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The Wanderers

Every month, the group will be raffling off one slot to each of the above ketucari!

 There are no restrictions on the usage of these slots.

 Each slot also comes with a "built in" Sundisk of Nyssa, so that you may breed them with a male or female ketucari. They also do not require a litter guard.

 You may enter once per ketucari, but you may only win one Wanderer slot total for the month.

 Wanderers may be bred together if you happen to collect more than one slot over the course of a few months.

 Wanderers are guaranteed to pass on their new gene(s), regardless of rarity, to at least one cub in the litter in breedings they take part in during the first 6 months that they’re active. New genes will be guaranteed to drop through September.

How to Enter

 Simply create a piece that meets our minimum Group Submission Requirements showing one of your ketucari interacting with the Wanderer who's slot you would like to win!THESE PIECES MAY BE COMMISSIONED.  Collaborations are allowed, but in order to count for all involved parties, each must have a ketucari present in the piece. These pieces can double as any group activity but cannot be used in a second raffle here or in another group.

 Only one Wanderer may be included per piece (ie, you cannot depict all six in one piece and use it as an entry for all of them). However, if collaborating pieces, more than one Wanderer may be included at a rate of One Per Person. However each player may only use one piece to enter for one Wanderer.
-i.e. Players 1, 2 and 3 collab on a piece with Hydrangea, Aletha, and Jed. Player 1 can use the piece to enter for Hydrangea, Aletha, or Jed, but not all three. Player 2 can do the same, as well as Player 3.

 

Remember that until they're raffled off, Wanderers are group owned. R rated entries and entries that are found to be disrespectful to either the Wanderer or any real life person, collective group of people, or culture, can be refused and rejected. They're allowed to be portrayed as creepy, or as villains if you like, but they Must be portrayed with respect, if only for the sake of the future owners.

 

Entries cannot double-dip into multiple raffles unless stated otherwise. Noted exceptions are the Annual WaLoS Raffle, and the Annual Eros and Firn slot raffles. Any other Event Raffles are a "no" unless stated otherwise.
This includes the raffles and draw to adopts in other species.

This mostly applies to literature, as it's harder to have blatant disrespect in visual mediums. However, as a bit of a rubric for the sorts of things that might ping as disrespectful:

-Non-spoken lines making fun of the character (such as calling them "gross")
-high number of "in character" or spoken lines making fun of the character
-calling them "it" (or any other pronoun) in a way that deprives the character of personhood (some Wanderers may use it/its! Respect that if/when it ocurrs!) (Your character is allowed to be mistaken, please try to be clear this is a character mistake and not an authorial one)
-entries that feel like they were written from a place of Disliking the character (we understand this is subjective, and other factors will be looked at)
-entries using the character as a mouthpiece for any sorts of views that deny other characters (or any people, groups of people, or cultures) personhood and basic dignity
-entries using the character as a vessel to insult other characters, players, admins, or other species
-portraying them as an obvious charicature of any ethnic group.
-uses slurs against them or involves them using slurs.

 

There will be up to 6 total winners, labelled 1-6. Winners will be asked to list the Wanderers they want in order of preference based on which number they have and who they put in entries for (you cannot put in a Parvana entry and win Chalco, for example, but if you only entered for Chalco you get priority on Chalco).
-i.e. if you are the only person to put in an entry on both Galaeth and Emplisi, you may choose which slot you would prefer to get, instead of receiving Galaeth by default.

-As of Season 5, in the event of low slot turnout players may win multiple slots per month! e.g. if you are the only entrant for Fiiro and Draconis Hart, you get both slots!

You may include multiple entries in one comment.

 Comment your entry here:
April 2025 (Current)
March 2025

METAMORPHIC FLOW / METAMORPHIC CHROMATA

With the release of Metamorphic, we're hosting a special offer:

ALL extant ketucari genos and imports who have Flow or Chromata (marked by "flowing" or "chromatic" in their phenotypes) and were bred or uploaded PRIOR to March 1st 2025, may have Metamorphic added for free if their player chooses.

If you are interested in this offer and have elligible Ketucari, please post >HERE<

Yearly Import Raffle
-CURRENTLY Closed-

Each year, the Wanderers will retire from their journey and seek a permanent residence as new pack members take their place. That means they could even end up with you!


Before we get started we need to establish a few things, however. As the Wanderers are not just fancy imports but characters you all have been developing through the year, we want to make the ownership rules clear.

Wanderers may not be redesigned. Tokens may be added if applicable, and accessories, Elemental Blessings, and new backgrounds can be added, but the actual character cannot be redesigned.

Wanderers may Not be resold for USD.

No Deceasing the import. If you don't want them, gift/trade them to someone else or give them back to the group. Imports returned to the group will not be re-raffled without your approval.

The New Owner may Not change their Wanderer's Attunement without use of the Attunement Shift item.

The New Owner will need to complete their Wanderer's Breeding Eligibility. Their Breeding Comment will be "locked" before they are transferred to their new owner. Slots written by the Matriarchs-Haunt account will not count against the Wanderer's used or total Slots.

The new Owner must be aware that their Wanderer will not keep their built in Guardian or Sun Disk.

If a Wanderer is somehow Unclaimed it will remain group-owned as a starter.

The New Owner must be aware that their Wanderer will maintain their "Starter" status and may be added to lineages as needed.

