The Mad Egg Scramble.
The day started normally enough. It was Easter, the annual event where some humans seem to celebrate a zombie rising. They are odd creatures. Anyway, me and my friend Firefly were at a coffeeshop ordering some cookies when all of a sudden where was a "Pssst" sound and a voice out of the shadows:
Grady: Hello there, it's me, your old pal Grady from... The Office
Starbright Wingtips: mmmm, munchies
Grady: I know it has been a while, but we can see that you are done eating... the hashbrowns looked great
Grady: Look, we don't have much time, so I wont bother you with explanations, but we have another unique situation.
Starbright Wingtips grabs a handful of baked goods
Grady: I am sending the coords to our client now. Get there as fast as you can.
Grady: Downloading Coords...
The voice sounded serious, I looked about but I was unable to locate the source of the voice, so I turned to Firefly (who was looking blissed out on a sugar high) and said;
Starbright Wingtips: I can't tell if this is a drugs run, again, or some proper top secret stuff
Starbright Wingtips: oh well, lets go find out
Firefly nodded enthusiastically and we headed outside to the car park, stepping over a beggar on the way, she asked me for one hundred Lindens with the promise that she would pay me back tomorrow, I just laughed and kept going. I am cruel but fair. Looking over the lot I noticed a Taco truck and suddenly got hit by a case of the munchies:
Starbright Wingtips: ohhh, taco's
Starbright Wingtips: we can grab some before we set off
Starbright Wingtips pushes past the NPC's
Starbright Wingtips: yes yes I know, "ice cream so good" now get outa my way before I inflict violence
Starbright Wingtips: ahh garcon, a dozen of your finest taco's please
Starbright Wingtips: good, right, lets get out of here
Starbright Wingtips: pay? hahah
Starbright Wingtips: right, what car shall we steal today?
I chose an old Japanese sports car, mainly because it was one I knew how to hotwire. We pulled out of the car park and immediately got hit by some very weird shit. It was like reality turned itself inside out. I was really beginning to regret that taco.
Starbright Wingtips: I can see this must be an important mission, that was definitely a penguin ambush
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): oops
I knew that this stretch of road had a reputation for being a bit of a race track so I put my foot down without too much worry about the trees, lamposts, houses or people:
Starbright Wingtips: 96 mph, lol
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): lol
Starbright Wingtips: I'm sure those things we hit will be fine
Starbright Wingtips: a lick of paint will fix it up
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): whooo hoooo
As we approached a patch of open country a strange voice issued from the car radio suggesting that we stop the car and jump down a rabbit hole. Well, we'd both had quite a lot to smoke and consumed a mountain of edibles, so we gave no thought to the source of the voice and thought that this seemed like quite a reasonable suggestion:
We both jumped and fell down what appeared to be some sort of wormhole in the space/time continuum. It's a common feature of rabbit holes, but one which the rabbit community usually keeps top secret, so I knew this was important and possible involved Penguins! We landed in a clearing in some woods and looking around I saw a rabbit and some scattered eggs. I knew then that my suspicions were on the right track. Penguins are birds and birds lay eggs!
At this point the rabbit turned round and suggested that we walk through a door that was conveniently placed nearby in the trunk of a large tree. I was keen to find out more about the eggs so I thanked the rabbit and we both walked into the tree. There was a feeling as if we'd passed through some kind of barrier and next thing we knew, we were standing in a large room where everything was large. Thing just kept getting weirder:
Starbright Wingtips: here <holds out her hand> have some more red pills
Starbright Wingtips: I think we're going to need to be very stoned to deal with this
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yes
Starbright Wingtips gulps a handful
As we looked around the room I noticed a door on the other side of the very large side table. On the table was a pitcher full of liquid and a glass. A disembodied voice, which may very well have been a figment of my imagination, suggested strongly that we both have a drink before going through the door:
Strange Voice (possibly in my head): Approach the door, A drink perhaps? What might it do? Likely nothing
Starbright Wingtips: how are we supposed to have a snack and a drink, we can't reach
Starbright Wingtips: here, you jump on my shoulders and try to grab the bottle
* A Few Moments Later ... *
Starbright Wingtips: ahhh, that's better. I dunno what that was, but it hits the spot
Starbright Wingtips: now lets just wait for the pink elephants to finish dancing and we'll go through the door after them. The cavern on the other side of that door had an atmosphere of power, and a strange smell of old straw and rabbit poo:
Strange Voice (possibly in my head) Approach... The Bunny
Starbright Wingtips: what's up doc?
The Bunny: Welcome Starbright . I have been expecting you
The Bunny: To get right to business, a contracted a leprechaun on March 18th
The Bunny: He was to help get a very special set of eggs to an associate
Starbright Wingtips: hmmmm
The Bunny: But, the little pranking bastard has spread them all over creation
Starbright Wingtips: go on
The Bunny: Last I heard from him was an angry drunken voice message challenging me to fight
Starbright Wingtips: so, you want me to hunt him down and kill him?
