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After a lot of research at the University of New Barkston, the path forward had become clear for Jake Barker, Rover Wagstaff, and all helping them find out how to fix the magic of the Puppillars world. Magic is all around us, and a part of daily life, but there are those out there who are more in tune with our continent's magic, and in our research it was discovered that our ancestors sought the help of those who know magic, so that's where the team heads next, the mystics, the wizards, the legendary, and anyone else with a strong connection to magic. 

The call to action went out on Jake's Show,the Daily Bark, with Rover in tow was well:

Jake Barker: Our research paid off, didn't it Rover? And its all thanks to everyone out there who came on down and helped out!

Rover Wagstaff: Yes, it certainly did! I was pleasantly surprised by how many of your viewers showed up, and they were certainly all amazing to work with, I think we managed to comb though a very large portion of the archives, an amazing feat! Thank you all for all the help!

JB: Never underestimate the power of the people! Especially those with the good taste of liking this show. Now, for those of you that haven't heard the details, we were able to find the info we need-

RW: In a cookbook no less!

JB: Yes, in a cookbook, and it looks like that our ancestors have faced this before, and they got help from fellow puppillars who had lots of experience with magic. So here we are, planning on following their footsteps.

RW: Yes, to anyone out there who has a strong connection to magic, please call into this show when you can, or visit me at the University and lend a hand!

(later on in the show)

JB: Hello caller, you're on the line!

Stella Fortuna: Umm, yes hello, I'm Stella, I'm calling because I'm a fortune teller, my connection to our world's magic might not be as strong as someone who works directly with magic, but I channel our world's magic when I tell people's fortunes!

JB: Ohhh, how cool! Thanks for calling in Stella, how has your magic been since the incidents started?

SF: Oh, things have been strange that's for sure, whenever I read the cards there's an energy that's off, like something is hurting... I haven't really been able to determine more. Maybe if I delve into it more... but as I said, those who work more directly with magic may be able to help more!

RW: Is there anyone you happen to know that works with magic more directly?

SF: Ohh, well most of those types are more recluisve like... witches, hermits, et cetera, but there are a few folks out there that are easier to reach, have you guys ever met Milton? He's a pleasant wizard who mostly uses his magic to craft special items, though from what my grandma tells me, his magic is quite strong!

JB: Oh, Milton? I never realized he was that poweful, that's amazing! I had him make a gift for my neice last year! I'll have to go have a chat with him.

RW: Anyone else that you know Stella?

SF: Well, not personally but I do know that legendary puppillars have a strong connection to magic, maybe they'll also have a sense of what's going on as well...

JB: Well, definitely avenues to persue, thank you so much for calling in!

SF: And of course, my readings are always open if anyone needs one, just head on over to my stall!!

PLOT STEP Three: Those who know magic

We're hot on the trail of working out how to restore magic to the world, and our biggest lead right now involves tracking down puppillars (or snailcats) who have a deep connection to magic to learn thier insights on how to help the situation! Whether it be tracking down a hermit, getting a fortune telling from Stella, or asking a local legenday puppillar, every lead could lead to the answer!

Main Activity:  Depict your character tracking down a lead (such as travelling to visit a more reculusive witch/wizard) or chatting with an easier to reach lead, such as Milton, Stella, a Legendary Puppillar/Snailcat (with the owner's permission!) or a new character invented for this prompt!

Mini Activity: Stella will be telling fortunes over at her stall all month! For this mini activity, members may comment on this news post using one of Stella's fortune telling methods to tell your own fortune. To recieve credit you must list the cards you drew and outline the interpretation of the cards you've made.

Activity Guidelines:

1. Members do not need to own a Puppillar or Snailcat in order to participate, members are free to use any of our NPCs, or draw other member's characters (with their permission!)
2. Main Activities must be submitted to the Source of Magic Plot Gallery, and must be submitted to the Plot: Source of Magic Prompt to receive the designated rewards and count for plot participation
3. Art/writing submissions must be worth at least 20 treats to be valid for plot participation and individual advancement
   1. Details on Treat values for art/writing can be found at our Currencies, Items, and Awards Page
4. Members can complete each activity once per member (for the mini activity, members are welcome to ask more than one question, but can only get the prize once).