With that established, here is how

 

How to Enter
-CURRENTLY CLOSED-

As with the Slot Raffle, you must create a piece that meets our minimum Group Submission Requirements showing one of your ketucari interacting with the Wanderer who's slot you would like to win! THESE PIECES MAY BE COMMISSIONED. Commissioned entries may be used by both Commissioner and Commissionee as long as each has a ket present in the piece. Collaborations are allowed, but in order to count for all involved parties, each must have a ketucari present in the piece. These pieces can double as any group activity but cannot be used in a second raffle here or in another group.

UNLIKE with the Slots, you may include up to 3 Wanderers in an entry and it will count for all of them.

There will be up to 6 total winners, labelled 1-6*.  Winners will be asked to list the Wanderers they want in order of preference based on which number they have and who they put in entries for (you cannot put in a Emplisi entry and win Fiiro, for example, but if you only entered for Fiiro you get priority on Fiiro).
*Rolling is done in 3 waves: First we determine if a Wanderer has only one entry, and if so they go to that person, then we determine if that disqualifies anyone from the RNG Process/Leaves another Wanderer with only 1 valid Entry. If there are Wanderers left after this process, RNG is done and the winners are numbered in rolling order to give their preference list.

A player can win more than one Wanderer in the following conditions:

- They are the sole entrant for more than one Wanderer
- There are fewer than 6 total entrants and multiple people entered for multiple Wanderers

- If there is somehow a "leftover" Wanderer who has an entry in, but for whatever reason they didn't go out in the First or Second rolling phase.

 

Reputation System

Starting in 2024, Wanderers will have a Reputation system. What this is, is essentially a reward for commitment towards a given Wanderer. Entering for Slots to that Wanderer will increase your chances of winning Ownership of them if you enter the ownership raffle.

If you have Two entries for slots to any specific Wanderer throughout the year, you can gain +1 entry into the Ownership raffle for that particular Wanderer.

How this works in practice is essentially increased priority over others who Don't have that +1, where if you and one other player both enter for Draconis Hart and no other Wanderer, and no one else entered for Draconis Hart, and you have the +1 and they don't, you're going to be the one to receive Draconis Hart.
If you enter for multiple Wanderers, and we have a year where there's competition for them and we actually need to use the raffle list, your name will be entered twice so you have a higher chance of winning.

 

Comment your entry here: >CURRENTLY CLOSED< 

Current Wanderers are due to be adopted out on March 1st, 2026

Eagle-eyed players might notice something a little different about two of our oldest crafting disciplines today. We've overhauled Archaeology and Alchemy to be more accessible and straightforward, and now the results are ready for everyone to enjoy!

Archaeology

Archaeology has always been a bit of an odd duck-- artifacts operated on a completely different system from other disciplines' items. While the idea of piecing things back together was a cool concept, in practice the RNG of getting exactly the pieces you needed to complete an artifact started to resemble getting something good out of a rather unbalanced gacha. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Archaeology recipes have been completely retooled-- artifact pieces are now non-numbered "fragments". The number of fragments needed to reconstruct an artifact is equal to the number of pieces it had previously. As balance for the fact that archaeology recipes no longer depend on obtaining a number of unique items, ore or Engineering parts have been added (as raw material or tools to reconstruct any missing pieces). 

While all activity rewards should be converted to the new system (if you still end up with some old style pieces dropping, it's a bug! Please let us know!), there's still a ton of old-style pieces still out there. All piece 1s have been seamlessly converted to the new fragment items, but if you still have any other numbered pieces,  don't worry! We'll accept them in craftings and transmutations as if they were fragments. If you really want to declutter your inventory, you can send them into Claims and one of us will convert them. Just please don't do more than five unique items [for instance, a Stone Tablet (2/4) and a (3/4) would be two unique items] or 20 total artifact pieces per claim to avoid math mixups on either your end or ours!

Additionally, legendary archaeologists have gotten a rather special present. By popular request (and as a result of how seldom we have raids), codex pages are now craftable! This is a little tricky, to suit the value of such rare items-- creating the items neccessary will require having an Advanced Alchemist (or Cook) and an Advanced Armorsmith. (Or you could just ask someone else to craft for you. :P) In addition, codex pages require offerings in exchange. 

Alchemy

The main draw of alchemy has always been the custom potion system-- put herbs in, get stats out. However, custom potions are complex and resource-intensive, and that's been called out as a particular pain point over the years. As a result, we've given potions a complete overhaul! 

The old custom potions have been completely retired. All potions currently in player inventories will still be valid, but no new old-style potions will be craftable or issued as group rewards. The new system is less open-ended, but hopefully more flexible and easier to grasp.

A potion can now only boost one stat at once, and has been standardized to require 10 herbs or animal parts (equivalant to an old-style potion with two stacks).  All ranks except for low now give a higher boost per herb, with the advantage increasing the higher rank materials you use. Using two stacks as a comparison point, medium ranked potions have gone from +20 to +25; high has gone from +30 to +50, and a legendary potion has gone from +40 to +100(!). Binding Reagants have had another price cut, with a regular reagant going from 25g to 15g, and a fateful has been taken from 15g to 10g. While items from different tiers can no longer be mixed, the new potion types allow for a little bit of a new sort of mixing and matching...

Unbound potions have also been majorly buffed, since very few players used them (for good reason!). They now give double the stat boost of their bound counterpart for a single activity, and can boost a ketucari's stats beyond the usual cap. (Hey, maybe a good combination with one of those fancy laurel shop boosters?)

Miscellaneous

As a special thank you (and to help give folks who might not have a high-statted ket just yet or have been away from the game for a while), we're doing a present of a set of special potions that can max out a ketucari's stats. Please submit to this prompt to claim yours-- just remember that you can only claim once per user!

