Oyster Egg Day

Did you want the Moister oyster?

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It's Oyster Egg Day! The Enchanted Flying Oyster came last night and hid his magical eggs all over the Kingdom! Grab a basket at the General Store and go egg-hunting!

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Okay, bear with me. There's this enchanted, flying oyster, see... it's called the Enchanted Flying Oyster. So, once a year, it comes in the dead of the night with a basket full of magical eggs, and it hides the eggs all over the Kingdom, so adventurers can hunt for them. Please don't ask me where the Oyster gets the eggs, or why it flies, or what the point of the whole thing is. It probably has something to do with fertility, like most of the things I don't understand.

Overview

On Oyster Egg Day, participants can collect eggs hidden in various locations about the Kingdom.

To collect eggs, you must equip an oyster basket (offhand item, available in The General Store) and adventure in any adventure.php zone. Eggs drop at the end of both combats and non-combats. They will not, however, drop after Free fights.

There are 7 distinct eggs which can be found. All of the eggs are spleen items, with a toxicity of 1.

• brilliant oyster egg (+5 Mysticality Stats Per Fight)
• gleaming oyster egg (+5 to Familiar Weight)
• glistening oyster egg (+5 Moxie Stats Per Fight)
• lustrous oyster egg (+50% Meat from Monsters)
• magnificent oyster egg (+5 Muscle Stats Per Fight)
• pearlescent oyster egg (+25% Item Drops from Monsters)
• scintillating oyster egg (Serious Prismatic Resistance)

The drop location for individual Oyster eggs changes from time to time and is listed on the individual Oyster Egg Day pages (see below). When you find an egg, you randomly get a special message from the "You Find an Oyster Egg" Messages listed below.

There is no cap to the number of eggs you can collect, although as you collect more eggs they become harder to find. The odds of finding the Nth egg are N^-0.95, which gives an expected yield of 21 eggs over the course of 200 adventures.

