Well, I achived what I did not think was possible this year...I got ALL the eggs! All thanks to the extended event, of course. I recharged my Tower Amp and headed into the Tower for my Mystic King egg which I had an excellent run for. Then I headed to the Dojo for Charge eggs and a shot at the Assassin, and the Asassin actually came very quickly; within 30 pieces of cheese. Lots of DLU there.

So now I'm just doing charge eggs! I'm in the LG at the moment; will probably hang out in the Normal side while I cycle through Charge eggs so I can get the most bang for my buck. Getting 4 High Charge eggs to drop at once AND a couple LG eggs at the same time is pretty sweet, I'm not gonna lie, lol. So far this is my nicest loot drop so far:

10:30 am - Living Garden
I checked my trap and found that I had caught a mouse! I caught a 2 oz. Thistle Mouse worth 9,050 points and 1,150 gold.
The mouse also dropped the following loot:
2 Thistle Eggs, 4 High Charge Eggs and 1 Aleth Essence

Congrats on getting all the eggs!

I've done some passive hunting the last couple of days - first I was was hunting Sojos in Furoma, to stay in High Charge without spending too many Charge charms, and now I've switched to Mojos because it's more fun and because I could monitor it a little more today.

I'm nearly back to 35 mil gold again, even with having bought the two traps in Muridae Market. I have started on my first M400 assignment, and should go back to that elusive Renegade mouse soon. And there are still several eggs I haven't got ...

I posted this on the FB page but it's worth posting here as well. Some observant people have noted that the Ronza forum is slowing being moved up the list of the primary MH forum categories at the rate of one category per day. It was on the bottom and is now fifth from the bottom/18th from the top. Ronza in 18 days? If that theory is correct, that would put her here on Monday the 26th.

In other news, I'm having a blast farming M400 eggs. They are giving me more Fondue than I'm using, plus other goodies.

The nice thing about farming charge eggs... lots of SB. I was down below 100 pieces and now I'm back up over 200. My amp is at 80%, so I still have plenty of time to go after charge eggs. Actually, I probably could keep going in the tower right?

Well, the Bombing Run of all places ruined my Iceberg run. I was falling behind, so on advice from Iceberg veterans, I started over. I'm doing about as well as I should be, but I'd be glad of a little catching up. I did get my Living Salt Egg just now, though.

If this run doesn't work out, I think I may just camp out somewhere and try to farm Charge Eggs. My SB+ stores have been severely depleted by my Iceberg runs.

Remaining Eggs to Collect:
Aether
Big Bad Burroughs
Chrono
Cook
Deep
Dhreller
Gargantua *
Magmatic Golem *
Mystic King *

Edit: Well, that run just bombed itself out. I'm going to stick to LG and Rift areas and farm Charge Eggs.

I'm surprised you weren't able to make one of two runs work...what was your setup? I always did mine with SLMIII, base of location choice, SB+ and Wax, Sticky, Wax, Sticky (alternating sections), but I've heard people having a lot of luck with using Chrome or Ancient charms for the power bonus. I never got why people used the POT in the Iceburg; it may be a better trap overall, but the SLMIII gets a bonus in the Iceburg and your overall stats are better there.

*takes a peek at Iceburg stats*

Brutal Bulwark Setups (pretty sure this is showing the MK III bonus)

POWN/Spiked/Sticky/GS
Power - 8001 Luck - 36 Attraction 20%

SLMIII/Spiked/Sticky/GS
Power - 8370 Luck - 30 Attraction 10%

Gymmie, I must politely disagree. I totally prefer 6 luck and 10% attraction to 369 power (since I don't use SB+ 100% of the time). And from my own personal experience of my Deep Mouse catches, I've always done better with the POWN. Now having said that, my husband who never gets the GS does much better with the SLMIII. And the charms I use are Wax/Sticky/Wax (if I'm doing good) or Ancient (if I'm just doing ok)/Sticky.

Personal update: My next M400 mouse is the Mystic Knight. I need the Mystic Bishop and Technic King for my map, so it's onto Z's Tower with another shot at the Sock collectible.

FBF: Jacob is drawing a HUD for the new underwater area. Apparently at some point a spoiler was dropped about it being a scuba diving area? I missed it, but what I did see was Jacob scroll through like, 6 or 7 other HUDs in addition to the one he's drawing today, so something tells me this area will be a lot more in-depth (no pun intended) than the other mini-areas that have been released so far this year.

