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Hi all! Thank you all for taking part in the Spring into Summer 2024 Event.

We have pulled our raffle prizes! All of our prompts had the potential of getting a Myth MYO if a certain amount of prompt numbers were met, and if you took part in our Egg Hunt prompt, you were put into a raffle for 4 Egg designs. These designs were made by astralgaze , JJBum / StarFoosh , JinxedStudios , and Philologique .

You can find the Myth MYO raffle link here: https://alumyworld.com/raffles/view/1
You can find the Egg Hunt Adopt raffle link here: https://alumyworld.com/raffles/view/2

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Congratulations HauntedArtz for winning the Myth MYO raffle!

And congratulations

LuckyyLe0 for winning the Astralgaze design

Froggy for winning the JJBum/ Starfoosh design

Bemnie for winning the Philologique design

and Philologique for winning the JinxedStudios design

Please make sure to check out each of the designs on their dedicated Masterlist entry! And again, thank you all so much for participating- all rewards will be sent out shortly.

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//Edit 7/11/24- The Philologique Design was not linked correctly! This has been edited.

Hello everyone,
The Alumy staff has been working on the Non-Traited Design Requirements! These are requirements an Alumy design must follow regardless of subtype, rank, or listed traits. This includes mane definition, non-mane fur length, ear length, and more.

You can find these non-traited design requirements here:

Detailed Design Guide:
--> https://alumyworld.com/info/nontraitedguide <--

Summary of these Requirements:
--> https://alumyworld.com/world/traits?name=Required%20&%20Default%20traits <--

If you prefer looking at a Google doc version:
--> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PAFZepmqw0h8voiH8uyd-ueQAzBd4iHUm6YZn7aV89A/edit?usp=drivesdk <--

We'll be working on providing a visual guide in addition to this textual guide in the future, but we wanted to release this to you as soon as we had it! We hope this will make designing Alumy easier, with detailed explanations of what non-traited aspects of designs look like.

summertime Odyssey

Event from 7/9/24 - 8/30/24

Water Alumy Event

Summer is in full swing, and Alumies are celebrating!

With the annual migration of Water Alumies underway, many reunions are taking place as well as general summer fun! Water Alumies are celebrating and are having a whale of a time with summer festivities, seeing old friends, and just generally having a blast.

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This Event includes several different prompts and several ways you can participate!:

• Reunion is a big aspect of the Summer Odyssey, given that that's when Water Alumies come home from their long migration. They are reuniting with loved ones, whether it be families, friends, or even acquaintances, as a way to celebrating coming home from a long journey. This prompt is both a Writing and Art prompt, and uses our new Critereon Prompt format (similar to submitting an attack on Artfight).
• One of the activities that Water Alumies enjoy taking part in is racing! Race to the Abyss is a time-related prompt, in which Water Alumies sign up for a race to the finish line! On August 1st at 12 pm CDT (site time), the prompt will officially open and the race will begin. The first, second, and third people to draw all 4 pieces with their Alumies in all 4 locations will receive MYOS! And, if you do not want to take part in the race, any participating members will get a Water Orb as well as crystals for participating (but at a slower pace). Check out the prompt page to find the sign-up link, where you can sign up your Water Alumies to participate in the race. This prompt is drawing only.
• Our Water Alumy NPC, Marilyn, is going around and interviewing Alumies! She wants to know more about Alumies traditions during the summer, as well as what they like or do not like. This prompt is drawing only.
• This time isn't just a celebration for Water Alumies, it's also a fun time for Forest, Sky, and Flower Alumies as well! Draw or write your Alumies enjoying the summer fun or watching/celebrating the migrating Water Alumy. This prompt gives the Bubble Gum Item, alongside with various other rewards!
• Lastly, Alumies are playing games, while also working on puzzles! Take part in this puzzling prompt to complete puzzles to get rewards.

All Summer Odyssey Event participants will get:

• A Summer Odyssey sticker added to their LoreKeeper account
• All prompt submissions (besides the Puzzle prompt) will enter you into the Summer Odyssey Design raffle (Silhouette shown below!)

-> Please make sure to read the prompts and learn more about the requirements for each of the prompts at this link! <-

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We are also introducing an Event-specific item!

