An Egg-hunter Is Hatched (03/18/2010)

[Not Kuno]

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Hear ye, hear ye, kupo!
Drop everything you're holding—unless it's a basket of eggs—for the annual Egg Hunt Eggstravaganza event will soon commence!

It's about this time of year that fun-loving adventurers are heard egg-sclaiming, "Gosh, it's been a while since I last heard an egg pun." And who are we moogles to deny them the pleasure, kupo? To answer the call, the trusty Mog House Management Union (MHMU) moogles will be taking to the streets with oodles of eggs cradled lovingly in our little arms, distributing them to egg-semplary adventurers worth their salt sprinkled atop a boiled egg.

And you, Master. When the event begg-ins in earnest, I don't want to see you sulking over shriveled potted plants in the Mog House, but outside hunting eggs, eggs, and more eggs! Kupopopo!

"But I don't know the first thing about egg-hunting," you say? Well, such egg-scuses can be thrown out the window as egg-straneous, kupo! Because for this year's event, fledgling adventurers are being egg-stensively egg-sercised by their resident moogles in the ways of the egg-hunter, and I had the privilegge—erhm...that was probably a mite forced—of being on location for one such lesson!

Lean closer to hear the details, kupo!

Event Schedule
The Egg Hunt event is set to begg-in on Thursday, March 25th, 2010 at 1:00am (PDT), and egg-spire on Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 at 1:00am (PDT).


Moogle: Um, Master? What are you doing staring blankly at an egg, kupo?
Alice: Huh? Oh, you mean this thing here?
Moogle: I say, it certainly does look unusual. Perhaps within its shell's shadowy confines slumbers a ferocious, five-headed fiend in the making, kupo!
Alice: A five-headed fiend!? Oh no! We...we have to get rid of this thing!
Moogle: Kupohoho, I was just pulling your leg, Master. I'm sure no such abomination hides within.
Alice: Y-you tricked me again. Wh-why are you...(sniffle)...always so mean...(sob)...to me...

Moogle: Uwaaah! F-forgive this tactless, timing-challenged moogle, Master! I was just trying to lighten the mood, kupo. Now, dry those tears and allow me to examine the egg...
Hmmm, I could've sworn seeing something similar before—ah, I remember now! It's one of those initial eggs used in the Egg Hunt event, kupo!
Alice: Egg...Hunt?
Moogle: Oh? Has Master yet to egg-sperience the egg-straordinary levels of egg-citement egg-stended by the Annual Egg Hunt Eggstravaganza, kupo?
Alice: I don't know anything about it. I'm still kind of new to this adventuring business.
Moogle: In that case, allow me to egg-splain how one might participate! Do you see the letter egg-spertly inscribed on your initial egg, kupo? The game's objegg-tive is to collect these eggs and use them to form specific words. Once you have a prescribed word, show it to the event moogle, and you'll be rewarded for your efforts with a spegg-tacular prize!

Alice: You have to form words?
Moogle: Egg-sactly, kupo! The first challenge requires you to form your own name!
Alice: My name? Why, that's A-L-I-C-E. Golly, that's long. I'll never be able to collect all the letters.
Moogle: Don't be disheartened, kupo, as the first three letters are all that is regg-quired. If I might ask, what letter is on the egg you hold?
Alice: It's a "B."
Moogle: Egg-gads! That's no help at all, kupo...

Alice: (Sob)...
Moogle: Uwaaah! It-it'll be all right, Master! Trust me, kupo! You have an avid adventuring egg-quaintance named Bettye, don't you?
Alice: Yes, I do. She dabbles in white and black magics, and is super cute!
Moogle: You say cute, Master, but the Hume definition of cuteness is beyond moogle understanding, kupo.
Alice: I meant her personality, silly-billy.
Moogle: Wh-why, of course you did, Master. I-I mean, I'm not so shallow as to automatically assume you were r-referring to—(sigh)... I think I'd best quit before I bury myself deeper in quicksand, kupo.
Alice: Teehee! Got you back one!

