Crimbo Shrub

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Crimbo Shrub
Likes Crimbo a lot. Like, really a huge amount. A little... too much.

Elemental attacks, pvp fights, increased stat gains, healing, and CRIMBO PRESENTS!

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Ability: Varies based on decorations from Box of old Crimbo decorations

Throne/Bjorn: All Attributes +10, sometimes Delevels opponent

Hatchling: Crimbo sapling

Familiar-Specific Equipment: even more tinsel

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

Mumming Trunk Abilities:

+15% Meat Drop	4-5 MP	+3 Muscle statgain	+15% Item Drop	+4 Mysticality statgain	8-10 HP	+2 Moxie statgain
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Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• First Round of Combat:
  • Decorated with Rainbow-Colored Lights (Deals prismatic damage)
    • <name> whips your opponent with a string of multicolored crimbo lights, causing X (+X) (+X) (+X) (+X) 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 X (+X) (+X) (+X) (+X) damage. "Joy! To! The! WORLD!

• Regular messages:
  • Decorated with Actual Candles (Deals Hot damage)
    • <name> gleefully roasts your opponent's' chestnuts in an open fire, causing Y damage.
    • "Looks like someone got coal in his stocking!" <name> grins, setting the stocking alight like a torch and beating your foe with it for X damage.
    • Do you remember those old-fashioned Crimbo tree lights that were basically glass bulbs full of boiling oil? <name> does, and now so does your opponent, who takes X damage worth of Crimbo cheer.
  • Decorated with Frosted Lights (Deals Cold damage)
    • "I'm dreaming of a white Crimbo!" <name> croons, while spraying your opponent with fake snow that somehow does Y points of real damage.
    • <name> playfully pelts your opponent with snowballs. It becomes apparent, due to the Y points of damage caused, that they're more like solid chunks of ice.
    • <name> stabs your opponent repeatedly with some plastic icicles, while singing a little song about Jack Frost. Your foe takes Y damage.
  • Decorated with Really Old Lights (Deals Stench damage)
    • "DECK THE HALLS!" <name> yells, punching your opponents in the collective nose with a pine-scented fist. Y damage is caused.
    • "The scent of Crimbo is in the air!" <name> shrieks jubilantly, spraying your opponent with Y points worth of aromatic pine needles.
    • <name> grabs your opponent in a giant bear hug, causing Y damage from rough spruce bark and needles and sap and so forth.
  • Decorated with Jack-o-Lantern Lights (Deals Spooky damage)
    • <name> sidles up to your opponent, and hisses "Sssilent night. Sssssssssilent niiiiiiight." You opponent has no idea what to do about this, except to freak out and take Y damage.
    • "He sees you when you're sleeping," <name> whispers to your opponent. "He knows when you're awake." Your opponent takes Y damage from the creeping horrors.
    • "Have you been naughty?" <name> asks your opponent. "Or have you been nniiiiiiiiicccce?" Your opponent starts to shiver uncontrollably, and takes Y damage.
  • Decorated with Blacklights (Deals Sleaze damage)
    • <name> approaches your opponent with a large bundle of mistletoe held over his head and a wild look in his eyes. Your opponent takes Y damage while shuddering and backing away.
    • <name> gestures at his various spherical glass ornaments, and asks your opponent if he would help polish them. Then he starts winking and making "Eh? Ehhhh?" sounds. You opponent, having seen what he did there, takes Y damage.
    • <name> shows your opponent the reason for the sleazin'. I don't know what that means, but it does Y damage.
  • Decorated with Popcorn Strands (Prevents monsters from attacking)
    • <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".
  • Decorated with Big Yellow-Wrapped Presents (Blast foes into oblivion) (Gives access to Open a Big Yellow Present)
    • You grab a big yellow present from underneath <name>, point it at your opponent, and open it up. A blinding burst of yellow light emerges, and when your vision returns there's nothing left of your opponent but a pile of all his stuff.

      You acquire an effect: Everything Looks Yellow (duration: 149 Adventures)

  • Decorated with Big Red-Wrapped Presents (Filled with Meat!) (Gives access to Open a Big Red Present)
    • You notice a big red present underneath <name>, and open it up to find that it's full of Meat! "Aww, <name> -- you shouldn't have!" Tears well up in your eyes.

      You gain 2,000-3,000 Meat.

      You acquire an effect: Everything Looks Red (duration: 100 Adventures)

• After Combat:
  • With Gauze Ribbons (Restores Hit Points after combat)
    • "Oh no!" <name> says, "you're hurt! Here, have some fresh baked Crimbo cookies! Delicious, aren't they? Want some more? Have some more! I have fudge, too! And fruitcake! EAT MORE!"
    • <name> covers your wounds with a poultice made of eggnog, peppermint schnapps, and holly leaves. Surprisingly, it seems to work.
    • <name> disinfects your wounds with spray snow and wraps them in tinsel.

      You gain Y hit points.

