April Fool's Day
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Each year on April 1st, things in the Kingdom of Loathing are a little different than normal.
In addition, the tiny costume wardrobe is available from the Mr. Store.
Dates
- April Fool's Day I: April 1, 2005 (Starch 7, Year 9)
- April Fool's Day II: April 1, 2006 (Jarlsuary 4, Year 13)
- April Fool's Day III: April 1, 2007 (Boozember 1, Year 16)
- April Fool's Day IV: April 1, 2008 (Petember 7, Year 20)
- April Fool's Day V: April 1, 2009 (Bill 4, Year 24)
- April Fool's Day VI: April 1, 2010 (April 1, Year 28) (predicted)
2009
- Site Changes:
- Every single holiday occurred, excluding the ones exclusively tied to the real world calendar such as Crimbo, Groundhog Day, and Talk Like a Pirate Day (though, oddly enough, including Friday the 13th).
- Although Labór Day was announced on the main page, players did not receive the extra ten adventures.
- Multi-colored text began appearing in chat. Early on it would just be a single word here or there, but as time progressed the frequency of colored words increased. In addition to colors, some words would occasionally blink. By rollover, practically all of chat was affected.
- Special Items:
2008
- Kingdom of Loathing Announcement:
- "March 31
April's Item-of-the-Salad is now available in Mr. Store."
- Site changes:
- During maintenance, the Kingdom became the Kingdom of Salad.
- Most effect, avatar, monster, adventure and item pictures became replaced with images of a bowl of salad.
- In combat fumble messages, <body parts> were replaced with salad ingredients, like raspberry vinaigrette, fresh ground pepper, etc.
- Random words in monster and item descriptions were replaced with "salad".
- Players with a "KoL Player Pic" in their profile had their photo replaced with a photograph of a salad (one of five types -- a normal salad, a bread salad, a meat "salad", a fruit salad or a cheese "salad").
- Forum Changes:
- The forums were changed to "Forums of Salad" and all of the public subforums had their names changed (e.g., Kingdom Community became "Fruit Salad" and the Ring of Flame became the "Circle of Friendship and Love")
- Some moderators had their names changed to the names of infamous users; John Crerar became Pappabear and Hogulus became xsmootx (after xSmootx, a player who is banned from the KoL forums).
- All the threads in RR were deleted and some users were jokingly banned.
- The Spectral Salad Factory:
- The Spectral Salad Factory appeared in the Nearby Plains, in the same location where the Spectral Pickle Factory has previously appeared. The Salad Factory contained only one adventure, dropping one delicious salad per adventure.
2007
2006
- Site changes:
- When accessing http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/, the page appearing was changed from the regular login page to a parody of an atrocious domain-squatting directory site. Clicking on its title led you to http://www.site-pimp.com/, a web site owned by Jick which contained even more hilarious content. Any of the "domain squatting" links on the fake "directory site" took you to the legitmate KoL login screen.
- Forum changes:
- The Ring of Flame was pushed to the top of the KoL forums.
- Several new, hybrid forums were created, such as "Gameplay-Ramblings, "Random-Discussion," and "The junk pile - mod forum." Anarchy reigned. Gameplay-Discussion and Random Ramblings were nowhere to be found.
- When you posted in the forums, "the" would be changed to "TEH", "are" to "R" and "you" to "U".
- Special Adventures:
- All ultra rare adventures were appearing in the appropriate areas at non-rare frequencies and "forgetting" to drop the rare.
- [icon] You acquire an item: Fatal error: Call to undefined function giveitem() in /var/www/virtuals/www.kingdomofloathing.com/htdocs/fight.php on line 5035
- Special Items:
- McPhee's Grimoire of Hilarious Object Summoning was available for purchase in Mr. Store as April's item of the month. The grimoire grants the skill Summon Hilarious Objects which allows a player to summon (classic April Fool's) joke objects like whoopie cushions. It was thought to be specific to April Fools Day (Like the emo roe before it) but has since stayed in the store, making it a legitimate Item of the Month.
- The Spectral Pickle Factory:
- The Spectral Pickle Factory appeared in the Distant Woods, but clicking on its image had no effect. However, users who clicked on its usual location in the Nearby Plains (despite the fact that their mouse cursor did not change to indicate a link) were rewarded with the rare opportunity to explore the factory, battle its inhabitants, and gather the valuable spectral pickle ingredients within.
2005
- Site Announcement:
- The announcement "In an effort to increase revenue, a small number of tasteful and unobtrusive advertisements have been added to the site." was posted and one of the following (quite hilarious) ads were randomly added to the upper left of the character pane each time it refreshed.
- Combat Sponsors:
- In addition, rounds of combat were preceded by the text, "This round of combat brought to you by:", after which appeared one of the following ads:
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