Secre

Don't forget to click on the 'I can help' message in the text bit. It takes you to a tarot card 'mini game' which you need to play three times to progress the text.

Miracles never cease! Back up stamp for the SDB!

I suspect baby and mutant pets won't be able to use them as they are handheld rather than foreground items.

I kinda like the Relic... but not enough to want one. It's certainly striking. And it doesn't seem as... messy as the Kacheek with the different styles of rock. The Kacheek would have been better with just the stomach gem. The looks like a cross between a Haunted Woods idea and a drag queen? On the plus side, the claws and fangs are removable - I imagine there's going to be some fantastic cross paints out there! The eyes are stubborn. I've gone through most of the contacts and they look ridiculous or just don't work. However the Rolling Fog contacts make the red look less... severe and more like it's hiding beneath the stone. So @LekkerLekker89, this might be more what you were after? I do like that outfit. May have to be picking that up for my Royal/Halloween Lupe. May also zap random Lupes to see if I can't get those teeth from the Relic...! I like the addition of bonus items as well! Very cute!

Snowglobe. Well, its better than my tenth bath bomb I guess!

So having done some extra sleuthing on Facebook and Reddit, it looks like both are true. The team did indeed make it so you couldn't discuss anything non neo related and there were a couple of days where staff were warning and silencing players. However the backlash has been (predictably) severe and they have walked the policy back pretty quickly and the description has also been changed. There was also a certain amount of passive aggressive 'word but not spirit of the rule' keeping with people very obviously finding neo words to describe real life things. The problem is that there are so many better ways and no other site uses the idea that you need the 'original' email because it just doesn't work. People change emails, servers get deleted. Over time, the average adult may keep their email but children certainly don't and many people created accounts in childhood! Even with adults though, there are some things I've used a work email to set up and no longer have access to the work address because I no longer work there! The previous policy was that you had to know what the original email was - still iffy given people may have been like 7 when they opened accounts, but more doable. Now you actually need to send an email from the account... which has a reasonable chance of being defunct.

Yeah, I have 8000 NAKR which I'm holding. I only saw the SMUG high as I keep certain quantities depending on how high it goes: 500 for 60+, 250 for 70+, 50 for 80+... possibly need a 5 category for 100+....

Oh, I'm definitely around for the nostalgia now. I had a long hiatus and came back during COVID and lockdowns in 2020. Spent a small fortune on the site - I'm really not joking. I went from virtually no NC to most of my wishes complete and a trading list that still makes me wonder how much I really spent... (http://impress.openneo.net/user/44099-Secre/closet). I spent hours on the site collecting 100k from Flash games Monday to Friday. Managed All-Star 2020, Double All-Star 2021 and then started to lose interest in 2022 only managing level 14. Now... I spend months without playing and even when I am 'active' like now, it's mostly half an hour for dailies and occasional NC trading. There just isn't much to do on the site and it's boring. With that in mind, why oh why are they restricting one of the few areas of the site that actually works further!? I'm clearly out of the loop as I just found the Sorry Mummy Sorry thing stupid when I clicked on it. Not sure I want to Google it to find out why it's inappropriate though! ... You aren't even meant to have a Reddit account until you are 13 years of age. So how is linking it child friendly!? Oh, TNT have been making bad decision after ban decision lately. NFT's aren't really their fault. But the chaos of the AC, games that hadn't been fixed since the previous year when they were broken, rampant cheating and shadow bans definitely were. As is the new policy of requiring access to the ORIGINAL email used to set neopets up if you can't gain access to your account. Even my BANK doesn't require that and my bank has my actual pay cheque being deposited into it! People set accounts up as children. They used parental emails, discarded emails, emails that have long since been defunct as the server that hosted them no longer exists. If they have updated their account settings, then the current email is what should be required. Then you have the lack of events (Charity Corner), broken promises (Premium sale)... and now this. It's seriously like they want to destroy the site.

Well, that's going to make the Altador Cup even more tedious than normal, isn't it?? The team chats are full of off-topic nonsense inbetween scoring and suchlike. I remember having a full discussion about what we did whilst also playing endless SOSD last year that divolved into a full book recommendation list... Are they trying - I mean, really, actively trying - to destroy the site? I don't spend much time on the boards admittedly, but many of those who do are the most committed long standing players. Why are they trying to chase them away!? And child friendly until we look at the NC Malls Gatcha mechanics with capsules. Spend a fortune to not necessarily get the items you want and gamble on a low chance of getting the special edition item. Exactly how is that child friendly??

