Festival of Eggs

The Festival of Eggs is Dragon Cave's answer to Easter. Every five to fifteen minutes, a special egg would appear on the next page. When clicked, a little easter basket would appear at the top of your scroll, and you could click on it to see the eggs you had collected. The basket's colour differs between scrolls, and the amount of eggs within increases at certain milestones. You may not be able to view the Festival of Eggs eggs on your iPod or Smartphone.

2010 Festival of Eggs
2010 was the first time Easter was celebrated in the cave. There were 38 eggs in total to collect, and there was no reward for collecting them all. The original event was devised by Marrionetta and TJ09, and featured work from site artists, moderators, and former Eggspress volunteer egg makers.

Baskets by Umbreonage
Big baskets:

The big Easter baskets were  only obtainable in 2010  during the event and later changed into the small Easter basket badges after the event ended.

The amount of eggs only visibly changed within the big baskets.



Easter basket badges:

The badges replaced the big baskets after the "Festival of Eggs 2010" ended. When the "Second Annual Festival of Eggs 2011" started, the small badges were obtainable again for those who missed out on the event the year before.

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Special baskets:

Umbreonage:

Marrionetta:

2011 Festival of Eggs
On April 23, 2011, The Second Annual Easter Egg Hunt began. This time, the festival was set for three days. However, extended downtime caused TJ to add 20 hours to the hunt. The festival ended just before midnight on the 26th.

If you got a basket last year, the new eggs would be placed in there together with the eggs from the year before. There is a beautiful border that seperates the old and the new eggs. The new eggs are below the border.

If you couldn't participate the event in 2010, you got the chance to get an Easter basket badge by joining the "Second Annual Festival of Eggs" in 2011.

There were 53 eggs in total to collect in 2011 and there was no reward for collecting them all. The 2011 event was put together by Dolphinsong.

On the last day of the hunt, there were issues with the site, and as a result, about 15 hours of data was lost. Because of this, for a 15 hour period (May 9th at 12 PM est (noon) - May 10th at 3 AM) easter eggs could be found on the site again.

Sprites and Sprite Artists
Border was made by Earthgirl





2012 Festival of Eggs
On April 3rd, 2012 "Third Annual Festival of Eggs" began. Like last year the event was set for 3 days and therefore ended on April 10th at 23:59:59.

If a user already got a basket at one of the previous "Festival of Eggs" events, the new eggs would be placed in there too but seperated by a border.

If members couldn't participate the event in 2010 and 2011, they got the chance to get an Easter basket badge by joining the "Third Annual Festival of Eggs" in 2012. A lot of the newer users were confused, since when they hovered their cursor over the little basket badge it would read "Easter Basked - 2010 Festival of Eggs". That's because the images of the 2010 basket badges were also getting used for the following "Festival of Eggs" events.

There were 42 eggs in total to collect in 2012 and like before, there was no reward for collecting them all.

The "Third Annual Festival of Eggs" was organized by Lythiaren.

Sprites and Sprite Artists
The border was made by: Sif, Dolphinsong, Infinis, kiffren and Verridith