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Chances are it's Omicron, either 1 or 2. Both are easier to spread/catch than Delta or the original BIG strain. But they are FAR more mild as far as symptoms and risk goes. Since you are fully vaxxed, you'll probably be fine with just mild symptoms. So yeah, at least you shouldn't have to worry. That being said, Good luck! I hope you don't go stir-crazy being stuck inside while your symptoms run their course. lol But it shouldn't be too long right? Are they down to 1 week, or is it 10 days of staying in where you are?

No, you're correct about the rules and how it works. What I'm saying is that if I have one fountain dip "saved", and I get another Fountain Faerie quest. Then, I can either abandon the new quest, or dip my pet into the fountain before completing the new quest if I decide to do that. Which means if I have a pet take a dip and then complete the quest, I'll have a trip to the fountain "saved" again until the next time I want to change a pet's color. Sorry if I wasn't clear with my initial post on this.

LOL Cool and congrats on the FFQ! I use FQCs too, and those FFQs are nice! I wish Kaia would be more worth it. lol Stat-wise. When I get a FFQ I tend to use it on either of my pets, or if I don't feel like changing a pet's color I can save the trip to the Fountain until I get another FFQ. Then I use one, and then I complete the new one so I have that one as a "spare". I don't change my pet's colors often, but every now and then, with the seasons or around holidays.

86? lol I doubt it, but are you talking about Maxwell Smart, agent 86 of Control? XD Played by Don Adams, one of my favorite comedic actors of all time! WAAAAAY better than the movie with Steve Carrel. (Or however his name is spelled) LOL I just had to. lol I'm still a HUGE fan of the Get Smart series, even though it hasn't been on TV in ages. I used to watch reruns as a kid on Nick at Nite. lol So, obviously I'm not familiar with the anime 86. lol It seems you are keyed into romantic relationships as your focus in anime, would that be a fair assessment? XD I haven't gotten to Snow White with the Red Hair yet, but I've heard good things about it. SAO is awesome, and it's no surprise that you like Asuna and Kirito so much. lol One only need glance at your avatar to figure you're a fan. Though Aniplex can shove their over-bloated prices where the sun don't shine. From what I've seen of reviews, they overcharge us in America while other nations, like the UK don't have to pay nearly as much as we do. Again, going by complaint reviews I've read over the years at Rightstufanime's site. I'm looking forward to what happens after the end of War of Underworld, I HOPE it'll air on Cartoon Network like all the other main SAO episodes have. I do have at least some of the movies. Oridinal Scale was interesting. Didn't really care too much for Extra Edition though. I'm more into the story and how things are worked out, not to mention the broader interaction and relationships between all the characters. Have you seen Ouran, High School Host Club? I didn't think I'd like it starting out. A friend convinced me to watch it. But, I really got into it because of the pace of character development. Even by the last episode the characters are still developing. A shame there will never be a movie for it. but it ended pretty well, and I highly recommend it. The humorous interplay is GREAT. LOL I haven't read the Percy Jackson books, I've seen the Lightning Thief movie, I wasn't very impressed tbh. Unfortunately, I doubt my favorite novels will EVER become movies, which is a shame because they are so intricate and awesome. But I suppose maybe too much so, they would need the Harry Potter treatment, as in at least 1 movie per novel, maybe 2. lol There's just SO much going on that I think it would be difficult, even today, to turn them into movies. There are 7 books in "The Death Gate Cycle" series. A wonderful fantasy novel collection that takes place in a post, post-apocalyptic world. Heck, it's not even a world anymore, it was sundered into several, ages ago. This is the longest running and most comprehensive fansite for the series, it even has images and descriptions from the PC game that was created (loosely) based upon the books. http://www.immora.com/deathgate/index.php The game actually came in 2nd place in an International graphics contest back around 1992. The game that beat it was Warcraft II, lol Long before World of Warcraft was created. I'm betting it was the cutscenes that won the day for Warcraft II, some of the cutscenes in the Death Gate game, especially the last and CLIMACTIC one, were pretty lackluster.

Currently watching some old-school anime. Yu Yu Hakusho! Almost done with the Dark Tournament arc. Not too crazy about the next arc, but that's ok, the last arc is pretty awesome, so it makes up for that. lol

Remember that you need to win 10 battles to qualify if your faction wins, or a consolation prize if your faction loses. Oxbridge786's predictions for this round.

Cool! Yeah, my nephew will be 13 in a couple of weeks and he's into science so I'm hoping watching Dr. Stone will get him 10,000,000,000% excited! Cool! It's been awhile. I have the box set too, but it's been awhile since I last watched them. Good movies. I think Warner Bros. made them, so they wouldn't be on Disney+ or Netflix even, unless there was a special agreement with them. *nods* Agreed. I have a Disney+ subscription, but that's ONLY for the vintage stuff, the newer/newest Disney stuff MOSTLY reeks like billion-year old non-dried out corpses. IMHO. That's the only streaming service I subscribe to, sometimes, I question if that's even worth it, given the garbage the Disney company cranks out these days. Ah well. lol

Watching the anime, Dr. Stone, just finished season 1. I REALLY wish that Season 2 had run longer than 11 episodes, but it did finish a story arc, so it makes sense as a stopping point. Oh well. Gifting a copy to my nephew for his bday coming up in a couple of weeks, I hope he'll enjoy it as much as I do!

