Post by alternatecoppa on Apr 6, 2007 23:58:06 GMT -5
My, my... It's already April. What to do? What to do? I know! It's time for the latest forum activity!
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Welcome, welcome to the latest and most ambitious DH forum activity yet! That’s right I’m talking about having an Easter Egg hunt right here on our
Now this is going to be really pretty simple. It's a contest to see who can find the most eggs before time runs out! But there are a lot of things you’ll need to read about here to know how to play and what to do. So be sure you read it all carefully!
1. What are these "Eggs" like?
This Easter Activity put simply is an Egg Hunt. I've made Egg graphics featuring a big batch of different Avatars characters. Each of those characters appear on 4 different styles of Easter Eggs that look like these:
Of course I'm not going to tell you just how many different characters there are that will be out there hidden in the forum... I'll only say that there are a lot and the more you can find, which includes the different colored duplicates, the better your odds are of winning the hunt! ~Remember, every individual character appears four times on a different style of egg!~
2. How exactly are they going to be hidden?
I've mobilized the Board Specific Mods and on the evening before the hunt begins they will use their Super-Mod-Powers powers to insert the eggs into our posts like this:
^Shayna's Post BEFORE I hid an egg in it^
^Shayna's Post AFTER I hid an egg in it^
(minus the red circle of course )
That’s right! Us Mods will be modifying the posts that appear in the boards that we are individually in charge of and pasting the egg graphics into them. They can appear anywhere! It may be in a post someone made today, yesterday or a few days ago!
It’ll be your job as egg hunters to scout through the pages of this forum to find them!
3. What’s the Goal / How do I play?
The hunt will be open for an 18 hour period starting at:
9:00am (Eastern Time) on Monday 9th, the day right after Easter.
Now listen carefully: During that time you need to find all the Eggs you can.
When you find them- you need to copy the address of the forum page where you found the egg- NOT THE EGG GRAPHIC ITSELF!!!
Make yourself a list of all the page addresses where the eggs appear and before time runs out, or you think you’ve found as many as you can (remember, I'm not saying exactly how many there in total ) you should then PM that list to me, Alternatecoppa.
The top five people who find the most eggs by sending in their addresses to me will win the hunt!
~If there’s a tie we’ll have a second, smaller, lightening round hunt after the official contest time is closed to determine our top five winners~
4. What do I win?
You guys like asking tough questions don't cha?
UDPATE: April 8th
We've finally settled on prizes:
•ALL 5 winners will receive 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place, etc.
Winner's Sigs made by Fire Master Azula!
•5th place- A custom icon.
•4th place- A custom sig.
•3th place- A custom non-animated icon or sig.
•2th place- An custom animated icon or sig.
•1th place- Their choice of any kind of custom icon & sig, animated or non-animated.
All icons and sigs can be based on whatever the winners want and that will be worked out with the artist who creates them but of course they must fall within the forum's decency rules.
5. When does this start again?
The contest is officially open for you start hunting the hidden eggs on:
Monday, April 9th at 9:00am and will close at 3:00am (again US Eastern Time, so YOU do the math for your own time zone).
REMEMBER: You must submit your list of egg addresses to me, Alternatecoppa before the 3:00am close of the hunt to be considered eligible to win.
"But wait… Why the 9th? That’s the day after Easter! What the heck?"
I’ve decided that good friday was too soon for me to get the eggs to all the board specific Mods. Saturday is too soon for the word to get out about the event among the members. Sunday is Easter itself and many of us have family events to attend (myself included) and we can’t be online to participate. However, many people have the Monday following Easter off. So that’s the day I’ve chosen. It's not perfect for everyone under the sun but there we are... and we’re all gonna like it. Right?
6. Which boards do I search?
The eggs will be hidden in every board that is governed by a Board Specific Mod.
That’s every board that has a lime-green Mod’s name to be more specific.
So that means these boards are free to be searched:
•General Discussion •Episode Discussion •Characters •Relationships •Theories! •Spoiler •Creations
•General Board •Critical Thinking •Other Creations •Other Media
•General Board •Critical Thinking •Other Creations •Other Media
Plus any sub-boards that exsist within the boards mentioned above.
*EXCEPT the password protected TAG board.*
7. NEW SORTING REQUEST!!!
This request has been added on April 8th:
When you're copying and pasting all the address of the pages where you find the eggs I want to do one more thng...
To make the judging much easier for me and the other judges I ask all you hunters to organize the eggs you find by which board they found them in.
For example all the eggs you found in the Avatar General Discussion Board should be placed together in a neatly labeled Avatar General Discussion Board Eggs section of your PM, which is separate from the eggs from the other boards in the forum.
8. That's All!
There's really not much to it, so everyone have fun with this!
If you’re still not sure of something after all these directions feel free to post your questions here on this thread and I'll try to answer them.
You can also discuss what character eggs you've found if you like.
BUT DO NOT POST the locations of the eggs on this thread. YOU WILL BE DISQUALIFIED from the hunt for cheating!
Also let's try to keep this thread SPAM-free so I can find questions that need answering.
"You post SPAM on this thread,
I will find you and I will CUT you!"
Just Kidding! XD But please, let's hold off on the off-topic SPAM for at least a few days.
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I must give credit to some very helpful and creative minds that assisted me in this activity:
Tungsten- The man, the mystery, who hides behind an icon of anime yet can be devilishly clever!
Empyreal Maiden- The real-life fair maiden who helped save me a bundle of time by scouring Avatarspirit.net's screenshots for the character pictures.
mitresskatara- A brilliant young lass who had the same idea for this egg hunt and posted it in the Suggestions Board before I was able to unveil this thread! XD Look out for her! Without a doubt we're gonna see more awesome stuff from her in future!
Thanks guys!