Halloween

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It's Porktober 8th! Click on the Jill-O-Lantern to go Trick-or-Treating in Seaside Town!

This holiday, which commemorates some ancient blood rite or other, involves people dressing in weird clothes and going door-to-door threatening to commit acts of petty vandalism unless the homeowner gives you candy. It's good fun for all involved, except the half-orc hoboes, who complain that when they do exactly the same thing, they get arrested.

Details

Halloween is that time of year when Adventurers dress up and scam candy off total strangers. Or something. It occurs each Porktober 8. To go trick-or-treating, you need an outfit. Each round of trick-or-treating costs an Adventure, and is available both from Trick or Treat! in Seaside Town and the announcement on the main map.

Dates

• Halloween I: October 31, 2004 (Petember 6, Year 7)
• Halloween II: November 17, 2004 (Porktober 8, Year 7)
• Halloween III: February 21, 2005 (Porktober 8, Year 8)
• Halloween IV: May 28, 2005 (Porktober 8, Year 9)
• Halloween V: September 1, 2005 (Porktober 8, Year 10)
• Halloween VI: October 31, 2005 (Bill 4, Year 11)
• Halloween VII: December 6, 2005 (Porktober 8, Year 11)
• Halloween VIII: March 12, 2006 (Porktober 8, Year 12)
• Halloween IX: June 16, 2006 (Porktober 8, Year 13)
• Halloween X: September 20, 2006 (Porktober 8, Year 14)
• Halloween XI: October 31, 2006 (April 1, Year 15) (Note: This Halloween was taken over by Uncle Crimbo's minions, developing a plot line for the mixed holiday content known as Crimboween.)
• Halloween XII (Crimboween): December 25, 2006 (Porktober 8, Year 15)
• Halloween XIII: March 31, 2007 (Porktober 8, Year 16)
• Halloween XIV: July 5, 2007 (Porktober 8, Year 17)
• Halloween XV: October 9, 2007 (Porktober 8, Year 18)
• Halloween XVI: October 31, 2007 (Jarlsuary 6, Year 18)
• Halloween XVII: January 13, 2008 (Porktober 8, Year 19)
• Halloween XVIII: April 18, 2008 (Porktober 8, Year 20)
• Halloween XIX: July 23, 2008 (Porktober 8, Year 21)
• Halloween XX: October 27-31, 2008 (Porktober 8, Year 22) (Note: This Halloween was overrun by irradiated monsters, causing fear, panic, and all manner of spookiness to reign for many days.)
• Halloween XXI: January 31, 2009 (Porktober 8, Year 23)
• Halloween XXII: April 1, 2009 (Bill 4, Year 24)
• Halloween XXIII: May 7, 2009 (Porktober 8, Year 24)
• Halloween XXIV: August 11, 2009 (Porktober 8, Year 25)
• Halloween XXV (Arrrborween): October 26-31, 2009 (Petember 5, Year 26) (Note: This Halloween started several days early, due to something strange afoot in the Distant Woods.)
• Halloween XXVI: November 15, 2009 (Porktober 8, Year 26)
• Halloween XXVII: February 19, 2010 (Porktober 8, Year 27)
• Halloween XXVIII: May 26, 2010 (Porktober 8, Year 28)
• Halloween XXIX: August 30, 2010 (Porktober 8, Year 29)
• Halloween XXX: October 31, 2010 (Bill 6, 30) (Ended A Skeleton Invasion!)
• Halloween XXXI: December 3, 2010 (Porktober 8, Year 30)
• Halloween XXXII: March 10, 2011 (Porktober 8, Year 31)
• Halloween XXXIII: June 14, 2011 (Porktober 8, Year 32)
• Halloween XXXIV: September 18, 2011 (Porktober 8, Year 33)
• Halloween XXXV: October 31, 2011 (April 3, Year 34)
• Halloween XXXVI: December 23, 2011 (Porktober 8, Year 34)
• Halloween XXXVII: March 28, 2012 (Porktober 8, Year 35)
• Halloween XXXVIII: July 2, 2012 (Porktober 8, Year 36) (predicted)

Special Items

Whatever your outfit, there are six generic results:

On Halloween XI, the four existing generic results were replaced by these seven generic Crimbo-themed adventures (Foreshadowing Crimboween):

Depending on your outfit, you can also receive the following treats:

Special Adventures

Halloween XX

Halloween XX introduced new special combat adventures. These adventures feature monsters that scale to your stats, similar to those found during the Feast of Boris or El Dia de Los Muertos Borrachos. These adventures do not occur while trick-or-treating (or in any other place that does not invoke adventure.php).

mutant gila monster -- (edit metadata)

