Portable Laughing Stock: Overview

August 20, 2026 // IOTM Overview

It’s neat that we get the Time Twitching Tower once a year now. This year, there wasn’t a whole lot of hubbub about it; the new floor of the tower was an old-timey hamlet that was very mechanically simple. Well, with one twist — there was a brand-new ultra rare adventure in the zone! It’s a bit weird to add an ultra-rare to a zone that’s only available for 7 days a year, but it is a neat ultra-rare with a cool item. An evergreen pullable item with a low stat requirement that gives +25 stats per fight is nice, even though it’s obviated by basically any IOTM source for leveling. Anyway. There aren’t very many of them, so they’ll be rare and expensive for a very long time. You know what probably won’t be rare and expensive for a very long time? The portable laughing stock, the new TTT merch table item of 2026!

General Summary

The Portable Laughing Stock is an accessory. It comes with the following out-of-the-box enchantments.

The first unique enchantment results in fruit being thrown at you after combat. You will receive a fruit on a set schedule, with the first 11 fruit drops coming in 1 more turn than the last one took, starting at 1. So, to enumerate: you get your first fruit at 1 combat, 2nd fruit at +1 combat from that, 3rd at +2 combats from that, 4th at +3 combats, et cetera. After 11 fruits dropped, you end up with 50-60 turns between your new fruit. (Eleven fruits dropped comes in 56 cumulative turns with the stock equipped.) The fruit will either be one of three new bespoke varieties of fruit (antique watermelons, classic bananas, and quinces) or something out of the following semi-useful fruit list: banana, blackberry, cactus fruit, cherry, cranberry, grapefruit, grape, kiwi, kumquat, lemon, lime, orange, papaya, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, strawberry, or tangerine.

The last unique enchantment allows you to use the combat skill “Taunt your foe”. This delevels your opponent by 20% and staggers your foe. The taunt itself is randomly generated with a swear, an address, an adjective, and a noun. It’s cute.

Speedrun Applicability

The “normal” enchantments aren’t particularly useful. The +20% to all attributes is fine, but nothing particularly noteworthy; it’s worth 20-30 points on the tower stat tests, but those are extremely easy in virtually every context. More HP and DR isn’t really useful to anyone except the lowest-shiny players, and if you’re that low shiny, you probably shouldn’t be buying this. The taunt is nice, and good for survivability. A 20% delevel/stagger is good, and allows you to run a decent bit more ML safely. It isn’t anything essential, but it’s a nice boon that could be a nice comfort in an avatar path during this item’s standard cycle.

Much like a smoothie stand, the real value here is in the fruit. Specifically, the three new fruits, which are summarized as follows:

• The Muscle fruit is the antique watermelon, which gives an effect for +100% weapon damage and +200% HP in its basic form
• The Mysticality fruit is the quince, which gives an effect for +100% spell damage and +200% MP in its basic form
• The Moxie fruit is the classic banana, which gives an effect for +100% ranged damage and +25 damage reduction in its basic form

These basic effects can be acquired in four ways. First, you can just eat the fruit (size 1, 3.5 adv/fullness) for 10 turns. Second, you cocktailcraft the fruit with a base booze (size 2, 3.5 adv/drunk) for 20 turns. Third, you cocktailcraft the fruit with a distilled booze (size 3, 5 adv/drunk) for 40 turns. Finally, you cook the fruit with a pie crust (via the friendly Gnoll or Bugbear Bakery) for 50 turns of the effect in a size 3, 4.5 adv/fullness food.

You can also get different — and more useful! — effects by turning the fruit into potions. You can craft each fruit with a scrumptious reagent to gain a potion that gives +200% to the item’s assigned stat and +25% to all statgains to that stat. If you happen to be an accordion thief or a myst class with your guild unlocked, you can enhance that to +400% to the item’s stat and +50% to all statgains to that stat. These high statgain boosting potions are the main speedrunning pop you can get from this item. Leveling is easy right now due to the Sept-Ember Censer, but as leveling gets a bit harder in the next standard meta, boosting your statgain by 1.25x for your leveling process is good stuff.

