Christmas 2021

Christmas 2021 is the second Event in the Tiny Shop universe, featuring Christmas plot lines, quests , decorations and more.

## Story

### Intro

 Lexie: Brrrrrr

It's getting cold lately, that's really strange...

 Jelly: Yes…

I wander what's happening…

And i sure hope it don't involve any forces beyond our understanding and other unatural threat

 Lexie: Or worse... administrative paperwork...

 Jelly: Don't jinx us!

 John: Friends!

 Jelly: HA!

 Lexie: HA!

 Jelly: You scared us!

 Lexie: Why do you look like you had a very sudden and very close face to face with a very fancy tree?

 John: Tis my camouflage suit for infiltration in natural habitat!

 Lexie: You're aware that there's no tree like that on the archipelago right?

 John: Until a couple o'hours ago t'was true

 Jelly: Huh?

 John: Yeah, that's why I'm here, you gotta see this!

But I'll let Almo tell everything since he's the one behind it!

Almo! C'mere!

 Jelly: What in the eight oceans...

 Lexie: ...is happening?

 Almo: Your majesty!

 Jelly: HAAA!

 Lexie: You're camouflaged too?

 Almo: Huh?

 Lexie: Nevermind, so, what's up with the tree business?

 Jelly: And the cold!

 Lexie: And the cold yes

 Almo: Ah yes!

My wonderful experiment was a success!

And I finally have something that I've been dreaming of!

A pet!

 Jelly: Wh... what kind of pet?

 Almo: A lovely turtle!

 Jelly: Oh... That does not sound that ba...

 John: What he don't say is that this lasss is 'round 60 km long...

 Lexie: WHAT?!

 Jelly: Huh!

 Almo: Tsk, a small detail!

 Lexie: Small... small... we don't really have the same definition of small

 Jelly: But... what happened?

 Almo: A couple of moons ago I found a small egg while gahtering materials for my brilliant researches!

It felt abandonned, I could not let that poor thing alone in a damp ruin hahahaha!

So I took it with me and decided to wait for it to hatch!

 Lexie: But...

 John: But t'was taking too long for his taste

So he decided to speed things up a tad

 Almo: Exactly! I enlisted the help of the mages to design a... temporal shortcut, to put it simply

 John: T'was when I decided to follow him... becuase well... It's Almo

And when two congregations of lunatics works toghether, the results are quite often... unexpected

 Lexie: Ok ok so to sum up…

You found an unidentified egg of unknown origin somewhere in a ruin

Then decided to let it hatch

But when it was taking too long, you decided to use time magic and alchemical means to speed up the process

And we now have a turtle the size of an island in the Archipelago

 Almo: Yes! Isnt'it amazing?

 Jelly: It's not exactly how I would have put it but it's a way of seeing things I guess...

 Lexie: But what's about the cold?

 John: Well, t'seem that the beast is infused with large quantiy o'aether that is strongly leaning on the ice side

And considered the size of that thing, there's a whole ecosystem on top of it!

The turtle itself is not hostile and our preliminary expedition revealed that there's nothing dangerous living on it

 Lexie: You went ON it?!

 John: Well, yeah, o'course!

 Lexie: I'll never understand adventurers...

 John: I think y'all should come see it! It's really not something you see everyday!

 Jelly: I wanna see it!

 Lexie: Alright, Alright, I admit I'm super curious too!

But first I'm going to make some warmer clothes for everyone!

### After Task #2

 Lexie: Wow!

 Jelly: This is really impressive!

 John: I told ya!

 Lexie: A whole living island...

 Jelly: I can't believe my eyes…

And all this snow!

 Lexie: You're sure that nothing dangerous lives here right?

 John: Well, as far as I can tell, nope!

 Lexie: Wonderful!

I think we all deserve some nice break after all this hard work! And this island is a nice spot for that!

 Jelly: Absolutely, working hard is nice but we need to take some breaks too!

 Lexie: That's true!

 Jelly: Still, I believe we should be sure that our big scaly friend is doing well and that she won't disrupt our environment

 Almo: I'm sure Marguerite don't want us any harm!

 John: Marguerite?

 Almo: That's her name!

 Lexie: Fair enough! I like it!

 Jelly: I know!

We should ask Lily to come too!

She was a researcher in the Sunken Gardens! She might know something about Marguerite!

 Almo: That's a good idea!

 Lexie: Let's do that!

### After Task #4

\* One Snowy Trip later \*

 Lily: Oooh! This is wonderful!

Thank you so much for bringing me here!

She's truly majestic!

 Almo: Do you know anything about it?

 Lily: I need to confirm it but I think its a Giganchelone!

If I'm correct, we're truly seiing nothing short of a wonder!

We thought the species extinct for a long while!

Almo might have saved them from extinction!

 Almo: I did?!

I mean, of course I did! I am the great Almo after all!

 Lily: I just wander how an egg ended up here…

Their eggs can survive for a really long time but they're not usually alone.

And this specimen is of the wrong aertheric alignment…

If we are talking about Giganchelones of course!

I'll need to observe and study it to be sure

Would you mind helping me in that endeavour please?

