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==Divergences==
==Divergences==
*The council is out:
*The council is out:
:The door to the Council of Loathing building is locked, and a notice is posted about how they got kicked off the council for not doing their mandatory community service, which is apparently a thing. There's a list of community service opportunities posted as well.
:The door to the Council of Loathing building is locked, and a notice is posted about how they got kicked off the council for not doing their mandatory community service, which is apparently a thing. There's a list of community service opportunities posted as well..
*Instead you have to perform 11 acts of Community Service
*Instead you have to perform 11 acts of [[Community Service (adventure)|Community Service]]
**Each act takes 60 adventures
**Each act takes 60 adventures.
**Most acts you can speed up by boosting a specific stat
**Most acts you can speed up by boosting a specific stat
*Once 11 acts are complete, you have to donate your body to science.
*You can pull only 5 items per day in softcore. Hardcore allows for no pulls.
*Areas that the Council instructs you to visit are generally impossible to reach without reinstating the Council--that is, by ascending into a non-Community Service path.
**Level 3: [[The Typical Tavern]]
**Level 4: [[The Bat Hole]]
**Level 5: The interior of [[Cobb's Knob]]. It is possible to get a [[Knob Goblin encryption key]] in run, but you will not receive the corresponding map.
**Level 6: [[Copse of the Deep Fat Friars]] and [[Pandamonium]]. (No Steel Organ)
**Level 7: [[The Cyrpt]]
**Level 8: [[Mt. McLargeHuge]]
**Level 9: You can not reach [[The Orc Chasm]], get to [[The Highlands]], or venture to [[The Valley of Rof L'm Fao]].
**Level 10: You can not plant [[The Beanstalk]]
**Level 11: You can not receive [[your father's MacGuffin diary]], so no more visits to [[The Hidden City]] or [[The Palindome]]. You will not find [[The Arid, Extra-Dry Desert]] or discover [[The Ancient Buried Pyramid]].
**Level 12: You can not start the war, so you will only get the antebellum [[The Mysterious Island of Mystery]].
**The only exceptions are [[The Distant Woods]] or areas that have alternate unlock methods such as [[Whitey's Grove]].


==Community Service==
==Text==
{| border=1
===Council text===
| Donate Blood for The Dead Cross<br />(Bonus HP makes this faster.)
* First time visiting:
*:The door to the Council of Loathing building is locked, and a notice is posted about how they got kicked off the council for not doing their mandatory community service, which is apparently a thing. There's a list of community service opportunities posted as well.<br /><br />[[Community Service (adventure)|Look at the list]]
 
