Holiday Spirit is a mechanic that comes about whenever the server is celebrating a holiday by sharing that holiday with Star Command 13.
Holiday Spirit is an abstract number representing the general holiday spirit of the crew (as opposed to just yourself or the entirety of humanity). It appears solely when the server is in Holiday mode, which currently exists during October (Halloween) and December (Christmas).
Depending on the holiday, Holiday Spirit operates a particular mechanic that determines unusual interactions over the course of a holiday round. Two basic holidays are Halloween, where all things scary are celebrated, and Christmas, where jolly holiday cheer is venerated. At high or low levels of Spirit, special spawns are enabled to fit the season, and there are often special roles during the event that are designed to increase or decrease Spirit.
At high Spacemas/Christmas Cheer, Santa Claus arrives to bring heals, treats, and presents as a reward. At low Spacemas/Christmas Cheer, Krampus arrives to disrupt people and give them a bad time as punishment. Grinches also have a goal of ruining the holidays for everyone by keeping Spacemas/Christmas Cheer low.
Spacemas/Christmas Cheer starts at 60% and goes from 0 to 100. There are many ways to both increase and decrease this.
| Action | Cheer |
|---|---|
| Taking something out of a stocking. | +2 |
| Wrapping a present. | +1 |
| Unwrapping a present. | +2 |
| Getting hit with a snowball. | +1 |
| Feeding a space seal pup. | +1 |
| Cleaning up Grinch graffiti. | +1 |
| Eating a candy bar, candy cane, or any of the various kinds of cookies. | +1 |
| Consuming fruitcake. | +10 |
| Action | Cheer |
|---|---|
| Santa Claus dying. | -60 |
| Burning down the Spacemas Tree by using Vandalize on it as a Grinch. | -33 |
| Killing a space seal pup. | -20 |
| Killing a space bee. | -5 |
| Successfully releasing a headspider as a Changeling. | -7 |
| Creating graffiti on a wall by using Vandalize as a Grinch. | -1 |
| Destroying garland by using Vandalize as a Grinch. | -1 |
| Interacting with a booby-trapped stocking (meaning Grinch has used Vandalize to sabotage the stocking). | -5 |
| Eating/being force-fed cookies, candy canes, and candy bars poisoned by the Grinch. | -2 |
| Eating/being force-fed other food poisoned by the Grinch. | -3 |
| Dying. (Deaths in the Afterlife Bar and as something not human (e.g. Werewolf, Animal, but not Vampire) don't count.) | -7 |
| Opening a present containing an armed mousetrap. | -4 |