The Bunny: Nooooooo!! You... you will help me retrieve these eggs
Starbright Wingtips looks a bit disappointed.
The Bunny: My bunny magic will guide you... like... well like magic!
The Bunny: Now, off with you to do my bidding!
The Bunny waves its paw like a Jedi...
Starbright Wingtips: ok bugs babe
The cavern and odd giant rabbit begin to fade out and before we know it we are standing by the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. I tell Firefly to stay by the road while I go hunting for some transport. A few minutes later I return to Firefly so we can continue our journey:
Starbright Wingtips: ok, it's not ideal but it's all i could steal
Starbright Wingtips: lets go
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): lol
Starbright Wingtips: so, its a tuk tuk with a turbo engine
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yay
Starbright Wingtips: this should be ..... interesting
Starbright Wingtips: pray to whatever gods you worship
Starbright Wingtips: of course, this is a race track
Starbright Wingtips: so ....
Starbright Wingtips: just keep repeating "we're not going to die"
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): weeeeee
Starbright Wingtips: this is all very odd
Starbright Wingtips: is this reality or are we still down the hole?
Starbright Wingtips: we might be stuck in the Matrix
Starbright Wingtips: you know, sometimes I get the feeling that I'm just a little cartoon avatar being controlled by a being I can't properly comprehend, it's a mad thought, eh?
Starbright Wingtips giggles
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): lol
Starbright Wingtips: although I suppose everyone feels like that to some extent
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yes
Starbright Wingtips: everyone round here anyway
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): that Musk guy thinks we live in the Matrix
Starbright Wingtips leans forward to lights another spliff in the cover of the windshield
Starbright Wingtips: Mr Musk strikes me as an NPC, so he's probably right
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): lol
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yes
Starbright Wingtips: ice cream so good
Starbright Wingtips: heheheh
Starbright Wingtips: ((that line is a tiktok NPC meme btw))
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): (( oh ))
Starbright Wingtips: ((the girl who came up with the NPC concept used that as one of her lines. she would do or say certain things depending how much you donated, like a video game NPC responding to options. at her height she was apparently making 7000 USD per day, just for doing that))
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): ((wow))
Starbright Wingtips: ((all non nude and non sexual too))
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): ((nice))
Starbright Wingtips: ((well fair play to her, doing that would have driven me insane by day 3))
Starbright Wingtips: ((well, more insane I mean))
We'd been travelling downhill since we left the rabbit hole and were now approaching a nice area of upscale housing with its own docking area. I had a feeling we were going to need a boat next, so I parked up and we walked towards the dock. There was a lovely looking motorboat moored, so I decided we needed to liberate it for the cause:
Starbright Wingtips: ok, now keep your eyes peelded, there's something very odd going on here. we're been drugged, sent to alternative worlds, or had some great hallucinations. we're looking for eggs laid by a rabbit, we've been sent all over the place and have no clue whate going on
Starbright Wingtips: sounds like a monday
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): lol
We set off heading mostly south and west:
Starbright Wingtips: we're on the water so keep an eye out for penguins
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): ok
The journey was uneventful, but that seemed more ominous than calming:
Starbright Wingtips: its quiet, too quiet
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yes
Starbright Wingtips turns the radio on
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yay
I saw Angels airport and marina ahead and for no apparent reason I decided to dock there. Something was calling me, I could feel it. As I was finishing docking all of a sudden a loud voice seemed to boom out, it might have been some weird spirit thing, or it might have been the PA system, it was hard to tell:
Disembodied Bunny Voice: The waters to your North, I can feel it, i know they are there
Disembodied Bunny Voice: Get down there and find them, minion!. This is no time to dally!
Starbright Wingtips: There's a large mysterious sunken city in those waters, I think if we are going to look there we will need a submarine
Starbright Wingtips: i have a slightly radioactive used one
Starbright Wingtips: that'll do
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): lol
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yes
Starbright Wingtips: Let's go find some eggs in a submarine!
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yay
Of course, the problem with getting people extremely stoned and then giving them complex tasks to carry out soon reared its head:
Starbright Wingtips: i can't figire out how to grab them
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): drive up to them
Starbright Wingtips: ohhh, doh!
We patrolled around for a while and passed some very interesting artifacts under the water and I saw a sign that my people might have been here in ancient times. Sadly we had no time to explore, we had a mission to complete:
After a slow start we made some progress in our collection of these eggs. After last week's explosive experience, I was taking no chances and placed each egg in a towed wire cage. Once we got back to the docks we counted our haul:
-------------- Round 1 Egg Counts --------------
Super Rare Eggs Found: 0
Rare Eggs Found: 1
Common Eggs Found: 4
Round 1 Eggs Collected: 5
Round 1 Egg Points Earned: 6
Starbright Wingtips: we found some at least
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yes
I was just making this last comment when that voice boomed out again. I still couldn't decide if it was magic or the PA system.
