Festival of Neggs 2012

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	Quests, Mysterious Negg mini-plot, Neocash component sections to be completed.

The Festival of Neggs in 2012 began on 2 April 2012, and finished on 22 April. Kari the Negg Faerie hid special Neggs around Neopia and gave players clues as to where they could find them. She also hid mini plastic neggs in other locations that could be redeemed for a bonus prize.

Alongside the Negg hunt, Kari's assistant Zaira was researching a story about a powerful, mysterious Negg. The player had to solve a logic puzzle to find out where this Negg went. Part of the puzzle would return as the Mysterious Negg Cave daily from 28 August 2012.

At the NC Mall during this event, players could help Edolie search for items in Edolie's Phantastic Finds, and help "The Real Negg Faerie" enlarge some miniature Neggs for Neocash prizes.

Quests

...to be added...

Mysterious Negg

From left to right, Rutu, Voughn, Selvin, Ricky, and Hurok.

On the 10 April, Zaira, Kari's assistant who had been left in charge of the Neggery, discovered an old, cryptic journal. It described a team of adventurers who banded together to hide a powerful, Clockwork Negg. The five adventurers each took a Negg - the real Clockwork Negg and four decoys - to different locations around Neopia. Over the next week, the players found one more journal entry a day that would help them find the Negg.

The puzzle was a logic puzzle, like the Usurper! mystery or the future Desert Diplomacy. In order to solve where the Clockwork Negg went, players had to figure out which of the adventurers took decoys and which took the real one, as well as figuring out what jobs the adventurers had. The solution was:

Adventurer	Job	Negg	Destination
Hurok	Blacksmith	Sand Negg	Lost Desert
Ricky	Knight	Glass Negg	Brightvale
Rutu	Botanist	Clockwork Negg	Shenkuu
Selvin	Wizard	Plant Negg	Kiko Lake
Voughn	Explorer	Cloud Negg	Altador

Rutu had guarded her Negg until the end.

Users could submit a guess after only four clues were released, but could change their guess as more clues became available. Better prizes were awarded depending on how early the player submitted the correct answer - that Rutu took the Clockwork Negg to Shenkuu. Even if the player got their guess wrong, they could continue with the mystery.

From 19 April, players could visit the cave in Shenkuu where Rutu went. There, they find Rutu's skeleton and the Clockwork Negg. The Negg has three sides, each with a three by three grid of nine squares on it. Using Rutu's notes by clicking on the scrolls sticking out of her bag - the Ancient Negg Scrolls - the player could get to work solving the Clockwork Negg's puzzle.

The player had to fill the grid with three different symbols that can be three different colours. The player needed to have exactly one symbol of each colour (red, yellow, and blue) on each side. Consulting Rutu's notes for the side of the Negg they are looking at - by looking at the icon at the top of the Negg - they can see a number of clues. These show some of the relative positions of colours and symbols. The puzzles were generated randomly for each player.

When all three puzzle were solved, the Negg opened, and a fumes of orange and purple "dark matter" forced the user to flee - but not before grabbing some prizes from the cave for their trouble.

The next day, the fumes had coalesced into the fearsome Neggbreaker. He was a very powerful challenger in the Battledome.

"Taking a long, hard look at the Neggbreaker, you conclude that going toe-to-toe with this behemoth would indeed be a tall order. Scanning the area around you, however, doesn't offer many options for using something as an impromptu weapon. You now have to choose: grab something and fight with it, or take your chances against the Neggbreaker with what you've got?"

The player could chose to fight it immediately, but if they looked into the Clockwork Negg, the player could find and Ancient Negg Amulet that had been trapped inside with the creature. When a Neopet had it equipped, it greatly improved the damage they would do to the Neggbreaker if used against him in the Battledome. No matter how the user defeated him, beating the Neggbreaker earned the player an Ultimate Negg of Destruction.

After defeating the Neggbreaker, the player could return to Zaira and choose one out of four prizes, and received two extra prizes.

Neocash component

...to be added...

Bug

Defeating the Neggbreaker awarded the player 100,000 points to their battle score. However, The Neopets Team realised this was too much considering how easily it could be defeated with the Ancient Negg Amulet. They intended it to award 10 points per victory, but were unable to implement this retroactively. They held a poll on 28 April to see what users thought about their proposed solution: they could either leave the battle scores as they were, or lower players' scores to 10 points per Neggbreaker win. They were unable to lower the battle scores for individual Neopets, however.

On 9 May, they announced they would implement the partial fix, but this was not implemented before the old Battledome scores were taken down with the Battledome revamp in November 2012.

External links

• Festival of Neggs