Plot Step Prize(s)

For completing the Main Activity, members will be rewarded with 100 Treats!

For completing the Mini Activity, members will be rewarded with a Fortune Telling Deck Item!

If the plot participation threshold is met, a Journal Entry by Rover Wagstaff, a new lore entry involving magic users,  and another reveal that will build onto our next plot step!

Edit 4/5: And the winner is.....

RexAraneo's Morpheus!!!!!!! Congrats, and well done to all the racers, hope everyone had a good racing season!

On your marks... get set... and go!! It's time for Snailcat Racing season! Every March, snailcats from all over the continent hold races and track meets to show off thier feats of speed, dexterity, and endurance. The races usually have a fun atmosphere with other side events and small festivals to go along with the races, so there's fun for all during snailcat racing season!

Holiday details

For Snailcat Racing season, members can sign up one of their snailcats to the race lineup, and each week will have matchups between the submitted snailcats where members can cheer on the racers, until one snailcat comes out on top! The winner of each matchup will be determined with a randomizer weighted by the amount of cheers each racer gets, so the underdog may come out on top! The winner will only be for bragging rights, and a bit of art from Provie of the winner, all holiday prizes will be earned by cheering on the racers!

Holiday Schedule
March 1st - March 7th - Sign ups open for snailcat racers (one per member)

March 8th - March 14th: Round One Matchups
Click here to view the Bracket!

March 15th -  March 21st: Round Two Matchups
Click here to view the bracket!

March 22nd - 28th: Round Three Matchups
Click here to view the bracket!

March 29th - April 5th: Final Round!
Click here to view the bracket!

Signup and Cheering Rules and Prize Details

• Members may sign up one of thier snailcats by commenting on this news post with the following details:
  • Snailcat's Name
  • Snailcat's Pronouns
  • Link to the Snailcat's masterlist entry
• All signups must be commented by the end of the day on March 7th in order to join the race. 
• During the rounds, all members (regardless of if they have a snail in the race) can cheer one snailcat from each matchup once per day by submitting a list of racers they wish to cheer via claims
  • Members may not cheer for thier own character, and may opt out of cheering any matchup if they choose to. As long as you cheer for one of the available matchups you will collect your point
• Members will earn one Holiday Ticket per cheering claim, and the Holiday Goodie Bag can be purchased in the Snailcat Racing Season Shop for 5 tickets each, plus there will be some other goodies in there as well

Happy Racing Season!

The city of New Barkston is a busting city, one of the biggest on the continent and today is no different, especially around the University of New Barkston, where many have gathered to lend a helping paw in the research effort. Without the use of magic, things have been going slower at the University for both those doing experiments with magic and doing research, but seeing as research is safer to have laypeople volunteer to help with, thats where are the volunteers are headed, to the massive university library. Rover is there to greet everyone, he looks stressed out but is handling himself well, directing anyone who needs it.

"Welcome everyone! I think many of you know me, or at least saw me on Jake Barker's show last week, but I'm Rover, and if you need anything, just let me know! We're grateful for all the help, especially for going through all these old archives. There's a lot to cover, so I reccomend that you pick a topic that interests you and dive right in, that will make reading through everything more interesting! Now I will remind you to be careful, we mostly will have the volunteers looking at our achives from the last century, but if you do come across anything that looks older, please let a university employee know, as there are special procedures for handling a lot of our older documents... and of course, if you find anything of note about magic, or similar happenings in the past, please let us know!"

Plot step TWo: Into the archives!

Time to help out and try to get to the bottom of all this trouble with magic! The archives at the University of New Barkston has a lot of info, so all these helping paws will useful in seeing if there's anything of use in the history and general ephemera the university has collected over the years. It will also be fun to just see what kind of interesting information the archives has in store!

Main Activity:  Depict your character looking through the archives at the university, including a depiction of the category of interest they are looking through (this can be anything, history, sports, food, architecture, etc!)

