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Hi everyone! Time for our next holiday, this time we are celebrating Flutterbats! Every April, flutterbats like to travel throughout the land and have a nice holiday, and many others join in to celebrate along with them by travelling or joining in with the pranks those zany flutterbats love to play on others!

To celebrate this holiday, we have a new recurring prompt which will be open yearly from April 1st to April 31st (next year we will have signups for Snailcat racing a bit earlier so this holiday is the whole month of April). This holiday has a simple prompt for participation, and members can earn a Flutterbat Migration Goodie Bag, containing two exclusive items and 10 Holiday Tickets!!

Click here to see the prompt!

We also have some great new items to celebrate the Holiday! Here are the new items and where you can find them:

Flutterbat Migration Goodie Bag
Recieved from Prompt Reward!

Flutter Jester Cap | Rubber Chicken
Recieved from opening the Flutterbat Migration Goodie Bag (you get both!)

Monochrome Jester Hat | Bright Jester Hat | Black Fanny Pack | Neon Fanny Pack | Pink Fanny Pack
Available at the Holiday Shop!

Messenger Gull | Messenger Bat | Messenger Dragon | Messenger Pigeon
Available at the Holiday Shop

Petey Squashy Plush
Available at Petey's Arcane Emporium (kind of a random bonus!)

By popular demand, we're having an art exchange, and for the first time we are also having a design exchange! Whether you want some art, a new design, or both, this exchange will have a little something for everyone! Members may sign up for the Art Exchange, the Design Exchange, or for both! Read on for all the details!

Timeline for both exchanges

Signups: Feb 10th - Feb 20th
Assignments go out: Feb 21st
Art and Designs Due: March 17th, 2024
Art and Designs Revealed: March 18th 2024

Art exchange

• For the art exchange, the minimum art requirement is one colored fullbody, going above and beyond is welcome, but not required!
• All finished art must be uploaded to the Art and Design Exchange 2024 Gallery, but art will not be accepted until the reveal date!
• If any issues arise and you need a replacement artist or an extension, please contact Provie as soon as possible. I can be contacted via discord or toyhouse (under the user name provie on both)
  • If you fail to complete your piece, you may be banned from future art exchanges!

Sign up for the art exchange here!

Design exchange

• For the design exchange, the minimum art requirement is a clean fullbody image of the design, you may include other reference elements but its not required
• All finished designs must be uploaded to the Art and Design Exchange 2024 Gallery, but will not be accepted until the reveal date!
  • Please include a list of traits used in the gallery description so your recipient can know what they need to make the design official!
• Please be mindful to follow the design guidelines provided by the person you are designing for, and be respectful of thier preferences!
• Reminder that all designs from this exchange will be unofficial, to submit them to the site you will still need a MYO and any add ons they require!
• If any issues arise and you need a replacement artist or an extension, please contact Provie as soon as possible. I can be contacted via discord or toyhouse (under the user name provie on both)
  • If you fail to complete your piece, you may be banned from future art exchanges!

Sign up for the design exchange here!

We hope you all have fun with the art and design exchanges!!

It's February! That means its Puppillars' anniversary!

It's been five whole years since I started puppillars, we've gone through so much changes and growth, I'm so happy to see the group still going and going strong! Whether you are a brand new member, or have been here the whole time, I'm happy you are enjoying the group!

Milestones from the past year

Our biggest milestones from this year were related to our first ever plot! The plot had Five Steps with activities both big and small, and also added a lot of lore to our world, including our new World Map! Through the plot we also met our third species on puppillars, Arcane Fauna! There will still be lore updates from this plot to come, look forward to more info on magic, and more info on the new locations on the map!

Besides the lore features, we also added some awesome new features this year, including our newest feature, The Fishing Hole,  a brand new Holiday Shop, the brand new Transformation Magic, and a new Adenturing area, Plateau Lake!

Along with the plot, we also were able to have some fun events last year, including our first ever Fundraiser, where we raised $375 for LGBT organizations in the US, Brazil, and Slovakia! We also had our first ever MYO Event, which was also a crossover event with our friends at World of Lingua! Besides all that, we even managed to squeeze in a few other things like Snailcat Racing and an XTA Contest!

