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The monster was enormous.
The pumpkin was not.
It sat on top of his head like somebody had bought Halloween costumes before checking whether the wearer intended to triple in size later.
The green thing underneath it looked soft enough to be pudding and large enough to block a doorway.
Two worried eyes stared out from beneath the pumpkin.
Above them, the orange shell had been carved into a face of its own.
That gave the creature two expressions at once.
The pumpkin looked mischievous.
The monster looked like he had been informed this was now his permanent hat.
I set €0.90.
The reels opened on a crooked Halloween laboratory full of blue shadows, glowing jars, webs and things in the corners that did not require closer inspection.
The 5×5 grid was much brighter.
Candy.
Pumpkins.
Potion bottles.
Little monster faces.
Bones.
Electric-looking Power Bolts.
Everything had the visual consistency of a trick-or-treat bucket dropped into laboratory waste.
The first cluster was candy.
Six pieces connected.
Small win.
Gone.
Nothing underneath exploded.
The green monster remained roughly human-door sized beside the reels.
Pumpkin still on.
Good.
Second spin brought several Power Bolts but not enough to fill anything.
They flew toward a small meter near the monster.
One.
Then another.
The creature twitched.
That was all.
I immediately started watching the meter instead of the sweets.
There was something deeply suspicious about feeding electrical power into an organism shaped like a mound of green custard.
Spin four completed the first meter.
The laboratory flashed.
Green light travelled around the monster.
He inflated.
Not dramatically.
Just enough to become wider.
His arms thickened.
His body swelled.
The pumpkin did nothing.
Same pumpkin.
Same circumference.
It now sat noticeably higher on the expanding green head.
That was excellent.
The power had respected the monster and ignored his wardrobe.
A cluster formed while he was powered up.
One green Slime Wild appeared inside it.
The cluster paid a little better.
Then the temporary power faded and he settled back down.
The pumpkin returned to looking merely slightly too small.
I had already found the session.
Forget maximum win.
I wanted to know how large the monster could become before the pumpkin ceased to make physical sense.
More Bolts appeared over the next few spins.
Not enough together.
A Pumpkin Scatter landed.
Large orange face.
No company.
Gone.
Another little monster cluster connected for €1.80.
The main creature beside the reels watched it disappear.
That produced an odd visual relationship.
Tiny monster symbols were being removed from the grid for money while the large monster outside the reels was being electrically enlarged.
Halloween had created a food chain with no food.
Spin eight gave another full Power Meter.
This time the temporary Power-Up went farther.
The green body bulged outward.
A splash of slime hit several reel positions.
Wild.
Wild.
Wild.
Three previously ordinary symbols had just been covered in green goo and reassigned.
The pumpkin hat remained exactly the same.
Now it looked like a bottle cap on a melon.
The resulting cluster returned €3.60.
Then the power faded.
Monster smaller.
Pumpkin less ridiculous.
I wanted the ridiculous version back.
The reels knew this.
They stopped giving enough Bolts.
A few ordinary clusters came instead.
Candy.
Potion.
Little orange monster faces.
A pair of Pumpkin Scatters landed together on spin eleven.
Two.
I watched the remaining columns.
Nothing.
No third.
The pair disappeared.
The monster stayed normal-sized.
The pumpkin looked smug.
By spin thirteen, I had begun mentally separating the symbols into two categories.
Things that paid.
Things that made the hat problem worse.
Power Bolts were firmly in the second group.
A large candy cluster could return money and I would still check whether a Bolt had landed somewhere inside it.
Another Power-Up arrived on spin fourteen.
Slime Burst.
Three Wild positions.
A modest €2.70 sequence.
The monster expanded.
Pumpkin did not.
For a moment, the orange hat was sitting almost flat on top of an expanse of green that had become wider than the reels beside him.
Then he shrank again.
This creature was being forced through repeated supernatural body transformations while his Halloween costume remained one-size-only.
That felt crueler than anything else in the haunted laboratory.
Spin sixteen brought another Pumpkin Scatter.
Alone.
Seventeen brought nothing useful.
The paid portion had been gentle rather than generous.
No serious damage.
Enough little clusters to keep the session comfortable.
Then spin eighteen stopped with pumpkins in three different parts of the grid.
One.
Second.
Third.
The monster looked up.
The laboratory lights turned orange.
The green body began to glow.
Halloween Bonanza opened.
Eight Free Spins.
And this time the Power-Ups were not temporary.
That changed the pumpkin situation immediately.
The monster entered at the first power level.
