Moa Eggs...

dunky_g

dunky_g

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

[SNOW]

god some people do get stressy over this game

The Bard

The Bard

Metal Machine

Join Date: Aug 2006

Scions of Carver [SCAR]

Quote:
Originally Posted by dunky_g
god some people do get stressy over this game
people would like you more if you weren't such an asshole ^^

if you don't want to help, don't post.

on topic: still trying to get skree wings for a nest, hope someone finds out something real soon XD i'm excited hehehe

dunky_g

dunky_g

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

[SNOW]

im an asshole for posting an obviously fake post that was a joke.. wts sense of humor 10k

Healers Wisper

Healers Wisper

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Join Date: Apr 2007

Anaheim, CA

BoMB

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Quote:
Originally Posted by dunky_g
god some people do get stressy over this game
see now this just isn't true. People are working hard to figue something out, then you troll and say heheehe look I can waste their time and send them on a wild goose chase. Said people try your rediculous suggestion (or just see through it and feel bad for the peoples time you wasted) and call you on the carpet for being an asshole and wasting their time (either reading your post or trying your suggestion).

So if you want to make friends, try contributing to the forum and not trolling or flaming it.

Thx

WarKaster

WarKaster

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Los Angeles

SlingBlades

D/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ixl Krosstika Ixl
Has anyone tried asking a GM yet?
Kinda seems like an easier solution
things like these kinda have to be figured out by the community. Which was the intent of the game designers. Easter eggs are fun to find within games. Keeps you on your toes as to what else could be hidden.

Just asking some one how to do things kinda takes the fun out of it.

Dunky you are an A-Hole for wasting people's time. You can contribute more to this thread by not posting crap like that.

and to quote the famous philosophers Matt Stone and Trey Parker....

"If you don't like it then you can just git out!!"

Anyway....I got the egg, got the fish, got the rock, gotta finish getting the wings. Gonna try some pretty off the wall stuff when I get home from work to see if anything works. I have a few ideas running through my noggin.

tenorplayer

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2005

Richmond, VA

Scars Meadows [SMS]

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Anyone thought about the possibility of gathering the hardened egg and nesting material and returning to the area with the nests?

I'm thinking something along the lines of "thimble-in-sight."

WarKaster

WarKaster

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Join Date: Dec 2006

Los Angeles

SlingBlades

D/Mo

i believe some one already did that. and only got another egg.

dunky_g

dunky_g

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

[SNOW]

i know your all gunna flame me, but what the heck, tbh dont you think its only going to do something when gwen goes live so why not just wait and find out then?

leeky baby

leeky baby

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Surrey University

Starting to play again... need a guild

W/E

why dont u believe him, have u tried it?

tenorplayer

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Join Date: Sep 2005

Richmond, VA

Scars Meadows [SMS]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by WarKaster
i believe some one already did that. and only got another egg.
Well then that's suggestion shot. ><

Oh well. Hopefully this won't be another thing like the tapestry shred...

leeky baby

leeky baby

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Surrey University

Starting to play again... need a guild

W/E

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So i followed dunkys steps, using a stopwhatch for the times.... because it doesnt work otherwise...

Here is what happned..

lakatz

lakatz

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by dunky_g
i know your all gunna flame me, but what the heck, tbh dont you think its only going to do something when gwen goes live so why not just wait and find out then?
I'm not going to flame you. I agree with you.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Leeky Baby
why dont u believe him, have u tried it?
Too late. The gag has already played out, been exposed, and you're just making a fool out of yourself not recognizing as much.

bhavv

bhavv

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2006

Cool beans, I just got my moa egg. Will wait till next week before I do anything to it though.

gasp10

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2007

Italy

legio gemina

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if we must wait 1 years before it birth... as other minipet ^^? it is an other possible solution

Gaile Gray

Gaile Gray

ArenaNet

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Croco Clouds
Will Gaile check this thread? At least tell us to do not waste any time if the egg won't hatch to anything.
I can't possibly reveal the reasoning or any potential rewards that would come as the result of the collection of picnic items. Errr... stuffs. However, I can tell you that I do not perceive some of the efforts being expended here as a waste of time.