Many legendary Archaeology items (and a few assorted others) have had their descriptions edited for clarity and in a few cases, more inclusive language. This will probably be an ongoing process, so drop a note here or in the Discord if there's anything that particularly sticks out to you! 

We're also in the process of porting more group pages off dA and onto the site-- please mind the dust! An extra special thank you to Wolfenru for handling a ton of that for us. And just to let you know, today's crafting updates aren't the only revamp in the pipe... 

-Sian (pawstepsinthesnow)

The Wanderers

Every month, the group will be raffling off one slot to each of the above ketucari!

 There are no restrictions on the usage of these slots.

 Each slot also comes with a "built in" Sundisk of Nyssa, so that you may breed them with a male or female ketucari. They also do not require a litter guard.

 You may enter once per ketucari, but you may only win one Wanderer slot total for the month.

 Wanderers may be bred together if you happen to collect more than one slot over the course of a few months.

 Wanderers are guaranteed to pass on their new gene(s), regardless of rarity, to at least one cub in the litter in breedings they take part in during the first 6 months that they’re active. New genes will be guaranteed to drop through September.

How to Enter

 Simply create a piece that meets our minimum Group Submission Requirements showing one of your ketucari interacting with the Wanderer who's slot you would like to win! Collaborations are allowed, but in order to count for all involved parties, each must have a ketucari present in the piece. These pieces can double as any group activity but cannot be used in a second raffle here or in another group.

 Only one Wanderer may be included per piece (ie, you cannot depict all six in one piece and use it as an entry for all of them). However, if collaborating pieces, more than one Wanderer may be included at a rate of One Per Person. However each player may only use one piece to enter for one Wanderer.
-i.e. Players 1, 2 and 3 collab on a piece with Hydrangea, Aletha, and Jed. Player 1 can use the piece to enter for Hydrangea, Aletha, or Jed, but not all three. Player 2 can do the same, as well as Player 3.

 

Remember that until they're raffled off, Wanderers are group owned. R rated entries and entries that are found to be disrespectful to either the Wanderer or any real life person, collective group of people, or culture, can be refused and rejected. They're allowed to be portrayed as creepy, or as villains if you like, but they Must be portrayed with respect, if only for the sake of the future owners.

 

Entries cannot double-dip into multiple raffles unless stated otherwise. Noted exceptions are the Annual WaLoS Raffle, and the Annual Eros and Firn slot raffles. Any other Event Raffles are a "no" unless stated otherwise.
This includes the raffles and draw to adopts in other species.

This mostly applies to literature, as it's harder to have blatant disrespect in visual mediums. However, as a bit of a rubric for the sorts of things that might ping as disrespectful:

-Non-spoken lines making fun of the character (such as calling them "gross")
-high number of "in character" or spoken lines making fun of the character
-calling them "it" (or any other pronoun) in a way that deprives the character of personhood (some Wanderers may use it/its! Respect that if/when it ocurrs!) (Your character is allowed to be mistaken, please try to be clear this is a character mistake and not an authorial one)
-entries that feel like they were written from a place of Disliking the character (we understand this is subjective, and other factors will be looked at)
-entries using the character as a mouthpiece for any sorts of views that deny other characters (or any people, groups of people, or cultures) personhood and basic dignity
-entries using the character as a vessel to insult other characters, players, admins, or other species
-portraying them as an obvious charicature of any ethnic group.
-uses slurs against them or involves them using slurs.

 

There will be up to 6 total winners, labelled 1-6. Winners will be asked to list the Wanderers they want in order of preference based on which number they have and who they put in entries for (you cannot put in a Sylphy entry and win Kurra, for example, but if you only entered for Jed you get priority on Jed).
-i.e. if you are the only person to put in an entry on both Hydrangea and Jed, you may choose which slot you would prefer to get, instead of receiving Jed by default.

-As of Season 5, in the event of low slot turnout players may win multiple slots per month! e.g. if you are the only entrant for Aletha and Kurra, you get both slots!

You may include multiple entries in one comment.

 Comment your entry here:
February 2025 (Current)
January 2025
December 2024

November 2024

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April 2024

March 2024

Start-Of-Season Bonus Raffle

For March and April, we have a bonus raffle, due to accidentally not including the Deep Well modifier in our list of wanderers! (oops)

Skaði has come out from Rastyn's territories in Aegrus to join the Wanderers for a couple of months! They have the Deep Well modifer, Brow horns, and Spur horns from this year, as well as Noisy Wrought and Maltese from last year!

Raffle Closed! 
Skaði has returned to Rastyn's territories for now

Skaði is a regular starter and will not be raffled off for ownership.

Yearly Import Raffle
-CURRENTLY OPEN-

Each year, the Wanderers will retire from their journey and seek a permanent residence as new pack members take their place. That means they could even end up with you!


Before we get started we need to establish a few things, however. As the Wanderers are not just fancy imports but characters you all have been developing through the year, we want to make the ownership rules clear.


Wanderers may not be redesigned. Tokens may be added if applicable, and accessories, Elemental Blessings, and new backgrounds can be added, but the actual character cannot be redesigned.

Wanderers may Not be resold for USD.

No Deceasing the import. If you don't want them, gift/trade them to someone else or give them back to the group. Imports returned to the group will not be re-raffled without your approval.

The New Owner may Not change their Wanderer's Attunement without use of the Attunement Shift item.

The New Owner will need to complete their Wanderer's Breeding Eligibility. Their Breeding Comment will be "locked" before they are transferred to their new owner. Slots written by the Matriarchs-Haunt account will not count against the Wanderer's used or total Slots.

