🎄Holiday Hassle 2024 - Every day new mission! [PC EU]

Balastar · December 2

I decided to share my guild event for this year: Holiday Hassle 2024 with you guys. Every December I organize some event for guildies and this one has been popular. Holiday Hassle is basically "hidden object" game with a story and it lasts whole month. There is new mission every day and when the new mission opens (usually 7CET) when the old one closes. The story is posted in our Discord and guildies send me their answers via pm and everyone gets prizes!

This event happens on PC EU server.

So here, to spread some joy in this world, it is for you if you!

Just for the fun of it. You do not have to send me the answers and unfortunately no prizes for the forum users. Enjoy!

"Hello my Friend!
I am a Keeper of the Enchanted Snow Globe house, Guardian of Saturalia, Väinö-Perttuli Lauantaimakkara. Just call me Väpä.
I need you once again to help me to prepare for the Saturalia and New Life Festival!!"

Saturalia?
Saturalia is a Breton celebration that heralds the New Life Festival, and is held on the 25th of Evening Star.
Originally a holiday for Sanguine, the god of debauchery, it has become a time of gift giving, parties, and parading.
Among the Khajiit the Saturalia celebration and sharing of gifts is known as the "Saturalia Baan Dar gift swap"

Who lives in Snowglobe House?
"Me and my trusty frog Elvis live in the Snowglobe house most of the year, the rest of the staff live there just around Saturalia time. Braggis and Tuisku are my trusty helper elves, they have their bedchamber in the basement. You might remember Head Elf Toljanteri, he retired last year. Snow Mortals and Scuttleblooms are my enchanted workers, spirits of Saturalia. Snow Mortals are more or less the janitors and Scuttles are responsible of making all the Saturalia gifts."

"The Portal Machine is a heart of operations. With the machine we are able to teleport items (mostly gifts) in and out of the snowglobe. It has also super telescope and I use it to spy all the people in Tamriel (but no more about that uhm....)"

Rules
🎄 There will be a new mission every day around 7CET. At the same time old one closes. The house will be closed at this time. Missions are posted in this thread.
🎄 Find missing items at Balastar's Primary residence in PC EU. Copy paste in chat for direct port:

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

🎄 The house can look different every day!

Have fun with us as we count down to the New Life!!!!

If you port in and are stuck in ice bubble, that means the house is in closed for maintenance.

"I had been on vacation with my frog Elvis. When I ported back to the Snowglobe House Braggis and Tuisku were there welcoming me with bad news. Scuttles and Snowmortals were not there. They should have started working 2 weeks ago, but no sight of them. Braggis told me they had tested the portal machine, it was working. They had also sent some messenger torch bugs, but no answer. Tuisku told me they had used the spyglass and narrowed down 5 possible locations for Snowmortals and 3 possible locations for the scuttles. The Scuttles like to move in pack so they should be all at the same place."

"Can you please port into these locations by copy pasting the script into in game chat? (in PC EU!)
Find out what the snowmortals are doing and tell them to port back here immediately."

🎄Find 3 Snowmortals from the locations below

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 10)
/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 2)
/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 90)
/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 14)
/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 38)

🎄Find 5 Scuttleblooms from the locations below

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 28)
/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 49)
/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 111)

Balastar · December 3

"Thank you for finding the Snowmortals! They had all got letters saying that the Saturalia is cancelled from this year, so they just continued their vacation. Weird, who would do that?
The Snowmortals were: Humblemud: Grilling (slaughter fish?) fish in forest fire , Boulderfree refuge: Having special moment wit Ember (Did we interrupt something important?), And bathing with Senche-Rahts (and slaughter fish) in the Daggerfall Overlook.

"The Scuttles were enjoying their holiday in Seabloom Villa."

"Now when the workshop is running again it is time to decorate the house. I wonder why do we even take everything down after the festivities when the boxes with the decorations are always lost afterwards.

🎄Find 3 boxes in Balastar's primary residence.

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

clues:
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The crates are in buildings

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Braggis told he saw one somewhere but cannot remember where it was

Balastar · December 4

"You found so many decorations!
The crates were in roof of the kitchen, on top of Braggis bed and in the storage room on the side of the house. That last one was difficult."

