City of Holidays

Holiday issues specific to City of Heroes:

Arbor Day: This is the Devouring Earth version of Valentine’s Day. You can hear the Bladegrass propositioning the Blackrose; “Hey, baby, wanna go ‘plant a tree’?”

Christmas Eve: The elves start outfitting Santa’s sleigh with heat seeking missiles and anti-personnel force field emitters for when he enters Rogue Isles air space.

Valentine’s Day: On at least four different occasions Manticore will threaten Synapse with bodily harm for suggesting he dress up as Cupid.

St Patrick’s Day: Green beer will flow…. Flying heroes will end up paying for damages to skyscraper windows when the building “jumped right in fronna me!” Super Jumping heroes will do community service by cleaning up after themselves after getting sick from the UUUUP…. Dooooooown… UUUUUp…. Dooooown… Inebriated Super Speedsters will try to run a straight line through a corn field and end up starting new crop circle rumors. Teleporters will be unable to handle rematerializing properly leading one to restart his career as “Picasso-Man.”

President’s Day: Nemesis will once again claim that he deserves gifts on this day since he was… for a brief time… the leader of America. After, yet once more, being turned down by Congress for such recognitions, he will lock himself in his room, writing emo poetry and plotting.

Two weeks prior to Thanksgiving: All the chicken-costume heroes and villains go into hiding until the heat’s off.

Thanksgiving: Blue Steel says “You’re welcome.”

Veterans Day: All the vet heroes try to convince the newbs there is a tradition requiring everyone without a Vet Badge to undergo hazing.

St. Patrick’s Day: Villains start camping rainbows.

4th of July: All flyers get sick of their friends trying to talk them into wearing the Bullseye chest emblem.

Valentine’s Day: The postal service will, once again, set up a special assignment team for handling Swan’s mail.

Memorial Day: The Paragon City Selectmen will once more pledge to move the Hero One Memorial out of Perez Park, complete all its displays and finally open it to the public.

April Fools Day: The NCSoft development team will renew their restraining order against Steelclaw.

Earth Day: Natural origin heroes protest Technology origin heroes.

Halloween: Paragon City grown ups are still confused as to why their children refuse to go trick or treating for candy.

Thanksgiving: Nemesis initiates his latest plot to get off Santa’s Naughty List.

New Years Day: Paragon City Child Protective Services begins investigating the “Baby New Year Incident.”

Valentine’s Day: Positron endures a great deal of good-natured ribbing and writes his annual stern letter to Dark_Respite about the whole “nerd-flirting” thing.

Easter: The Easter Bunny makes sure to bring his migraine medication in preparation for planting eggs in Paragon and the accompanying “Glowie” sound.

Christmas: Frosty the Snowman releases a press statement denying any connection or relation to the Winter Lord Mafia.

Mardi Gras: The Carnival of Shadows corner the bead market.

Oktoberfest: Back Alley Brawler drinks Statesman under the table and sees how long it takes him to notice they put his helmet on backwards.

The Day after St. Patricks Day: The Pinnacle server is closed for maintenance due to “clean up” requirements.

Memorial Day, Independence Day, Bastille Day, Christmas, etc: Now taking bets on how quickly everyone will get sick of the Menders saying "I was THERE."

Thanksgiving should have turkey drops a la WKRP

Collect 100 and you unlock the indian costume at Icon (think headdress). I'm sure you'd see a lot of archers sporting those.

Thanksgiving: Paragon City experiences the annual tradition of The Wentworth's Thanksgiving Day Parade (AE arc #347683), featuring (some guy playing) Statesman as Grand Marshal, reformed Freak music sensation 5kvv33k-E P0p, floats with waving Fir Bolg, and people dressed as drum majors who aren't Nemesis soldiers for a change. Oh, and the Gobblers.

It must be seen to be believed.