For fools like me, April dawns with a day of indelible delights! And yet, such revelry is tarnished each year by one thing and one thing alone:

April...

...begins during Aries Season.

O, the horror! O, the dread! Wretched and foul, without any semblance of redemption! Shame after shame!

...But you heard none of this from me! Quick, hurry! Read the rest of the newsletter before they catch wind of your aspersions!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EVENT HORIZON: FESTIVAL OF FOOLS

• Scavenger Hunt, New Time-Limited Trait
  
  

  • Scavenger Hunt Guidelines
    
    

  • First Hint
    
    

• New Festive Prompt, All Festive Prompts Updated
  
  

• New NPC Images
  
  

PAGE-A-PALOOZA: USER GUIDE + TERMS OF SERVICE + FAQ UPDATES

SYSTEM OVERLOAD: UPDATED FLORA FIELD RESEARCH PROMPT, VISUAL TRAIT INDEX POP-OUTS

LUCK OF THE DRAW: MAY STARDUST ADOPTABLES LOTTERY

UNIVERSE EXPANSION: NEW TRAITS + refs, updated descriptions

SHOP 'TIL YOU DROP: MAGIMART, PRICE AND COMMON MYO CHANGES

• MagiMart: See You, Space Cowtome...
  
  

• Price and Common MYO Changes
  
  

ASTRAL ARTISTRY: GUEST ARTIST APPLICATIONS OPEN, new official artists

WHAT ELSE? OH, RIGHT: DISCORD SERVER CHANGES
 

LORE CHANGELOG

THE ROAD AHEAD: FACTION GEAR TEASER, HAVE WE MENTIONED OUR KO-FI?

EVENT HORIZON: FESTIVAL OF FOOLS

SCAVENGER HUNT, NEW TIME-LIMITED TRAIT

Long have tales been told of an elusive, Unknown beast prowling the sylvan settings of Tellus. Light years away, an eerily similar enigma is fabled to roam the Glasislundr of Hyperborea, the Glass Forest of Tartarus, and the woodlands of Arcadia. Despite countless sightings, none of these planets have ever backed up the existence of said beast with definitive evidence--until now, that is. 

Yes, you heard right: we've discovered undeniable, osteal proof that Bigfoot exists! We! have! dug! up! bones!

For whatever reason, the Bigfoot leaves behind perfectly preserved digits, and these digits are the same for each pair of its hands and feet. As we've never found the rest of its skeleton, the prevailing theory is that the Bigfoot is both long-lived (if not immortal?!) and capable of shedding its fingoes (finger-toes) as needed. A bit digusting, but nevertheless fascinating.

That being said, although we know how to find its wigglers, we still need your help gathering them! "And how will I do that," you ask? Why, with our patent-pending, specially-developed, Scavenger Hunter, of course! It works rather like a metal detector (if a metal detector was designed to discover Bigfoot parts) and operates by... well, giving hints. Don't ask me why. The thing has a 100% success rate so long as you can solve its brainteasers, alright?

Once you've collected a full hoot (hand-foot), you may craft a Bigfoot's Hoot Plaster Cast (Account-Bound) of your assemblage. Other Volunteerlyngs have found inspiration through it in the form of the Digits [L] Trait. This Trait allows for the application of one set of hominoid hands/feet OR for the halix (back toe) of an otherwise standard anisodactyl Starlyng to be positioned like a thumb. 

We'll only be running this event for the length of April, and all participants can only gain one Bigfoot's Hoot Plaster Cast. In other words, the Digits [L] Trait may only be applied once and cannot be attained after the month ends. So, if you're interested in this once-in-a-lifetime Trait, you'd better get to digging! 

— JOIN THE SEARCH FOR BIGFOOT —

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SCAVENGER HUNT GUIDELINES: 

• The location of each Bigfoot fingoe can be found by following a given hint. The first hint can either be read in the section below, or on the Scavenger Hunt page itself.
  
  
• Each hint will direct users to a World Expanded page location on our site. Explore our site to find the hinted page!
  
  
• Upon locating the correct page, an image of the fingoe will be present. Click on the image to collect it. 
  
  
• Below the image will be another hint to the next page location.
  
  
• Rinse and repeat until you have all five fingoes!
  