Mini Activity: This mini activity will take place on our Discord Server! The activity will be an AMA where members can as Provie anything about the world of Puppillars, big or small, and I will do my best to give an answer. Feel free to ask about anything at all, since having a prompt is a really great way for me to get my brain going! Anyone who asks a question will be eligible for the mini activity's prize! (Members are also welcome to ask more than one question but can only get the prize once!)

Activity Guidelines:

1. Members do not need to own a Puppillar or Snailcat in order to participate, members are free to use any of our NPCs, or draw other member's characters (with their permission!)
2. Main Activities must be submitted to the Source of Magic Plot Gallery, and must be submitted to the Plot: Source of Magic Prompt to receive the designated rewards and count for plot participation
3. Art/writing submissions must be worth at least 20 treats to be valid for plot participation and individual advancement
   1. Details on Treat values for art/writing can be found at our Currencies, Items, and Awards Page
4. Members can complete each activity once per member (for the mini activity, members are welcome to ask more than one question, but can only get the prize once).

Plot Step Prize(s)

For completing the Main Activity, members will be rewarded with 100 Treats!

For completing the Mini Activity, members will be rewarded with a Ducky Gacha Ball!

If the plot participation threshold is met, a Journal Entry by Rover Wagstaff, and updated (or new!) lore entries based on the AMA questions!

Happy fourth anniversary puppillars!!!

Wow, four whole years of Puppillars! Whether you have been with us for four days or all four years, its time to celebrate another milestone! 2022 was a fun year with a lot of fun stuff and great updates to our ARPG!

Milestones from the past year

Some of our biggest milestones this year were getting a few major projects and updates going on our site, such as finishing the Masterlist Project (re-uploading all older images so the auto watermark feature can be used),  Catching up on Awards and Prizes for features like challenges, and various updates and improvements to our guide pages!

We added some awesome new features to the site this year, starting with our Custom Items System! We also added Wishlists to the site and started the process of adding more options for Aliases! Free to use Bases were also added for members to use, and we also added a new Adventuring area, Bark Park!

We had mostly smaller and recurring events last year, including our Flutterbat Takeover, Pride, and Art Fight, but the latter half of the year had our bigger events, Bark Park Music Fest, Trick or Treat Trail, and our epic Winter Advents, with items and adoptables!

Last, but not least, from the bigger milestones, we introduced the premium currency Nuggies, and our Ko-fi memberships this year! And this year of course, we started up our ongoing plot, The Source of Magic, which will continue this year!

There are now 86 members on our site! Hello one and all, we're glad to have you!

There are now 329 Puppillars and 70 Snailcats on our masterlist! Lots of adorable new friends!

We have 738 items on ours site to collect, and 54 Awards to work towards!

Phew, now onto the celebration!

To celebrate our anniversary, we have some gifts, one Special Occasion Present, and a new Award, the 4th Birthday Cake Slice!

To claim these gifts, simply submit a claim and add them as rewards to the claim!
You have until the end of the month (Feb 28th at Midnight site time) to claim these gifts!

wanderer's glade now open!

But wait, there's more! This month we are also launching our new feature, the Wanderer's Glade! The glade is a place where members may sell puppillars characters (or MYO slots) and recieve treats in return. The characters are then added to the glade, for other members to purchase for treats! Lore wise, the Wanderer's Glade is a place where any travelling puppillar or snailcat can stay while they wait on thier next adventure!

To celebrate our anniversary, we will be placing some adopts directly into the Wanderer's Glade with special pricing! These drops will be happening throughout the month, so keep an eye on the glade!

and as always... More to come!

This year will be just as exciting as the last! We will of course be continuing along with our first ever plot (which will have plot steps going through September), which will have more lore drops, and other fun new things launching in line with the plot!

We will also be introducing and adding more info about the Puppillars Holidays, with our next holiday being Snailcat Racing season in March!

update 1/21: 

The participation threshold has been met for this step's reveals! 

Rover Wagstaff and Jake Barker are now on the masterlist!

Rover's Journal has been updated!

The Plot Step Story page has been updated with an interview between Rover and Jake!

The next plot step will be posted on Feb 1st, and reminder that there's no time limit on the plot main activities, only the mini activities! So if you'd like to snag a mini magic potion, make sure to complete the mini activity by January 31st!