Video here: https://imgur.com/82GRe83
"The house looks now amazing! Only the tree needs to be decorated now!
We had little decoration contest between elves, scuttles and snowmortals. You decide which tree is the best and we will use that decoration in the house."
🎄Vote the best tree by sending me a telepathic message!

Balastar · December 5

"The Snowmortal tree won with majority of votes!! It looks amazing!"

"Next day I woke up for bad news. The scuttles had gone on strike. "We still don't have our own room, the Elves have their own!" one screamed. I promised to arrange a space for them as soon as possible. Let's find a suitable place and make it nice for them!

🎄Find vine, blankets, hanging plants and suitable room for scuttles in Balastar's primary residence. Paste the script in-game chat for instant teleport!

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

clues:
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There should be some vines near kitchen

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These plants like to hang high near pillars

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I have seen some blankets in a gaming corner near the fireplace

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We should have a spare room in the house, can you find it? The Frog knows where it is!

Balastar · December 6

"Thank you for finding all the materials for building a own room for the scuttles. You guys found a nice little spot for them from attick. They are really enjoying themselves and want to work again. The materials were: Behind the kitchen house, hanging near pillars, and at the "gaming corner""

"Workshop is on full speed again. I decided to go trough some gift lists but I noticed they had mysteriously disappeared! Those lists are confidential I cannot even think what would happen if someone mischievous person found them! Specially Queen Ayrenn would not be happy... Sweatdrops gather on my forehead.... can you help me? The thief must have left from the side door Snowmortal had been sweeping at the front door whole day. I have casted a spell on the letters, so they have faint glow."

🎄Find 4 letters in Balastar's primary residence. Paste the script in-game chat for instant teleport!

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

clues:
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Tuisku reported me there was suspicious movement outside near the door, close to my study. Maybe you should investigate that.

Balastar · December 7

" It was a banekin!!! Little rascal was wandering around the premises reading the letters and laughing so hard he dropped some pages around. He had ended up under the bridge and could not move any more because he had laughed so much. Snowmortal tickled him a little and he gave up all the rest of the pages."

"We decided to put the banekin in a cage as he had red secret information and we couldn't just let him go. Banekin was not very happy about this. "I will get out and you will regret this, I will tell everyone everything!!!!" "What was in that Queen Ayrenn's letter?" wondered Tuisku. "Zip it!!!" I was started to get impatient.

"We got back to the house, and were horrified to find that the whole house was covered in ice. SnowArgonian tasted the ice. "It's definitely magic ice," he declared. "We need a spell!" he said. I hesitated because I remembered what happened the last time when SnowArgonian used fire magic. I got huge burns all over my body and had to go to spa in Murkmire for treatment. "We need the following ingredients for powerful magic staff" SnowArgonian said: Sulfur powder, a burning feather and a stick, fishing spear for example.

🎄Find Sulfur powder, a burning feather and a fishing spear in Balastar's primary residence. Paste the script in-game chat for instant teleport!

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

clues:
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SnowArgonian uses quite stingy spices, look around the kitchen

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There has been sightings of Fenix Gyphon on the hills

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Fishing spear likes to be near fisherman

Balastar · December 8

"The ingredients were in kitchen, at fishing spot and behind the house in a nest up to the hill"

"SnowArgonian prepared the flame staff. I sprinkled some sulfur on top and the staff started to burn hotter"

"I took a couple of steps back as the SnowArgonian started to wave the staff it in the air. I had bad feeling about this! Staff unleashed a sea of fire that melted some magic ice from the door. Successful spell, for once!!! Good job SnowArgonian! He wanted to continue melting the ice but I thought we had pushed our luck already too much. We could enjoy some nice ice decorations for now and the ice would melt eventually."
Video: https://imgur.com/DzfprlP

"Tuisku ran into the workshop and we heard her scream: "SPIDERS EVERYWHERE!".
The whole workshop was full of spider webs. Argonian waved his wand excitedly "I'll burn them all!" This time I couldn't get out on time and my hair got scorched.
The spell burned all the webs, the spiders wove them back with lightning speed. There must be some other solution to this, I thought."

"Snowmortal ran into the workshop. "The bear has taken over the spiders' den, we have to trick it out!" "Maybe the flame staff will help us again" Argonian tried. I took the flame staff and broke it into pieces, there had been enough fire spells for now."