Quote:
Originally Posted by TheRaven
Or perhaps it's just a Red Herring that has nothing to do with the moa egg. (Sorry, couldn't resist)


Quote:
Originally Posted by Angus Mac Nasty
Or should I just continue sitting on my egg?
I don't know, Angus. That sounds sorta... painful.

Quote:
Originally Posted by R1p70r
Yes, the berries were around before, however they (So far) appear to have no purpose. I guess we are just all being hopefull that we will get a use for all these random items we are being thrown.
Next you'll toss in clay bricks and diamonds, eh?

Quote:
Originally Posted by R1p70r
Hmm, Berries, Eggs, Fish? Looks like we will... be cooking a meal! I bet its for Bokka again, that fat... thing.

I guess the volcanic rock could be to cook the food?

But yeah, to be honest, I agree with FelixCarter on it most likely being a scavenger hunt quest in GW:EN.

Either that, or it will be used to make some kind of meal we will feed the Great Destroyer, causing an allergic reaction, ultimately making him vunerable to our attacks. Thats my theory.
And an excellent theory it is!

And so, so utterly wrong, too.

My Sweet Revenga

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

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Sigh. You people are so dense. Obviously we won't be able to do anything until GWEN goes live. Without the Horadric Cube and Wirt's leg, we can't convert anything into anything else. DUH!

Rudhraighe O'Hagan

Rudhraighe O'Hagan

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

The Adventurers Society

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If the Moa Egg from Early Prophecies needs to be "Processed" in later Factions,
Then does the "Nesting Material" From mid Nightfall need to be "Processed"(Woven) in Another Campaign, {Nebo Village[Best Weavers in the Game?]},
And do the Volcanic Rocks from Later Prophecies need to be Processed in an Early Part of another Campaign?(Stone Worker/Miner/Dwarf?)
And the Herring in Mid Prophecies "Processed" in yet another location(Chefs?)
and once the "Processing of all the items is Complete to combining them in GW:EN? This Seems to be an "Interlocking" Quest across all 4 chapters...
Just Food for Thought ~ Rud

Jayden_Angelus

Jayden_Angelus

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

Lunatics Running The Asylum [CRZY]

W/A

Has anyone tried taking the other items to the spring to see if it has any effects on the other items and not just the eggs?

Also, one thing I noticed the first time I spotted the White Moa's in GW:EN, they ran away from me, wonder if maybe the herring is needed to lure them to you instead of having to charm them right off.


~|AW|Jayden

JeniM

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2007

W/E

Love to see people still trying not just giving up saying, "It'll just be in GW:EN why bother now"

Sadly i do feel the last trigger will be in GW:EN and as i'm away till the 2nd i hope it's not timed, as mini-pets have never been infinate before, apart from those Pigs they seem infinate

Thanks for the update Gaile nice to know we're not wasting time but not giving the somution to keep the mystry at same time

foo

foo

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

Scars Meadows [SMS]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by JeniM
...apart from those Pigs they seem infinate...
Remember that while mini gwens, bone dragons, mallyxs and so on keeps on multiplying, next year will hopefully not be the year or the pig, but the year of something else, (rat?), and untill the year 2019, mini pigs will only become more rare.


yeah, just wait for ten years and see how I sell my 17 pigs for one mil each!

Chronos the Defiler

Chronos the Defiler

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Join Date: May 2005

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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I don't think anyone should give up and wait fro GW:EN, if when we found teh Moa immediately thought "wait for GW:EN" then they would have never found the fish, volcanic rocks, the Morning Veil spring, or anything....if people keep searching there is a chance that people will continue to find things.

Leslie

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2005

England

Slash afk [afk]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gaile Gray
And an excellent theory it is!

And so, so utterly wrong, too.
The fact you know the aforementioned player's theory is wrong shows us that you do know infact the answer to this puzzle, or solution to this mystery. Maybe we could know just this; will it require GW:EN or not? I'm assuming so, it'd be nice to know for sure though.

