The Hatching Hour Approaches

[Xzen]

Glorious, simply glorious.

Video related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vgR8gpSR-s

Here you go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG6b3...eature=related

[Nabiri]

Chocobos will hatch

Nah that's what they want you to think. With all this talk of impending doom this is what I figure will happen...
We'll get online after some maintenance or something and find chocobo eggs lying on the ground in town.. We'll praise SE and run towards them to claim our prize...



But as we approach them they'll begin to hatch and raptors will pop out and eat everyone... While the sky rains fire and egg-headed Jihli Aliapoh laughs maniacally in the background, spouting nonsense about the Twelve Archons.
You see, the spriggans were actually trying to SAVE us, by taking the raptor eggs away and hiding them in caves.. but those stubborn adventurers kept bringing them back. Oh well. D: Too late now! We're doomed! Game over man! Game over!!!

._o

[Umo]

lol if you thought something was going to happen right away. :P When you guys go off of pure speculation, of course its going to end in disappointment.

For me it's not illogical to speculate about something happening by the end of Hatching-tide - Hard-boiled High Jinks since we get an unconcluded event. There's a story already started but unfinished.
I know event-related NPCs have just disappeared, but I'm still thinking that it makes no sense just leaving things this way for more than a single day...

[Gramul]

I'm sure we'll get a "report" from the raven questioning the validity of Jihli Aliapoh and her followers considering their sudden and mysterious disappearance.

[Randis]

OMG NOOO the NPC, the black bunnies disappeared!!!!!11
Someone must have kidnapped them for sure! It must be the garlic Empire!
They stole the large egg because there must be some NM inside and they don't want to share the loot!
This all can not be just a simple seasonal event that will be repeated every year! No way! This all must have a deeper meaning! This must be connected to the main story for sure!

[Nuru]

The Garlic Empire sounds awesome, and relevant, since SE loves Onions.

[Randis]

and flying salad people

[PennywisE]

I was very careful in the OP to avoid building expectation that something would happen. As I mentioned the Hatching Hour referred to in the lore at the end of the festival. That could possibly refer to the already announced mid-June update.

It's certainly interesting that we are told dungeons are in the next patch shortly after lore has been added to the game suggesting an imminent summoning, the Archons.

Also, I wonder if the reason 1.17b was only referred to as a possibility in the 'Letter From The Producer' was because it is the mini update to finish off the event and naturally would not want to reveal its purpose.

All in all, I have enjoyed this event significantly more than the previous ones and hope that Yoshi-P and the team continues to develop the seasonal events to this standard. It opened up the lore of the world, provided a rather lucrative market for people willing to make the effort and for once there were threads on this forum that talked positively about the game now rather than the game in the future. Surely that has to be better than bells?

[Renshi]

Why getting disappointed by something that was not said, nor planned or expected?
7th umbral thing is not today anyway. Today is the end of the Hatching-tide event.

[Nabiri]

The event did sound like something was supposed to happen at the end. Whether it was something big or just exaggerated/imagined by Jihli. It would be a bit odd for nothing to happen, but I'd just shrug it off 'cause Jihli seems crazy to me anyways.
"Ha! Your silly archons didn't appear! Darn religious crazy, get outta my town and preach somewhere else!" *boots her out of Gridania.* >.>

I don't expect anything to happen either. SE didn't say anything would for sure. She probably is just crazy. :3
Or I could be the "crazy" non-believer. We'll see. :x