Grue Event

Event Times

The Event is started automatically by the server on

Wednesday, Black Friday midnight GMT

The Event is stopped automatically by the server on

Tuesday, January 2nd Midnight GMT

ITEMS:

• Frosty's Train Ticket
• Crystal Cave Portal
• Jack Frost Lair Portal
• Frost Haven Portal Gem
• Grue Chest
• Grue Chest Key
• Grue Ice Ball

Jack's Key

• Jack's Key has a 300-day pickup timer.

Frigid Chest

• Frigid Chest has a (1) minute respawn timer.
• The chest will spawn (1) Frigid Key every (1) minute.

Frigid Key

• Frigid Key is used to open a Frigid Door

Frosty's Train Ticket

• Train Ticket 1-hour pickup timer

Grue Goodies Basket

When the Grue Goodies Basket is checked it contains (1) items of the following Items:

• Grue Medicated Candy Cane

• Grue Medicated Cookie

• Grue Medicated Fruit Cake

Grue Stocking

When the Grue Stocking is checked it contains (1) items of the following Items:

• Grue String of Lights Necklace

• Grue Snowflake Earring's

• Grue Tree Ring

Jack's Amulet

• Jack's Amulet is bound and attuned.

Grue Critters

Frosty Buffer

• Frosty is a Seasonal Buffer in same locations as the Pumpkin Buffers
• NPC Frosty casts the same Level 8 buffs as the Pumpkin Buffer
• When NPC Frosty spawns he announces "Happy Birthday!"
• When NPC Frosty is killed he exclaims "I'll be back again someday..."
• When NPC Frosty is killed he drops Christmas related items and possibly (1-10) Train Tickets
• When NPC Frosty is killed there is a 10% chance to spawn a small, blond, very angry child named Karen

Karen

https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Karen_(Frosty_the_Snowman)

• When Karen is killed, she will drop (9) Train Tickets and there will be a Server Global that you have slain Karen

• When Karen is killed, she will spawn the rabbit Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus

• When Hocus Pocus is killed, he will drop (9) Train Tickets
• When Hocus Pocus is killed, he will spawn the TicketMaster

Ticket Master

• Talk to the Ticket Master to start the GRUE quest and enter A Cold Place
• The Ticket Master if the player is already flagged will teleport the player to A Cold Place
• If you are not already flagged and have (1) Train Ticket the NPC TicketMaster to flag the player for 6 hours and teleport the player to A Cold Place

Jack Frost

• Jack Frost drops (12) keys for Jack's Chest on a 300-day timer.
• The GRUE event resets and Frosty is born again.

Jack's Chest

• Jack's Chest will contain the following:

QUEST NOTES:

No death items drop once inside

Kill Frosty until Karen Spawns

Quest Starts for 6 hours.

Kill Karen to spawn Hocus Pocus

Kill Hocus Pocus to spawn the Ticket Master and a Cold Place activates

Talk to the Ticket Master and he will check for a Train Ticket

A Train Ticket will get you flagged for 6 hours entry to A Cold Place.

If you die go back and talk to the Ticket Master again and he will teleport you to A Cold Place for up time (6) Hours while the quest is active

Once each level of the quest is reached, the portal stays open until the quest ends in 6 hours or Jack Frost has been killed to rese the quest.

This means at any point, if you are paying attention to server global messages, it's easy to join the quest or crash the party either way.

GRUE Origins

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grue

to shiver or shudder especially with fear or cold

thin floating ice : SNOW

the sound of wind in the rigging … gave him the chills and the grues

https://collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/grue

1. a shiver or shudder; a creeping of the flesh
VERB (intransitive)
2. to shiver or shudder
3. to feel strong aversion

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
Word origin
C14: of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Swedish grua, Old Danish grue; related to German graven, Dutch gruwen to abhor

Krampus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus

Saint Nicholas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companions_of_Saint_Nicholas

Interesting Frosty The Snowman Facts

By the time Hocus and Santa make it to the greenhouse, Frosty is already melted. Santa explains to a heartbroken Karen that Frosty is made of Christmas snow and will return every winter.

What is Frosty Jacks made of?
A refreshingly crisp sparkling cider made from the juice of bittersweet and culinary apples

When Frosty attempts to count to 10, he starts counting to five on his fingers, and he has five fingers on one hand and four on the other. Then after he realizes he can only count to five correctly and chuckles, both hands have four.

 Crystal is a female snow person who is the wife of Frosty

Is Frosty the Snowman a golem?
Frosty is a Snow Golem created by the ebil moglin necromancer Zorbak, to be part of his Ebil Empire and ruin the holiday of Frostval.

How tall was Frosty the Snowman?
Frosty is about six feet tall and let's say 16 inches in diameter, for a total weight of about 600 pounds

What is Frosty the Snowman's phone number?
484-552-2180
Callers of all ages can dial the hotline — 484-552-2180 — and leave a message for one of four holiday characters: Frosty the Snowman, Buddy the Elf, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or Santa Claus.

MISC DRUNKEN NOTES

GRUE quest hints, clues, and suggestions for 2023:

Take a friend, who has a few friends too.

It's a Christmas/Winter related quest.

Get togethering with your friends, fuck around and find out.

This was an intentional very hard to design around a marco/meta army and still make it useable.

Only (16) Players completed the quest it's first run in 2022.

I anticipate a much higher number for 2023.

The rewards have been increased.

Last year's Jack's Amulet was confirmed by ACE developers to not be working as intended for fellowship spells. :frowning: It's an ACE oversight IMO

Train Tickets are good for (7) days until punched

After Train Tickets are used for flagging, you are flagged for (6) Hours.

The Ticket Master goes home after his (6) hour shift, the quest resets and Frosty returns again

• Professor Hinkle's Magic Hat