Disembodied Bunny Voice: Yes... YES! Be very careful with those
Disembodied Bunny Voice: More valuable than a mortal's life they are!
Disembodied Bunny Voice: The little drunk must have dropped these on the trip to the New World
Starbright Wingtips: I know, you just can't find the staff these days
Disembodied Bunny Voice: He has taken the rest to lands freshly sprung from the oceans
Disembodied Bunny Voice: And this is where you shall go... now!
As soon as that last thing had been said there was a big cloud of smoke and what sounded like some cheap firecrackers going off and we suddenly found ourselves in a completely different place.
Starbright Wingtips: well that was fun but I wish we'd had a yellow submarine; we could have sung as we worked then.
[16:45] Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): lol
[16:45] Starbright Wingtips: plus we might have met an octopus in a garden
[16:47] Starbright Wingtips: so. now we're somewhere rural, so we have to watch out for penguins, rabbits AND rednecks
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yes
Starbright Wingtips: I'm not too worried about the rednecks and I know what I'm dealing with when it comes to penguins, but that rabbit has me worried.
We walked through the unlikely looking farmland looking for a vehicle to, err, borrow:
Starbright Wingtips: got to say, i have seen flatter hay fields.
Eventually we saw a large house in the distance and as we got closer I could see beach jeep parked down the side.
Starbright Wingtips: I don't think some rich trust fund kiddo is going to miss this jeep for a few hours
Starbright Wingtips: we should be done with it by then
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): ok
We climbed aboard and set off down the road in search of our next adventure.
Starbright Wingtips: going to see old blind Pete eh?
Starbright Wingtips: he used to be my driver
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): lol
Starbright Wingtips: opps, few scratches in the paint as we sideswiped that tree. I swear it dodged into our path.
Lusch Motors - Scout Surfer GTFO 1.9: No fuel.
Starbright Wingtips: wtf, really?
Starbright Wingtips: lol
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): lol
Starbright Wingtips: I learned all I know about driving from blind Pete.
Starbright Wingtips: including how to check the fuel gauge before I set off
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): lol
We abandoned the jeep and set out on foot along the road. Luckily we didn't have to go far before I spotted another big expensive house with an almost identical jeep parked outside
Starbright Wingtips: They're all nepo babies here and all seem to own very similar jeeps. that's very handy
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yes
We set off again, heading for somewhere unspecified location, the road system here was very windy and so to save some time I even cut cross country. It was totally deliberate, honest.
Starbright Wingtips: telegraph poles now too, they all hate me
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yes
Eventually we reached an area where there seemed to be a strange atmosphere. I slowed to a stop and the radio began to issue instructions to us, cutting in halfway though a Spice Girls song. We were instructed to drive around recklessly and hit things with the jeep. Well, Pixies are know for their obedience to commands so I felt I had no choice. I put the jeep in 4WD and floored the accelerator, We lept off the road and careened away leaving deep ruts in the grass as we mowed down flower beds, post boxes, residents and the occasional mad egg that bounced into our path. It was a wild trip and I still felt high AF from all the drugs earlier. Eventually I ran out of targets and slowed to a stop.
-------------- Round 2 Egg Counts --------------
Super Rare Eggs Found: 2
Rare Eggs Found: 3
Common Eggs Found: 8
Residents: 34
Round 2 Eggs Collected: 13
Round 2 Egg Points Earned: 20
As we celebrated our results we suddenly heard that rabbit again. It was coming out of the car radio this time. I have no idea how they are able to do that.
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yay
Starbright Wingtips: yay
Disembodied Bunny Voice: Wonderful!... just wonderful!
Disembodied Bunny Voice: I fear I am in danger of being impressed!
Disembodied Bunny Voice: But, you have one more place to go
Starbright Wingtips: oh oh
Disembodied Bunny Voice: I can not move you there, it is too far... but I can get you to the train station...
At that point it seemed that someone had thrown a flashbang grenade at our feet. We were momentarily stunned and when our senses cleared, we were in a totally new place.
Starbright Wingtips: i'm confused. how did we get here? where's the jeep? wtf?
Starbright Wingtips: oh well, nice old train here, lets borrow it
We managed to get the steam train going, it already had a full firebox and was all steamed up, it was almost as if it had been set up for us specially. It was highly suspicious. Anyway we got on board and as we steamed along we discused what had been happening.
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): aliens?