The new Owner must be aware that their Wanderer will not keep their built in Guardian or Sun Disk.

If a Wanderer is somehow Unclaimed it will remain group-owned as a starter.

The New Owner must be aware that their Wanderer will maintain their "Starter" status and may be added to lineages as needed.

With that established, here is how

 

How to Enter
-CURRENTLY OPEN-

As with the Slot Raffle, you must create a piece that meets our minimum Group Submission Requirements showing one of your ketucari interacting with the Wanderer who's slot you would like to win! THESE PIECES MAY BE COMMISSIONED. Commissioned entries may be used by both Commissioner and Commissionee as long as each has a ket present in the piece. Collaborations are allowed, but in order to count for all involved parties, each must have a ketucari present in the piece. These pieces can double as any group activity but cannot be used in a second raffle here or in another group.

UNLIKE with the Slots, you may include up to 3 Wanderers in an entry and it will count for all of them.

There will be up to 6 total winners, labelled 1-6. Winners will be asked to list the Wanderers they want in order of preference based on which number they have and who they put in entries for (you cannot put in a Geiger entry and win Leslie, for example, but if you only entered for Geiger you get priority on Geiger).

A player can win more than one Wanderer in the following conditions:

- They are the sole entrant for more than one Wanderer
- There are fewer than 6 total entrants and multiple people entered for multiple Wanderers

- If there is somehow a "leftover" Wanderer who has an entry in, but for whatever reason they didn't go out in the First or Second rolling phase.

 

Reputation System

Starting in 2024, Wanderers will have a Reputation system. What this is, is essentially a reward for commitment towards a given Wanderer. Entering for Slots to that Wanderer will increase your chances of winning Ownership of them if you enter the ownership raffle.

If you have Two entries for slots to any specific Wanderer throughout the year, you can gain +1 entry into the Ownership raffle for that particular Wanderer.

How this works in practice is essentially increased priority over others who Don't have that +1, where if you and one other player both enter for Sylphy and no other Wanderer, and no one else entered for Sylphy, and you have the +1 and they don't, you're going to be the one to receive Sylphy.
If you enter for multiple Wanderers, and we have a year where there's competition for them and we actually need to use the raffle list, your name will be entered twice so you have a higher chance of winning.

 

Comment your entry here: >CURRENTLY OPEN< 

Current Wanderers are due to be adopted out on March 1st, 2025

WELCOME TO THE SOLSTICE FESTIVAL!

(Kaur is mad about festivity by Anarchisme)

It's back!
Once more Suadriga emerges from the far north to bring joy and merriment to those who have survived another year.
And this time, he brought a Feast!

However, to partake in the feast, you must do well unto your neighbor! What does that mean?
Gifts.

So many Gifts.

For Twelve Days, he will be handing out presents.

You may enter for each present only once, and only on the day that it is being offered.

How do you receive a gift?
By giving one!

Daily Solstice Festival

Gifting

The requirements are simple!

Your minimum requirements are a colored headshot OR 100 words.
The catch? The ketucari CANNOT belong to you. No using Co-owns to get around this.

Your headshots may be sketchy, you may INCLUDE your own ketucari, but the focus should be on the recipient.
To account for this, we asked the lovely Draginraptor to fix up our Gift Art settings! They are now fully searchable, gift writing settings are now actually visible, and you can now set your gift setting en-masse if you want specific default settings!

There's one more catch to your gifts, however, in the spirit of trying to include everyone, and that is: You CANNOT gift to the same person two days in a row.
If you want to spoil your bestie rotten, that's fine! But every other day you have to share the love.
You may also only gift to a Starter once (unless additional Starters are Player-Owned Wanderers (please ask if you are uncertain)).

If you use the on-Site Gallery for your piece, please make sure you submit to the Winter gallery!
For anyone hosting their images outside of the site gallery, Please do be sure to share your art on THIS THREAD to ensure your recipient sees it!

Days and Rewards

Entering for even just 1 day enters you into the Holiday Ketucari Raffle!
Rollovers happen at 11:59 PM PST

Day 1 : December 19-20th
POST HERE
Rewards: 2 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet)

Day 2 : December 21st
POST HERE
Rewards: 3 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Angel Hare

Day 3 : December 22nd
POST HERE
Rewards: 4 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Trinket

Day 4 : December 23rd
POST HERE
Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Trinket, Bone Growth Shake

Day 5 : December 24th-26th
POST HERE
Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Trinket, Bamboo Stew

Day 6 : December 24th-26th
POST HERE
Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Trinket, Tangy Salad, Large Trinket

Day 7 : December 24th-26th
POST HERE
Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Trinket, Focus Draught x4

Day 8 : December 27th
POST HERE
Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Stoplight Stuffed Peppers, Sweet and Smokey Dinner, Iron Ore x10

Day 9 : December 28th
POST HERE
Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Peace Offering, Frostberry Pie, Bone Growth Shake

Day 10 : December 29th
POST HERE
Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Trinket, Large Trinket, Combo Slammer, Fragrant Roast

Day 11 : December 30th
POST HERE
Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Banshee Confit, Fertility Feast, Ambrosia Ale

Day 12 : December 31st
POST HERE
Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Lover's Banquet, Divine Wine, Frostberry Pie

Holiday ketucari Raffle

As per tradition, some new friends have come to join the festivities! Remember the birds seeking last year's goat? Well they're here this year!
If we get 5 raffle entries, a second ketucari will appear. If we get 10 raffle entries, a third will!
When you post your entry, please say whether or not you are joining the raffle!
As a reminder, free raffle ketucari cannot be sold for real life money.

