Summer Event 2018: Jungle Resort
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Summary
For 2018's summer adventure, Avian and Totoro brought Chicken Smoothie's user base to an all-inclusive Jungle Resort. While the employees of the resort entertained the guests, curiosity grew about what lay beyond the gate, which fenced off an area of the resort which was closed for construction. Soon the gate did open, and the guests from Chicken Smoothie discovered a whole new area to explore, in nature, untouched for the most part by civilization. However, the resort staff was working on converting the space into a golf course. The shrine in the middle of the golf course had some strange activity, and soon users realized that the forest was inhabited by spirits, whose homes were being destroyed by the construction. In an effort to help the poor creatures, CS users took off to combat the machines, and convinced the resort staff to end their damage to the jungle, leaving it for the spirits to live in peace.
Characters (NPCs)
The Jungle Resort event was filled with colorful NPCs, pushing the story line of this summer vacation along. These characters are often called NPCs (non player characters) since they weren't actually played by a user, but were instead pre-programmed by staff. The NPCs would give out pets and items throughout the event. Some required players to trade in tokens to claim their prizes, while other stations were free. As the event progressed, more trade ins and characters were introduced each day, as the story was gradually revealed.
Character Dialogue
Sometimes referred to as "flavor text," the NPCs often had their dialogue switched out in order to tell the story. Each day new dialogue would be up, telling observant users about the changes happening in the Jungle Resort
Map Areas
The Lost City map had many interactive areas, which held new content each day. Users had to check the zones each day to make sure they didn't miss out on any gifts! In addition to free pets and items, the event also featured trade-in stations, which allowed users to exchange their tokens for other prizes.
Mini Games
Over the course of the event, two mini games were revealed continuing the popular trend which had been created the year prior in the Lost City Event. The two games included the Duck Race (added Day 2 in the Pool Area) and Golf (revealed on Day 5 to be a function of the Putting Green).
Duck Race
 | Upon paying a fee in event tokens in the Pool Area, users would be asked to chose their preferred duck racer. The ducks were named Ducky McDuckface, Waddles, Puddles, and Jemima respectively, although only three would appear in the race at a time: the one picked by the user and two others.
When the race started, the ducks would com tumbling from the slide one at a time. The prizes the player would receive were determined by the order the ducks emerged. The sooner the player's chosen duck came out, the higher they'd place. A trophy corresponding to the duck's position would be given to the player, along with a matching prize. 1st place came with a pet, while 2nd place had the addition of two plushy items. 3rd place only got a single plushy from the same prize pool. Each placement had its own artwork, their enthusiasm mirroring how well they did in the race. | |||||
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Part way through the event, some stamps were made available so those who participated could remember the game far into the future.
Users didn't have to spend tokens to watch the race. If they just wanted to see the animation, they could opt to watch a free race between three random ducks, specially designed by the site's team. Each of these staff duckies were colored on three line arts corresponding to their placements in the race; just like the standard ducks players could chose between.
There were no prizes to be gained by participating in this activity; it was purely for fun! Click "expand" to see the staff ducks. Members of staff at the time of this event had the option to color their own ducks. (Note, General Helpers did not have ducks as they are not considered staff.)
Golf
| Users could try their chances at the game of golf by giving Tracey a token in the Putting Green. Random chance would determine if a player won or lost the round, and they would be given a prize accordingly.
The first place prize was a new type of egg, which would later be revealed to be a new species on Chicken Smoothie: the macaw! These eggs had a few different outcomes (and it would take a few days to see which one any given egg would turn into) so it kept users excited and playing as each stage of the new line art was revealed. As a consolation prize for loosing the game of golf, players would receive three random outcomes from a set of items that could be stacked together to for a totem pole. There were a few different pictures to explain what went wrong with your golfing expedition. |
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Tokens
This event had several different types of tokens. However, unlike most of Chicken Smoothie's more recent summer events, the tokens with and hour wait weren't revealed until nearly halfway through the event. While there were many individual tokens for this event, there were only four functional banner token categories (plus the ones with a hour cool down); nothing demanded a specific item, only something from one of the categories.
Also different from other events, there were no "intermediate" tokens. That's to say, players were not required to trade some of their banner or hourly tokens in for another, more specific, token. Nor were there any special "banner pets" or "banner items." Normally these special pets or items would have a small chance of dropping from the banner instead of a token, but none were released for this event.
Furthermore, at the end of the event, some trade in stations were set up to allow players to swap their token types (allowing them to convert excess of one type into more tokens for something the player preferred).
Banner Tokens
Every 20 minutes, users could randomly find a banner at the bottom of the page. Clicking on this banner would usually give them one of the following items. These were tokens in the Jungle summer event, and could be traded-in at various stations in the summer event map in exchange for pets, items, or other types of tokens. Due to the large number of tokens featured in this event, there was functionally 4 different "types" of tokens, where trade-ins never sought a specific item but rather only ones from a given category. The Jungle Event had a final banner limit of 300. Tokens could also function as normal items, and after the even tiny remaining tokens because nothing more than regular items.
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Pacay |
Maracuya |
Maracuya |
Papaya |
Star Fruit |
Papaya |
Sapote |
Cacao |
Cacao |
Sapote |
Pitahaya |
Cacona |
Machine Part Tokens
The Construction Site was an area on the Jungle Event map that opened up later in the event and allowed players to collect an additional type of token once every hour. These tokens could then be used to trade for other event objects, or they could be kept and used as regular items, which they became after the event. They did not count toward's a player's banner limit.
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Track Link |
Bucket Tooth |
Sprocket Segment |
Snap Ring |
Bolt |
Bolt |
Planetary Gear |
Steering Clutch Disc |
Stamps
Souvenir Shop
Pool Area
Fun Text
As with many of Chicken Smoothie's summer events, the Jungle Resort also featured a funny interactive text generator, which would create silly messages about the player fighting the "metallic beasts" (a.k.a. the construction equipment). Some phrases, also called "flavor text," would involve the player interacting with a CS team member, only adding to the fun.
In this instance, the text generator was located in the same zone as the hourly event tokens: the construction site. Upon arriving on this page, players could either choose to make a Strong Attack, which would yield an event token (although this could only be done once and hour), or a Quick Attack, which would generate a fun line of text. The latter had a cool down of 20 seconds as to not completely overwhelm the site, as users could see the phrases generated for other users in real time.