==Strategy==
{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1px" class="sortable"
|- | style="background-color: #EFEFEF"
! Task
! Reduced by
! Reward
! Effects
|-
| '''Coil Wire'''
| nothing
| [[a ten-percent bonus]]
|
*1000 substats to each stat
|-
| '''Donate Blood'''
| HP – every 30 bonus HP saves 1 turn. (Buffed HP - (Buffed Muscle + 3))/30
| [[blood-drive sticker]]
| [[blood-drive sticker]]
| The Loathing Dead Cross, which is definitely a real charitable organization and not an organized crime ring operated by ancient and powerful vampires, is collecting blood from civic-minded citizens who have blood to spare.
|
*40 Adventures, 10 Toxicity
*250-300(?) substats to each stat
|-
|-
| Feed The Children (But Not Too Much) for The World Hunger and Obesity Prevention Foundation<br />(Bonus Muscle makes this faster.)
| '''Feed The Children (But Not Too Much)'''
| Muscle – every 30 bonus muscle saves 1 turn. (Buffed - Base)/30
| [[bag of grain]]
| [[bag of grain]]
| In a world simultaneously plagued by hunger and obesity, what can you do? According to this organization, you can feed the children sacks of grain that have been specially treated to remove all gluten and carbohydrates.
|
*Mysticality +200%
*+60% Booze Drops from Monsters
|-
|-
| Build Playground Mazes for Habitrail for Humanity<br />(Bonus Mysticality makes this faster.)
| '''Build Playground Mazes'''
| Mysticality – every 30 bonus mysticality saves 1 turn. (Buffed - Base)/30
| [[pocket maze]]
| [[pocket maze]]
| To stimulate the minds of Loathing's children, Habitrail For Humanity builds elaborate mazes for them to get lost in. The dumber kids don't make it out, so average test scores show a dramatic improvement!
|
*Moxie +200%
*Stupendous Hot Resistance (+4)
|-
|-
| Feed Conspirators for Meals Within Wheels<br />(Bonus Moxie makes this faster.)
| '''Feed Conspirators'''
| Moxie – every 30 bonus moxie saves 1 turn. (Buffed - Base)/30
| [[shady shades]]
| [[shady shades]]
| When you're a master of intrigue, sometimes leaving your house is dangerous. But even the most dastardly of conspirators has to eat, and that's where you come in -- delivering tasty meals via shady deals.
|
*Muscle +200%
*-20% Combat Frequency
|-
|-
| Breed More Collies for Doctors Without Border Collies<br />(High Familiar Weight makes this faster.)
| '''Breed More Collies'''
| Familiar Weight – every 5 lbs saves 1 turn
| [[squeaky toy rose]]
| [[squeaky toy rose]]
| Tragedy has struck the border collie population of Loathing -- a libido-decreasing virus has run rampant throughout the entire species. It's up to you and your familiar to provide some encouragement!
|
*-20% Combat Frequency
|-
|-
| Reduce Gazelle Population for Loathing Lions Club<br />(Bonus Melee Damage makes this faster.)
| '''Reduce Gazelle Population'''
| Melee Damage – every +50% saves 1 turn, every +50 damage saves 1 turn. (floored separately)
| [[weird gazelle steak]]
| [[weird gazelle steak]]
| The Nearby Plains have way too many gazelles trotting around. What, do they think they own the place? The Lions have called upon every able-bodied citizen to help them thin the herd.
|
*40 Adventures, 10 Fullness
*Spell Damage +200%
*+60% Booze Drops from Monsters
|-
|-
| Make Sausage for The Jimmy Dean Fund<br />(Bonus Spell Damage makes this faster.)
| '''Make Sausage'''
| Spell Damage – every +50% saves 1 turn, every +50 damage saves 1 turn. (floored separately)
| [[sausage without a cause]]
| [[sausage without a cause]]
| The Jimmy Dean fund provides sausage to the needy, and let's face it -- nobody is needier than a person without any sausage. Pitch in and help them cook and deliver it, would ya?
|
*40 Adventures, 10 Fullness
*Weapon Damage +200%
*Stupendous Hot Resistance (+4)
|-
|-
| Be a Living Statue for The Salivation Army<br />(Having Monsters Less Attracted To You makes this faster.)
| '''Be a Living Statue'''
| Non-Combat Frequency – every 5% noncombat saves '''3''' turns (not affected by the 25% softcap)
| [[silver face paint]]
| [[silver face paint]]
| The Salivation Army provides critical relief to children born without the ability to salivate by delivering synthetic spit. But fake spit costs Meat, and somebody has to raise that Meat by standing extremely still in front of a grocery store.
|
*+20 to Familiar Weight
|-
|-
| Make Margaritas for The March of Limes<br />(Bonus Item Drops and Booze Drops make this faster.)
| '''Make Margaritas'''
| Item and Booze Drops – every +30% item% saves 1 turn, every +15% booze drop saves 1 turn. (floored separately)
| [[emergency margarita]]
| [[emergency margarita]]
| Did you know that every night, tens of thousands of Loathing citizens go to bed sober? The March of Dimes aims to reduce that number to zero by delivering margaritas to those in need.
|
*40 Adventures, 10 Drunkenness
*Weapon Damage +200%
*Spell Damage +200%
|-
|-
| Clean Steam Tunnels for Seaside Town Historical Preservation Society<br />(Hot Protection makes this faster.)<br />1 point hot resistance = 1 less adventure
| '''Clean Steam Tunnels'''
