Harvest Day is here! You can now participate in various quests to receive fun items, like a "leg" weapon, throwing pies, a slime costume and a vulture. You can also upgrade your new Harvest Day weapon and obtain festive costumes by keeping an eye out for raid NPCs.

Brenda Halgrim and her family are new residents of Khal. Tired of being the shortest Lesser Giants, they decided to move and make a new home. To celebrate their new abode, the Halgrim family wants to throw a Harvest Day Feast. Unfortunately, they just don’t have enough food. However, a passing gnome offered to use a Gnomish Invention to help...and caused all sorts of problems...

Keep reading after the jump for more information from VG Players. There's also a thread on the official Vanguard forum discussing the events.

As promised, the Vanguard team has provided a sneak preview of the upcoming Harvest Day festivities.

As the Festival of the Grim Harvest ends in Telon, a new event is beginning. There will be feasting and celebrating, along with some rather large birds, a bit of spicey-ness, and some slimy, cranberry-colored somethings. We've got new quests, new rewards and new raid mobs, to boot!

Visit the Vanguard Players announcement or simply click the "More..." link below for a screenshot of one of the rewards you can earn in the event.

The Festival of the Grim Harvest may be ending Tuesday, but Harvest Day will quickly be taking its place on Wednesday. The Vanguard team will be providing a sneak preview of the upcoming Harvest Day events on Monday, so keep your eyes peeled.

If you plan on spending the weekend getting some last-minute rewards from the Halloween event before it ends, check out this post on Vanguard Players for a number of handy Grim Harvest links.

A sneak peak of Sartok's Surprise, the upcoming Halloween event, has been posted on Vanguard Players. While it doesn't give a launch date, it does tell us that "three terrifying new undead raid encounters will be roaming the lands seeking out adventures both young and old." These terrifying monsters are under the control of the sinister necromancer Sartok, hence the event's name.

Any heroes able to best Sartok’s abominable creations will be rewarded with special appearance-altering costumes and magical masks. While adventurers rest between battles, they can complete special new quests to claim additional rewards such as new pets or more magical masks.

Keep checking Allakhazam and Vanguard Players for more information on Sartok's Surprise as it is released.

The Official SOE Podcast #47 is live and has an interview with Free Realms' newest designer Julie Burness, who is also a former Vanguard community representative. To download it, visit the official Podcast page . For more information, check out this post on EQ2 Players.

We also feature an interview with members of our Usability Lab team. And don't miss out on the Top 10 list created by our listeners. Make sure you tune in to the very end for Inside SOE, a mini-interview with the Free Realms Brand Manager.

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