 John: Of course!

 Lexie: Absolutely!

 Almo: Anyuthing fo Marguerite!

 Lily: Great! Thank you friends!

Let's head this way then, this feel like a promisi…

Are these Cocoa trees?!

Amazing!

I need to see that!

 John: Lily wait!!

 Lexie: Aand she's gone

### After Task #6

 John: Lily wait!

 Lily: Oh!

Sorry!

I got excited and it distracted me!

 John: No worries at all, but just be careful, we have not explored everything

And we don't know if there could be some danger lurking around

It'll pain me to see harm done to our favourite botanist!

 Lily: Aaaw,, thank you so much

And sorry for the troubles!

 John: It's alright!

 Lily: But I can confirm that this is a perfectly healthy and young Giganchelone!

 Almo: My Marguerite!

How old is she?

 Lily: 5000 years old give or take

 Lexie: Wow!

 Jelly: That's... Young?

 Lily: For them? Absolutely!

 Lexie: Wait, you made her age from egg to 5000 years in an instant?

 Almo: Hahaha not really!

It is a good yet totally wrong analogy

But simple enough to be grasped by everyone

She really is this old, as in, she lived every single of these days

Of course she might not remember them yet as she was born only a couple of hours ago

But she'll remember eventually

 Lexie: If I got that correctly

She'll have memories of immemorial times

Waaaaaaaay before our very existence

And actually lived these memories

But she's born 9 hours ago?

 Almo: Correct!

 Jelly: How is that even possible?

 Almo: Time is rather complicated

Not that I expect anyone here to fully understand but let me explain!

Let's picture a really huge ball of yarn

And throw it in an infinite room filled with playful cats proportionally big…

Now let's picture the present moment as one thread of that yarn...

\* A really really really long explanation later \*

 Almo: And that's how the hippopotamus make it to the other shore that we can consider being the present!

 Lexie: zzz

 Jelly: yaaaaawn

Is that the rising sun?

 Lily: That was fascinating!

### After Task #8

 Lexie: Lily?

 Lily: Yes?

 Lexie: Can you tell us more about the Giganchelones please?

 Lily: Absolutely!

They had a whole book about them in the Sunken Gardens!

Where to start?

The Giganchelone as you can tell are gigantic

And this one is not adult yet!

They can live up to 60 000 years

Well, back when the concept of lifetime mattered at least

The eggs have the particularity of absorbing the most predominant aether around it when being laid

Thus giving a wide range of variety in the "flavour" of Giganchelones

And tell us that Marguerite come from a much colder place

How her egg ended here is quite puzzling

Giganchelones are also migratory and if what Almo said about her memory are true

She will eventually migrate back to her "original" birth place

 Almo: Marguerite! Nooooo!

Don't leave me!

 Lily: Don't worry Almo, she'll come back too!

And it's better for her, the Archipelago's climate is way too hot!

We should enjoy her presence while it last

### After Task #10

 Lexie: I'm sure glad that there's nothing dangerous here

 Jelly: It's nice to be able to relax once in a while!

 Almo: Yes! And this place is a treasure trove of reagents!

The properties of these ice crystals are absolutely incredible!

The only way to make them melt is to expose them to an equivalently powerful fire infused aether!

We could literally let them sit under the sun all day long without any change!

The mages in the Guild are not accustomed to this element and will defintely be excited about studying them!

 Jelly: It's also perfect for cooling drinks and keeping ice cream cold!

 Almo: Marguerite is fantastic! Best sweety ever!

 Lily: We should gather samples responsibly and not take too much

Marguerite is being kind enough to let us roam freely but lets not forget that we are on a living being

 Almo: She know knows that we're here?

 Lily: Oh definitely, Giganchelones have an intrinsic relation with the piece of world they carry

And are deeply aware of what's happening on it!

 Lexie: Impressive!

Almo? What are you doing?

 Jelly: He's hugging the ground i think...

 Almo: I love you Marguerite!

 Lily: He's cute!

 Jelly: Hey look! John and Jane are having a snowball fight!

 Lexie: Let's go help them!

 Lily: You can go, I'll stay here for the moment to sketch these flower

 Lexie: Alright! Happy sketching!

 Lily: Have fun!

### After Task #12

 Almo: How are these crystals formed?

 Lily: Well, according to the most popular theory, Giganchelones slowly feed on ambient aether

Which is rather fortunate if you consider that otherwise she'll shouldn't be "she would"? need to actually eat something

And I don't want to know how much food she'll again? I'm not sure... need to devour otherwise...

That said, the aether need to be properly aligned, even partially for it to have any nutritional values

So they regularly go back and forth between their birth place and multiple migration areas

 Jelly: Why not stay where they can find food? I sure know I would!

 Lily: To find mates and then meet them afterward, Giganchelones are quite social!

It is also believed that they just simply enjoy travelling and seeing new horizons

And then go back to their "home" to restore their aether supplies

Which lead to the growth of new crystals!

 Almo: This is really fascinating!

 Lexie: You sure know a lot!

 Lily: Aaw, thank you!

