April 2010

==Easter Cards!==
Easter Cards have arrived at the Gift Shoppe!
With the wide selection of Easter Cards, you're sure to find just the right card for your friends!
==Easter Weekend Celebration!==
April 2nd, 2010.
===Easter Egg Hunt===
Our Easter Egg Hunt will be Easter Sunday at 12:00 PM Pacific Time (3:00 PM Eastern Time, 8:00 PM U.K. Time), April 4th, 2010, and will continue through Monday, April 5th, 2010.
Unlock your special Easter Gifts throughout the hunt as you collect your Easter Eggs!
===2010 Easter Ball!===
As part of our celebration of Easter, you won't want to miss our Easter Ball!
We will have our Easter Ball on Friday afternoon, April 2nd, 2010 from 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time (5:00 P.M. Pacific) to 10:00 P.M. Eastern Time (7:00 P.M. Pacific)
The Easter Ball will also be held on Saturday afternoon, April 3rd from 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time (5:00 P.M. Pacific) to 10:00 P.M. Eastern Time (7:00 P.M. Pacific)
There will of course be new outfits and attire for the Easter Ball! Our Easter ensemble includes a fairy tale ballgown, so that you can dance the night away in style and elegance!
As part of the Easter Ball, there will be a surprise party favor!
===Exciting Easter Items===
More exciting Easter items will be available in the Gift Shoppe on Friday and Saturday, so that you can complete your Easter decorating!
===Easter Pin===
When you login on Easter Sunday, you will receive the Easter Pin!
===Easter Basket===
Make sure to check your home room when you login on Easter Sunday for your Easter Basket that the Easter Bunny has left you!
When you click Unwrap on your Easter Basket, the contents of your basket will be displayed in your room and put in your closet.
==The Return Of FurniExchange!==
Just in time for Spring Cleaning, the FurniExchange is returning with all new awards! Watch the Event Calendar for exact dates and times this week.
==Fun And A Little Fantasy!==
Our first Quest for Fairy Dazzle begins Today, Friday, April 9th, at 6:30 PM Eastern Time, 3:30 PM Pacific Time! Watch the Event Calendar for details! 
In the epic age of fairies there is something magical about to happen this coming weekend! 
So, if you've been putting off taking the fairy epic challenges to earn your wings, you should click that Q button and get started now, because you won't want to miss the magic that's happening this coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday! This weekend Fairies can unlock their inner energy and shine with an entire new Epic Quest for Fairy Dazzle! 
Now, what's the fun of being a fairy if you can't work a little fairy magic? This weekend only, you will be able to complete the entire new 7 day Epic Quest for Fairy Dazzle, in just one weekend. 
With each quest you will unlock your next fairy ability! Relax as you land, sit in chairs, and even sit in the grass. Expand your fairy style, unlocking new tabs in your closet, new sections of the fairy store, and don't miss the conclusion with a new fairy enchantment! 
So come on, get your flutter on, and don't miss the "Fun And A Little Fantasy" that awaits!
==Fairy Dazzle Quest Day 1!==
April 9th, 2010.
Introduction and setting for the Fairy Dazzle Epic Quest. 
The Wicked World
By W.S. Gilbert 
PROLOGUE. 
The Author begs you'll kind attention pay 
While I explain the object of his play. 
You have been taught, no doubt, by those professing 
To understand the thing, that Love's a blessing: 
Well, he intends to teach you the reverse - 
That Love is not a blessing, but a curse! 
But pray do not suppose it's his intent 
To do without this vital element - 
His drama would be in a pretty mess! 
With quite as fair a prospect of success, 
Might a dispensing chemist in his den 
Endeavor to dispense with oxygen. 
Too powerful an agent to pooh-pooh, 
There will be Love enough I warrant you: 
But as the aim of every play's to show 
That Love's essential to all men below, 
He uses it to prove, to all who doubt it, 
How well all men - but he - can do without it. 
To prove his case (a poor one, I admit), 
He begs that with him you will kindly flit 
To a pure fairy-land that's all his own, 
Where mortal love is utterly unknown. 
Whose beings, spotless as new-fallen snow, 
Know nothing of the Wicked World below. 
These gentle sons and daughters of the air, 
Safe, in their eyrie, from temptation's snare, 
Have yet one little fault I must confess - 
An overweening sense of righteousness. 
As perfect silence, undisturbed for years, 
Will breed at length a humming in the ears, 
So from their very purity within 
Arise the promptings of their only sin. 
Forgive them! No? Perhaps you will relent 
When you appreciate their punishment! 
But prithee be not led too far away, 
By the hack author of a mere stage-play: 
It's easy to affect this cynic tone, 
But, let me ask you, had the world ne'er known 
Such Love as you, and I, and he, must mean - 
Pray where would you, or I, or he, have been? 
