Oyster Egg Day
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Okay, bear with me. There's this enchanted, flying oyster, see... it's called the Enchanted Flying Oyster. So, once a year, it comes in the dead of the night with a basket full of magical eggs, and it hides the eggs all over the Kingdom, so adventurers can hunt for them. Please don't ask me where the Oyster gets the eggs, or why it flies, or what the point of the whole thing is. It probably has something to do with fertility, like most of the things I don't understand.
Details
On Oyster Egg Day, by equipping an oyster basket, participants can collect a number of differently decorated eggs hidden in various locations about the Kingdom.
Until Oyster Egg Day XVIII, oyster eggs were gained in a non-combat which did not "cost" an adventure. Starting with Oyster Egg Day XIX, eggs drop at the end of both combats and non-combats.
The drop location for individual Oyster eggs changes from time to time, and is listed on the individual Oyster Egg Day pages (see below). When you find an egg, you randomly get a special message from the "You Find an Oyster Egg" Messages listed below.
There is no cap to the amount of eggs you can collect, although as you collect more eggs they become harder to find. The odds of finding the Nth egg is N-0.95, which gives an expected yield of 21 eggs over the course of 200 adventures.
Dates
- Oyster Egg Day I: March 27, 2005 (Starch 2, Year 9)
- Oyster Egg Day II: July 9, 2005 (April 2, Year 10)
- Oyster Egg Day III: October 13, 2005 (April 2, Year 11)
- Oyster Egg Day IV: January 17, 2006 (April 2, Year 12)
- Oyster Egg Day V (St. Sneaky Pete's Oyster Day): April 16, 2006 (Starch 3, Year 13)
- Oyster Egg Day VI: April 23, 2006 (April 2, Year 13)
- Oyster Egg Day VII: July 28, 2006 (April 2, Year 14)
- Oyster Egg Day VIII: November 1, 2006 (April 2, Year 15)
- Oyster Egg Day IX: February 5, 2007 (April 2, Year 16)
- Oyster Egg Day X: April 8, 2007 (Boozember 8, Year 16)
- Oyster Egg Day XI: May 12, 2007 (April 2, Year 17)
- Oyster Egg Day XII: August 16, 2007 (April 2, Year 18)
- Oyster Egg Day XIII: November 20, 2007 (April 2, Year 19)
- Oyster Egg Day XIV: February 24, 2008 (April 2, Year 20)
- Oyster Egg Day XV: March 24, 2008 (Bor 7, Year 20)
- Oyster Egg Day XVI: May 30, 2008 (April 2, Year 21)
- Oyster Egg Day XVII: September 3, 2008 (April 2, Year 22)
- Oyster Egg Day XVIII: December 8, 2008 (April 2, Year 23)
- Oyster Egg Day XIX: March 14, 2009 (April 2, Year 24)
- Oyster Egg Day XX: April 1, 2009 (Bill 4, Year 24)
- Oyster Egg Day XXI: April 12, 2009 (Bor 7, Year 24)
- Oyster Egg Day XXII: June 19, 2009 (April 3, Year 25)
- Oyster Egg Day XXIII: September 22, 2009 (April 2, Year 26)
- Oyster Egg Day XXIV: December 27, 2009 (April 2, Year 27) (predicted)
Special Items
Item Effects
Oyster Eggs are separated into both color and pattern: plastic oyster eggs are combat items; the rest are usable items.
All non-plastic oyster eggs use up one Spleen point when consumed, so, ordinarily, no more than 15 can be used per day (unless you have Spleen of Steel, in which case you can consume up to 20). See Spleentacular Items.
"You Find an Oyster Egg" Messages
- You find an Oyster egg, atop a huge X that has been painted on the ground, for some reason.
- You find an Oyster egg, behind a furnace.
- You find an Oyster egg, behind a stack of questionable men's magazines.
- You find an Oyster egg, behind a toilet. Eeeeew.
- You find an Oyster egg, behind Curtain #3.
- You find an Oyster egg, behind the ear of a startled-looking Knob Goblin teenager.
- You find an Oyster egg, carefully hidden in your own pants.
