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:
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In 2015, as April Fool's Day coincided with the Echo of Downtown event, the message was
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Profile page changes
- Level was preceded with a minus sign
- Class and avatar displayed:
| Original class | Class displayed | Avatar |
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| Gadgeteer | Stalker Villain | 
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| Psion | Mad Scientist Villain | 
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| Elemental | Alchemist Villain |  |
| Naturalist | Brute Villain | 
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| 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:
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:
These foes could drop the items above, and in addition to that:
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
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 |
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| Gadgeteer | 
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| Psion | 
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| Elemental |  |
| Naturalist | 
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- 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
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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