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.
Harold | Found in the Bungalows, Harold is one of the first NPCs that players could meet during the event. He's a goofy dog and a fellow guest at the resort. Over the course of the event we get to see his feelings for Simone unfold, although we never truly get to see what becomes of it.
Harold's design was originally released as a monthly pet in July 2016. |
Tony | Tony could be found in the Pool Area, watching the water to make sure no one was breaking the rules. He also ran the duck races, keeping both the players and himself quite busy with fun games.
This design had been first used in May 2015 as a monthly adoptable pet. |
Camo | Camo the chameleon ran the clothes shop at the resort. As such, she could be found in the Clothes Shop. She was know for providing free gifts and fashionable items.
This chameleon was first seen in June 2015 as a monthly adoptable pet. |
Henry | Henry was the host for the Jungle Adventure Tour, lending himself to have the energetic persona of an explorer. He guides CS players through his wilderness tour, showing his survival skills off to the group.
This pet was first seen during Christmas 2010, as part of the Advent Calendar that year. |
Simone | Through the course of the event, Simone revealed herself to be a very kind soul. Not only was she nice to the player, but she also ended up revealing her affections for the tourist, Harold, for whom she wished to give a generous gift (something the players would end up helping her with).
This pet's first appearance was in January 2015 as a monthly adoptable. |
Lloyd | Found at the Sen Fiŝo River, this poor kitty just wants to fish, but he's not having much luck. Unfortunately he seems to find all sorts of things other than fish in the water. Luckily for the players, he was willing to give them away!
The cat was one of the first seen on this line art, first released as part of CS's 2nd Birthday. |
Tracey | Tracey runs the new golf course for the resort, bringing her kind maternal personality to guide the users through the course. Although the construction was meant to expand her business, her understanding nature leads her to accepting the forest spirits' wishes.
This pet was first released in October 2014 as a free monthly adoptable. |
Peekelii | Hiding in the Tree on the Golf Course map, the little monkey named Peekelii was happy to befriend the CS users who came over. She's chatty and looking to have a nice fruit snack.
Peekelii's first appearance as an adoptable pet occurred in April 2016. |
Spirits | Over the course of the event the Spirits revealed themselves to the players of CS. Their homes were being destroyed by the construction work for the new golf course, and they enlisted the players to help them. They were very thankful to have their homes saved.
At the end of the event the spirits were released as items to travel with the CS users, hoping to heal more lands. |
Carica | This lemur appeared in the Bushes found on the Golf Course map. She lives in the forest, and was eager to help the forest spirits save the land. She was also happy that the players were willing to help them too.
This pet first appeared on the site as a Store Pet in 2015. |
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
Day One - July 21st
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| (This shop is closed today. It seems the employees are out for a training course.) |  Simone | |||
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Day Two - July 22nd
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Day Three - July 23rd
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| (Hmmm.. no employee to be found. Looks like they went on a break. This resort seems to be chronically understaffed if you ask me.) |  Tracey | |||
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| (Some strange creatures near the shrine seem to be observing you. They disappear as soon as you come too close.) |  Shrine | |||
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| (Not much to see here in the shrubs... besides shrubs.) |  Carica | |||
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Day Four - July 24th
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Day Five - July 25th
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Day Six - July 26th
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Day Seven - July 27th
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Day Eight - July 28th
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Day Nine - July 29th
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Day Ten - July 30th
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Day Eleven - July 31st
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Day Twelve - August 1st
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Day Thirteen - August 2nd
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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.
Jungle Resort
Pool Area
Tony watched over the Pool Area, which housed the duck race mini-game and the related releases (in addition to a few free pets as well).
Jungle Adventure Tour
A place primarily get scenery and use trade ins, Henry's Jungle Adventure Tour provided users with some exciting new additions to their collections.
Clothes Shop
A source of free daily items as well as some fashionable trade-in stations, this booth, run by Camo, provided users with all their stylish needs for the event.
Souvenir Shop
Simone provided users with free daily items and a a few special trade in stations through her shop, always happy to sell to CS players.
Bungalows
Golf Course
Putting Green
A game of golf could be played on the putting green, guided by the resort employee, Tracey. In addition to the golf prizes, Tracey also offered free items and a free daily gift.
The Shrine
The spirits hid in the stone-work of the shrine, their home which was being disturbed by the golf course and construction.