  
• Once all five fingoes have been collected, head on over to the Crafting Recipes page to create the Bigfoot's Hoot Plaster Cast!  
  
  
• Again, only one Bigfoot's Hoot Plaster Cast can be attained per user, it can only be used once to apply the Digits [L] Trait, and it cannot be acquired after April.
  
  
• All participants are able to claim the Bigfool Event Memento Award (World > Awards) AFTER crafting the Bigfoot Hoot's Plaster Cast. This way, even if you decide to the use the Bigfoot's Hoot Plaster Cast, you'll still have something to remember the event with! Don't forget to claim it! 
  
  
• Claiming the Bigfool Event Memento Award will also grant users the Bigfoot Search Logs Item, which can be used from your Inventory and viewed under World > Encyclopedia > Library. 
  
  

• DO NOT SHARE HINT ANSWERS WITH OTHER USERS. BIGFOOT WILL GET YOU.

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THE FIRST HINT:

This flora's genus shares a name with the target of our search.

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NEW FESTIVE PROMPT, ALL FESTIVE PROMPTS UPDATED

The not-so-new, but much-improved Festival of Fools Event can now be applied to your Misc. Art and Writing Prompts for a 1.2x Stardust bonus throughout the joyous month of April! 

All other limited Festive Events/Prompts have likewise received minor makeovers: 

Like usual, Festive Prompts remain inactive outside of their designated months.

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NEW NPC IMAGES

We had enough of our former NPC designs, so the lot of them received a long overdue remaster! Better still, we finally added the much-anticipated Wings [M] Trait just for them (by lycoris and lycoris)! It's about time, I say--they were butt ugly.

For ease, here is a list of every current NPC so that you may check them out individually:

• STAR-003: Asphodel

• STAR-158: Brioche

• STAR-008: Elysium

• STAR-002: Iason

• STAR-069: Magimy

• STAR-001: Yvin

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PAGE-A-PALOOZA: USER GUIDE + TERMS OF SERVICE + FAQ UPDATES 

Well, well, well, what do we have here? Still hammering away at the boring pages? Of course we are! Why would we ever stop? We suck so bad!

• USER GUIDE: Added sections about Obtaining MYO and Trait Items (Stardust, Vermyl, Sylver) and Factions (WIP). Also added "OA" and "GA" to the Understanding Common Terminology subsection.
  

• TERMS OF SERVICE: Edited ToS #03, #04, #06, #09, #10, #14, and #18. Added ToS #19 (all subsequent terms, including what was formerly #19, were shifted down).  

• FAQ: Updated the formatting of pretty much every FAQ question, with some questions receiving fixed links and expanded information!

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system overload: UPDATED FLORA FIELD RESEARCH PROMPT, VISUAL TRAIT INDEX POP-OUTS

The system's actually pretty unloaded this month, but we did want to make mention of a slight update to the Flora Field Research Prompt (Gallery). 

Whereas it once only allowed for artwork and descriptions of entirely new flora, it now allows for submissions of any previously existing (WITHOUT any art) flora as well! There's not so much of that going on right now (just Mermaid Tears), but you can bet your sweet bippy that'll eventually change! Not a day goes by without us having a brain blast or two, after all. 

(I'm personally really looking forward to the fauna version of this Prompt!)

Also, the Visual Trait Index will now pop out information upon clicking a Trait, so there's no need to visit each Trait's individual page anymore!

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LUCK OF THE DRAW: MAY STARDUST ADOPTABLES LOTTERY

This month, we have three gorgeous Stardust adoptable designs for interested Userlyngs to purchase! They cost 500 SD each.

This trio, brought into being by Inotcreative, Alnoots, and raijin respectively, was themed after "April showers" (e.g. sunshowers, rainbows, etc.) and can be purchased through their Sales page!

Continuing the trend, we're also hosting our May Stardust Adoptable lottery! Like usual, this lottery will end in one week on April 8th.

• THREE users be chosen as winners.
  
  
• Winners will be asked to EACH create ONE "May Flowers"-themed Starlyng. ("May Flowers" can mean any flower, not just May blooms.)
  
  
• These adoptables can use any Common, Uncommon, and Rare Traits. The Floral [L] Horns Trait is also available for use.
  
