The Frat-Hippy War

Having recently ascended again in Kingdom of Loathing, I am back in my familiar Disco Bandit guise.  It is what I started as, and it is still my favorite class.  The coming Crimbo is quietly and ominously building as something has the Council of Loathing seriously spooked.  It hasn’t stopped the Pirates from continuing with everyday life, tho.

In the latest massive content addition by Jick, Skully & co.; the Pirates in the Mysterious Pirates Cove have added a ton of new content.  Lots of new pirates to fight; tons of new loot; a couple mini-quests (which have me fiending for Cap’n Crunch cereal); and of course all kinds of booty, from the virgin to the dirty.  Best part so far, tho – it has made acquiring the Abridged Dictionary 100% less annoying.

I’ll spend more time on that later.  Right now I’m playing my favorite part of the game: the Frat-Hippy War.  I pity speed-ascenders when it comes to this, as I’m sure that they just blow through it as quickly as possible.  Personally, I enjoy taking out every Frat Warrior and Hippy Warrior each time around.  There is a finite number of them, so spread over a couple days it is a great way to get great items that are only available once per ascension.  Of course, I will not do what I did last time when I forgot to turn in my Frat Rings for items before completing the quest.  Man, that was annoying to open the Quest portion of my items and see all of those staring at me!

I want to get through this before the Crimbo content starts up in earnest.  Once it does it will be only collecting bounties and Crimbo adventures for me.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Crimbo!

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 It’s that time of year again in the Kingdom of Loathing – CRIMBO!!!  Uncle Crimbo has dropped by our campsites to make sure that we all had our advent calendars which count down to the celebration of Crimbo.  Any resemblence to a certain holiday with presents, trees and elves is totally, absolutely coincidental. 

 Two years ago we had to supress a marxist uprising as Rudolph, the Red attemtped to overthrow Uncle Crimbo and his wonderful capitalist ways.  Last year we survived trips throughout time to save Uncle Crimbo…and Crimbo itself, from the evil clutches of Linnea, the Scream Queen and her Halloween ghoulies.  What’s on tap this year?  No idea yet, but I always freaking bank during this time, so I am rather excited about it!

Kingdom of Loathing

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What is this?  This is Kingdom of Loathing.  It is an online game which has put such a dent in my personal productivity that both alcohol and online porn are insanely jealous.

You can find the game in the link at the top of this post. The game is free; it is fun; and the people who run it may or may not be completely and utterly insane. My character’s name is Groovius Maximus, and I am a member of Clan Newsarama. Currently I am a Pastamancer, but I will switch back to being a Disco Bandit before Crimbo starts.

Odds are, you have no clue what I just said. Pastamancers and Disco Bandits are two of the six classes of characters that you can play on the game. The others are: Seal Clubbers, Turtle Tamers, Accordian Thieves, and Saucerors. Each class has its own special attributes and are ruled by one of the stat categories: Muscle, Mysticality or Moxie. The game itself is free, and you earn items by defeating monsters such as Hippy Shaman, Beer-Bongadiers, Vampire Ducks, Furry Giants, the Twig and Berries, the Muff, the Whitesnake, and various other creepies, crawlies, ghoulies and sleazies. The currency for the Kingdom is meat…but you cannot eat the meat. You can only collect it to help maintain the wonderful market-based economy.

You can eat; however. That is one of the ways to get more adventures. The other is to drink as much booze as possible without passing out.

If you decide to check it out, send a message to “Groovius Maximus” and I’ll send you a welcoming gift.