husk of a game?", first hinting at what might happen if they're found helping Kit. Kit tries to retaliate but Reyon interrupts again and initiates a fight. During the fight, Reyon attempts to convince Kit that they have no chance of successfully making their way through the game world and getting back home. Despite this, the trio win the fight, and Reyon is forced to flee.

Upon traversing through the final part of the Forest, the trio meet up with Tobias, who immediately greets Kit with kindness, something that boosts the team's overall mood. Tobias heals the whole group after having fought Reyon, and introduces Kit to extra moves, giving them the move "Fire Fox", which he confirms was intended for Gyaku. Ivy remembers what Reyon said during the fight with him and asks Tobias about what will happen once Kit gets back home, and mentions Reyon's warning, to which Tobias warns her, Ax and Kit that, according to Fuan's plan, though he isn't mentioned directly, once Kit is captured, Fuan will take them back to the Antagonists Drawing, and will take anyone with him back as well, but won't wait for anyone who isn't there when he does, leaving them trapped in the game world. Tobias offers to assist Kit in their journey, to which they gladly accept.

Kit, Ax, Ivy and Tobias, having now formed the unnamed Pog Squad (as Kit refers to it in *Halloween Project 2*) exit the Forest and make their way to the Factory.

### The Factory

The Pog Squad enter the Factory and almost immediately catch a conversation between BB, Zorque, May and Mio-X, in which BB reveals herself to be the leader of the four, given the role by Fuan. Zorque shows slight concern that Kit has already passed by the area, but BB interrupts him and orders him and the other two to guard the bottom three floors of the Factory, before leaving to get a soda. This is the first time Kit is made aware of Fuan's involvement as the leader of the operation.

The Pog Squad make their way through the first floor of the Factory, seeing Zorque and BB a few times along the way, until they meet Zorque. Kit reveals to Zorque that they heard the conversation he had with BB, and so with nothing else to say, Zorque and the Pog Squad fight, leading to the Pog Squad winning. Exhausted, Zorque calls into a walkie-talkie "Unit Z down, Unit M up," then leaves. Afterwards, Tobias offers to heal the party after every battle, to which Kit accepts gladly.

The Pog Squad proceeds through the second floor of the Factory, until they find May in the same way that they had found Zorque previously. May reiterates BB's order to the group, to which no one is impressed, and the fight begins. After the fight, May communicates a similar message to Zorque's: "Unit M down, Unit X up," before leaving.

As the Pog Squad walks through the third floor of the Factory, they spot Mio-X numerous times watching them and traversing the area herself. When the group eventually confront her, she doesn't speak to them, only preparing to fight. Seeing this, the two parties engage in battle, with very little talking throughout. At the end of the fight, the Pog Squad remain victorious and Mio-X retreats.

After fighting Mio-X, the Pog Squad stumble upon another Poll Machine, as well as two paths to take, one leading up to the factory roof and one leading out through the building's back exit. Kit uses the machine to ask their chat which direction they should go, and the chat votes to go up to the roof, so Kit leads the others that way. Upon reaching the roof, the Pog Squad encounter BB, who rants about how "useless" her team was, having all been defeated. Kit argues that BB should have planned her moves better, since Kit brought the rest of the Pog Squad with them, and BB spread her party members around. After Kit says this, BB realises that she didn't need her team, and flies into a hyper-confident mood, initiating a fight. During the fight, BB rants about finally showing the rest of her team what she's capable of. Eventually the fight ends with the Pog Squad winning, to which BB starts melting down, and when Kit tries to help, she flees to their disappointment. The Pog Squad then leave the factory through the back entrance.

### The Glass Plateau

The Pog Squad walk out the back of the factory and through part of the Glass Plateau, until they stumble upon a blue chest. Kit curiously opens it and finds a second extra move, "Dissonant Chord". Kit happily equips it, pointing out the the moves almost feel like they were made for them. The Pog Squad then carry on, but are caught off-guard by Blue Man, who stops them in their tracks. Gyaku appears behind them and reveals that he found out about someone taking the Fire Fox move, that as Tobias had pointed out, was meant for him. He quickly figures out that it was Kit who took the move, and attacks, at Blue Man's word.