I would not say that I know a lot but I sure love the natural world!

### After Task #14

 Lexie: What was that?

 Jelly: An earthquake?

 Lily: No, Marguerite is moving

She's probably stretching and warming up for an imminent depart

Well, Imminent for a giant turtle!

Which mean that we probably have a few more days until that

We should start cleaning things up and be sure we leave the place just like we found it!

 Lexie: Absolutely!

 Lily: We'll sure have a lot of things to study after that!

 Lexie: And... you're sure that she'll come back right?

I don't want Almo to be heartbroken

 Lily: I'm positive yes, not only the migratory behaviour of Giganchelones is consistent

But she also have technically 2 birth place now, and the second is here

Or is it the first? I'll have to ask Almo about it...

 Jelly: Speaking of, where is he?

 Lexie: The last time I saw him he was gathering lots of snowflower and crystals

 Lily: Probably for his experiences

 Lexie: That's what I thought too but then I saw him carrying that in the direction of Marguerite's head

 Jelly: Maybe we should check it out?

 Lexie: Let's go!

\* One hour something something later \*

 Lexie: Almo!

 Almo: Oh! Hello there!

 Lexie: What are you doing?

 Almo: I'm making a big flower crown for Marguerite!

 Lexie: Aaaw! That's sweet!

 Lily: So you're aware that she'll soon be on her way?

 Almo: Yes

 Lily: Don't worry she'll come back!

 Almo: I know, but it still makes me sad!

 Lexie: That's understandable

 Lily: Take all the time you need with her

 Lexie: We'll start packing our things up and make the place as pristine as possible!

### After Last Task #16

 Almo: This is the day, I can feel it!

 Jelly: We should all go and say goodbye together!

 Almo: And thank her for all the good times!

 Lily: A good idea yes!

 Jelly: Let me take a camera!

\* One Snowy Trip Later \*

 Almo: Do you think she can see us?

 Lily: Definetly yes!

 Jelly: But we're so small compared to her!

 Lily: Don't worry about that, I'm not certain she'll understand our language though

 Almo: But intentions matter!

 Lily: That's true!

 Lexie: Good bye Marguerite!

 Jelly: Thank you for everything!

 Lily: Take care of you on the way back!

 Almo: I love you Marguerite! Come back soon!

 Jelly: She noded!

 Almo: Do you think she understood us?

 Lily: Hard to tell but she definitely reacted!

 Jelly: I'm going to take the opportunity to thank you all as well

You are amazing friends and I'm really lucky to have you around

We've gone through a lot of adventures together and you have always been so supportive

Moving in this city was the best thing that has ever happened to me!

 Lily: I feel the same! It's nice to have poople you trust around you

 Lexie: Life is way better since you all came around!

 Almo: You're a great king for sure!

 Lily: There's surely more adventures that await us along the road!

 Lexie: And hopefully new friends!

 Jelly: In the meantime, lets have a last snowball fight!

## Content

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### Chests

* **Unlock:** Violet Present
* **Unlock:** Teal Present
* **Unlock:** Red Present
* **Unlock:** Blue Present
* Violet Present x1
* Teal Present x1
* Red Present x1
 Finish Event Tasks x06 | * Strange Seed (Seed) x1
* **Unlock:** Garland, Decorated
* **Unlock:** Lights Garland, Blue
* **Unlock:** Lights Garland, Green
* **Unlock:** Lights Garland, Yellow
* Garland, Decorated x1
* Lights Garland, Blue x1
* Lights Garland, Green x1
 Finish Event Tasks x09 | * Strange Seed (Seed) x1
* **Unlock:** Decorated Pine
* **Unlock:** Garland Decorated 02
* **Unlock:** Library Table, Comfy
* **Unlock:** Comfy Reading Chair
* **Unlock:** Garland, Blue
* **Unlock:** Present Stack 01
* **Unlock:** Present Stack 02
* Decorated Pine x1
* Garland Decorated 02 x1
* Library Table, Comfy x1
* Garland, Blue x1
* Present Stack 01 x1
 Finish 12 Task | * **Unlock:** Dwarf Cocoa Seed (Seed)
* **Unlock:** Wall: Snow
* **Unlock:** Wall: Smooth Snow
* **Unlock:** Wall: Half Snow
* **Unlock:** Wall: Ice
* **Unlock:** Wall: Snowy Ice
* **Unlock:** Wooden Fence 01
* **Unlock:** Wooden Fence 02
* **Unlock:** Wooden Fence 03
* **Unlock:** Wooden Fence 04
* **Unlock:** Wooden Fence 05
* **Unlock:** Wooden Fence 06
* **Unlock:** Wooden Fence 07
* **Unlock:** Wooden Fence 08
* **Unlock:** Snow Floor Tile 01
* **Unlock:** Snow Floor Tile 02
* **Unlock:** Ice Floor Tile
* Mistleglow x1
* Winter Crown x1
* Evercold Pine x1
* **Unlock:** Mistleglow
* **Unlock:** Winter Crown
* Even Stranger Seed (Seed) x1
* Even Stranger Seed (Seed) x1