With the new year comes new beginnings!
Over the past few months the mod team have been working on an Overhaul for the entire website and group. A Road Map has been created to help show members where we plan to go next with each Rework/Overhaul.
As of this post we are on steps 1 and 2!
Starting March 1st we will begin working on changing the traits and mutations and are thus closing the ability to submit MYOs for approval. With that being said, we will be offering a 4-week grace period for members to submit MYOs before the changes are made to give everyone a fair chance at submitting their characters with items they may already have.
Do note that characters made within this grace period will still be affected by the changes to traits and rarities later; but may be designed with the current traits and items until the deadline ends. We will be providing a list of what to expect so you may decide for yourself if you would like to design your MYOs now or after the change!
- Nova
Lots of things have happened these last few months and we thank you all kindly for sticking with us through it all! Here's everything we've acheived in the last two months since our last newsletter:
We have hired 5 new staff members! Novatonix and XSilentStatic as our newest group artists, Fawn and Tinydancersss as our new group treasurers, and Kamileons as our first ever game master!
We have completed bases for all of our current subspecies and hybrids!
Breedings, redesigns, customs, growth requests and all other design oriented functions of the group have been reopened!
A new item has been added to the shop! Refreshing Soap is a redesign item that allows for a trait to take on a new appearance in a redesign (such as changing the amount of limbs with a multi limb trait, or changing the shape of canine face from a fox to a dog)
A bunch of items that were missing art now have fresh new images!
New weekly mini prompts have been introduced in our discord, as well as our new bi-weekly character building activity "Story Corner"!
We're incredibly proud of all the work that's been accomplished so far, and are working hard to continue this train of success! We're continuing to work on the following functions and assets:
Map of the world of Taurnar!
Species guides for all subspecies and hybrids
Wildlife Information and Submissions
Questing Guild Revamp
We have had multiple questions recently regarding demi gems, and we are keeping them all in mind! At the moment we are prioritizing all of the above tasks, but we are planning for a big overhaul of the gem system! We will not be answering any questions at this time about demi gems, but believe us when we say we have lots of fun things in store when the time is right ;)
Kavyrie
Hello all! Sorry for the radio silence since the last update, but we're here with some updates and announcements!
Firstly, we are making some adjustments to the Questing Guild after some member discussion, and are implementing the following changes:
Backgrounds will no longer be required in guild entries and instead require props! (Seed reward has been adjusted to 5,000 SS from 7,000 SS as a reflection of this change)
Each guild prompt entry may feature 2 beblune per member!
Collabs are now allowed for all guild entries, allowing up to 4 beblune in one image (2 beblune per member)!
Furthermore, our list of bases is almost complete! All of the subspecies have been completed, and we only have the hybrids left to finish! Drafts of all the anatomy guides have been made, and we are working on all the information and flavor art and will publish them as they are completed.
Lastly, at long last we will be opening for our new staff applications on June 4th! Applications will be open for 1 week, and will close on June 11th (set time pending, but likely around 9 PM EST)! We will be opening positions for the following jobs, so please consider the options carefully before applying! You may apply to more than one position, but you will only be chosen for one!
Group Treasurer:
Maintaining member inventories, updating Darko's Shop and processing item purchases/sales, alerting artists of item use, and updating the masterlist!
Group Artist:
Designing WTA, DTA, Raffle, Flatsale, Auction, Redesign and Voucher beblunes for the group! Flavor art for events and website, as well as item art!
Game Master:
Maintaining the Questing Guild, creating games and mini prompts for Discord server (such as Trivia nights!), rolling Lucky Wheels
More in depth information will be available about these roles when applications are officially opened, so stay tuned! We are hoping to hire two new artists, two treasurers and one game master!
After some discussion, we've decided to update the following traits:
Insect Face has been updated to Invertebrate Face!
Fish Face has been updated to Aquatic Face!
All beblunes on the masterlist with these traits have been updated with the new trait names, but please let us know in the discord channel "Masterlist Errors" if we have missed any!
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We have also introduced a new channel to the discord titled "Group Feedback",
Our first basic guide for the beblune species has been added to our Guides section!
Flavor art has been added for reference, please forgive that they are sketches for now and know that we will be refining the images at a later date but felt the information was a higher priority to have available to the group! We will be working on flavor art and the rest of the guides as the rest of the bases are completed, and will have a size chart comparing all the species separately in its own guide.
More in depth species information and lore is still being worked on, and again will have it's own space once it's completed, the guides currently are to offer base information for members to reference!
-Kavyrie
We will update this as objectives are completed, please check back regularly for progress!
Updated 3/13/2023
Beblune Base, Pup Base and Egg Base have been completed
Tsurex Base and Tsurex Pup Base has been completed
Mowl Pup Base has been completed
Trossal Base and Trossal Pup Base have been completed
Floon Base has been completed
All other bases are sketched and in progress!
Species and Subspecies info sheets are in progress
Updated map and locations is in progress
Planning for new staff applications is in progress
All new rollers have been completed (special thanks for LittlFawn05!)
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Hello everyone, welcome to our official newsletter! This is the best place to check for anything major related to the group, like events, staffing, rule changes and anything in between!
As most know, the group is currently in hiatus while we deal with some asset losses related to a change in moderators, but our current artists are hard at work replacing anything that was lost or required replacing! All of the previous rollers have been replaced, and all of the official bases are currently being redone as shown above.
We have several staff positions that we will be opening applications for in the near future, more information will be available when we are closer to that timeframe!
We added a new rule to officially state that the selling of items for real world currency is prohibited.
There are multiple more secret changes that are in the works, which will all be revealed in time as we reach them ;)
Thank you all for your continued support, we will keep you all updated as the group progresses and features reopen!
-Kavyrie