Dates

• Oyster Egg Day I: March 27, 2005 (Starch 2, Year 9)
• Oyster Egg Day II: July 9, 2005 (April 2, Year 10)
• Oyster Egg Day III: October 13, 2005 (April 2, Year 11)
• Oyster Egg Day IV: January 17, 2006 (April 2, Year 12)
• Oyster Egg Day V (St. Sneaky Pete's Oyster Day): April 16, 2006 (Starch 3, Year 13)
• Oyster Egg Day VI: April 23, 2006 (April 2, Year 13)
• Oyster Egg Day VII: July 28, 2006 (April 2, Year 14)
• Oyster Egg Day VIII: November 1, 2006 (April 2, Year 15)
• Oyster Egg Day IX: February 5, 2007 (April 2, Year 16)
• Oyster Egg Day X: April 8, 2007 (Boozember 8, Year 16)
• Oyster Egg Day XI: May 12, 2007 (April 2, Year 17)
• Oyster Egg Day XII: August 16, 2007 (April 2, Year 18)
• Oyster Egg Day XIII: November 20, 2007 (April 2, Year 19)
• Oyster Egg Day XIV: February 24, 2008 (April 2, Year 20)
• Oyster Egg Day XV: March 24, 2008 (Bor 7, Year 20)
• Oyster Egg Day XVI: May 30, 2008 (April 2, Year 21)
• Oyster Egg Day XVII: September 3, 2008 (April 2, Year 22)
• Oyster Egg Day XVIII: December 8, 2008 (April 2, Year 23)
• Oyster Egg Day XIX: March 14, 2009 (April 2, Year 24)
• Oyster Egg Day XX: April 1, 2009 (Bill 4, Year 24)
• Oyster Egg Day XXI: April 12, 2009 (Bor 7, Year 24)
• Oyster Egg Day XXII: June 19, 2009 (April 3, Year 25)
• Oyster Egg Day XXIII: September 22, 2009 (April 2, Year 26)
• Oyster Egg Day XXIV: December 27, 2009 (April 2, Year 27)
• Oyster Egg Day XXV: April 2, 2010 (April 2, Year 28)
• Oyster Egg Day XXVI: April 4, 2010 (April 4, Year 28)
• Oyster Egg Day XXVII: July 7, 2010 (April 2, Year 29)
• Oyster Egg Day XXVIII: October 11, 2010 (April 2, Year 30)
• Oyster Egg Day XXIX: January 15, 2011 (April 2, Year 31)
• Oyster Egg Day XXX: April 21, 2011 (April 2, Year 32)
• Oyster Egg Day XXXI: April 23, 2011 (April 5, Year 32)
• Oyster Egg Day XXXII: July 26, 2011 (April 2, Year 33)
• Oyster Egg Day XXXIII: October 30, 2011 (April 2, Year 34)
• Oyster Egg Day XXXIV: February 3, 2012 (April 2, Year 35)
• Oyster Egg Day XXXV: April 8, 2012 (Dougtember 3, Year 35)
• Oyster Egg Day XXXVI: May 9, 2012 (April 2, Year 36)
• Oyster Egg Day XXXVII: August 13, 2012 (April 2, Year 37)
• Oyster Egg Day XXXVIII: November 17, 2012 (April 2, Year 38)
• Oyster Egg Day XXXIX: February 21, 2013 (April 2, Year 39)
• Oyster Egg Day XL: March 31, 2013 (Petember 8, Year 39)
• Oyster Egg Day XLI: May 28, 2013 (April 2, Year 40)
• Oyster Egg Day XLII: September 1, 2013 (April 2, Year 41)
• Oyster Egg Day XLIII: December 6, 2013 (April 2, Year 42)
• Oyster Egg Day XLIV: March 12, 2014 (April 2, Year 43)
• Oyster Egg Day XLV: April 20, 2014 (Carlvember 1, Year 43)
• Oyster Egg Day XLVI: June 16, 2014 (April 2, Year 44)
• Oyster Egg Day XLVII: September 20, 2014 (April 2, Year 45)
• Oyster Egg Day XLVIII:December 25, 2014 (April 2, Year 46)
• Oyster Egg Day XLIX:March 31, 2015 (April 2, Year 47)
• Oyster Egg Day L:April 5, 2015 (April 7, Year 47)
• Oyster Egg Day LI: July 5, 2015 (April 2, Year 48)
• Oyster Egg Day LII: October 9, 2015 (April 2, Year 49)
• Oyster Egg Day LIII: January 13, 2016 (April 2, Year 50)
• Oyster Egg Day LIV: March 27, 2016 (Jarlsuary 4, Year 51)
• Oyster Egg Day LV: April 18, 2016 (April 2, Year 51)
• Oyster Egg Day LVI: July 23, 2016 (April 2, Year 52)
• Oyster Egg Day LVII: October 27, 2016 (April 2, Year 53)
• Oyster Egg Day LVIII: January 31, 2017 (April 2, Year 54)
• Oyster Egg Day LIX: April 16, 2017 (Jarlsuary 5, Year 55)
• Oyster Egg Day LX: May 7, 2017 (April 2, Year 55)
• Oyster Egg Day LXI: August 11, 2017 (April 2, Year 56)
• Oyster Egg Day LXII: November 15, 2017 (April 2, Year 57)
• Oyster Egg Day LXIII: February 19, 2018 (April 2, Year 58)
• Oyster Egg Day LXIV: April 1, 2018 (Carlvember 3, Year 58)
• Oyster Egg Day LXV: May 26, 2018 (April 2, Year 59)
• Oyster Egg Day LXVI: August 30, 2018 (April 2, Year 60)
• Oyster Egg Day LXVII: December 4, 2018 (April 2, Year 61)
• Oyster Egg Day LXVIII: March 10, 2019 (April 2, Year 62)
• Oyster Egg Day LXIX: April 21, 2019 (Carlvember 4, Year 62)
• Oyster Egg Day LXX: June 14, 2019 (April 2, Year 63)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXI: September 18, 2019 (April 2, Year 64)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXII: December 23, 2019 (April 2, Year 65)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXIII: March 28, 2020 (April 2, Year 66)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXIV: April 12, 2020 (Bill 1, Year 66)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXV: July 2, 2020 (April 2, Year 67)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXVI: October 6, 2020 (April 2, Year 68)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXVII: January 10, 2021 (April 2, Year 69)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXVIII: April 4, 2021 (Frankruary 6, Year 70)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXIX: April 16, 2021 (April 2, Year 70)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXX: July 21, 2021 (April 2, Year 71)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXXI: October 25, 2021 (April 2, Year 72)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXXII: January 29, 2022 (April 2, Year 73)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXXIII: April 17, 2022 (Jarlsuary 8, Year 74)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXXIV: May 5, 2022 (April 2, Year 74)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXXV: August 9, 2022 (April 2, Year 75)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXXVI: November 13, 2022 (April 2, Year 76)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXXVII: February 17, 2023 (April 2, Year 77)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXXVIII: April 9, 2023 (Porktober 5, Year 77)
• Oyster Egg Day LXXXIX: May 24, 2023 (April 2, Year 78)
• Oyster Egg Day XC: August 28, 2023 (April 2, Year 79)
• Oyster Egg Day XCI: December 2, 2023 (April 2, Year 80)
• Oyster Egg Day XCII: March 7, 2024 (April 2, Year 81)
• Oyster Egg Day XCIII: March 31, 2024 (Bor 2, Year 81)
• Oyster Egg Day XCIV: June 11, 2024 (April 2, Year 82)
• Oyster Egg Day XCV: September 15, 2024 (April 2, Year 83)
• Oyster Egg Day XCVI: December 20, 2024 (April 2, Year 84)
• Oyster Egg Day XCVII: March 26, 2025 (April 2, Year 85)
• Oyster Egg Day XCVIII: April 20, 2025 (Bor 3, Year 85)
• Oyster Egg Day XCIX: June 30, 2025 (April 2, Year 86)
• Oyster Egg Day C: October 4, 2025 (April 2, Year 87) (predicted)

