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 XXIII: September 18, 2013 (Bill 3, Year 41)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXIV: December 23, 2013 (Bill 3, Year 42)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXV: March 29, 2014 (Bill 3, Year 43)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXVI: July 3, 2014 (Bill 3, Year 44)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXVII: October 7, 2014 (Bill 3, Year 45)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXVIII: January 11, 2015 (Bill 3, Year 46)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXIX: April 17, 2015 (Bill 3, Year 47)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXX: July 22, 2015 (Bill 3, Year 48)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXXI: October 26, 2015 (Bill 3, Year 49)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXXII: January 30, 2016 (Bill 3, Year 50)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXXIII: May 5, 2016 (Bill 3, Year 51)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXXIV: August 9, 2016 (Bill 3, Year 52)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXXV: November 13, 2016 (Bill 3, Year 53)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXXVI: February 17, 2017 (Bill 3, Year 54)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXXVII: May 24, 2017 (Bill 3, Year 55)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXXVIII: August 28, 2017 (Bill 3, Year 56)
• Generic Summer Holiday XXXIX: December 2, 2017 (Bill 3, Year 57)
• Generic Summer Holiday XL: March 8, 2018 (Bill 3, Year 58)
• Generic Summer Holiday XLI: June 12, 2018 (Bill 3, Year 59)
• Generic Summer Holiday XLII: September 16, 2018 (Bill 3, Year 60)
• Generic Summer Holiday XLIII: December 21, 2018 (Bill 3, Year 61)
• Generic Summer Holiday XLIV: March 27, 2019 (Bill 3, Year 62)
• Generic Summer Holiday XLV: July 1, 2019 (Bill 3, Year 63)
• Generic Summer Holiday XLVI: October 5, 2019 (Bill 3, Year 64)
• Generic Summer Holiday XLVII: January 9, 2020 (Bill 3, Year 65)
• Generic Summer Holiday XLVIII: April 14, 2020 (Bill 3, Year 66)
• Generic Summer Holiday XLIX: July 19, 2020 (Bill 3, Year 67)
• Generic Summer Holiday L: October 23, 2020 (Bill 3, Year 68) (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.
• In addition to the 10 turns of the effect specific to your chosen item, you will also get 1 turn of Eldritch Attunement if you are neither in Ronin nor Hardcore.
• 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