I love older games. Like, Mega Man, Breath of Fire, Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana, Legend of Zelda, and other older incarnations of these franchises. Online, besides Neo, I only casually play Flight Rising, and the same with AQ3D, a 3D MMO that's free to play. There is a pay aspect, but like Neo and Flight Rising, it's not required to play or progress in the game. You unlock some EXTRAS, including 1 job/class. For those familiar with the company, Artix Entertainment, you'll know which class I mean. Guardian Class. AQ3D has the BEST incarnation of the Guardian Class I've played. And I've played the original AdventureQuest and DragonFable games, unlocking Guardian in both. As in other games with this class, Guardianship, is a ONE-TIME payment of $25 and is a GREAT tank or Solo class. There is also a Dragon Guardian option, with only a couple other bells and whistles for a one-time payment of $50, though you do also get a good number of Dragon Crystals with the Dragon Guardianship. MORE Dragon Crystals CAN be purchased for real money, like NC is. BUT, there is a DAILY treasure chest you get to open, and when you level up you get a low-level chest to open as well. These chests will contain 3 things, the first thing is ALWAYS free Dragon Crystals, somewhere between 4 and 138 is the range. The 2nd is usually some consumable or even some Treasure Shards. The 3rd is always a Cosmetic piece of equipment. Cosmetic equipment won from a chest, or bought from the chest treasure shard shop can't be trashed, but instead CAN be converted to Treasure Shards, that you can save and use to buy other Cosmetic equipment/pets/etc. from the Treasure Shard shop. The game is in the OPEN-BETA phase right now. But there's quite a lot of content. 4 Basic classes, a nice number of Tier 1 classes, and 1 Tier 2 class so far. It takes a bit to unlock any of the Tier 1 classes, since you need to do a daily quest for that class' trainer to earn tokens for that class, and as you may have guessed, you can only do one Class quest per day. That being said, Guardians can turn over Guardian Tokens they earn similarly in exchange for some class tokens of a Tier 1 class. Making unlocking them a little faster. You can also change class almost at anytime, just, not during a battle. Getting each class to rank 10 unlocks all their skills, including a cross-skill that you may equip to use with any other class, pretty useful, those cross skills. AQ3D can be played on Mobile, tablet, or computer. On the computer, (Mac, PC, Linux) you need Steam to play it. A truly cross-platform game! Frankly, I play for the fun, but I stay for the bad puns and humor throughout the game and events. Classes can be ranked up to rank/level 100. At which point you earn a title for under your name in-game. Legendary *job name here*. I've maxed out Guardian and now I'm working a bit on the Pirate Class. Oh yeah, every rank up after rank 10, you get 25 class tokens for that class, and every 5th rank up (15, 20, etc) up to rank 50, you will receive a Legendary piece of Cosmetic Equipment based on that class. From Ranks 51-99 you just get the class tokens, until you hit Rank 100. Some people, who play a LOT, have already maxed out EVERY class. You can tell by the stars above their profile name when you click on them. 1 star per 100 total class ranks. Eventually, Bronze Stars switch to Silver, and those to Gold. I have 2 Bronze stars at the moment, as the total class ranks I've unlocked is, 245 so far. Most things are PvE, but there is the Battle Hall, for PvP matches, and you can duel with other players pretty much anywhere too. It's pretty cool.

Hi @Secre , glad you got her, she'll be pretty useful depending on how you build her stats! lol In my first playthrough, I MISSED I think it was Velm, but it might've been Talenia, anyway, IF that happens, and IF I'm recalling correctly, they will be waiting for you in the next chapter. Ok, the old site I used for NQ and NQ2 maps aren't around anymore, I just looked, so JN's site for NQ2 is a good call. I DID find a site dedicated to NQ1 though, that I recall using waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day. Apparently their Neo-account has been disabled. But there NQ1 fansite isn't a petpage. Here it is, just in case you try NQ1 and find this page useful. http://footballman.comicgenesis.com/nqmaps/walkthrough.html Thanks, I would HOPE so. I don't need/want anymore pets, just a lil credit and the prizes, even as No-Trade would be cool enough with me. I've always had a desire to make games, but I can't code or anything like that. lol Just above my head for the most part I'm afraid. ^^; Ah, was that the year in CC that they had a year of Bank Bribery and other FUN rewards? I wish they'd bring awesome options like those back again! Ah cool! So you COULD play, heck if you have your old memory cards your old save-games MIGHT still be there! Ah I see the issue with the vita, that is a lot for a very old game, though if there were MORE old games you could only get hold of that way, it MIGHT be worth it in the long-run. Hmm it depends on your emulator and system I guess. Sony used to actually have an emulation software, official, for PS1 games, but I THINK that was during the end-days of the PS2 and the start of the PS3. Since only the first PS3s were partially backwards compatible. Also though, finding the ROM, though might be tricky, I recall Nintendo and some other big names CRACKING DOWN on sites that provided ROMs to their signature series, like Zelda, Mario, etc. But that info is over a decade old, so now, who knows? I believe I've heard that some disc-console emulators can play your game-discs via your PC's dvd-rom drive. But it's been soooooo long since I read anything on emulation that may or may not be true. I don't think using an emulator to play your already owned discs would be illegal, if that's possible, but the ROMs would be. So I can't really advise you one way or the other on that, other than to stay on the straight and narrow I guess. Dragon Quest is awesome. I got the first game for the NES, then called Dragon Warrior, with my first subscription to Nintendo Power magazine. To the end of that publication's cancellation, that was their most popular promotional! It took me exactly 5 weeks to figure the game out and beat it, around the age of 9 or 10 I think. I can since, with running away a lot, get the legendary Armor and even the Sword from the Dragonlord's castle, by level 13, but you gotta be at LEAST level 22 or higher to have ANY chance against the Dragonlord. To do any DAMAGE to him even, otherwise, you miss or do only 1 damage, even with a critical hit. Leveling in that game was a PAIN. I usually did most of it around Cantlin, the walled city. Since saving up for either the Flame Sword (2nd best sword) or Silver Shield (Best Shield) was SUPER expensive and took FOREVER! I was either level 23 or 24 when I finally confronted and defeated the Dragonlord. I've played all 4 NES games, and I have their Nintendo DS remasters. Lots of fun for the most part. Dragon Quest VIII for the PS2 was pretty awesome! Still didn't get around to beating the last boss though. lol Swords, for the WII was interesting, and pretty cool. I wish they'd port it to the Switch for use with the joy cons or something. Since you're also a fan, you might know of this site already, if not, it's probably the most comprehensive DQ fansite around and has been around for decades! https://www.woodus.com/den/home.php Ah ok, that's cool that you found a VN that was actually interesting to you.

