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Crimbo is the Kingdom of Loathing's most popular holiday, but 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 1, 2009 (Bor 2, Year 23)
- Crimbo Season VII: December 1, 2009 (Dougtember 8, Year 26) to January 1, 2010 (April 7, Year 27) (predicted)
2003
On December 25, 2003 (Martinus 8, Year 4), each player received a Crimbo pressie. When opened, it produced fruitcake and 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, gingerbread bugbear, eggnog and small Crimbo Pressie. The small pressie, when opened, produced a bow and either a Hanukkimbo dreidl, imitation nice watch, or 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 things.
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 having 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 aspirin, 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 and closed again January 2, 2006.
On December 24, Uncle Crimbo brought us a little present in our equipment inventory. A new outfit, Arboreal Raiment, was included. The items required are a can of fake snow, a Colored-light "necklace" and a tree skirt.
2006
(Also known as "Crimboween")
On the December 1, 2006 rollover, 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 to help get Uncle Crimbo's memory back.
On the December 24, 2006 rollover, Uncle Crimbo gave out a tropical Crimbo pressie, which opened to reveal a tropical wrapping paper, and an additional item out of a Tiki lighter, Tropical paperweight, and deck of tropical cards. If one had completed the Save Uncle Crimbo quest they also got either a Crimbo ukelele, lucky Crimbo tiki necklace, or the bobble-hip hula elf doll. In addition, December 25th was Halloween and trick-or-treating was enabled.
2007
(see Crimbo Town (2007))
On the November 30, 2007 rollover, Uncle Crimbo stopped by everybody's campsite in the dead of 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 sighted in the sky a year and a half earlier at The LAAAAME Observatory.
On December 10, an announcement was posted in the Kingdom stating 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 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 had 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 you to help deal with them, and in exchange he would make you toys from the spoils. He even offered to make toys from previous Crimbos! Provided you 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 last night and leave behind a little calendar. The calendar contained irradiated treats resulting from Grimacite radiation.
On December 8, 2008, Crimbo Town opened up. It had been irradiated due to some dubious business decisions by Uncle Crimbo.
In addition, the holiday had a mechanic not unlike the level 12 quest, where kills were tracked for both sides. Overall more penguins were killed than elves, so Uncle Crimbo rewarded visitors to his Fallout Shelter starting 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. If you helped expurgate it, you will be compensated with Crimbo crate items, compliments from the Don, the new monarch of Crimbo.
Notes
- 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
References
- "Crimbo" is a British slang term for Christmas, partially used to avoid the religious connotations of the holiday.
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