| Hot Resistance – every point of hot resistance saves 1 turn
| [[vintage smart drink]]
| [[vintage smart drink]]
| Did you know that Seaside Town has an elaborate network of steam tunnels underneath it? And did you know that those tunnels are filthy because of all of the raves kids had down there 10-15 years ago? Both are true, and it's up to you to make the second false.
|
*40 Adventures, 10 Drunkenness
*Maximum HP +120
*+20 to Familiar Weight
|-
|-
| Coil Wire for The Rudyard Kipling Foundation<br />(There is no way to make this faster.)
| [[a ten-percent bonus]]
| Nobody knows why this is a thing. They only know that the wire isn't going to coil itself.
|-
| Final Service
| ??
| Once you've served the community enough (11 times), serve it one last time by donating your body to science!
|}
|}
* Lots of the rewards provide a one-adventure bonus to a stat. So you can use them to do another Community Service.
** '''Coil Wire''' – can't be sped up, so you can do it early in the run. The reward will make percentage buffs save more turns on the stat tests.
** '''Donate Blood''' – look into [[Maximizing Your HP]]. If you are a muscle class or have a passive skill ([[Reptilian Fortitude]], [[Song of Starch]], [[Abs of Tin]], et al.) or item ([[pixel star]], [[limp broccoli]], etc.) [[HP Modifiers#Percentage Increasers|giving more than 1 HP per muscle point]], boosting Muscle will also help.
** '''Feed The Children (But Not Too Much)''' – look into [[Maximizing Your Muscle]].
** '''Build Playground Mazes''' – look into [[Maximizing Your Mysticality]].
** '''Feed Conspirators''' – look into [[Maximizing Your Moxie]]
** '''Breed More Collies''' – 5 familiar level turns into 1 fewer adventures, so look into [[Maximizing Your Familiar Weight]]
** '''Reduce Gazelle Population''' – look into [[Maximizing Your Weapon Damage]]
** '''Make Sausage''' – look into [[Maximizing Your Spell Damage]]
** '''Be a Living Statue''' – 5% less Combat Frequency turns into 3 fewer adventures, so look into [[Combat Frequency]]. The 25% cap does not apply for this test.
*** [[Throwing Some Shade]] and [[A Rose by Any Other Material]] used together will save 24 turns from this test.
** '''Make Margaritas''' – look into [[Maximizing Your Item Drops]]. Booze drops count double.
** '''Clean Steam Tunnels''' – 1 point hot resistance turns into 1 fewer adventures, so look into [[Maximizing Your Elemental Resistance]]
* There might be a clever way of doing ordering the tasks ([[A Rose by Any Other Material]] only helps with '''Be a Living Statue''', so maybe do that one last?). Note that the Rose saves more turns in the Statue task than the [[silver face paint]] does in the Border Collies task, so always do Border Collies before Statue.
[[File:Community Service.png|framed|center|Relationship map of Community Service acts.]]
** Of the eleven rewards, nine confer effects that assist with other tasks, which also last one adventure only.  These are recommended only after you've adventured at the [[Barrel full of barrels]] enough for one day with plenty of food and booze as a result.  The two remaining are the [[a ten-percent bonus]] which can be used immediately as it grants substats which are permanent, and the [[blood-drive sticker]] that is similar but can't be used until level 13.
* Council areas make up most of the usual combat areas, so it may be hard to find appropriate monsters to fight, or to find ingredients to cook or mix drinks with.
** The [[Market Square]] still has some shops with combat quests, the [[Wrong Side of the Tracks]] has the [[The Overgrown Lot]], [[The Big Mountains]] has the Dungeoneer's Association, <!--? [[The Mysterious Island of Mystery]] with a boat,  ?-->and the [[Desert Beach]] (with a meatcar) are still available.
** If under Degrassi Knoll [[moon sign]]s, the bakery will allow you to make [[pie crust|pies]]. However, it is not possible to make a meat maid without the [[smart skull]] from [[The Misspelled Cemetary]].
** It is still possible to access the [[Distant Woods]], but it is unlocked via the Guild [[White Citadel Quest|quest to White Citadel]] instead of the Level 2 quest.
**Use of IOTM areas may help mitigate the shortages.
* It was originally harder to time [[semi-rare]]s because of the chunks of time taken up by the tasks.  This isn't the case any longer, due to semi-rares being changed to using clovers / the Lucky! status to access.
* Players often consider Hardcore to be more effective, due to the very low amount of pulls in softcore and thus similar run length on either difficulty, which is made up for by the higher HC rewards. For example, in softcore it is difficult to pull enough consumables for a proper diet.
* A [https://www.reddit.com/r/kol/wiki/guides/iloath_hccs2 2-day walkthrough] requiring only the Genie bottle and VIP key has been written by ILoath (#1935019).  Also, there are now many scripts to run it in potentially 1-day on either Normal or Hardcore - check out [https://github.com/Pantocyclus/InstantSCCS instantSCCS] as a starting point.


