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Cash Shop: Open Sesame Eyedrops
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Achieve that innocent wide-eyed look with these new eyedrops from the Cash Shop!
08/29/11 7:13 pm 52 Comments Posted by Amber
August 28, 2011
August 27, 2011
Hydrus Xotl




WHY XOTL? WHY? MATLAL SEND THEM AWAY, DO NOT WANT XOTL, BUT HERE IS HYDRUS XOTL. SOMEONE IS LIKE TROLL TO ME! MATLAL SAY THAT RIGHT? SOMEONE IS TROLLER?



PIGS, YOU MAKE MATLAL VERY ANGRY. TAKE XOTL AWAY! DO NOT BRING ANY BACK AGAIN! NO RETURN OR EXCHANGE! FINAL SALE!
08/27/11 7:08 pm 142 Comments Posted by [NPC] Matlal
August 26, 2011
Hydrus Manchu




OH BARON, LOOK! YOUR BROTHER MANCHU! HE IS LIKE MATLAL BROTHER NOW: HE GO TO SERVE SEA WITCH, AND NOW HE LOOK VERY PROUD. MAYBE YOUR BROTHER NICER, THOUGH. HE GROW FINS FOR SWIMMING. MAYBE HE GO TO BOTTOM OF OCEAN AND GET AMY FINGER BONES FOR DINNER? THAT VERY NICE. MATLAL BROTHER NEVER MAKE DINNER.



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OH NO BARON, DON\'T CRY. I LIKE VOODOO APPROVED MANCHU BETTER, BUT MAYBE SOME PIGS LIKE HYDRUS MANCHU?
08/26/11 2:03 pm 80 Comments Posted by [NPC] Matlal
August 25, 2011
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August 23, 2011
Cash Shop: Bento Box
Bento Box


Bento Cherry Tomatoes
Bento Sushi
Bento Tea
Bento Kelpwrap
Bento Sweet Dumplings




Do you find sandwiches boring and bland? Try Subeta's hottest new import, the Bento Box, at the Cash Shop. You'll never know what random deliciousness you'll get! Hopefully you don't get too full, after all, you get two items!
08/23/11 10:59 am 83 Comments Posted by Amber
August 22, 2011
Matlal Jewels Testing




Subeta is proud to announce the beta release of Matlal's Jewels! Prizes and sP scores are currently disabled, but play as much as you want and report any bugs to the Matlal's Jewels Bug Thread.



Just a reminder that beta testing is only available to Gold Account members. A Gold Account grants you access to beta testing, the Autopricer, and tons more features!
08/22/11 4:31 pm 97 Comments Posted by Keith
Hydrus Week: Hydrus Lain




Hello there, mainlanders. \'ave ya missed me? No, don\'t be answerin\' that; I already know. Ya got so starry-eyed over dat Blake Steele character dat ya forgot all about me and my summer festival. So, \'ere\'s what I\'m gonna do. Over da next week, I\'ll be giving ya a new hydrus pet or two everyday. Perhaps at da end of da week, you\'ll either love me or fear me enough t\' pay me my dues next summer!



Even dem pretty, flying lains can benefit from a bit of voodoo. Look how nice they look in hydrus colors! Come see me with ya little birds, and I will take good care of them for ya.


08/22/11 2:27 pm 144 Comments Posted by [NPC] Merana
August 21, 2011
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Chibi Bhakoru




Did you miss me? You guys must be writhing in agony without your daily dose of Blake. Don\'t worry, though, I\'ll stop by occasionally to give you a booster shot of vitamin B. Huh, well that just doesn\'t sound right. MOVING ON.



Apparently those dinosaur-looking things come in a handy pygmy size! I have to say, they\'re not half bad, with their giant heads and doe eyes and stumpy little toes.