Gyaku and the Pog Squad fight, resulting in the Pog Squad being victorious. After the fight, tired, Gyaku leaves and takes Blue Man with him. The Pog Squad carry on through the Glass Plateau, but eventually start hearing a loud banging noise. This confuses everyone, but Ax instantly knows what it is. Continuing on, the squad find themselves face-to-face with Carrot once again, this time alongside his mech suit, which Ax is visibly nervous about. Carrot jumps into his mech suit and initiates a fight. Carrot spends the whole fight charging up a supposedly powerful move. Once the move fully charges however, the entire suit runs out of battery power, possibly due to his excitement and forgetting to charge it fully. Carrot is visibly angry about this, but the fight ends and the Pog Squad simply walk around him.

The Pog Squad finally enter Fuan's base of operations, where they soon encounter Blue, who simply knocks the four out. It's implied that at this point, Fuan and Ikari entered the minds of the squad and linked their Dreamvoids together.

### The Dreamvoids

Kit wakes up in their Dreamvoid, on an island in the middle of an infinite ocean. It's implied that Fuan altered Kit's Dreamvoid to be such. Kit is visibly anxious about this. Soon enough, they hear Ivy's voice through a receiver. They pick it up and the two start talking, soon followed by Tobias picking up. He and Ivy soon figure out that they both appear to be in Primoria House, so they go looking for each other. Kit asks Ax if he's doing alright, to which it's immediately made clear that he's not - Kit hears him panic and then communication ceases. Tobias and Ivy realise that they're at the same part of Primoria House as each other, but still can't see each other, to which Kit explains that Fuan linked the squad's four Dreamvoids together, meaning that they're both in "different" Primoria Houses, since both of Ivy and Tobias' Dreamvoids were altered to look like the same location. They also explain that there should be some kind of connection point between their Dreamvoids, and encourages them both to find it, so the two start searching.

While Ivy and Tobias search for a connection point, DC starts talking to Kit from within their head, berating them for being so confident that they can do what they say they will, as DC doesn't have faith in them. Fuan witnesses all of this. Eventually, Ivy and Tobias find Kit, so DC backs off for the time being. Tobias uses his magic to take Ivy over to Kit, then brings them both back the same way, to Ax's Dreamvoid. The three reunite, but Ax soon walks over, badly damaged. He collapses and, in a moment of quick thinking, Tobias heals him. Ax rejoins the group and they start navigating his Dreamvoid.

After a little bit of walking, Ikari finds the Pog Squad and makes an attempt to get them back to their respective Dreamvoids, but Fuan interrupts and changes Ax's Dreamvoid to a purple void, where all the Pog Squad falls infinitely. Fuan walks up, unaffected, and initiates a fight, teasing each character with their respective emotional weaknesses, before taking them out one by one, until only Kit is left. Eventually, Fuan turns to Kit's chat and starts taunting them, during which DC realises that Fuan can torment Kit in a more real way than him, so out of rage and slight jealousy, takes control of their body and attacks, using Hyperglycaemia. Fuan notices this, and begins to fight. DC eventually beats Fuan, causing the dream to collapse, killing Fuan and Ikari in the process.

### Ending

Tobias and Ivy wake up back in Fuan's base of operations, shortly followed by Kit and Ax. The four reunite again, and Kit sees a remote sitting on the ground. Tobias confirms that it's the remote that Fuan used to set up the operation, explaining that Fuan valued him highly and thus told him how the plan was going to work. Tobias agreed to help Fuan, but secretly wanted to get insight into how the plan would work in an attempt to help Kit, as he didn't agree with Fuan's ideas, hence why he knew about the extra moves, as well as what Fuan would do after he captured Kit, surprising everyone in the room. He then helps Kit to create a portal back to the group's respective homes, and the group bid farewell to each other and part ways, but not before Ivy invites Kit back to the Antagonists Drawing. Kit accepts, but mentions that it'd be "next year", 2022. Once everyone leaves, Kit looks behind them, wishes their chat a happy Halloween, and leaves themself.

### After the Story

It's implied that after Kit left the game world, everyone else who was there leaves too for the Antagonists Drawing. Additionally, after fighting Kit, BB becomes far more irritable and doesn't let go of her loss, using her motivation to create the Conscious Device.

## Characters

### Protagonists

*"The Pog Squad"*

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## Gallery

Main article *Halloween Project // Gallery*

## Trivia

* The name *Halloween Project* was originally a placeholder name, but Kit liked it, so they kept it.
* During the initial playthrough of *Halloween Project*, Kit noticed a bug which broke the game, so they had to restart the game.
* *Halloween Project* was finished the day before it was presented.