Ember

I got a Queen Quest last year, but I had to abstain. She wanted a rare Bruce stamp of some sort, and I was like "this is so not worth 50,000NP" (it might have even been 500,000NP). My pet was still under level 30, so it definitely wouldn't have been worth it.
I do get what you mean though; due to doing all the faerie quests without paying enough attention, I pushed my pet level into the next Pirate Training school cutoff mark without having the other attributes trained up enough yet.
Movement/Agility only matters for certain Battledome weapons.

So, I saw when I logged, for about the first time in a month, that there was a feature for a faerie quest, and I got approached by the queen, for a very cheap item. I got it, and she bumped my favorite, most battled pet, up 2 levels, which I started panicking, cause I have to reread what you do when your pet is too high level for the ordinary well-known schools, and he has 70 HP now... Eep. I'm not sure I want to do this again. Slow and steady wins the race? Lol. 
I wish I would've read what she was going to do to him beforehand. I'm not sure I like this, it seems like a way to get people more into the game, which of course, is wonderful, but I just don't know how I feel about this. Don't you need a crap load of Red Codestones. Ooh, I just read, sorry, false alarm? If it's a false alarm, why am I paranoid. Welp, this turned out great this time, but I'm not I want to gift the Faerie Queen anymore, though, truly honored to serve the Fae of Neopia!
Woot.

I totally understand not wanting to make her look hideous, but at the very least, you'd think she'd look homely. She looks like she merely has bad fashion taste. Heck, take off the patches and darken her dress, and you've got a cute young(looking?) woman in a little black dress, which is definitely considered attractive.
I did look at some old art, but even then, it's not the faerie herself that's ugly. It's still a matter of clothes. Take a look:

She doesn't look as good in this picture, but she's still pretty. It's the rain, dress, and ruined make-up that makes her look bad. She still hasn't "lost her beauty". In this picture, she comes off more as a depressed person who hasn't taken care of herself for a while (which, in real life, is a symptom of depression; go figure).
I agree about the idea of having low self-esteem. That idea reminds me of a friend of mine who recently told me she doesn't like her body because her belly isn't flat. She has a tiny figure and is - excuse me - freaking gorgeous! I was so shocked when she said she dislikes her body.
You are your own worst critic and all that.

I really hope some day they reveal the Dung Faerie.   I'm honestly not sure if I'd prefer another slim and pretty faerie like all the others, or something utterly different.

Yeah I don't understand why beauty even comes into it, it should be nothing but powers. It's odd that they dress her in a patched dress now too. Like @Rayd1978 says it's all showing her as having terrible self-esteem now; powers stripped and now feel so worthless you dress in a tatty old rag?
I don't think they needed to do any more to her than clip her wings. That was a seriously cruel thing to do, wasn't it! Though imaginative, and necessary in a way because how else can you visually respresent a faerie's loss of power? That and the grey colour works well (I wonder what she looked like before?) but the temperament change went a step too far. It's great that she's nice, the other faeries having, well...
Think what they were like to Kaia during the plot, like white privilege princesses basically, but I think that's not so far off how some of them always have been, the snark you get from the fire and dark faeries when you do a quest for them...
Hmm, thinking about it, the grey faerie isn't as bad as she could be in this art, considering how woeful any/every other grey thing it.

I think the best way to get neopoints is just to keep at it.   There's no certain way to get a bunch short term.  Get yourself a routine, games or dailies or whatever work for you, and do them each day, every day, no exceptions.   And a month or two down the road, you'll have a pile of neopoints.

Mine is really just Ghoul Catchers, Trudy, and Food Club. Stocks for long game. My SDB is full of crap I should sell, but I'm too lazy. Plus my battledome drops have been crap the past week. I think I got 2 red codestones, 2 neggs, and a bunch of rubbish fodder over the last 7 days. Oh, well. It be like that sometimes. I've never attempted restocking, and I doubt I ever will. Sounds just awful to me.

Really?! I get so frustrated by that quiggle's evil giggle that I can only play a few times before giving up...but, I guess that's what the mute button is for haha

My trick is obsessively hoarding items, realizing you don't actually need 30 of them, and finding that the price has inflated in the meantime. 

