Braincracker sweet

braincracker sweet

This drink mixes grenadine, corn syrup, pure cane sugar, and various hi-octane spirits. It's rumored that drinking one of these makes visions of sugarplums put on a burlesque show in your head.

Type: booze (quality unspecified)
Potency: UNSPECIFIED

(In-game plural not known - currently impossible to determine.)

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When Consumed

• During Crimbo 2005, from The Crimbo Cafe:

You drink the braincracker sweet. It reminds you of the time you drank hot chocolate through a stalk of sugar cane, with a bunch of marshmallows in your mouth. Only sweeter than that.

You gain 10-15 Adventures.

You gain 9-11 Strongness. You gain 9-11 Mysteriousness. You gain 9-11 Roguishness.

You're all full of holiday cheer. And sugar. Holiday cheer and sugar. You acquire an effect: Sugar Rush (duration: 10 Adventures)

You gain 5 Drunkenness.

• During Crimbo 2006, from Crimborg Nutrition Station:

You drink the braincracker sweet. It reminds you of the time you drank hot chocolate through a stalk of sugar cane, with a bunch of marshmallows in your mouth. Only sweeter than that. And with a chicken aftertaste, oddly enough.

You gain 10-15 Adventures.

You gain 9-11 Beefiness. You gain 9-11 Mysteriousness. You gain 9-11 Cheek.

You're all full of holiday cheer. And sugar. Holiday cheer and sugar. You acquire an effect: Sugar Rush (duration: 10 Adventures)

You gain 5 Drunkenness.

Notes

• Could be bought at The Crimbo Cafe during Crimbo 2005 or the Crimborg Nutrition Station during Crimboween 2006 for 100 Meat, but was instantly drunk when purchased.

References

• The name is a pun (sort of) referring to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.
• The line about the sugarplums is a reference to the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas," by either Clement Clarke Moore or Henry Livingston, Jr., which starts:
  

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.

• The addition of a "tastes like chicken" clause in the 2006 version refers to the movie The Matrix, which explained the resemblance of many meats to chicken as a lack of imagination by the machine creators of the virtual world (like the virtual Crimbo Cafe).