Item Drops: beholed bedsheet, invisible bag, witch hat Meat Drop: Scales with player stats (Max 200-300) Monster Level: Scales with player stats • Substat Gain: Scales with player stats (Max 125) • Moxie for No Hit*: Scales with player stats Monster Defense: Scales with player stats Hit Points: Scales with player stats Initiative: Indeterminate Elemental Alignment: None Note: Occurs at any adventure location about once every 30 adventures.

mutant rattlesnake -- (edit metadata)

Item Drops: beholed bedsheet, invisible bag, witch hat Meat Drop: Scales with player stats (Max 200-300) Monster Level: Scales with player stats • Substat Gain: Scales with player stats (Max 125) • Moxie for No Hit*: Scales with player stats Monster Defense: Scales with player stats Hit Points: Scales with player stats Initiative: Indeterminate Elemental Alignment: None Note: Occurs at any adventure location about once every 30 adventures.

mutant saguaro -- (edit metadata)

Item Drops: beholed bedsheet, invisible bag, witch hat Meat Drop: None Monster Level: Scales with player stats • Substat Gain: Scales with player stats (Max 125) • Moxie for No Hit*: Scales with player stats Monster Defense: Scales with player stats Hit Points: Scales with player stats Initiative: Indeterminate Elemental Alignment: None Note: Occurs at any adventure location about once every 30 adventures.

swarm of mutant fire ants -- (edit metadata)

Item Drops: beholed bedsheet, invisible bag, witch hat Meat Drop: Scales with player stats (Max 100-150) Monster Level: Scales with player stats • Substat Gain: Scales with player stats (Max 125) • Moxie for No Hit*: Scales with player stats Monster Defense: Scales with player stats Hit Points: Scales with player stats Initiative: Indeterminate Elemental Alignment: None Note: Occurs at any adventure location about once every 30 adventures.

Wearing one of the special hats dropped by these combat adventures allows you to trick-or-treat (without an outfit), yielding a new set of trick-or-treat adventures:

A little kid
	Item Drops: giant glass of brandy Note: Only occurs with a beholed bedsheet equipped. Note: The beholed bedsheet is consumed. Note: Only occurs while trick-or-treating.

A man in tights
	Item Drops: fancy canapés Note: Only occurs with an invisible bag equipped. Note: The invisible bag is consumed. Note: Only occurs while trick-or-treating.

A woman in long black robes
	Item Drops: thermos of brew Note: Only occurs with a witch hat equipped. Note: The witch hat is consumed. Note: Only occurs while trick-or-treating.

Halloween XXV

During Halloween XXV, The Shivering Timbers location opened up in the Distant Woods.

Wearing one of the special hats dropped in this location allows you to trick-or-treat (without an outfit), yielding a new set of trick-or-treat adventures:

A crowd of monsters
	Item Drops: mulled cider Note: Only occurs with a pumpkinhead mask equipped. Note: The pumpkinhead mask is consumed. Note: Only occurs while trick-or-treating.

A Perfectly-coiffed Wolfman
	Item Drops: Wolfman Nardz Note: Only occurs with a wolfman mask equipped. Note: The wolfman mask is consumed. Note: Only occurs while trick-or-treating.

Ah'wheem'ah-whep, the Priest
	Item Drops: chocolate-covered scarab beetle Note: Only occurs with a mummy costume equipped. Note: The mummy costume is consumed. Note: Only occurs while trick-or-treating.

Also, a special one-time adventure was added, which dropped an item useful in The Shivering Timbers:

L'rose, the Adventurer
	Item Drops: Ax of L'rose Note: Only occurs in Vestments of the Treeslayer. Note: A one time adventure.

Notes

• Without an outfit you receive the following message:

You can't go Trick-or-Treating without a costume!

• You can go Trick-or-Treating while falling-down drunk.
• You will receive your outfit's special adventure approximately 40% of the time, and one of the generic adventures the other 60%.
• According to Xenophobe, there was never an intention for Radio Free Regalia to have its own Halloween yield and adventure.
• For Halloween XI, the text of the announcement under the main map was changed from "It's Porktober 8th!" to "This is Halloween!" since Halloween XI fell on real life Halloween as opposed to Porktober 8th. This also applies to Halloween XVI.
• For Halloween XX, the text of the announcement under the main map was changed to "Spooky things are afoot!
  
  You might as well take advantage of the atmosphere of terror. Click on the Jill-O-Lantern to go Trick-or-Treating in Seaside Town!"
• For Halloween XXV, the text of the announcement under the main map was changed to "Something strange is afoot in the Distant Woods, and everybody's so freaked out they've started Trick or Treating early!"

References

• The announcement change to "This is Halloween!" for Halloween XI is a reference to the intro song of the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas.
• Almost all of Halloween XI is a mirror of the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas, in which Christmas is taken over by Halloween.
• The theme of Halloween XX, mutated plant and animal life being the result of a radioactive meteorite, is the same concept as the horror movie Die, Monster, Die!