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Are You Prepared For Paddy's Day?

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48 hour double nerve event begins at 12:00 TCT on the 16th. 20,000+ bottles of Green Stout to be given away via city map. Forum parcel competition to run for the duration of the 17th.
For the rest of the world, St Patrick's Day involves drinking heavily, getting into fights, and claiming Irish heritage because your great-great-grandfather once had a penpal from Dundalk. For the people of Torn, the St Patrick's Day festivities are very much the same, but with the welcome addition of free green booze and the odd mayoral kidnapping.


Pictured: Your pee after St Patrick's Day, and your pee before. Neither's great tbh.

Just like the island of Ireland itself, the St Patrick's Day event consists of two equally delightful parts, each of which will get you stinking drunk in no time at all. For starters, tens of thousands of bottles of Green Stout will be given away via the City Map from 12:00 noon on the 16th through to the same time on the 18th. As ever, these are Torn City times, because what other timezone would we use? Botswana?

Players who are logged in during the St Patrick's event will have a chance for this seasonal five nerve booze to spawn at a random location on their map. If Green Stout hasn't spawned for you by noon on the 18th, then you're all out of luck so you are. Praying to leprechauns will not help your chances of acquiring a bottle of Green Stout, but sucking on a Rabbit's Foot, choking yourself with a set of Rosary Beads, or prancing around buck naked in nothing but a balaclava just might! It's worth a shot, if only for the craic.


Pictured: You could also grind these up and snort them off your wrist. It won't help, but it's a great way to start the morning.

The second part of the St Patrick's Day fun is the double nerve boost applied to all alcohol items. Any booze that is drunk during 48-hour event will provide twice as much nerve as usual, and this boost stacks with other nerve buffs available in Torn, including those gained from faction branches, company specials, and subscriber books. We wrote a guide on how to get the most out of St Patrick's Day last year. Click the link below to read it, because we're not writing all that up again.

St Patrick's Day 2021

If you're low on alcohol supplies at the moment, you may be low on luck too, because the price of booze has grown rapidly in recent days. Green Stout, Moonshine, and Christmas Spirit are all averaging at $1.4 million a bottle right now, although this price will drop as soon as roughly 20,000 more Green Stouts begin to enter circulation from Wednesday midday.

The 4 nerve alcohols tend to be a more reasonable price around Paddy's Day, with Stinky Swamp Punch and Mistletoe Madness only rising by a few thousand dollars apiece. 2 and 3 nerve alcohols are priced fairly too and will prove an attractive proposition to those without deep pockets. Just be sure to avoid the beers this St Patrick's Day, as those pesky price manipulators are trying to push a single bottle above $4k yet again.

And if you don't want to pay any of these extortionate prices, then maybe you can do something about it by winning big in Jimmy's forum competition. Beginning at 00:00 on the 17th and ending at midnight the same day, the notorious Mr. Two Shins will be running a lucky dip style event in General Discussion where the grand prize is the extremely rare Brewery Key.



Other prizes will also be paid out alongside this collectible item, including a few explosive ones too, so make sure you visit the thread during the 17th to post your entry and be in with a shot when the draw is made on the 18th.


tl;dr: Double nerve for all booze from 12:00 TCT on the 16th to 12:00 TCT on the 18th. Green Stout has a chance to spawn on the city map.


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