This dual Mission follows the pattern of all time-restricted Quests lately. The first component is the usual Collections Mission requiring collection of flower Garlands from four different sources. The second is a traditional Quest requence called 'Sharing is Caring' that is comprised of 12 steps and further, divided into three parts, each consisting of four steps. At the end of every part, you will receive a special Reward. The first is a Special Mission Gift Box containing a few Farm Aids. The second, at the end of Sharing is Caring VIII is a Decoration for your Seaside Farm. At the end of Sharing is Caring XII, the final step, you will receive a Decoration for your Island Farm. The last four steps essentially require access to the Island, although there are tasks within those steps, such as requests for an Item from Neighbours, that do not require Island access.
One component of this traditional Quest that I find a little unfair is the need to create Camomile Baskets. This was included in the last timed Mission as well and is impossible unless you have considerable Development Points on the Island. On my first farm, I have the ability to create any sort of Basket in the Flower Basket Machine but on my second farm, although I do have access to the Island, I do not yet have a Bamboo Tree, a Panda or a Flower Basket Machine because I lack sufficient Development Points. The Panda requires 960 Dev Points, the Bamboo Tree 900 Dev Points and the Flower Basket Machine requires 1360 Dev Points. To achieve this for a player who is fairly new to the Island is almost impossible in the time given for the Mission. You therefore only have the option to use RC to complete some of the tasks if you wish to obtain the Decoration for the Island. Mind you, the price for skipping the task of creating 10 Camomile Baskets is only 5 RC as opposed to 10 RC or more, so it is not that expensive in the general scheme of things. I remember the last time-restricted Mission where, on my second farm, I had to pay far more to complete the Mission in terms of the Island tasks because my Dev. Points were woefully inadequate at the time.
Collect Garlands:
70 Pink Rose Garlands from Pitaya
50 Marigold Garldands from Mayonnaise
30 Red Rose Garlands from Beef Salami
10 Orchid Garldands from Plum Tree
Rewards: Black Pepper Tree and Super Watering Cans
N.B. You can purchase Black Pepper Tree in the Market for 6 RC as well
Sharing is Caring Quest
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Sharing is Caring I
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Grandma: Last night Felicia told me that her Thai friend named Fon would come to visit us as she has a long holiday in her country. Let's finish some farm tasks before Fon arrives!
Harvest 40 Corn
Skip for 10 RC
Harvest 6 Maple Syrup
Skip for 6 RC
Harvest 40 Tomatoes
Skip for 20 RC
Grandma: Haven't seen Fon in ages! Super excited already!
Rewards: 1000 Coins, 160 XP
Sharing is Caring II
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Grandma: Morning, Sunshine! Looks like Felicia and Darryl are still in bed. Maybe I should bake some tasty trests to wake them up! Wake 'n Bake!
Produce 40 Cheddar Cheese
Skip for 20 RC
Produce 40 Wheat Bread
Skip for 20 RC
Produce 40 Cheese Burgers
Skip for 20 RC
Reward: 1000 Coins, 160 XP
Grandma: The smell of fresh baked goods is so tempting! I reckon these kids will wake up soon.
Sharing is Caring III
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Grandma: Recently we've received lots of orders from other farms. I think we'd better finish them before Fon gets here. Felicia will take the lead too! Can you lend her a hand?
Harvest 40 Oats
Skip for 20 RC
Produce 40 sacks of Rye Flour
Skip for 20 RC
Sell products worth 3000 Coins from Seaside Barn
Skip for 3 RC
Reward: 1000 Coins, 170 XP
Grandma: Yay! We've finished them on time!
Sharing is Caring IV
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Grandma: Felicia told me Fon likes hwite flowers and loves tea. I'll definitely look up some teas for her! We should also decorate our farm to give her a nice warm welcome!