"You Find an Oyster Egg" Messages

• You find an Oyster egg, Array.
• You find an Oyster egg, atop a huge X that has been painted on the ground, for some reason.
• You find an Oyster egg, behind a furnace.
• You find an Oyster egg, behind a stack of questionable men's magazines.
• You find an Oyster egg, behind a toilet. Eeeeew.
• You find an Oyster egg, behind Curtain #3.
• You find an Oyster egg, behind the ear of a startled-looking Knob Goblin teenager.
• You find an Oyster egg, carefully hidden in your own pants.
• You find an Oyster egg, down by a crick. Er, a creek.
• You find an Oyster egg, down by the schoolyard, in some kid named Julio's backpack.
• You find an Oyster egg, hidden behind a stack of old newspapers.
• You find an Oyster egg, hidden in a pile of dryer lint.
• You find an Oyster egg, hidden in a pile of other, less interesting eggs.
• You find an Oyster egg, in a huge box labeled 'Oyster eggs. Do not touch.'
• You find an Oyster egg, in a plain brown wrapper, in somebody else's mailbox.
• You find an Oyster egg, in an old shoebox, next to the skeleton of a gerbil.
• You find an Oyster egg, in between the spokes of a baby carriage wheel.
• You find an Oyster egg, in plain sight.
• You find an Oyster egg, in the freezer section of a nearby grocery store.
• You find an Oyster egg, in the pocket of somebody's bathrobe.
• You find an Oyster egg, in your imaginary friend's back pocket.
• You find an Oyster egg, inside a loaf of bread.
• You find an Oyster egg, inside a pumpkin. What was that pumpkin doing there?
• You find an Oyster egg, inside a stuffed animal, which did not survive the egg-removal operation.
• You find an Oyster egg, inside an empty cereal box.
• You find an Oyster egg, next to something that's either a coyote or a goose. You can't tell which.
• You find an Oyster egg, taped under the lid of a nearby wastebasket.
• You find an Oyster egg, to the left. Of everything.
• You find an Oyster egg, under a bed. Of flowers.
• You find an Oyster egg, under a boardwalk. Down by the sea.
• You find an Oyster egg, under the cushions of an inexplicable couch.
• You find an Oyster egg, underneath a fireman's hat. That was lying on the ground.
• You find an Oyster egg, underneath a sleeping Frat Boy.
• You find an Oyster egg, underneath an annoyed-looking Lavatory Troll.

At least from Oyster Egg Day LII, zone-specific messages from the sneaky wrapping paper are used either in addition to or instead of the earlier messages.

Surprise! After all of that stuff happens, you find an Oyster egg, <Hiding Place>.

Notes

• Oyster Egg Day XV was postponed one day due to it being Easter in real life. Jick stated that it had "absolutely nothing to do with the fact that we drank a lot last night."
• Oyster Egg Day XXII was postponed by a day, with the message:

It's not Oyster Egg Day!

The Enchanted Flying Oyster was not delayed by forces beyond his control, so he came the night before last and hid his magical eggs all over the Kingdom!

Grab a basket at the Market and retroactively go egg-hunting!

• The messages for finding oyster eggs were also modified (for example: "After all of that stuff happens, you remember that at about this time yesterday, you found an Oyster egg to the left. To the left of everything.")
• A unique egg was also available that day.

• On Oyster Egg Day XXXIV, a bug caused any adventure which used Anapest combat, whether it be in The Suburbs of Dis or under the effect of Just the Best Anapests, to yield 4 eggs per drop instead of just 1. This was fixed some time halfway through the day.
• On Oyster Egg Day XLVIII, which fell on Crimbo, one could find eggs in The Crimbonium Mining Camp with the message: "After all of that stuff happens, you find an Oyster egg, behind a pile of mint-scented rubble ."

History

• Until Oyster Egg Day XVIII, oyster eggs were gained in a non-combat which did not "cost" an adventure.
• Before the Market Demon was ousted by General Store, the description used to read: "Grab a basket at the Market and go egg-hunting!"
• For Oyster Egg Day LXI on April 1, 2018 as well as Oyster Egg Day LXV on May 26, 2018, the announcement read:

Surprise! Somebody played a prank on the Enchanted Flying Oyster and filled his cavities with sand while he slept. His eggs are super weird now! Grab a basket at the General Store and see if you can find some!