🎄Find some honey and a bee hive in Balastar's primary residence. Paste the script in-game chat for instant teleport!

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

clues:
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Honey can be used as grease for a telescope

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Honey can also be used as mustache wax

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Scuttles really love honey

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SnowKhajiit sai he had heard buzz near some trees

Balastar · December 9

The honeys were found in the tower, in Väpä's bathroom and in scuttles room. The beehive was on the side of the warehouse side of the house under a tree.

"We lured the bear to the beehive and carefully moved the spiders back into the cave. The spiders immediately started weaving their webs and making it home."

"Spiders had cocooned one of the scuttles, we unwrapped him carefully and poor little thing seems to be ok. Little traumatized, but he will live. I will give him sick leave as long as he needs. Snowmortal cleaned the sticky spiderwebs from the workshop. Good as new!"

"Now back to the banekin problem. The whole group gathered around the table to think about options. SnowArgonian wanted to chop banekins head off, Khajiit felt its calves, "These wouldn't even make chicken wings". "Your mommy had chicken wings", the banekin snapped back! I intervened the conversation as I didn't want to kill it. Braggis came up with the idea of mixing a "Potion of Forgetting". "We could throw the imp deep in to the Colharbour", exclaimed Tuisku. Braggis dug the recipe for the potion out of his pocket, "I always have this with me for emergencies." "I cannot forget anything!" shouted the banekin.

🎄Find "Magic Dust", Crab poo and Glowing fungus in Balastar's primary residence. Paste the script in-game chat for instant teleport!

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

clues:
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The frog has been acting strange lately. maybe it is his "Magic Dust"? Follow the frog

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There should be plenty of crabs near water, try to follow them and maybe you find their outhouse

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Glowing fungus likes dark and humid spots

Balastar · December 10

"Thank you for finding the ingredients! The Glowing Fungus was growing in a well, Frog was using the "Magic Dust" at the living room, under the tree. Did you guys see how the frog flew trough the house after tasting the dust, I need to see if it is ok.

. Crabs were very well potty trained and had their outhouse near the sunken treasure, behind the ice."

"Braggis mixed the potion. As my old friend Tumulte said: "One perk of this potion is that you will forget the taste", joked Braggis. The potion was blended with banekins food and it didn't take long before he started glancing around terrified and screaming "Why am I in a cage!!" Tuisku let the imp out of the cage and he ran to Tuisku's feet shouting "MOMMY!!??" Tuisku laughed and stated that Braggis' potion had worked. I teleported the imp to the farthest corner of Coldharbour, he should find some friends from there."

"MOMMY!!??"

"Now we should have time to eat," suggested SnowKhajiit and went to prepare food. However, he ran soon back to the workshop. “All the carrots are gone!” he shouted. There was only one bundle left. Snowmortal suggested we use it as bait and set it up near the kitchen. Could you figure out who has stolen all the carrots and where they have taken them? I have also heard some rumours about suspicious activity in the area, maybe thief has something to do with that too?

🎄Track down the thief in Balastar's primary residence. Paste the script in-game chat for instant teleport!

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

clues:
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Wait the thief at the carrots near the main kitchen. Follow him around the property.

Balastar · December 11

So we stalked near the carrots and rabbit emerged! "Follow the white rabbit", shouted SnowArgonian! "Off with his head!" he continued with axe in his hand. Luckily bunny was too fast for SnowArgonian. I managed to keep up with him. Bunny slipped in a secret cave. SECRET CAVE in my property!! 😮 How I hadn't noticed it before? This must be the "Cave of Wonders" I have been reported about. The shopkeeper Scamp disappeared as soon as I arrived. Gotta keep an eye on this cave! Inside the cave there was a room, room with gambling animals! The bunny had stolen our carrots to use them to gamble it seems! My head felt little dizzy of all this. A lot has happened in a short time. And we have still not had proper meal!

When I returned back to the house Braggis ran towards me yelling: "The teleport machine doesn't work, the electricity doesn't turn on, the heating doesn't work. Someone has stolen the Power Cells from the teleporting machine!!". There's always some kind of disaster going on, I thought. The house was freezing cold, the Scuttles had gathered in front of the fireplace to warm themselves. We need to find the Power Cell thief!

