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RP News: ~November 19th 2015~ (Old RP News)
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RP Season: Summer
This means everything is green, flowers are everywhere, and the shining sun creates a need for shady shelter on the warmest days.

~UV Easter Egg Hunt!~

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~UV Easter Egg Hunt!~

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It's contest time! :grin

The easter bunny has hidden easter eggs all over UV again this year! Now it's up to you to find them ^_~

For the ones who have played this at UV before: it's a little different this time around, so don't run off just yet:

How do you play the UV Easter Egg Hunt? Very simple, the easter bunny has hidden two kinds of eggs all over the forum (not the site this time!):
Colored eggs and Golden eggs.

Colored Eggs
When you find a colored egg you will see that it has a number painted on it, pay close attention to this number! Click on the egg itself and it will take you somewhere else on the forum, and the number on the egg you clicked is the amount of posts you must count down from there (so if the egg has a "2" on it, then you must go to the second post made in the thread the egg takes you to after you click on it). There you must write down the very first letter used in that post. Symbols do not count and it doesn't matter what kind of word the first word is, just take take it's first letter.

Once you have found all the colored eggs and the letters they lead you to (I won't tell you how many colored eggs there are though ^_~ ) you must unscramble the letters found to form a word. (Hint: this word is often used on this forum, so you should recognize it once you unscramble it)

Golden eggs
If you find a golden egg (recognized by it's color and lack of a number on it) you can also click on it and it will lead you to a word. Write down these words and like the letters above, you must put these words together to form a sentence. The word you get from the colored eggs is also a part of this sentence! I will not tell you how many golden eggs there are either.

Your Goal
Once you think you have found the correct word from the colored eggs and managed to put it in a sentence with the words found from the golden eggs, you send this sentence to me (Gaeva) in a PM.

The first one to send the entire correct sentence wins! In case nobody managed to get everything, then the first to get the unscrambled word to me in a sentence closest to the correct answer wins instead. So this is about time, but also about getting right. If you wait too long somebody else might get it first, if you send it too fast, you may have missed some letters/words!

Format to PM to me:
Unscrambled sentence:
Unscrambled word:
Character you would like to have drawn/featured:
Link to a reference of this character:

Unlike previous times, you do not have to tell me where you found the eggs!

Deadline
You have until Saturday the 10th! Winner will be announced Sunday the 11th so the artists can get to work!

Prizes
First prize winner gets:
Small comic by Barbie (you provide the character)
Cell shaded character by Blue (you provide the character)

Second Prize winner gets:
Full shaded character without background by Empy (you provide the character)
Colored character without a background by Herz (you provide the character)

Third prize winner gets:
Colored character without a background by Nighty (you provide the character)
Simple sketch by Gaeva (you provide the character)

* People who donated art can still participate! If you happen to win the prize you donated art to then somebody else will take this over so you'll still receive the promised art ^_^

* You do not need to have an accepted character or be a regular poster yet to participate!

If you have any questions then you can ask them in here! ^_^
Happy Hunting!
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It seems people are enjoying this hunt! ^_^
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Tomorrow's the last day to participate! ^_^
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Hmm, I have to pass on this because I get a golden egg at the bottom of every page and it always leads to the same word. I'd see if that happens in Firefox as well as IE but I'm otherwise occupied being very lazy. :D
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Well....thats only one golden egg, the rest are...all over the place!
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Lol, that one is the only (overly) obvious egg and it's basically at the bottom of the board, which never changes, which is why you see it "on every page" ^_^
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...

Wait, I'm lost.
Am I supposed to check every single post in every single thread? You do realise how utterly impossible that is, right?
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Doesn't seem so, people managed to find them easily enough ^_~ And no, of course not every thread, that would have been ridiculous, just the more...obvious ones, lol ^_^

Anyway, deadline has passed, the hunt is over! Thank you so much to the people who participated, I hope it was fun! And there were more submissions than I expected, so that makes me a very happy Gaeva! :grin

The locations of the colored eggs were:
Meetings of old rules section at the top,
In the Inhabitants List under the "O" (and it linked to an "o" letter as well, hur hur, I'm so funny...),
At the Edge in the "How to Join and the Forest Map" thread,
In the Advertisin forum in the "Advertise for UV!" thread,
In the Old Announcements thread,
Again at the Edge in the "Help! I Can't Find my Character!" thread,
In the archives of old joining threads, in the "Is your joining thread in here?" thread,
In the Creative Woodwork forum in the "Barbie's UV Comics" thread.

The letters given by these eggs spelled the word "boundary". (And as a side note, did you know the whole alphabet can be found in the first letters used in RP posts, but I only found one single "R"??! It's ridiculous!)

The locations of the golden eggs:
In the Village forum in the info thread,
In the "Forum and RP Rules" thread,
At the bottom of the forum in the footer next to the small banners,
In Away in the "How did you find UV?" thread,
Also in Away in the Birthday thread,
In the Spirit forum in the "Character Deletion/Removal",
And the final one in the Visions forum in the "Quest for Gaeva's Lost Visions" thread.

The words these eggs led to were "the mountains are a prison to an ancient evil".

And once you add the unscrambled word to it: "The boundary mountains are a prison to an ancient evil"! Yay for people getting it right! :grin

Now for the winners:

First Place: Forger! In what must be a record time for getting a right answer in XD

Second Place: Luxon!

Third Place: Gaius! (After a false start for not submitting the answer in the correct format, tsk tsk :p )

Congrats!!

And an honorary mention to the others who also gave the correct answer: ddpej, CodeZX and Blue, thanks for playing ^_^

The generous artists who donated art for this contest can see here who the winners are, but have also been PMed with the info for the winner prizes they will be making. I hope we'll also get to see those results in here though ^_^ Thank you guys for donating art to make this contest more fun, and good luck getting it done! ^_^

Again, thank you for participating!
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xD Awesome :)

Congrats guys! :D :banana
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Yay! :grin
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First Place: Forger! In what must be a record time for getting a right answer in XD
Yeah...bad timeing sort of...I was serverly depressed the night before, so when I woke up I needed a distraction...and the egg hunt gave me one... XD
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Yays! Congrats to the winners and honorable mentions! :D
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Forger, that was secretly the goal of this hunt all along, everybody was in on it! *tries to instill some paranoia* ^_^
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*Paranoia installment successful! Its a critical hit!*
XD
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*gains enough xp from the hit to level up* Woot!
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<.<

*steals the level from Gaeva, runs away*

Inaki leveled up!

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Wait, an ancient evil?! I did not know of this!
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*Uses inverse Insanity, thus causing Code to become sane while the sane go insane...and the other crazies to go sane to...and mushrooms grow to the size of trees while trees shrink, elephants grow wings, and sharks become an intelligent species that cures cancer and aids in one night...*
There are so very many dramatic ways that vast, incomprehensible galactic phenomena can kill you, that every single day that you go unmurdered by space is a miracle.

Sugar and Spice do not mix well at times! So says many of my characters after the chocolate fiasco.
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I...

lulwut?

am I sane now, or insane... or is my insanity still effectively masquerading as sanity, or is my sanity now masquerading as sanity... and if so, how can we tell?

or did I just blow your mind?

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Nope, just your own.
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Sugar and Spice do not mix well at times! So says many of my characters after the chocolate fiasco.
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