@Secre lol Ah ok! Well good luck getting the avatar and challenger then. LOL Yes, NQII is slightly less so than NQ imho. But it's a bit easier if you know exactly where you're going on the maps. I don't know if those old map/fansites are still up and around with the maps and all the info for each game. At the moment I can't even recall their names. ^^; lol WOW! You're loaded for BEAR as far as the CC goes! I just keep pretty much everything I find in my SDB that isn't worth hardly any NP, even if they are Gnome Shrooms that are r99s, but sooooooo cheap from one of Jhudora's quests. lol I figure those will help when CC comes back. I wouldn't want monetary compensation for my ideas or making maps for my NQIII ideas. I'd like a full set of the prizes though, even if they were made NO-TRADE, and a small mention in the credits. But I would still want the ability to get a prize on InSaNe difficulty when I unlocked it and that one I could trade or sell if I wanted. I've never actually mapped anything out in THAT sense before. I have done some side-scrolling game idea maps, many years ago. Personal stuff, not professional. Think similar to the Mega Man game series. How the maps side-scroll. Even marked off enemy placements and made bestiaries for the levels I drew. It was for a similar game idea with a similar format to the mega man series. Inspired by, we'll say. Awwww, I'm sorry, I didn't know that. I suppose you could always look on sites for used console and the game. Or something. Maybe someone at the Gamefaqs message board would have other ideas besides that? It's a HUGE gaming network with FAQs, guides, forums etc. for TONS of games from around the world. I think Gamespot recently bought them out, within the last couple of years, but I think gamefaqs.com still takes you there. You'll find lots of info on Legend of Dragoon too. I'm ok with the game, but I'm not really a fan of the pay attention part of the attacks, it seems to vary with each different dragoon, making it a bit trickier to get off some good hits. Yeah! I'm playing the original Breath of Fire for like, the millionth time. lol Not a great game, lots of tedious walking around, but still, like NQII strangely satisfying. Except I'm dealing with Mote right now, I hate that minion. The dream world is SO annoying. lol Especially the tiles that make the walls disappear so all you can see is the floor, but not where the paths are. lol The only BoF game I haven't gotten to play yet is the last one, Dragon Quarter. But I hear it's not a very good game. I have it, just haven't gotten TO it yet. Dragon's Lair is arcade, but it's not a fighting game like street fighter. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised! I've played a couple VNs, but I haven't heard of that one. VNs are OK, but some are kinda slow for my taste.

