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News

Spring Egg Hunt

15 April 2014

The Spring Egg Hunt has begun!

Omelette Factory Arrives in Gnawnia

As the Spring Egg Hunt approached, a massive Omelette Factory appeared in Gnawnia! It appears that a few mice in the area have a seemingly unhealthy obsession with omelettes. Little information is currently known other than that an intimidating mouse known as the Pan Slammer has devised a plot to take over all of Gnawnia... involving omelettes somehow.

According to rumors, this is his plan:

Step 1: Hoard all eggs and create endless omelettes
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Destroy Gnawnia!

Despite this plan not making a lick of sense, the King is leaving nothing to chance. In order to recover the eggs and begin the Spring Egg Hunt, the Pan Slammer must be dealt with!

Calibrating an Eggscavator

A critical instrument for finding rare eggs is the Eggscavator. Unfortunately, the Pan Slammer Mouse employed the services of the Egg Scrambler Mouse to scramble the circuits of each and every Eggscavator in the Kingdom! The Pan Slammer wants all the eggs in the Kingdom to itself! In order to begin locating bonus eggs across the Kingdom, you must first calibrate an Eggscavator by tracking down ten basic eggs within the Omelette Factory.

If you do not already have an Eggscavator, you can purchase one from the General Store at the Omelette Factory. Once an Eggscavator is in your possession, locate ten basic eggs within the Omelette Factory by hunting with Marshmallow Monterey to calibrate your Eggscavator. You can collect Marshmallow Monterey as loot from sweets-loving mice at the Omelette Factory. If you're looking for a greater challenge while calibrating your Eggscavator, try equiping Dark Chocolate Charms available from the Charm Shoppe at the factory. With Dark Chocolate Charms armed, you'll attract a variety of Shadow and Forgotten Mice to your trap!

Once your Eggscavator is calibrated and the Pan Slammer subdued, go forth throughout the Kingdom and hunt for bonus eggs! You can check which eggs you've found and which you have yet to collect by checking the Eggscavator in your inventory.

Charge Charms, Charge Eggs, and Eggstras!

Have some extra Marshmallow Monterey? Exchange it at the Omelette Factory Charm Shoppe for Charge Charms and/or Eggstra Charms! Charge Charms will charge up your Eggscavator to new power levels while capturing mice, making it capable of detecting hidden Charge Eggs with each hunt! The higher the charge, the more valuable egg you can discover. You may even find two rare spring-themed trap skins within High Charge Eggs!

Want to double up your eggs found? Exchange Marshmallow Monterey at the Omelette Factory Charm Shoppe for eggstra-special Eggstra Charms! With Eggstra Charms armed each and every egg you find will be doubled, granting twice the reward! Eggstra Charms are only used up upon finding an egg as loot, so feel free to keep one armed even when hunting for rare and elusive bonus eggs.

King's Spring Supplies

To aid hunters in tracking down dozens upon dozens of eggs, the King has assembled items, a few treat baskets, and supply kits.

15 Marshmallow Monterey                                                  Hunt with or exchange it!   15 Charge Charms Charge your Eggscavator! Find Charge Eggs!   Dimensional Egg Basket Skin The cutest dimensional egg basket in town!   5 Eggstra Charms Doubles all egg drops!

Marshmallow Gift Basket 60 Marshmallow Monterey for you or a friend!   Bonus Egg Hunting Kit SUPER|brie+, Charge and Eggstra Charms Track down more bonus eggs!   Spring Arcanum Skin Spring ahead with Arcane power!   1,200 Marshmallow Monterey Stock up to hunt with! Exchange for other supplies!

Pan Slammer Mouse Threatens the Egg Hunt!

• Travel to the Omelette Factory
• Collect Marshmallow Moneterey
• Calibrate your Eggscavator
• Defeat the Pan Slammer
• Travel around the Kingdom, collecting BONUS eggs from all sorts of mice!

Travel to the Omelette Factory

-- Dave Vanderburg

A Rift Opens...

25 March 2014

A Rift has opened in Gnawnia... Powerful otherworldly mice threaten the Kingdom!

Gnawnia Rift Opening

Outside of the Meadow, a perilous tear in the very fabric of reality has opened, revealing a dangerous plane of existence known as the Rift! Within the Rift are extremely powerful mice that bear a familiar resemblance. Could this be evidence of what caused the abundance of mice in Gnawnia? Could the Rift be feeding power into our realm, strengthening the mice around us?