I've seen better run websites than Neo kick the dust, so my hopes aren't particularly high for a long term future anymore. If anything, I'm frankly amazed they've lasted this long. They have no understanding of their customer base (mostly adults now, not children), so are gearing things to the wrong audience - except NC which is definitely geared towards adults with money to burn with gatcha mechanics and gambling, so somewhat hypocritical to boot. They have very poor customer support and processes (new process meaning you have to have access to your original email to gain access to lost accounts is ridiculous - very few people are able to access twenty odd year old emails and half the server addresses no longer exist.) They know it's stupid and they don't care. Most of the site doesn't work and there is very little to do unless there's an active event going on. I'm in and out in twenty odd minutes unless it's half price day and I'm trying to stock my shop. Events are thin on the ground, cancelled (Charity Corner), broken (Altador Cup) or so simple they can barely be called events (Faeries Ruin). We're all waiting on plots that have been promised for over a year. But the Premium Sale was promised for the end of last year and that never materialised, so again, low hopes here. As I said, I've seen far, far better sites run into the ground due to mismanagement and stupidity and that does seem to be the way neopets is going now...

Should have held off before selling SMUG. Think I sold at 70 something. It's now over 100. Doh!

I've got it coming up at 32k odd on SSW for me. I'll bite the bullet and buy it if I have no luck by the end of the event. I'm just peeved that I have so many duplicates of stuff that I don't want!

It's usually because someone complained about junk littering the money tree. I guess it's inconvenient because you have to have less than 20k on hand to use the money tree to collect np? Maybe? Who knows. Because yep, 100np is worth more than the 2-6 point CC items I tend to fish out of there!

So far the only interesting looking prize is the snowbunny background. I'm waiting to see the final options before jumping. Last year I bought a 15 day pass and didn't particularly like any of the darn items!

Could be worse, I suppose! Looking forward to Lupe and Hissi day. I may have to create a Hissi for an eventual baby pet...

Sorry to burst the bubble there! I think I also like the fact that not all of the Draik is patterned, some of it is just pink. They could have done that with the ruff and tail for example here, particularly if they made them heart shaped! The eyes and nose could also do with being a different colour to the face so they stand out, so as the face is a dark pink, make them light! I never paid much heed to Cybunny's until last year - when I couldn't get one until this year! I wanted a baby bunny with a murder wall, but then started looking at other colours and the plushie and oil paint in particular are wonderful.

I now have a whole lot of bath bombs for the weekends efforts. And a polar lights effect for today. Still need the darn book!

Thank ye! I got the candle from the polar negg today.

I mean, the Valentine is cute. But lazy. They could have really played with this like having a heart poof of a tail. Instead it's just a colour scheme slapped on a Cybunny. I mean they did it with the Draik! The Draik is really well done with the different design on the stomach and the heart shaped scales and tail end. This is just... lazy. The dancer outfit is gorgeous though. They've really done well there. I adore that. I've made three Cybunny's - I have Cylenced on my baby side who is going to be my new murder bunny, Cyrenye on my main because it's a pretty name and Cymbolism on my side. Not sure I need three Cybunny's but I now have three Cybunny's anyway! I do like the Plushie Cybun so may have Cyrenye as Plushie. Cymbolism would make a nice Oil Paint name but Oil Paint is such a faff to customise. Admittedly, I don't have an Oil Paint yet so that;s a part in it's favour,

Whoop! Straight into my gallery it goes. *happy dance!

They need to find a more reliable way of introducing PB's into the system than solely though nerks. With Premium memberships dropping off, they're even thinner on the ground than usual!

I'd wait a while. Petpet brushes have inflated to hell because of it. They were like 400k. Yesterday the cheapest was 900k and now they're not on the SW at all. Sighs.

Whoop, I'm now at two stamps! Safely stashed in my SDB for selling purposes later! Thank you! I'll gladly take one off your hands if you get one you don't like, but feel free to sell instead. I'll likely buy one for my main side as well at some point if I don't get a second. It's a pity it doesn't work on mutants as I think it would look quite cool!

It's not just you. I also thought hoodie strings!! I had a Kougra. But I painted it Faerie as a teen... and got hit by the Invisible RE when playing NQ not long after. So he was Cloud for a loooooooooooong time. Then Camoflage when I got bored. And I eventually morphed him into an Oilpaint Ixi (with the Zombie Tux for special occasions). I now love him waaaaaaay too much to morph him back to a Kougra. So it's new pet time! Although I'm after the giant ball of floof!

I may just need a Kougra again! It's so floofy! The eyes aren't quite right on it though. Several of the NC options look better; Birthday Kawaii Contacts Fiery Sun Contacts Sparkly Closed Eyes (DW Orange) Holiday Lights (all the DW look awesome as well!) And look at the grumpy elderly kitty! The Outfit is nifty. Simple but well executed and could be mixed and matched in a variety of ways. And I love the manes!!