There are now 140 members on our site! That's more than 50 new members this year! 

There are now 399 Puppillars, 120 snailcats, and 43 Arcane Fauna on our site!

There are 806 items on our site, and 59 awards!

Yipee!! Let's celebrate

To celebrate our 5th Birthday, we have a new award for members to collect, we are  having a Customs Raffle, and also made some adopts for the Wanderer's Glade!

To claim the Fifth Birthday Cakepops and enter the custom raffle, comment on this news post with a positive event from the past year, can be puppillars related or not, or both! 

The rafflle will have 5 winners, each will recieve a custom from one of our artists, Provie (will be doing 2 customs), Nhrive, Elliot, and Hawkins! Each winner will be randomly paired with an artist, who will create a custom for you from the following options:
- Any Arcane Fauna (can have Transfiguarion Magic)
- Super Rare Pupillar or Snailcat
- Rare Puppillar or Snailcat + Transfiguration Magic

The raffle and claiming the award will close on February 29th!

To celebrate our 5th Anniversary, we also have Six Adopts headed to the Wanderer's Glade! Keep an eye out in the next few days for some new friends!

What's next?

We have alot of fun stuff planned for the rest of the year, we want to release more items and awards, as well as work on new dailies and a new adventuring area!

This month, we are having an Art and Design exchange, as hightly requested by our members in our 2023 Survey. We will be posting the details on the exchange later today! Coming up next in March we will have the return of the Snailcat Racing Holiday!

Time for Holiday NPC voting!

Our NPC Design contest has concluded! Since we had three entries, all three are finalists! Members can now vote on which design they like best using the following form:

Click here to vote!

The vote will close at the end of the day on Febraury 4th, 2023!

The fishening is upon us!!!

Introducing our first "Daily", the Fishing Hole! Dailes are activities that members can participate, either daily, weekly, possibly even monthly, we'll see what we do with it. Our first Daily is a true, daily activity, you can collect one fish per day at the Fishing Hole! There are currently 21 different fish you can collect, and you can also sell your fish back to the site for some treats, if you don't wanna keep em! Good luck with your fishing trips!

Click here to go Fishing!

We plan on adding some more dailies as time goes on, we already have a second one in the works! Enjoy!

Merriment is abound in Arcanis, for the first full moon of the year is quickly approaching! The moon is important in puppillar culture, with the first full moon of the year being a major holiday on the calander! Throughout the continent, communities rally together to party hard, with lots and lots of noise, in order to chase away any bad energy trying to make its way into the new year. Musicians are out in full force, there's lots of dancing, howling, and of course lots of yummy food! Puppypillars in particular love this holiday, as they get to be loud and rambunctious and stay up late to view the full moon in all its glory!

Happy Festival of the New Moon Everyone!

It's time for our first holiday of the year! The Festival of the New Moon goes from January 21st to February 21st, with a simple prompt: depict your character celebrating the holiday! Members may complete this prompt as many times as they like before the deadline, and for each completion they will recieve a Festival of the New Moon Goodie Bag, which contains two holiday themed items, and 10 Holiday Tickets! There will also be a Memento in the future for participating in holiday prompts, so if you wanna set yourself up to get the Memento when it releases, make sure to join in the fun!

Click here to check out the prompt!

As a special treat, we also have two new items in the Holiday Shop for this holiday, the Moon Koi and Mooncakes! Make sure you do the Holiday Prompt so you can get some Holiday Tickets for these new items!

As a reminder, the NPC Design contest for the shopkeeper for the Holiday Shop is still open and will end on January 31st!

Click here to visit the Holiday Shop!

Click here to check out our list of Holidays!

Hi everyone! With the holidays being so busy, we are extending the NPC design contest until January 31st! See all the details below, copied from our previous news post!

NPC Design Contest!

