Challenge #03159-H250: Gourd-y Display

And some of the decorations were a bit too realistic for them...

Examples -- Tom

[AN: The title you gave this prompt has been ignored. See how much sense it makes now?]

Pirate Captain Mes is about to ask one of the universe's most hated questions. It's the kind of question that earns the answer punched into his softest parts. Watch carefully. See if you can spot it.

"Agrarians, for the most part. Small farms and not a great deal of useful technology. They're using precious resources for display and aesthetics, sir." Analyst Gu twiddled with some of his listening devices. "They're preparing for some form of celebration..."

"Good. That means all their display items will be ripe for the picking. It's an agrarian society. What trouble could they be?"

Mall goth: Hey, hey you guys, you know- I liked Vampires before everyone else; I read Twilight before it was a movie.

CyberGoth: As if! I liked Buffy before Twilight was even written.

Rivethead: I liked The Lost Boys before Buffy came out.

Romantic Goth: That was the end of the 80s, Anne Rice redefined Vampires as tortured, dark, romantic figures in the 1970s.

HorrorPunk: You're so close, but Bela Lugosi actually turned Vampires into seductive Byronic anti-heros when he starred in and, to some extent, helped direct, Dracula the play - before he stared in Dracula- the film directed by Todd Browning. Dracula, of course, was written by Bram Stoker who was the first to give a vampire human qualities.

Eldergoth: You're so close, it makes my tiny black heart 3 times bigger! But, actually John William Polidori wrote the first Romantic vampire story, The Vampyr, in 1819- almost 80 years before Dracula was published. "Byronic" is the perfect word to describe vampires in fiction ever since; The Vampyr was based off of a fragment of a horror story Lord Byron told in the same famous literary contest in which Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley first conceived of Frankenstein. Many people think Lord Ruthven, the vampire of Polidori's story, was largely based off of Byron himself.

Victorian Goth: /frown

Romantic Goth: Cool!

Victorian Goth: Well...

Cybergoth: Yeah, that's interesting because-

Victorian Goth: I AM A VAMPIRE.

Cybergoth: Ughk

Rivethead: /sigh

Batcave: RRRrrrrrr!

MallGoth: Wow!

Eldergoth: You shut your whore mouth, Carl! For the last time, WE DON'T BELIEVE YOU ARE A VAMPIRE.

Carl: I keep telling you guys to call me Sir Lysander Ravenblood, Esquire! Caamaawwnnnn!