A brief foray back into Neopets, part 2

[selenicseas]

Posted to Dreamwidth on 10 November 2024, backdated to 25 August 2023. Originally posted on Wordpress.

I created two more pets: xSharim, an Aisha (and a resurrection an old pet, Sharim_Paw), and SkyeNeptune, an Acara. I decided on colors for xDarksweep (Fire), SkyeNeptune (Cloud), and xSharim (Electric). Then I started thinking about making another pet, a Wocky who would eventually be painted Faerie.

I'm mostly making money from Trudy's Surprise and selling Battledome drops in the shop. I've received some nice goodies from Tarla's Non-Toolbar Treasures, including a Cloud Paintbrush that I used to paint SkyeNeptune.

I suspect this particular artwork has not been updated in quite a while, since it doesn't match the current art style of the site. It barely matches the art style used when I was playing back in the day.

I made a "Returning after 14 years" post on the forums and a nice person gifted me a Faerie Quest Fortune Cookie, which guarantees you one Faerie Quest per day for nine days total. I don't think I ever got a Faerie Quest back in the day, but they're the same as what I remember hearing about from other people - you can't use the shop wizard to search for the item the quest requires. Fortunately, the quests ask for specific items, not random ones, and people have made pages listing what the different faeries ask for. And there's a Faerie Quest board in the forums, so you can ask for someone else to search for the item if it isn't listed on one of those pages.

Speaking of the forums, I don't think I ever ventured into them as a kid. I have absolutely no idea how much they have and have not changed.

About two weeks ago, the Settings page was updated and modernized. It isn't an exciting, flashy update, but it was a necessary one. And, surprisingly, I like the new page a lot! It's so much easier to navigate than the previous one. You can even view which avatars you have, rather than having to select them from a text list.

As it turns out, you can view the galleries and (classic) neohomes of frozen accounts, so I spent a little bit of time saving all the information I could find from those accounts. Also, if you initiate a Neopet transfer (but do not go through with it) with a frozen account, you can see all the Neopets on that frozen account. I didn't remember the names of the Neopets on two of my old side accounts.

There's a good reason for that. Most of my Neopets had names I'd written down repeatedly - and I'd drawn those Neopets repeatedly. The pets on these two old side accounts? With the exception of one, I never drew them at all! Their names literally came from random number generators, except for the aforementioned pet. That was the only pet whose name I remembered.

Yeah, I basically wasted two accounts back in the day. What a disappointment it was to learn that. I thought I might actually find something interesting.

Then there's one account with a single pet on it, for some reason, probably the last account I made. It also showed me that I had more painted pets than I remembered - a White Wocky and Ghost Kougra. I don't remember getting those paintbrushes at all - all I really remember are the Gold Wocky (_Golden__Paw_) and Mutant Aisha (Sharim_Paw). Though now that I think about it, I don't remember how I painted those two, either.