Soap Gum

This item makes it possible for your Non-Water Alumies to take part in Event Prompts that are Water Alumy-specific! You can get 3 throughout the event by participating in the Summer Fun Prompt. When you submit any prompts with any non-water Alumy (specifically underwater), then we will take that item out of your inventory.

Water Orb prices are also on sale, for 100 Crystals each! If you've ever wanted to make a Water Alumy, now is the time. You can find the Water orbs in the shop, located here.

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Introducing:: Our new Water Alumy NPC, Marilyn (or Mari, for short)! She's always a fan of summer festivities, and she'll be around a lot during this event. If you need a character to draw for a prompt, you're welcome to draw/write about her!

-> You can find her Ref Sheet and her Masterlist entry here <-

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To submit your prompts, and get your rewards, please use the submit a prompt button!

You can also submit your prompts at the link here: https://alumyworld.com/submissions/new

For the Reunion prompt, we've figured out how to let users input rewards based on what your submission has within it (such as if your piece has a headshot/fullbody or if your piece has a scene or if it has no background). Once you choose a prompt, please make sure to click "Add Critereon" at the bottom of the page! This will pop up the menu to add whatever crystal amounts are present in the submission. This makes it possible for us to do ranked rewards, where each aspect of your submission is taken into account when crystals are rewarded. Thank you MarskyMessier for the work that you've done for putting these ranked rewards together!

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If you have any questions about this event, please contact us through the alumy discord!

We have a submission sharing, ref sheet sharing, and a discussion channel for this event! If you are not in the Alumy Discord, we greatly encourage joining so you can interact with the Alumy community. We also have a question channel if you have any questions about any of the prompts, and it's faster to contact us there.

Thank you all and we hope you have a WONDERFUL Summertime Odyssey! (and make sure to stay cool!)

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Credit notes:

Thank you all of the people who took part in the creation of this event!:

Thank you Event Coordinators Vilagyent , Philologique , Rmin , and Nightspirit as well as Admin Astr0fish and Blu_x_Jay for creating the various banners for this event! Also thank you Vilagyent for making the sticker for this event, MarskyMessier for making the Bubble Gum item art, carlos_claee for making the Discord Icon, and JJBum for making the locations for the Race to the Abyss prompt (yet to be released). All event coordinators helped work on prompt creation! All credits for the event art will be on each prompt page so you can see who did what.

Also thank you Rmin , astralgaze , MarshMoshi , JinxedStudios , StarFoosh , ikowa , Astr0fish , and mawkatsu for letting us use their Alumies on various prompt art!

Thank you Rmin for making our new Water Alumy NPC, Marilyn, and thank you Blu_x_Jay and Vilagyent for teaming up to make the secret surprise adopt! We're very excited to show you all the design and we hope you all have a blast!

Its Alumyfight season!

Artfight has started!

This year, we'll be awarding any Artfight attacks against other Alumies! Any Alumies included in any Art Fight attack submitted through this prompt will get 20 crystals.

Requirements:

• This does NOT include attacks that you get, and only counts if it's from your own account!
• Minimum of flat-colored headshot
• This prompt does not have a difference in crystal rewards if you draw more than a headshot, but if you want to draw more, then you may do so!

If you would like to find some Alumies to attack, you can either:

• Look through the Alumy tag on Artfight for any Alumies that are on the site! (If you haven't added your Alumies to the #Alumy tag on Artfight, we greatly encourage you to do so!!) Please keep in mind that Artfight tags only show up to 48 Alumies at a time, so you might have to reload a few times to see all of your options.
• Check out our Discord Artfight socials share thread! This thread has a bunch of people who have and don't have Alumies that you can attack- all blurbs have a checkmark with if they have an Alumy on their profile or not.

If you'd like to learn more about Artfight, please check out their info PAGE on their website here!:

-> https://artfight.net/info/about <-

You can find the Artfight prompt here:

-> https://alumyworld.com/prompts/8 <-

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To submit your prompts, and get your rewards, please use the submit a prompt button!

You can also submit your prompts at the link here: https://alumyworld.com/submissions/new

The form to submit this prompt is this:

Please use the form on that page to get your rewards, and attach any images through links! This form is on the prompt info page for each prompt- please make sure to check if there are any other requirements for forms before you submit your prompts. You can select what prompt you are submitting on the drop-down menu at the top of the page.

Lastly, please link your attack (from the artfight site) to your prompt submission! This is how we'll verify that it's an artfight attack on site!

