Whitsun (Guide)

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Eggs have abruptly appeared all over London – in bath tubs, balanced on chimneys, nestled in sofas, tucked in the holds of docked ships. And they're vast ones, the size of a beer barrel, an over-rounded dog, a prize-winning marrow.[1]

Whitsun is an Easter-like event in which Londoners can buy, change and hatch eggs.

Acquiring an Egg[edit]

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There are four kinds of eggs available to Londoners; Scarlet, Aged, Percipient and as of 2022, Pelagic. All are bought from The Reliable Eggmonger, with some legacy eggs costing an Amber Ha'penny apiece. This year, Aged and Percipient Eggs cost Ha'pennies.

Egg Storylet Cost Costs Ha'Penny
Scarlet Egg Buy a scarlet egg 20x Bottle of Greyfields 1882
Aged Egg Buy an aged egg 100x Jade Fragment
Percipient Egg Buy a percipient egg 40x Shard of Glim
Pelagic Egg Buy a pelagic egg 40x Rostygold

Amber Ha'pennies[edit]

The Amber Ha'penny is a "soft-FATE" Festival Currency for Whitsun. Use of FATE for Whitsun are mediated by purchasing and spending ha'pennies. All players receive 3 ha'pennies for free, meaning that no Whitsun content is exclusive to paying players, although non-paying players may need to be more patient, or selective with the rewards they pick.

Each additional Amber Ha'penny beyond the 3 free ones costs 10 FATE, with a 33% bulk discount when purchasing 18. Note that Ha'pennies persist from year to year. This allows non-paying players to save up for The Device, but is also a consideration for paying players considering paying larger amounts.

The uses of Amber Ha'pennies are as follows, ordered roughly in decreasing mechanical value.

Investigating Eggs[edit]

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Untreated Eggs can also be investigated in your Laboratory. For 100 x Laboratory Research, each egg will give +5 CP Speculation about Whitsun and increase The Prestige of your Laboratory, as well as +1 CP in a Skill and an item worth E 12.5. Each egg research project also has a Focus, allowing you to use one of the Esoteric Arts.

Egg Research Storylets Project Properties Result
Aged Egg Monstrous Focus
Scarlet Egg Shapeling Focus
Percipient Egg Toxicological Focus
Pelagic Egg Monstrous Focus

Wiki note: Word from FBG is that lab experiments WILL NOT refund ha'pennies, so be careful about that.

Speculation about Whitsun[edit]

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Speculation about Whitsun can be obtained while doing various actions in London. It is mostly useless, however at level 10, it can be used to publish a Whitsun Edition of your newspaper if you own one.

Bringing up your egg[edit]

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Eggs can be either Enlightened or Invigorated, which together with the type of egg will determine which kind of creature will be spawned.

Egg Treatment Cost Result
Aged Egg, Untreated Invigorate 9 x Appalling Secret Fully Invigorated Aged Egg
Enlighten 15 x Foxfire Candle Stub

6 x Intriguing Snippet

Fully Enlightened Aged Egg
Scarlet Egg, Untreated Invigorate 9 x Appalling Secret Fully Invigorated Scarlet Egg
Enlighten 15 x Foxfire Candle Stub

6 x Intriguing Snippet

Fully Enlightened Scarlet Egg
Percipient Egg, Untreated Invigorate 9 x Appalling Secret Fully Invigorated Percipient Egg
Enlighten 15 x Foxfire Candle Stub

6 x Intriguing Snippet

Fully Enlightened Percipient Egg
Pelagic Egg, Untreated Invigorate 9 x Appalling Secret Fully Invigorated Pelagic Egg
Enlighten 15 x Foxfire Candle Stub

6 x Intriguing Snippet

Fully Enlightened Pelagic Egg

Sinning Jenny's Finishing School (FATE)[edit]

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At Sinning Jenny's Finishing School, it's possible to lead your students in study by using untreated eggs. While most options will give you items, it is possible to obtain a Dark-Carapaced Crustacean and even a Gilded Crustacean by considering Aged Eggs from a Red Science perspective. Each egg will advance your syllabus by one step (so you can only open four eggs per group of students) and increase Credit with the Headmistress by 1. This action does consume the egg (so buy spares if you want to do more than one egg per term), but any Ha'pennies spent on eggs will be refunded.