The Construction Site
Here users could attack the machines in service to the spirits once an hour, which in turn would give them a new type of token. Users could also use this station to generate fun text about how the attacks were going, often interaction with CS team members.
The Tree
In the tree a little monkey named Peekelii was happy to meet the tourists. She kept several trade in stations and even a free adoptable.
The Bushes
Starting on Day 5, Carica emerged in the bushes wishing to help the spirits. She had a few trade in stations, and also provided users with a free daily gift.
Sen Fiŝo River
A few gifts and trade in stations could be found here, provided by the struggling fisherman Lloyd.
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.)
Admins
Tess
Nick
Sorren Fey
Admin Assistants
Bernouli
Lacuna
Simon
CS Staff
Jayfrost
Pluma
Saikiyo
sketchi
Swiftalu
Yağmur
Fiery Gatoh
Moderators
AquilaFuga
Cerru
Dama
Desmond
Dia.
juice box.
katsue
Metallic Dragon
Nadine
Pi.
Raey
Raire
Schuyler
Tarkeli
Zeena
Zelery
Mascots
Avian
Totoro
Golf
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| 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.
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| [staff member] lifts [user] up on their shoulders so they can climb on top of a machine. |
| [staff member] shares some exotic fruit with [user]. |
| [staff member] stops to play with a frog, [user] yells at them to focus on the mission. |
| [user] and [staff member] offer the digger some exotic fruits. It ignores them, how rude! |
| [user] accidentally bumps into [staff member] while running away from an angry tenrec. |
| [user] and [staff member] are tired from all their efforts and decided to go lounge by the pool instead...that's still helping, right? |
| [user] and [staff member] are making flower crowns out of some wild flowers. |
| [user] and [staff member] are throwing rocks at a digger. |
| [user] and [staff member] decide to look for the keys to the machines. Maybe they can drive them away. |
| [user] and [staff member] give some lemurs a piggy-back ride. |
| [user] and [staff member] have stopped to play a round of golf. It looks like [staff member] is winning. |
| [user] and [staff member] have stopped to play a round of golf. It looks like [user] is winning. |
| [user] and [staff member] run screaming from a snake... but it's really just a hose. |
| [user] and [staff member] take turns drawing something in the dirt... They play Tic-tac-toe! |
| [user] and [staff member] take turns slashing the tires of the construction vehicles. |
| [user] and [staff member] throw golf balls at the machines, one hits [staff member] in the head. |
| [user] and [staff member] try to dismantle a machine piece by piece. |
| [user] begins spinning around wildly in front of the bulldozer hoping to make it dizzy. |
| [user] brainstorms psychological warfare tactics. |
| [user] challenges a digger to a duck race. There is no reply. |
| [user] cheers everyone else on... while they enjoy a cool smoothie in the shadows of the trees. |
| [user] commands monkeys in the trees to bombard the construction area with rotten fruits. We're getting splashed too! |
| [user] decides to skip the chaos and go fishing with Lloyd instead. |
| [user] eats a fruit, unbothered by the chaos surrounding them. |
| [user] enjoys the sweet scent of some wild flowers they collected. |
| [user] finds a shady spot to relax in and escape the hot sun. |
| [user] gets hit in the head with an exotic fruit. |
| [user] goes over to try and help [staff member] and [staff member] push over a bulldozer. |
| [user] hammers at a bolt but it doesn't budge. |
| [user] hunts for their lost golfball. It must be over here somewhere! |
| [user] is busy trying to explain their plan to an okapi who simply continues eating. |
| [user] is checking drivers' cabins for potentially left keys. |
| [user] is putting on a reflective vest and helmet, can't be too careful! |
| [user] is sweeping up broken glass to make sure the lemurs don't hurt their feet. |
| [user] knocks a safety cone over, that'll show them! |
| [user] lets the air out of a truck's tires. |
| [user] makes silly puns about "digging" things to try and lighten the mood. |
| [user] must have disturbed a swarm of insects and is seen fleeing the area with [staff member] close behind. |
| [user] notices a gigantic bug aiming to jump on [staff member]. Instead of saying anything, [user] giggles and back away slowly. |
| [user] offers fruit to a curious lemur. |
| [user] sees eyes peering at them from inside the bushes. |
| [user] shakes a tree, hoping for some exotic fruits. Instead, [staff member] falls down onto them. |
| [user] slams a digger's door as loudly as they can... it doesn't hurt it. |
| [user] stands on top of a bulldozer yelling instructions and encouragement into a megaphone. |