Regardless, we hope you have a wonderful Alumyfight and happy fighting!

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Event Credits: Alumyfight banner created by carlos_claee and JJBum

Hello Alumers,
I'd like to start a bi-monthly update to keep you all informed about the goings on in staff! These will happen every other month and contain varying degrees of info for you all should you want to read it.

Last month, the staff was quite busy with lots of behind-the-scenes work.

Admin and Species mods, with the input of other staff, have been working on updating a few of our processes.:

• Design approvers Blu_x_Jay carlos_claee MarshMoshi are working on improving the process for design approval, to help get designs approved faster and with more consistency. This work continues into this month but has already seen some updates.
• Event coordinators Rmin JJBum Vilagyent Nightspirit Philologique have been hard at work managing the “Spring in to Summer” event but also working to bring you the next alumy event launching in the coming weeks. This event would also not be possible without Blu_x_Jay carlos_claee Astr0fish and MarskyMessier who have all pitched in to do art for the event and get the prompts to the website.
• Discord mods have been getting used to their new roles and helping to keep the Discord a safe and welcoming place. They've also been helping create a new system for the DtAA channels with some associated rewards. More info to come soon!
• Masterlisters welcomed their new member L_moncello into the ranks and have been making sure all new Alumies make it to the masterlist before they're released to the community. They also manage approving trades and transfers on-site. Masterlisters successfully uploaded all submitted missing Alumy last month and have also been working to update BVs and traits as much as possible. In the coming months, we will likely allocate more staff to help with this effort as it has proved to be more work than we initially anticipated.
• MarskyMessier has been hard at work on the website as our primary web developer fixing bugs such as weird 500 errors in drafts, UI fixes, and adding new features/extensions. Check out the devlogs for more in-depth info as he also posts updates there.
• The staff as a whole is also taking part in trait discussions and documentation updates to provide clearer trait and un-traited design descriptions. Work has started on the first draft of updating these docs and we hope to release something out to you within the next month.
  These updates include rewording trait descriptions, listing what can and can't be done with traits, changing some trait names we felt were poorly named, tweeking traits we felt were not in line with the species as a whole, as well as creating clear descriptions for un-traited design elements such as ear length and mane definition and much more to better support customs and designs made outside the staff.
  This process is being overseen by Blu_x_Jay and Vilagyent, but has had input from the entire staff. We hope to release a solid draft to the community and hear from you all your thoughts as well before finalizing the revised traits.
• Another thing the whole staff has been discussing and addressing is the ever-present problem of providing everyone the chance to obtain Alumies. This is always a tricky topic, but we hope to address the concerns voiced to us by going over every adopt sold since the hiatus to analyze buying patterns. This analysis isn't done yet, but hopefully in the coming weeks we'll have some hard data for you to address those concerns.
• The staff also discussed the concern of people backing out of deals once they've been agreed on, and we'd like to remind everyone, that while the Alumy admins/staff will not be putting any hard species rules in place about backing out of trades/deals, this behavior can and will lead you to be blacklisted by many artists and is generally not recommended.

As a last note, we would like to remind everyone that everyone on the Alumy staff team is at the end of the day: a volunteer. We all take our positions very seriously and put as much work as we're able into the species with the intent to make it better. But we also do have lives outside the species. Many of us work, have other time commitments, or have hobbies other than Alumies. The Discord and this community is a place for all of us to enjoy and we'd like to stress that the staff should not be only expected to work on staff work while interacting with the community here. Our positions are not our only hobbies and we should not be expected to be “on shift” just because we are online. Many of us enjoy videogames, interact with friends, or partake in other online hobbies through this server, and though we understand and appreciate that you are invested in the species and want to see progress being made, you also need to understand that this expectation is extremely harmful to a person's ability to enjoy this community. We can not be transparent about the entire inner workings of the staff and most work done by any one individual in the staff may go unnoticed in the community. Therefore, you'll have to trust that work is getting done behind the scenes. We hope this update helps share some of the work taking place in the staff and have a good timezone Alumers!

Hi all! The Spring into Summer event has now ended! We hope you enjoyed the event, and we loved seeing all of your prompt submissions!

Firstly, we have a small feedback form for the event located below, where you can put any comments regarding the event. Please let us know what you think could be improved, as well as what you enjoyed! We'd love to hear any of your thoughts about the event, and we'll keep your thoughts and ideas in mind as we plan future events.

