To Smuggle A Mocking Bird Walk Through

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To Smuggle A Mocking Bird has twists, turns and bird jokes at every corner. It starts out in the Smuggler's Haven, takes you to Italy, Las Vegas and back to Brazil. There are 8 parts and we get a Grand Prize loot item for completing Parts 7 and 8. Who ever designed this Mission is obsessed with birds as evidenced by the title which is a play of words off the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, by Harper Lee, To Kill A Mocking Bird. Find the Mission on your Home Page. You have over 8 days to complete it. You will notice that it's pretty easy except for the last part but is very doable. I didn't need to spend any Reward Points to complete it.

Part 1

Scavenger Hunt

The bad news is you need to get support from your mafia X5 right out of the gate. The good news is the counter works and the Mission Crew Link bookmarklet by Team Spockholm makes it easy.

An added feature is it can generate a news feed post so you no longer need to copy/paste the link. Even cooler is if you click on "Publish to group", you can post the help to a Facebook-group instead of your wall, i.e. your family's wall. Just enter the name of the group where is says "To:".

Ice 6 opponents. Make sure you ice them in New York or they won't count. You can kill three birds with one stone (get the bird humor?) as your ices will count towards Ice Seasons, Family Progression and this part of the Mission.

The loot item reward is pretty lame. You will get 2 Life Savers. This may help you master the Smuggler's Haven but a lot of players have already done this. If you really want, you can collect up to 200 Life Savers a day via the Free Gift System.

Part 2

Birds of a Feather

 Do the Secret District job "Bribe Officials To Ignore The Haven" 5 times. The energy cost will vary depending on your level of mastery. Compared to previous Missions 5 seems like a pretty reasonable number.

Add 3 Brazil Crew members to your queue. If your queue is full you have to activate slots in order to make room. Don't activate all 8 because you will need to activate 3 in next part of the Mission.

The best way to recruit Brazil Crew members is to click the "Recruit" button inside of your queue and generate a news feed post. Clicking the "Ask" button outside of the queue will take you to the individual request page and that could take much longer to fill your slots.

The loot item reward is a Fire Breather that is sure to help most players equipment scores. Too bad this is an easier way to get one as the drop rate of these things is for the birds!

Part 3
The Bird Is The Word

Win 25 fights in Brazil. Power Attacks count as 5 and attacking players who are already iced counts as well.

Activate 3 Brazil Crew positions. This should be very easy as you had to get 3 members in your queue for Part 2.

Do the Secret District job "Help Defend The Haven From Police" 5 times.

The loot item reward is a Army Cargo Carrier. I hate it when they give you a better loot item in early parts of the Mission. I was expecting something as good as the Fire Breather. 

Part 4
Flipping the Bird

You can do this! Don't waste a Reward Point. In fact you can kill two birds with one stone by clicking on one of the other tasks "Go Now" buttons. Talk about beating the system. 

Collect from your Italian Villa one time. You can collect on your Villa once every 4 hours.

Do the Italy Region 2 job "Find An Old Family Friend" 1 time. That's no typo. Zynga is getting soft on us. It will cost you 56 energy if you are mastered on the Ruby Level.  

There are no loot item rewards but you get a butt load of New York cash. Too bad it's not enough to help get the What's After Trillion Achievement. A billion dollars doesn't do much.

Part 5
Ruffled Feathers

Get support from you mafia three times. The counter works and 3 isn't a bad number for this task as long as you use the Mission Crew bookmarklet.

Go to your fightlist and take out 15 Assassins.  Each Assassin costs 4 stamina to attack.

No loot rewards again but you get 2 Hired Guns. Woo hoo!!!

Part 6
Duck and Cover

Travel to Las Vegas. That's too easy to even qualify for being a task. Use another "Go Now" button and you can kill two birds with one stone.

Do the District 1 Las Vegas job "Move Your Crew Into A Safe House" 5 times. This job costs 57 energy on the Ruby Level.

Rob nine times to complete this part of the Mission. Use a Rob Squad to knock it out with one click. It's like killing nine birds with one stone. 

You will get 2 more Life Savers which you may or may not need. 

 Part 7
This One's For The Birds

Zynga is not good at explaining themselves. The first task is a little tricky because you don't know what they want you to do. The task simply says to "Acquire 5 Weapons". The description says "This will be quite a fight, you better be ready". What in the hell does that mean? When you click on "Go Now", it takes you to the Marketplace. You can buy Loyalty Point and Fight club weapons and they will count. Remember it's weapons so armor, vehicles and animals won't count.

 

You can also buy any weapon from any City Store and it will count.

Fight 25 opponents. Losses count this time. Now look on your fightlist for a Bird Brained Billionaire. He can't be that stupid or he wouldn't have a billion dollars.

This is another one of those fake boss fights. All you have to do is spend 100 stamina and hit him once. Lame!

They should have named this part of the Mission The Cock Tease and you will see what I mean once you get there. When you collect your loot reward which is the Grand Prize of a Kookaburra, you assume that you are finished with the Mission and bask in your accomplishment. Soon thereafter you see there is another part, hence the Cock Tease.  For those of you who think I'm being vulgar, a Cock is a bird.

Another thing that doesn't make sense is this Kookaburra. Where did he come from. Isn't the Mission called To Smuggle A Mocking Bird? Why not have a Mocking Bird? There isn't one in our inventory. Here is what a Mocking Bird looks like. This would have been a much more appropriate loot item.

Part 8

Smuggler's Secret

You read it right. The Micky Mouse tasks are over. Ice 50 Opponents and this must be done in Brazil. Expect to use a lot of stamina. The good news is these ices will count towards Ice Seasons, Family Progression and the next task so there are 4 birds you can kill with the same stone.

Loot 10 Life Savers from fights. You will see them slide across the fight screen.

The last task will be difficult for some, easy for others and many will find it's auto checked because they did already did it.  You must fully master the Secret District in order to complete this Mission.

The rewards are a second Kookaburra and a larger than life experience payout. This will be proportional to your level so don't freak out that mine might be bigger than yours. Be strategic when you collect. You want to make sure you won't waste energy or stamina. Experience will carry over to the next level, unused energy and stamina does not. 

If you have enough energy and/or stamina to level, do not collect. Wait until you are far from reaching your next level so nothing gets wasted.

This post would not be complete without a tribute to The Bird.

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