Feast of Boris

Today is the Feast of Boris! Eat, eat, eat!

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This holiday honors Boris the Beefy, one of the three mighty archetypal elders who helped shape the Kingdom back in the old days (which were way before the days of Yore). Boris's capacity for eating was almost as legendary as his capacity for violence. To maintain his barge-like physique, he ate five dozen raw eggs every morning. It's hardly surprising that he died not in battle, but from a combination of clogged arteries and salmonella poisoning. To celebrate his memory, citizens of the Kingdom gorge themselves on food until they can barely move.

Details

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 achieved a Stomach of Steel. 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. This bonus will not trigger for anyone under the restrictions of a special challenge path, though breaking the prism will enable them to pig out.

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)
• Feast of Boris XVIII: November 22, 2008 (Frankuary 2, Year 23)
• Feast of Boris XIX: November 27, 2008 (Frankuary 7, Year 23)
• Feast of Boris XX: February 7, 2009 (Boozember 7, Year 23)
• Feast of Boris XXI: April 1, 2009 (Bill 4, Year 24)
• Feast of Boris XXII: May 14, 2009 (Boozember 7, Year 24)
• Feast of Boris XXIII: August 18, 2009 (Boozember 7, Year 25)
• Feast of Boris XXIV: November 22, 2009 (Boozember 7, Year 26)
• Feast of Boris XXV: November 26, 2009 (Dougtember 3, Year 26)
• Feast of Boris XXVI: February 26, 2010 (Boozember 7, Year 27)
• Feast of Boris XXVII: June 2, 2010 (Boozember 7, Year 28)
• Feast of Boris XXVIII: September 6, 2010 (Boozember 7, Year 29)
• Feast of Boris XXIX: November 25, 2010 (Carlvember 7, Year 30)
• Feast of Boris XXX: December 11, 2010 (Boozember 7, Year 30)
• Feast of Boris XXXI (Drunksgiving): March 17, 2011 (Boozember 7, Year 31)
• Feast of Boris XXXII: June 21, 2011 (Boozember 7, Year 32)
• Feast of Boris XXXIII: September 25, 2011 (Boozember 7, Year 33)
• Feast of Boris XXXIV: November 24, 2011 (Bor 3, Year 34)
• Feast of Boris XXXV: December 30, 2011 (Boozember 7, Year 34)
• Feast of Boris XXXVI: April 4, 2012 (Boozember 7, Year 35)
• Feast of Boris XXXVII: July 9, 2012 (Boozember 7, Year 36)
• Feast of Boris XXXVIII: October 13, 2012 (Boozember 7, Year 37)
• Feast of Boris XXXIX: November 22, 2012 (April 7, Year 38)
• Feast of Boris XL: January 17, 2013 (Boozember 7, Year 38)
• Feast of Boris XLI: April 23, 2013 (Boozember 7, Year 39)
• Feast of Boris XLII: July 28, 2013 (Boozember 7, Year 40)
• Feast of Boris XLIII: November 1, 2013 (Boozember 7, Year 41)
• Feast of Boris XLIV: November 27, 2013 (Starch 2, Year 42)
• Feast of Boris XLV: February 5, 2014 (Boozember 7, Year 42)
• Feast of Boris XLVI: May 12, 2014 (Boozember 7, Year 43)
• Feast of Boris XLVII: August 16, 2014 (Boozember 7, Year 44)
• Feast of Boris XLVIII: November 20, 2014 (Boozember 7, Year 45)
• Feast of Boris XLIX: November 27, 2014 (Dougtember 6, Year 45)
• Feast of Boris L: February 24, 2015 (Boozember 7, Year 46)
• Feast of Boris LI: May 31, 2015 (Boozember 7, Year 47)
• Feast of Boris LII: September 4, 2015 (Boozember 7, Year 48)
• Feast of Boris LIII: November 26, 2015 (Porktober 2, Year 49)
• Feast of Boris LIV: December 9, 2015 (Boozember 7, Year 49)
• Feast of Boris LV: March 14, 2016 (Boozember 7, Year 50)
• Feast of Boris LVI: June 18, 2016 (Boozember 7, Year 51)
• Feast of Boris LVII: September 22, 2016 (Boozember 7, Year 52)
• Feast of Boris LVIII: November 24, 2016 (Bor 6, Year 53)
• Feast of Boris LIX: December 27, 2016 (Boozember 7, Year 53)
• Feast of Boris LX: April 2, 2017 (Boozember 7, Year 54)
• Feast of Boris LXI: July 7, 2017 (Boozember 7, Year 55)
• Feast of Boris LXII: October 11, 2017 (Boozember 7, Year 56)
• El Dia de los Muertos Borrachos y Agradecido: November 23, 2017 (Martinus 2, Year 57)
• Feast of Boris LXIV: January 15, 2018 (Boozember 7, Year 57)
• Feast of Boris LXV: April 21, 2018 (Boozember 7, Year 58)
• Feast of Boris LXVI: July 26, 2018 (Boozember 7, Year 59)
• Feast of Boris LXVII: October 30, 2018 (Boozember 7, Year 60)
• Feast of Boris LXVIII: November 22, 2018 (Frankuary 6, Year 61)
• Feast of Boris LXIX: February 3, 2019 (Boozember 7, Year 61)
• Feast of Boris LXX: May 10, 2019 (Boozember 7, Year 62)
• Feast of Boris LXXI: August 14, 2019 (Boozember 7, Year 63)
• Feast of Boris LXXII: November 18, 2019 (Boozember 7, Year 64)
• Feast of Boris LXXIII: November 28, 2019 (Jarlsuary 1, Year 65)

  This fell on the same day as Festival of Jarlsberg LVIII and the monsters had different drops (see below.)