Egg Challenge Success Rare Success
Aged Egg, Untreated Artisan of the Red Science 6 Dark-Carapaced Crustacean Gilded Crustacean
Aged Egg, Untreated Watchful 150 3 x Unidentified Thigh Bone
Percipient Egg, Untreated Monstrous Anatomy 6 1 x Jet Black Stinger
Scarlet Egg, Untreated Monstrous Anatomy 6 1 x Ambiguous Eolith
Pelagic Egg, Untreated Monstrous Anatomy 6 1 x Withered Tentacle

Selling Eggs[edit]

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Eggs can also be sold to buyers in the Bone Market.

Breaking open eggs[edit]

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It is also possible to break open your eggs on the Bring Up your Egg page and—for untreated eggs—The Trials of Patience. Eggs can be broken open at any point of the Enlighten/Invigorate phase, yielding a wide range of rewards. Every break open action is a 40% luck check and has two possible results for each success and failure.

If you break open or smash open an egg that costs an Amber Ha'penny, breaking open that egg recovers you the penny, both in the success and the failure case.

Egg Success Alt Success Failure Alt Failure
Aged Egg, Untreated (Break open) 1 x Unidentified Thigh Bone
1 x Femur of a Jurassic Beast
1 x Human Arm 1 x Unidentified Thigh Bone 1 x Headless Skeleton
Percipient Egg, Untreated (Break open) 1 x Touching Love Story
4 x Appalling Secret
1 x Extraordinary Implication
3 x Tale of Terror!!
5 x Venom-Ruby 3 x Comp. Document
Scarlet Egg, Untreated (Break open) 1 x Aeolian Scream
3 x Memory of Distant Shores
1 x Extraordinary Implication
3 x Romantic Notion
3 x Comp. Document 1 x Corr. Plaque
Pelagic Egg, Untreated (Break open) 1 x Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory 1 x Memory of a Much Lesser Self
2 x Withered Tentacle
3 x Correspondence Plaque 5 x Flask of Abominable Salts
Partially Invigorated Aged Egg (Smash open) 1 x Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory
1 x Ambiguous Eolith
1 x A Monstrous Orb 1 x Headless Skeleton 1 x Unidentified Thigh Bone
Partially Invigorated Percipient Egg (Smash open) 5 x Memory of Distant Shores
1 x Ostentatious Diamond
1 x Memory of a Much Lesser Self
15 x Phosphorescent Scarab
1 x Flawed Diamond 3 x Whisper-Satin Scrap
Partially Invigorated Scarlet Egg (Smash open) 1 x Tailfeather Brilliant as Flame
15 x Romantic Notion
1 x Royal-Blue Feather
1 x Memory of Light
3 x Comp. Document 1 x Corr. Plaque
Partially Invigorated Pelagic Egg (Smash open) 1-3 x Segmented Ribcage 2 x Deep-zee Catch
1 x Live Specimen
3 x Palimpsest Scrap 2 x Memory of Distant Shores
Partially Enlightened Aged Egg (Smash open) 1 x Unidentified Thigh Bone
1 x Femur of a Jurassic Beast
1 x Human Arm 1 x Unidentified Thigh Bone 1 x Headless Skeleton
Partially Enlightened Percipient Egg (Smash open) 1 x Obsidian Chitin Tail 1 x Tomb-Lion's Tail 2 x Venge-Rat Corpse 3 x Jet Black Stinger
Partially Enlightened Scarlet Egg (Smash open) 1 x Aeolian Scream
3 x Memory of Distant Shores
1 x Extraordinary Implication
5 x Romantic Notion
3 x Comp. Document 1 x Corr. Plaque
Partially Enlightened Pelagic Egg (Smash open) 1 x Knob of Scintillack 284-347 x Bone Fragments 3 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
2 x Bat Wing
2 x Ambiguous Eolith