It's time for our first ever NPC Design contest! We will soon be launching a brand new shop, the Holiday Shop, and we are looking for a new NPC to be the shopkeeper! Here are the guidelines for the character design:

• Any species is allowed, though if you design a Puppillar or Snailcat, the maximum rarity level should be Rare! No special traits can be included for Puppillars
• The NPC is a shopkeeper with a cheerful demeanor who loves to celebrate all the holidays of Arcanis
  • Even though this design contest is in December, the design doesn't need to focus on the winter holidays!
• We encourage designers to make this NPC design easy to replicate, as the character will be available for anyone to draw for activities

Contest Rules

1. All members of Puppillars may participate in the contest, including staff members
2. All entries should be design concepts, rather than fully finished/polished peices, as only one will be accepted, we would rather folks submit quick concepts!
   1. If your entry is chosen, you will then be asked to create a finished version of the design, which we will use for the Masterlist art and Shop header!
3. All entries must be submitted to the 2023 NPC Design Contest Gallery Folder
4. Entries will be judged on design elements, creativity, and what we think will fit the NPC, rather than art "quality" or level of polish
5. Participants can submit a maximum of one entry
6. If your design is not chosen as the winner, you are free to do whatever you want with your design
7. Staff members will choose a number of finalists (depending on the amount of entries we recieve), and then the final winner will be determind by member voting!
8. For this design contest, entries will be open until January 31st, 2023!

Prizes

• The winning design will be used as an official NPC on our site, and the creator will recieve 10 Nuggies!
• All non-winning finalists will recieve 200 treats!
• All participants will recieve 5 Holiday Tickets

Hi everyone! Happy New Year and hope that everyone had a good holiday season! To start off the year we have some updates for everyone! 

Survey Results Updates

Thanks to everyone for filling out our 2023 Puppillars survey! We always really appriciate all the feedback, and here are the changes we will be making based on the survey results:

• Snailcat MYOs are now available at the Nuggie Shack, for those who are interested in buying with nuggies!
• Magic Potions of all types will continue to be available in both Chance's Gacha Shop and Petey's Arcane Emporium
• People seemed very interested in having more Discord activites going forward, which we will plan on doing this year! Reminder that you can join our Discord Server Here!
• People seemed very interested in having an art/design exchange, so we will plan on having one in the next few months!
• We will work on adding more reference info for Magic in the Puppillars world and Magic traits soon
• Small change: The Heading "Puppillar Basics" in our info section has been renamed "World Basics" for clarity!

New Adventuring Areas Updates

Earlier this year we announced that we were working on some new adventuring areas, and I am happy to announce that one of those areas is now live, Plateau Mountain! This is our first Level 3 Adventuring area, so you can only adventure there if you have at least 3 Adventuring Levels! Our next adventuring area, Arcane Cave, is still in the works and will be coming soon!

As another small change, the rarity has been tweaked slightly on all adventuring rolls, with the rare item pool being weighted slightly more!

Holiday Shop and Holidays

We have a brand new shop, the Holiday Shop! This shop features festive items, which are purchaseable with Holiday Tickets! Holiday Tickets can be obtained by participating in Holiday Prompts, which will be recurring prompts every year based on the Holidays of Arcanis! Each holiday prompt will award a goodie bag with some exclusive holiday goodies, and 10 Holiday Tickets, which can be used at the shop!

With the addition of this new shop, some items have moved from the seasonal shops to this new Holiday shop. To give folks a chance to snag some of these items, I have opened all four seasonal shops, and they will remain open until January 9th, in case you wanna snag any items that have moved with treats before they are removed from the seasonal shops.

Our first holiday of the year will be The Festival of the New Moon, which will be active from January 15th to February 15th!

Our new holiday shop still needs a shopkeeper, so we are extending the NPC Design Contest until January 31st, and I will be reposting the contest details in a separate news post!

Ko-Fi Memberships closing

After a trial run last year, I am closing down the Membership option on the Puppillars Ko-fi, we are a smaller community right now, and the amount of effort put in didn't wind up lining up with the level of interest. Going forward we will continue to use our Ko-fi for one off support like purchasing Nuggies, and we may have special YCHs like when we did our Pride Fundraiser last year. We always appriciate any support, and as something to celebrate, we are about halfway to our funding goal to pay for the site's hosting (which is billed in may), so we have been doing fine so far, even without something like a membership program!