🎄Find 2 Power Cells in Balastar's primary residence. Paste the script in-game chat for instant teleport!

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

clues:
🔎

Snowmortals saw something

Balastar · December 12

"We are starting to have a scamp problem again...Soon we have here more daedra than in Coldharbour!"

Luckily the getaway vehicle had got into an accident at the worst moment of time. I tried to catch the little scamp, but suddenly a portal opened and it was gone. Power Cells were saved! I decided we must get rid of all scamps and other suspicious entities in the area and went into the "Cave of Wonders". I kicked them all out, "No more shenanigans in the Snowglobe House!! I felt little sorry for the animals, but I had to do it. Maybe they will find another place to stay.

"Back at the house we were met with a grim sight. The scuttles had caught a cold. There was snot everywhere! Power Cells were installed back into the portal machine but the house was not starting to warm up. We needed more firewood! "

🎄Find some honey and a bee hive in Balastar's primary residence. Paste the script in-game chat for instant teleport!

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

clues:
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There is one pile near the entrance

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Also near one door

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Maybe they need also firewood at the kitchen, maybe somewhere there

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One pile enjoys the view

Balastar · December 13

What a day, speaking about Friday 13th! I just heard about scamps and banekins attacking the ESO datacenter! They were causing so much mayhem there the whole Tamriel has vanished from the map! Someone is really trying to stop Saturalia and New Life Festival!! I just wonder who!?
If Tamriel reappears in the map today, you have still time to get firewood, we can always use more.

Have a good day! Take care of yourself and your loved ones

!

Yours,
Väpä

Here is a picture Braggis drew for you.

We will continue with the story hopefully tomorrow.

Balastar · December 14

"The scamp problem in ESO datacenter was dealt and Tamriel came back to existence.
And we now have enough firewood.. for a while. Firewood was found: Under the stairs near the entrance, under the tree next to well, Next to side entrance, and on top of the hill behind the house. "

"Still the house didn't warm up, even though we heated the fireplace all night. Snowmortals were happy, for once they had a chance to hang around for long time inside of the house. Tuisku examined the ventilation duct and concluded that there must be a blockage which prevents hot air circulating from fireplace to rooms. Could you investigate for me? "

"Braggis has prepared you a shrinking potion. Sip it and climb into the duct and check it out. Remember that the potion only lasts half an hour, after that you're in trouble if you're still in the duct. And don't be scared, Snowmortals are keeping eye on you!"

🎄Investigate what is blocking the ventilation. Sip the potion and hop in to the vent by pasting script in your game chat.

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 47)

Balastar · December 15

I was little nervous entering the air ducts. It was so cold in here and weird noises echoed from the metal.

The duct leading to the workshop was fully frozen. There was also all kind of weird items and creatures found in the ducts, even A lost time traveller.

"The gamblers were behind all this!" After I evicted them from the "Cave of Wonders", they had moved to the air duct! They were hogging the warmth from the fireplace all for themselves. Thy were also hatching some weird egg, I wonder what lives inside of it?

Luckily the snowmortals kept eye on us!

I feel this all is now my fault. Poor Scuttles got sick and gamblers lost again their spot. I thought for a long time about what to do with them and decided that since we can't get rid of them, we offer them space in the house. The gamblers gratefully accepted the offer, but I reminded them "No shenanigans!!"

Once the blockage was removed, the house started to warm up again. Scuttles recovered from their flu and it was time to get back to normal. Also the small Scuttle who was attacked by the spiders had recovered and was ready to work again! Eirlys's honey had done the trick!

"But wait, what, while we were crawling in the air ducts, someone had robbed all the workstations! Now quickly, the portal machine has detected two portals open in the area of the house. We cannot let the thieves get away!"

🎄Find 5 workbenches in Balastar's primary residence. Paste the script in-game chat for instant teleport!

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

clues:
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There was some loud noises coming from tower!

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Portal machine marked the portal locations with big glowing beam, the thieves must be near them!