Moogle: I must say, you've grown significantly in both strength and smarts since becoming an adventurer. And that's praise from the heart, kupo.
Alice: Why, thank you! But going back to the Egg Hunt, I know what you were going to say about Bettye: Her name begins with "B," right?
Moogle: Precisely, kupo! Your friend Bettye has use for a "B" egg, even if you don't. Because it's possible to trade initial eggs, the most egg-spedient way to form words is to join forces with friends, kupo.
Alice: But I was given just this one egg...
Moogle: Fret not, Master, for there are ways to egg-quire more, kupo. Trading egg-like objects to a festival moogle, for instance.

Alice: Oooh, I see.
Moogle: What's more, doing so while in a party will egg-stensively enhance your egg-earning egg-sperience, kupo! Why don't you try participating with Bettye?
Alice: What a wondegg-ful idea! I'm going to go find her right away!

With those words, Alice dashes out of her Mog House without affording so much as a backward glance. The moogle sees off his young master, his entire being aglow with supreme satisfaction.

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Moogle: (Sigh) The things we do for a glimpse of that sparkle of delight in Master's eyes...
Now then, where were we? Ah, yes, airing out the mattress, kupo.

A gentle spring breeze blows, setting newly sprouted leaves to rustling and bearing away with it the contented murmurs of one little moogle.

Story: Miyabi Hasegawa
Illustration: Taniel

Event Schedule

The Egg Hunt event is set to begg-in on Thursday, March 25th, 2010 at 1:00am (PDT), and egg-spire on Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 at 1:00am (PDT).

Moogle Locations

For the duration of the festivities, event moogles will appear at the locations listed below. Talk to them for a briefing on how to go about getting the absolute most out of your egg-hunting endeavors.

Southern San d'Oria (J-9) / Northern San d'Oria (D-8)
Bastok Mines (I-9) / Bastok Markets (G-8)
Windurst Waters (north side) (F-5) / Windurst Woods (K-10)

How to Play

1. Collect Initial Eggs!
"Initial eggs" are eggs of avian persuasion that have been inscribed with a single letter of the alphabet. During the Egg Hunt, adventurers can receive a random initial egg from the festival moogles once every Vana'dielian day. Collecting and forming certain combinations of initial eggs will garner you event egg-sclusive prizes. Please note, however, that the letter inscribed on a particular egg will not be revealed to you until you receive it. Trading often with your fellow adventurers is the key to completing that elusive combination!

2. Make a "First 3" Combination!
First of all, try collecting the initial eggs required to make a "First 3" combination. Once you have the eggs you need, trade them to a moogle to receive your prize!

First 3: Collect the first three letters of your character's name.
For egg-xample, a character with the name of "Moogle" would need to collect one [M], and two [O] initial eggs.

3. Take it to the Next Level!

Initial Straight 8: An egg inscribed with the first letter of your character's name followed by the next seven letters in the alphabet.
For egg-sample, a character with the name of "Moogle" would need an [M], as well as an [N], [O], [P], [Q], [R], [S], and [T].

7 of a Kind: Seven initial eggs with the same letter.
For egg-sample, you could choose to collect seven [A] initial eggs.

*Hints
- If you are in a party when speaking with a moogle, it is possible to choose an initial egg inscribed with the first letter of a party member's name. And if that party member happens to be wearing an egg helm...
- Try trading any type of "egg" to a moogle. Once every Vana'dielian day, you might find that the moogles will gift you with an initial egg in exchange for a "normal" egg.
- Newly created characters must wait at least one Vana'dielian day before they can receive an initial egg. Furthermore, you'll have to trade in a "First 3" before you can trade in any other combos. Think of it as a sort of preliminary test!
- The moogles are usually egg-stremely reluctant to give out any of their classified information, but maybe if you are persistent enough, one will let you in on a secret or two! Make it a point to talk to them as often as possible!

For those of you who are looking for a real challenge, try egg-sperimenting with different, more egg-citing combinations.

Unleashing Your "Egg Buffet"

Trade an egg locker, egg table, egg stool, and egg lamp to your resident moogle to have it assembled into an egg buffet. Similarly, trading an egg buffet will cause it to revert to the four aforementioned furnishings.