I guess the people that were worried about keeping a big bhakoru as a pet might prefer this chibi size. I\'m half-tempted, myself, but what do you even feed these things?
08/18/11 8:42 pm 179 Comments Posted by [NPC] Blake Steele
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August 12, 2011
Steele Excavation Plot: Treasures Galore
Everyone happy with their loot? I told you I was fair. I just know that you guys will make sure that stuff goes immediately to a museum. It would just be unseemly if we kept these things personally, or sold them to other people of taste. In an unrelated note, I think I\'m going to buy that yacht I had my eye on.



I have to say, I\'m a bit disappointed. Some dinosaur-looking things? Like anyone wanted one of those! And what were they doing down in an ancient temple, for that matter? What\'s with Butterface? She has to be on the mural for a reason. And who sent me the coordinates and artifact? And why?



Really, this whole thing seemed to ask more questions than it answered, didn\'t it? If this were a movie, I would call that a sequel hook. But real life doesn\'t have sequels, just ask Vernon Yun! Too soon? Too soon.



And yet... I have your contact info, right? Just in case I need a crew in the future.
08/12/11 8:44 pm 157 Comments Posted by [NPC] Blake Steele
Free Gift: Blake Steele Doll
Blake Steele Doll




There is a new free gift available courtesy of Steele Excavations! This little doll is closest you can come to hanging out with the real Blake Steele! Fortunately (or unfortunately?) this doll even has a built-in voice box with recorded sayings!
08/12/11 7:53 pm 42 Comments Posted by Amber
August 11, 2011
Cash Shop: Minions Giapa and Beaky
Giapa
Beaky


Beaky Companion
Beaky Dusted Feather
Beaky Glossy Feather
Giapa Plushie
Giapa Shoes
Giapa Sticker




While you recover from the pandamonium of pecking away at those stone beasts, let's take a peep at some unbearably cute minions in the cash shop!



No attempts to bamboozle you here – these minions transform into other things, too. Feather you like books or plushies, wearables or stickers, it would be ursinine to ignore Giapa and Beaky.
08/11/11 5:21 pm 89 Comments Posted by Amber
August 10, 2011
Steele Excavation Plot: The Guardian is Defeated!
Huh, well, that wasn\'t exactly what I was expecting for my husband, you know? I\'m sure he\'s a perfectly good guy, but he sure was pissed that we busted into his bedroom. I don\'t think we\'re compatible in species or size, and we\'ll just leave the details left unsaid.



I guess I fulfilled my promise of archaeology beefcake, technically. Mummies were a no-go, apparently. I guess you guys can be the babes. Smiley was the beefcake, and you\'ve met me already. It seems like all I have to make good on is my promise of treasure.



HA, SCREW YOU GUYS, I WAS THE EVIL OVERLORD ALL ALONG. NOW THE TREASURE IS MINE, AND I WILL BE LEAVING YOU IN THE TEMPLE WHILE I RUN AWAY, DRAWING MY CAPE AROUND MYSELF AND TWIRLING MY MUSTACHE! YOU DIDN\'T EXPECT THAT, DID YOU? I AM SO NEFARIOUS!



No, that would be so lame of me. And who the heck wears a cape to go exploring, anyway?



I did manage to get a peek into that room Smiley Beefcake was blocking. I mean, I didn\'t get a great look, but I did see something big and sparkly. You think this guy is gonna waste his time down in this dark pit guarding something worthless? Yeah, I think not.



However, before we go uh... "preserve" historical items by placing them safely in our pockets, let me just take a minute to figure out who gets dibs. Don\'t make that face at me. Do you want somebody who just wandered in yesterday to waltz off with the Ark of the Covenant while you get stuck with some chintzy pottery? Probably not, so give me a second here. I\'m all about fairness, y\'know?



By the way, those of you who did just wander in? I don\'t have all the time in the world, so if you still want to poke around the temple, I\'d suggest you do that pretty soon.
08/10/11 8:27 pm 68 Comments Posted by [NPC] Blake Steele
August 9, 2011
Saheric Temple Guardian!
If you're battling, you probably just noticed this guy's massive health jump.



Long story short, we caught some people cheating. They got in a loooot of damage by cheating, and took away the opportunity for the rest of you to kill him legitimately.



