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"GREETINGS, mortal! It is I, Mersamus. I demand that you give me all your candy or I will... umm... come on, what happens after this? I should have paid better attention to the class."

Uh... Merasmus, I don't think you've completely grasped how this Holiday is supposed to work. You're supposed to DRESS UP, you know, in a costume. Also, you're supposed to go to the front door, silly. Not the garage. I don't think we should give him any candy for this.

So I've done a bunch of crazy concepts now involving different characters trick-or-treating, but I had the idea that it would be funny to do something with MERASMUS! What TF2-related Halloween activity would be complete without our favorite Voldemort wannabe making a fool of himself?
Merasmus has become a prominent recurring character in TF2's Halloween events, usually doing something or other to mess with the players in some darkly comedic fashion. His roles vary, from being a boss on one map to sending the players on a dangerous mission through his haunted amusement park (or rather, it's supposed to be haunted but it didn't work because he forgot to put it on a burial ground) and subjecting both teams to various bumper car-related games if they successfully deliver the tickets to the "Ancient Sumerian strong man machine."

I experimented with some different camera angles this time around. I originally conceived this image as being more in line with the formula of previous entries in my "Trick or Treat" series. Usually those were framed with the camera being placed in a house looking through the door so you can see the people on the other side. I imagined this being a loosely first-person perspective- the viewer is answering the door and it is their house that is being visited.

With this one, I had trouble getting Merasmus into a decent position so I ended up instead try out a different approach. Instead, I placed the camera outside and in front of the house so we could see Merasmus embarrassing himself with his failure to grasp the customs of Halloween. I also brought back Mercy and Heavy so it looked like Merasmus was drawing attention from others. Mercy seemed appropriate in her witch costume to be observing a Wizard's incompetence.

Credits:
Map: SFM Suburbia by Benjamoose- steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles…
Doritos- Originally by CHILLI, ported to SFM by Logan Paul- steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles…
Mountain Dew by Shalashaska- steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles…
Mercy's Cauldron/Treat Bucket by Dilly #TF2sp and QuestionablyInsane- steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles…
Old-Timey Lantern by Pte Jack- steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles…

Description
"GREETINGS, mortal! It is I, Mersamus. I demand that you give me all your candy or I will... umm... come on, what happens after this? I should have paid better attention to the class."

Uh... Merasmus, I don't think you've completely grasped how this Holiday is supposed to work. You're supposed to DRESS UP, you know, in a costume. Also, you're supposed to go to the front door, silly. Not the garage. I don't think we should give him any candy for this.

So I've done a bunch of crazy concepts now involving different characters trick-or-treating, but I had the idea that it would be funny to do something with MERASMUS! What TF2-related Halloween activity would be complete without our favorite Voldemort wannabe making a fool of himself?
Merasmus has become a prominent recurring character in TF2's Halloween events, usually doing something or other to mess with the players in some darkly comedic fashion. His roles vary, from being a boss on one map to sending the players on a dangerous mission through his haunted amusement park (or rather, it's supposed to be haunted but it didn't work because he forgot to put it on a burial ground) and subjecting both teams to various bumper car-related games if they successfully deliver the tickets to the "Ancient Sumerian strong man machine."

I experimented with some different camera angles this time around. I originally conceived this image as being more in line with the formula of previous entries in my "Trick or Treat" series. Usually those were framed with the camera being placed in a house looking through the door so you can see the people on the other side. I imagined this being a loosely first-person perspective- the viewer is answering the door and it is their house that is being visited.

With this one, I had trouble getting Merasmus into a decent position so I ended up instead try out a different approach. Instead, I placed the camera outside and in front of the house so we could see Merasmus embarrassing himself with his failure to grasp the customs of Halloween. I also brought back Mercy and Heavy so it looked like Merasmus was drawing attention from others. Mercy seemed appropriate in her witch costume to be observing a Wizard's incompetence.

Credits:
Map: SFM Suburbia by Benjamoose- steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles…
Doritos- Originally by CHILLI, ported to SFM by Logan Paul- steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles…
Mountain Dew by Shalashaska- steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles…
Mercy's Cauldron/Treat Bucket by Dilly #TF2sp and QuestionablyInsane- steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles…
Old-Timey Lantern by Pte Jack- steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles…