🦊🐙 hello my good foxto friends!!! this is the first ever foxtopus monthly newsletter! these will usually be released on the 25th of every month, to announce the next month’s happenings.

🎉 happy holidays! 🎉 

from today (december 25th) to january 25th, we will be hosting a holiday prompt for our special holiday currency, frosted cuttlewish!! with this currency you will be able to buy event exclusive items from the event shop!

the big theme of this event is “giving,” meaning you make more CW when you make art for other people!

here’s the simplified rules, though we suggest taking a look at the prompt for more information! (remember to click “show details” at the prompt!)

• draw a foxtopus doing something you’d associate with winter! drinking hot cocoa, setting up decorations, celebrating their winter holidays, playing in the snow, etc. etc.
• if the foxtopus in the work is not your own, you will receive a DOUBLED bonus! that’s right… DOUBLED…
• see more information directly on the prompt!

FEATURED ITEMS IN THE EVENT SHOP

seasonal apparition perfumes are now available!

what is an apparition? it’s basically an almost constant hologram-like visual that follows your foxtopus around wherever it goes! it can also be used to create illusions and decorations on the body. of course, a foxtopus can will it away whenever it wants!

foxtopi can have up to 3 active apparitions at once!

this season brings 3 seasonal apparitions, only available for this event! they can be bought at the boutique!

• O’ HOLY NIGHT: gives your foxtopus christmas imagery such as bells, boughs, holly, gingerbread men as well as golden sparkles!
• WINTER WONDERLAND: imagery that makes it appear as though it’s always snowing around your foxtopus!
• HANABI: a special visual that lets your foxtopus appear to have fireworks following it everywhere!

TUAN has graced us with some huli jing exclusive items for this season! we will be selling 2 huli jing myos, as well as 5 of a new drink called “coffin macchiato” to transform an existing foxtopus into a huli jing!

sato has also pitched in with some of our winter event shop items! we will be selling these redesign/add-on items!! :

• a regular snowcone (may give a foxtopus snow traits)
• a regular gift box (may give a foxtopus gift-traits)
• a regular poptoplushie (may give a foxtopus plush-traits)
• a regular ball of glass (may give a foxtopus glass/clear traits)

these traits will be available for this event!

HOLIDAY GACHA

on december 30th, we will be hosting our first ever gacha! and it’ll go until we run out of characters!

the gacha rolls will be $20 for the first roll. to reroll is an additional $5, and you may only reroll twice!

this gacha is 1 character per user, and if you choose to AB, you cannot roll after.

there will be a 24 hour grace period where you cannot AB on designs, to give a chance to gacha rollers!

characters won in this gacha will have a 1 month trade/sale cooldown, though swaps between fellow gacha rollers will be allowed for 2 weeks after.

gifting (to a user who can’t roll for the gacha) has no cooldown, of course! tis the season of giving :D

MYO SALES

on january 1st we will be hosting our first MYO sale event!

the USD sales will last an hour each, and will have an unlimited number of blue and green poptopus slots, with 2 slots each for king poptopus, as well as an additional SINGLE slot for a huli jing.

there will be two sales, one at 4pm PDT (https://timee.io/20220101T2300) AND one at 4pm UTC (https://timee.io/20220101T1600). we will make an announcement 30 minutes before the events start.

the USD prices for the MYO slots are as follows:

• blue : $10 / 700 CW
• green: $20 / 1800 CW
• king: $40 / 3500 CW
• huli jing: $70

we will be also holding a limited CW sale throughout the month until the slots run out!

• 5 blue poptopus/uncommon / 700 CW
• 3 green poptopus/super-rare / 1800 CW
• 1 king poptopus/legendary / 3500 CW

EDIT 1/01: the information above about the limited cw sale is now inaccurate! the cw sale will take place in a timed google form, and will have unlimited slots!

all slots are ONE PER USER and have a 2 week trade/sell cooldown.

❗ from this sale onwards, we will be applying a MYO slot limit to prevent hoarding. each user is only allowed to have 5 UNUSED slots at once. to keep track of this, all character transfers done through the site will now have to be approved by an admin.

UPDATE LOG

1. fixed art appraisal calculations

• doodle pages (aka 5+ characters on one page with little to no interactions) will now have a different system to prevent hoarding of cuttlewish
• character multiplier has been reduced from x2 to +100 per character
• past submissions that fall under the doodle page category have been appraised with the new system, and cuttlewishes in people's inventories have been reduced- this is to make the system fairer to everyone

2. USD SHOP (aka sato's sneaky stockroom)

we now have an onsite shop that lets you buy with real life currency! at the moment it has all of our currently available regular trait items as well as a bundle of our winter event items!

3. january GUEST ARTISTS and guest artist system update

due to the amount of site artists (formerly permanent guest artists) we have, we've modified our guest artist system.

• 2 guest artists will be chosen  per month to participate in an adopt batch with 6 random site artists
• these 2 guest artists will also be allowed to auction off 1 special adopt each

we've already dmed our picks from the january applications and informed them of this beforehand! we will open february guest artist applications in the 2nd week of january, and we will select 2 from there as well!

🎉 january's guest artists are sevenji and fishball, congratulations! 🎉

4. traits added:

• event traits
  • no tails
  • snow body
  • chomper tails
  • elemental body
  • glass/clear tails
  • gift wrapped
  • long body
  • serpentine body
  • plush body
  • plush tail
  • plush ears
• crossbreed traits
  • tail eye spots (vidi)
  • half bone tails (yumipop)
  • clouds/miasma (yumenari)
  • cup tail (chicup)
• regular traits
  • furry tail (rare)

SPECIAL THANKS
to joey, cham, daki, and frey for the newsletter assets!