Master Mxyzptlk

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2007

Obey My Command [sudo]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Leslie
The fact you know the aforementioned player's theory is wrong shows us that you do know infact the answer to this puzzle, or solution to this mystery.
not true, she could simply know the plot/ending of gw:en and know that thats not it

seut

seut

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Europa

Quote:
Originally Posted by zwei2stein
I have solution for you:
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It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

p.s.: you have to put all items into the Scrying Pool in the Hall of Monuments to unlock the secret Moa level

kooomar

kooomar

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Join Date: Oct 2006

Pow Pow Pow [myau]

Mo/E

I have one big question that I have looked for the answer and not seen it. Who/how/when/etc did someone find out to put the egg into the falls, because to me, it could be one of two things A) a dev leak B)EXTREME luck and I guess C) me missing how it was discovered. It just seems like such an obscure thing to happen, everything else can be stumbled upon fairly easily. ie you're in a zone, and see moa egg, so you pick it up, or you see a collector that gives you a weird item. But doing such a RANDOM action to a RANDOM thing from a different campaign; how was it figured out? Please no speculations, I'm sure people will say "they tried alot of stuff" but what are the odds.

Anywho, Im totally for the search, I think its interesting, but I think the last part will also be in GW:EN. As for the people that troll the thread saying "why don't you wait for GW:EN?" If people had waited for GW:EN they would've never found out ANY of this stuff, thus you wouldn't have a thread to troll, what a paradox.

Master Mxyzptlk

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Join Date: Feb 2007

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you don't put the egg in the falls, you have it in your inventory when you click on it. Someone probably was carrying around a moa egg when they were doing other quests and clicked on the falls, got the message and said "woah".

Kelsey Cain

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Master Mxyzptlk
you don't put the egg in the falls, you have it in your inventory when you click on it. Someone probably was carrying around a moa egg when they were doing other quests and clicked on the falls, got the message and said "woah".
Which leads me to a hypothetic question.......

You are that person, the first to discover how to harden the egg. You then go on to figure out the next steps required to turn the egg into lets say for arguments sake a mini pet Moa - So, you are the only person playing the game (as far as you are aware) that has managed to put together the clues to obtain the pet.

Do you?

(A) - Not tell anyone about how you created the pet and sell it for a huge amount - keep producing and selling until someone else finds the secret

(B) share your findings with the rest of the community thereby reducing the value of your pet

An interesting moral dilemma I think.

CyberNigma

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

San Antonio, TX

W/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kelsey Cain
Which leads me to a hypothetic question.......

You are that person, the first to discover how to harden the egg. You then go on to figure out the next steps required to turn the egg into lets say for arguments sake a mini pet Moa - So, you are the only person playing the game (as far as you are aware) that has managed to put together the clues to obtain the pet.

Do you?

(A) - Not tell anyone about how you created the pet and sell it for a huge amount - keep producing and selling until someone else finds the secret

(B) share your findings with the rest of the community thereby reducing the value of your pet

An interesting moral dilemma I think.
I'm pretty sure that A won't work. Too many people in the game are skeptical of anything new. You'd most likely be labeled a scammer until someone can prove it, as was the case early on with the Icy Dragon Sword. No announcement seems to equal scam and lots of people's eyes.

You (you meaning whoever tried A) might get lucky though. If I knew I could get more than one I'd sell it. After all it's a virtual market so why not. Then i'd let people know though. I wouldn't horde it.

Sparks Dawnbringer

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

Los Angeles

none

E/Mo

Well, I think the mystery is quite a lot of fun and have enjoyed all the talk very much. But I think it might be a quest to run around and get everything then give it to someone and they give you the mini. Perhaps A Welcome to Gwen or Holloween quest. Kind of like the hunt for the socks and pipe at Christmas. And I think there willl be some kind of control on how many you can get, which is why I think it will be a quest you can take once per character. But that dosen't stop me from looking around and gathering eggs and hardening them and getting skree stuff.

Angus Mac Nasty

Angus Mac Nasty

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2007

Okinawa, Japan

Surfers of Righteous Waves [Surf]

Ok, Thanks Gaile, I have stopped sitting on the Hardened Moa Egg. I have also stopped trying to get the Herring pickled. I am however adding to my explorers tiltle track in all three games checking stuff out. I even found a way into NF in the the Arid Sea Desert in Prophs. There is a NPC there that tranports you to the Crystal Overlook area in NF. Here are the non-quest items I have gathered so far.

Moa Egg, processed to,
Hardedend Moa Egg

5 Skree Wings, taken to collector and exchanged for
Nesting Material

5 Bog Skale Fins taken to a collector and exchanged for
Herring (non-pickled)

Volcanic Rocks

Branch of Juni Berries

Gwens Broken Flute (not sure that ties into this though)

I am still exploring places to see if any of the other items can be processed into other things. Anyone else found any other collectors or had the items changed to something else?