Your reward for completing this quest will be 1,000 credits, and the Fairy Dazzle Pin - Forest Dwelling!
==Fairy Dazzle Quest Day 2!==
3:30 PM Pacific Time (6:30 PM Eastern Time), April 10th, 2010.
Introduction for the Fairy Dazzle Epic Quest, Day 2. 
Darine: How strangely inconsistent! 
Selene: Not at all. 
With all their misery, with all their sin, 
With all the elements of wretchedness 
That teem on that unholy world of theirs, 
They have one great and ever glorious gift, 
That compensates for all they have to bear - 
The gift of Love ! Not as we use the word, 
To signify mere tranquil brotherhood ; 
But in some sense that is unknown to us. 
Their love bears like relation to our own, 
That the fierce beauty of the noonday sun 
Bears to the calm of a soft summer's eve. 
It nerves the wearied mortal with hot life, 
And bathes his soul in hazy happiness. 
The richest man is poor who hath it not, 
And he who hath it laughs at poverty. 
It hath no conqueror. When death himself 
Has worked his very worst, this love of theirs 
Lives still upon the loved one's memory. 
It is a strange enchantment, which invests 
The most unlovely things with loveliness. 
The maiden, fascinated by this spell, 
Sees every thing as she would have it be: 
Her squalid cot becomes a princely home; 
Its stunted shrubs are groves of stately elms ; 
The weedy brook that trickles past her door 
Is a broad river fringed with drooping trees ; 
And of all marvels the most marvelous, 
The coarse unholy man who rules her love 
Is a bright being - pure as we are pure ; 
Wise in his folly - blameless in his sin; 
The incarnation of a perfect soul; 
A great and ever glorious demi-god ! 
Your reward for completing this quest will be 1,000 credits, and the Fairy Dazzle Pin - Fairy Gathering!
==Fairy Dazzle Quest Day 3!==
5:30 PM Pacific Time (8:30 PM Eastern Time), April 10th, 2010.
Introduction for the Fairy Dazzle Epic Quest, Day 3. 
Selene: Yes - more might be done 
Had each of us a pupil to herself. 
Now then to summon them. But, sisters all, 
Show no repugnance to these wretched men; 
Remember that, all odious though they be, 
They are our guests; in common courtesy 
Subdue your natural antipathies ; 
Be very gentle with them, bear with them, 
Be kind, forbearing, tender, pitiful. 
Receive them with that gentle sister love, 
That forms the essence of our fairyhood ; 
Let no side-thought of their unholy lives 
Intrude itself upon your charity; 
Treat them as though they were what they will be 
When they have seen how we shall be to them. 
Your reward for completing this quest will be 1,000 credits, and the Fairy Dazzle Pin - Mushroom Marsh!
==VFK Lawn and Garden Quest!==
7:00 A.M. Pacific Time Sunday, April 11th, 2010 to 10:00 P.M. Pacific Time Monday, April 12th, 2010.
April is Lawn and Garden month! Every April, individuals, communities, towns and groups all across the country celebrate gardening! Whether you grow flowers, tasty vegetables, or just have a plant in the window, this month is the time to think about gardening. On today's quest, we will explore some of the different and interesting types of gardening! 
Your reward for completing this quest will be 1,000 credits, and a Western Wind Mill!
==Fairy Dazzle Quest Day 4!==
12:30 PM Pacific Time (3:30 PM Eastern Time), April 11th, 2010.
Introduction for the Fairy Dazzle Epic Quest, Day 4. 
Ethais: (following him angrily, is restrained by Selene). The fellow's crazed - heed not his rhapsodies, Thou dost not credit him ? 
Selene: And if I do, 
What matters it ? Be all he says thou art, 
And I will worship thee for being so ; 
Thou art my faith - whate'er my Ethais does 
Is ever hallowed by his doing it; 
Thy moral law is mine - for thou art mine: 
Ay, be thou false to me, and I'll proclaim 
That man forsworn who loves but one alone ! 
My soul is thine - whate'er my faith may be, 
I'll be its herald ; if thou hast no faith, 
I'll be the high priest of thine unbelief! 
Thy wisdom's mine ; thy folly's thine - 
Ethais: Hush! hush! Why this is madness ! 
Selene: Yes, for this is Love ! 
[Selene kneels at Ethais' feet.] 
Your reward for completing this quest will be 1,000 credits, and the Fairy Dazzle Pin - A Surprise Visit!
==Fairy Dazzle Quest Day 5!==
1:30 PM Pacific Time (4:30 PM Eastern Time), April 11th, 2010.
Introduction for the Fairy Dazzle Epic Quest, Day 5. 
Enter Darine, who has overheard the last few lines. 
