Hiatus status update. Updates will continue to be spotty, please bear with me! If I don't post a monthly bulletin during the month, please assume there will be one in the next month instead. Hopefully the group can return to a monthly schedule this autumn, but no promises.

Shop MYO stocking. Something I can promise however, is that the shop will stock MYOs the next season! There might even be special limitless MYOs that let you use as many limited traits as you like...

Group as a whole. I'm slowly working on group updates! Haven't had much time as of late... Masterlist is still in need of updating and the pet encyclopedia is still being worked on. Updates will continue to be slow as my life is still hectic.

Apologies for the abrupt hiatus... I am genuinely sorry to the group as a whole for promising to deliver a lot on the part of the ARPG last year and for my radio silence. I've been dealing with a lot on my plate over the last few months between university, health, and living situation which has pushed a lot of things back creative-wise. I'm likely to continue to be busy for the next year. However, I will be doing my best to keep up with monthly bulletins. I made a lot of promises last year as to the expected timeline for the ARPG and I'm sorry that I wasn't able to keep to those estimates, and I apologize as well for being unable to be timely with rewarding people who participated in the summer event. Going forward, I want to be more transparent with you all as to the state of things.

Seasonal mechanic! This is additional to the monthly prompts. Every three months starting from March, the season will change. Completing all three monthly prompts for the season will award that season's pet. Furthermore, all pets have a seasonal aspect - drawing or writing about pets that match the season will award bonus Obols, if you own the pet. This system begins this month, debuting Spring 2024's pet, the Trepiko!

ARPG updates. Most of the groundwork in terms of structure and content is there! Most of what remains is to finishing coding up the pages and contemplating a system to distribute rewards faster and easier. This may mean a new moderator position for logging things. There's a possibility of moving to Lorekeeper in the future - I understand all the moving around is hectic, however.

Masterlist issue. Most of the images on the masterlist site at the moment are broken, as they were previously hosted on Discord. I'm working on fixing this, though it may take a while. Furthermore, Discord image links will no longer be accepted for submissions of any kind.

Speaking of the Twelfth Seat event. Candidate A has been voted into the Council! Looking forward, we'll be exploring concepts of Rhea's past... but beyond the door, who can say if that's for the better? Their design is also available for prompts as a community NPC.

Candidate A - Oriachl

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Good morning, Rhea. I am honored to accept the position of Twelfth Seat. My name is Oriachl, but please call me Ori.

Being the Twelfth Seat... I do not plan to sit back and be complacent. If you allow me, I wish to work alongside you all. Support your visions on the Council and speak with you in the city proper. I am truly excited to see what you have in store.

Good night, Rhea. I will see you in the new dawn.

Event rewards. Congratulations to greypij for winning the design of Candidate B and xXStarryPuffyDreamXx for winning the MYO slot! Furthermore, all Obols and pets have been awarded to participants.

Next on the drawing board. In the immediate future, I have two things I plan to work on when I can. A page to display all the different pets, since many of them come with lore, as well as a "tutorial" to the ARPG storyline. I can't promise any exact dates on these, but the pets page will definitely come first.

THE MASTERLIST HAS BEEN MOVED. We're now operating using Charadex! Here's the masterlist site! The Trello was started before I had ownership of the group, and recent developments have made me realize it's rather clunky for masterlist purposes. The new Neocities site is where all transfer updates and new designs will be posted from now on. The Trello will stay up, but won't be updated anymore. The site should let masterlisting be faster and also allows for tracking of design values.

Pet system releases! This month's event marks the release of the ARPG's pet system! Pets are little collectibles you can gain through doing story-related prompts, with future plans for an Obol gacha as well as being able to sell/trade pets. In the future, pets will have bonuses for prompts... so keep an eye on the seasons! In this event, you'll be able to get three different pets. Furthermore, pets have a rarity system that dictates their forms, with 3 forms per pet at different rarities. (Rarities drop at 10% rare, 30% uncommon, 60% common.) Be on the lookout for a little scavenger hunt this month!