Elbereth_Tiniquetil

Elbereth_Tiniquetil

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2005

Adelaide, Australia

Holy Champions of Justice

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I think it’s time to call in the Hardy Boys, man I have a raging clue this way…

Have a look in pre

??Ripskin

??Ripskin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/

Hmm, guess I'm behind. Going to go farm the nest herring rocks and berries.
Ed:
I guess I'll contribute in the only way I can, by reposting all of the relevant urls (Or what I believe to be relevant reading this thread)
Moa Eggs
Nesting Material
Volcanic Rock
Berries (somewhat related)
Herring (Might just be a red herring
Katherine
And the last one, SORT OF related, but not really.
Cairn Of Stones

Hmm, now I don't have to have all these tabs open at once....

1 up and 2 down

1 up and 2 down

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2007

Rt/

Linsey Murdock(The designer that came up with this I believe) has mentioned that it pretty much can't be finished unless you own GW:EN. So you will have to wait till friday to finish this scavenger hunt.

Here is what is being said about it on her talk page.

But don't let me stop you from speculating and guessing until then, just a little heads up that you can't finish it until then.

??Ripskin

??Ripskin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/

I hate her.

lol

She's laughing aboutt he rabbit hole that whiped my party well over 10 times, and now she's laughing at our terrible guesses as to the moa eggs.

??Ripskin

??Ripskin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/

Hey what the?
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10191516

Quote:
Originally Posted by AngeloM3
yah he showed me in our guild hall... cause i didnt believe him

I just talked to him..... all he told me was..... you make the pet in EoTN..... and that Gwen in your HoM has something to do with it.
:O

Vitas

Vitas

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2007

[formerly] Tombs of the Primevals - healing B/Ps that try to be meat shields and pwning Darknesses

Okay - for those of you who missed this on the Moa Egg discussion thread at wiki:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gaile&Linsey
Just a couple more days til GWEN comes out, and all will be revealed. - Linsey talk 23:43, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
I just know they'll love the tasty warm egg salad herring sandwiches you cooked up! --Gaile 00:04, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Shhhh.... now now Gaile, don't be giving it all away like that! Besides, you left out the best part! The sweet Juni berry and Red Iris flower chutney with a nice tall glass of Iboga fruit juice. - Linsey talk 00:54, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
I do believe you are taunting us. Fenyx 00:56, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
So do we need to gather some Iboga petals also? (... or is that the red herring? )

TechnoSword

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

International SuperStars

W/Mo

Well looking here

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Pahnai_Salad

You can make those from 2 iboga petals

Vigorator

Vigorator

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Join Date: May 2006

Noob University [GeD]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Vitas
Okay - for those of you who missed this on the Moa Egg discussion thread at wiki:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gale&Linsey
Just a couple more days til GWEN comes out, and all will be revealed. - Linsey talk 23:43, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
I just know they'll love the tasty warm egg salad herring sandwiches you cooked up! --Gaile 00:04, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Shhhh.... now now Gaile, don't be giving it all away like that! Besides, you left out the best part! The sweet Juni berry and Red Iris flower chutney with a nice tall glass of Iboga fruit juice. - Linsey talk 00:54, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
I do believe you are taunting us. Fenyx 00:56, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
So do we need to gather some Iboga petals also? (... or is that the red herring? )
If that is the case then maybe it will be like the Shing Jea Festival where we got the mini pigs. Prepare a feast type thing and these items are the ingredients and the prize may be a mini moa... idk just speculating

Rhedd

Rhedd

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

You ever have to clean up after a Moa bird?

True Solunastra [SLA] Profession: Moa Wrangler

Maybe the whole quest has nothing to do with a mini-moa, (Actually is for a picnic.) because there isn't really such a thing in the game, but Anet will realize that the idea of a mini-moa is super popular, and they'll decide to add one.

So they'll give away 4 of them for winning some high-end PvP tournament. >_>

Am I getting cynical in my old age? Maybe. ^_^

I just want a baby moa SO darned bad that I refuse to actually believe it until I see it. Too many dashed hopes are bad for the soul.

QoH

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

Divine Beings

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Why mini moa, when you may make mini herring?