@Secre LOL I BET! but wow, it's great you managed to find the time to play that much that year! A shame you couldn't this year, and that you lost your mojo on playing. That happens to me too. I try to play, but it gets so... tedious. I wish our goals could translate into prize points too. Reward more than just wins, but putting effort into the game of YYB too! Some people might get a couple goals and then just wait for time to run out. I always play to do my best. The only low-score games I have are those involving multiple darigan yooyus. LOL I hear ya. Some of the petpet art is pretty neat! If you don't mind me asking, why are you trying to get your Feepit eaten by turmy? For the avatar and to get him as a challenger in the BD? Or you just want to replace the Feepit? I had a Feepit once, attached to my peophin. But, Turmy did eat him and I was SOOOOOOOO angry. I didn't know Turmy could do that at the time. And I had had my Feepit attached to my peophin since it was released via the Advent Calendar a couple years before. But, I did get the avatar and Turmy as a challenger in the BD. It took a little work to do it, but I beat Turmy in the old BD and avenged my poor Feepit, no name. LOL Yeah! People often find a focus and stick with it, at least for awhile. I used to play more of the flash games, avatars and such too. But then Flash died and I haven't really done much gaming since. Considering what people can make in NP from Restocking, I wish we could earn more NP from gaming, 3,000 a day max per game is pretty paltry by comparison. lol Like you, I'm more a Jack of All Trades and master of Zero. lol Battling is just something I have a bit more of a knack for compared to other things in Neopets. Ah, I don't think I went after Edna's avatar yet... I have trophies for both Jhudora and Illusen, but I've never completed ALL of their quests, so no Illusen's Staff or Wand of the Dark Faerie for me. I THINK I have Bronze for NQ1, I went for Gold in NQ2, but got the worst stat-wise weapon for my troubles. The Staff of Righteous Fury. Good name, horrible stats. I was hoping for the wand or the bow, cooler art and stats. I've done a NUMBER of NQ2 playthroughs, mostly on Evil difficulty, I loved that game and almost had every map virtually memorized. lol I have ideas for an NQ3 game, but I DOUBT TNT would let me make suggestions or design maps or anything since I'm not staff, and you gotta live near them, in California to become staff. *SIGH* I save some higher rarity items for Charity Corner too. Though, if they REALLY want to do an item-dump, they should find SOME way to make the 101 "special" rarity items worth actually turning in. LOL The Owner of Majal_Kita, was credited with winning a couple of the wars, AND getting a couple one-of-a-kind items as rewards for the finishing blows on the final bosses of a couple of the wars they were involved in! Coltzan CAN increase stats besides Intelligence. Seems to happen more at lower levels though. I think I was in the 3 tan-codestone range and he bumped me into the 4-stone range with that unexpected Defense boost. Neopets: The Darkest Faerie is a pretty fun game. The cutscenes are interesting, but the 3D renderings during the cutscenes... could've been better. lol Illusen and Fyora especially. lol The Legend of Dragoon. I bought and downloaded that onto my PS3 a long time ago, almost got around to beating it, didn't yet. Not my favorite battle-system, but a pretty good game. I remember the commercial for that game before it came out. Dart and the villain are dueling, and Dart cuts the guy's head off. And the guy starts WHINING to the Director! "Did you see that Nigel? He cut my head off!" Or something along those lines! lol I even found the commercial once on Youtube. lol POOR quality video, but still amusing. If you like games where you have to hit a button with fast/accurate timing, you might enjoy the Dragon's Lair trilogy. It's in both the Playstation and Nintendo e-shops and contains; Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp, and Space Ace. All 3 are beautifully drawn and animated adventures that you have to press a directional button at a specific time to survive and continue on in the story. They are all pretty old, but were drawn and animated by the LEGENDARY Don Bluth. (Think of movies like, The Land Before Time, and All Dogs Go To Heaven, Secret of NIMH and An American Tail, among others.) Dragon's Lair I think came out around 1982..? It's been awhile so I don't recall the exact year. But it was an arcade game, like the other two games. You can view full play-throughs on youtube. For me, the amazing quality of art and fluid animation always distracted me while playing. So I died, a LOT. I didn't actually BEAT Dragon's Lair, until I got the Nintendo DS version for my 3DS. Smaller screen = less space for my eyes to wander to take in the awesome art and animation. You're welcome! Both those items just might be useful. I currently have a Mysterious Red Potion equipped with my Bag of Healing Dust for when I was testing it, before I knew it was a healer. lol I left it equipped just in case TNT did like they did with Velm's Healing Potion. At one time, it too, could be equipped with another healer, but they decided to stop that. But those who had it in their sets already were allowed to keep it in their battle sets with another healer as long as they didn't unequip either of them. The Water Pistol would probably pair well with a Water Whip or a Clawed Shield. Which help reflect some fire, but not all. @berriganify, Cool, good luck rebuilding your bank and getting some training in! I've heard of Dark Cloud, but never played either of the games. I started playing Playstation games because a number of my favorite franchises from the NES/SNES moved to Playstation in the 90s. Final Fantasy, Breath of Fire and Mega Man, primarily.

@archer2017, That sounds like a good plan! Training your butt off is always a GREAT thing to do where BATTLING is involved! Your starting set-up sounds like a good start! 2 Void Blades is fine, but you've got your great healer, and a solid freezer! If you'd like some help/pointers, feel free to start a topic with your battle-pet's stats, equipment, the 1p opponent you might want to take on, and a budget for buying new gear. Either myself, or other members of the forum will gladly offer advice. Good luck with the Training using the cookies! @Secre, DOUBLE ALL-STAR?! WOW! Congrats! I got All-Star once, a bunch of years ago, but.... missed the window to cash in the points at the prize shop... ^^; Ooooo Candychan is a cute petpet. Congrats on getting it! That's a good theory about the price of the stamps. *sigh* Still, it's crazy to inflate the stamps so much. I'm not much of a collector, but sometimes, I try with stamps. AC stamps are some I like to try for. Oh well.. Well, my STR and DEF are maxed. I keep training just in case TNT might SOMEDAY increase the number of boosts. My Strength and Defense stats are over 3200. My HP is "decent" at 3302hp right now. I say "decent" that way, because if you look at other pets who've trained longer and harder. Like the LEGENDARY Majal_Kita. One of the oldest most-LEGENDARY pets ever! That Jetsam has over 14,000hp! And that's NOT the most "powerful" pet in Neopia anymore, due to terms of HP or Equipment. I don't know who IS now, but when I started, Majal-Kita was famous during the War Plots. But still, there are pets who've been training for a VERY long time and I'm aware that the user who owns Majal_Kita, also has at least one other VERY powerful pet they've trained. So I'd imagine there are some with maybe upwards of over 25,000hp. I don't know for sure, I'm just guessing. LOL Oh man! I've had poorly time stat-boosts too! Random events, and one time I got like, a 5 point boost from Coltzan's Shrine, I think it was DEF. But in both cases, they bumped me up to the NEXT tan-codestone training level before I was ready. Really annoying! lol Wow! Yeah, boosting early sucks, but at least if your level is 250 you only need 1 red stone for each session to catch up. Also, if necessary, you could sell some of your tan-codestones for funds to buy more red stones if you ever need them. Ah ok! Most players I've talked to about the 10 quest limit didn't know about it beforehand. Glad you did know about it. I hope you keep getting some good luck with the KQs! You never know! It could be Jhudora! LOL Yeah, the grey faerie being either the reincarnation or reformed darkest faerie is just a theory. The Playstation 2 game, The Darkest Faerie, was pretty good, except for the glitches. lol Freezing mid-game that makes you reset and start from your last save was probably the most annoying. OH! Before I forget, something I forgot about the Mysterious Red Potion healing item. According to the info I've seen, it SHOULD STILL be equipable with other healers. Since it heals 25% of your HP when your HP is below 25%, it'd be a good "safeguard" measure if you're not certain about survival and you don't need ALL of your equipment slots, then it's worth it. ALSO, One other weapon, a gun that helps block Fire with a decent offense. Water Powered Pistol, it's a 13 icon-attack with a 5 fire icon block. Fire is a tricky element to block, so 5 icons is still decent. It's a cheaper alternative to some other. fire blockers. I was looking through my gallery for any possibly useful weapons I placed there, that was one of them I saw and rechecked the stats on.