Firn Slots Return!

This year there is NO limitation on who can enter for Firn slots! It doesn't matter how many Tauratu children or slots you may or may not have, or even if you own Tauratu yourself, you're welcome to enter for Firn's raffle!

This year Three Firn slots will be raffled!

-Firn slots may not be sold for real life currency, or traded outside of Ketucari
-If the Winner of the slot chooses to use the slot in a Split breeding, the Winner of the slot must get Pick of the Litter. This is to prevent more experienced players from taking advantage of newbies, which we have been seeing more of as of late.

Simply comment here to enter for Firn Slots!

TRICK OR TREAT!

Hello and welcome to a small Halloween event! It's back again!

Each day, a prompt will appear on this journal with a small prize for its completion! To complete each prompt, you only need to do  a headshot sketch OR 100 words, but if you meet our Minimum Art Requirements, you can also get your piece rolled as an adventure, skill, or other relevant roll! There will not be an additional prize for completing all 7 days, so don't worry if you miss one! However, you will only be able to complete each day's prompt on that day! Some prompts will be returning from last year, and many prizes will be returning!

Have a happy, safe, and haunted end of your October! Have fun!

Each prompt will show up at midnight pacific time!

TODAY'S PROMPT

The Raffle

We have a raffle again this year! To enter, you only need to make an entry for any day, and link it on the thread you want to enter on! One entry can be used for both raffles!

This raffle seems a little creepy... a little crawly... a little, uh, spider?

Atlach here is the starter for the Arachnid Ambusher lineage skill! 3 of its slots will be raffled!

-Atlach slots may not be sold for real life currency, or traded outside of Ketucari
-If the Winner of the slot chooses to use the slot in a Split breeding, the Winner of the slot must get Pick of the Litter. This is to prevent more experienced players from taking advantage of newbies, which we have been seeing more of as of late.

>Atlach's Thread<

If you're looking for a spider ketucari to take home, for the second year in a row Atlach's line has produced a grandchild, able to learn the Arachnid Ambusher skill at renowned, with Atlach on the second lineage line:

>Desmoxy's Thread<

Enjoy 7 Days!

The Veluchasm Festival!

Runs August 11, 2024 - 11:59 PM - September 30, 2024 (Pacific Time)

Sorry for the delay! We were trying to figure out what to do about a dA problem! Details at the end!
SECOND EXTENSION due to IRL issues on admin side!

We have drinks, streamers, sparklers, and aliens, no matter which world you’re celebrating on! The denizens of Velukaelo and those of the Chasm-Connected worlds have been aware of each other for years, and our celebration is back and better than ever!

While Ketucari and Rixixi have had relationships every now and again, something new has started to spring up - a hybrid species referred to as the Ketixi! With the help of B-NOMALY mechanic Steele and expert engineer Kenkasei, the B-NOMALY’s breeding safety machine was altered with tarn water to safely join the genes of Rixixi and Ketucari while filtering out all sorts of possible issues. While it is possible to create a Ketixi naturally, it is rare, so we recommend use of the machine!

Something else new has cropped up again - with further experiments to the breeding safety machine, Ketucari and B-NOMALIES have been able to hybridize into what passes as a bipedal companion on Velukaelo and a subtype of B-NOMALY in the Chasm! KETU-NOMALIES stand mostly bipedally, and have a few K-NOM specific traits such as Godkiller Face and Godkiller Hands due to their heritage!

Further, the Manticore Alchemy Ring has taken to certain traits of Ketixi, making new Ketixi Manticores. This is... normal, we're sure. We're not going to question them. It's probably fine.

Species Information: Ketixi

Other Feather Types: Bald | Fantail | Frizzle | Harpy | Jacobin | Lucerne | Nicobar | Phoenix | Silkie

A hybrid of Ketucari and Rixixi, Ketixi are bulky, muscular quadrupeds. Appearing similar to a combination of a Primal subspecies of Rixixi and a Ketucari no matter their actual Rixixi heritage, they primarily stand on four legs, but can walk in a bipedal stance for a short time, similar to ursines. Much like Rixixi, the Ketixi breathes through a vent system, visible on their sides. Much like Ketucari, they have a combination of fur and feathers covering their body, and their frill - both spiked and leathery as well as covered in feathers - is extremely expressive.

They are approximately the size of a Standard build Ketucari, standing 16-20 hands tall at the shoulder. Rixixi commonly measure their quadrupeds by length, and Ketixi are comparable to a large Primal, measuring 12-16 feet long from snout to tailtip on average.

Ketixi are all some form of intersex due to their Rixixi heritage. Due in part to their unusual heritage, they are all sterile.

Species Information: KETU-NOMALY

A hybrid of Ketucari and B-NOMALY, KETU-NOMALIES are classed as a subtype of B-NOMALY in the Chasm-Connected worlds, and as a bipedal companion in Velukaelo. Standing at around 3 feet tall (unless altered by mutations such as Giant, Dragon Body Type, or Always Anthro), these hybrids have B-NOMALY bodies and mutations, while bearing Ketucari-like faces (albeit with a second mouth covered in a beak like a B-NOMALY) and Ketucari-like hands, as well as modified B-NOMALY tails that appear closer to typical Ketucari tails.

Regardless of heritage, their Ketucari traits always appear similarly to standard Ketucari. They have access to all B-NOMALY mutations including Fogholder.

Despite their interspecies heritage, K-NOMs can breed, but only with other B-NOMALIES.