Harvest 6 Cherries
Skip for 6 RC
Harvest 40 Lavender
Skip for 20 RC
Prepare 12 cups of Maple Milk Tea in your Kitchen
Skip for 12 RC
Reward: 1000 Coins, 170 XP
Grandma: The farm smells of lavender!
Special Reward: Special Mission Gift Box
Sharing is Caring V
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Grandma: Fon has just arrived at our farm. She brought us some Thai dessert to try, but I think we missed something though... that's right! We need deinks for our guest!
Produce 50 Bottles of Wine
Skip for 25 RC
Produce 15 glasses of Cherry Juice
Skip for 8 RC
Prepare 10 Coconut Milk in your Kitchen
Skip for 10 RC
Grandma: Thai desserts and drinks made on our farm! It's just perfect!
Reward: 1000 Coins, 180 XP
Sharing is Caring VI
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Grandma: Fon told us that this week is Thai New Year. Local people usually go back to their hometown and visit their family. She said that since she's here, she would love to cook some Thai food for us. Let's get her some ingredients!
Place a Black Pepper Tree on your Farm
Reward from Collections Mission or purchase in Market for 6 RC
Harvest 6 Black Peppers
Skip for 6 RC
Harvest 50 Pumpkins
Skip for 25 RC
Reward: 1000 Coins, 180 XP
Grandma: Can't wait to try some food by Chef Fon!
Sharing is Caring VII
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Grandma: Felicia told me to get some rest and she would help Fon in the kitchen. Maybe I'll let these two beauties enjoy the cooking and I'll go get some rest. Do you want to join them in the kitchen?
Prepare 6 plates of Fried Spicy Seafood in your Kitchen
N.B. Each Fried Spicy Seafood will require 1 raw Octopus and 1 Black Pepper. If you intend to use RC, it would be better to buy whatever Octopus you lack for 1 RC each than to skip the task completely as you will need the six plates of Fried Spicy Seafood to make the Spicy Seafood Wonton
Skip for 6 RC
Prepare 12 Plates of Deep Fried Wonton in your kitchen
N.B. Each dish requires 1 Soft Dough and 2 Duck Eggs
Skip for `12 RC
Prepare 6 plates of Spicy Seafood Wonton Soup in your Kitchen
N.B. Each dish requires 1 Fried Spicy Seafood and 1 Deep Fried Wonton
Skip for 6 RC
Reward: 1000 Coins, 190 XP
Grandma: Mmmm... I can smell something tasty from the kitchen.
Sharing is Caring VIII
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Grandma: There are many activities during the Thai New Year. Fon said people celebrate by splashing water over each other in public or by staying at home and cooking food. Talking about food makes me hungry again. Can we get some snacks?
Produce 60 Love Cakes
Skip for 30 RC
Prepare 6 Bowls of Sweet Mango
N.B. Each dish requires Mango and Honey Syrup x 2
Skip for 6 RC
Produce 60 Jars of Pitaya Jam
Skip for 30 RC
Reward: 1000 Coins, 190 XP
Grandma: I'm enjoying the snacks and stories that Fon's sharing so much of with us!
Special Reward: Basketball Playground Decoration for your Seaside Farm
Sharing is Caring IX
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Grandma: It feels so nice after taking a nap! But where is every one? They're probably still preparing dessert in the kitchen. Can you go to the kitchen again and help them with dessert? My stomach's already growling!
Prepare 10 plates of Coconut Pudding in your Kitchen
N.B. Each Coconut Pudding requires 1 Coconut Milk and 3 Corn
Skip for 10 RC
Prepare 10 plates of Egg Custard in Pumpkin
N.B. Each Egg Custard in Pumpkin requires 2 Pumpkin and 1 Egg
Skip for 10 RC
Prepare 10 plates of Thai Dessert Sets
N.B. Each Thai Dessert Set requires 1 Coconut Pudding and 1 Egg Custard in Pumpkin
Skip for 10 RC
Grandma: The egg and pumpkin was so tasty! Yum, yum...
