April Fool's Day

April Fool's Day occurs on April 1st every year.

In every year other than 2015, the main page had this message:

Congratulations! You are winner! Ha ha ha! You've just won an ... April Fools! Sorry, you haven't won anything.

In 2015, as April Fool's Day coincided with the Echo of Downtown event, the message was

Congratulations! You are winner! Ha ha ha! You've just won a rip in spacetime. April Fools!

In 2018, as April Fool's Day coincided with Easter, if you found the Chocolate Bunny, the message became

Congratulations! You are winner! Ha ha ha! You've just won an ... April Fools! Seriously, though, it's over towards <location>.

In 2021, as April Fool's Day coincided with Opening Day, the message was:

Congratulations! It's Opening Day and things are finally going without a hitch! Baseball fools! Yeah, looks like there's some tomfoolery going on near St. Anne Park. And just foolery everywhere else.

Profile page changes

• Level was preceded with a minus sign
• Class and avatar displayed:

Original class	Class displayed	Avatar
Gadgeteer	Stalker Villain
Psion	Mad Scientist Villain
Elemental	Alchemist Villain
Naturalist	Brute Villain
Villain	Hero, for once

• Character Sex was listed as the opposite of what it is
• Chips were listed followed by ",000,000" so 0 became 0,000,000 and all other numbers were multiplied by a million
• Account Created: April 1, 2008

Player Info

• Age was displayed as one of:
  • Over-Medium
  • Immature
  • Decrepit
• Sex: fail
• Location was displayed as one of:
  • Once was lost but now am found
  • Your mom
  • Mount Vernon, Kentucky
  • Erewhon
  • Someplace where I don't know where I am
  • Stalking Ryme from his back yard
  • Neverwhere
• Web Site: AOL. It's still the coolest!
• "April Fools!" was added to the end of everyone's Quote.

Additional drops

All monsters had the ability to drop the following items:

• fool's-gold star
• silver-plated star
• Coward's Cloak

Additional foes

The following could appear in any location, even as a result of a choice adventure, and even if that choice would have normally resulted in a non-combat:

• practical joker
• impractical jokester

These foes could drop the items above, and in addition to that:

• Brad energy drink
• Zillion-chip piece

Since April Fool's Day 2009

Profile page changes

• If you had a Sidekick/companion it was listed as one of:
  • Imaginary friend
  • Scrappy hobo
  • Overinflated ego
  • Pet tin can on a string
• Reputation was listed as one of:
  • Smells funny
  • Kinda a jerk
  • Reprehensible
  • Unsafe to invite to parties
• PvP Rank was listed as one of:
  • Gets beaten up in the locker room
  • Would lose to a Tennessee fainting goat
  • Pathetic
  • Worse than pathetic
• If you have a memento display: "This player has a memento display in the Look at Me I'm Special Because I Have Stuff Museum"
• If you are on a leaderboard: "This player thinks they're a hotshot on a leaderboard."
• Total (In-game) Time Played: Too much. Should get a life.

Additional Foes

• rogue computer virus

April Fool's Day 2011

• Time Played This Run: blue?
• Days This Run: meatloaf
• Greedy capitalist has a player-owned shop down in the Mall

April Fool's Day 2013

• The were no profile page changes.

April Fool's Day 2014

Profile page changes

• Profile display went back to a pre 2011 version, the additions from the 2011 event not available (retcon history and player shop links unavailable).
• In addition all badge images were replaced by:

Additional Foes

• The uncommon fool replaced the rogue computer virus in this edition of the event.

April Fool's Day 2015

• Players' avatars, if not set to the default, were unchanged. Otherwise, the image depends on the viewer's class:

Viewer's class	Avatar
Gadgeteer
Psion
Elemental
Naturalist

• If you had a companion, it was listed as one of:
  • Actual friend's pet cat
  • The voices
  • Imaginary friend's pet cat
  • Suspiciously unscary clown

April Fool's Day 2016

Profile page changes

• Players' avatars, if not set to the default, were unchanged. Otherwise, the image depends on the viewer's class:

Viewer's class	Avatar
Gadgeteer
Psion
Elemental
Naturalist

• This player is a capitalist mutant traitor with a shop down in the Mall! Down with the Bourgeoisie!
• Retcon history: Rebooted More Times Than Your PC
• Time Played This Run: 525,600 minutes
• Days This Run: born yesterday
• In addition all badge images were replaced by:

April Fool's Day 2017

Profile page changes

• Players' avatars, if not set to the default, were unchanged. Otherwise, the image depends on the viewer's class:

Viewer's class	Avatar
Gadgeteer
Psion
Elemental
Naturalist

• In addition all badge images were replaced by:

April Fool's Day 2018

Profile page changes

• Player's avatars were reverted to pre 2015 version
• This player has completed X Hero Dashes, with a personal best time of Y seconds.
• Retcon history: Rebooted more often than your computer
• All badge images were replaced by:

April Fool's Day 2019

• Equipment shown in player profiles switched places at random.
• The run-down pyramid was added to the uncommon fool's item drops.
• All badge images were replaced by:

April Fool's Day 2020

• All badge images were replaced by:

April Fool's Day 2021

• In player profiles, character classes were changed as follows:
  • Naturalist to "Cursed Goat"
  • Gadgeteer to "Batcorker"
  • Psion to "Screwball"
  • Elemental to "Southwindpaw"

References

• Some of the joke locations refer to
  • the lyrics of "Amazing Grace".
  • the fictitious country in the novel Erewhon.
  • the television program Neverwhere.

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