Starbright Wingtips: maybe
Starbright Wingtips: or old magic
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yes
Starbright Wingtips: this is nice scenery
Starbright Wingtips: but it reminds me of .... rabbit country
Starbright Wingtips: so be careful. if you hear "what's up doc?" shoot first, ask questions later
Starbright Wingtips: questions like: "so I guess we're having rabbit for dinner then?"
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): lol
Starbright Wingtips: apparently rabbits have concrete lined tunnels 100 meters underground
Starbright Wingtips: oh, hang on. I think I'm getting them confused with other burrowing pests
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): lol
Starbright Wingtips: I hope we don't have to go to Cannabis Airfield. They have kamikaze rabbits there
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): lol
Starbright Wingtips: they tend to explode
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): that would make a mess
Starbright Wingtips: it does yes, at least you don;t have to de-gut them before you make rabbit stew though, so that's handy
Starbright Wingtips giggles
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): and pre cooked
Starbright Wingtips: yes, also precooked with the fur burned off
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yes
Starbright Wingtips: I'll suggest to Outy that he should rename his rabbits as ready meals
Starbright Wingtips: lol
Starbright Wingtips: the only problem with long journeys through belli is that i start to experience some serious dejavu
Starbright Wingtips: maybe its just a glitch in the matrix
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yes
Starbright Wingtips: I mean, it couldn't be that things repeat every 500 meters, could it? that'd just be silly
Eventually we reached the end of the line and left the train standing on the tracks hissing and dripping and sounding like it might well explode at any minute. We hurried through the station building and got out into the car park where we just saw one lone car that looked as if it had been sat there for some time. It was an old 90's model so hotwiring it took about 5 seconds:
Starbright Wingtips: oh look, an old abandoned rally car. this'll do us
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yay
It was a race engine and so we set off at very high speed.
Starbright Wingtips: ooops
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): oops
Starbright Wingtips: damn, there goes my no claims bonus
Starbright Wingtips: oh hang on, I don't have any insurance. phew. that's ok then
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yay
Starbright Wingtips: blind Pete was an amazing instructor
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yes
Starbright Wingtips: I bet you've never felt safer in a car, right?
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yes
Starbright Wingtips: at the start of each lesson Pete would put his hand on my leg and say "Luke old boy, you've just got to close your eyes and trust in the force" and I used to say "I'm not Luke and that's not my leg"
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): lol
We soon came to an area where I felt that same strange atmosphere. At that moment the car stalled and I saw a large egg wrapped in pink cellophane bounce across the road. We looked at each other, giggled dove out the doors in pursuit of these mad eggs. After a few minutes of running around like loons it appeared that the remaining eggs had all escaped.
-------------- Round 3 Egg Counts --------------
Super Rare Eggs Found: 2
Rare Eggs Found: 3
Common Eggs Found: 8
Round 3 Eggs Collected: 13
Round 3 Egg Points Earned: 20
Starbright Wingtips: yay
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yay
As we stood there celebrating that rabbit voice started up again, this time I am sure it was coming out of a hole in the trunk of a nearby tree.
Disembodied Bunny Voice: You have done it!
Disembodied Bunny Voice: Now, come back... come back to me quickly!
There was another flash/bang (whih were beginning to give me a real headache, or maybe it was coming down off all those drugs) and suddenly the lanscape changed again:
Starbright Wingtips: oh crikey, we're back here again
Starbright Wingtips: this landscape seems .... familiar
As we stood at the side of the road in the middle of nowhere I wondered what we could do next. Fortunately a taxi was passing just at that moment, so we carjacked it;
As we drove down these familiar looking roads at high speed another disembodied voice came floating into my ears;
*uC* Evil Doll: Starbright Wingtips... I've seen your past, and I'll shape your future.
Starbright Wingtips: ha
Starbright Wingtips: I don't think so
By this point in the day I was begging to think LSD shouldn't be taken at breakfast time. We managed to get back to the dodgy rabbit hole without further incident and hopped over to it and into it, doing the whole rabbit pose and twitchy nose thing.
Starbright Wingtips: lets go see peter rabbit again
Firefly Twilight (dancingfireflys): yes
We walked back through the series of caverns and being a bit peckish I did snack on one or two of the mushroooms growing there, again. We walked through the final door and approached rabbit.
The Bunny: Welcome back Starbright . You have done.... well!
The Bunny: I will not keep you
The Bunny: Instead... I shall reward you!
The Bunny waves its paw like a Jedi again...
============= 2024 Egg Hunt Totals =============
Round 1 Eggs Collected: 5
Round 1 Egg Points Earned: 6
Round 2 Eggs Collected: 13
Round 2 Egg Points Earned: 20
Round 3 Eggs Collected: 13
Round 3 Egg Points Earned: 20
TOTAL GAME EGGS COLLECTED: 31 out of 104 total eggs
TOTAL GAME POINTS EARNED: 46
WE then found ourselves in a car dealership, holding the keys to one of the machines in our hands:
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