January Newsletter - NEW YEAR, NEW EXITING THINGS!!!

Posted 2 weeks ago :: Last edited 2 weeks ago by TornPages

Hello everyone, and welcome to our monthly newsletter! Happy New Years to all of our members! Do you have any New Years resolutions you plan to work on? We have some fun things both here and on the horizon that we can’t wait to share with you all!

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Major Updates
ARPG NPC Prompts

With our NPCs getting more spotlight as of late, we wanted to help the community get to know them a little better. To do this, every month of 2025 we will be releasing a new, permanent ARPG prompt until we have an interactive activity for all 14 of our NPCs. By completing these prompts, you will gain an NPC plush collectable that you can either keep or trade with other users, but you will also get an account-bound Friendship Charm based off of the NPC linked to the prompt you are submitting that will count towards progress of a unique award that will be featured on your profile, "Friend of Chrysalopolis". These prompts will have no time limit, much like our farming prompts, and you can complete them at your own leisure, but remember that you can only do each of these prompts once, and you will need to complete Hero's prompt to unlock all of the others (regardless of release date).

New Monthly Prompt

Since we originally starting having Creature Feature each month, we have gained a lot of new members to participate and have fun in the species, however due to the rise in users, we realize that not everyone will have access to pets we've already had featured in Creature Feature, or, existing users may wish to collect more of these pets themselves. To remedy this, we have brought back what was originally a flash prompt titled "Pet Pageant", and given it a new coat of paint, renaming it as "Critter Spotlight", and it's more generalized now instead of revolving around dressing a pet up (you're still more than welcome to do that however!) This prompt will be a new permanent monthly prompt, and will cycle through pets that were featured in the previous year's month. Any pets from 2023 will be cycled back into the normal Creature Feature pool first due to their original descriptions being lost to time, and any 2024 pets will cycle back in through Critter Spotlight starting immediately this month.

Gold Berry Subspecies Berries

Following suit with subspecies berries being featured in the Cash Shop, we finally are selling them in the Alley Shop for Gold Berries. You can purchase up to 2 Dubious Berries per year for 100 Golden Berry, and you can purchase up to 1 Forbidden Berry per year for 150 Golden Berry. The items in the Alley Shop however will NOT affect your purchase history in Barrie's Berry Shop, so if you save up enough currency, you could get up to 4 Dubious Berries and 2 Forbidden Berries a year for pacapillar currency (more if you purchase them from the Cash Shop). The Gold Berry subpsecies berries are currently stocked as of this newsletter, but will reset on our next subspecies berry restock.

Olera Berry Reset

In roughly 2 weeks following this newsletter, Olera Berry stocks will reset, and you will be able to purchase them once more in both Barrie's Berry Shop and the Alley Shop.

Monthly Guest Artists

We are reviving our Guest Artist applications, and hoping to bring on at least one Guest Artist per month starting in February. If you have ever wished to try your luck at being one of our featured Guest Artists, now's your time to apply! We have remade the original form, so if you have applied in the past, we ask that you apply again so that we can see results only from users who are both active and interested. If you're interested in becoming a Guest Artist, you can apply HERE!

 

Minor Updates
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Game Nights!

ChaoChild 's Discord game night will take place on January 18th for a standard game night! There will be reminders posted in the server when they're getting things ready and when the game is live! Be sure to keep an eye out to have some fun with what they have planned!

If you haven't yet, and you would like to participate in game nights, you can pick up the ping role for game nights in our #directory channel in the server!

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Wish Granting Wrap-Up

Wish Granting 2024 has been concluded! Pinch hitters have been contacted to cover any pieces that were not completed, and you're free to share your submissions finally. If you haven't claimed your rewards yet, please submit the Wish Granting prompt linking your finished piece as the submission. If you do not submit this prompt, you won't get your rewards! It's known that there is an error with the button being visible for some users, so if the button isn't there for you, please submit your entry though the "Submit" button in the navigation bar at the top of the site.

New Staff Member

As some of you may have seen, a new staff member has joined our team. Please give a warm welcome to Doozie , who will be helping us with the prompt queue moving forward. As always, please be patient with our new mod as they learn their way around things.


Seasonal Prompt Awards

As mentioned in last month's newsletter, as of December 22nd, you can now claim an award for completing BOTH seasonal prompts for a season. This only starts with this cycle of the winter prompts, Cup of Warmth, and The First Snowfall, any seasonal prompts that predate December 22nd, 2024 cannot be claimed. If you have completed both of these prompts however, you can submit a claim on site here linking both your approved submissions, and a staff member will reward you with the appropriate seasonal award to display on your profile. You can only claim this award once per season, but you can also claim it yearly. So if you claimed the winter award for this year already, you can claim it again next winter.

 

Current Events


Art by TornPages

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December 3rd, 2024 - January 31st, 2025
As winter rolls into season, Chrysalopolis drifts into the north, causing the floating city to become rather cold, snow even falling from clouds higher than the city and creating a frigid, yet beautiful blanket of snow over the land. Pacas are starting to move indoors more where it's warm, often enjoying things like cuddling under a blanket with all their pets, or experimenting with different flavors of hot cocoa! The holiday season truly nears however pacas start to see stunning rainbow lights dance across the night sky, marking the start of Boreal Wishes, a season in which pacas gather together and put aside their differences, often giving gifts to each other to celebrate, and throwing huge parties in the middle of the season to ring in the new year. The Boreal Wishes season is most certainly the most joyous time of all.

 

Design Schedule
  • Designs by Echoklang
  • Designs by Nokkelborth . As always, Nokkel’s patreon usually gets first looks at designs and are normally eligible to make claims in advance, so if that interests you, we recommend taking a look.
  • As always, we may sneak in some surprise designs, some of which may be discord only, so watch out 👁️
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Character of The Month


Micci
This is Micci, shes a very sweet and caring paca but she's also a bit mischievous! She likes the stars and all sorts of things magical. She's a very gentle but silly creature.

Submit The Prompt!

Creature Feature


Lil Dapper

Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight…. Wait, why is it moving? It’s… Alive? You got that right! Pacpaillars will often see Lil Dapper’s glow and assume it’s a wishing star, frequently making a wish on it… Only Lil Dappers don’t grant wishes, unless your wish was for a new friend!

Submit The Prompt!

Critter Spotlight


Drach (New Years)

Unlike other Drach, this pet variant only appears before those they deem worthy. Instead of filing down their horns, the New Years Drach grants a wish to their preferred individual, combusting the star at the end of their horn like a sparkler. Each Drach can only grant one wish per year, though, so make it count!

Submit The Prompt!

 

Patreon
Did you know that by pledging to Nokkelborth 's Patreon for as little as $5 a month, you can gain access to exclusive Pacapillar rewards? By pledging, you can look forward to rewards such as:
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  • Surprise capsules containing new pets created that month
  • Gold Berries you can use on-site in the Alley Shop
  • Access to exclusive commissions and customs done by Nokkelborth
  • Early access to viewing and claiming adopts before the public
And rewards only get better at higher tiers!



[!]...to be continued...[!]
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