Reward: 1000 Coins, 200 XP
Sharing is Caring X
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Grandma: Another thing that Thai people do during the New Year is pour water on the hands of elders and ask for blessing. Fon wants to take this chance and ask for blessing from me too. We need to prepare flowers for this activity!
Collect 20 Flower Blessing Sets from your Neighbours
Skip for 20 RC
Produce 60 Lavender Essential Oil
(Must have access to Island and Essential Oil Machine)
Skip for 30 RC
Harvest 60 Alfalfa
(Must have access to Island to grow Alfalfa)
Skip for 30 RC
Grandma: These flowers smell so nice!
Reward: 1000 Coins, 200 XP
Sharing is Caring XI
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Grandma: When receiving blessings from elders, one should wish for good health and be gratefuil for the thigs they've done for us. I could see a tear in Darryl's eye when he was pouring water onto my hands. Isn't that just adorable?
Produce 6 Cherry Chocolates
Skip for 6 RC
Harvest 6 Bamboo Shoots
Skip for 6 RC
Produce 10 Camomile Baskets
(This requires access to the Island and sufficient Development Points not only to grow Camomile but to have a Panda and sufficient Dev Points for the Flower Basket Machine)
Skip for 5 RC
Reward: 1000 Coins, 210 XP
Reward: I'm so grateful to have them in my life!
Note that the number of items that require fairly high Development Points are not that significant. You can skip the Bamboo Shoot task and the Camomile Basket task for a total of 11 RC, must less than that required in the previous time-restricted Mission I believe!
The Basket Machine is unlocked only at 1360 Development Points. Points required to unlock the Bamboo Tree are 900 Dev Points but the Panda who makes the Baskets from the Bamboo Shoots costs 12 RC and is unlocked only with 960 Dev Points. If you are nowhere near a point where you can obtain 1360 Dev Points, you may wish to skip the 10 Camomile Basket task. The developers of the game have been kind here in sense as it costs only 5 RC to skip it.
Sharing is Caring XII
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Grandma: The wather is getting hotter, and it's already Thai New Year. Let's grab the water blaster and have a water fight, haha!
Collect 20 Water Blasters from Neighbours
Skip for 20 RC
Complete 6 Helicopter Orders
(This task requires access to the Island)
Skip for 6 RC
Craft 6 Lavender Aroma Bottles
(This task requires access to the Island: create the Wooden Aroma Bottles and the Lavender Oil on the Island, then ship both to the Seaside Farm to make the Lavender Aroma Bottles in your Beauty Shop)
Skip for 6 RC
Grandma: We've all had a nice time today. Thanks so much, Fon, for such a great day!
Reward: 1000 Coins, 210 XP
Special Final Reward: Bunnies Fountain Decoration
Gallery Registration
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As with any time-restricted Quest or Mission, there are two separate components. The three items that are obtained as Rewards for completing all aspects of the Quest can be registered AT ANY TIME, but in order to register the Collection, you must register ALL THREE WITHIN A SPECIFIC TIME PERIOD. If you fail to do so, the Collection entry will be removed from your Gallery. Note that you still can register the items separately but registration of the actual Collection always includes the Reward of 1 RC and thus is worth the effort.