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Daily Bark, with me, Jake Barker, your daily news source for the goings on in New Barkston and beyond! Happy New Year everybody! I hope everyone had a fun and safe New Years, I'm sure everyone is also looking forward to the Festival of the New Moon, and I'm happy to report we won't be waiting very long, as the first Full Moon of this year falls on the sixth of this month! So get ready to party and howl! At least there's some time for everyone to get prepared for thier Festival of the New Moon parties, even if New Year's and New Moon are close together this year.

Now, onto some more serious news, I know we have a lot of fun here, and its a fun time of year, but here at the Daily Bark, we have been getting scattered reports of puppillars having issues with magical abilities lately. Now, I don't want to alarm anyone, especially since these reports just started, and there's only been a few reports so far, but anyone who has a magic ability or interacts with magic regularly should be careful! And of course, if you have any reports of your own regarding this phenomenon, please let us know!

As I mentioned, there have only been scattered reports so far, and they have only been coming out in the last twenty four hours or so, so we can only really speculate as to what could be going on. Maybe its just a fluke, a weird coincidence that a few pupps have had issues with thier abilities, but here at the Daily Bark, we will be following this story closely in case something bigger is happening! So make sure you tune in tomorrow, at the same time for any developments, as you'll hear them here first!

Welcome to part one of our first ever puppillars plot!

We have lots of fun in store this year with our first ever plot, plan on monthly stories and activities (both big and small), as well as new lore info, and other fun surprises along the way! I hope that this plot will provide a lot of fun and round out the puppillars world for everyone!

Here's how the plot will work:

• Each month a plot step will be posted in the news, and added to the Plot: The Source of Magic prompt, with instructions on how to complete this step of the plot
  • Each step will be different, so please read the steps thoroughly!
  • Plots will function mostly like quests, they will always be available after they launch and they can only be completed once per member! However, unlike quests, plot steps can be completed in any order
• Plot participation will be tracked, and extra lore and/or journal entries by Rover Wagstaff will be unlocked each month once a participation threshold is met
  • If the participation threshold isn't met, never fear, the lore will be revealed once the next plot step is posted
• Each plot step will have a Main Activity and a Mini Activity
  • The Main Activity will be submitted to the Prompt for individual member's advancement in the plot journey, and count towards general plot participation. Each Main Activity will also have a prize for each step
  • The Mini Activity will be an optional bonus activity which will also count towards plot participation, and may have small prizes depending on the activity

Plot step one: Magic Malfunctions?

As reported by Jake Barker,  something is amiss with magic in the puppillars world! Magic is a part of daily life in this world, but magic seems to be on the fritz, causing issues for puppillars and snailcats throughout the land. Though we're not sure of a cause yet, maybe collecting more firsthand data will help us figure out what to do...

Main Activity:  Depict your character having issues with magic, or coming across another puppillar/snailcat having issues with magic

Mini Activity: Reply to the comment below with a short, firsthand account of witnessing an incident with magic, in the perspective of your character!

Activity Guidelines:

1. Members do not need to own a Puppillar or Snailcat in order to participate, members are free to use any of our NPCs, or draw other member's characters (with their permission!)
   1. In the case of these activities, members may invent a "fake" character with Magic they can discuss in their activities
2. Main Activities must be submitted to the Source of Magic Plot Gallery, and must be submitted to the Plot: Source of Magic Prompt to receive the designated rewards and count for plot participation
3. Art/writing submissions must be worth at least 20 treats to be valid for plot participation and individual advancement
   1. Details on Treat values for art/writing can be found at our Currencies, Items, and Awards Page
4. Members can complete the activities once per member

Plot Step Prize(s)

For completing the Main Activity, members will be rewarded with a Major Magic Potion

For completing the Mini Activity, members will be rewarded with a Mini Magic Potion

If the plot participation threshold is met, a Journal Entry by Rover Wagstaff, an interview with Jake Barker and Rover Wagstaff, and msterlist entries for Jake and Rover's NPCs will be unlocked!