Darine: Oh ! I could curse the eyes that meet his eyes, and The hand that touches his hand! And why ? I can not tell! 
Some unknown fury rages in my soul, 
A mean and miserable hate of all, 
[Enter Phyllon unobserved.] 
Who interpose between my love and me! 
What devil doth possess me? 
Phyllon: Jealousy! 
Your reward for completing this quest will be 1,000 credits, and the Fairy Dazzle Pin - Wishful Waterfall! 
==Fairy Dazzle Quest Day 6!==
4:00 PM Pacific Time (7:00 PM Eastern Time), April 11th, 2010.
Introduction for the Fairy Dazzle Epic Quest, Day 6.
Darine: (comingforward). So I have found thee, Lutin. 
Lutin: (aghast). Can it be? My wife! 
Zayda: Thy wife? This is Darine! 
Lutin: I know! (They detain him). Be quiet - don't - oblige me - let me go! 
Do not suppose, my love, that these bold girls Are friends of mine. 
Darine: Come, I would speak with the - 
Lutin: Allow me to explain. 
Your reward for completing this quest will be 1,000 credits, and the Fairy Dazzle Pin - Chance Encounter!
==Fairy Dazzle Quest Day 7!==
6:45 PM Pacific Time (9:45 PM Eastern Time), April 11th, 2010.
Introduction for the Fairy Dazzle Epic Quest, Day 7. This is the final quest in the Fairy Dazzle Epic Quest! 
Selene: May Heaven rain down her fury on thy soul! 
May every fiber in that perjured heart 
Quiver with love for one who loves thee not! 
May thine untrammeled soul at last be caught, 
And fixed and chained and riveted to one 
Who, with the love of heaven upon her lips, 
Carries hate within her heart! 
Thou phantom of the truth - thou mimic god - 
Thou traitor to thine own unhappy soul - 
Thou base apostate to the lovely faith, 
That thou hast preached with such false eloquence, 
I am thine enemy ! (To her sisters.) Look on your work, 
My gentle sisters. (They look in horror.) Are ye not content ? 
Behold ! I am a devil, like yourselves! 
Your reward for completing this quest will be 1,000 credits, and the Fairy Dazzle Pin! 
==New Game Awards!==
This Friday is the final day to receive the special game bottles and the Focus Enchantment. Starting this weekend there will be new game awards, and a new enchantment available!
==New Game Awards... They're Here!==
The new game awards have arrived, as well as the new Enchantment! 
Get started now, and be one of the first to show off the new awards and Enchantment!
==VFK Straw Hat Quest!==
7:00 A.M. Pacific Time Sunday, April 18th, 2010 to 10:00 P.M. Pacific Time Monday, April 19th, 2010.
 
April is Straw Hat month! There are many different types of straw hats ranging from farmer's hats, to cowboy hats, and what are fondly called "Sunday go-to-meeting" hats. The wide brim of a straw hat helps shelter you from the sun and is comfortable to wear in all weather. On today's quest, we will explore some history and the making of the attractive but tough straw hat! 
Your reward for completing this quest will be 1,000 credits, and your choice of a Straw Cowboy Hat or Straw Hat! <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
==Spring is in the air!==
It's National Garden Month and what better way to celebrate than with a new Garden Room! Along with the new Garden Room there are also new Plants, Garden Furni and Carpets! Everything you need to create your ultimate garden.
The new Garden Room and the first set of enchanting Garden Furni will be available today, Saturday, April 24th!
Our second set of Garden Furni will be available tomorrow, Sunday, April 25th!
The world is alive with the sound of shovels and rakes, getting everyone's Garden ready to show off!
We have an exciting competition coming up for the best Gardens to be included in our Spring Garden Tour! Use any room you like and make your garden fantastic!
Watch the event calendar for exact time and details.
==VFK Astronomy Quest!==
7:00 A.M. Pacific Time Sunday, April 25th, 2010 to 10:00 P.M. Pacific Time Monday, April 26th, 2010.
This week, April 19-25, is the 2010 International Astronomy Week, with yesterday, April 24th, designated as International Astronomy Day. Stargazers everywhere have been sharing the wonder and excitement of astronomy with their friends, neighbors and communities. Nearly every astronomy club and group has scheduled events including astronomical displays, activities, public lectures, and night events to observe the heavens. On today's quest, we'll take a peek at some of the fascinating happenings in the world of Astronomy! 
Your reward for completing this quest will be 1,000 credits, and a Cosmic Telescope Projector!<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
==VFK Lawn Mower Races!==
That's right, when you've done your lawn work outside, come in and put your skills to the test! <BR>
Join VFK's Lawn Mower Races this weekend and get ready to mow down the competition! <BR>
Watch for them on the Host Room list and the event calendar!