- You find an Oyster egg, down by a crick. Er, a creek.
- You find an Oyster egg, down by the schoolyard, in some kid named Julio's backpack.
- You find an Oyster egg, hidden behind a stack of old newspapers.
- You find an Oyster egg, hidden in a pile of dryer lint.
- You find an Oyster egg, hidden in a pile of other, less interesting eggs.
- You find an Oyster egg, in a huge box labeled 'Oyster eggs. Do not touch.'
- You find an Oyster egg, in a plain brown wrapper, in somebody else's mailbox.
- You find an Oyster egg, in an old shoebox, next to the skeleton of a gerbil.
- You find an Oyster egg, in between the spokes of a baby carriage wheel.
- You find an Oyster egg, in plain sight.
- You find an Oyster egg, in the freezer section of a nearby grocery store.
- You find an Oyster egg, in the pocket of somebody's bathrobe.
- You find an Oyster egg, inside a loaf of bread.
- You find an Oyster egg, inside a pumpkin. What was that pumpkin doing there?
- You find an Oyster egg, inside a stuffed animal, which did not survive the egg-removal operation.
- You find an Oyster egg, next to something that's either a coyote or a goose. You can't tell which.
- You find an Oyster egg, taped under the lid of a nearby wastebasket.
- You find an Oyster egg, to the left. Of everything.
- You find an Oyster egg, under a bed. Of flowers.
- You find an Oyster egg, under a boardwalk. Down by the sea.
- You find an Oyster egg, under the cushions of an inexplicable couch.
- You find an Oyster egg, underneath a fireman's hat. That was lying on the ground.
- You find an Oyster egg, underneath a sleeping Frat Boy.
- You find an Oyster egg, underneath an annoyed-looking Lavatory Troll.
Notes
- Oyster Egg Day XV was postponed one day due to it being Easter in real life. Jick stated that it had "absolutely nothing to do with the fact that we drank a lot last night."
- Oyster Egg Day XXII was postponed by a day, with the message:
- It's not Oyster Egg Day!
- The Enchanted Flying Oyster was not delayed by forces beyond his control, so he came the night before last and hid his magical eggs all over the Kingdom!
- Grab a basket at the Market and retroactively go egg-hunting!
- The messages for finding oyster eggs were also modified (for example: "After all of that stuff happens, you remember that at about this time yesterday, you found an Oyster egg to the left. To the left of everything.")
- A unique egg was also available that day.
References
- The word "crick" is a rendering of the pronunciation of "creek" in some American English dialects (including, for example, the one used by Mark Twain's Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer).
- The "boardwalk" message refers to the lyrics of the oft-covered Drifters song "Under the Boardwalk".
- Finding the egg in a loaf of bread may be a reference to a TV Funhouse episode "Christmas Day" featuring a segment titled "Places to Look for Christmas Presents". One of the locations of a Christmas present was "inside a loaf of bread."
- It also could be a reference to Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule where Wizard Giller magically hides a box of Orden in a loaf of bread.
- The large painted X may be a reference to Banjo-Kazooie, in which eggs are a prominent weapon and there also was a mini-quest involving large red X's painted on the ground.
- The "inexplicable couch" is a reference to Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams, in which Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect escape from prehistoric earth on a piece of Space/Time jetsam in the form of a sofa.
- "Curtain #3" is a reference to an early game show called, Let's Make a Deal, wherein the final game of each episode had the contestants choose prizes hiding behind three curtains.
- The lavatory troll is a reference to the first Harry Potter Book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in which the intrepid heroes knock out a troll that has been let into the lavatory.
- The egg that is in plain sight is a reference to the phrase "hidden in plain sight."
- The egg hidden behind a teenager's ear refers to a simple magic trick where someone seems to pull a quarter (or similar small object) out from behind someone else's ear.
- The skeletal gerbil in the shoebox references funerals some people hold for their pets, which may include using a shoebox as a coffin.
- The egg down by the schoolyard in Julio's backpack is a reference to the song Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard by Paul Simon, in which the singer and Julio are caught in the act of an unspecified crime.
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