Augmenting Eggs[edit]

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After you have fully Enlightened or Invigorated an egg, you can also apply up to three Augments to it. Two of the augments per egg can be applied by specialists who have set up camp at various locations in London. Each location can provide one augmentation per egg; thus, visits to two separate locations are needed to acquire both of them. The third possible source of augmentations is the Highly Illegal Experimental Augmentation Device (Probably). This device can be purchased separately for 5 Amber Ha'pennies.

It should be noted that only the number of augmentations matter for the result, the order doesn't. For example, you can apply the Highly Illegal Experimental Augmentation Device to an egg with no augments, then hatch it, and it will count as a once-augmented egg for the result.

Augments will change what kind of creature you get and will make it more powerful. Twice-augmented creatures have higher stat bonuses, +1 point of either B/D/R, and may have some uses in specific locations. Thrice-augmented creatures have a point in an advanced skill.

Augments[edit]

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Egg Type (Genus) Storylet Location Cost Result
Aged, Invigorated (Terror Birds)

and Pelagic, Invigorated (Salted Eels)

Arrange for a Theological Augmentation The Labyrinth of Tigers 2 x Extraordinary Implication Theological Augmentation
Acquire a Grotesque Augmentation Dept. of Menace Eradication 6 x Correspondence Plaque Grotesque Augmentation
Aged, Enlightened (Aurochs)

and Pelagic, Enlightened (Squid)

Gain a Mirror-Shine Augmentation Mahogany Hall 2 x Mourning Candle Mirror-Shine Augmentation
An Augmentation Applied on the Sly The Flit 6 x Compromising Document Sly Augmentation
Scarlet, Invigorated (Lyrebirds) and

Percipient, Invigorated (Squirrels)

Apply an Ornate Augmentation Veilgarden 2 x Journal of Infamy Ornate Augmentation
An Augmentation Rejecting Convention The Shuttered Palace 2 x Tale of Terror!! Outré Augmentation
Scarlet, Enlightened (Iguanas) and

Percipient, Enlightened (Spindlewolves)

Arrange for a Contorting Augmentation Wolfstack Docks 2 x Extraordinary Implication Contorting Augmentation
Acquire an Augmentation in the Very Latest of Fashions Mrs Plenty's Carnival 2 x Vision of the Surface Augmentation in the Very Latest of Fashions
Enlightened or Invigorated Eggs (Any) Cup the top of the Enlightened egg with the Experimental Device Universal Requires Highly Illegal Experimental Augmentation Device (Probably), does not consume it. Highly Experimental Augmentation

Results[edit]

Stat gains which are the highest possible for that items slot (amongst freely available and seasonal items) will be printed bold.

Non-Augmented Eggs[edit]

Egg Type Result Stats Ancillary Use
Aged, Invigorated Young Terror Bird Dangerous +3
Get bones in Ealing Gardens
(Gain Wing of a Young Terror Bird)
Aged, Enlightened Aurochs Shadowy +3
Get bones in Ealing Gardens
(Gain Horned Skull)
Scarlet, Invigorated Untrained Lyrebird Persuasive +3
Progress on a Heist
Scarlet, Enlightened Suspicious Iguana Watchful +3
Investigate in the Flit
Percipient, Invigorated Quizzical Squirrel Shadowy +3
Use Attar in Arbor
(Gain Emetic Revelation)
Percipient, Enlightened Spindlewolf Watchful +3
Gain Talk of the Town and Rumour items at a party
Pelagic, Invigorated Unerring Elver Dangerous +3
Gain Seeking... in The Flit and research for ichthyological-focused project
Pelagic, Enlightened Prismatic Squidling Persuasive +3
Nature in the Neath in The Empress' Court and Study your Prismatic Squidling when studying fish