Having covered that, I would be remiss by not pointing out that there are a handful of little ways the “normal” fruit has some small possibilities for turnsaving, comfort, and unlocking certain abilities you wouldn’t normally have:

• With Spring Shoes and the Laughing Stock, in some rare paths, you may actually be able to get enough blackberries to get your galoshes the first time around through the Black Forest NC. That is something that could save you a whole turn if things roll correctly! (OK, yeah, it’s a minor boost.)
• Most of the distilled fruits you get from using Nash Crosby’s Still on basic fruit are available here with the kiwi, kumquat, raspberry, and tangerine. If you are an accordion thief (or a myst class with your guild unlocked), you can leverage these distilled fruits to make advanced potions that give +200% muscle, +20 melee damage, +10% item drop, and +200% myst (respectively).
• Having the other basic fruits semi-available before you’ve opened the hippy store is sort of nice for potion-crafting and cocktailcrafting, as that helps with any leveling you do with scaling monsters.
• You also can make cactus fruit into tequila, which gives early access to base booze if you happen to need it.

Predicting Your Fruit

Thanks to the efforts of intrepid spadester VeeArr (#2045479), we actually have the seeding of the Portable Laughing Stock’s fruit generation! The fruit you receive is seeded by daycount, class, and path. You can access the first 21 fruits on each of the first 4 days of a run at this cool website. If you’re deciding what path to play as, before you even enter the run you can figure out how long it will take to get a fruit that helps with your on-stat leveling. You also can figure out if you are blessed with the possibility of pre-snagging your blackberries.

For instance, in Blue vs. Red, Seal Clubbers do not receive their D1 muscle stat fruit until the 46th combat with the laughing stock equipped, and do not receive any blackberries. However, the standard Turtle Tamer receives two blackberries in their first 16 turns with the stock equipped, as well as an antique watermelon for muscle stats. And right below it on that page, the standard Pastamancer doesn’t feasibly get a potion for +25% stat gain on D1, but does get three blackberries after 56 combats with the stock equipped.

If you would like to access this while you’re in run, VeeArr has provided a useful relay script that generates the combinations for your current path. Thanks, VeeArr!

2026 In-Standard Synergies

• The primary synergy for the Laughing Stock is a synergistic relationship with every single leveling helper you have in run. From an IOTM perspective, the most obvious of these in the current standard set is the Sept-Ember Censer (2024); your censer leveling will take less cold resistance than it needed before this item came out, and will thus be a bit more efficient. But this also synergizes with leveling via Some Fish from the Monodent of the Sea (2025), stats from specifically constructed Cup of 13s (2026) drinks, and stats gained from the BOOM skill unlocked by the Heartstone (2026). It also synergizes with leveling from the IOTM that came out this month, but we don’t have a post on that yet, so it is a total mystery to all.
• This is a synergy that is quite on the border of credulity, but there is a vanishingly small bit of synergy with the Blood Cubic Zirconia (2025) by allowing you to increase the stats you gain and (in turn) possibly generate an extra use of the BCZ freekill or an extra refraction.
• This isn’t really synergy with a shiny, but it’s worth specifically pointing out that the boosts from this (and the sleaze res Cup of 13s) are specifically helpful for the Blech House noncombat in the Smut Orc Logging Camp. All of the massive stat boosts are huge for maxing your bridge parts, and this IOTM also features spell damage and weapon damage on the side. Realistically, moxie & sleaze resistance are (almost) always going to be the most efficient way to get to 7/7 parts. But this is still a decent Blech House helper with the bonkers moxie boost potential.

Overall Rating

We’d rate the Portable Laughing Stock a tier 5 IOTM. As I discussed in the Cup of 13s post, there’s only so much you can do with nice buffs and a bit of turngen. These buffs are generally a lot less useful than those of the Cup, essentially deriving their total value from the leveling assistance that the new fruit unlocks. There is some turngen benefit here as well, with 4.5 adventures per fullness being on the high side (and a relatively easy path to 6-9 fullness per day taken up by the fruit), but overall, this is a skippable item. It will be useful for lowering the amount of meat drop we’ll need for the impending embezzler leveling meta, which we’ll be covering in our next post, but the total turnsaving potential of this item by itself is quite low. If you don’t have a standard set and are looking to maximize the meat you spend on in-standard shinies, consider picking up essentially any other IOTM before you pick up this one.

Article contributed by Captain Scotch