Easter EggQuest

The artwork I use for the ornaments is not mine but mostly original EQ art.




A little game for the time before Easter - hoping some of you will join in and have fun with it.

It's like a Tresure Hunt.

I have prepared Easter eggs and nests ... quite similar to the Christmas baubles you might know from my Advent Calendar. Starting two weeks before Easter I will post a nest with variant numbers of eggs every day until Easter Monday.
BUT - the eggs are still empty!
You must hunt down the hidden decorations and bring them back to this thread.
Well - at least I hope you are willing to hunt them down


The rules for hunt are simple:

1. I'll post one empty nest per day in the Easter EggQuest thread.

2. The look of the nest and the number of eggs will hint which characters you'll have to hunt down - and I will give more verbal hints.

3. The decorations are hidden - each character in the dedicated character thread here on Father Tree Holt.
I'll drop the decorations at different times, so that more members have a chance to find one first, but all within 24 hours after the nest is posted.
You will find the decorations - as tiny eggs - in ONE of my OLD posts ... and not necessarily the most recent one! So look through the character thread if you suspect an egg there.
Not too much to monitor nowadays. ^^

4. If you find a tiny egg bring it to the Easter Egg thread - post it here!
- copy/paste the image code
- or link to the character thread
- or just tell me in your post where you found it

5. I will "lay it in the nest" - when all hidden eggs are found it will show nicely decorated.

6. Less a rule but a plea to make it fun for more hunters:
Please restrict yourself to 2 eggs (for big nests) and 1 egg (for small nests) per nest within the first 48 hours (counting from nest drop time). Later you can gather and bring in as many nest eggs as you wish for.

See ... it will be ridiculously easy to scan the character threads in question for hidden eggies - there are so few posts at all in our new Holt! I hope for several hunters from different time zones and with different working schedules. It would be great if everybody who cares will have the chance to bring in eggs ... not only hunters whose leisure times match well with my drop times.

Join hunting parties or be a lonesome stalker. Guess and try to figure out what the nests are about and where the eggs will be hidden.
 Have fun - EVERYBODY who's up for it!  



This was an awesome Thank You Gift by Moonmoss for the first hunt in 2012 - I hope it will bring luck for a good start here. Thank you so much one more time, Moonmoss.

Here all the nests will be gathered (click on the nests to enlarge):


Easter EggQuest 2012 - Parents and Cubs







Easter EggQuest 2013 - Family and Friends






2013 Special KAHVI - The Way of the Little Egg




Easter EggQuest 2014 - Unexpected Relationships






2014 Special HY #2 - Catch the Little Palace!





Easter EggQuest 2015 - Maintain the Heritage







Easter EggQuest 2016 - All the Many Quests







Easter EggQuest 2017 - Love Nests



 



Easter EggQuest 2018 - Meetings and Partings







Easter EggQuest 2019 - Something in Common (A Random Redhead Special)







Easter EggQuest 2020 - Funny Scenes







Easter EggQuest 2021 - WIP

WIP -


Easter EggQuest 2022 - Egg-ociations & featuring egg master Vaeri

WIP -

Redhead Ember wrote:

Find the egg collection for the EEQ Egg Hunt here

This one is a reserve in case the previous one reaches its limit.

The Gift Eggs 2012











The last egg - not least! - is a gift for me by Moonmoss Thank you so much!


The Gift Eggs 2013

* **









*Many thanks to Foxeye for the permission to use her coloring.
**Many thanks to Elea  for the permission to use her coloring.
The last two eggs are a gifts for me by Moonmoss Thank you so much!


The Gift Eggs 2014





 

 






The Gift Eggs 2015 / 2016













The Gift Eggs 2017









The Gift Eggs 2018 ... cancelled

The Gift Eggs 2019 ... cancelled

The Gift Eggs 2020

Gifts given to me ... and other pretties


by Moonmoss

in 2012 and my avatar

in 2013 and how I played with it:




by Crucent:

in 2013


by PCoquelin

in 2013


Thank you for the pretties!

Got my egg  

It is wonderful that you have posted all the gift eggs Embala, they are so beautiful

Post 997

LOVE the big version of my egg! Thank you so much!

Sharuk wants to hold the cute SBUEF too  "May I?", but Moonlight  doesn't give it away to him (snarling).
..and found this:
nest 14 Sandsparkle

nest 14 Snakeskin

Sandsparkle for 14
and Darshek for 14

To see all the work you have made over the years.. they're all so beautiful!! I love all the big eggs
version, specially mine of course!

Found it! Thank you Em!

Thank you Em

There are still eggies found ... and more to find!

This EggHunt is a reason to bait you with an egg or two, Beryl. I want to have you as part of the egg hunt to make it feel complete. *hugs*
I'm glad you like your egg as much as I do, Kat. *hugs and kisses*

Two more little fish in Moonlight's bucket. ^^ And another adorable scene - LOVE it! I will be back for a better comment when I'm full awake!
You and Moonlight competed for the same prey, Wolfie. With Darshek another nest is completed. Thank you for the kind comments on the collection pages. It's my pleasure to make you smile, Wolfie.

Now only one nest egg for the BIG #00 is waiting to be found ... an appropriately big guy.  
And my own gift egg needs a helper to come home. Will you try once more, Moonlight? I'm sure Yeee knows well where to look for my fluffy pal. ^^

G0lden wrote:

Found it! Thank you Em!

I'll happily assist you, G0lden. Sorry for the long wait.
And sorry for the hard hunt, Storm. I've hoped it would be easier.


- for Beryl
I love this collage of Redlance reanimating a flower banned in carnelian.

- for G0lden
Your favorite couple was no surprise in desertlike polychrome jasper.

- for Stormcatcher (it's clickable)
Owls for my dear owl - the landscape fused well with pietersite.

Thanx , Embala, here is the next egg for nest 00:


"I'm sure Yeee knows well where to look for my fluffy pal. ^^"
Uh oh, I think I don`t know about your fluffy pal. I thought, it might be Reef, but no...we still have to search

Thanks for the delivery, Yeee! Treestump was overdue! Now I can finish the last nest - which is the first indeed! ^^
And you do know ... you wished us Happy Easter - in German. ^^ Take fluffy literally.

@Kojiyumi Do you want to look for your Gift egg? Free pet

Eggywegg

- for Kojiyumi

Free pet, Koji! Green and teethy in a chromediopsid habitat.

- for Moonlight

Given as a start ... a teaser and bait. ^^ Chad in a flinty spear tip.

- for Embala ^^

I had to gather my eggie myself. A desert cat settled in dentrite quartz.


All the nests are gathered here - click the thumbnail for full size.
The Complete Gift Egg Collection can be visited here.

Sorry Embala, I had no idea where to find it. I am more fit in drawing than in solving your riddles.

Never mind

If I have to choose I prefer your drawings, Yeee!

oh my, thanx.
I have found it now in the "Keeping in character" thread :  Abodean Animal Life, ok, I thought it would be where I wrote to you something in german and I couldn`t find it.  

You still found it!

*HI5's*

... and thus I had to hide one more eggie for Kin!
For some reason I've prepared one anyway! @Kindredsoul - guess where to look for it? ^^

*blinks*

................

ok.... I'll be back in about a month......

*starts searching*

Praise be the High Ones that you keep it simple for me, Embala!



I need to redo my siggy to fit all the Cutter ones >__>

@Kindredsoul Here you go!

for Kindredsoul

I really think this Cutter called for you and pulled you in. Green calcit seemed to be his natural home.