Balastar · December 16

"Scamp and the Ogre were trying to steal our work benches! Ogre was throwing the benches down from cliff behind the kitchen, luckily he had bad aim and did not hit the portal. Scamps had a magic bridge and portal up in the tower. Luckily they were caught in time, thanks to you! Scamps and ogre slipped fast trough the portals when they saw me coming.
Now I am really starting to worry and wonder who is behind all this. Simple ogre or scamp could not machine these attacks. There has been a lot of thieving and sabotage during these weeks."

"I was checking the teleportation machine and suddenly a pop-up window appeared on the screen. I clicked it away in my thoughts and the machine started beeping very loudly. Braggis and Tuisku rushed to me. Then it started to happen. All kinds of stuff started teleporting into the room. Tuisku tried desperately stop the machine. Plop plop plop, more items materialized into the room. Then the letters flashed on the screen. "Greetings from Uncle Sheo!" Tuisku screamed.

"The room was filled with confusion, had Sheogorath hacked the teleport machine? Braggis used machine's panic button and contacted customer service.
"ACME Teleport", voice echoed a little. Braggis explained the situation to the customer service, but got only asked stupid questions. "Do you have a working internet connection? Is your a power cord attached to the plug?" And at the same time the room was filling with stuff. "Have you tried restarting the machine?". "This is a robot," said Braggis with frustration and hung up. "We need to restart the machine!"

🎄Find 2 power switches in Balastar's primary residence. Paste the script in-game chat for instant teleport!

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

clues:
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Snow Globe House has still one room which has not been visited, a power switch room

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Maybe check the backside of the house

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The other switch is inside the house, near books

Balastar · December 18

"The power switches were found in a Power Switch room behind the house and in the staircase leading to the attic. The switches were used but the machine did not restart. The machine just beeped: "Sheo owns you now!" and continued filling the room with random stuff."

While snowmortals were trying out carrot noses, Braggis called to the helpline again. This time he got to talk with an actual person.
"Do you have the Portal Override Key", customer service asked? We didn't have one. "The only key available is in Elweyr, Moon-Sugar Meadow temple. We can either deliver it in 60 working days, or you can pick it up by yourself."

The machine kept spitting more and more stuff into the room.
"We can't wait that long, we'll pick it up ourselves", Braggis said and hung up. The workshop was almost full of items.
Here is a map for you, could you please find the portal key?
You might have to do some climbing!

🎄Find The Portal Overide Key from the Temple of Moon-Sugar Meadow. Paste the script in-game chat for instant teleport!

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 71)

clues:
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You need to have your jumping pants on, follow the golden platforms

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If you do not like jumping, there might be a secret passage in the tomb. Follow the monkeys!

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The Portal Override Key lies on the bottom of sloped path

Balastar · December 18

As I forgot to press "Post Reply" yesterday for some reason, I will keep the temple house open if someone wants to visit.

Balastar · December 18

What an adventure!

We met Mizzik Thunderboots and Ember at the temple. They were looking for a treasure and they agreed to help us.

We climbed to the top of the temple, where we found a secret passage that led down deep inside of it. I was a little worried about the large sphere above the passage, looked like a trap.

There was a light at the end of the corridor, there was a chamber with the Portal Override Key!

I lifted the key in my hand, we heard loud click and the chamber began to shake and the ground began to collapse beneath us. We ran up the corridor towards the top of the temple, but the sphere above the corridor came crashing down towards us. Suddenly a hand pulled us into the recess and thus saved us from certain death!

It was Ember. She had found a secret passage in the burial chamber while we were climbing up the temple wall. She saved us from the nasty trap, Good job Ember!

We also found Mizzik's treasure, but that's another story. I didn't know which treasure got him more excited.

We now had the Portal Override Key. But the problems had increased at the house.

The whole house was so full of stuff that no one would have been able to wade through it and use the key. "I left my Shrinking Potion recipe in the workshop!", Braggis sighed. "That you have been so handy now!" Snowmortal showed up. “Airdrop!” he yelled. "The old-fashioned mail", he clarified. "Airdrop now?", I wondered. Could you find it?

🎄Find an airdrop form Balastar's primary residence. Paste the script in-game chat for instant teleport!

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

clues:
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The airdrop has a smoke signal

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It can be up or down, it came up from the sky

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It must be somewhere on the edge of the premises

Balastar · December 19

The airdrop was found and a small package was revealed.