@Secre Indeed! Thundersticks are basically like a Moehog Skull, an insanely rare Haunted scratchcard prize. That's cool you did well enough in the AC to get some if you wanted. You could and sell them for a profit to help your war effort. Though I don't think they'd be very useful IN battle, unless you needed a freezer, if they are only good once per battle, then you attack and freeze and then they are gone for the rest of the fight. I didn't do nearly well enough in the AC to get anything cool. I tried looking for the stamps after the AC was over, and for a full set, one of each, I was quoted a price of 120 mil! I hate greed/inflation. >_< That's much more than most of the older stamps cost and those past AC prize shops have long since closed. I'm not shelling out 120 mil for 3 lousy stamps. It's just frustrating though. Ooof, that's a better set than mine! More expensive too. lol I've been saving so much and so long for a Skarls Sword that I've pretty much neglected my own set. I have a Bag of Healing Dust which I traded and shelled out some Pure for many years ago. Short Sleeved Yellow Tunic (Heals 75HP) no longer met my healing needs, and Peophins don't have a species healer. That and the G-bomb were my largest buys for my set that I can recall, and G-bomb is my only HT item. Like you, I'm not very good (at all) at Restocking. I've had 2 or 3 decent successes over the almost 2 decades I've been playing. One brought in just under 800k, the other, I haven;t sold because it MIGHT be USEFUL the next battle plot. I'm glad I'll get the chance to try it. It's the Combo Battle Mirror. Light is pretty easy to reflect thanks to the Expert Lens, that does 50% reflection without breaking, but the Combo Battle Mirror IS an r99. So it counts as a decent success. Though it isn't very valuable compared to some others. Yeah, Cove weapons are rare and they really should FIX it. Last time I looked a SuAP was about the same, 80-90 mil. I was TEMPTED to try and trade for one then, kinda kicking myself now. lol But, I keep saving for Skarls Sword. lol I make NP so slow, the NP grows MOSS before I get it into the bank! lol That's ok, I'm fairly confident in my intermediate-range set. Plus my Str and Def stats are maxed. My HP is decent too at this point So if there is a collective boss battle at the end of this new plot, I should be able to do more damage than during the Obelisk War. Which was when I got into the red stone training range. Speaking of Training, that's good you've got a nice amount of red stones, that will be a good start to your Ninja training when you get to the red stone range! And CONGRATS on a couple successful KQ training sessions! I just remembered, you can only do 10 site quests per Neopian Day. So you can complete 10 Kitchen Quests per day. The other quests I can recall that count toward that 10-count completion would include Quests for Edna and the Snow Faerie. I'm not sure about Esophager quests though. Probably, so you might want to save 2 if you like to do the Brain Tree's daily quest. At midnight NST the counter resets and you can start doing those on-site quests again. I'm sorry I didn't mention that sooner, it's been awhile since I did 10 quests so I only just remembered. lol Cool! Yeah, it's crazy how fast your speed/movement will increase! Especially with the 3 stat points for normal random faerie quests, vs the 2 stat points they used to yield. Regarding the faerie in question. MY guess is that it's the Grey Faerie, Baelia. (I hope I'm spelling her name right). When I read the post you copied and pasted, that was who I thought of who has an unresolved plight. Further speculation, but it would be something, is she turned out to be a reformed incarnation of The Darkest Faerie. lol NOT LIKELY! LOL But it would be interesting at least! Anyway, it sounds like an interesting plot they've got in store for us. I'm looking forward to it! Though not to the waiting about 6 months or so! LOL If you have any other battle/set questions, feel free to ask. Good luck with everything!

