[New shoot]

'Gosh its getting dark in here early tonight' said New shoot as she ventured into the forum on the first night after the clocks changed.  'Best get some lights on being its halloween soon and all ....'

But oddly the light switches seem to be not working and there was no-one around either.  Then New shoot heard a distant clanking and clanging.  Summoning her courage and donning a tin foil hat just in case, she got the torch out of her emergency kit (issued to mods in case of zombie apocalypse, invasion of body snatchers or the meter having run out) and went to see what it was ....

[snowdrops]

“Oh my, oh my” said Snowdrops from the gloom. “ can somebody help me please I’m..........”

[mumofstig]

trapped by the ankle - I can't move, something....

[New shoot]

has me in a vice like grip!'

When the torch was shone on poor Snowdrop's ankle, a terrible contraption was revealed.  'Oh no' she cried ' its ...

[grinling]

my new fancy, sparkly, purple wellies!!

[mumofstig]

Tangled in some debris netting and..

[snowdrops]

When snowdrops looked down in the torch light (thanks Newshoot) she could see it was indeed those sparkly purple wellies causing her feet to be held in a vice like grip by the debris netting she had been trying to fold. She exclaimed for all to hear “ I wish I’d never heard of Growsterinc, I said I didn’t think they were big enough but the nice gentleman said they were” can anyone help me pull them off & I’ll send them back.
Just then there was a strange light emitting from.....

[New shoot]

Aunty's dungeon and the door swung open to reveal ...

[JayG]

...an ageing orangutan, who had tried twice to post an update to the story but was too slow - his frustration caused self-combustion, the cause of the sudden emission of light.

Luckily, being in the dark dungeon    the light came in very handy for...

[New shoot]

... illuminating a dark corner where a huddled form was stirring, coughing slightly from the smell of burning orangutan hair.

'Uh oh' said New shoot ' its...'

[Growster...]

...some sort of deranged apparition, muttering "I wish I’d never heard of Growsterinc, I said I didn’t think they were big enough but the nice gentleman said they were” can anyone help me pull them off" and really wondering what on earth that meant, but not reading between the lines, deciding that all was normal (except for the bit about not being big enough), and so the muttering continued, with occasional references to...

[snowdrops]

The bells, the bells. When all of a sudden out came.....

[New shoot]

...an Evironmesh draped figure with spray bottles of soapy water, garlic tea and other noxious brews strapped around its waist.

'The pests, the pests' it moaned as it sank to its knees.  Then ...

[mumofstig]

It started spraying smelly stuff as it was surrounded by clouds of insects. Someone screamed it's the 'Revenge of the Whitefly'

We need help before...

[JayG]

...someone reports us to the EU for multiple use of illegal pesticides and we're kept in the dungeon forever. 

Luckily, all the spraying had extinguished the flames threatening to overcome the orang-utan, who declared himself bug-free for the first time in his life - thus rejuvenated, he revealed his cunning plan to escape from their dire predicament...