It contained a fan and a letter. The letter said, "Here is a fan that shrinks its user. Greetings, Admirer." At the same time I red the letter, Tuisku waved the fan towards me. I turned into a monkey!! "Very nice, a mystery letter and a mystery item that is used without a second thought". "How did they know we needed to shrink someone," Braggis mused.

Well, I was now shrunk, so I decided to take action. Like a monkey, I nimbly slipped past the items to the machine and pushed the Override Key into the opening and turned it. I pressed the reset button and the machine started beeping and shaking.

The portal began to suck items and soon all the extra stuff were gone. "Someone is going to get a nasty surprise!", I thought to myself and clasped my hairy hands together.

Hairy hands! I don't have such hairy hands! Oh NO!! I'm still a monkey!

I freaked out, squealed and climbed and frolicked around the room. I threw things around and jumped on top of Tuisku's head to investigate her hair. "He's an annoying monkey," Tuisku said. "We need to find monkey things for him to calm him down!!".

🎄Find bananas, moppet, comfy sofa and flower from Balastar's primary residence. Paste the script in-game chat for instant teleport!

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

clues:
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The trees outside have started to produce interesting fruits, you should go see

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Look closely the carrot tree

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Moppet can be found sleeping

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I have heard fishermen need comfy seats so they can wait for long time

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I saw SnowArgonian harvesting some flowers earlier at yard

Balastar · December 20

Thanks for the monkey stuff, they calmed down him and soon the monkey-Väpä was sleeping like a little pig with Moppet and Frog in his arms. "He is so cute when he sleeps!"

The problem was still not solved. Väpä was still a monkey. "I've been examining the fan," Braggis told, handling it carefully. "It contains powerful magic, I don't think we can break the magic on our own." Saturalia is doomed! We've had a lot of adversity this year, and not even the scuttles have had time to make gifts." Tuisku cried.
SnowArgonian interrupted Tuisku. "I've been studying the spellbook a bit here..." Braggis and Tuisku startled little. SnowArgonian wasn't famous for his successful spells. ".. It's said here, it is possible to break the shapeshifter curse with the power of the community." "With the power of the community!", Braggis and Tuisku shouted.

They called everyone over. "What now, shall we sing?", Tuisku asked when everyone stood in a circle around the monkey Väpä. Singing didn't help.

A group hug did not help. It just transferred some fleas from Väpä to Braggis.

"We need more people," figured SnowKhajiit. "Let's invite poeple and have a party, we're changing Väpä back and then we will eat well, I will start to prepare sweetrolls!"

SnowKhajiit just had frosted patch of sweetrolls. He set the plate aside to cool and began tinkering with the next ones at the oven. When he turned around, all the frosted sweetrolls were gone!!!! Can you find the bandit?

🎄Find sweetroll platter (and bandit) from Balastar's primary residence. Paste the script in-game chat for instant teleport!

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

clues:
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The thief left behind trail of sweetrolls

Balastar · December 21

The sweet tooth Ogre had taken the Sweetrolls and ran in such a hurry that half had dropped on the way. This made him easy to follow. Ogre also had The Band-Aid Banekin there with him, and they seemed to have some kind of nest between rocks. We confiscated the sweetrolls, but felt sorry for the chilly daedra, so we gave them all the crab-eaten buns. We'll get back to the daedra problem after the party.

In the evening, all friends gathered at the house and they circled around the monkey Väpä. "Think happy things, connect your heart and mind and let warm thoughts flow through your hands to Väpä," Tuisku instructed. And PUFF I changed back to my wonderful self! Thank you friends!!

Although I was a little hairier than before, but I did not mind new hair and clothes! I was tired for the short hair anyway. It was wonderful to be myself again. Monkeying around was fun for a while, but I don't miss it at all.

SnowKhajiit covered the table full of goodies and SnowMortal had arranged musical instruments. We had wild party. These people were fantastic!!

Braggis had made the fan harmless and it turned its user into a monkey just for a short while. The party crowd tested the fan with enthusiasm. Towards the end the party got maybe too wild. 😄 😄

You can check out the video here:

https://youtu.be/Hdv6v0c7Qhc
Thank you all so much for being there and so wonderfull

Next morning the party was over and area was a mess. Where had the Snowmortals gone?