Hi @Secre! First off, You're welcome! No worries on the reply-time, weekends especially can get busy! I'm glad I was able to provide some assistance in your equipment selection! That's what I'm here for, in part, after all. lol It sounds like you've got things pretty well figured out. There might be some event or some release of new weaponry between now and when the plot starts that might change what your thoughts on equipment line-up, so definitely keep an open mind regarding your extra slots. I'm glad in particular that I could help with your healer quandary. THAT is a tricky one if you don't have millions for a bag of healing dust but need something better than the Greater Healing Scroll. Percentage healers are much more attractive the higher your HP gets. Even Velm's Healing Potion (10% heal) can be better than the GHS when your HP gets above 500. Also, congrats on getting the H4000 Helmet! 2.5 mil?! Wow! What a steal from prices I've seen in the past! I haven't price-checked in a long time, but those used to tend to go for around 4mil each. With the plot-inflation already starting on a lot of items, it's amazing that you got such a good deal! I just found out Super Attack Peas have skyrocketed in price when I asked someone about a price for a Skarls Sword they had for trade. Their price was 950mil or 4 SuAPs. Now, I can't even afford a SuAP, even if I emptied my bank completely! lol I pre-battle plot inflation/hate price-gouging. lol Skarls Sword isn't a TOP weapon, but it's my "dream" weapon. And would actually be an upgrade for my battle set at this time, even though it's maximum icons is up to 25. It also blocks all Light. lol But the art of the item is AWESOME! I've been chasing after a Skarls Sword since they were about 250 mil. They were a rare prize from redeeming a TCG code. SuAP, by comparison, if I recall correctly, has a icon count of 32. Which makes it the best weapon we poor neopians can actually own. Too bad it was a Smugglers Cove item. On Downsize! Downsize! is a pretty good item to have a few of around the time of battle-plots because they usually sell pretty well. I hope you make a nice little profit when you do sell those extras! THANK YOU for copying and posting the battle-plot question and answer! No hints on what the first plot will be about, but it's nice that Lutari Island is still on their radar for a future plot too. Since the plot won't begin until sometime next year, you'll have LOTS of time to train up your pet's Strength, Defense and HP. If you start training with Faerie Quest Fortune Cookies, You MIGHT consider doing SOME air faerie quests to the point of getting your agility/movement to 201. I THINK that stealing is still broken in the new BD. I haven't tried it in awhile. But your pet's intelligence is waaaaaaaaaaaay higher than needed, and with a movement stat of 201, the Heavy Robe of Thievery will let you steal from your opponent once per battle. It's a fun little item when stealing works. You need an intelligence stat of higher than 67 and agility must be higher than 200 for it to give you the 100% steal. Otherwise, it just defends 2 light icons. lol During the Obelisk War, my favorite thing to do against "Envy", was to try and steal his Prismatic Mirror, which reflects 81%-100% of EVERY element (obviously not Physical though) and is multiuse. You'll STILL take damage, but not as much. lol The Prismatic Mirror will most likely NEVER be available to us to own, but we can have some fun with it if we can steal one. Right now, the robe is super cheap, under 100k, so I'm assuming that means that stealing has NOT been fixed in the BD yet. But who knows what will work and what won't by the time the plot rolls around? IF you have some spare NP after you've got your battle set set, then you might consider picking up a Heavy Robe of Thievery, for fun. I use Faerie Quest Fortune Cookies to help my training, and you will get some air faerie quests among the quests you get. Doing them is the MAIN reason my peophin's movement stat is as high as it is (1412). You might get a movement stat boost (1-point) from doing Kitchen Quests too. Since a lot of the time, the prize is not a great item or under 1k of NP. I recommend only doing Kitchen Quests worth about 5k in total. So you don't lose too much NP if you don't get any stat points. Well, this got super long. Sorry about that. ^^; Good luck!

I'm not familiar with M4A format audio files. But a free program I use for converting audio and sometimes video files called Format Factory says it can convert M4A files to other various formats. Just follow this link and click on Format Factory. Freetime software When you download and open it, just click the Audio Tab on the left side of the screen, and click on the format you want to convert to. A pop-up will, pop-up. Click on Output Setting to check or change the quality. You can also change the Sample rate, Bitrate, audio channel, volume control, etc. Just click on the settings under the Value Column. When you're done. Click OK. When you're ready, click Add-Files and select the audio files you want to convert. You can check/change the Output folder in the lower left corner of this window, or in the main program. Anyway, click OK after you've added the files you wish to convert. Back in the main program window. If everything looks in order, you can Just click the Green Play-button at the top of the program to start the conversion. When the files are done, check the Output folder and you see how the conversion worked. You can try 1 audio file at first to test it, see if it will give you better results. Hopefully, it will. I'm using a slightly out of date version, but even if the layout has changed a little on the latest version, the instructions I gave should get you started at the very least. I hope this helps!!