For some reason I have very consistently good luck at Coconut Shy? Probably the only reason I have any neopoints is from selling what I win from that game. That, and the whole Trudy thing.

Yes, it's called Healing Springs every 30min until you are cured. Free.

Nice to meet you too! :D I liked some of the Wumpscut I've listened to but I haven't heard much. I also loooove Ministry, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (they aren't as poisonous as their name suggests--kinda have a disco-industrial sound), KMFDM and PIG are great too. All kinda 90s groups though; I feel as though industrial is a dying breed. :( But there's hope! I found Primitive Race on Facebook which seems to be a sort of up-and-coming industrial supergroup. I think they've only put out sample music on soundcloud for now but I haven't checked lately as I'm not a fan of Facebook. Let me know what you think when you listen to these musicians. If you're interested, I can write you a track list of my favorite songs.

Nailz are my FAVORITE! I'll be seeing them in concert for the 6th time this summer. [not bad for being young, eh?] I've seen SP only once but I met the band and got my ticket autographed! They were super nice. :D

Let's see...2002 makes me...sixteen when I started playing (to my knowledge). And I'm twenty-eight now. ^_^
 
I like Skeiths, too, because they eat junk. :D Grarrls do, but they're a little creepier than the pudgy, slightly cross Skeith. (Skeiths are kind of the Grumpy Cat of Neopets, aren't they? *laughs*)
 
It's funny...I never had the desire for a draik egg until I started the draiks vs. krawks discussion on here...and then I got one and wouldn't get rid of him for the world! O.o
 
 
Welcome, welcome...I look forward to talking to you!

Welcome to TDN! We share a very similar story! I started playing when I was 12 and am now 23 too, I love industrial [Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy, etc.] and I'm striving to own a Draik someday too. :D

"Don't let the shore be forgotten!" The strange Krawk then hands you a Forgotten Shore Map Piece. Wonder what the real name of this shore is? Who lived there before and named it and why arent they here now? Things to think about LOL
 
 
You have completed a quest for a Fire Faerie. (She asked for a Pumpkin Lid Hat) Thanks so much! With your help, we'll have Faerieland fixed up in no time!
  For your efforts, Alafair's strength has increased!   A ghost cackles insanely and steals 302 NP from you...   While out for a stroll, Alafair looks down and finds 4,741 NP on the ground. Today looks like a lucky day!   "Here, have Gruel," King Skarl says to you. You're surprised there was any food left over from his latest banquet, and even more surprised that he'd share, but you put it in your pocket anyway.   A passing zombie runs into you and doesn't even seem to notice. Once she's gone you realise she dropped a piece of a long lost treasure map!   While out for a stroll, Alafair looks down and finds 4,578 NP on the ground. Today looks like a lucky day!

Got a map piece from a captain today :)

Kokariia pulls out a ticket... and...
 
You Won 20,000 Neopoints!!!!!!

Lower your screen resolution to something like 1280x960 or until it works (1024x768 is the safest).

I knew I shouldn't have cleaned out my SDB two weeks ago. *sniffle*
 
Worst of all, I couldn't get the last of the lights puzzles because I had to go to the dentist today (had to get up early) and it wasn't working when it switched to the last puzzle. I guess that does me for the avatar... again. Why does NeoPets require everyone to be able to go onto their site multiple times a day for these things? People have real lives outside of NeoPets. *sad sigh* I missed the avatar for the Spooky Food because I missed one of the early food eating days. One day and I lose half the stuff. *wahhh* :sad02:
 
I hope that it's a good event despite this. I'm looking forward to something exciting. Maybe a new area? A new daily would be awesome. :laughingsmiley:

Seriously. . .It was such a good idea. I was so interested in where this was going. . . then they added the find the items bit. Having to buy an item that was previously 2np for 70k? No way. Thanks. . .

Maybe someone could create a thread here where people cold post the items that they need and anyone online in TDNF who has it in their SDB or is willing to spend the NP for the requested item can gift it to them. That way we would all help each other and also save on NP.

dunno if that would be funny to anyone else but I found it amusing... Haha XD

dunno if that would be funny to anyone else but I found it amusing... Haha XD

dunno if that would be funny to anyone else but I found it amusing... Haha XD