Once-Augmented Eggs[edit]

Egg Type Result Stats Ancillary Uses
Aged, Invigorated Full-Grown Terror Bird Shadowy +3
Dangerous +5
Nada.
Aged, Enlightened Carnivorous Aurochs Shadowy +5
Dangerous +3
Get Memories of Discordance in Parabola
Scarlet, Invigorated Operatic Lyrebird Persuasive +5
Watchful +3
Zip.
Scarlet, Enlightened Amber Iguana Watchful +5
Persuasive +3
Research for one non-repeatable project
Percipient, Invigorated Acute Squirrel Watchful +3
Shadowy +5
Research option on Monstrous projects
Percipient, Enlightened Elongated Spindlewolf Watchful +5
Shadowy +3
Get Salacious Copy for your Newspaper
Pelagic, Invigorated Abyssal Sawtooth Dangerous +5
Persuasive +3
Option while diving in the Magistracy
Pelagic, Enlightened Canny Cuttlefish Dangerous +3
Persuasive +5
Build a Cover Identity in Balmoral ( 250 x Cryptic Clue instead of 1 x Favours: The Great Game, w/ a free Backstory point)

Twice-Augmented Eggs[edit]

Egg Type Result Stats Ancillary Uses
Aged, Invigorated Iron-Toothed Terror Bird Shadowy +5
Dangerous +7
Dreaded +1
Get Thorned Ribcages in Parabola
Aged, Enlightened Dream-dwelling Carnivorous Aurochs Shadowy +7
Dangerous +5
Dreaded +1
Parabolan Defenses to 3 (repeatable up to once with particular ambition) (Potentially saves you 450 to 900E)

The Church in Burrow-Infra-Mump (non-repeatable)

Scarlet, Invigorated Lyrebird Educated in Three Schools Persuasive +7
Watchful +5
Respectable +1
Get Making Waves at your Salon
Scarlet, Enlightened Warm-hearted Amber Iguana Watchful +7
Persuasive +5
Bizarre +1
Neathproofed +1
Get Scheme at your Orphanage

Research for one non-repeatable project

Percipient, Invigorated Acicular Squirrel Shadowy +7
Watchful +5
Bizarre +1
Get Scouting when searching Parabola for a place in the Neath
Percipient, Enlightened Surveilling Spindlewolf Watchful +7
Shadowy +5
Respectable +1
Build a Cover Identity in Balmoral ( 250 x Cryptic Clue instead of 1 x Favours: Society, w/ a free Backstory point)
Pelagic, Invigorated Immaculate Eel Dangerous +7
Persuasive +5
Dreaded +1
Option in The Nadir
Pelagic, Enlightened Violantly Mercantile Cuttlefish Dangerous +5
Persuasive +7
Respectable +1
Progress for your Advertising Campaign

Thrice-Augmented Eggs[edit]

Egg Type Result Stats Ancillary Uses
Aged, Invigorated Double-Headed Terror Bird Shadowy +5
Dangerous +7
Dreaded +3
Monstrous Anatomy +1
None
Aged, Enlightened Reflected Minotaur Shadowy +7
Dangerous +5
Dreaded +1
Bizarre +1
Glasswork +1
Scarlet, Invigorated Unquenchable Firebird Persuasive +7
Watchful +5
Respectable +3
Mithridacy +1
Neathproofed +1
Watchtower in Ealing Gardens (non-repeatable)
Scarlet, Enlightened Rubbery Dragon Watchful +7
Persuasive +5
Bizarre +3
Shapeling Arts +1
Study your Rubbery Dragon
Percipient, Invigorated Transfixing Squirrel Watchful +5
Shadowy +7
Dreaded +1
Bizarre +2
Kataleptic Toxicology +1
Expedition option in Moulin
Percipient, Enlightened Brachiating Spindlewolf Watchful +7
Shadowy +5
Respectable +2
Bizarre +1
Artisan of the Red Science +1
Get an Implication in the Nadir
Pelagic, Invigorated Uttermost Eel Dangerous +7
Persuasive +5
Respectable +1
Dreaded +1
Bizarre +1
Zeefaring +1
Option in A Distant Gleam, raises eastern wind
Pelagic, Enlightened Inculcating Kraken Dangerous +5
Persuasive +7
Respectable +1
Dreaded +1
Bizarre +1
A Player of Chess +1
Option in Spire-Emporium