| [user] stubs their toe on a barricade, ouch! |
| [user] swings in on a vine looking fabulous but ultimately smacks into a tree. |
| [user] takes a big sniff of a titan arum. Big mistake! |
| [user] takes a golf club and starts smashing things. |
| [user] takes a vine and starts slapping the window of the bulldozer. |
| [user] takes one of Simone's masks and tries to shoo away a wood cutting vehicle with the smell. It seems rather unimpressed. |
| [user] took a bunch of rubber duckies when Tony wasn't looking and is throwing them against the vehicles now. SQUEAK! |
| [user] tries talking to a parrot. It makes a fart noise and flies away. Rude. |
| [user] tries to call on the jungle animals to help by screaming loudly through the bushes. |
| [user] tries to get Harold to help with their plan, but he won't stop complaining he's hungry! |
| [user] tries to hit a golf ball at a bulldozer, but [staff member] gets in the way. |
| [user] tries to hot-wire one of the construction machines. They get an electric shock! |
| [user] tries to reason with a bulldozer, but it doesn't seem to hear them. |
| [user] tries to remove a bolt with their teeth. Ouch! |
| [user] tries to undermine one of the caterpillars. That looks dangerous! |
| [user] tripped over a machine piece and fell down. [staff member] is laughing at them. |
| [user] trips and falls into a puddle of mud.... [staff member] helps them up while [staff member] laughs. |
| [user] trips over a baby ocelot and lands face down in the mud. |
| [user] uses their binoculars to search for some colourful birds, but only catches [staff member] jumping on top of the bulldozers. |
| [user] wears a safety cone as a hat. |
| [user], [staff member], and [staff member] pull at a crawler track with all their might. They are getting sweaty. |
| [user], [staff member], and [staff member] are wrapping vines around a bulldozer. |
| [user], [staff member], and [staff member] help a family of ocelots find their way out of the construction. It's like herding cats. |
| End of the Event Additions |
| [staff member] and [staff member] are swinging [user] around and around, I hope they don't let go! |
| [user] and [staff member] are covering windshields with mud. |
| [user] and [staff member] are fighting a tug of war over a snake plushie |
| [user] and [staff member] are mixing up a "magic" stew in the mud using random leaves and berries. It almost smells as bad as those masks. |
| [user] and [staff member] go to speak to resort management about the construction equipment. [user] wonders who runs this place anyway? |
| [user] and [staff member] sit in the mud counting their event tokens |
| [user] and [staff member] stare in amazement at the chaos unfolding in front of them. Wasn’t this meant to be a vacation? |
| [user] and [staff member] try dragging a fallen tree branch over to bash the machines with, but it's too heavy to lift |
| [user] asks the chameleons for help. The chameleons just laugh at [user]'s funny clothes. How rude. |
| [user] charges full-speed at a digger, but just bounces off! |
| [user] comes swinging in on a vine, wearing a gorilla mask. Unfortunately they swing right past the machines and disappear into the forest. |
| [user] discovers a shiny thing buried in the mud... but it turns out to be a pair of lost shoes :( |
| [user] finds [staff member] trying to stare a machine down.... |
| [user] gets distracted by a butterfly. So pretty. |
| [user] got distracted by a hoard of resort tokens! Wait, never mind, it was just colorful fruit. |
| [user] is drawing on a sketchpad, are they making a construction-site Oekaki? |
| [user] is packing a gas tank with berries. Where'd they find that many anyway? |
| [user] is tired from a late night of token hunting, and tightens the nuts and bolts in their confusion |
| [user] manages to pull their feet out of deep mud, but their shoes stay buried! |
| [user] missed the memo about destruction and runs in circles thinking they're winning the mud run |
| [user] sits and listens to stories of the forest by the spirits. [staff member] joins them. |
| [user] successfully breaks into one of the machines, but has too much fun playing at being a digger operator to achieve anything useful |
| [user] tries taking a bite out of the machine. A piece breaks off into the mud, but it turns out to be a piece of their tooth. |
| [user] tries to drink directly out of the river, but loses their balance and falls in. |
Trivia
Learn some fun facts about the the history and impact of this event!
- The scenery for this event was drawn by the Official Artist, Yağmur.
- Towards the end of the event, most images were replaced to show additional growth.
- The macaw line art was first revealed in this event.
- There was a Dress Up Challenge to go with this event.