He was already slightly larger than normal.
The pumpkin remained standard pumpkin.
One Power Bolt was already sitting in the meter.
Three more until the next stage.
First Free Spin.
Another Bolt.
Two of four.
A small cluster of candy connected and returned €1.80.
Nothing outrageous yet.
The monster stayed enlarged.
That was new.
No shrinking after the spin.
The pumpkin now had to live with the consequences.
Second Free Spin.
Another Bolt.
Three of four.
No win.
The monster stayed where he was.
He looked uncomfortable.
The pumpkin looked delighted.
Third Free Spin.
Bolt.
Four.
The meter filled.
Green energy rushed around the frame.
The monster expanded again.
The pumpkin rose with him.
It had now reached the point where I could imagine a strong sneeze ending the entire costume.
Then slime fired onto the grid.
Three positions turned Wild.
A cluster formed around them.
Symbols disappeared.
Another small group connected.
€4.50.
The monster held the larger form.
No reset.
The meter emptied and began again.
This was where the feature became dangerous in the correct way.
Not financially.
Structurally.
If the next power level made him much larger, there was no realistic future for that pumpkin.
Fourth Free Spin.
Two Bolts landed.
Half meter.
The slime Wilds helped one cluster.
That exposed another.
More symbols fell into place.
€7.20 from the sequence.
The monster stayed large.
Pumpkin stayed tiny.
The visual ratio was deteriorating.
Fifth Free Spin.
Two Bolts.
Full meter.
The laboratory flashed much harder this time.
The monster rose.
Expanded sideways.
Expanded upward.
Then moved into the actual grid.
Four positions in the middle became him.
A 2×2 block of green Monster Wild.
x2.
The creature had become four symbols large.
The pumpkin still occupied the exact same little area above his eyes.
It was now less hat and more garnish.
No useful cluster formed on that particular spin.
That somehow made the transformation funnier.
He had doubled his physical presence, climbed into the reels, acquired x2 power and immediately accomplished nothing.
The pumpkin remained committed.
Sixth Free Spin.
Now the 2×2 Monster Wild mattered.
A group of potion bottles connected through him.
Then another cluster used one side of the same block.
The x2 applied.
€13.50.
That was the first big shift in the feature.
The monster had become useful enough that I briefly forgot the pumpkin.
Then the reels stopped.
There he was again.
Four cells of green monster.
One tiny orange lid.
No.
Still ridiculous.
Two Free Spins remained.
The meter had reset after the last transformation.
Seventh spin dropped four Power Bolts at once.
All of them.
The meter filled immediately.
The laboratory went green.
The monster began growing.
Again.
The 2×2 shape pushed outward.
One more row.
One more column.
Three by three.
Nine central positions became Monster Wild.
x3.
Nine.
The pumpkin remained exactly the same size.
That settled it.
The monster was now effectively a building.
The pumpkin was a decorative button.
His face had expanded far enough that the little orange shell perched above it looked like somebody had thrown a Halloween cupcake topper onto a water tower.
The transformation itself helped create a strong cluster.
€16.20.
One spin remained.
The monster did not shrink.
The entire centre of the grid belonged to him.
Nine cells.
x3.
The outer symbols had very little remaining responsibility.
Final Free Spin.
Candy landed around the left.
Potion symbols on the right.
A group connected through the monster.
Gone.
Fresh symbols dropped.
Another cluster formed across the x3 block.
Gone.
One more small connection caught the lower edge of him.
The total climbed to €25.20.
Then stopped.
No retrigger.
No additional Power-Up.
There was nowhere sensible left for him to grow anyway.
Another stage and the pumpkin might have technically become a freckle.
The bonus closed.
The monster returned beside the reels.
Normal proportions.
Normal green blob.
Pumpkin restored to merely questionable fit.
The feature had done more than enough.
I did not press Spin again.
That mattered.
No victory lap.
No attempt to find three more pumpkins.
No decision that €0.90 suddenly deserved to become €1.80 because the monster had just paid.
The feature had reached the exact visual destination the session had been building toward.
At the start, the pumpkin had looked slightly too small.
By the end, the monster had occupied nine reel positions with a x3 multiplier while wearing the same pumpkin.
That was the complete story.
Monster Power-Up Halloween Bonanza could keep whatever came next.
The final screen held the creature back at ordinary size, eyes peering out beneath the orange shell.
The pumpkin finally looked almost appropriate again.
After eight Free Spins of watching him outgrow it three separate times, that felt temporary.
Hot Potato retriggered — so did my anxiety.