Crimbo
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Crimbo is the Kingdom of Loathing's most popular holiday; it shares the season with Hanukkimbo.
Dates
- Crimbo Season I: December 25, 2003 (Martinus 8, Year 4)
- Crimbo Season II: December 25, 2004 (Starch 6, Year 8)
- Crimbo Season III: December 1, 2005 (Porktober 3, Year 11) to January 2, 2006 (Frankruary 3, Year 12)
- Crimbo Season IV: December 1, 2006 (Bor 8, Year 15) to January 1, 2007 (Boozember 7, Year 15)
- Crimbo Season V: December 1, 2007 (Martinus 5, Year 19) to January 1, 2008 (Carlvember 4, Year 19)
- Crimbo Season VI: December 1, 2008 (Starch 3, Year 23) to January 6, 2009 (Bor 7, Year 23)
- Crimbo Season VII: December 1, 2009 (Dougtember 8, Year 26) to January 1, 2010 (April 7, Year 27)
- Crimbo Season VIII: December 1, 2010 (Porktober 5, Year 30) to January 14, 2011 (April 1, Year 31)
- Crimbo Season IX: December 1, 2011 (Petember 2, Year 34) to January 3, 2012 (Dougtember 3, Year 34)
- Crimbo Season X: December 1, 2012 (Martinus 8, Year 38) to TBD (predicted)
2003
On December 25, 2003 (Martinus 8, Year 4), each player received a Crimbo pressie. When opened, it produced a fruitcake and some wrapping paper. The wrapping paper could be smithed into the components of the Crimbo Duds outfit.
2004
On December 25, 2004 (Starch 6, Year 8), each player received a Crimbo stocking. When opened, it produced a candy cane, a gingerbread bugbear, some eggnog, and a small Crimbo Pressie. The small pressie, when opened, produced a bow and either a Hanukkimbo dreidl, an imitation nice watch, or a tiny plastic sword. The bow could be smithed into the components of the Bow Tux outfit.
In addition, the player Secret Santa was given 100 extra special Crimbo stockings to give out, due to his generous donations. When you opened these, you received a Mr. Accessory, in addition to the regular items.
2005
(see Crimbo Town (2005))
On December 1, 2005 (Porktober 3, Year 11), Uncle Crimbo placed an Advent Calendar in each player's campground. Players were able to open one section of it each day; the calendar had one section for each of the 25 days up to, and including, Crimbo. The sections, when opened, initially yielded a small Crimbo gift, such as a candy cane, some eggnog, a fruitcake, or a gingerbread bugbear. In later weeks, the gift included other items, such as some aspirin, a fancy chocolate, sugar cookies in various shapes, and items from the Tiny plastic series 1C. Also, on the 20th, the gates to Crimbo Town opened; they closed on January 2, 2006.
On December 24, Uncle Crimbo placed a little present in everyone's equipment inventory. A new outfit, the Arboreal Raiment, was included. The items required to make it were a can of fake snow, a colored-light "necklace", and a tree skirt.
2006
(see Crimbo Town (Crimboween))
On December 1, 2006, a Spooky Advent Calendar was placed in each player's campground. Also, Applejohn Pipeswaddler, the Lonely Crimbo Elf, appeared in the middle of the mountains, asking everyone to help get Uncle Crimbo's memory back.
On December 24, 2006, Uncle Crimbo gave out a tropical Crimbo pressie; when opened, it produced some tropical wrapping paper and an additional item. The item could have been a tiki lighter, a tropical paperweight, or a deck of tropical cards. If a player had completed the Save Uncle Crimbo! quest, they also got either a crimbo ukelele, a lucky Crimbo tiki necklace, or a bobble-hip hula elf doll. In addition, December 25th was Halloween, and trick-or-treating was enabled.
2007
(see Crimbo Town (2007))
On November 30, 2007, Uncle Crimbo stopped by everybody's campsite in the dead of the night and dropped off a little calendar full of goodies. Perfectly normal, perfectly healthy goodies.
On December 7, a new moon appeared in the sky. It was a Crimbo miracle! It was noted that the moon oddly resembled The Sinister Dodecahedron, which was sighted in the sky a year and a half earlier at The LAAAAME Observatory.
On December 10, an announcement was posted in the Kingdom; it stated that some amateur astronomers with telescopes in their campsites had determined that the new object in the sky was no moon -- it was a space station!
On December 12, it turned out that the amateur astronomers were wrong - it wasn't a moon or a space station; it was a spaceship, and it had crash-landed somewhere in The Big Mountains.
In completely unrelated news, Crimbo Town re-emerged from the mists in The Big Mountains to bring joy and delight to adventurers everywhere. Unfortunately, the "Crimborg" had taken over this delightful place. Uncle Crimbo asked everyone to help deal with him, and in exchange, he helped players make toys from the spoils. He even offered to make toys from previous Crimbos! Provided a player had the items to make them, of course.