So we've added back the damage they did, since we didn't think it was fair to count their damage against the whole.



Happy battling!
08/9/11 7:53 pm Go to forum post Posted by grace
Steele Excavation Plot: Goal in Sight
Is everyone through the maze? Everyone here? One, two, three, four, five, six- Actually, you know what? I didn\'t count you before we went in, so there\'s not much point in counting you now! If you\'re NOT with us, speak up now.




...




Hello? Hello? Bueller? Not even some crickets chirping? Okay, so maybe it\'s not the best time for a joke like that, but if we can\'t laugh at unspeakable horror, what can we laugh at?




Also, you\'ll notice that I was right about the whole something-going-wrong thing, thank you very much. I just wish I was a bit less right, though. That scorpion in particular is going to show up in my nightmares for a while. Actually, you know what, let\'s save the talk of nightmares for a second- I might have a more pressing nightmare situation. It\'s time for us to head downstairs and meet my mummy husband.




So, let\'s stay in a group, battlers to the the outside, and guys called Blake to the middle.
08/9/11 4:09 pm 44 Comments Posted by [NPC] Blake Steele
August 8, 2011
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August 6, 2011
TS: Coiled Rope
Coiled Rope




Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, don’t be shy! We have something here, something reaaaaal special. Something amazing. Irreplacable! In-de-spensible! You\'ll never know how you got along without it!



What we have here, my friends, is rope. That\'s right, rope. (Pause for oohs, and aahs.)



You can twist it, you can loop it, you can tie it in a knot! You can shimmy down dark and dangerous holes! You can string it between two trees and let your clothes air out to dry. Amaze your friends, amaze your family! (Amaze the mummies we all know are lurking around the next corner!)



Hurry, hurry to the Token Shop. With a product this good, supplies will not last forever!
08/6/11 1:40 am 50 Comments Posted by Amber
August 5, 2011
Steele Excavations: Ninth Puzzle
Okay, hidden temple, you\'re starting to make me look pretty bad. I\'m very embarrassed now. Maybe the expedition is cursed instead of the temple- nothing but amateurs (that steal from the dig site), a cave in, not a lot of great loot. Er, I mean \'scientific finds\'.




I wonder if it\'s because I called the lady in the mural a butterface. Based on fairy tales, that\'s a good way to have someone that is secretly a sorceress put a curse on you. It\'s good that I haven\'t grown any fur, though, because I\'m already over 21 and I don\'t happen to have a castle laying around in a remote location. A castle which all the townspeople forgot about in just 10 years, even though I was ostensibly their ruler. I don\'t know, if my rural village was ruled by a king, and then suddenly it wasn\'t, and the woods got all spooky, I\'d like to think I would notice.




What is the rule with sorceresses, though? Can they be made of stone? Do they have to show up as an old hag and then get super hot when it comes to delivering the smackdown-- OKAY, NEW THEORY. The real Butterface is a sorceress mummy hidden in the temple. I\'m not sure why she\'s a sorceress mummy, but the more I think about it, the more I like it. I\'m a little worried about this whole "breaking the curse" thing, though, because you normally have to do it with true love, and I don\'t really want to kiss a mummy.




Do you think it would work if I wore some of those big novelty Morostide wax lips? Yeah, I don\'t know. It definitely violates the spirit of true love, but I don\'t know if it\'s actually against the rules. Let\'s think about it some more while we poke around in room nine.
08/5/11 6:47 pm 52 Comments Posted by [NPC] Blake Steele
August 4, 2011
Steele Excavations: Eighth Puzzle
Wow, what a let down! I was so sure-- actually, isn\'t eight considered to be the lucky number in some cultures? So that would make today the new most ironic day for something to go wrong! I am really committed to this idea of something going wrong, guys.



Ugh, but I honestly really thought it was going to be seven. I had a whole inspirational speech prepared. Well, I guess I can still use it when Door 8 turns bad. Let\'s see, how else can we prepare ourselves for the mummy apocalypse?