Hey @Secre, that's cool! I hadn't heard about that yet! Then again, I often forget to check the news! lol Could you provide a link to where they talked about it? I'd love to learn more! On Abilities. They MAY be doing a battle plot, because they MIGHT be about ready to try some fixes on the battledome. MIGHT. It's a TOTAL guess on my part. So the opponents we face MIGHT have a Shhhhhh! ability that works. We won't know until we face them though! As for your set and pet. I would recommend constant training going forward. Between Codestone training, Kitchen Quests (only try the cheapish ones of maybe 5k or less), and Faerie Quest Cookie quests, you should be able to really increase your stats quickly! For your set. It's looking pretty good. Since we don't know what weapons the enemies in any battle plot will have. It's good to have something that will help you against EACH of the elements. Dual-Duties are nice of course. Reflectors, I recommend having some on stand-by, especially if you can't afford a shield that would cover one or more of the elements. However, right now, it's almost 2am for me, midnight NST. I've been busy IRL, but I can try to give you a better break-down for equipment you might consider tomorrow, or Sunday at the latest. I'll have a bit of work to do in looking up new and old weapons for set possibilities, and looking for price. If you've got a maximum amount of NP you'd be willing to spend on new equipment, please let me know and I'll factor that into my budgeting as I'm researching gear. There are a couple different healers besides the Bag of Healing Sand. Not as high as 50% unless there's a species healer available to your pet. Mysterious Red Potion CAN heal 25% when your pet is under 25% health, or Parachuting First Aid Kit heals 33.3% of your health once per battle. I'd look into those two as alternate healers if you don't want to go for a Bag of Healing Dust. I'll look at more items for you later. If you have any questions on anything I've written here, feel free to ask and I'll answer when I reply next. Until then, G'night. Good luck with your training! EDIT: To continue on with the equipment check. Without a budget, I'll be limited in what I can recommend. I'll try for the best and some items based on effectiveness, not price. Do you happen to have a Blazing Embers or Sword of Malum? Both are no-trade, so if you don't you don't. Same stats, different icons. Otherwise, your Void Blades SHOULD take you pretty far for pure Offense. Freezers, good luck getting that H4000 Helmet! Hope ya get it! That'll be leaps and bounds above your Snowglobe staff! Healers, I already covered a couple good alternatives above if you don't want to splurge on a Bag of Healing Dust. Ghostkerbomb, you mentioned having, right? Definitely bring it along! Downsize! is GOOD! And your plan on maybe picking up some Thick Smoke Bombs is a pretty good idea. I would suggest perhaps not using them though unless you really need to. Either to progress in the plot, or if there is a collective boss battle. Where we ALL chip away at a boss with massive HP to bring it down in losing battle after losing battle. Shields/blockers and a Reflector Alternative. LIGHT: You might consider a Parasol of Unfortunate Demise if you want to spend your NP on something OTHER than Hubrid Nox Memorial Shield. The parasol is a MUCH cheaper full light blocker, and it only blocks a small amount of earth and water, no air or physical like Nox's shield does. So the parasol is just a budgetary recommendation. Nox's shield is excellent from everything I've seen and read about it. My set is intermediate-level, at best. The only HT item I have in it is the Ghostkerbomb. Light Reflect Alternatives: Combo Battle Mirror (75% reflect-Multiuse) Or, Expert Lens (50% reflect-Multiuse). EARTH: If you like HT items, Shield of Pion Troect blocks all earth and a couple light icons, also deals just under 3 full dark icons. Pirate Captains Hat might be something. it blocks 100% of BOTH Earth and Light, as well as 5 icons of Fire. BUT! It is semi-fragile, meaning it CAN break for the duration of the battle. But it'll be back when you start a new battle. Earth Reflect Alternatives: Ultra Dual Shovel (75% reflect-Multiuse) Or, Pretty Negg Shield (Defends 60% earth and 20% Light) also (20% Earth reflect, 20% Light reflect-Multiuse). FIRE: Frozen Cyodrake Shield seems to be a good 100% fire blocker. Not a LOT of pure Fire blockers I can find. Slipper Floor Potion (blocks 100% fire 100% water- Single Use) Fire Reflect Alternatives: Clawed Shield defends 3-dark icons, (61%-80% reflect-Multiuse). Or Flame Reflectozap (75% reflect-multiuse). Water Whip (10 icon attack,. reflects 50% of fire as air). WATER: Faerie Tabard Blocks 100% water, 5 fire and some icons that Nox's shield blocks as well, though not as many. Leaf Shield, the green one from Illusen's quest blocks 5 icons of water, not great, but it's something AND pretty cheap. Enchanted Kiko Squeeze Toy blocks 100% water, but that's ALL it does/blocks. It's gonna be a little pricey since it's retired. Water Reflect Alternatives: MEGA U-Bend, (75% Reflect-Multiuse). U-Bend of GREAT Justice, if you can find one, reflects 81%-100% of water. DARK: Ghostkershield, but it's a little out of date. Hanso Charisma Charm is a great Dual Duty. Attacks with 5 icons each of earth and light, while blocking 100% Darkness. Dark Reflect Alternatives: Ultimate Dark Reflectorb (75% Multiuse), Amulet of Reflection (25%Fire 75%Dark, Single Use) AIR: Shield of Faerieland Blocks 100% Air, 5 fire and 5 physical. Hubrid Nox Memorial Shield blocks 5 air. Air Reflect Alternatives: Triple Turbo Dryer (75% Multiuse) PHYSICAL: Altadorian Swordbreaker (5 earth attack, blocks 100% Physical), Yooyuball Keepers Chest Guard (blocks 100% physical and a couple icons of water, earth and dark), Yooyuball Player Sling attacks with 6 icons and blocks all physical. Go with the Sowrdbreaker. Physical Reflect Alternatives: None, can't reflect physical. There ya go @Secre. Hopefully this will help you finish off your set. Keep your best equipment on-hand, and save a couple slots to swap out gear depending on the new opponents. Especially useful for single-use items or the more fragile 50% reflectors, which I mostly didn't mention as they are pretty darn cheap and can permanently break pretty easily too. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Good luck!

I'm with you, Duma. I like smaller cities. After the last census, the city I live in's population rose to a little over 6200. We didn't even hit 6000+ until the 2010 census. lol I don't like metro cities. Or even cities with populations of 50,000+. Just, too big, confusing, busy, and CROWDED. There are countries I wouldn't want to move to, just like there are cities I wouldn't want to move to, conversely, there are cities and countries it might be nice to move to. But as far as countries go, I'm terrible at learning languages, so that's probably out. ^^;

Instead of just regular guards, they seem more like based on Valkyries instead of royalty. So, elite guards, but still guards, I agree.

It ALL sounds like good ideas you've got in-mind! Do it all! Happy early birthday!

Pink, one of the best flavors for cotton candy! lol Ah tired, yeah. That's what I'm feeling too. A little closer to not hopeless, but let's say, less hopeful, about the future the older I get, the longer things feel stagnant. Unfortunately, bad things happen, and there's not always things we can do about them. No matter HOW much we WISH we could. You know, whomever said you "get used to rudeness", doesn't "get" it. No disrespect to them, but a good and kind person who tries not to be rude, will never "get used" to someone being rude to them. It's just a cliche that people who don't care about rude behavior use to try and help those who are impacted by it. That's MY opinion on it. I could be wrong, it's been known to happen before. I almost ALWAYS think of others first. Not in a door-mat way, just a thoughtful one. I remember once when I was a little kid, probably not even 10. I had been taught to open and hold the door for others. And this one lady starts pitching an angry fit just because I happen to be a boy and she didn't need any male holding the door for her. This was a bloody ADULT! I could go closer to home, but I think I'd hit the post-character limit if I started listing off examples of abject rudeness from my sister. The thing is, if I'M rude or short with someone, it bothers me. Not just for a little while either. So, I tend to be diplomatic at worst, and polite at best. Get me really angry, and I'll still "hold back" on the language. There are a few words/phrases I try hard to NEVER utter. Whether I find them that vulgar or simply that disrespectful in general. So, do what will keep you feeling comfortable and TRUE to YOURSELF. As my mom would say, "Tend your own fire(s) first." I tend to neglect mine a little, in lieu of helping others, but that's a choice and sometimes there are consequences to it. But that's the kind of person I am. So yeah. find what works for you, and go with that. Be flexible, but not too flexible. Wouldn't want to be pushed into bending over backwards for someone you don't want to really go that far for. but find your range of reactions and what you're willing to accept for YOUR self-health, and work as much within that as you can. Hopefully that will help lessen the impact of rudeness and negative things on you. You can't control other people. Their rudeness is on them even if they don't consider it rude. It's OK to get mad or simmer for awhile, or even when you think of what they said or did. But, DON'T let those actions, words, or emotions control you and KEEP you down. Hopefully that will make some sense to you. That's stuff from my own experience of trying to figure out what works for me. I hope at least some of it helps.