On December 25, Uncle Crimbo handed out an old-fashioned Crimbo Pressie.
2008
(see Crimbo Town (2008))
On December 1, 2008, Uncle Crimbo managed to hobble into everybody's campsite and leave behind a little calendar. The calendar contained irradiated treats,which were the result of Grimacite radiation.
On December 8, 2008, Crimbo Town opened up. It had been irradiated, due to some dubious business decisions that Uncle Crimbo made.
In addition, adventurers had the opportunity to take down mutant elves or Mafia penguins... or both. Kills were tracked for both sides. Overall, more penguins were killed than elves, so Uncle Crimbo rewarded visitors at his fallout shelter, beginning on December 25, 2008.
On January 1, 2009, the elves suddenly mutated into one giant abomination. Adventurers had to expurgate bits of it using The Spirit of Crimbo and help the Penguin Mafia subjugate it.
On January 6, 2009, the penguins succeeded in containing the abomination in a crate. All players who helped to expurgate it were compensated with Crimbo crate items, which were compliments from the Don, the new monarch of Crimbo.
2009
(see Crimbo Town (2009))
On December 1, 2009, Don Crimbo left each and every Adventurer a little present at their campsite.
In addition, he asked adventurers to join him at Uncle P's Antiques, where had a little "request" for assistance waiting for them.
On December 15, Crimbo Town emerged from the mists. Don Crimbo sent adventurers to work on quelling the rebelliousness of his elves.
On December 19, an encounter with the leader of the rebellion put everything into question and revealed a sinister plot that could shake the Kingdom to its core.
On December 20, as a result of said revelation, adventurers started working with the elves and against the Don's sinister plot, merrily mowing down penguins with a fa-la-la-la-la in their hearts.
On December 24, adventurers confronted Don Crimbo and convinced him to give up the holiday. With Mafia control over Crimbo eliminated, attention turned to defeating the newly freed Crimbomination.
On December 25, adventurers confronted the Crimbomination. Through the ingenious use of seemingly worthless items dropped by previous Crimbo bosses, the Crimbomination was redeemed; it became the new ruler of Crimbo.
2010
(see CRIMBCO Headquarters)
On December 1, 2010, adventurers received an Advent Calendar at their campsite, brought to them by CRIMBCO.
On December 3, 2010, Elf Alley was discovered; it was hidden in the bowels of Hobopolis, and it was full of unemployed Crimbo elves! Among them was the once-jolly and now-gritty Uncle Hobo.
On December 4, 2010, the Don presented a message to all players from his profile, urging them to send tainted mutant candies to him, but not without payment for their service. (As of the 12th, the Don is no longer offering recompense. He has also disparaged the KoL Wiki.)
On December 15, 2010, the CRIMBCO HQ, run by Mr. Crimbo Mination, emerged from the mists. Players were able to work up the corporate ladder to earn scrips and purchase gifts.
On December 22, the hobelves began to invade the HQ through its bathroom.
On December 25, 2010, Uncle Crimbo made his way into Mr. Mination's office to try to take back Crimbo from CRIMBCO's greedy corporate hands. Players could choose to help either one, but regardless of their choice, Uncle Crimbo recovered his hat (and his holly-jolliness), unmutated Mr. Mination, and gifted the player appropriately, with Crimbo back in his control.
By January 1, 2011 most of CRIMBCO's operations had been suspended, save the Gift Shop which continued business as usual. The building disappeared on January 14, 2011.
2011
(see Crimbo Town (2011))
On December 1, 2011, the traditional Advent Calendar appeared at the campsite. However, this year it contained a Candy Diorama instead of the usual consumable treats. The diorama contained new adventuring zones. Adventurers first adventured in the dense Lollipop Forest, home of the nefarious Trollipop (added December 7). On December 8, they could climb Fudge Mountain. On December 16, they could plumb the depths of The Gummi Mines.
On December 14, 2011, after being punched out of the calendar, The Fudge Wizard antagonized adventurers and "accidentally" revealed that they are ruining "Big Candy's" operation.
On December 17, 2011, Crimbo Town, run by Uncle Crimbo, appeared in The Big Mountains asking adventurers to trade in candy for candy credits.
On December 25, 2011, players received a message from Uncle Crimbo himself containing a fudge pocket square, lollipop cufflinks or a gummi bowtie and the following text: "Hey, kid. Thanks for helping me out with the candy crisis. Have yourself a Merry Crimbo, would ya?"
Notes
- The Official Crimbo Story:
- The Saga Begins / The Story Thus Far / The Death of Crimbo
- The Elfretariat
- The Halloween Incident
- Crimboween
- Where in time is Uncle Crimbo?
- Once You Go Blackstory, You Never Go Backstory
- A Polyhedral Harbinger
- Rise of the Crimborg
- A Black and White Crimbo
- One More Indecent Accident
- Of CRIMBCO and Hobos
References
- "Crimbo" is a British slang term for Christmas, partially used to avoid the religious connotations of the holiday.
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