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May is in bloom! This month’s OotS is Cactus Herder, along with their Cowboy Vest and Cactus Collection! This month’s coat was made by Plasma and items were created by Meru. You may purchase this set in the Out of the Shadows shop through the end of the month!  Creative Collective As April’s Creative Collective winds down, we are introducing our overhaul of the Creative Collective activity! While our monthly prompt-based challenges have remained the same, we’ve reorganized and condensed the thread(s), as well as altered our prize schematic to place more emphasis on earning rewards rather than luck of the draw. With this update, in particular, comes the preliminary introduction of Mycena Cave’s achievement system: the Sticker Book! While this feature is still in its incomplete, early stages and currently only applies to the Creative Collective, it will eventually grow into a site-wide system that will allow you to proudly display your achievements for all to see. Stickers can also earn a player rewards—for the Creative Collective stickers, every three stickers collected results in the player earning a Bag of Wonders.
Additionally, a new item has been added to the Bag of Wonders. This Drifty Book of Beasts looks rather dangerous, so be careful when opening it or you may lose a finger or two! This toothy tome was created by Myla!   Mew Items Following the sudden and inexplicable closure of Meowcena Cafe, its employees were left jobless and without a paycheck. It was a rough couple of weeks for each and every Purrista, Meownager, and Pawtissier as they struggled to find their place in the Cave. Finally, they have decided that their best bet would be to ally themselves with the Cave’s larger denizens. Hopper has agreed to hook them up, and in exchange for a nominal fee (all of which, of course, goes straight into the Meowcenians’ furry little pawkets), Mycenians may now enjoy the company of these special kitties!
Spring Event Wrap-Up Thanks to all of your hard work, Professor Sprocket has completed his weather machine! Unfortunately, also thanks to your hard work, Aliza has realized that rather than an evil genius bent on Cave domination, he’s more of a quasi-neutral gloryhound, and has taken it upon herself to “reform” him—or at least ensure he doesn’t really embrace the evil genius thing.
We’ve also put a new equippable item, Joquil Cavern Background, for purchase in Lands Within to commemorate those fond times helping Professor Sprocket complete his “evil” plans.  We’ll be doing the feedback raffle today or tomorrow, and the feedback summary will be released this week! Adventure System Updates We are over halfway finished with reading, compiling, and summarizing the feedback! We aim to have the full feedback summary posted in May as well as a good idea about the changes we’ll be making and roughly how long we expect to take before the full launch. 
Posted 05/01/19, edited 05/01/19
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The new Creative Collective looks neat! I tend to participate mostly for the gems but I like that the changes make getting a Bag of Wonders a sure deal rather than a relatively slim chance (especially since I don’t want a lot of the items in the bag, so just opening the bag is enough chance as is for me!). It does seem odd to me that you need 3 RP posts to get participation credit now, since that’s theoretically 1.5 hours of work whereas the scribe and canvas only need to be 30 minutes (assuming I’m reading that correctly and it doesn’t mean 30 minutes cumulatively working on all three posts?). I do feel like that’s slightly balanced by having adventure RPs count, though, since you don’t necessarily have to wait for someone else to post.
Posted 05/01/19
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Nyfeaena That said, we’re going to see how things play out - that amount may be adjusted in the future if needed!
Posted 05/01/19
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The updates to the Circles looks really interesting! I’m super happy at the idea of bags being more obtainable - there’s so many cool items in them that I’d love to have! I also love that fodder is now part of the feedback raffle - that feels like such a good motivator (for me personally at least) to go through more submissions and offer feedback on them. I know a lot of people who have event mushrooms they can’t use because they couldn’t ever afford fodder for them all, so this is just.. really cool imo!! Super pleased and pumped to see how the achievement/sticker system grows 8)
Posted 05/01/19
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Crow Thanks for that explanation! I can understand how people could abuse the RP circle more than the others so I can respect that. Essentially getting an extra 10 days a month now for submissions should also help make that more attainable than it might have been in the past — that’s probably the update I’m most excited about haha!
Posted 05/01/19
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Achievooooooooss!
Posted 05/01/19
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New Shop Items!
Enjoy!! :D
Posted 05/14/19, edited 05/14/19
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Myla GASP I’ve long loved those little ghosties!! So happy to see them as an item! Psssst, is the “Desert Sands” supposed to be the “Desert Sands Background”? It’s not labeled the same way as the full BGs. :O
Posted 05/14/19
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YEEESSSS I adore those ghosties!! And the new BG is gorgeous and I need so many??? I have so many characters that would fit the desert aesthetic and aaah. Beautiful color choice and composition from priz @_@
Posted 05/14/19
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AHHHH YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY excellent new items 8D The ghosties are the best!!! psst Myla Can we get fullviews of all the new backgrounds on the misc. images page?
Posted 05/14/19, edited 05/14/19
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Myla I think you missed the Misty Grotto Background and Stained Glass Marigold Background on the misc images page! (unless I’m blind and not seeing it) I’ve been stalking for the Grotto one for awhile >> Thanks for your work keeping that page updated! :)
Posted 05/15/19
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