Phew! That was a lot, but a lot of good updates! Keep an eye out for more new updates, as we have lots of fun stuff planned for this year!

Happy December! 

Hello pupp pals one and all, Happy December! Its been a busy year, so December this year will be a bit quiet, but we still have some amazing stuff going on this month as a special treat for the holidays (and for making it through the year!)

OTA Kiosk Open All Month!

It's BACK! We typically open the OTA Kiosk for "Black Friday" but with the MYO event this year, we pushed it back to December... but we also made it MUCH BIGGER! This year the OTA Kiosk will be open all month, and for the first time, multipe artists will be have thier services up for offer!

Provie Hawkins Howee and Nhrive will all be accepting offers on various services, and since this is a special opening they will be accepting offers in USD, Mixed USD/Art, Art, APRG Items, etc! And as a special bonus, if anyone gets a service including a USD offer, Provie will be including a free YCH (details to come!)

This is a rare oppurtunity to get some discount stuff or swap art for stuff, and the first oppurtunity to get a breeding from someone other than Provie. so enjoy!!!

Click here to visit the OTA Kiosk

Puppillars 2023 Survey!

We're nearing the end of the year, which means its time for some feedback! Every year I like to get some feedback so I can improve Puppillars for all our members! As a special thank you, all members who complete the survey will reciece 150 Treats and 10 Holiday Tickets (which will have more utilization very soon!)

Click here to take the survey

NPC Design Contest!

It's time for our first ever NPC Design contest! We will soon be launching a brand new shop, the Holiday Shop, and we are looking for a new NPC to be the shopkeeper! Here are the guidelines for the character design:

• Any species is allowed, though if you design a Puppillar or Snailcat, the maximum rarity level should be Rare! No special traits can be included for Puppillars
• The NPC is a shopkeeper with a cheerful demeanor who loves to celebrate all the holidays of Arcanis
  • Even though this design contest is in December, the design doesn't need to focus on the winter holidays!
• We encourage designers to make this NPC design easy to replicate, as the character will be available for anyone to draw for activities

Contest Rules

1. All members of Puppillars may participate in the contest, including staff members
2. All entries should be design concepts, rather than fully finished/polished peices, as only one will be accepted, we would rather folks submit quick concepts!
   1. If your entry is chosen, you will then be asked to create a finished version of the design, which we will use for the Masterlist art and Shop header!
3. All entries must be submitted to the 2023 NPC Design Contest Gallery Folder
4. Entries will be judged on design elements, creativity, and what we think will fit the NPC, rather than art "quality" or level of polish
5. Participants can submit a maximum of one entry
6. If your design is not chosen as the winner, you are free to do whatever you want with your design
7. Staff members will choose a number of finalists (depending on the amount of entries we recieve), and then the final winner will be determind by member voting!
8. For this design contest, entries will be open until December 31st, 2023!

Prizes

• The winning design will be used as an official NPC on our site, and the creator will recieve 10 Nuggies!
• All non-winning finalists will recieve 200 treats!
• All participants will recieve 5 Holiday Tickets

(art by Provie and mewhaku - co-owner of World of Lingua)

What's this? Looks like Pembroke has made a new friend, but what a bizzare looking Arcane Fauna! Are they Elemental, with the leaf motif?  Huh?? That's not an Arcane Fauna its a Paralogos? A paralo-what? Pembroke explains:

"This is my new pal Ginko! Stella and Rover were messing around with some magic energy, you know how they are, and they somehow opened up a portal to this place called Lingua! Being the charismatic chap I am, they volunteered me to go check the place out! Its really different from Arcanis, but the fellas over there are really neat! There are the cool dinos, Paralogos, as well as thier other dino friends the Triceridos, and there's also these amazingly smelling little guys who are called Whifflings!"

Looks like these two worlds are colliding, and residents of both are in for some fun!

Puppillars and world of lingua Crossover MYO event!!