I used SLMIII/SB+/Ancient in the first and third areas and the same with Sticky in the second area. No LGS, though I did try it with the POWN when my second run was looking rough. I just quit it before finishing the first area because it didn't look like it was going to start well, and I don't fancy wasting all that SB+.

So, on the ticker (as many of you have noticed,) it's noted that "Clear skies ahead." I can only assume that means Ronza. Does anybody know if this announcement has been made in the past, and if so, how much it proceeded her visit?

They have definitely referenced the weather (clear skies) before, but I have no recollection of how much time there was.

Personal update: My next M400 mouse is the Mystic Knight. I need the Mystic Bishop and Technic King for my map, so it's onto Z's Tower with another shot at the Sock collectible.

I've been at the Iceberg hunting for the Stickybomber for that map. I thought I might even go for a Deep run, but I don't think the run is good enough - the Deep egg will have to wait for next year.
But I hope to get the Icewing egg and a Living Salt egg, and of course this new Generals egg. But not Drheller.

I'm currently charging my Eggscavator in the Factory. I've been hunting for a Chrono there, too, but no luck so far. It requires Dark Chocolate charms, which are messing up the charging cycle, so perhaps even the Chrono egg will have to wait for next year.

Didn't somebody say some time that we usually get a couple of weeks' warning about Ronza's arrival? She might turn up around the end of the Egg Hunt, in that case ...
I'm likely to reach 40 mil gold before that. Let's hope it will be enough

Somehow, I actually managed a double tower run. I think that's the first time ever. So I have both king eggs off my list now. I think I may head after the essence guardian egg next.

@Kat, congrats on your successful double Tower run!

@Varna, Last year we had next to no warning. I think just a day or two before she showed up at MH's fifth birthday party. Prior to that we were given tons of notice. This year has been interesting because they've definitely given MHers ways to earn gold besides Furoma farming. I know my gold skyrocketed.... though it hasn't at all since they started adding new areas where I just break even.

I'm just about back to 40mil gold again. Here's hoping it's enough.

I did make a catastrophic mistake over the weekend though... should be a lesson to never do active hunting when I'm not active. I was hunting my M400 with the wrong trap armed. Burned through about 13 pieces of Fondue without catching him. Ouch. I did a quick cheese research assignment yesterday and am working on a second. Then I can get back to hunting him again. We'll see what happens. I'm expecting Ronza pretty much any time so I'll stop working on library assignments as soon as she shows up.

Oooh FK. That stinks! I've never had a mistake as costly as that, just really annoying ones (like being a few mice away from the end of a wave in the Warpath and arming the wrong trap and wondering why I have a page full of misses...).

Still in the Living Garden farming Charge eggs. I'm raking in TONS of Dewthief as well as the odd Luniara and Plumpearl petals...I was actually able to get enough out of LG eggs to finsh off a batch of Lunaria Camenbert. I think I've looted 3 Lunaria petals and 1 Plumpearl petal from LG eggs; not bad at all. And while I'm only looting Aleth and Ber essences, I was able to get enough to convert up to a Gur, so there's that. It's not the best LG area for loot drops, BUT it's the only one with a really high catch rate for the traps that I have, AND at least I'm getting petals and essences...I'd rather farm here then somewhere fairly useless to my goals.

I've gotten at least 200, maybe 300 SB+ looted from Charge eggs so far? So there's that, haha. And the gold is not bad either.

Speaking of Charge eggs, obviously I've been getting a LOT of extra Charge charms from Dev gifts as well as Daily Gifts (chest and friends), so I can't comment if the cycle is now sustainable or not. I can say that by the time I'm finished with these Charge Charms (I have about 60 left?), I'll have enough MM to just about replace all the Charge charms I had when I started cycling (around 150ish). So I don't think I'm really going to run out during the rest of this event; the question is if I will keep charging or ditch it after awhile because I'm so bored, lol.

At some point, you get tired of just farming SB+...I use it a lot while hunting now (mostly for extra cheese in potions and recipes), and I still seem to hold steady at around 700-800 pieces. I always meant to sell most of that off, but the price hasn't been high enough to justify it for over a year now. So I may figure out something else to do with it, lol. To be honest, I probably wouldn't be doing so much Charge cycling right now if it weren't for the fact that the gold output is still higher than it would be in Furoma, I think, plus I'm looting essences which I desperately need.

I've headed over to Furoma, and plan on raking in as much gold as I possibly can before Ronza comes. I'd love to get up to 36 million.

Who knows when she'll arrive. . . I'm guessing sometime this week (maybe Friday)