Hello everyone! I know that this first week of January has been kinda hectic with a lot of posts, but it just so happened that we had some stuff that I wanted to start this year being at the same time as the plot, so time for a roundup of the stuff going on right now as a reminder and to have it all in one place!

Our first step of our first plot

The biggest thing going on right now is the first step for our plot, The Source of Magic! There is a main activity to complete, that functions like a quest and will always be able to completed at your own pace, and a mini activity that will close at the end of the month! Members can earn a Major Magic potion for completing the main activity and a Mini Magic Potion for completing the mini activity!

Click here to go to the plot news post!

New Year's Raffle!

To celebrate the new year,  we are having a raffle for some Special Occasion Presents (which have a random myo and a bonus trait changing item)! Every 10 tickets in the raffle will unlock another present being raffled off! The raffle will close on January 20th, so get those tickets in!

Click here to go to the raffle post!

Festival of the New Moon

The first of our annual holidays is happening now! The Fetsival of the New Moon has a simple prompt to complete, and each time the prompt is completed members will recieve a Festival of the New Moon Goodie Bag, which has two fun holiday items and 50 bonus treats! The holiday will end on January 20th, so get those prompts in! To celebrate, we also have some lovely adopts by Howee ! 

Click here to view the Holiday Prompt!
Click here to see the Holiday Adopts!

Whew, that's everything! I hope you guys enjoy the various stuff going on right now, we really kinda ramped up the new year, but things like the holidays will be spread out this year so it won't always be as crazy. Grab all that fun stuff while you can :D

Premium currency and ko-fi memberships are here!

As mentioned in the previous news post, I have been working on some updates to how MYOs can be purchased, after hammering out the details I am happy to announce that the changes are now live!

New premium currency: Nuggies!

What could be more luxurious than delicious dog treats? Chicken Nuggies of course! Our new premium currency, Nuggies, can be purchased for USD and used in the new shop, The Nuggie Shack, to purchase things like MYOs! This will streamline the MYO process a bit for everyone. Nuggies can be purchased via our Purchase Nuggies Prompt (essentially the same as it works now) or through our shop on our new Ko-fi page!

Ko-fi Memberships now available!

Along with the ability to purchase Nuggies on our Ko-fi, I have also opened up Ko-fi memberships for anyone who wants to support puppillars and get some nice perks while doing so! Full details are listed on our Ko-fi Membership page, but here's a screencap of the ranks and perks!

As always, I appriciate any sort of support people provide for Puppillars, including even just being an active member!
To see a list of the ways to support Puppillars, check out our How to Support Us page!

Happy new year's everyone!!

While our main event, the first ever Puppillars Plot, has already been posted, I wanted to post a roundup of other stuff and updates to start out the new year! There's a lot of fun stuff going on this year, so let's all get hyped! 

2023 news and updates

Thanks to everyone for taking the 2022 Puppillars Survey in November! The feedback was really helpful and there are a few things I wanna note from the survey

• Snailcat MYOs will remain ARPG exclusive, meaning they will only be available in Apollo's General store for Treats. This may change in the future (will have future surveys) but for now they will stay where they are!
• A much loved option from the survey, we will be adding a Premium Currency and Premium Currency Shop to the site, names are TBD but this will give more flexible options for purchasing MYOs and other items for USD
  • The "Purchase MYOs" prompt will be updated to the "Buy (Name of Premium Currency" prompt, which will function the same but grant premium currency, which can be spent in the shop
• I am opening a Ko-Fi page for Puppillars! The new Ko-fi page will have some great new features
  • Members can also purchase premium currency through the Ko-fi shop (one less step than submitting the prompt on site, but currency will still be granted manually)
  • Ko-fi Memberships will also be opening, with lots of fun perks for those who wish to contribue monthly! More details will be revealed in the next few days!

New Year's Raffle

To celebrate the new year, we will be holding a raffle to raffle off some Special Occasion Presents! Members can earn tickets by doing the following:

• Commenting on this news post to claim one free ticket
• Advertise the site for up to three tickets (one per ad on a unique site/social media)
• Include something you are looking forward to in 2023, whether it be Puppillars related or not, in your comment

The amount of presents raffled will be determind by the amount of tickets, with 1 for every 10 tickets!
The raffle will be open until January 20th, 2023 at Midnight Site time!
The raffle can be viewed here!