-> FEEDBACK FORM IS HERE <-

If you have a prompt that has not been accepted yet- never fear! We will be going through any remaining submitted prompts until July 5th 2024 12:00 CDT, and the Myth MYO raffle and the Egg raffle will be drawn at that time. We will manually go through submissions to add people who meet the requirements to the Egg Adopt raffle. However, if you have a ticket for the Myth MYO raffle in your inventory, please make sure to use that ticket by that time! You can find a tutorial on how to do that in the newsletter below:

-> MYTH MYO RAFFLE TICKET USAGE TUTORIAL HERE <-

Again, please let us know if you have any questions about anything Spring into Summer event-related in our Discord! And, once again, thank you all for participating in this event, and we hope you had fun! ^^

⭐ Species Mods, Discord Mods, and GA Results! ⭐
Thank you all to everyone who applied for all of these positions! It was an incredibly difficult choice to choose for all roles, and we appreciate your applications.

Firstly, please welcome our new Species Moderators!

Vilagyent
Philologique
Nightspirit

Secondly, please welcome our new Discord Moderators!

Plov
wearycosmos
SICPARANOIA-PNG
Solstice43
Discord Mods will be on a trial period for one month, but they will be doing their duties as discord mods throughout that whole time.

And last but not least, please welcome the following members to the June/July Alumy GA's!

CubbleChubb
starbitten4
reiszxhn
Crayon
TsunSune

Again, thank you all for your applications, and please give everyone a warm welcome!! 🎉🎉🎉

Species Mod, Discord Mod, and GA apps are open!

We're looking for more help to keep this species rolling! Every two months, we usually open Guest Artist applications for any individuals who would like to be GAs, but this month we're also opening a few higher-level roles. We normally would not be opening these roles, but given that we are officially out of hiatus, we decided now would be the time!

Applications for all positions will be open from 6/5/24 12:00pm CDT - 6/9/24 12:00pm CDT (site time)

Below I will put the definitions of each roles, what they do, as well as a link to their application form:

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Species Moderator

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Discord Moderator

-> Apply for discord moderator here <-

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Guest Artist (June-July)

Guest artists draw Adopts for the species during two months, and have access to Common and Uncommon traits! The Guest Artist position is expected to make adopts during the whole time of being a Guest artist in the species. Guest Artists also keep all profits from adopts!

-> Apply for Guest Artist here <-

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More information is in each of their Google Forms! Please let us know if you have any questions in the Discord.

the shop, design submission, design guide, and pairing + are now available!!!

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The shop, run by our lovely shop owner Katak, is now open for business!

Katak, after taking a little hiatus, has organized his storage and is now open for business! Shop prices are significantly higher than previously, and will cost more crystals.

• This will make it possible for us, as a species, to have more flexibility with prices and future event prizes. Therefore, the event prizes for this ongoing event, Spring into Summer, are higher than before. Item prices range from 20 crystals to 250 crystals, and can be viewed in the shop below:

-> You can find the shop here <-

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Design Submission is now open!

Designs can be made by submitting a MYO! You can find your MYO slots here. Make sure to check out the design guide below before submitting a MYO, given that the Design Guide details the process of how MYO creation works.

The design guide is the go-to place to learn more about making and submitting your Alumies onto the Masterlist. The design guide covers:

1. Default traits, Subtypes, and Rank
2. MYO and design rules
3. Redesign Rules
4. Pebble Submission (WIP)
5. Design Submission Forms
   1. For both MYO designs as well as Redesigns

-> the alumy design guide can be found here <-

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PAiring + is coming to the site !

Pairing + is a way to show lineages on Alumies, and make the process of making Pebbles and pairings easier for everyone. Currently Pairings aren't set up as it's not entirely finished, we need to make the stones be able to be set as pairing items, as well as figure out the rank compatibilities, and eventually have more than 2 parents, but you can set your lineage up for now!

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Lastly, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask any of them in the Discord server! We will answer all of your questions to the best of our abilities. Thank you all for your patience!

Spring into Summer!

Event from 5/31/24 - 6/30/24

Spring is ending!

Alumies are spending their days preparing for summer festivities, doing some spring cleaning, and enjoying the end of the season. It's almost time for summer!

