Fright Before Christmas
Overview
Fright Before Christmas is a modified version of the Presents Winter Event introduced in Rebirth Issue 2 Edition 3. During the Fright Before Christmas, Mysterious Gifts appear throughout Paragon City and the Rogue Isles, courtesy of Gamester.
Upon opening a present, a hero or villain would find that if they were "nice," they would enjoy a nice reward. If they were "naughty," however, they would find themselves surrounded by Halloween enemies in festive attire, trying to push Halloween a little more into the winter holiday season!
Gamester's Presents
"Nice" presents can include additional instances of the Mystery Gift, Present inspirations, Candy Cane Salvage, Halloween Salvage or sometimes a Present and Salvage.
"Naughty" presents spawn groups of festive Trick or Treat enemies, whose spawn size is based on team members. Use caution when opening presents away from teammates. These enemies can drop both Candy Cane Salvage, and Halloween Salvage.
Giant Monsters
- Main Article: Giant Monsters
The Giant Monster from Croatoa, Eochai, spawns in most zones (including the City of Villains zones) in both an orange and white variety. There are Event-specific badges for their defeat (which are different than the badges for the defeat of the regular Croatoan Eochai or standard Halloween Eochai).
|
Editor's Note: In 2021 the White Eochai was not spawning and so needed to be manually spawned by gamemasters. |
Badges
Badges are awarded for logging in during the event, defeating the festive enemies that jump out of boxes and the two Eochai GMs.
|
The Fright Before Christmas Twas the Fright Before Christmas and all through the City, |
|
Bad Santa You helped defeat a manifestation of the holiday Pumpkin King. Wonder where the real one is? |
|
What's This There's color everywhere. There's white things in the air. |
|
Stocking Stuffers You defeated 50 holiday zombies. Now where to put the mess? |
|
Damaged During Delivery You defeated 33 holiday delivery werewolves. Even the best werewolves have 98% chance of damaging goods. |
|
Back for Blood You defeated 25 holiday Vampires. When you thought all of the holiday shopping was done and you remembered what you forgot. |
Candy Canes
Opening presents will also potentially award Candy Cane Salvage, which can be redeemed for a variety of badges, temp powers, and costume pieces from past winter events.
Special Salvage
A festive piece of peppermint candy to celebrate the holidays. Seek the Candy Keeper in the winter chalet in Pocket D, as he collects these candy canes in return for hard to aquire treasures.
Candy Keeper
- Main Article: Candy Keeper
The Candy Keeper allows players to turn in Candy Cane Salvage for a variety of rewards.
- Badges
- Cold Front Badge
- Gifted Badge
- Holiday Spirit Badge (heroes) or Scrooge Badge (villains) badge
- Temporary Powers
- Golden Rings and Joyful Badge
- Renewal of Light and Miraculous Badge
- Holiday Rocket Pack and Longbow Reservist Badge (heroes) or Jet-Setter Badge (villains)
- Holiday Spirit
- Snowball
- Build Snow Beast
- Costume Items
- Furry Gloves and Crystallized Badge
- Furry Boots and Frosty Badge
- Stocking Cap
- Flaming Naughty Halo
- Golden Nice Halo
- Invention Recipes
- Winter's Gift: Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range
- Winter's Gift: Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range/End
- Winter's Gift: Slow Resistance (20%)
It should be noted that if you already have the badge, then the badge will not display, however the Costume Item or Temporary Power associated with that badge will still show up and you can trade in Candy Canes for them. This is different from Father Time's mission reward menu in which if you choose a reward for which you already have the badge, you'll get nothing.
Present Locations
NOTE: Not all the spawn sites for the Presents have been documented. If you have the /loc for a spawn site not shown in these images, let us know.
Hero Zone Maps
Villain Zone Maps
Praetorian Zone Maps
Coop/PVP Zone Maps
External Links
- The event was introduced with a video.