    3) You know how in cartoons, the bandages come off like toilet paper coming off the roll, and the mummy spins away? THAT REALLY WORKS! No, I\'m kidding, they\'re pretty well stuck on after centuries of decay. Just think about it. No touchie!

    4) Mummies may be part of a multi-part curse! Expect them to summon evil sand golems and swarms of flesh-eating bugs.


So, that\'s that, I guess. Go ahead and move on to Room 8. I\'ll keep working on my speech; I\'m sure the survivors are really going to love it! Good luck!
08/4/11 6:36 pm 28 Comments Posted by [NPC] Blake Steele
August 3, 2011
Steele Excavations: Seventh Puzzle
It\'s number seven today, isn\'t it? Some would say it\'s lucky number seven, but do you want to know what I think? I think we\'ve had an usual amount of luck so far. Sure, we had a minor cave-in, but if we take this expedition and compare the exploration encountered to the horror encountered, the ratios are way out of whack!



It\'s not like I\'m wishing that something would go wrong, you know, but I am thinking that this room would be the most ironic for it to happen in. Important notes for the mummy apocalypse:

    1) No matter how fast you run, the mummy will somehow keep up with you, so save your energy.

    2) Mummy-killing has an important strategy of it\'s own. Taking off the head will not work! You have to bring an end to the ancient curse that keeps the mummy alive. Invest in books, not guns!


So yeah, keep that stuff in mind while you poke around in the seventh room.
08/3/11 6:28 pm 57 Comments Posted by [NPC] Blake Steele
Name Clearing!




Name clearing time! If the site gets laggy I will likely take it down, so you might want to avoid starting anything time sensitive (like item hunter quests) until it\'s done. :)
08/3/11 4:00 pm 25 Comments Posted by grace
Ads
Subeta & Ads



Hi everyone! If you have a normal account, I'm sure you've noticed that in the rotation with our site ads, you now see Google ads. I want to take a minute to tell you why, and also just discuss ads in general with you.



I'll be honest, I hate ads. I think that they're ugly. However, I think that a lot of people get the sense of 'selling out' when they see ads on a site that they love, which is something I don't agree with. If your favorite blog has ads, that means that they're just trying to make money on the content that they're making, that you enjoy, which I don't think is wrong at all. Now you're thinking that we already make money from the Cash Shop, what do we need more money for?!



The first thought a lot of people have when they see ads beyond selling out is that they are there just to create a lot of extra money for the people running the site. I know that when ads pop up people get this idea that we're getting rich on the Subeta Team, and I may be putting a down payment on a plane with my face on it. While that would be awesome, that is not the case. We're in a bad economy right now, which means that sadly our users don't always have the option to buy cash shop items like they have before, and maybe not as much, or even at all. Ads give us another stream of revenue so that we can continue hiring new staff, releasing new content (art costs money!), and keeping the site running smoothly on the server side. All of these things cost a lot of money and having another stream of revenue is extremely beneficial to us in our quest to give you guys the best website EVER.



Right now we have the ad in the rotation at the top of the page. I admit that this may not be the only ad that you see on the page as a normal user in the future. We are testing with other placements, and there is a possibility that they will show up in other places. If you don't want to see ads we highly suggest purchasing a Gold Account, but also googling "Adblock" and the name of your browser will remove them.



Thank you everyone, and we hope you've been enjoying our plot so far!
08/3/11 1:47 pm Go to forum post Posted by Keith
Ads
Subeta & Ads



Hi everyone! If you have a normal account, I'm sure you've noticed that in the rotation with our site ads, you now see Google ads. I want to take a minute to tell you why, and also just discuss ads in general with you.



I'll be honest, I hate ads. I think that they're ugly. However, I think that a lot of people get the sense of 'selling out' when they see ads on a site that they love, which is something I don't agree with. If your favorite blog has ads, that means that they're just trying to make money on the content that they're making, that you enjoy, which I don't think is wrong at all. Now you're thinking that we already make money from the Cash Shop, what do we need more money for?!