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This Event includes several different prompts and several ways you can participate!:

• The Spring Flowers prompt is the same as the normal Flower Celebration prompt, where your Alumies can be drawn with a flower or a flower motif to get prizes. If you submit at least 4 prompts of this type, you'll be entered into a raffle to get a Myth MYO! This prompt is both a writing and art prompt.
• Your Alumies can take part in an Egg Hunt! Draw your Alumies as a Decorative Egg for some crystal prizes and some premade raffle adopts from PGA Philologique , PGA  astralgaze , Species Mod JJBum , and PGA JinxedStudios . This prompt is art only.
• It's time to remake ref sheets! If you remake your Alumy ref sheet during this event, while using the ref sheet guidelines, you'll receive 40 crystals. Please make sure to read the prompt requirements at the link below! This prompt is art only.
• During the spring, some Alumies enjoy spring cleaning and dusting off some of those cobwebs to get ready for the summer! Draw or write your Alumy cleaning, and feel free to go into depth about their personal belongings and cleaning (or lack-of-cleaning) habits. This prompt has a reward of 40 crystals, and everyone who takes part in this prompt will be put in a raffle for a Myth MYO! This prompt is both a writing and art prompt.
• With the hiatus over, it's time for New Ideas! Draw out any ideas for new Alumy items, and we'll consider adding those items to the species for a flat crystal prize. This prompt has a max of 4 submissions per person! This prompt is art only.

Lastly, we are introducing our first permanent prompt:

• Doodle Dump! Doodle your Alumies for a flat reward of 4 crystals per the Alumy on your canvas. This prompt is permanent and can be claimed at any point.

All Spring into Summer event participants will get a Spring into Summer sticker added to their LoreKeeper account! You can view the sticker here.

-> Please make sure to read the prompts and learn more about the requirements for each of the prompts at this link! <-

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We are also introducing two new seasonal traits!

Dust bunniesGoop soup

Both of these items will be obtainable through submitting prompts for this event. Dust Bunnies will give an Alumy the Particle Markings trait, and the Goop Soup item will give an Alumy the Ooze trait. Both of these traits are only available during this event for 150 Crystals.

You can claim these limited-time items through the Shop! The Alumy Shop will be opened on 6/2/2024 at 2 pm CDT (site time) and will include both items and every other shop item that was previously buyable through the shop.

• As a side note: we mentioned previously in the hiatus announcement that we will be upping prices for the shop, while having more opportunities for crystal gain during the year. All items, including previously priced items, will be more expensive when the shop opens. This is a change that is being made to make it so we can have more flexibility with our crystal prices and general usage! To compensate for that, all of our prompts in this event and in the future will give more crystals.

You can find the shop to get these traits here: https://alumyworld.com/shops/4

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To submit your prompts, and get your rewards, please use the submit a prompt button!

You can also submit your prompts at the link here: https://alumyworld.com/submissions/new

The form to submit a prompt is this:

Please use the form on that page to get your rewards, and attach any images through links! This form is on the prompt info page for each prompt- please make sure to check if there are any other requirements for forms before you submit your prompts. You can select what prompt you are submitting on the drop-down menu at the top of the page.

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If you have any questions about this event, please contact us through the alumy discord!

We have a submission sharing, ref sheet sharing, and a discussion channel for this event! If you are not in the Alumy Discord, we greatly encourage joining so you can interact with the Alumy community. We also have a question channel if you have any questions about any of the prompts, and it's faster to contact us there.

Thank you all and we hope you have a WONDERFUL Spring into Summer!

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Admin note: Hey all, its Astr0fish ! I wanted to say thank you to some of the people who helped put this event together. Thank you to the rest of the Admins ( Blu_x_Jay , carlos_claee , MarskyMessier ), the current and past Event Coordinators ( Rmin , JJBum , DragonRider4267 ) , and also to PGAs and Masterlisters Vilagyent , astralgaze , JinxedStudios , Nightspirit , and Philologique for all of the work that you all put into this event. Whether it was art or writing, we could not have done this without you! At the moment we have an incredibly small team of species mods (we currently have three species mods, and within those three, two are event coordinators) and with this alongside the post-hiatus work, it has been difficult putting this event together. However, with all of these people helping, we were able to make this event happen! We cannot thank you all enough, and we hope you enjoy this event!