• Feast of Boris LXXIV: February 22, 2020 (Boozember 7, Year 65)
• Feast of Boris LXXV: May 28, 2020 (Boozember 7, Year 66)
• Feast of Boris LXXVI: September 1, 2020 (Boozember 7, Year 67)
• Feast of Boris LXXVII: November 26, 2020 (Porktober 5, Year 68)
• Feast of Boris LXXVIII: December 6, 2020 (Boozember 7, Year 68)
• Feast of Boris LXXIX: March 12, 2021 (Boozember 7, Year 69)
• Feast of Boris LXXX: June 16, 2021 (Boozember 7, Year 70)
• Feast of Boris LXXXI: September 20, 2021 (Boozember 7, Year 71)
• Feast of Boris LXXXII: November 25, 2021 (Petember 1, Year 72)
• Feast of Boris LXXXIII: December 25, 2021 (Boozember 7, Year 72)
• Feast of Boris LXXXIV: March 31, 2022 (Boozember 7, Year 73)
• Feast of Boris LXXXV: July 5, 2022 (Boozember 7, Year 74)
• Feast of Boris LXXXVI: October 9, 2022 (Boozember 7, Year 75)
• Feast of Boris LXXXVII: November 24, 2022 (Martinus 5, Year 76)
• Feast of Boris LXXXVIII: January 13, 2023 (Boozember 7, Year 76)
• Feast of Boris LXXXIX: April 19, 2023 (Boozember 7, Year 77)
• Feast of Boris XC: July 24, 2023 (Boozember 7, Year 78)
• Feast of Boris XCI: October 28, 2023 (Boozember 7, Year 79)
• Feast of Boris XCII: November 23, 2023 (Starch 1, Year 80)
• Feast of Boris XCIII: February 1, 2024 (Boozember 7, Year 80)
• Feast of Boris XCIV: May 7, 2024 (Boozember 7, Year 81)
• Feast of Boris XCV: August 11, 2024 (Boozember 7, Year 82)
• Feast of Boris XCVI: November 15, 2024 (Boozember 7, Year 83)
• Feast of Boris XCVII: November 28, 2024 (Jarlsuary 4, Year 84) (predicted)
• Feast of Boris XCVIII: February 19, 2025 (Boozember 7, Year 84) (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:

• can-shaped gelatinous cranberry sauce
• candied yams
• herbal stuffing
• tofurkey gravy
• tofurkey leg

Added the Feast of Boris XIII, for characters below the level requirements of the aforementioned foods:

• packet of tofurkey gravy
• single-serving herbal stuffing
• tofurkey nugget
• tube of cranberry Go-Goo
• yam candy

Special Adventures

From Feast of Boris V onwards:

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Candied Yam Golem -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: yam candy (below level 5), candied yams (level 5 and above) Meat Drop: None Monster Level: Player's Buffed Moxie - 3 • Substat Gain: Scales with player stats • Moxie for No Hit*: Scales with player stats Monster Defense: Player's Buffed Muscle - 3 Hit Points: 75% of Player HP Initiative: 100 Elemental Alignment: None

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Malevolent Tofurkey -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: tofurkey nugget, packet of tofurkey gravy (below level 5); tofurkey gravy, tofurkey leg (level 5 and above) Meat Drop: None Monster Level: Player's Buffed Moxie - 3 • Substat Gain: Scales with player stats • Moxie for No Hit*: Scales with player stats Monster Defense: Player's Buffed Muscle - 3 Hit Points: 75% of Player HP Initiative: 100 Elemental Alignment: None

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Possessed Can of Cranberry Sauce -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: tube of cranberry Go-Goo (below level 6), can-shaped gelatinous cranberry sauce (level 6 and above), shredded can labelb Meat Drop: None Monster Level: Player's Buffed Moxie - 3 • Substat Gain: Scales with player stats • Moxie for No Hit*: Scales with player stats Monster Defense: Player's Buffed Muscle - 3 Hit Points: 75% of Player HP Initiative: 100 Elemental Alignment: None

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Stuffing Golem -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: single-serving herbal stuffing (below level 7), herbal stuffing (level 7 and above) Meat Drop: None Monster Level: Player's Buffed Moxie - 3 • Substat Gain: Scales with player stats • Moxie for No Hit*: Scales with player stats Monster Defense: Player's Buffed Muscle - 3 Hit Points: 75% of Player HP Initiative: 100 Elemental Alignment: None

Alternate Messages

• If you're on a special challenge path, you will not gain any additional fullness, and a different message will show up on the main map:

• If you are in a Standard run when Feast of Boris occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. You're too competitive to participate, though...

