I logged into Test and created a char to check out these alleged (and very suspicious sounding) April Fool's boxes. I see none.

I'm calling 'hoax' until someone posts screenshots!

~M

*crickets*

Do I smell an 'April fools' joke?

I was gonna log in and see, but I don't even have TC on my list.

I, too, do not regularly frequent Test - so i thought perhaps new characters didn't receive April Fool's gifts...

I'm still calling B.S. until I see a screeny, though =D

~M

Okay, got TC1 up now. Here's a pic of the black/grey gift box.

Curses! Foiled again!

And you're purposely not showing me what's inside, aren't you?

*head explodes with anticipation*

(Thanks for the screeny!)

~M

The problem with these gifts is that they are usually all blessed. There was one year where cakes were gifts in which they were stealable. It only took a few hours for the word to spread about this fact, but by that time, I had stolen about 50 of them since they were 1 stone items and everyone was still taking the time to stop by the Moonglow bank on Siege... ...la

Ah yes...Fifth year stealable cakes!

Here's a thought:

"Thief Competition"
- Every player receives, as a gift, a cursed 1 stone item. It has each player's name on it.
- It cannot be deposited in a bank, put in a pack horse/beetle, or locked down. In otherwords, it must remain in your pack or be dropped on the ground to vanish quickly
- At the end of a certain period of time, the thief with the most cursed items on his person (not linked to his/her own account) gets a prize
- Alternatively, the gifts can be traded to an NPC for points (but only if it is not yours). Points are redeemed for items.
- Alternatively (and my new favorite) every time the gift is stolen, it gets updated with a "Stolen by {name} - 01/01/08." If you manage to stay logged in for a certain number of hours without it being stolen, you get a prize. Whenever the gift is in play, a global message is released to all players with *real* Snooping+Stealth+Stealing >= 200 with it's current location. "The gift is in Minoc" for example. Hints could also come from Town Criers. Logging out or putting the gift ANYWHERE except the top level of a backpack causes the gift to relocate to one of several known areas around the facet - preferably places where recall is disabled. If you have the gift at server maintenance, you still have it at server up.

Thoughts? Clearly, I'm bored...

~M

Inside my April Fool's box was a yellow card saying IOU Cake..meh.

What the...?

I hope there is more to it than that...it's not even funny...

~M

I have a strong suspicion we have to wait till 1st April for the iou to be redeemed.

The cake is a lie! ;)