Generic Summer Holiday

Today is Generic Summer Holiday! Go get some pool toys at the Market, and go for a swim in Market Square!

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As luck would have it, the festivals for several different religious sects fall on this day in mid-summer. For years, the various fanatics from each religion insisted that theirs was the only true holiday for that day, and got horribly offended when anyone called the holiday anything other than what they called it, and everyone had different traditions and rituals, and the retail stores got the holidays all confused, trying to figure out how to sell it to everyone without offending anyone, and there was almost a huge holy war throughout the Kingdom... until finally someone quit arguing, noticed it was a nice day outside, and suggested that everyone just take a break and go swimming.

And thus was the fighting ended, and the Generic Summer Holiday was born.

Dates

• Generic Summer Holiday I: December 7th, 2007 (Bill 3, Year 19) (canceled)
• Generic Summer Holiday I: March 12, 2008 (Bill 3, Year 20)
• Generic Summer Holiday II: June 16, 2008 (Bill 3, Year 21)
• Generic Summer Holiday III: September 19, 2008 (Bill 2, Year 22)
• Generic Summer Holiday IV: December 25, 2008 (Bill 3, Year 23)
• Generic Summer Holiday V: March 31, 2009 (Bill 3, Year 24)
• Generic Summer Holiday VI: April 1, 2009 (Bill 4, Year 24)
• Generic Summer Holiday VII: July 5, 2009 (Bill 3, Year 25)
• Generic Summer Holiday VIII: October 9, 2009 (Bill 3, Year 26)
• Generic Summer Holiday IX: January 13, 2010 (Bill 3, Year 27)
• Generic Summer Holiday X: April 19, 2010 (Bill 3, Year 28)
• Generic Summer Holiday XI: July 24, 2010 (Bill 3, Year 29)
• Generic Summer Holiday XII: October 28, 2010 (Bill 3, Year 30)
• Generic Summer Holiday XIII: February 1, 2011 (Bill 3, Year 31)
• Generic Summer Holiday XIV: May 8, 2011 (Bill 3, Year 32)
• Generic Summer Holiday XV: August 12, 2011 (Bill 3, Year 33)
• Generic Summer Holiday XVI: November 16, 2011 (Bill 3, Year 34)
• Generic Summer Holiday XVII: February 20, 2012 (Bill 3, Year 35)
• Generic Summer Holiday XVIII: May 26, 2012 (Bill 3, Year 36)
• Generic Summer Holiday XIX: August 30, 2012 (Bill 3, Year 37)
• Generic Summer Holiday XX: December 4, 2012 (Bill 3, Year 38)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXI: March 10, 2013 (Bill 3, Year 39)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXII: June 14, 2013 (Bill 3, Year 40)
• Generic Summer Holiday (next): October 21, 2025 (predicted)

Festivities

• Swimming in A Reasonably-Sized Fountain in Market Square -- requires equipping a foam noodle, inflatable duck, and/or water wings to open the area.

Special Items

At The Market, you may buy pool toys for 300 Meat each. Equipping any of these accessories grants access to swim in the Fountain, which has non-combat adventures which grant effects based on which pool toy is equipped.

Pool Toys!		Adventure	Effect (10 Adventures)*
	foam noodle	Noodling Around	Full-Body Tan	bonus Moxie substats equal to your level
	inflatable duck	Huff, Puff	Heavily Breathing	bonus Muscle substats equal to your level
	water wings	On Wings of Plastic	Marco Polarity	bonus Mysticality substats equal to your level
*Substat gains only occur during combat adventures

Notes

• Swimming in A Reasonably-Sized Fountain with more than 1 of the special items will result in a random effect chosen from those given by the items equipped.
• It is not possible to go swimming while falling-down drunk. Doing so will result in a Drunken Stupor adventure.
• Although the first Generic Summer Holiday should have occurred December 7th, 2007, Jick admitted on the radio show for December 6th that it took them by surprise, and that it would not occur until the next Bill 3.
• On the 22 September 2008 radio show, Jick and Mr. Skullhead indicated that Generic Summer Holiday firing on Bill 2 was a mistake, and it should fall on Bill 3 in the future.

See Also

• Official Holiday Description