Egg Creatures Evolution at a Glance[edit]

Egg Type Augmentations
0 1 2 3 Sartorial
Aged, Invigorated Young Terror Bird Full-Grown Terror Bird Iron-Toothed Terror Bird Double-Headed Terror Bird Birdskin Gloves
Aged, Enlightened Aurochs Carnivorous Aurochs Dream-dwelling Carnivorous Aurochs Reflected Minotaur Aurochs-Fur Coat
Scarlet, Invigorated Untrained Lyrebird Operatic Lyrebird Lyrebird Educated in Three Schools Unquenchable Firebird Tuneful Hat
Scarlet, Enlightened Suspicious Iguana Amber Iguana Warm-hearted Amber Iguana Rubbery Dragon Iguana-Skin Boots
Percipient, Invigorated Quizzical Squirrel Acute Squirrel Acicular Squirrel Transfixing Squirrel Honed Ushanka
Percipient, Enlightened Spindlewolf Elongated Spindlewolf Surveilling Spindlewolf Brachiating Spindlewolf Vigilant Chitin-Fur Boots
Pelagic, Invigorated Unerring Elver Abyssal Sawtooth Immaculate Eel Uttermost Eel Moray Heels
Pelagic, Enlightened Prismatic Squidling Canny Cuttlefish Violantly Mercantile Cuttlefish Inculcating Kraken Mesmeric Parasol

Player Eggs[edit]

Egg can also be sent to other players in Bring Up your Egg after being fully Invigorated or Enlightened at the cost of 1 x Amber Ha'penny to hatch unique companions.

Egg Result Stats Ancillary Uses
Aged, Invigorated Copper-Speckled Crustacean Dangerous +3
Research for one non-repeatable project
Aged, Enlightened Dilly Shadowy +3
None.
Scarlet, Invigorated Mycological Bullfrog Persuasive +3
Research for one non-repeatable project
Scarlet, Enlightened Voracious Lamp-Eye Watchful +3
Research for one non-repeatable project
Percipient, Invigorated Elegiac Cockatoo Watchful +3
Bring it along for tea (social action)
Percipient, Enlightened Imminent Falcon Shadowy +3
Bring it along for tea (social action)
Pelagic, Invigorated Burbling Wolfhound Dangerous +3
None.
Pelagic, Enlightened Exuberant Batling Persuasive +3
None.

Sartorial Augmentation[edit]

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Sartorial Augments are a special type of Augments applied by the tailor in Ladybones Road. Sartorial Augments can only be applied if you have no other Augments and will ensure that instead of a living creature, a piece of clothing will hatch from your egg. The type of clothing will be determined by your egg and if you Enlightened or Invigorated it. All Augments cost 3 x Amber Ha'penny.