Guild lore has been added! Have a look! The world lore currently gives an overview on what the guilds are and who organizes them, further guild lore will come when the ARPG is fully set up. You'll be able to have your Deeretts join one of the guilds in the future...

Organization tentatively finished. I've neatened up the forums and added a channel in the Discord for transfers. All the forums now have nested comments... You'll still need the other person to confirm a trade, however! Also, the Trade Hub has a form for username changes. The Group Rules have also been updated to reflect this. Feel free to let me know if I've missed anything!

Re-organization still going. I know I said I'd finish it last month, but that's stretching in this month as well. I found myself swamped in a ton of things alongside travelling, so re-organization is just stretching on. Feel free to use the various channels/forums for things that don't have forms at the moment.

Raffle winners! Congratulations to our raffle winners! I'll be DMing slot codes. Feel free to reach out if you haven't received a DM after 24 hours of this bulletin being posted.

Unlimited slot winner: Yuna639
Regular slot winners: Liicht Kleine CrayonCastels Kavaplant Pineapplesio_ ashyday676 Snoh Yeah_its_art Keita_Kresses aishinewe
Newcomer slot winners: ShiratoriEsu Tianoi cei Oxytail 10V3FAIRV
Raffle design winners: Kanks TheAkiraBlue mawile94

Pets coming soon. Going to be working on the pets system! Hoping to release this by August or September. It's planned to be a sort of gacha-collection type system with ARPG bonuses for drawing/writing.

June downtime! As mentioned in last month's bulletin, not much will be happening this month. Last month's prompt is running until the end of June, so go check it out!

Update on re-organization. I got absolutely swamped in university work, so I didn't get as much done as I'd like. I'll be working on that throughout June as well.

Raffles galore in store. To make up for the quiet month, the group will hosting a month-long MYO slot raffle! As well as a few design raffles to come. Check the links below for more information about them. There will be a bonus MYO slot raffle happening on the Discord server as well!

Letting everyone know more lore has been added! Feel free to take a look! I've added some of the information that's been floating around the server, as well as the Seven Titans. That's a surprise hint that'll help you later...

More group organization is in store. This won't affect anything big. I realize there are some forms missing from various forums and channels, so I'll be going through all of those to fix that. Some forms might be reworked as well.

June will be a quiet month. This month's prompt will run through until the end of June! The group won't be taking a break - there are some free raffles and maybe some flatsales to come - but no new prompt for June.

Rules have been updated. The group TOS is about the same! More clarification has been added to certain rules and a new section about ARPG rules has been added. These may be subject to more revisions or clarification in the future.

Lore drop coming soon! You can see what's in store by looking over at the World Lore page. I cannot say for sure when this lore will be uploaded, but it will definitely happen within the month! The lore will mostly be about Deerett society.

A roleplay section has been added to the Discord. If you participated in and enjoyed the recent speed-dating event, make sure to join the server for more fun interactions with others! Please make sure to read the server and section rules before participating.

ARPG work is still continuing. The hope is for the ARPG to be up and running sometime in the summer or fall of 2023. The modteam is planning plenty of interactive events and I myself am working hard on lore and story for the group! Thank you for your patience so far and I hope you'll enjoy the ARPG when its finally up.

Shop is now open! Visit the shop to grab some items for previously-off limits traits. Further explanation will go up about those extra traits soon! MYO slots will be restocked every now and then. The shop is run by a Deerett by the name of Tor, who sports a fancy little dialogue box. His dialogue might change from time to time depending on events! And... you might see Tor around in roleplay events.

Guest artist batch on March 26th at 1:00 PM Pacific Time. It will be flat sale, FCFS. The theme for the batch is "Western Zodiac", totalling twelve designs and twelve guest artists! Everyone who signed up is super talented and I had a hard time narrowing down who to pick.
The GAs for March are: Maberan, grimling, waffwle, Kavaplant, CellophaneCrowns, karj, MercailleCream, RhemeChan, Wintaa, sisyo, Hype206, and AriaHideaki!

There's a DTE raffle for March. Rainfluffy has a DTE raffle happening [ here ]! It's open now and will run until March 31st.