Yeah, the hat is "off". lol The boots.... um.... well, maybe they're MEANT to spur a peophin on while swimming? I dunno, that spur seems conspicuously placed.

So, apparently I joined TDNF on May 22, 2012.... Which means I missed my 10 year anniversary just a little before my 41st birthday. LMAO Yep, I'm practically a fossil now, compared to many users. XD So, I've been playing Neopets since November 20, 2003. Man, the first guild I actually joined, OPON, aka, Older People On Neopets. It was probably about 16 years ago now. Back then in my 20s, I was one of the youngest members. It started as a group on the neoboards, solving the Mystery Pic and Lenny Conundrum, and eventually became a guild. Mainly because people were leaching off of the work people involved with the thread were doing trying to solve those two parts of the site. It took maybe a month or so before I was officially invited to join them. Had a few blow-outs, but that happens. At one point, during one of several of my hiatuses from the site in general. Some kind of major schism had happened and the guild literally split into two. Recently, well, within the last 6 years or so. We got back together, not that there are many of us left active from either guild. There are only a couple of us active, and I'm probably the most active right now. But in the last 10 years... I've learned a bit. I remember my application to join TDN Staff. Did my best and got in on my first try. I miss Crimson, Lamppost, and some of the other TDN Staffers who aren't staffers anymore. I still have my battle application "essay question" saved. lol You never know when it might be useful in practical applications, but it actually hasn't been. I saved it because I felt I did a good job answering the points I needed to in it. XD I'd been coming up with budget-battling sets since LONG before my application here. Not just for myself, but for guildmates, friends and random people on the neoboards. Or on the old IDB Battlepedia site. (That apparently merged with Neoitems). That used to be a stand-alone site and I wanted to join them, before whatever cataclysm happened that trashed their server. There are still math things in the battledome I'm not 10,000% clear on, and TNT likes to throw strange monkey-wrenches at us with some of their new weaponry. But I'm a lot better with determining what an item does in battle than I was when I first signed up here. Crimson, Lamppost, and pretty much everybody on-staff were good teachers. Whether how to determine stats in battle, or how to create entries for new items, etc. As for how I've changed? I'd say, that in recent years, I'm getting a little more cynical. MIGHT be my old age. lol Kidding. Probably hold-over stress from the pandemic though. I'm still living in the same place since the year after my dad passed away. No dog, struggling with art and still a bit in life. But also still trying to keep a positive attitude about things. Helping my friends and people where I can when i see 'em down. My niece just graduated high school this past June 1st. In fact, her graduation party is this-coming Saturday. I couldn't be prouder of her for making it through the hell that is public school. Same school district I graduated from 22 years ago. lol So I know how it can be. My nephew just saved up enough chore money to buy himself some (He)X-box console. Not sure which one, but it came with some games. Not sure if he got it used or what. But, he's only 12. So, the fact he was able to do enough extra chores (doesn't get paid for his regular chores), and save that money up to buy something BIG he wanted? You bet I'm proud of him there, even if I'm (obviously) not a fan of that line of consoles. He'll be 13 in September. I've made some good friends, lost a couple for whatever reason. I don't tend to be the one who decides to part ways. it's frustrating when they do and don't tell me why. Had a couple crushes, none panned out, but oh well. It's been, Life. Not ideal by ANY stretch of the imagination, but, Life seldom is for most people. I'll just keep going and see what Life has in store for me. Hopefully a brighter patch for a span. That would be a nice change of pace. It's good to see we still have some long-time members still here. Duma, and Namaah and Duskitty of course! Since you guys started/commented on this thread! XD Of course, long-time members, ya gotta think the staff who've been here MUCH longer than Duma or me. Like Hrtbrk, Mouseykins, and Ian for example! They probably have done more work than most of the other staffers combined over the many years TDN has been around! Dunno who all has been here the longest. But without them, TDN wouldn't exist! Gotta go to bed, later everyone.

I'm leaning toward the Seekers as well. They're 2nd, but only by a little bit in Oxbridge's prediction. The draw of boons like Bank Bribery and some other popular boons might help give them the advantage as far as who joins which faction. But I'm gonna join up tomorrow. EDIT: Decided to join The Seekers. Good luck everyone!

Who will you join this round? Remember you need to win 10 battles to qualify for boons or consolation prizes! EDIT: Oxbridge786 has finally updated their petpage. Obelisk Team Last Win Win % Prediction Brute Squad 2 rounds ago 26% 29% Order of the Red Erisim 3 rounds ago 39% 38% Seekers 4 rounds ago 31% 33%