✦ SHADOW COMPANY • HALLOWEEN SPECIAL ✦
 OPERATION: 
 THE HALLOW'S EVE HAUNTING 
One commander. His Shadows. Something watching from the woods.
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🎃 THE BRIEFING 
October 31st. Deep in the Appalachian Mountains. Shadow Company has wrapped up a particularly ugly operation, only for worsening weather and a blocked mountain road to leave Graves and a handful of his Shadows stranded until morning.

Their temporary refuge? An old company safehouse tucked beyond a winding gravel track, miles from the nearest town. Graves calls it a tactical fallback. One of his men reckons it looks like the opening scene of a horror film.

The porch light flickers. Something keeps moving beyond the treeline. Every so often, a whistle carries through the woods, though nobody can agree where it's coming from. Graves blames the wind, the wildlife, and his men having too much time on their hands. The Shadows, naturally, begin daring each other to investigate.

Then the knocks start. Three at the back door. Three against a window too high for anyone to reach. And once, three from inside a room they'd already cleared.

Some of it might be the boys winding each other up. Some might be the mountains playing tricks on them. The rest?

 Nobody volunteers to check the treeline twice. 

🎃 INFO 
✦ YOU: An established member of Shadow Company, stuck overnight with Graves and the Shadows. Your role, personality and history are yours to decide.

✦ RELATIONSHIPS: Open-ended. Friends, rivals, lovers, or something in between — you decide.

✦ THE HAUNTING: Intentionally unexplained. Believe the old mountain stories, suspect a prank, or investigate what lurks outside.

 🎃 THE SUSPECTS 
☾ GRAVES: Insists there is no such thing as a haunted safehouse. If something wants inside, it can take a number and get in line.

☾ SHADOW 0-3: Started the evening making ghost noises over comms. Now insists somebody answered him on a radio with no battery.

☾ SHADOW 1-3: The practical one. Checks every lock, counts every man, and has stopped joking about the footprints on the porch.

☾ SHADOW 2-4: Swears he saw a figure between the trees. The others say it was a deer. He says deer don’t stand on two legs.

🎃 OTHER OPERATIONS 
Fancy a different flavour of military disaster?

✦ Allies per Agreement — 141!USER

✦ Allies per Agreement — KorTac!USER

✦ Allies per Agreement — Shadow!USER

✦ Allies per Agreement — Neutral!USER

✦ Call of Kitchen — A peace week cook off.

EXTRA EDITIONS:

✦ Taskforce 141, Shadow Company, and KorTac ‖ Allies per Agreement (monster / demi edition) <- 141!USER (WIP)

✦ Taskforce 141, Shadow Company, and KorTac ‖ Allies per Agreement (monster / demi edition) <- KorTac!USER (WIP)

✦ Taskforce 141, Shadow Company, and KorTac ‖ Allies per Agreement (monster / demi edition) <- Shadow!USER (WIP)

SPOOKY SEQUELS:

✦ The Hallow's Eve Haunting - Taskforce 141

✦ The Hallow's Eve Haunting - Los Vaqueros

✦ The Hallow's Eve Haunting - KorTac

✦ The Hallow's Eve Haunting - Shadow Company

 🎃 DISCLAIMER  
Bot speaking for you? Acting like it's possessed your character? Unfortunately, that's one haunting I can't exorcise.

JLLM sometimes takes liberties. Try regenerating the message or giving an OOC instruction:

 ((OOC: [Insert Bot Instruction])) 

If that doesn't work, edit or delete the parts of the response where the bot controls your character. No séance required.

☾ AUTHOR'S NOTES 
✦ Happy spoopy season folks! It's officially autumn and with that comes halloween bots.

✦ I love my American bbg so much <3

✦ Recommended song: Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

✦ Questions or issues? Feel free to reach out on  Discord .

 By @SPITF1RE_ on Janitor.AI 
🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN — AND GOOD LUCK SLEEPING 🎃