Uncle Crimbo's Summertime Renaissance Southern Fair: A GROARING problem - Season Three, Mission #5
Rollover and Finale written by Mary Kate O'Toole and Wildfall
Mission logo created at     by KOL player Pryncesself

Historical recap: The aftermath of the Pertene/ KOKOL war and the Knob Goblin Kingdom's war with KOKOL and eventual fall during Kadlin's destructive reign saw the rise and fall of heroes and legends, with names such as Jarlsboris Wildfall, Aleena, Sebastian Dash, Jen and others still active from those events. They're joined by new heroes such as Mary Kate O'Toole, Blackeagle, SnowCatCuties, Koumori and more.

The Story so far: After briefly controlling Seaside Town, the penguin mafia now have representatives on the Seaside Council, the ruling party of the Loathing Kingdom. The penguins also have worked with- and clashed with- the Somber Six recently on multiple occasions. More recently, the Seaside Town ordered adventurers to clear Lord Spookyraven's long abandoned mansion of the Six, although after the Six successfully revived Lord Spookyraven, the Council stepped in to stop the fight at the request of Uncle Crimbo, who had a desire to work with a certain member of the Somber Six- the Renaissance Giant.

So if you don't get a chance to see the dates on the original, this is our Christmas / winter holiday themed AIL mission for 2017, starting just a couple of days before Halloween of that same year. We were able to wrap up roleplaying mid January of 2018 - and we even got the Finale fully posted by the end of the month! It was a unique case where the mission directly leads into the next misson's Rollover, which we got posted the next day.

Unfortunately, this was also right as my life was undergoing a rather big change in various ways. My mother passed away from complications of cancer and I got a rather nasty cough, although on the plus side, I got a new job and started talking to fellow AIL handler Pat on the phone in real life, both of which are awesome. But due to those complications (and more I won't get into at the moment), AIL roleplaying has currently stalled out and my work on this archive slowed down considerably, almost stopping at one point. (Pat [Mary Kate's handler] recently mentioned getting a job at ShopCo as well so congratulations to her!)

There's no debuts nor notable deaths here, although Spaghettigirl does change her name to Luna! It's hard to say where this mission might lead to. Again, roleplaying is dominated by fairly new names to AIL like SnowCat and Mary Kate. We got a healthy mix of Koumori, Luna, Blackeagle and others as well. Although it was a holiday mission, a big part of roleplaying takes place before the Rollover- but we get into the 'current' mission as well later on.

Feature characters: Luna only shows up once here, but her transformation (from Spaghettigirl to Luna) could end up proving to be pretty important. She seems unaware she was ever known as SGirl!
Co feature character: Becky Joy and SnowCatCuties meet this mission and spend quite a few roleplays together! They bounce over the Kingdom, from Seaside Town to Degrassi to Lil Canadia- before finally heading south. They have plenty of fun antics and fight off thugs more than once along the way!
Co feature character: Wildfall and Mary Kate spend a lot of time exploring the relationship between the two and the resulting stories are quite amazing. They're also out looking for some old friends here.
The amazing and talented Iris is back for her second mission, too! We only really see her early on, in Seaside Town, but at some point, she ends up in Las MexiCaliVada by the Finale. Earlier, we see her with Wildfall and Mary in Seaside Town, though.
Sebastian Dash and Jen are still suffering from the effects of a Procrastion potion early on, and it seems it is especially dangerous to one of the two! Later on, they'll join up with . . .
Aleena! Yup, that's right, Aleena, Jen and Dash join up to fight Jester King of Beasts- and they get a lil help from Mary Kate as well. It's a fun lil' co-write with different types of humor.
Koumori brings his talents to the roleplay, meeting up with Wildfall and Mary to help the trio get properly involved in the mission - starting when MK and Wildfall deliver Koumori his gifts from the Crimbos. (Koumori gets some new Crimbo themed wing blades!)
Blackeagle wrap up the field, joining the newly renamed Luna, SnowCatCuties and Becky Joy in an epic co-write to battle some thugs. Blackeagle (John and Sherri) kick butt, like always!

And featuring: Father Crimbo and Uncle Crimbo (and their elves): The Crimbo siblings are the focus of this mission, although we don't see much of Uncle and even less of Father Crimbo during this one. But of course, the letters they send out are the premise for the mission, so there's that. Plus, it was our RL winter holidays, and the Crimbos are the basis of KOL's winter holidays (and the setting for this game is based on the KOL game).

Other NPC's: The archers, blacksmiths, the Candy store shopkeep, Darson, fire-eaters, Goblina, an elderly Gnollish lady, Green, half naked dancing girls, harness makers, Julie, kids, the laughing forests, Luna's P. R. E. S. S. I. E, Luna's rock, Diana Lynn, merchants, musicians, the quarry master, Red, Roger, Seaside Town ghosts, Seaside Town kids, Seaside town orhans, Seaside Town starving artist, Mr. Sew Rite (cameo), Smokey and her kittens, the tailor, Doctor Valour, vendors, and Uncle Crimbo's elves.

Somber Six members: Boss Bat, Renaissance Giant and Baron von Ratsworth. Only half of the Six show up and the focus is mostly on the Giant and his festival theme in Las MexiCaliVada.

Additional antagonists: Annoying drunks, bats, Bones, a bugbear shaman, Blake Cutler, deceptive bandits, a Disco Bandit defector, the Jester King of Beasts, a Kung Fu Amphibian, a passive perfidious pastamancer, a Pokeelbeast trainer, several skeletons, silver haired orc, Snow White, a turtle tamer traitor and weird lookin' turtles.