Talk:Crimbo Shrub

• Regular messages:
  • Decorated with Rainbow-Colored Lights:
    • <name> whips your opponent with a string of multicolored crimbo lights, causing 3 (+2) (+2) (+3) (+3) damage. "It's the season for giving!" he burbles cheerfully.
    • "Joy to the world!" <name> shouts, punctuating the words with thrown multicolored ornaments that pelt your opponent for 1 (+1) (+1) damage. "Joy! To! The! WORLD!"
    • "MERRY CRIMBO!" <name> screams happily, spraying the area with multicolored glass balls that explode for 3 (+4) (+3) (+4) (+3) damage.
  • Decorated with Popcorn Strands:
    • <name> starts to read one of his favorite Crimbo poems out loud. When your opponent tries to interrupt this recitation with an attack, <name> makes a sort of shrill high-pitched wail until <he/she/it> backs away.
    • <name> grabs your opponent and starts forcing sugar cookies down <his/her/it's> throat. "Mmmmfff!" <he/she/it> protests, ineffectually.
    • <name> loudly sings a medley of classic Crimbo carols while binding your opponent from head to toe in festive tinsel garland. It doesn't take your opponent very long to break free from <his/her/it's> aluminized plastic bonds, though.
    • <name> absolutely refuses to allow you and your opponent to 'play' until you've both joined him in singing his favorite Crimbo carol, "Good King Sauerkraut".

• After Combat:
  • Decorated with Angel With Sunglasses:
    • <name> is so excited about Crimbo that he starts doing backflips.
    • <name> grins widely -- almost insanely -- at you as he describes what a wonderfully moxious time of year Crimbo is.
  • Decorated with Piles of Tiny Presents:
    • <name> jabbers to himself excitedly as he picks something up off the ground, wraps it in colorful paper, and crams it into a nearby mailbox.
    • "It's Crimbo present tiiiiiime!" <name> cheers. "Open your present! Open it open it OPEN IT!" You pick up the present from underneath <name> and tear off the paper.
    • "Ohmigosh ohmigosh you got a PRESENT!" <name> yells. "MERRY CRIMBO!" You pick up the present from underneath <name> and tear off the paper.

Not sure how one would go about formatting this for entry or if it's good to go. No matter what this part is gonna be a mess with all the possibles. SirGeo (talk) 01:14, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Also got these messages prior to decorating

• • Undecorated (Is it random while undecorated? I was getting what looked like muscle messages prior to decorating, if it is random, does it change daily, or is it based on something?)_
  • Decorated with Veiny Star:(?)
    • <name> grins wildly and flexes his branches. "Hoo-ah! Crimbo! WOOOOO! LET'S DO THIS!!!
    • <name> is so excited for Crimbo he starts running in place and doing push-ups to burn off a little excess energy. SirGeo (talk) 01:53, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Undecorated defaults the stat bonus to your mainstat, the rest is random, but probably permanent rather than randomly selecting as it goes along. I'm also thinking we just make a table of abilities for this one and then just list messages for each action type? --Crzymdscntst123 (talk) 09:55, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Red present spading

I opened a present on some pygmy orderlies and got 2862 meat. I tried it again at the Hole in the Sky (so the monster wouldn't have its own meat drop) and got 2389 meat. Does this skill just give you a flat 2000-3000 meat? (That'd be a nice thing to have at the start of an ascension.) Maybe it's based on level? (L43 with 1791 mainstat here.) --Vorzer (talk) 14:40, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

• I don't think it's based on level, assuming you mean player level. I've been getting 2600-2900 meat at levels 5 through 12. There might be other factors that influence the amount though. --Somesuch (talk) 00:23, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Everything is <color> turn count

I see that the turn count for yellow is shown as 149, and red is 99, yet when I use the Open a Big Red Present skill, the turn count for Everything is Red is 100 just as with the He-Boulder. After burning 99 turns, I checked to see if the Open a Big Red Present skill was available and it was not (1 turn of Everything is Red still active). Are others seeing something different? --Pithlit (talk) 14:00, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

I got 99 turns yesterday. If you got 100 turns today, it was probably a bug that got fixed. --Vorzer (talk) 15:40, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Stat gains

I'd like to rank this familiar preliminary on the Hardcore Familiar Analysis before it's gone from Mr. Store as well. To get at least a this is how it feels orientation: Are the stat gains more like those from a Killer Bee or more like having a Frumious Bandersnatch in disguise? --Yatsufusa (talk) 20:25, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

• +9 Stats from a 36 pound Shrub. I couldn't tell if they were tuned like from a Bandersnatch in my current environment. Maybe 1 stat point per 4 pounds, maybe equal to a Blood-Faced Volleyball ((weight/5) + 2)... I'll probably collect some unreliable data during my next ascension. --Yatsufusa (talk) 19:00, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
• Statgains seem to be 75% weighted toward the chosen stat instead of 50%, or 6:1:1 instead of 2:1:1.--AstronautGuy (talk) 01:21, 25 August 2016 (UTC)