• 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!

 Magdalene's seasonal quest is back for the month, along with an event shop containing Ombra's items!

• You can start the quest "Among Fallen Leaves" by going to 3's Forest and clicking on Magdalene.
• There are 3 quests in total: Among Fallen Leaves, Search the Shadowed Path (Repeatable, available throughout the month), and Returning to Magdalene's Cottage
• Magdalene's Autumn Bazaar is open again for the month of November!
• Stocked are Ombra's items, with a new item available this year.
• Ombra's seasonal currency "Wild Forage Snacks" can be obtained from Magdalene's repeatable seasonal quest "Search the Shadowed Path" as well as through Random Encounters, Adventuring, and 3's Forest Clean Up.
  

AVIAR BALANCING STATUS
We're well on our way in progress for the Aviar Balancing Update (which includes the Frog Sink Update), here are some stats on our current progress!

Item & Pet Assets • 70%
Quest Adjustments • 30%
Misc Tasks • 10%MERCHANDISE PLANS
We're still in the concept and planning stages of making various merchandise. We're thinking that we could try out a small Enamel Pin Set Kickstarter for Louise Hill pets first at some point! Here are some concept sketches for pet pins.


We'd love to hear what you think, comment here as well if you have ideas for merch that you would really want!

QOL CHANGELOG INCOMING
We have a QoL update coming that will include custom maker drop rates across all NPC shops as well as other things later this month. A status will go up as always when we're preparing for an update maintenance!

STAFF RECRUITMENT STATUS
If you made an application to our Staff Recruitment post, keep an eye out for email replies coming in the next day or so! We've prepared some followup questions for everyone we've selected.

Here are some plans for improvements for future events like this that we've accumulated from hosting this event!

• Assign different point prize values to different tasks instead of 1 for every task. This way more difficult tasks like hatching or alchemizing a pet would reward more.
• Balance future event finale quests to unlock a bit sooner to reduce grindiness.
• Display a cooldown on the event page for when you can give pets blessings, near the green "Visit Random Pet" button.
• Add a "donate all" option for snail energy.
• Add a blessing button in posts on the forums.
• Look further into random pet button priorities to see if the selection can be a bit smarter.
• Reduce currency reward clicks in quest by grouping both rewards into one step.
  

For the next few months, we'll be having smaller events and releases here and there as well as staff managed forum contests in between more permanent content, feature and balancing updates.