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Lots of threads, no time to read them all? Here is today's MouseHunt news, highlights, and gossip! Read on:

Section 1
No its not a new mouse coming out of the cave, dont get all excited, its only me =D

Just to recap and remind you all what is needed for the new area

An antique lantern (CC - 94K)

3 dragon embers, get to dracano and catch any of the 3 mice for this item

Craft the lantern + 3 embers to make Balacks lantern

Head over to JoD and bait your shadow trap with Gouda or SB+ to catch a Pigmy swarm which sometimes drops the vanilla bean.

Collect some beans and use one of the two formulas to craft 15 pieces of Vanilla Stilton

Recipe one: 15 Vanilla Beans + 15 Curds & Whey + 15 Salt + 15 Coconut Milk

Recipe two: 1 Vanilla Bean + 15 Curds & Why + 15 Salt + 15 Coconut Milk + 15 Magic Essence

Take your new items to the cove and set up an arcane trap for the forgotten mice that lurk within

To progess towards Balack himself, you will need special ingredients dropped by the trapped tribe members in the cove, the mice and its loot are as follows;

Derr Lich Mouse, 1 Bottled-Up Rage

Nerg Lich Mouse, 1 Raisins Of Wrath

Elub Lich Mouse, 1 Pinch Of Annoyance

These ingredients are used in crafting the only cheese known to attract the ancient, evil mouse that is Balack

The recipe's for Crafting Vengeful Vanilla Stilton are as follows;

1 Piece: 1 Bottled-Up Rage + 1 Raisins Of Wrath + 1 Pinch Of Annoyance + 1 Vanilla Bean + 1 Curds & Whey + 1 Ionized Salt + 1 Coconut Milk

3 Pieces: 1 Bottled-Up Rage + 1 Raisins Of Wrath + 1 Pinch Of Annoyance + 1 Vanilla Bean + 1 Curds & Whey + 1 Ionized Salt + 1 Coconut Milk + 3 Magic Essence

It is reccomended you use the ABT to catch this mouse as he is an arcane type but if you are willing to try using the ACRONYM, let us know if you catch him and we can spread the work so not everyone has to go through the process of obtaining the ABT

A few pointers about the new area

You will be washed out of the cave periodically and be sent to the JoD so watch out for those pigmy's

When you are washed out of the cave you will not need 3 more embers for the lantern like you are told, the fire will never extinguish

VS is excellent it seems for attracting the pigmy mice, one hunter getting over 70 consecutive catches of the little mice. So if you can afford to craft the Vanilla Stilton with Magic Essence, this may be a good way to stock up on cheese before taking on the cove

Times are still being worked out for the wave times and a thread has been created to monitor both the FG timer and BC waves, check that out here


For all you impatient people out there wanting to see the main mice of the new area, we at the nibbler managed to fish up some pictures of the new 'old' mice for your enjoyment
So, just to reiterate

These be spoilers, so don't come crying if you click them and dont want to see them!! =D

Anyway, to the mice





And finally




Leslie Heng gets the honour of being the first person to catch Balack, see the aftermath of her catch in this thread


Ba-lack? Ba-luck? Ba-leck? How the heck do you pronounce his name?!


Wayne Whitaker sparked up this interesting question, my personal choice is Ba-Lack, saying it as its spelt but others have different opinons




In non Ba-Lack related news


ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH?!?!
Brave hunter, Shubham शुभम Garg, decided to try hunting the Sensei of the dojo armed only with a tacky glue trap and 110 Onyx Gogonzola cheese in the hopes of achieving the impressive fete of getting, not a normal over a million point log, but to lose one million points in a log. Check out the progress he made in his adventure here


Well thats my first Nibbler out the way, more to come in the future
-Twiggi
Toodles!

So far, so good, and don't forget to sound the horn!



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Section 2

MouseHunter of the Day

David Quah

Hunter’s Title: Hero (24%)http://apps.facebook.com/mousehunt/hunterprofile.php?snuid=1414029999

1. If you were a mouse, what type would you be and what would you do to escape the traps set out for you?I would be a different type of demolitions mouse going around and blowing traps up. And for the escaping, I would blow it up =]

2. How much cheese do you eat in a day? Which MH cheese are you most likely to eat in real life? Would you ever consider crafting cheese at home?You know those slice cheese you find in supermarkets? Ya thoseI would like to try crunchy I’ve never eaten hard cheese before

3. Have you skipped anything important just to sound the horn (ie school, work, sleep)? Did you enjoy it?I have skipped studying for exams to play before but I still did well enough so no harm done. And that was the time I got my Mobster.

4. Which mouse would you most like to meet? (Assuming the mice could talk, of course.) What questions would you ask that mouse in an interview?I would like to talk to a silth mouse and ask him why it is so hard to catch him. After he finished answering, I would pull out net cannon and catch him=]

5. When was the last time you caught a mouse in real life?Sorry never come across one in real life. My house is clean and rodent free.

6. What is your favorite trap in the game and why?The Christmas cracker and Candy Cane base goes together ya know but who can argue about that, it just does.

7. Do you think you could beat an Aged Mouse at chess?No. But if I did, while he is pondering on how I beat him, I would be priming my cracker for use.

8. What was the last occasion where you caught a rare or difficult mouse with a ridiculously low amount of cheese?I got my first magma carrier with only 2 pieces of Spicy Harvatti.

9. What has been the worst decision of your MouseHunt career, in hindsight?Uum… that would be getting the ship before the ACRONYM.after I got my ship I found it ridiculously hard to get scrap metal for the ACRONYM.

10. If the Ornament Mouse, Bottled Mouse, and Lambent Crystal Mouse were having a fight, who would win and why?None of them, because I would see them fighting and put my trap out for them and get them all.Heres how the hunt looked like:6:21 pmI sounded the hunters horn. I was successful in my hunt. I found that I had caught an Bottled mouse, Ornament mouse and a Lamberant crystal mouse. I did not use my cheese for that hunt and will be used for the next hunt.


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