Hi all!!! This month we are bringing you all a fun combined event with one of the species in our cozy little circle, The World of Lingua! For anyone not familliar, World of Lingua is fun multi-species ARPG set in a sci-fi/fantasy setting, featuring Paralogos (dinosaurs based on words), Triceridos (dinosaurs based on idioms), and Whifflings (anthro imps based off scents)!

Our groups have some crossover already, but we are excited to share this ARPG with anyone who might not be familliar, and we have a few awesome crossover activities for everyone!

All the crossover activities will end at the end of the day, site time, on November 30th!

Crossover MYO Event

For the first part of our cross species event, we are pleased to announce that First Time Owners of any of our species will be able to claim a free MYO slot of any and all species they don't already have a Character or MYO slot of. This includes any of our species, Puppillars, Snailcats, and Arcane Fauna! Qualfiying members may claim a Common Puppillar Slot, a Common Snailcat Slot, and/or Any type of Arcane Fauna MYO!
- To qualify to claim a MYO slot, you must not have a character of the species you are claiming for, or a MYO slot of the species you are claiming for, with one exception, if you already have a Snailcat/Snailcat MYO from the Free Snailcat MYO, you may still claim one Common Snailcat MYO!

To claim your MYO slots, simply submit a claim stating which you would like to claim, and adding the appropriate MYO slot(s) as a reward to yoiur claim.

World of Lingua will also be doing the same, with First Time Owner's able to claim a Paralogos, Triceridos, and Whiffling MYO! Make sure to check out thier news post for all the details!

MYO Submission Bonus

To go along with our MYO event, there will also be a bonus for any and all MYO slot submissions this month, all approved MYO submissions for any species will get a bonus of a brand new chance box, the Just Because Gift, which contains a randomized small gift! The bonus will be granted by staff automatically after MYO submissions are approved.

Cross Species Currency Bonus

As another special bonus for all members, for the month of November, members of Puppillars can claim a bonus of treats for any art they do for World of Lingua! All art submitted to World of Lingua's gallery in the month of November will earn a bonus of 10 treats over here at Puppillars!

To claim your treats, simply submit a claim including the link(s) to the art you have submitted to the WoL Gallery!

Cross Species Adoptable Sets

Later this month, we will have a very fun, very special Guest Adoptable set by staff members from World of Lingua, and in turn World of Lingua will have a guest adoptable set by staff members from Puppillars!  More details coming soon!

Special Award

Any puppillars member who participates in this event will recieve a special Award, Ginko's Signature! Anyone who participates in any of the above activities will be eligible to claim the award!

Hope everyone enjoys this awesome crossover! A big thank you to the World of Lingua staff for collabing with us on this event! We love World of Lingua and are so happy to be working with you guys!!!

Conclusion 11/5

Hi everyone! Thanks to everyone for participating in our DTA/WTA contest, without futhur ado, time for the winners!

PUP-370: Spellbook Wizard - BBungle - We loved the stylization of your piece!

PUP-367: Cookie Weenie: pronounwizard - We loved the pose and energy of your piece!

SNIL-099: Little Imp - mewhaku - We loved the pose and theming of the background of your piece!

SNIL-101: Full Moon Black Cat - andie - We loved the level of detail in your piece!

AF-027: Flame Raven - Shrike - We loved the character interaction in your piece!

AF-030: Flame Witch - Pooka - We loved the details in the backstory of your piece!

Everyone's entries were really amazing, so we would like to award consolation prizes to all the other participants:

tgi will recieve a Common Puppillar MYO - We loved the fall touches in your piece!

Hawkins will reciece a Common Puppillar MYO - We loved the level of detail in your peice!

cobain will recieve an Arcane Fauna MYO Choice Ticket - We loved the rendering of flames in your piece!

All characters and MYOs will be sent out shortly!

Hi everyone, happy spooky season! We are pleased to bring you an XTA Contest (combining Draw To Adopt and Write To Adopt), as well as a raffle for some fall and halloween adopts! All the information for this contest and raffle will be listed below, please read carefully, as we are doing things a little bit differently than you may have seen from other DTA/WTA events!