  
• Staff MYOs are provided to create these designs; selected artists do not need to spend their own Items.
  
  
• These adoptables will be sold for 500 Stardust each. 

The deadline for these designs will be at the end of the month. Failure to complete a design will disqualify users from participating in the future. 

Please make sure you have joined the Starlyng Discord server before entering, as we will be using it to contact winners!

— ENTER HERE TO BECOME A STARDUST ADOPTABLE ARTIST FOR MAY — 

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UNIVERSE EXPANSION: NEW TRAITS + REFS, UPDATED DESCRIPTIONS

Two new Traits have been released from prison: Reptilian [R] and Digits [L]! Both Traits apply to the body. Be sure to check them out by clicking said links or the images below!

Reptilian [R] allows for the addition of a forked tongue, heat pits, reptilian scales, shells, or plating, neck frills or hoods, and/or other reptilian features. For piscine scales, you would use the Aquatic [R] Trait instead. Since we gave Reptilian [R] the forked tongue attribute, it has thus been removed from Devilish [R] and its artwork and description have been updated! (Be sure to applaud NYAHILISM for the ravishing Reptilian Trait reference, and solaria for the dashing Devilish Trait glossectomy!)

We went through and recategorized Starlyngs with visible forked tongues and no other Devilish [R] Traits as Reptilian [R]. However, if you feel that was in error, we missed your Starlyng, or that your ALREADY Devilish Starlyng has a forked tongue that simply isn't visible on Masterlist, then feel free to submit a redesign request and we'll get that squared away!

Please note that unless we have proof that a non-Devilish Starlyng has a forked tongue, we will not be grandfathering this Trait in for free. In other words, your Starlyng would have had to already been marked as Devilish before this update (and should have been, if they have a forked tongue). Ergo, if you want to add Reptilian [R] to a Starlyng, you would follow the usual redesign process (with the Rare Trait Items add-on only being required if your Starlyng's Rarity is Common or Uncommon).   

Likewise, in now distinguishing reptilian scales from piscine ones, if you feel that your Aquatic Starlyng's scales are more Reptilian than Aquatic, then do submit a redesign request and we'll also get that squared away! 

Digits [L] was already mentioned back in the Scavenger Hunt section, but here's its description again for those just popping in (hey, read the whole newsletter, why don't'cha?): Digits [L] allows for the application of one set of hominoid hands/feet OR for the halix (back toe) of an otherwise standard anisodactyl Starlyng to be positioned like a thumb.

REMEMBER: DIGITS [L] IS A SINGLE-USE, TIME-LIMITED TRAIT. It'll be gone once May mayhap-pens! (See "Scavenger Hunt + New Time-Limited Trait" for more information.)

Last but not least, we also entreated the splendiferous solaria for an additional Droop [C] Trait reference! Hopefully it'll help! 

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SHOP 'TIL YOU DROP: MAGIMART, price and common myo changes

MAGIMART: see you, space cowtome...

Mythical Traits are no longer in stock at Magimy's Magical Mythical Moving Market and Motley Menagerie! Magimy's Mythical Traits are restocked at the beginning of every other month, so you'll see them in her store again in May.

A MIRACULOUS MELANGE OF MACROCOSMIC MERCHANDISE!

"Work hard, and maybe I'll even autograph your next Mythical Trait Tome!"

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PRICE AND COMMON MYO CHANGES

As mentioned last month, the following changes to our economy (in an effort to boost ARPG engagement) will now be taking effect: 

• UNCOMMON TRAIT: 10 SD ➤ 25 SD
  
  
• RARE TRAIT: 50 SD ➤ 75 SD
  
  
• MONTHLY FREE COMMON MYOS: 2 per month ➤ 1 per month
  
  
  • COMMON MYOS will be added to the Stardust Shop for 50 SD
    
    
• UNCOMMON MYOS: 100 SD ➤ 150 SD

By the way, there's still time for you to send me your Stardust. You won't get anything, but it's clearly the superior option. 

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ASTRAL ARTISTRY: guest artist applications open, new official artists

Time flies, and another three months are gone just like that! This brings us into the second quarter of our Guest Artist year--with this rotation lasting from April 8th to July 8th--and our next round of Guest Artist applications!