The Year to come

The "main event" this year will be our plot, which will have activities once a month that members will be able to participate in! With this going on, there will be no major events this year (think Dungeon Doggos or Bark Park Music Fest), but we will be having small Mini-events throughout the year to highlight the various holidays in the Puppillars world, the first of which will be the Festival of the New Moon, which will feature a prompt and possibly some adopts, which will start January 6th!

Of course, we will also still be having our usual festivities for the Puppillars Anniversary (in February), Pride Month (in June), and Art Fight (in July)!

thank you

I wanna finish up this news post with a big THANK YOU to everyone for making our Winter Advent such a success! I was kinda nervous about having such a big undertaking but seeing everyone's excitement and support of the advent every day made it well worth it! It was so excited to see everyone posting in the discord, and even seeing a few new members join up, and I hope we can carry on some of that energy into this year!

While the majority of the adopts have been claimed, we still have some open adopts from the advent:

"First Snow" by andie | "Snow Day" by Nhrive | "Santa Claws" by Hawkins

"Snowman" by RexAraneo | "Tropical Winter" by andie | "Christmas Ornament" by Howee

"Fireplace Stories" by RexAraneo | "Snowglobe" by Nhrive

If you wanna snag any of these lovelies, check out the Sales Post here!

Wishing everyone an amazing 2023!!!

❄️❄️ Happy december! ❄️❄️

It's the month of Holidays, and we have a lot of fun stuff going on here at Puppillars! Visiting our site this month will be full of fun stuff, with adoptables from our Winted Adoptable Advent being posted daily, as well as our Winter Item Advent where members can claim an item once per day!

Winter Adoptable Advent

Our Winter Adoptable Advent opened for pre-claims last month, and this month all the adoptables will be posted, once per day! All adoptables will be added to the site and added to the sales post so people can see them all together, and we can keep track of which have sold!

For adoptables that haven't been claimed yet (or are OTA) they will still be able to claimed/offered on before they are posted, once they are posted artists will be choosing offers for the OTA adoptables when they are ready to, so if you like one of the adoptables, make sure to get your offers in!

Now that December is here, the results for the Winter Advent Raffle are here! Congrats to Pooka and Oboe ! I will reach out to you for details! Once themes are chosen, they will be added to the Adopt Advent page!

Click here to go to the adoptable advent page!

winter item advent

Starting December 1st, make sure to log on once per day, not only to see the lovely adopts, members will be able to claim a new item each day for our Winter Item Advent! The items are themed around the holidays, winter in general, and being cozy! Some of the items line up with the themes of the adopts from the adoptable advent too, so enjoy the fun random theme days!

Members who claim every day of the advent will also be eligible for a bonus at the end,  a Special Occasion Present (which can be opened to recieve a MYO item and an extra bonus item!)

Click here to go to the item advent! 
(you will have to use this link each day to collect your item!)

New misc items!

When making items for the advent, I made some general colors for some of the items too, so the following items have been added to the site!

Cable Knit Sweaters are available at the Seasonal Trader's Shop in his Winter Stock!

The Pembroke Squashy Plush is available at Apollo's General Store!

The Chance Squashy Plush is available as a random chance from Chance's Gacha!

Have a happy and fun December everyone! Next month we can look forward to the start of our upcoming plot!

update 11/15: its OPEN! Head on over to check it out!!

Hi everyone!!! As promised, the Winter Advent has been posted!! The advent will have a 24 hour preview period, and will open for claims/offers on November 15th, 2022! The advent also has a raffle, I will be raffling off two semi-customs as part of the advent, so even if you might not be interested in grabbing a slot, check out the advent page for all the details!

Click here to go to the Advent Post!

As the end of the year approaches, I have created a survey to get some opinions on what members would like to see going forward! All opinions are appricated as I strive to make puppillars the best it can be!! Members can get three bonus tickets for the Winter Advent by completing the survey!

Click here to take the survey!