The King is calling upon the most experienced of hunters to help fight back the mice of the Gnawnia Rift. Hunters with the rank of Count/Countess and above, prepare for a challenge!

Calibrating a Rift Detector

Rifts are just barely within our plane of existence, meaning you're going to need some very specialized equipment in order to locate and enter one. This sort of phenomenon is not entirely a mystery, however. Rifts are similar to the portal located in the Forbidden Grove and to the shift that occurs in the Twisted Garden, only more intense and powerful. After careful experimentation involving the effects of Living Garden Essences, researchers have been able to use them to calibrate a device capable of locating the Rift and allowing a hunter to enter one.

These Rift Detectors require essences to calibrate. However, due to the immediate concern over the Rift, the King has ordered Larry to assemble a stockpile of Rift Detectors to equip any hunter that solved the mystery surrounding the Dance Hall power generator. If you've found all three clues pertaining to the power surges that occured during the Birthday Dance Party, head to the Cartographer at the Vacant Lot to obtain a Rift Detector!

If you have yet to unlock the power generator mystery, there's still time! Head to the Vacant Lot to collect clues and learn of the mystery of the Rift.

Finally, once the Vacant Lot closes and its shops leave, the Rift Detector will be for sale at the Living Garden Cartographer at its full cost of gold and essences.

For a limited time, Rift Detectors are available at the Vacant Lot.
If you've helped solve the power generator mystery, grab a Rift Detector!

Once the Vacant Lot closes, Rift Detectors will be sold at the Living Garden Cartographer

Utilizing the Rift Power Type

Current trap technology is only marginally effective within a Rift. A new power type is required to hunt the powerful mice which reside within a Rift, appropriately named "Rift Power". The Trapsmith stationed within the Gnawnian Rift has already drafted a design for a trap with a Rift power type, however, the design requires a rare and powerful crystal element only found within the Rift itself. Should you come across one of these rare Rift Crystals, be sure to visit the Trapsmith and purchase your first Rift trap!

Until you acquire a Rift power type trap, you'll have to arm your most powerful trap and hope it does the trick! Take heed: Current traps are largely ineffective against Rift mice, but they are the only trap that might stand a chance against these mice. Prepare for a challenge of the utmost grit!

Rift mice are extremely resistant to current trap technology!
Steel yourselves, hunters; it's going to be extremely tough until you build a Rift trap!

A Theory: String Cheese

Early attempts at attracting a mouse within the Rift proved entirely unsuccesful with any current known types of bait. Not long after, however, some peculiar rubbery cheese curds were discovered, capable of producing a highly stringable snack known as String Cheese! The shopkeeper at the Cheese Shoppe has produced a variety of these String Cheeses including Marble, Swiss, and Brie.

A particularly powerful discovery came when combining the power of Magic and Aleth Essences with the curd to create Magical String Cheese! This magical variation is nearly irresistible to many mice within the Rift, boasting a powerful attraction rate!

Craft Magical String using Magic Essence, Aleth Essence, and Rift Curd!

Magic String Cheese Supply Kits

In an effort to defend the Kingdom from the dangerous mice within the Rift, the King has sanctioned the use of the Kingdom's own supply of essences to assemble various packages and kits containing Magical String Cheese!

15 Magical String Cheese
15 Pieces of Magical String Cheese
1 Month Lucky Golden Shield

Magical Rift Gift
75 Magical String Cheese
1 Random, Rift-related item
1 Month Lucky Golden Shield

Rift Survival Kit
1,200 Magical String Cheese
3 Riftiago Potions
2 Months Lucky Golden Shield

A Rift is opening in Gnawnia!

• Travel to the Vacant Lot (previously the Dance Hall)
• Spend any remaining Party Supplies and Disco Balls
• Grab a Rift Detector at the Vacant Lot Cartographer
• Travel to the Gnawnia Rift
• Encounter powerful and challenging mice!
• Discover the first Rift trap

Travel to the Vacant Lot

Dance Hall closes and becomes the Vacant Lot

With the Birthday Dance Party now over, the Dance Hall has closed its doors and been taken down. In its place is the Vacant Lot, where the various shops that were at the Dance Hall will remain open for one week. A cartographer has also been added, which is selling a Rift Detector to any hunter which investigated the power generator mystery involving Moussiles. If you have yet to capture a Moussile, they can still be encountered within the Vacant Lot.

The Vacant Lot Cartographer will soon return to the Living Garden where the Rift Detector will permenantly be on sale for all hunters at a cost of gold and Living Garden Essences.

-- Dave Vanderburg