To reiterate our FAQ summary about Guest Artists (Moonlet Rank on Lorekeeper): "Guest Artists (GA) are permitted to make official adopts, customs, and designs for the species as desired for a three month term. Openings for Guest Artist applications occur every three months for one week in our newsletters."

Interested? Then head on over to our Guest Artist Applications! There are some standards to be met that the form will bring up, and all further rules will be explained to users upon being selected! This application period will last from April 1st to April 7th at 11:59 PST, with new Guest Artists being announced on April 8th! (Candidates are deliberated and voted on by the Stafflyngs.)

Also, if you aren't chosen this time around, you're more than welcome to apply again during our third quarter (July 8th to October 8th).

TO USERS WHO HAVE APPLIED IN THE PAST: We are now wiping applications after every term, so if you've applied to be a Guest Artist before and are still interested in the position, please apply again!

— APPLY TO BECOME A GUEST ARTIST — 

Aaaand, even more excitingly, former Guest Artists feathertouch and NYAHILISM will now ascend to Official Artist-hood!!! (If you're curious about the difference between an OA and a GA, take a peek at our FAQ!)

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WHAT ELSE? OH, RIGHT: DISCORD SERVER CHANGES

If you're already part of our Discord server, then you likely already caught wind of these changes. HOWEVER, we're also unveiling an entirely new channel for our Authorlyngs!

• #ANNOUNCEMENTS is now an actual announcements channel! Nothing too drastic in terms of what's changed, but announcement channels can be followed. Upon following this channel, Userlyngs may select an external server and channel to see any updates we choose to publish (separate from just posting). Totally optional!
  
  The Follow button is located beside the channel name! Clicking on it should bring you to a new window where you can choose which external server and channel you'd like to see our published announcements in.

• #ASK-THE-STAFF, #LOREKEEPER-HELP, and #SUGGESTIONS are now forum channels! Aside from being cleaner overall, this'll make it easier to locate previously-asked questions via keyword-searching and tags. Userlyngs can also ask questions in former threads should further clarification be needed! If we find that additional tags or threads are needed, we'll certainly add them!
  
  The #suggestions channel differs slightly in that it has a set number of dedicated threads for certain topics; Userlyngs can suggest things in them (rather than create entirely new threads for each suggestion).
  
  These channels, of course, are meant to pair with our on-site FAQ. Please review each channel's guidelines and pinned threads before using them!
  
  
• #PROOFREADLYNG is a forum channel for writers seeking help with proofreading and editing. It benefits to give every written piece you're thinking about submitting another set of eyes, as it factors into our grading and acceptance!
  
  (While optional, proofreading can net Userlyngs a 1.4x Stardust bonus for Misc. Writing Prompts, so it is especially worth it to give your works a second pass! Everything else submitted to the site [that is, aside from Misc. Prompts] requires proofreading beforehand.)

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LORE CHANGELOG

March was a VERY lore-filled month, so this changelog's got some HEFT to it! 

(All locations, fauna, etc. are allowed to be drawn or written about. Feel free to engage the lore in your creative endeavors!)

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The Road Ahead: FACTION GEAR TEASER, HAVE WE MENTIONED OUR KO-FI?

My, leaving so soon? Won't you please stay just a bit longer? ...No?

What if I said... we have a solaria-and-lycoris-made teaser ready for Faction Gearsets? Aha! Now you look interested! Well, then--feast your eyes on this! (You can click on it for a better view.)

Ain't it a beaut? Can you guess which Faction this Gearset might be for? Suffice to say, we're still hard at work on Factions and Questlines! We hope you can wait just a bit longer!

To round things off, I'll be doing my duty as an essential worker by promoting our still-new Starlyngs Ko-fi! Contributors will gain access to a variety of illustrious treasures, among other others! We greatly appreciate any and all support, and to those who have already patronized us, we extend our most heartfelt gratitude! Thank you so very much for loving and enjoying our species.

You can learn more about our Ko-fi either by visiting it, or reading about it in its section on the March newsletter! Again, thank you much for considering supporting Starlyngs!

— STARLYNGS KO-FI SHOP — 

And with that...

Have a goort one!  

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