Eric
Number of missions | 3 (Mission 3 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Missions commanded | 0 |
Draw privilege | Eric's "You, fuck you, you are a piece of fucking shit" privilege |
Gets a destination | never |
Preceding mascot | Little Lucky Leprechaun |
Following mascot | Kurt |
Eric the Viking was responsible for cementing the tradition of a mascot joining the Colonel's Regiment on each mission. He is a Scandinavian by birth, hailing from the beautiful city of
3 Stockholm. Unfortunately, due to his delicate nature, travelling is a problem for him and he has been unable to be present on many missions. He did recently revisit Scandanavia on Mission 8
8 Oslo, but his fragility became all too obvious when Rupert chucked a snowball at his head and succeeded in breaking his helmet. He has vowed not to attend another mission after this incident.
Eric's privilege
Eric may be invoked after the main draw by shouting "You, fuck you, you are a piece of fucking shit" in a Swedish accent. (To avoid embarrassment, just "You..." will normally do)
If all the Colonel's men present agree, they may then replay the draw; the result of this draw is considered final, unless Marco Taylor intervenes.
Only the bit with the actual drawing is replayed, as if the "main" draw had been a second rehearsal draw. We don't go through all the mascot rounds again, as that would be tedious.
History
Eric first used his power on Mission 4
4 Salzburg after
5 Toulouse won the draw. The draw was restarted, but by a million-to-one chance,
5 Toulouse won a second time. Luckily, by an infinity-to-one chance, Easyjet later bought out Go! airways and cancelled the
5 Toulouse flights, so the Colonel's Regiment went to
5 Genoa instead.
In Mission 16
16 Athens Eric used his power again after
17 Palermo won the draw. The draw was restarted and unbelievably, by an infinity infinitillion to one chance,
17 Palermo won again. This made the Colonel's Regiment begin to doubt the effectiveness of Eric's round. After much discussion, they decided to abide by Eric's decision, but by an infotility infoodly tillion willion illion to one chance, everyone ended up going to
17
36 Porto that time.
Interaction with Gløgg
If Gløgg bums Eric, the "You, fuck you, you are a piece of fucking shit!" round cannot occur. So even if everyone doesn't want to go to the winning destination, you can't invoke this round.
If Eric is helped, only three people need to agree that they're unhappy with the winner for another draw to take place.