When filling out a form to create a KETU-NOMALY companion, please include both the Companion Race form and the B-NOMALY traits used.

Species Information: Ketixi Manticores

Other Feather Types: Bald | Fantail | Frizzle | Harpy | Jacobin | Lucerne | Nicobar | Phoenix | Silkie

Manticores are human.

The Manticore Alchemy Ring is a group of humans fascinated by both Rixixi and extreme body modifications, now branching out into Ketixi as well. They use a combination of body modification - including surgery - and gene splicing to make themself have the appearance of Rixixi, and now Ketixi as well, albeit bipedal Ketixi.

The full lore on Manticore body modifications can be found on the original Manticore page!

Manticores are human, but are not classed as Companions. This is to make their abilities and stats line up with the Chasmhome side better. Your gene-spliced humans are not restricted from any Ketucari activities other than breeding, they inherited the same infertility as Ketixi.

Ketixi Breeding

Each player can enter ONE KETUCARI and ONE RIXIXI into a breeding to get one Ketixi geno per breeding! Ketucari and Rixixi must both be breedable (or a starter) for this event, but the breedings will not reduce their total slots!

To enter a starter, you must do at least a colored headshot or 100 words of that starter!

You have 1 Breeding by default! By entering 2 of the main events and the advertising bonus here, you may obtain up to 3 additional breedings!

Breedings will not be subject to Matriarch Kills or infertility penalties. Breedings will be subject to radiation sickness and inbreeding penalties if relevant. Breeding boosters may not be used. Rixixi are considered to have a disk automatically and can breed with any ketucari gender-wise. These are all considered full litters to you, but you can do what you please with the cubs afterwards.

As Rixixi Subspecies can pass mutations inherently, Ketucari Builds have been granted the ability to pass mutations inherent to them as well, seen here on the second tab.

Starters with lineage skills, Wanderers, and Mechanix may not be rented for this event.
Here is a list of unavailable Ketucari with the ST- prefix.

Splits are disabled for this event, as breedings here will only result in one cub every time.

To enter, go HERE and comment with the following form:

Sire:
Permission:

x

Dam:
Permission:

Additional Information: [If you’re leasing a starter, the art goes here. Any other relevant information goes here, such as links to proofs for additional breedings.]

Ketixi Semicustoms

Would you rather have something definite than a random breeding? Having trouble picking out a good pair? Have we got an option for you. You can trade in one of your breedings for a semicustom! The semi will come with 4 Common Markings, 2 Uncommon Markings, and 2 Mutations by default, and you can add on items to increase that amount.

Combination Mutations count as rare genes, but the 2 mutations can be used to make a combination mutation if desired.

To increase the default further, you can draw a colored headshot gift of someone else's Ketucari.com or Chasmho.me character (any species as long as they have an import!) for a Rare gene OR Feather type. To get BOTH a Rare gene AND Feather type, you can upgrade that gift art to a colored fullbody! Make sure the other person's character is marked as open for gift art, or ask first! Gifting art to starters and NPCs does not count for this.

This trade can only be done twice per Veluchasm event.
One can optionally be a Cloning Vat style semi-custom (with the Cloning Vat item included and not needing to be used), with details HERE.

To trade for a Semicustom, go to THIS THREAD with this information!

Breeding proof: [If it was your original breeding, just state as such]
Desired genes:
Other information: [Such as gift art or details for Cloning Vat! Make sure to also send your gift art manually, Lorekeeper doesn't ping in comments]

Additionally: You can claim one Manticore Ketixi Semicustom optionally by doing any event in Veluchasm! This does not use up the event (it can be redeemed for other things), and does not use up any of your semicustoms. Go to the regular Semicustom Trade thread with your event to turn in and the rest of your information and just put that it's a Manticore Ketixi Semicustom in the Other information section!
Ketixi Manticores have the same rules as regular Semicustoms (including gifting rules),  except that Feather Types can be freely used. They are kind of the draw of the Manticores.
Manticores can also be used for your regular Semicustoms, there's just also a free manticore for your troubles!
Remember that Manticores have restrictions on mutations!

Design Station

Intimidated by mutations? Lost? Busy? You can request a design from an admin HERE! - just link to your Ketixi geno!

You can specifically request Anarchie , IIIXKitsuneXIII , or AutumnDarkCloud as designer if desired!

Designs may take a bit longer than last year's average time due to outstanding obligations. Sorry! Life stuff, yknow

Slot Gifting

Have a breedable Ketucari or Rixixi that you want to give slots out for this event, but are unsure how to do that for this since slots aren’t used? Use THIS THREAD to give a slot to a specific player (or give permission for anyone at all to use the slot), with this form! The Ketucari and Rixixi discords are good places to advertise your Ketu/Ixi’s breedable services, so why not sign up?

Please specify if you want your slot to be available for Cloning Vat semicustoms. Cloning Vat slots cannot be signed to Anyone, they have to be to a specific user.

As these do not take from your Ketucari or Rixixi's slot count, slots for this should be gifted, not sold - they should generally be free. Putting them up for pay what you want offers is allowed as long as free is an option. There can be an option to pay as long as it is not a requirement! Thank you!

Link to import: [Ket/Ixi]
Slot recipient: @ username [Please note that Lorekeeper doesn't ping in comments - send them their slot manually please!]

Manticore Alchemy Ring: Ketixi Live Transmutation

"Welcome, welcome. Let's see what we can do to you."

All players can do Live Transmutation for free ONCE per Veluchasm. To do Live Transmutation in Veluchasm, you'll need one Rixixi geno and one Ketucari geno, both unuploaded.

