Winter Starlight Celebration/Advent Calendar 2023

[Pickles]

This year's Winter Starlight Celebration has officially started!

Visit the Advent Calendar daily to collect prizes, and don't forget to click on Reina (the Christmas Aisha) for a bonus prize.

The Snowager is also hibernating (and might be for the first couple of days in January as well, so don't forget to check back!), so you can get a daily prize from him, as well.

The Stocking Stufftacular will start December 8th, so the first stocking must be hung by the 11:59:59pm on the 7th.
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Day 1:
Reina: Hot Cocoa
Snowie: Evil Snowball
Neggs that are not neggs/"pick up a negg": 0/0

You find 2052 Neopoints!!!
You find a Gingerbread House Living Room Background!!!
You also find a Gingerbread Chomby Cookie!!!
You also find a Y25 Snowglobe!!!

I like the background. It's a nice start.

The majority of the Reina prizes are old AC prizes. There are a few others tossed in there for good measure (including the Snowflake Stocking, which has a chance at some more expensive items inside, but I expect they'll come down some as they're R101's and thus not gourmet foods).
But. Y'all. One of the Reina prizes is a

Seasonal Attack Pea

.


I mean, it's not a SuAP, but still......

[Siniri]

*rolls around in the shiny new (pretty) thread*

Bonus: Christmas Korbat Plushie
Snowie: Terror Trove Scratchcard

[Blue]

Yay! Advent Calendar!

Day 1
Raina/Bonus: Tiger-Stripes Ribbon Present
Snowie: Broken Heart Keyring

*rolls around in the shiny new (pretty) thread*

Shiny and new, indeed! Thanks P!

[Pickles]

Day 2:
Reina: Snowager Negg
Snowie: Frozen Dessert
Neggs that are not neggs/"pick up a negg": 0/0

You find 973 Neopoints!!!
You find a The Red Nose Ixi Action Figure!!!
You also find a Christmas Ixi Morphing Potion!!!

Note: the second item today is a R99 so we are seeing releases of non-Advent-Calendar-specific items just like last year. This could be interesting.

And wow just about everywhere has gone CRAZY about the SAP, everywhere (neoboards, Discord, Reddit, etc). There's still debate as to whether or not it was removed from the prize pool, but at least one person has claimed to have gotten one today, so...who knows? Maybe the chances have gone way down?

Shame the Snowager Negg isn't worth any negg points. And that since it's a re-release from a previous AC, I already have it in my gallery. Ah, well.

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[Blue]

Day 2
Bonus: Gingerbread Mynci
Snowie: Faerie Poogle Plushie

[Siniri]

Bonus: Christmas Korbat Plushie (eww, already a repeat on day 2?)
Snowie: Neggitus Injection (fake negg, but I'm not keeping track)

[Blue]

Day 3
Bonus: Apple and Brie Omelette
Snowie: Iced Iceberg Salad

[Siniri]

AC: Bruce Fruit Cake
Snowie: Plushie Sousaphone

[Pickles]

Day 3:
Reina: Candy Cane Stocking
Snowie: Faeries Fortune Scratchcard
Neggs that are not neggs/"pick up a negg": 0/0

You find 855 Neopoints!!!
You find a Christmas Tombola Guy!!!
You also find a Winter in Mystery Island!!!

Book is an old rare item code item. I love the Tombola Guy. It was definitely a giggle after the fiasco with the other one earlier this fall.

Day 4:
Reina: Snowager Negg
Snowie: Trumpet Of Deafening
Neggs that are not neggs/"pick up a negg": 0/0

You find 707 Neopoints!!!
You find a Covered in Snow!!!
You also find a Snow Kadoatie!!!

Snow Kadoatie is an old item and paintable, so Kadoaties just got even more accessible than they were when two came out as weekly prizes for the daily quests.

[Blue]

Day 4
Bonus: Grey Faerie Snowglobe
Snowie: Avocado Plushie

The snowglobe is cool.

[Siniri]

AC: Holiday Home Background
Snowie: Negg Pie (second fake neggs... Better me than P)

Today's comic actually made me laugh out loud, because when I looked at the first panel, I actually thought the Chomby was the best sculpture out of all the works in progress!

Edit:
AC: Holiday Home Background (my second duplicate in five days. Yeesh.)
Snowie: Sparkshooter

[Blue]

Day 5
Bonus: Icy Brucicle
Snowie: Snowager Cake

[Pickles]

Day 5:
Reina: Festive Book Tree
Snowie: Poison Snowball
Neggs that are not neggs/"pick up a negg": 0/0

You find 1036 Neopoints!!!
You find a Elderly Acara Plushie!!!
You also find a Baby Holiday Bib!!!
You also find a Y25 Plushie!!!

My kiddos are excited about the Baby wearable since they all have at least one baby pet. I wonder if we'll see a Mutant or Maraquan one in coming days?

Day 6:
Reina: Biscuit Assortment
Snowie: Snowager Cake
Neggs that are not neggs/"pick up a negg": 0/0
Plot script today?!:

Orion:Reina, please we must stop the Advent Calendar!
Reina: Hold up! Orion? What are you doing here?
Orion: I know we don't know each other well, but this is important! Something terrible is about to happen!
Reina: You aren't making any sense. Why do we need to stop the Advent Calendar?
Orion: There isn't any time, we need to prepare as soon as possible. I...I don't know how I am seeing these things but I know it can't be good!
Reina: Take a deep breath, Orion! Now please start over. I don't understand what you are talking about.
Orion: I'm sorry. A...a few days ago, I was consulting my cards as I walked when...a tender and resonant plucking came to me, and moments later I tripped over this Lyre in the snow! Since then I have had terrible visions. Visions that I fear will soon impact all of Neopia greatly!
Reina: Orion, you look like you haven't slept in days. I admire your determination, but I think you need to go home and get some rest.
Orion: Please Reina, you must promise me you'll stop the Advent Calendar. Now is not the time for fun and games, something horrible is coming to Neopia, something we must prepare for.
Reina: For your own sake, go get some sleep. You look unwell! If you are still worried, we can talk more about this later.

Prizes:

You find 789 Neopoints!!!
You find a Reginald Christmas Stamp!!!
You also find a The Big Book of Intermediate Evil Plots!!!

Book is a R97 Booktastic Book that was 3.5 mil before being released today. O.o

[Siniri]

Weird plot in the AC, but okay... Do you think they'll start it before the AC ends?

AC: Darigan Doppio (looks like an item designed for Blue's gallery)
Snowie: Green Hissi Plushie

[Blue]

Day 6
Bonus: Surfing Slushie
Snowie: White Snowball Plushie

I could go for a Doppio right about now
But, the Darigan looks rather potent... So there is now one of these in my Gallery in the appropriate section