WHAT ARE NICO'S CONTESTS?

• This type of contest is run by our Community Managers and will occur around once every month or every two months with about a 2 week break in between contests.
• Thematically, we created this contest type in order to be able to hold staff run forum contests independant of larger overarching events and to be able to hold them on a more regular basis!
• The first batch of Polished Button participation prizes will be sent out on the 3rd day of the contest on February 25th at 7PM DVT.
  

Welcome to Nico's Prize Boutique, the shop that takes currency exclusively obtained in staff forum contests.

• This shop will be a permanent fixture in Peddler's Port.
• Its currency is Polished Buttons, which are tradeable.
• More items will be added to its stock with each contest, including recolours and other variations!
  

• You can start the quest "A Search for the Unknown" by going to Peddler's Port and clicking on Pai.
• There are 3 quests in total: A Search for the Unknown, Perusing the Constellation Library (Repeatable, available throughout the month), and Secrets of the Tomes (Unlocks after a number of days completing the previous quest)
• Agnes' Winter Boutique is open again for the month of February!
• Stocked are Ravan's items, with a new item available!
• Ravan's seasonal currency "Scrap of Knowledge" can be obtained from Pai's repeatable seasonal quest "Perusing the Constellation Library" as well as through several other regular site mechanics.
  

AVIAR COVE BALANCING UPDATE
We're aiming to launch the Aviar Cove balancing update later this month if everything proceeds smoothly! We've separated this and the frog update into two separate updates to accomodate the amount of content to be released. Here is our current progress on it.
Item & Pet Assets • 100%
Quest Adjustments • 65%
Misc Tasks • 65%

FROG THEMED UPDATE
Our plan for the frog themed permanent potato sink update is to launch this some time in March just in time for spring. We're also planning a small gathering event to introduce the new content. Here's our progress on this upcoming update!
Item & Pet Assets • 90%
Quest & Flavour Text • 25%
Misc Tasks • 50%

COMMUNITY MANAGER RUN AVATAR CONTEST
We're excited to announce that our community managers will be running their first avatar contest on the forums later this month! A new permanent shop with exclusive items will be added, to be purchased with tradeable currency only obtainable through these contests. We're aiming to have a staff run contest independent of events every month or two and offer this shop currency as rewards.

 

• Speak to Pellumi at Soll's Ruins to begin the seasonal quest "The Winter Sands"
• There are 4 quests in total to be unlocked in succession.
• 2 of 4 quests are repeatable quests. "The Great Labyrinth" can be completed once a day while "A Moment's Respite" can be completed 3 times.
• Pellumi's Antique Nook is open again for the month of January!
• Stocked are Soll's items, with a new few new items available this year.
• This shop takes Ruin Lights which are obtainable through the Seasonal quests in Soll's Ruins, Random Item Alchemy, Adventuring Rewards, and the Starry Night Minigame
  

NEW MODERATORS & COMMUNITY MANAGERS
We're very excited to announce three new Moderators and two Community Managers joining our team! Over the coming weeks they'll be going through onboarding and learning the different aspects of the duties these positions entail.

• Please welcome to the Moderation team • ali #2096 ♦ Morphine #35897 ♦ Musicality#39022
• Please also welcome the new Community Manager team • Nineve #46 and Elkcrown #3063
  

We've also ranked up all active Junior Moderators into regular Moderators, from now on the Junior Moderator Role has been merged with the Moderator Role.

AVIAR COVE BALANCING & FROG UPDATE
We're diligently at work on the Aviar Balancing and Frog sink content! Here's our current status:
Item & Pet Assets • 90%
Quest Adjustments • 55%
Misc Tasks • 55%

CUSTOM BATCH STATUS
Due to the busy holiday season last month for our staff, our currently claimed custom batch wasn't able to be completed yet, it will be completed some time mid month and then we'll resume our usual schedule. Thank you for your patience and apologies for the wait!

• The ingredients to make the hatching item can be found in Pai, Agnes, and Oran's shops' Bonus Prize pools.
• The item alchemy recipe is available in your recipe book and shown above.
• This Seasonal Pet will remain in the shops for 3 months and rotate out at the end of February to be replaced by a pet for the next season.
• Seasonal pets are obtainable annually on a rotation! The hatching items can be alchemized at any time of the year.
  

CARNIVAL INFO

• There are 3 seasonal NPC's in the Carnival. Say hello to Pitre, Cordelia, and Fefin!
• Each NPC has their own quest and shop which takes the same event currency - Carnival Tokens.
• There are 46 items and 3 pet species to be collected currently!
• Each NPC has their own repeatable quest featuring their respective carnival games.
  
  • Pitre's "Cards, Jesters, and Destiny" quest!
  • Cordelia's Lucky Wheel quest!
  • Fefin's Great Monkey Maze quest!
    
  
  
• Each quest will each be completable 4 times a day and grant varying token and decoration prizes depending on how well you do.
• Can you unlock all of the secrets and obtain the wiggling achievements?
  

HOW TO OBTAIN CARNIVAL TOKENS
Carnival Tokens are the currency for the all shops at the Carnival and are obtainable in the following ways:

• Doing the seasonal event quests in the Carnival
• Random Encounters
• Random Item Alchemy
  

AVIAR COVE BALANCING & FROG UPDATE
We're diligently at work on the Aviar Balancing and Frog sink content! Here's our current status:
Item & Pet Assets • 85%
Quest Adjustments • 45%
Misc Tasks • 40%

QOL CHANGELOG UPDATE
We're just about finishing up testing for our upcoming QoL update, this will be released early this month!

STAFF RECRUIT STATUS
We're currently assembling and beginning the training process for our new staff members, once everyone is assembled we'll be announcing our new teams and updating our staff information! For those who applied, please do check your email if you haven't yet in case you were accepted, thank you!

TRADES MARKET UPDATES
We're still in the process of designing and working on our Trades Market revamp, Pet Accessory Market, and Customs Market. Much of our work is aggregating and compiling all user suggestions that we've received throughout the site's history and deciding on how to work them into our updates in the best way possible.

LONGTERM PERMANENT CONTENT WORK
We've been brainstorming and working on more permanent content behind the scenes such as future towns, revamps to older item pools, and much more with our artist team. Stay tuned for more info as we progress!