Feast of Boris
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Today is the Feast of Boris!
Eat, eat, eat!
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On the Feast of Boris, a character's maximum fullness is raised by 15. This doubles the normal eating capacity for characters, excepting those who have Stomach of Steel by electing to take on the Teetotaler dietary path. Those with the Stomach of Steel will find a 75% increase in their eating capacity, for a total eating capacity of a whopping 35 fullness, enabling them to eat the three-tiered wedding cake and qualify for the Three-Tiered Trophy.
December 13, 2005 was the first time the Feast of Boris involved several special adventures popping up at random in every area. This even works in areas that normally have no combat at all, and includes adventuring in a Drunken Stupor.
Cranberries are unusually effective, as is any food or drink containing them. Pink ponies are also changed - at the time of the first Feast of Boris they were made from vodka and cranberry. However, the Pink Pony does not seem to give any additional adventures on the Feast of Boris. The roll in the hay, however, does. This may be a bug. On Feast of Boris XIII, cranberries and cranberry items gave no additional adventures or special text. Again, this may be a bug.
Dates
- Feast of Boris I: December 1, 2004 (Dougtember 6, Year 7)
- Feast of Boris II: February 28, 2005 (Boozember 7, Year 8)
- Feast of Boris III: June 4, 2005 (Boozember 7, Year 9)
- Feast of Boris IV: September 8, 2005 (Boozember 7, Year 10)
- Feast of Boris V: December 13, 2005 (Boozember 7, Year 11)
- Feast of Boris VI: March 19, 2006 (Boozember 7, Year 12)
- Feast of Boris VII: June 23, 2006 (Boozember 7, Year 13)
- Feast of Boris VIII: September 27, 2006 (Boozember 7, Year 14)
- Feast of Boris IX: January 1, 2007 (Boozember 7, Year 15)
- Feast of Boris X: April 7, 2007 (Boozember 7, Year 16)
- Feast of Boris XI: July 12, 2007 (Boozember 7, Year 17)
- Feast of Boris XII: October 16, 2007 (Boozember 7, Year 18)
- Feast of Boris XIII: November 22, 2007 (April 4, Year 19)
- Feast of Boris XIV: January 20, 2008 (Boozember 7, Year 19)
- Feast of Boris XV: April 25, 2008 (Boozember 7, Year 20)
- Feast of Boris XVI: July 30, 2008 (Boozember 7, Year 21)
- Feast of Boris XVII: November 3, 2008 (Boozember 7, Year 22) (predicted)
Special Item Messages
- cranberries: You eat the cranberries. Something about today being the Feast of Boris makes them taste extra good. (Did not appear on feast of Boris XIII)
- pink pony: The pink pony tastes like a pink turkey, for some reason. Salty and delicious! (No longer present as of Feast of Boris VII)
- redrum: You drink the redrum, and it reminds you of that one Christmas you spent with your family in that creepy hotel in the mountains. (Did not appear on Feast of Boris XIV)
- vodka and cranberry: The taste of the vodka and cranberry reminds you of holidays with your family. And how you always got drunk during them and made an ass out of yourself. (Did not appear on Feast of Boris XIV)
Special Items
From the Feast of Boris V onwards:
Added the Feast of Boris XIII, for characters below the level requirements of the aformentioned foods:
Special Adventures
From Feast of Boris V onwards:
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  Candied Yam Golem
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- Item Drops: yam candy (below level 5), candied yams (level 5 and above)
- Meat Drop: None
- Substat Gain: Scales with player stats
- Monster Level: Scales with player stats
- Moxie for No Hit*: Scales with player stats
- Hit Points: Equal to Player HP
- Elemental Resistance: none
- Elemental Weakness: none
- Physical Resistance: none
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Notes
- The Feast of Boris was not celebrated on its counterpart real-life holiday, Thanksgiving, until 2007, however its very first celebration was for Thanksgiving, albeit late. If The Feast of Boris did take place on real-life Thanksgiving, this would allow for the eventual possibility of a Stat Day coinciding with the Feast of Boris. The combination of doubled eating capacity and a bonus to stats from adventures is something that the development team likely wanted to avoid, as it would make ascending on that specific day a lot easier (and since it would only happen every couple of years, this would lead to leaderboard runs that would be unrivaled).
- The special adventures were first added on Feast of Boris V, when the monsters were all very weak and only yielded 1 substat point each. This was changed for Feast of Boris VI, and from that point onwards, the monsters now scale to your level, giving appropriate substats to your level.
- You may still encounter the monsters while drunk, instead of the usual Drunken Stupor encounters.
- You may encounter a monster instead of a clover adventure (in which case the clover is not consumed), or instead of a semi-rare encounter (in which case the semi-rare opportunity is lost). Other special timed adventures (such as the Violet Fog while Half-Astral, or choice adventures in The Worm Wood) can also be overridden.
- There is approximately a 1/30 chance of encountering a Feast of Boris monster instead of having a normal encounter.
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