DTA/WTA Contest

PUP-370 Spellbook Wizard | PUP-367 Cookie Weenie

SNIL-099 Little Imp | SNIL-101 Full Moon Black Cat

AF-027 Flame Raven | AF-030 Flame Witch

For our DTA/WTA contest, we are doing something a little bit more flexible for folks, for each of the characters above members may choose to draw, write, or a mix of both for the adoptables! So members are welcome to use the medium they are more comfortable with, or whatever they're just feeling at the time! 

General Contest Rules

• All members may participate, including staff members
  • Any staff member entering in the contest will be removed from judging for the character they are entering for
• Members can enter for multiple characters, but each member can only win one character
• All entries must be submitted to the Fall XTA 2023 Gallery Folder
  • Please be clear about your entry in the description, especially for writing, so staff knows what character the entry is for. Please use the "Theme Name" on the image above/character's masterlist entry to make it clear what character the entry is for
  • For art entries, please specify in the description whether or not the winner may use the art you made for your entry (saying no is totally fine, do not feel obligated to let the new owner use the art)
    • All art entries that will allow the new owner to use them will be added to the adopt's Toyhouse paga as we go!
• Due to the nature of this contest, collaborations are not allowed
• Please do not make any comments that may discourage others to participate, such as "X person will win for sure", or disparaging your or anyone else's entries
• Entries will close at the end of the day on October 31st, 2023 at site time

Entry Limit Guidelines

• Members may create up to five entries for each character, and entries can be a mix of art and writing if you so choose
• For Art
  • Entries may be of any medium, with the exception of physical crafts or interactive mediums such as games
  • The "maximum" for an art entry is a single illustration with a scenic background, but this is somewhat flexible with the following types of entries for example:
    • Comics are allowed, with a maximum of three panels per entry
    • Things like sketch pages are allowed, or multiple simple scenes in one entry (such as plain fullbodies, or a scene with a simple background/absctatct background)
    • Since art can be so varied, feel free to ask a staff member about a particular style of entry
• For Writing
  • Entries may be prose or poetry
  • Each entry may be a maximum of 2000 words
  • Please include a wordcount in the description of your entry
• For Mixed Art and Writing Entries
  • A single entry may include both art and writing with the following limits
    • One single illustration with a secenic background or three smaller simple scenes
    • 1000 maximum word count

Judging Criteria

For this contest, we will not be judging the art/writing quality/style etc of the entries, instead we will be be judging on the following criteria:

• Character Development
• Effort Shown
• Creativity
• Sincerity

Raffle to adopt Contest!

PUP-366 Candycorn Frankenpup | PUP-368 Jack-o-Huahua

SNIL-098 Ghost with the Most | SNIL-102 Striped Jack-o-Lantern

AF-028 Snake Bunny | AF-029 Winged Toad

General Guidelines

• All members may participate, including staff members
• There will be six winners drawn, and the winners will select one of the adopts in the order they were drawn
• All entries must go through our claims system, you may submit as many claims as you need
  • On each claim, please be clear about how you are claiming tickets, including any links to ads or gift art
  • On each claim, pease click "Add Reward", select Raffle Ticket, and then add "Fall XTA Raffle 2023" and add the quantity you are claiming
• Entries will close at the end of the day on October 31st, 2023 at site time

For our raffle adopts, members can earn tickets by doing the following:

• All members can claim one free ticket!
• Draw giftart of one of the DTA/WTA adopts or one of the raffle adopts to earn Five tickets (up to five times)
  • All giftart must be submitted to our gallery, though it should be added to the main galleries
  • Giftart made for this raffle is eligible for Chance's Gacha Generosity!
• Draw art of one of your charcters celebrating Fall, Halloween, or The Feast of the Beast to earn Five Tickets (up to five times)
  • All art must be submitted to our gallery, though it should be added to the main galleries
• Advertise Puppillars and the XTA contest on any socual media for two tickets for each (up to three times)
• Make a comment on our Toyhouse Thread about something you like about our ARPG for two tickets!

If you have any questions, please ask in the comment section below, or ask on our Discord Server!
Good luck to all the entrants!