Black Pepper Tree
5 Medals, 2 Super Watering Cans
Basketball Playground
2 MEdals, 10 Green Mystrons
Bunnies Decoration
5 Medals, 30 Green Mystrons
Sharing is Caring Collection
Includes Black Pepper Tree, Basketball Playground and Bunnies Fountain
Reward: 5 Medals, 88 Green Mystrons, 1 RC
Recipes
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Fried Spicy Seafood: 1082 Coins, 1 XP
Ingredients: Black Pepper, Octopus
Deep Fried Wonton: 763 Coins, 1 XP
Ingredients: Soft Dough, Duck Egg x 2
Spicy Seafood Wonton Soup: 1880 Coins, 1 XP
Ingredients: Fried Spicy Seafood, Deep Fried Wonton
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Coconut Pudding: 570 Coins, 1 XP
Ingredients: Coconut Milk, Corn x 3
Egg Custard in Pumpkin: 666 Coins, 1 XP
Pumpkin x 2, Egg
Thai Dessert Set: 1274 Coins, 1 XP
Ingredients: Coconut Pudding, Egg Custard in Pumpkin
The following is the entry that I wrote for last year's Songkran Mission:
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Thai New Year Festival: Songkran or Songhran
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As with respect to many ancient Festivals, the main thrust of the Thai New Year Festival originally was a prayer for rain so that the crops would grow. Fertility for the land, in other words, was the reason why people celebrated this Festival as water is the source of life and could be the difference between life and death for people who depended upon the land for sustenance.
Most New Year Festivals involve cleansing rituals and Songkran/Songhran is no exception. The images of the Buddha are bathed ritually and homes are cleaned thoroughly in preparation for a new Year. Water fights, even with the use of 'weapons' such as water guns and cannons are an offshoot of the ancient cleansing rituals and are extremely popular in modern Thailand. People give alms to monks and visit their families.
A sign of respect towards elders is to pour perfumed water on their palms. This is similar to the ritual of bathing the statues of the Buddha. Water fights may be fun, but the foundation of the tradition is that of cleansing the body and soul of all negative influences. The streets are inundated with water during this festival.
A visit to the beach to build pagodas from sand is part of the Songkran/Songhran tradition.
Beauty pageants are a contemporary way of choosing a Songkran Queen. The origins of the Songkran Queen may be found in a tale that involves King Kabilaprom and his son, Prince Thammaban. The King asked his son to describe the attributes of a good person during the morning, at noon and finally in the evening. If the Prince were to answer correctly, the King would forfeit his own head. If the Prince were to answer incorrectly, the Prince would be beheaded instead. The Prince gave the correct responses which were the head in the morning, the chest at noon and the foot in the evening. The King then had to submit to beheading.
(This obviously is a corruption of a very ancient worldwide sacrifice ritual of the King in order to allow his son or heir to take power. By sacrificing his life, the King or Ruler made certain that the land would be fertile.)
In this case, the King was so powerful that, if his head had touched the ground, a drought would occur, scorching the land. Nor could the head be tossed into the sky or into the sea. (This tale has parallels in the legends that surround other heroes in other cultures, among them Imam Husayn.) His seven angel daughters in turn carried his head clockwise round a sacred mountain, the Phra Sumane Mountain.
Each angel daughter has her own specific attributes and each has a specific day. When Songkran Day, the New Year Day falls upon the day that is associated with that Queen, her attributes will determine the course of the Year:
Tungsatevee, Sunday: Red clothing, prefers wild fruit with discus in the right hand, shell in the left hand, rides a Garuda
Korakatevee, Monday: Yellow clothing, pearl ornaments, prefers butter oil, dagger in the right hand, walking stick in the left, rides a Tiger
Ragsotevee, Tuesday: Light red clothing with agate ornaments, prefers blood, trident in the right hand, arrow in the left hand, rides a Pig
Montatevee, Wednesday: Emerald green clothing, cat's eye ornaments, prefers milk and butter, sharp iron in the right hand, walking stick in the left, rides a Donkey
Kirineetevee, Thursday: Yellow-green clothing with emerald ornaments, prefers nuts and sesame seeds, elephant hook in the right hand, gun in the left hand, rides an Elephant
Kimitatevee, Friday: White clothing with topaz ornaments, prefers bananas, dagger in the right hand, Indian vina in the left hand, rides a Buffalo
Mahotorntevee, Saturday: Black clothing with onyx ornaments, prefers hog deer meat, discus in the right hand, trident in the left hand, rides a Peacock
The Songkran Queen or an image of the Buddha is carried through the streets in many cases:
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