• Oyster Egg Day LXIV was the last Oyster Day where the "traditional eggs" shown below dropped. On LXIV the "epic oyster eggs" (listed above) were introduced. For that Oyster Day only, both kinds of eggs dropped. All Oyster Days after have only had the epic oyster eggs drop.

• The "traditional" Oyster Eggs were separated into both color and pattern: plastic oyster eggs are combat items; the rest are usable items.

• All non-plastic oyster eggs use up one Spleen point when consumed, so, ordinarily, no more than 15 can be used per day (unless you have Spleen of Steel, in which case you can consume up to 20). See Spleen Items.

Color	Plastic Combat Item	Striped Gain Muscle	Paisley Gain Mysticality	Polka-Dot Gain Moxie
Black Gain Meat	black plastic oyster egg +300-400 Meat	black striped oyster egg Egg-stortionary Tactics (20) +11-15 Strengthliness	black paisley oyster egg Egg-stortionary Tactics (20) +11-15 Wizardliness	black polka-dot oyster egg Egg-stortionary Tactics (20) +11-15 Roguishness
Blue Restore MP	blue plastic oyster egg +35-40 MP	blue striped oyster egg +31-35 MP +11-15 Strengthliness	blue paisley oyster egg +31-35 MP +11-15 Wizardliness	blue polka-dot oyster egg +31-35 MP +11-15 Roguishness
Lavender Gain Moxie	lavender plastic oyster egg 35-50 damage	lavender striped oyster egg +11-15 Roguishness +11-15 Strengthliness	lavender paisley oyster egg +11-15 Roguishness +11-15 Wizardliness	lavender polka-dot oyster egg +22-30 Roguishness
Mauve Gain Mysticality	mauve plastic oyster egg 35-50 damage	mauve striped oyster egg +11-15 Wizardliness +11-15 Strengthliness	mauve paisley oyster egg +22-30 Wizardliness	mauve polka-dot oyster egg +11-15 Wizardliness +11-15 Roguishness
Off-White Gain Items	off-white plastic oyster egg -7 monster level Slows monster attack	off-white striped oyster egg Eggs-tra Sensory Perception (20) +11-15 Strengthliness	off-white paisley oyster egg Eggs-tra Sensory Perception (20) +11-15 Wizardliness	off-white polka-dot oyster egg Eggs-tra Sensory Perception (20) +11-15 Roguishness
Puce Gain Muscle	puce plastic oyster egg 35-50 damage	puce striped oyster egg +22-30 Strengthliness	puce paisley oyster egg +11-15 Strengthliness +11-15 Wizardliness	puce polka-dot oyster egg +11-15 Strengthliness +11-15 Roguishness
Red Restore HP	red plastic oyster egg +31-35 HP	red striped oyster egg +31-35 HP +11-15 Strengthliness	red paisley oyster egg +31-35 HP +11-15 Wizardliness	red polka-dot oyster egg +31-35 HP +11-15 Roguishness
Yellow Stat Effect	yellow plastic oyster egg Egg-stra Arm or Egg-headedness or Egg-cellent Vocabulary (20)	yellow striped oyster egg +11-15 Strengthliness Egg-stra Arm (20)	yellow paisley oyster egg +11-15 Wizardliness Egg-headedness (20)	yellow polka-dot oyster egg +11-15 Roguishness Egg-cellent Vocabulary (20)

References

• The entire holiday is a reference to Easter day.
• The word "crick" is a rendering of the pronunciation of "creek" in some American English dialects (including, for example, the one used by Mark Twain's Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer).
• The "boardwalk" message refers to the lyrics of the oft-covered Drifters song "Under the Boardwalk".
• Finding the egg in a loaf of bread may be a reference to a TV Funhouse episode "Christmas Day" featuring a segment titled "Places to Look for Christmas Presents". One of the locations of a Christmas present was "inside a loaf of bread."
• The "inexplicable couch" is a reference to Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams, in which Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect escape from prehistoric earth on a piece of Space/Time jetsam in the form of a sofa.
• "Curtain #3" is a reference to the game show Let's Make a Deal, wherein the final game of each episode had the contestants choose prizes hiding behind three curtains.
• The egg that is in plain sight is a reference to the phrase "hidden in plain sight."
• The egg hidden behind a teenager's ear refers to a simple magic trick where someone seems to pull a quarter (or similar small object) out from behind someone else's ear.
• The skeletal gerbil in the shoebox references funerals some people hold for their pets, which may include using a shoebox as a coffin.
• The egg down by the schoolyard in Julio's backpack is a reference to the song Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard by Paul Simon, in which the singer and Julio are caught in the act of an unspecified crime.