==Strategy==
==Notes==
* Lots of the rewards provide a one-adventure bonus to a stat. So you can use them to do another Community Service.
*While the rewards synergize well and allow you to complete the path faster, some of the rewards are quite valuable when sold in the mall, such as the blood-drive sticker, the emergency margarita, and the vintage smart drink. Players will often choose to not use some of these rewards, electing to keep and/or sell them instead.
*The blood-drive sticker was originally useable in-run, however with the change that made all L13+ consumables unusable while Hardcore and Ronin are active, it's now valid to use after the run.
*The only reward that ''must'' be used is a ten-percent bonus, as it is a quest item and will be removed from inventory after you ascend.
*In order to open up aftercore in the Community Service pathway, you must first click the button to Donate your body to science. When the next dialogue comes up asking you to confirm, DO NOT confirm. Instead change screens by clicking one of the toolbar icons, such as the main map. Note that areas unlocked by council quests will remain inaccessible, as described above.
** Some things will remain unavailable in Community Service aftercore, such as the [[Dwarven Factory Quest]].
* You cannot perform acts of community service if you're overdrunk.
 
{{Ascension Paths}}

Latest revision as of 19:26, 18 May 2025

Community Service is the Fall 2015 special challenge path, introduced on August 15, 2015. This path adds variant rules and restrictions to an ascension run. Its description in The Bureau of Reincarnation reads "The ultimate in real-life time savings. All Council Quests are replaced with single button-clicks!"


Divergences

  • The council is out:
The door to the Council of Loathing building is locked, and a notice is posted about how they got kicked off the council for not doing their mandatory community service, which is apparently a thing. There's a list of community service opportunities posted as well..

Text

Council text

  • First time visiting:
    The door to the Council of Loathing building is locked, and a notice is posted about how they got kicked off the council for not doing their mandatory community service, which is apparently a thing. There's a list of community service opportunities posted as well.