🎄Find 3 snowmortals at Balastar's primary residence. Paste the script in-game chat for instant teleport!

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

clues:
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Khajiit likes fishing

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Mortal was partying hard yesterday, very late he was speaking something about a closet

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Argonian was heard bragging about his downhill skiing skills yesterday

Balastar · December 22

SnowKhajiit was fishing, with big fishes. Quick, SnowKhajiit, move away before we have to call you short-tail !
SnowArgonian is defying gravity and training for the Winter X-Games !
SnowMortal had passed out in a storage room after heavy partying, I have to ask Braggis to fix some hangover potion for him.

Scuttles had worked very hard and caught up with the schedule. They were making already last gifts. Everything seemed to be going well. As the last gift delivery disappeared into the portal, all lights turned off and terrible rumbling began outside.

"I'm finally going to destroy the whole place, I'm going to destroy Saturalia, I'm going to destroy the New Life Festival," the figure growled.
"Your monster looks a little goofy", ragged Tuisku.
"I am Ice mage Glasoga Icewalker and my monster is not goofy!" She screamed furiously and gave the monster order to smash the kitchen house.

The SnowArgonian jumped from the roof with an axe, but the monster just shook the Argonian off of it.
"This Monster can only be defeated with the Inkslayer sword, and you don't have that here!", the mage yelled.

"I will be back", the mage screamed while dissappearing in a portal. Huge ice monster was left guarding the house!

Is the mage right? I had seen that sword in Cave Of Wonders! And had heard rumors about Band-Aid Banekins return. Can you investigate if the rumors are true about the Cave of Wonders and if the sword is there?

Last night at the party, Snowmortals made some new friends, SnowMortal told me that the Orge is not so bad guy. Actually he was worried something like this will happen and had started to build a ballista. We could use more fire power to take down the monster.

I also remembered there is a powerfull Coldfire Rock in my collection. That could help us in the battle.

🎄Find the Inkslayer Sword, Ogre with a Ballista and Coldfire Rock at Balastar's primary residence. Paste the script in-game chat for instant teleport!

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

clues:
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For Cave of wonders, and the sword there, Check out all possible hiding places around the glacier

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I keep my mythical item collection in the living room

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Ogre with ballista should be easily spotted. At least he wont be near the house

Balastar · December 23

The Band-Aid Banekin had been returned!! There was new Cave of Wonders on the edge of the premises. He had the Inkslayer sword there and was ehm, eager to borrow it after little convincing. The Ogre was repairing his siege at the opposite side of the house. He was happy to join us, he wanted to test if he had tuned the ballista just right way. The Coldfire Rock was in living room, inside a box, just there where I left it.

People gathered together and we planned our tactics and attacked.
The ice mage appeared on top of the house and commanded her minion. The ice monster attacked furiously but the people were stronger and finally the monster crumbled down.

Here you see all heroes in action:

https://youtu.be/N_puOiAIPl0

We had little celebration and when everyone had left SnowKhajiit found someone sitting in the ground crying.
It was the furious Ice mage Glasoga Icewalker, but she was not so mighty any more.

"I can't do anything! I hired Ogre and Daedras but they just failed everything. You had so many friends to help you, I couldn't do anything. And I don't have anyone!", Glasoga sobbed.
"I lived in your air ducts for whole month, I watched you from there and tried to cause trouble," she said. I remembered seeing a locked door in the air duct.
"So you've been spying on us?" “Yes” “Why are you doing all this, why do you hate Saturalia and happiness?” I asked.
"I have ever received any Satural gifts. When I was young, I watched with envy when others celebrated, I was just miserable," Glasoga said.
"And now you want everyone to be miserable?", I asked.

I took out my gift book and studied it. "No Glasoga Icewalker here but sure you have got a gift, everyone gets gift. What's your @name?", I asked.
Glasoga got embarrassed. "Um it's @BootyGirl69 but I made that nick ages ago!!!" I studied my list. "Now I found you! BootyGirl69 aka Glasoga Bulbutt. You have had a gift delivered to your home in Orsinium every year."
Glasoga got gloomy. "I did something stupid when I was young, then ran away from home, I haven't been there since".
"Maybe this year you'll go home, whatever you did is surely forgotten by now," I consoled. "Maybe your gifts are still there too."