  • Decorated with Barbed Wire (Grants a PvP fight every 19-21 turns)
    • "Present! Someone sent you a PRESENT!" <name> jabbers excitedly. You unwrap the package to discover... fresh dog poop. What the-- why even?! Argh!
    • "Someone sent you a CRIMBO PRESENT!" <name> yells, throwing a paper-wrapped bundle at you. As you catch it, it bursts, revealing itself to be full of glass shards and rusty thumbtacks. Argh! Who would do such a terrible thing?
    • "Look!" <name> shouts. "Someone sent you a present! I wonder who it was??" He hands you the gift, and when you open the lid, a cream pie springs into your face. "I am wondering the same thing," you growl.

      You gain 1 PvP Fight.

  • Decorated with Piles of Tiny Presents (Exchange random gifts with other players!)
    • "Crimbo Crimbo Crimbo CRIMBO" <name> repeats manically to himself as he wraps a present he found somewhere and stuffs it into a nearby mailbox.
    • <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. It's from <playername>!

      You acquire... something. [[Data:{{{item}}}]]

  • Decorated with Veiny Star (Muscle-heavy stat gains)
    • <name> grins wildly and flexes his branches. "Hoo-ah! Crimbo! WOOOOO! LET'S DO THIS!!! (+? Stats)
    • <name> is so excited for Crimbo he starts running in place and doing push-ups to burn off a little excess energy. (+? Stats)
  • Decorated with LED Mandala (Mysticality-heavy stat gains)
    • <name> grins wildly at you while explaining the ancient Druidic origins of the Crimbo holiday. (+? Stats)
    • <name> grins wildly and sings "It's the mooost mystical tiiiiiiime of the yeeeeaaaaarrr!" (+? Stats)
  • Decorated with Angel with Sunglasses (Moxie-heavy stat gains)
    • <name> is so excited about Crimbo that he starts doing backflips. (+? Stats)
    • <name> grins widely -- almost insanely -- at you as he describes what a wonderfully moxious time of year Crimbo is. (+? Stats)

• Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:

  <name> cheers excitedly from his perch. "Look at me! I'm a full-size Crimbo tree! Look look look!" Your opponent groans.

Monster attack power reduced by X

Monster defense reduced by Y

• Bjornified in the Buddy Bjorn:

  You hear <name> singing a medley of Crimbo tunes behind you. Constantly. Without stopping, ever.

Monster attack power reduced by X

Monster defense reduced by Y

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

  <Name> winks at you from beneath the Tam O'Shanter, and sings a verse of "Crimbo in Killarney".

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

  <Name> waltzes around the maypole, humming a medly of classic Crimbo tunes.

• With wax lips equipped:
  

  <Name> grins at you with his wax lips. I mean, he never seems to stop grinning ever, even without them, but still...

Arena Messages

• When entered in Hide and Seek:

  <name> is way too excited about Crimbo to do any hiding.

Notes

• Once per day, the player may select their Crimbo Shrub's current decorations by using a box of old Crimbo decorations. The Shrub can use one decoration from each of the four following categories: toppers (tuned stat gain), lights (elemental damage), garlands (HP, PvP fights or blocking) and gifts (yellow ray, meat or gift exchange).
  • A list of current decorations and a link to the decoration interface appears in the Terrarium while the Shrub is the selected familiar and if the player has not modified decorations that day. Current decorations are also listed in the familiar's description popup.
  • Decorations are reset on ascension, with the topper automatically tuned to give main stat gains, and random choices for the other decoration options. This does not count as a daily decoration selection.
• Adds (weight/5)+2 to stat gains after combat. 75% of the bonus stats will go to the stat specified by decorations, with the remaining 25% evenly split into the other two stats, or a 6:1:1 ratio.
• Piles of Tiny Presents will send and receive presents after combat, on two different timers. When sending presents, it duplicates a tradable drop received during that fight and places it into a drop pool, while when receiving presents it selects an item from that pool. (Jick's Default pool if pool is empty or too low.)
  • Sending presents appears to occur every 6-11 combats.
    • If there is an extended period of combats where the Shrub does not encounter any eligible items, it will become fully "prepared" and the next eligible item is immediately duplicated.
  • Receiving presents appears to occur every 10-20 combats, regardless of whether any presents have been sent out.
• The skills Open a Big Red Present and Open a Big Yellow Present have a cooldown until the associated "Everything Looks..." effect expires. Everything Looks Yellow is given by other yellow ray sources, while Everything Looks Red is also caused by a red ray from a He-Boulder. These effects cannot be removed by any cleanse-type effect, but are removed at rollover.
• Elemental attacks always occur on the first round of combat, then have a chance to occur in subsequent rounds. The prismatic attack only occurs on the first round.
• HP restored is (weight+5)/2 to weight+5 and occurs after every combat.
• Can perform multiple actions on the same turn. (Lights Effect and Popcorn Strand)