Halloween is on its way. The decorations are going up in the first district for all of the kids who still like that stuff. Pumpkins or whatever. The best restaurants in the first are coming out with all of their seasonal autumn stuff. I'm glad I can get a piece of pumpkin cheesecake whenever I want, or gourmet sweet potato soufflés. They're excellent.

And remember everyone, around this time of year we have lots of mischief going on, so set those alarms and park your car in the garage if you don't want to run the risk of it getting egged. October 30th is the big night, but some kids don't honor the date and start early every year.

I saw this girl selling homemade scarves at a kiosk in the mall hoping she could make a buck in lieu of the cold weather, but they were horribly made. People should just stick with things they're good at.

I know everyone was waiting with baited breath for my next puzzle, so here it is.

It's simple enough: make your puzzle look like this.




[OOC NOTE: The puzzle everyone will be playing is mixed up with the numbers out of order, and the object is to get the numbers in order, like the picture. HOWEVER, there is NO SOLUTION to the puzzle. Naruto purposely did this, aligning the numbers in an order that is unsolvable to stump everyone. Have fun. :|]

Things have finally been slowing down, so I've come out with my newest and hardest game yet! [Link] It's got 100 levels, so I dare you to try and beat it in a week, let alone a few days. I've thrown in a few simpler ones here and there, but you have to earn them! Hehe. This one also gives you three pass tokens, so if a puzzle is really stumping you you can skip it, but there are ONLY three chances to do that, so use them wisely. Most of all have fun!

Has anyone been watching the news lately? Some people have come forward and said they've seen people who were once dead walking around, and even one person said they were dead and came back to life because of this new ... medicine, or whatever it is. There's still no evidence set in stone this is actually real, but one of the people who claim to have witnessed a dead person coming back to life is a reputed business owner ... he supplies all air conditioning units to The City and even worked on atmosphere control so we have seasons instead of, well, a desert like it is outside. This is a very intelligent man we're talking about here. I've been trying to meet with him but he seems to only want to talk to reporters.

Hokage has been giving us a lot of thunder storms recently, huh? I hope everyone is keeping dry.

First of all, sorry everyone! I'm working on a new, harder game but I've been swamped with work during the week and engagements on the weekends. Not that games are very important considering what's been going on lately in the city.

Chief Namikaze made a speech and gave a few statements on the Masenshi video. The thing he said about people taking precautions and not depending entirely on the police is particularly valuable. I hope everyone keeps safe. Hopefully the police will be able to use the video to trace Masenshi.

[Embedded video of a snippet of Naruto Namikaze's speech about the Masenshi video:

Naruto is dressed in a gray suit, standing in front of a white stone monument of Hokage (depicted a noble-looking blond man with long hair).

"Citizens of The City, some of you may find this message from me tardy, but that is because I felt it was more important to focus on locating Masenshi and attempting to stop their retaliation. I have failed, and for that I apologize, but from this we have learned a valuable lesson. Though the police have captured members or affiliates of Masenshi in the past, they are a group. Taking down one or two, or even a dozen, may not matter. Like Masenshi has so boldly stated, they will be killing blonds one by one. The police will take on a similar strategy and we will not stop hunting Masenshi, one by one, until there is no one left.

Tobi, no one has won until the last police person or Masenshi member has fallen."

End of video clip.]


[as you can see, Naruto has made public comments about the video. for any questions/elaboration you need, IM me.]

I haven't had time to sit down and properly blog for a while, but I'm bored right now and can't sleep. I can't decide who had it worse throughout this whole KV scare: the people who actually came down with it or the people who had to deal with the aftermath of the threat and panic. Finally, things are slowing down.

Missy, that means I've finally finished the game for you. I'm sorry it took so long, but work got unexpectedly busy and - you know the deal. [Insert puzzle game link here.] Anyone is welcome to play it, but I warn you it's pretty hard! I liked making this one. And yes, the last puzzle does have a solution, hehe.

Otherwise, I don't have much to say.... Anything else happening that isn't related to KV? I'm so tired of hearing about it.

How about that festival? It was pretty good, I think. The food was much better than last year, too. And the fireworks! All in all, I had a good time, although the scare over the Yondaime wasn't exactly pleasant or anything. I didn't get a souvenir either. I don't know where I'd put it, to be honest, so I guess it's just as well....

What did everyone else do that night? Any good festival stories?


[OOC: Just a note. These things are anonymous, so Naruto will be going by a different name/not sharing his name and not acting like he's the chief of police. On here, he's just a random citizen of the city. His agenda isn't about work, it's more like a fun outlet for him.]