Glasoga apologized and started cleaning up with us. "I think she's pretty cute," Braggis whispered. I agreed in my thoughts.

The next day, the damages had been repaired and it was time to get the sleigh ready for the delivery. Every year I wanted to deliver the gifts personally and the old-fashioned way to a nearby village. It warmed my heart to see the joy and happiness of the children when I arrived with the gifts. SnowMortal should have taken the sleigh out and harnessed the reindeer. But it was not on the yard. Suddenly, my reindeer runs to us in panic, shouting "Crash! Accident! The sleigh is broken!".

Could you find out what happened and look for the sleigh parts.

🎄Find a wheel, bench and sleigh frame at Balastar's primary residence. Paste the script in-game chat for instant teleport!

/script JumpToSpecificHouse("@Balastar", 63)

clues:
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Someone is scavengering from the wreck

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Look up

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The parts are not very far away

Balastar · 18:00

Last minute broken sleigh is almost the worst that could happen!
The worst would have been if SnowMortal would have been hurt. Now he got out of it luckily only with a scare and hint of yellow snow. The SnowMortal told he got blinded by a whisp and crashed straight to the iceberg.

We puzzled the sleigh parts together and loaded it with gifts. And off I went!

When I returned back to the house, it was already evening.
Snowmortals were busy in the kitchen and to my surprise I found Glasoga was there too. "We invited him too, it's not good for anyone to be alone on the eve of Saturalia," Braggis said.

SnowKhajiit had made a great meal, we ate and then went to sit by the fire.

"Väpä, tell us the story of the Snowmortals!" Khajiit asked.

Many years ago, when I had just become a Guardian of Saturalia, I was wandering in Eastmarch. Suddenly I felt like I was being followed. Like that weird feeling and movement in out of the corner of my eye. Something small and white was always disappeared when I looked over my shoulder.

One evening I was grilling on the campfire and a small snowy round creature carefully stepped into the light wedge of the campfire. It reached for the campfire, but was startled by its heat. I threw it a piece of meat towards it and the creature ate greedily. When the campfire faded, I won its trust and was able to touch the creature. It was a little living snowball.

It was nice to have company, I had been vandering alone for so long. One day I met an old hermit. When he saw the creature he trembled. He pulled me aside. “Do you know what that is?” he asked. I told the old man that the creature had started following me some time ago. "It has the spirit of Saturalia inside. Are you sure you didn't make it by yourself?", the man asked.

I realized what I had done. I hadn't always been the Patron of Saturalia. I was Guardian Mutrusuu's apprentice for a long time. He had passed away some time ago and I became the guardian after him. I had felt lonely and cried one night while sitting by the campfire. My tear had fallen into the snow, and this tear had contained the spirit of Saturalia. Snow absorbed the tear and started to grow. I had unknowingly made myself a companion.

The next day it was thaw. Snow was heavy and wet. The snowball rolled behind me and I noticed that it grew round by round. I stopped and on a spur of the moment patted more snow on top of it. I found some coal from my pocket and set them as its mouth and eyes. I took some twigs and poked them in as hands. To my surprise, the creature began to speak. "Huh, you finally gave me a mouth to speak with and eyes to see with!", the creature gasped.

The creature reminded me of a cat I once had. I decided to make it a cat, added a couple of twigs for whiskers and a tail. I simply named it SnowKhajiit.

We lived together for a while, but then Khajiit asked if there were other snowmortals.
We decided to make more of them. This time I shed tears of joy and we shaped our own creatures. The Khajiit shaped my likeness out from the snow. I, being very fond of Murkmire's lizards, made an argonian.

"This is how you were born my dear friends. From the spirit of Saturalia and a bit of creative madness."

"That was a great story! Now tell us why do look like Sir Cadwell!", exclaimed Khajit. "That's a story for another time," I told him. "And why we do not have noses?", asked Mortal. "You can make your own noses very well", I laughed. Then we had group hug with my beloved Snowmortals.

SnowArgonian brought some cookies and we all sat together in front of the fire for a long time that evening.
Glasoga thanked me, this had been the best Saturalia she ever had.
What an evening!

Today you don't have to look for anything, give a hug to someone you care about ! Have a good day and evening! ❤️