Whitsun 2025 is here!

Eggs 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.

Acquire an egg. Apply augmentations to it, if you like. Why not? The d___ed things are everywhere, and while London is hardly short on distractions, they’re wonderfully novel – though they do take up quite a bit of space in your parlour.

Look for ‘Welcome to Whitsun’ anywhere in London. You’ll get three Ha’Pennies at the start of the festival, with the ability to obtain more for Fate. Amber Ha’pennies can be spent in various places during Whitsun to speed up the hatching process, obtain Aged or Percipient eggs, or to turn your eggs into unique, otherwise unavailable items.

Incubate eggs, one at a time. What will happen when they hatch? Who knows! Each will take 23 hours to hatch unless you, ahem, assist it. What else to do with them? Try sending one to a friend. Surely no more dangerous than a boxed cat!

All of last year’s Whitsun items and pursuits are available again this year. You’ll be able to receive Aged and Percipient Eggs for free, though Scarlet and Pelagic eggs cost one Amber Ha’Penny to buy. Each egg produces different types of creatures.

The Apicius Club

There’s a gathering of gourmets who will sample almost anything: the Apicius Club. These connoisseurs of novel flavours are reconvening for the festivities, and willing to take all manner of delicacies off your hands, including but not limited to these tempting, giant ova. Look for ‘De Gustibus in Whitsun’ at Ladybones Road to make their acquaintance.

Employ SCIENCE to further your egg experiments!

Purchase a Highly Illegal Experimental Augmentation Device (Probably) in order to get the very most out of your eggs, or investigate them in your University Lab to learn more about their mysterious origin.

What’s new this year?

The Fretful Butcher looks towards his back room, and then lowers his voice. “It’s experimenting on the eggs. Hatching some, into monsters. It said that they lacked ‘heft and flavour’. Made a terrible mess of my abattoir.”

Mr Hearts, Master of the Bazaar and owner of the Labyrinth of Tigers’ best (and only) Exotic Meats Counter, is taking a renewed interest in Whitsun this year. It is searching for creatures possessing the delicious and toothsome qualities, which have eluded it in all the hatchlings and augmentations it has tried thus far: of size, and power.

Aiding Mr Hearts will require a lot more eggs, and a little more legwork, than hatching an egg the normal way – but Mr Hearts hatches them immediately, and the process will produce creatures large enough to use as Transports. This year, due to their uniquity, only Aged and Percipient Eggs can be brought for Mr Hearts’ use.

To begin, you will need a ‘Monster Nurturer’ quality – gained from hatching Whitsun eggs normally – of at least one, and an egg. After a short introductory story, Mr Hearts will hatch one egg into a Transport for free per year; additional Transports will require 30 Fate each.

Whitsun begins today, 8th May 2024. From the 19th, at 14:00 BST, you will no longer be able to buy further eggs. You will be able to incubate and hatch eggs until the 22nd, at 14:00 BST – after which, to prevent a dreadful stench, all eggs will be removed.

Enjoy your eggs!

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We can hatch transports in Whitsun 2025, hoping to get a transport which boosts an advanced skill I am deficient at now.

P.S: Still no luck to getting hellworm milk, after almost a month of milking. RNG is cruel. I need hellworm milk to make hellworm cheese during Whitsun. And Whitsun is here.

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It’s not like you need to flip cards in London during Whitsun anyway.

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crossposts this here too

SUMMARY OF THE NEW TRANSPORTS

  • Vagrant Oneirotaur (Aged, Enlightened): Shadowy +4, Dangerous +2, Glasswork +1
  • Terror Bird Warmount (Aged, Invigorated): Shadowy +2, Dangerous +4, Monstrous Anatomy +1
  • Seven-League Spindlewolf (Percipient, Enlightened): Watchful +4, Shadowy +2, Artisan of the Red Science +1
  • Chitinscale Squirrelbeast (Percipient, Invigorated): Watchful +2, Shadowy +4, Kataleptic Toxicology +1

In addition, completing the introductory storyline gives the Obstreperous Boar: Dangerous +4; Dreaded +2; Neathproofed +1.

You can get one of the four advanced stat transports for free. After that, they will cost 30 Fate or 3 Ha’pennies each. Oneirotaur is likely the best option because the only other Glasswork transport costs two Incarnadine Robes. That being said, Glasswork is a pretty common stat. (Will update this post if we find tie-ins)

To begin hatching transports, you must have hatched at least one Whitsun egg before, and have an egg in your possession - then there will be a new storylet in Fifth City Stories (“A Midnight Snuffling”) that starts the storyline.


and also crossposts this

ARCHIVE BACKUPS OF THE WHITSUN GUIDES IN CASE OF WIKI DEATH

They’re a little broken and will not have new stuff from this year, but hopefully they’ll be better than nothing

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Too bad I can’t turn the De Gustibus folks into grinning eels… or eggs.

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this is my first time being here for this event and it looks really fun!

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Now thinking long and hard what to spend the three ha’pennies on this year… a transport, Sartorial item or Bellic item?

Instead of having hatched at least one Whitsun egg before, you could also possess [ The Formula for Empyrean Redolence ], which is granted from Mr Hearts by spending fate.

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Your mission is to save (not spend) your ha’pennies and spend them on that illegal hatching device next year, so you can hatch thrice-augmented eggs. This year, focus on hatching the once or twice augmented eggs, as many as possible. Make a list so you know what you got this year.

The free eggs this year are aged and percipient, so chances are the other two types of eggs will be free next year. Or another type of egg gets introduced etc.

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will do o7 thank you!

You do get a tie-in for that, but I believe the starting storylet won’t even show up without having at least one point of Monster Nurturer, going by what other folks are reporting.

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This post is so incredibly helpful, thank you!!!

I haven’t selected any Transport yet, so I wonder. The two Transport options say that “you will either get Transport with stat A, or stat B”. Is it random what actually gets hatched between A and B? Or is it possible to affect it further after selecting one of those options?

You either Invigorate it or Enlighten it, using resources.

It’s the very same as with the other eggs.

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Oh, thanks for correcting me! I did not pay much attention to the starting storylet. So the Formula does not have much use here then, it is a pity we can only use that on breeding monsters in Labyrinth of Tigers since Whitsun is also about monsters (mostly) .

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The new pig transport’s +1 Neathproofed might be useful in some situations, but it’s quite ordinary overall. Can’t look a gift pig in the mouth.

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Neathproofed is a pretty commonly used endgame stat at the moment, often in combined challenges. I think it’s a fairly potent item, especially considering it’s more or less free.

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…did anybody else notice that the whole ordeal raises a World Quality? We’re concerned, right? I’m concerned.

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We are mining the Pigs so it can only go wrong. I would be very disappointed if it doesn’t.

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Well, I can’t wait to see the Pelagic and Scarlet transports next year. Rideable cuttlefish?

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We didn’t get a Cthonosphy/Discordance Egg this year
Aw.

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