The EU Chronicle Flower Power Treasure Hunt!

announcing....
The EU Chronicle Flower Power Treasure Hunt!
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When I was a little girl I collected flowers... so... as I am now too old and lazy to do it myself I want you to collect them for me ;-)

Around Eudoria and Amethera are a number of impressive flowers. I want to collect photos of them all (if we all pick them they may not grow back!) and create an almanac of Entropian Flora.

There will be prizes for:-

1. The person that submits the most (different) flowers
2. Anyone that submits a rare flower i.e. There are no other submissions of that flower – I don't expect anyone to count them all!
3. The best submission picture - voted on forum from my selection of the best 5 - Sponsored by Freyr's Fashion
   
4. The best name and commentary - voted on forum from my selection of the best 5
5. the EuTropian who submits the most flowers - a special in society prize
   

Further to this the flowers will be named in the almanac after the first person to submit them, to seal your place in history.
You may therefore include a suggestion for the name of your flower and a Richard Attenborough (UK wildlife documentary presenter) style commentary in the email if you wish it to be considered for inclusion in the Almanac (with credit).

Prize fund:
(so far - donations gratefully accepted)

• 500 ped (300, 150, 50 for 1st 2nd 3rd in section 1 & 1 prize of 50 in others)
• 10 'pops' of Champagne
• Full male and/or female goblin
• FAP 35, 28, 15, 10
• Battle Axe 2x0
• Emik S30 (L)
• Sollomate Tasmo Mentor Edition
• Jashonic AP
• Medium Nerve Blast Chip
• EWE EP22 Vanguard
• Component BP Book and 19 assorted BPs up to level 5

Donated Prizes:

A Full Set of Skinned Clothes (M or F) from Freyr's Fashion for the winner of the Best Picture Category.

Visit his shops in Twin Peaks Mall , Level 2 Shop 1 (M & F) and CND Mall, District 8, Shops 10 (M) and 11 (F)
See More Details Here

The "Trout Derivatives" society is giving away a full Enmatter Mining set (MF-101, MatterDriller, MatterRefiner) including 25 PED worth of Omegaton Survey Probes.

Small print

To be a valid entry your screen shot needs to contain a clear picture of the flower, your avatar, the time/date (press C), and the co-ordinates (press P). Also please make sure your Avatar name is visible.

Email your entries to flowerpower@purpleroom.eclipse.co.uk

Please do not post your submissions here in the forum

(You may mail flowers one at a time or on bulk – the naming will be based on date of receipt of email)
Make sure your entropia avatar name and forum username are included in the emails.

Pictures should be reduced to a reasonable file size!

I have posted an example submission below – this flower will be named after me in honour of my beauty and generosity

The closing date for the competition is 1st April 2007, though feel free to submit any new flowers after this time, and I will add them to the almanac.

I will post the winners and finalists on the forum by the 8th April, and arrange a prize giving ceremony at a convenient time on 15th April.
I will also publish the almanac as soon as is possible.

The prizes will be awarded at my discretion and all judgements and decisions are final (for example in the event of a tie) - all complaints will be ridiculed.

A “flower” is any flowering plant – this may include trees and cacti, but they must have visible flowers. Decorative/furnishing items will not be included – only “wild” flowers. Again my decision is final.

I do not know if there is a different flora at CND and the asteroid (being too poor to travel). Feel free to submit alien flowers, but they will not be counted in the quantity contest unless someone wishes to donate a prize for an “Off World” section.

Please post to this thread if you have any questions, comments or suggestions or if you would like to sponsor this event by donating a prize.

I will periodically post the leader board ;)

Good luck!

 

Example Submission

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Name: Red Dragon Dandelion[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Latin Name: Trogopogon Sonia[/FONT]
Description:

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Hardy perennial, flame red flower sourrounded by fern like leaves in a bowl-like arrangement. Favours the plains south of Fort Argus.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]
[/FONT]

 

Screen Shots

A few people asked me how to take screen shots. There is advice here.

Also C and P were my defaults to get the location and time/date may not - you will need to check your keyboard layout if yours are different.

Also plese notice I have updated the original post to include a new prize donated by a sponsor.

 

Flower or not a flower?

I didn't expect it to be so difficult to decide which were flowers and which were not. So when I decide that one is not I will post it here for everyone to see.



Tree - no flowers



Bush - no flowers



Mushrooms

If you are unsure of any please feel free to send them anyway and I will let you know what I decide.

 

The competition is now closed - results and candidates for "best of" prizes to be posted asap (sorry for delay - real life baby takes up most of my spare time)

 

Appologies for the delay folks - it shouldn't be long now.
I want a thrid party to audit my results (it is amazing how difficult it is to decide whether things are flowers or not!)

 

I am planning to include find locations... but it will take some time to collate them all from the co-ordinates given (my "third party" has gone out tonight - I will twist his arm over the weekend, and see if we can get the results posted.

 

Prize Giving

The prizes were awarded as follows...

Dolly - EP22, Emik S30 (L), Goblin (f), Fap28, 100ped



Lynx - Goblin (M), Jashonic AP, Fap 35, L/M Groover with Scope, 200ped



Yumi - Sollomate Tasmo with scope, Emik S30 (L), Axe 2x0, Fap 18, EP21, 200ped



Thanks again for your entries - flower almanac to follow.