• If you are in a Bees Hate You run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of B... Aww, crap.

• If you are in a Way of the Surprising Fist run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. The Surprising Fist craves not these things.

• If you are in a Trendy run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. More like the Feast of Boring... Pass.

• If you are in an Avatar of Boris run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Yay, you!

• If you are in a Bugbear Invasion run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Unfortunately, bugbear mind-control rays are suppresing[sic] your appetite...

• If you are in a Zombie Slayer run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Brains, brains, brains!

• If you are in a Class Act or Class Act II run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Unfortunately, you're too classy to participate.

• If you are in an Avatar of Jarlsberg run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Brutish holiday. You refuse to participate.

• If you are in a BIG! run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. All this holiday food is too small for your taste.

• If you are in a KOLHS run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Too bad you still have class.

• If you are in an Avatar of Sneaky Pete run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Sneaky Pete is too cool for that.

• If you are in a Slow and Steady run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. But it's too hot to eat that much.

• If you are in a Heavy Rains run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. The rain has ruined your festive mood.

• If you are in a Picky run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. You're way too picky to eat weird holiday food...

• If you are in an Actually Ed the Undying run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. UNFEASTING!

• If you are in a One Crazy Random Summer run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. You can't participate, for some random reason.

• If you are in a Community Service run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. You're too busy servicing the community to participate.

• If you are in a Avatar of West of Loathing run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. They don't celebrate the Feast of Boris out West.

• If you are in a The Source run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. But everything tastes like chicken and you don't feel celebratory.

• If you are in a Nuclear Autumn run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. But you're not in the mood to celebrate during nuclear autumn.

• If you are in a Gelatinous Noob run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. It really makes you wish you could eat like a normal human.

• If you are in a License to Adventure run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. The constant threat of lethal danger has quashed your appetite.

• If you are in a Live. Ascend. Repeat. run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. If you're stuck in the same day over and over, is it really Feast of Boris?

• If you are in a Pocket Familiars run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Too bad you're too busy catching them all to participate!

• If you are in a G-Lover run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Feast of Boris has no Gs!

• If you are in a Disguises Delimit run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. You can't fit extra food through your mask's mouth-hole!

• If you are in a Two Crazy Random Summer run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. You don't feel like celebrating, how random!

• If you are in a Path of the Plumber run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Plumber's Union rules forbid participation.

• If you are in a Low Key Summer run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Let's just keep things low key.

• If you are in a Grey Goo run when this occurs, the following text greers you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Maybe figure out this Gray Goo thing instead of stuffing your face.

• If you are in a You, Robot run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Organic food does not interest you.

• If you are in a Quantum Terrarium run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. This quantum familiar run has you to[sic] discombobulated to enjoy your food.

• If you are in a Wildfire run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Unfortunately, all of the food got burned and is now totally inedible.

• If you are in a Grey You run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Perhaps you will absorb something festive.

• If you are in a Journeyman run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. But, you do not have the skill to eat voraciously.

• If you are in a Fall of the Dinosaurs run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Unfortunately, dinosaurs ate all the food.

• If you are in an Avatar of Shadows Over Loathing run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Unfortunately, a shadow has been cast over the season.

• If you are in a WereProfessor run in beast form when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Arggg, growl. Who cares.

• If you are in a WereProfessor run in professor form when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. But you are too busy with your research

• If you are in an Avant Guard run when this occurs, the following text greets you upon login:

Today is the Feast of Boris. Your bodyguard will keep you from overeating.

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). However, this did occur, presumably by accident, on Feast of Boris XVIII, a Muscle day.
• 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.
• These monsters are wandering monsters, and obey all the encounter rules on that page.
• The range between FoB monsters is believed to be 25-35 turns.
• During Special challenge paths, you will encounter the Feast of Boris monsters but don't get the extra eating capacity of the holiday. If you break the Prism, you can eat the extra food.
• For the first few hours of Feast of Boris XLIX, the message for the Actually Ed the Undying challenge path read "You're way too undead or not to particpate...". This was changed at some unknown point during the day.
• Dark Gyffte, Kingdom of Exploathing, Legacy of Loathing, and A Shrunken Adventurer Am I do not have any special text for Feast of Boris, despite not gaining additional fullness.
• Feast of Boris LXXIII was on the same day as Festival of Jarlsberg. The food drops from holiday monsters were different, and were the same for every level. The different drops were:
  • mana-coated yams from the Candied Yam Golem
  • mana-basted tofurkey leg from the Malevolent Tofurkey
  • mana-fortified cranberry sauce from the Possessed Can of Cranberry Sauce
  • mana-stuffed herbal stuffing from the Stuffing Golem

References

• The line in the description about eggs and a barge-like physique refers to a lyric from the song "Gaston" from the 1991 Disney animated feature Beauty and the Beast: "And now that I'm grown I eat five dozen eggs, so I'm roughly the size of a barge."