The first thought a lot of people have when they see ads beyond selling out is that they are there just to create a lot of extra money for the people running the site. I know that when ads pop up people get this idea that we're getting rich on the Subeta Team, and I may be putting a down payment on a plane with my face on it. While that would be awesome, that is not the case. We're in a bad economy right now, which means that sadly our users don't always have the option to buy cash shop items like they have before, and maybe not as much, or even at all. Ads give us another stream of revenue so that we can continue hiring new staff, releasing new content (art costs money!), and keeping the site running smoothly on the server side. All of these things cost a lot of money and having another stream of revenue is extremely beneficial to us in our quest to give you guys the best website EVER.



Right now we have the ad in the rotation at the top of the page. I admit that this may not be the only ad that you see on the page as a normal user in the future. We are testing with other placements, and there is a possibility that they will show up in other places. If you don't want to see ads we highly suggest purchasing a Gold Account, but also googling "Adblock" and the name of your browser will remove them.



Thank you everyone, and we hope you've been enjoying our plot so far!
08/3/11 1:47 pm Go to forum post Posted by Keith
August 2, 2011
Steele Excavations: Sixth Puzzle
You guys are never going to believe what happened! It starts with an s-, and ends with -and! Yeah, that\'s right-- again! I remembered how much you love digging though, so I left the whole cave-in for you to deal with. Maybe you will find some more artifacts that you can totally turn over to me in a responsible manner, because, good ol\' you, I know you would never take that kind of thing with you at the end of the day.



So grab your shovel; it\'s going to be a long day of backbreaking digging in the desert while scorpions crawl up your pant legs. Don\'t worry though, they\'re just performing a crevice check for you so you don\'t have to stop digging. Let me know if you start to get blisters, so I can lend you some digging gloves. Did I forget to mention I had those before? My bad.



Haha, no! I\'m joking! Sorry, I just couldn\'t resist. I\'m pretty sure that if I gave you a shovel, you would use it to take my head off instead of using it to dig again, anyway.



The sixth door is off the hook! And by off the hook, I mean off its hinges, because we knocked it off with dynamite. BOOM!
08/2/11 7:01 pm 38 Comments Posted by [NPC] Blake Steele
August 1, 2011
Steele Excavations: Fifth Puzzle
It really seems like you guys have improved your shoveling technique a lot. Didn\'t the time feel like it went by much faster? It\'s weird, since everyone was still taking a lot of breaks. I can\'t help but notice that when it comes time for the thrilling puzzle adventures, no one needs a break. I just find it interesting, that\'s all.



Anyway, with the sand removed, my people were able to reinforce the structure above the main chamber, so we\'re about ready to take a second crack at door five over there. What? Did you honestly expect me to try blowing it open again in sand-filled, unstable ruins?



Just a sec-- Oh, cool, my guys tell me that door five is all done.



THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED.
08/1/11 6:34 pm 72 Comments Posted by [NPC] Blake Steele
Cash Shop: August Monthly Collection
Gladigoat
Biseasonal Swallow
Motorcycle Plushie
Summer Fun Hippo Plushie


Eye Catcher: Hidden
Peridot and Steel Hunga Munga
Sun Dragon Scale
Peridot Chatelaine


Carved Stone Lizard
Scaly Lizard Egg
Scaly Lizard Frill


Large Agility Equipment
Small Agility Equipment


August 2011 Collection




The lazy days of summer might be driving you crazy right now, but here on Subeta we\'re still striving to keep your mind from melting! We hope you\'re enjoying the plot and the...endlessly endearing Blake Steele. Now what you\'ve all been waiting for, the August Monthly Collection from the Cash Shop!
08/1/11 12:00 pm 58 Comments Posted by Amber
Name Clearing




We will be clearing usernames (and pet names on those accounts) on Wednesday August 3rd at 4:00PM Subeta time. Good luck getting the names you are after!
08/1/11 3:50 am 92 Comments Posted by Keith
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