Veluchasm Live Transmutation uses the same RNG as regular Live Transmutation, with the following modifications:

• All fusions become Ketixi. A fusion into a Manticore becomes a Ketixi Manticore. Blanks are Ketixi.
• Genes that transfer to the other species turn into their counterpart. Genes may disappear if they have no counterpart. If a majority of genes would disappear, a reroll may occur.
• If not fused, Ketucari cannot have mutations and Rixixi cannot have feather types. If the option rolls to pull only mutations from the other geno, either reroll or use the assigned mutations for each ketucari build.

To enter, go HERE and comment with the following form:

Geno 1:
Proof:

x

Geno 2:
Proof:

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Main Event 1

There are all sorts of folks to meet at the Festival, and it’s held on all of the Chasm-Connected worlds as well as Velukaelo! While you’re here, why not introduce yourself to someone new? It could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship!

Depict your own Ketucari, Rixixi, or B-NOMALY meeting a different world’s sapient species at the festival! Entries should meet Ketucari’s minimum art requirements - the character you’re meeting does not count as an extra character for wordcount purposes. For the other character, you can use your own characters, starters, or others’ Ixi/Ketucari, but make sure to have permission if drawing others’. It is allowed to draw non-Ixi/Ketucari sapients, such as Heldyr or Arakanth.

You can commission art pieces for this if you want to!

Post your pieces on THIS THREAD, and list your Ketucari.com and Chasmho.me usernames!

Rewards:

• +1 Ketixi Breeding
• 50x Gold and 50x Summer Pops
• (CHOOSE ONE) Primal Crown Primary Horn Token OR Cheek Frill Tertiary Horn Token OR Colorpitch Token OR Gemcrafted Shard - Colorpitch OR Anarchic Fogshard Token

Main Event 2

Exploring other worlds is exciting! One of the most interesting parts is all the new creatures you might meet. While traveling along, see if you have an encounter with something. Make sure to approach from a safe distance, and maybe you’ll have a pleasant experience!

Depict your own Ketucari, Rixixi, or B-NOMALY meeting a different world’s fauna! Entries should meet Ketucari’s minimum art requirements. If you need to find some fauna to choose from, explore Ketucari’s Zone Pages or Chasmhome’s Bestiary (note that sapients are listed in the Chasmhome bestiary as well -this prompt is for nonsapients OR companions, regardless of sapience status)!

You can commission art pieces for this if you want to!

Post your pieces on THIS THREAD, and list your Ketucari.com and Chasmho.me usernames as well as your Roothorne color choice!

Rewards:

• +1 Ketixi Breeding
• 1x Roothorne of Your Choice, sent to both your Chasmhome and Ketucari accounts Note: The Chasmhome version of the Roothorne only comes in one color, but can be reskinned.

Main Event 3

Finally, the KETU-NOMALY one! Various B-NOMALIES and Ketucari are curious about the breeding safety machine, wondering what it can make, the more casual among them wondering who to borrow to try for something interesting. Why don't you give them some ideas?

Design a K-NOM! Make sure you're using B-NOMALY traits (both B-Class and ANARCHIE allowed) for the physical features, and using the mandatory ones like Godkiller Face, Godkiller Hands, Long Tail, and Feather Duster! You have no restriction on how many Anarchic traits you can use, and Fogholder is allowed. Go wild. Fullbody with color or 300 words required.
You do not have to actually keep this design as a character, but if you want to, the option is available! Just take it to the link in Companion Races, use both the provided companion form and list all of the B-NOMALY traits used!

You can commission art pieces for this if you want to!

Post your pieces on THIS THREAD, and list your Ketucari.com and Chasmho.me usernames!

Rewards:

• +1 Friendship Bracelet
• +1 Silver Nskanetian Token and 1 Anarchic Fogshard Token!

Advertising Bonus

We’d like more people to hear about Ketucari and Rixixi! If you could advertise our event here through a status, journal, poll, or other similar sort of thing, we’ll give you your choice of ONE of the following!:

• 100 Gold & 100 Summer Pops
• The ability to claim a Newbie Pack/Chasmhome’s Welcome Pack for a second time (make sure to link your comment here when claiming it as proof that you can claim again!)
• +1 Ketixi Breeding

AND your choice of (comes with all options):

• Primal Crown primary horn token (ketucari)
• Cheek Frill tertiary horn token (ketucari)
• Colorpitch token (ketucari)
• Gemcrafted Shard - Colorpitch (rixixi)
• Anarchic Fogshard Token (bnom)

Post your proofs on THIS THREAD with the following form:

Ketucari.com and Chasmho.me usernames:
Advertisement link:
What rewards do you want?:

Advertising through non-dA sites and even discord is allowed and encouraged! Make sure to grab a screenshot if using discord!

Raffle

We have several pre-designed Ketixi, KETU-NOMALIES, and Manticores looking for homes! To enter for one, please respond to the corresponding comment with an art entry meeting Ketucari’s minimum art requirements involving your Ketucari/Rixixi/B-NOMALY meeting the raffle Ketixi or K-NOM in some way! These can be used as activities for both Rixixi and Ketucari!

Raffle Entries may NOT be NSFW.

You can commission art pieces for this if you want to!

Enter your raffle pieces on each Ketixi or K-NOM’s thread! One entry per person per Ketixi/K-NOM/Manticore, please!