Egg Result Stats Ancillary Uses
Aged, Invigorated Birdskin Gloves Dangerous +3
Respectable +1
Monstrous Anatomy +1
Neathproofed +1
None
Aged, Enlightened Aurochs-Fur Coat Shadowy +6
Respectable +4
Bizarre -2
Glasswork +1
Nightmares -1
Neathproofed +2
Scarlet, Invigorated Tuneful Hat Persuasive +6
Respectable +4
Dreaded -2
Mithridacy +1
Alternative for joining the Clay Tailor Club
Scarlet, Enlightened Iguana-Skin Boots Watchful +5
Dreaded +1
Bizarre +1
Shapeling Arts +1
Neathproofed +1
None
Percipient, Invigorated Honed Ushanka Shadowy +6
Respectable -2
Bizarre +4
Kataleptic Toxicology +1
Neathproofed +1
Perform venomous headbutt at the Dockside brawl
Percipient, Enlightened Vigilant Chitin-Fur Boots Watchful +5
Respectable +1
Bizarre +1
Artisan of the Red Science +1
Execute a mind bending kick at the Dockside brawl
Pelagic, Invigorated Moray Heels Dangerous +5
Respectable +1
Dreaded +1
Zeefaring +1
Spear your enemy's feet at the Dockside brawl
Pelagic, Enlightened Mesmeric Parasol Persuasive +5
Respectable +2
Dreaded -1
Bizarre +1
A Player of Chess +1
An additional option during Khaganian Intrigue at False-Dawn (No Methods lock). Costs 1 x Oneiric Pearl.

De Gustibus[edit]

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De Gustibus has made a return to London, and may be found at Ladybones Road. In addition to previously available options, it is now possible to sell them Eggs in almost any state (Eggs with Sartorial Augmentation are not considered edible) for various rewards. This is the only time of year that a Vial of Masters' Blood can be exchanged for A Sealed Copy of the Crimson Book. A complete list of rewards can be found on the page De Gustibus in Whitsun. Selling an augmented egg of any kind to De Gustibus will increase De Gustibus: Eggxhaustion, so you can only sell a maximum of two augmented eggs to them per season.

Hatching an Egg[edit]

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After you've fully brought up your egg, you can start the hatching process on the Storylet Incubate your Egg. This process typically takes 24 hours; however, it may be hastened by the use of Amber Ha'pennies or Fate. During this 24 hour period, eggs can not be Invigorated, Enlightened or Augmented. Note that eggs to which a Sartorial Augment has been applied, or that have been received through social actions, will hatch immediately.

The Hatchening[edit]

After 24 Hours[edit]

After 24 hours a message will appear in your inbox saying that your Egg is ready to be hatched. A new storylet will appear in your Lodgings called The Hatchening, redirecting you to The Hatching: What Emerges. There you can admire the wondrous occasion that is a birth (And hopefully keep the d__n place intact).

Sped up using Fate/Amber Ha'pennies[edit]

If you hastened the passage of time using Fate/ Amber Ha'pennies or had a Sartorial Augmentation applied, Incubate your Egg will immediately let you witness the birth of your creature (or slightly alive piece of clothing).

Event Timeline[edit]

For the third Whitsun (2nd 1899/2022), the announced timeline is as follows:

  • Event opens on Monday, 9th of May 2022 at 12:00 BST. Everything becomes available.
  • No more eggs after Friday the following week (11 days, 20th of May 14:00 BST). The Reliable Eggmonger is removed and no more base eggs can be obtained. All other actions remain available, including augmenting, hatching, research, and De Gustibus.
  • Event closes the following Monday (14 days, 23rd of May 14:00 BST). All remaining eggs expire, including augmented eggs that have not yet hatched.
Previous years
1899/2021 For the second Whitsun (1899/2021), the original announced timeline was as follows:
  • Event opens on a Monday. Everything becomes available.
  • No more eggs after Friday the following week (11 days). The Reliable Eggmonger is removed and no more base eggs can be obtained. All other actions remain available, including augmenting, hatching, research, and De Gustibus.
  • Event closes the following Monday (14 days). All remaining eggs expire, including augmented eggs that have not yet hatched.

Following server troubles during the first week, the event was extended by three days. Future iterations of Whitsun will likely follow the original timeline, barring other exceptional circumstances.

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