    Look at the list

Strategy

Task Reduced by Reward Effects
Coil Wire nothing a ten-percent bonus
  • 1000 substats to each stat
Donate Blood HP – every 30 bonus HP saves 1 turn. (Buffed HP - (Buffed Muscle + 3))/30 blood-drive sticker
  • 40 Adventures, 10 Toxicity
  • 250-300(?) substats to each stat
Feed The Children (But Not Too Much) Muscle – every 30 bonus muscle saves 1 turn. (Buffed - Base)/30 bag of grain
  • Mysticality +200%
  • +60% Booze Drops from Monsters
Build Playground Mazes Mysticality – every 30 bonus mysticality saves 1 turn. (Buffed - Base)/30 pocket maze
  • Moxie +200%
  • Stupendous Hot Resistance (+4)
Feed Conspirators Moxie – every 30 bonus moxie saves 1 turn. (Buffed - Base)/30 shady shades
  • Muscle +200%
  • -20% Combat Frequency
Breed More Collies Familiar Weight – every 5 lbs saves 1 turn squeaky toy rose
  • -20% Combat Frequency
Reduce Gazelle Population Melee Damage – every +50% saves 1 turn, every +50 damage saves 1 turn. (floored separately) weird gazelle steak
  • 40 Adventures, 10 Fullness
  • Spell Damage +200%
  • +60% Booze Drops from Monsters
Make Sausage Spell Damage – every +50% saves 1 turn, every +50 damage saves 1 turn. (floored separately) sausage without a cause
  • 40 Adventures, 10 Fullness
  • Weapon Damage +200%
  • Stupendous Hot Resistance (+4)
Be a Living Statue Non-Combat Frequency – every 5% noncombat saves 3 turns (not affected by the 25% softcap) silver face paint
  • +20 to Familiar Weight
Make Margaritas Item and Booze Drops – every +30% item% saves 1 turn, every +15% booze drop saves 1 turn. (floored separately) emergency margarita
  • 40 Adventures, 10 Drunkenness
  • Weapon Damage +200%
  • Spell Damage +200%
Clean Steam Tunnels Hot Resistance – every point of hot resistance saves 1 turn vintage smart drink
  • 40 Adventures, 10 Drunkenness
  • Maximum HP +120
  • +20 to Familiar Weight
Relationship map of Community Service acts.
    • Of the eleven rewards, nine confer effects that assist with other tasks, which also last one adventure only. These are recommended only after you've adventured at the Barrel full of barrels enough for one day with plenty of food and booze as a result. The two remaining are the a ten-percent bonus which can be used immediately as it grants substats which are permanent, and the blood-drive sticker that is similar but can't be used until level 13.
  • Council areas make up most of the usual combat areas, so it may be hard to find appropriate monsters to fight, or to find ingredients to cook or mix drinks with.
  • It was originally harder to time semi-rares because of the chunks of time taken up by the tasks. This isn't the case any longer, due to semi-rares being changed to using clovers / the Lucky! status to access.
  • Players often consider Hardcore to be more effective, due to the very low amount of pulls in softcore and thus similar run length on either difficulty, which is made up for by the higher HC rewards. For example, in softcore it is difficult to pull enough consumables for a proper diet.
  • A 2-day walkthrough requiring only the Genie bottle and VIP key has been written by ILoath (#1935019). Also, there are now many scripts to run it in potentially 1-day on either Normal or Hardcore - check out instantSCCS as a starting point.

Notes

  • While the rewards synergize well and allow you to complete the path faster, some of the rewards are quite valuable when sold in the mall, such as the blood-drive sticker, the emergency margarita, and the vintage smart drink. Players will often choose to not use some of these rewards, electing to keep and/or sell them instead.
  • The blood-drive sticker was originally useable in-run, however with the change that made all L13+ consumables unusable while Hardcore and Ronin are active, it's now valid to use after the run.
  • The only reward that must be used is a ten-percent bonus, as it is a quest item and will be removed from inventory after you ascend.
  • In order to open up aftercore in the Community Service pathway, you must first click the button to Donate your body to science. When the next dialogue comes up asking you to confirm, DO NOT confirm. Instead change screens by clicking one of the toolbar icons, such as the main map. Note that areas unlocked by council quests will remain inaccessible, as described above.
  • You cannot perform acts of community service if you're overdrunk.
Ascension Paths
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Special Challenge Paths
Spring Summer Fall Winter
2011
None
Bees Hate You
Way of the Surprising Fist
Trendy
2012
Avatar of Boris
Bugbear Invasion
Zombie Slayer
Class Act
2013
Avatar of Jarlsberg
BIG!
KOLHS
Class Act II: A Class For Pigs
2014
Avatar of Sneaky Pete
Slow and Steady
Heavy Rains
Picky
2015
Actually Ed the Undying
One Crazy Random Summer
Community Service
None
2016
Avatar of West of Loathing
The Source
Nuclear Autumn
None
2017
Gelatinous Noob
License to Adventure
Live. Ascend. Repeat.
None
2018
Pocket Familiars
G-Lover
Disguises Delimit
None
2019
Dark Gyffte
Two Crazy Random Summer
Kingdom of Exploathing
None
2020
Path of the Plumber
Low Key Summer
Grey Goo
None
2021
You, Robot
Quantum Terrarium
Wildfire
None
2022
Grey You
Journeyman
Fall of the Dinosaurs
None
2023
Avatar of Shadows Over Loathing
Legacy of Loathing
A Shrunken Adventurer am I
None
2024
WereProfessor
11 Things I Hate About U
Avant Guard
None
2025
Z is for Zootomist
Hat Trick
11,037 Leagues Under the Sea
None
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