Ketucari upload | Chasmhome upload

Needle's thread

Ketucari upload | Chasmhome upload

Finn's thread

Ketucari upload | Chasmhome upload

Streusel's thread

Ketucari upload | Chasmhome upload

Iano's thread

Ketucari upload | Chasmhome upload

Euclid's thread

Ketucari upload | Chasmhome upload

Dynamite's thread
Dynamite has Ultraviolet and has an alternate color scheme.

Ketucari upload | Chasmhome upload

J.J.'s thread

Technical Details

Ketixi and Ketixi Manticores are infertile and cannot breed. They can only be obtained in this event - they will not be able to be obtained via semicustoms, build changes, fogshards, or other methods.

KETU-NOMALIES can breed, but only with B-NOMALIES. They can be obtained in the Veluchasm event or through regular Companion-obtaining means, but cannot be obtained through Chasmhome MYOs. Godkiller traits for B-NOMALIES are only obtainable through these methods or through passing them down in breeding, they are not available in MYOs, trait swaps, and otherwise. KETU-NOMALIES will not have a lineage due to not being bred, except for certain raffle KETU-NOMALIES, this is just as a bit of a fun fact about where they came from.

Ketixi, KETU-NOMALIES, and Ketixi Manticores will be uploaded to both Chasmhome and Ketucari’s lorekeeper. These imports will have separate stats and some separate details, such as which companions will be uploaded to them, what items they can equip, and so on. The Chasmhome upload can be used on Chasmhome and uses items/quests/prompts native to that site, and Ketucari’s can be used on Ketucari.com and uses Ketucari items/quests/prompts. Rolls of Ketixi and KETU-NOMALIES can double-dip on both Ketucari and Chasmhome. Visual changes carry over to both uploads - if a Ketucari background is used, it will display on both Ketucari and Chasmhome. If a K-NOM's trait is changed on Chasmhome, the image will be changed on Ketucari to reflect that. If an element is learned via Chasmhome and leveled up to the point that it can display, it can display on both Ketucari and Chasmhome. Similar things can double up - you can have an elemental blessing and display elemental radiation.

As a result of their double import, Ketixi and Ketixi Manticores need to be submitted to both design approvals. There is a Ketixi thread in Ketucari and Rixixi’s design approval - use two separate stash files, one with Ketucari’s import details and one with Rixixi’s, and drop these off in the individual threads.

2024 Update: While Rixixi's Design Approval is currently taken down for a geno to MYO update, the Ketixi thread is not closed. On the Rixixi side, your Ketixi will be uploaded as a MYO - there is a guide to submitting MYO genos on Lorekeeper here. On the Ketucari side, they will be written up as a geno. Despite us not uploading on deviantArt anymore, you may still submit to Stash and go to the Design Approval thread. (we are plotting out alternate ways to do this) and just delete after it's uploaded to the Lorekeeper.

However, to keep things simple, KETU-NOMALIES only need to be submitted to the regular companion approvals with a modified form. Please include both the form found at Companion Races as well as all B-NOMALY traits used in the design so we can properly approve them.

Ketixi and Ketixi Manticores have a limited gene pool as well as several genes combined from both species. To exist on the Ketixi list, there must be a similar gene on both species. The full list is HERE, on the second tab!

You may use geno-editing items on your Ketixi and Ketixi Manticores, such as tokens, fogshard pieces, and statues. Tokens do not have a limit for Ketixi. If using a token/fogshard gene that was fused from two genes for Ketixi to make a new unique gene (eg. Sunny Ember), either the relevant fogshard or token will work. (a Sun Chrono fogshard, an Ember token). Supercharged Alchemy fogshards cannot trade the unique fused genes to a Rixixi, as they cannot be on regular Rixixi.

Mutations must be added by the designer, mutation bases will not be made for Ketixi or Ketixi Manticores. Mutations that exist in Rixixi and Ketucari can both pass on the same geno - double albinism is possible, for instance. Horns use Rixixi rules - they are fully customizable and can go anywhere on the head. You can use Ketucari bases for Ketixi horns if desired, but you will have to move them to make them fit.

If a Rixixi Fur Mutation passes, you will be asked what feather type you want it to be replaced by. This may change in the future if we run this event again and more Fur Mutations are released by then!

Veluchasm Changelog 2024

• Added Ketixi Manticores
• Added Live Transmutation
• Ketucari Builds now grant inherent mutations to Ketixi in breedings
• Added list of unavailable Ketucari starters
• Added the following genes: Aura, Boar, Chain, Luster, Lycaon, Oil Paint, Penumbra, Rainstreaks, Skink, Ventspots, Well (+Deep Well)
• Added Bib as counterpart for Quail, Stamped as counterpart for Stamped
• DEVIANTART PROBLEMS.
• You may have noticed that we did not upload anything to deviantArt but the import templates. DeviantArt has started auto-adding tags on upload to stash, suggesting tags on upload of image (specifically: if a psd is uploaded with no preview it will not suggest tags, but when the preview is added the tags are suggested), and doing other things that make it clear not only has AI been touching our shit all along, it bypasses the noAI option, and also is being applied before the noAI option can be checked. One of the ketixi imports had the 'arpg' tag auto-applied, making it clear that imports are in dA's AI system. All that said: WE DO NOT FEEL COMFORTABLE POSTING ON DEVIANTART AT ALL IF POSSIBLE NOW. Resources may be posted on deviantArt for accessibility. Imports will not longer be. This was the cause of the delay as we tried to decide how to deal with this and make sure we could handle moving things to the site. Thank you for your patience.

Hianlian has finally ceased fighting! Congratulations on an incredible raid! A 1-month KO-free period is now in effect over the Singing Vale for all ketucari, and rewards are open for the raid!

Rewards are now open!