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April 12, 2024


Do Cinthia quests this weekend for increased prizes and rewards!

Abra the Chibi Endeavor has won the Pet Spotlight!

April 10, 2024

Artisanal Chocolate Raspberry Bonbon
Artisanal Milk Chocolate Bonbon
Artisanal White Chocolate Bonbon
Don't spend your precious carnival tickets on cheap prizes. Instead, you should spend them on these delicious fancy chocolates. You can totally trust them.

Ecclesia the Common Experiment #84 has won the Pet Spotlight!

April 9, 2024

Rainbow Puking Gnome Beanbag
Delightful Daisy Doll
Cozy Book Pile
Troll Fighting Oatmeal Playset
Hungry Otter Beanbag
There will be a new Reward Card on Wednesday, April 17.

April 8, 2024

Bloodred Clawsion Elixir
300HP Healing Potion
Common Clawsion Plushie
Magical Twilight Feli Headband
Shinwas Magical Potion
What time is it? Revamp time! The clawsion elixirs, clawsion plushies, healing potions, feli headbands*, and a few Shinwa items have been revamped.

*The headbands are available from the rift.

Wardruna the Custom Storm Noktoa has won the Pet Spotlight!

April 7, 2024

Hey everyone, I’m sure you’ve noticed images around the site starting to flicker out of existence, again. I was hoping to not need to write a post the last few times it’s been resolved, but here we are again and images aren’t loading.

As many of you know, all our images are hosted on the domain https://img.subeta.net, directed to a secure storage "bucket" on AWS. For over a decade, this setup has served us well, housing our item images, avatars, and more.

A few years back, we migrated our servers away from AWS, keeping only a few essential components there, including the S3 bucket. These components are linked to older parts of the site that require a significant overhaul to transfer elsewhere.

Regrettably, for the past few months, our AWS account has been facing frequent suspensions due to "suspicious activity" flagged by external sources, likely trolls. I've had to jump through hoops multiple times, resetting passwords, and rotating tokens just to regain access and restore our images and queues. Our minimal usage means our bill hovers under $100, disqualifying us from upgraded support.

After pleading with AWS support during the last suspension, I learned that false reports of illicit content in our buckets trigger these suspensions. Due to our modest bill, Amazon suspends first and investigates later, leaving us stuck in this frustrating loop. We're constantly at risk of suspension due to these malicious reports.

Currently, I'm awaiting AWS support to reinstate our account. Once resolved, I'll strategize moving our remaining AWS infrastructure elsewhere to prevent future disruptions. This situation is exasperating, and is mostly out of my control. Your patience and understanding are sincerely appreciated, and images should be loading again very soon.

Uh, excuse me. I did not ask for a cold snap. Is this the work of the horrid Hoarfrost and his alliesp? Or is it just the weather being silly? Oddly enough, this snap doesn't seem to mess with Vesnali. Yay!

Snow Goons and Jackalope do not have to be unlocked to fight. Hoarfrost, however, has to be unlocked before battling. These challengers will retire at 11:59pm on April 18.

long the Custom Nostalgic Cybill has won the Pet Spotlight!

April 6, 2024

Garden Gnome Lurby Plushie
Cowzy Tweet Rugged Jeans
Orange Lil Froggo Beanbag
Sleepy Orange Gummy Bear

Funky Botanical Paint-By-Numbers Kit
Peony For Your Thoughts Sticker
Simple Glade Torrent Figure
Moldwarp Hatchling
The flowers are starting to bloom, which means it's the start of Vesnali! Take a look around Esther's Shop for some truly great spring items.

This is the only wave of items.

Flowing Pink Wisteria Bouquet
It's time to arrange your bouquets! Haven't made one before? Esther will help you create a bouquet if you have the right combinations of flowers. Where do you get flowers? Well, they float around the site, and Cinthia has a chance of rewarding flowers for completing her quests.

All quests have been cleared.

Vesnali Coin
"Okay, but how do I get Vesnali Coins?" you might be wondering. You can exchange those floating flowers with users through their profiles. You can also use the following sCode in your status on the forums to direct people to flower you.

Code:
[flower=USERNAME]
Signed Garden Journal
Before you go off buying cool items or throwing flowers at friends, you'll need to know a few things.

🌻 Vesnali will end at 11:59pm on April 25.
🌻 When the holiday is over, Cinthia will no longer give out bouquet-related flowers.
🌻 You will also not be able to give flowers to people for coins.
🌻 The Vesnali forums will be open until the end of the month.
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