[Sepukku]

This was just the bulletin I was waiting for, SE!!!! *eye roll* They shouldn't be doing one damn thing other than working on getting out the big update ASAP. I'm starting to suspect they claimed mid-March and now are choking and won't have it out til May and then the "June" 99 cap update in September.

At least Easter event means an easy 100k for overnight bazaaring over the course of the event.

[Trigun]

MARCH UPDATE WILL BE ON MARCH 23, 2010

I've heard thats what was translated from the VanaFest stream.

[Xavier]

How eggciting.

[Cairthenn]

MARCH UPDATE WILL BE ON MARCH 23, 2010

I've heard thats what was translated from the VanaFest stream.

NO IT WASN'T.

I can bold text too.

[Gergall]

This was just the bulletin I was waiting for, SE!!!! *eye roll* They shouldn't be doing one damn thing other than working on getting out the big update ASAP.

In SE's defense it doesn't look like they added anything new this year. They just switch the event into the "On" position and let us play with it for a while, then they switch it off again.

I'm starting to suspect they claimed mid-March and now are choking and won't have it out til May and then the "June" 99 cap update in September.

The June update is 80 cap.

[Priran]

It's about this time of year that fun-loving adventurers are heard egg-sclaiming, "Gosh, it's been a while since I last heard an egg pun."

I rolfed

[Not Kuno]

Laugh if you want, I liked the story. It was so retardedd it was endearing.

[Seanr]

goddamnit... I threw out the eggs I saved from last year like 2 months ago. Guess it don't matter since I obtained everything last time

[Eanae]

Were there any new Easter items added to look forward to, or is it going to be the same old shit unless the update comes before this?

[Elesar]

I'm starting to suspect they claimed mid-March and now are choking and won't have it out til May and then the "June" 99 cap update in September.

Just to clarify so that people don't keep getting all excited. March is no level cap increase. Just summoner, puppetmaster, and lolBST update plus missions and new NM/HNMs. June is level cap increase to Lv80 plus other stuff. September is level cap increase to Lv90 plus other stuff. December will be the final update with the level cap increased to Lv99 and other stuff.

Spoiler: show

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[SephYuyX]

Just to clarify on the clarification. It has not been decided how to increase the level caps yet. 80 will be the first yes, however they havent decided if they want to increase the rest of the levels by 5 or 10. So in december we may only be lvl 90.

Btw, this is the worst event in the game.

[Sepukku]

Yes, at 7 in the morning I slipped and said 99 instead of 80/whatever. I know it comes in increments, but still, my point was if this update was going to be delayed (little did I know the Version Update announcement was coming later this morning), the June update, which included the first level cap raise, would also subsequently be delayed. Glad to see they got this on time though now.

[Riki]

Moogle: Uwaaah! It-it'll be all right, Master! Trust me, kupo! You have an avid adventuring egg-quaintance named Bettye, don't you?
Alice: Yes, I do. She dabbles in white and black magics, and is super cute!
Moogle: You say cute, Master, but the Hume definition of cuteness is beyond moogle understanding, kupo.

[Rocl]

NO IT WASN'T.

I can bold text too.

OR WAS IT?

[dannyl]

This thead has been officially hi-jacked!

[ringthree]

I don't know if you are trolling and then retrolling, but I am pretty sure they announced the update will be March 23.

Edit: I missed the announcement of the 22nd, in this very forum.

[Savanah]

I don't know if you are trolling and then retrolling, but I am pretty sure they announced the update will be March 23.

Edit: I missed the announcement of the 22nd, in this very forum.

I'm a very sneaky poster that way.

[Cairthenn]

To be honest the only thing that was ever confirmed to be on the 23rd was the announcement of the version update - on the 23rd of February.

The 15th was the date actually rumored from Vanafest, but that never came into fruition. I suppose you could argue that the update is happening on the 23rd at midnight JST, but I'm still fairly certain that that 23rd was never actually confirmed as the date, it just became a fairly widespread (and accurate) rumor.

[Priran]

Who gives a shit?