Difference between revisions of "Toy soldier"

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toy soldier
Plural: fireteams of toy soldiers
Toy soldier, not Tin Soldier. Please don't get them confused. This little guy isn't about some hamfisted moral; he's about marching around and looking spiffy. And perhaps a bit of rat killing. It's in the contract.

Comes from December 2009 Item of the Month

Miscellaneous Item
Autosell value: 15
Usable

Gets you a temporary companion.

Using The Grouch's Sack of Loot (full)

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• Without a current companion:

You set the toy soldier down and wind him up. He starts marching around stiffly, holding his rifle at the ready. (Duration: 60 minutes.)

• When Toy soldier is your current companion:

You wind up another soldier, but all it does is further wind the original. Luckily, the spring doesn't break.

• When you have a different companion:

Your current companion suggests that you quit playing with toys and start adventuring.

Sidekick/companion: Toy soldier

Using multiple:
This information may no longer be accurate; please move this information to the Notes section using {{Oldsummon}} and use {{Summoncompanion}} instead.

• Without a current companion:

You set the toy soldiers down and wind them up. One starts marching around stiffly, holding his rifle at the ready, while the others spend all their energy keeping the first wound up. (Duration: some minutes.)

• When Toy soldier is your current companion:

You wind up some more soldiers, but all they do is further wind the original. Luckily, the spring doesn't break.

You head on over to <player> and hand them a toy soldier. They seem exceptionally happy to receive it. The look of pure, almost child-like joy at the simple act just warms your heart. All the way down to the cockles. Even in the sub-cockle region. You get an effect, Holiday Cheer. (Added for 30 minutes.)

Trying to return the item to yourself:

This is a holiday gift. It's meant to be generously given to someone else. Someone else is, by definition, not yourself. Also, as you already have it, giving it to yourself is the same as doing nothing. See?

Effect on Receiver:

In the Inbox:

<sender> gave you a holiday gift!

Included item: toy soldier (regifted) (quantity 1)

Notes

Although this item has a proper auto-sell value, it cannot be recyclonized, digitized, fed to the goats, or deplicated.

References

• "Tin soldier" refers to the anti-war song One Tin Soldier
  • It might also refer to the literary fairy tale The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen.
• Toy soldiers killing rats is a reference to E. T. A. Hoffmann's story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, mostly known by its ballet adaptation The Nutcracker.