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The Serpent's Bluff is vibrant this time of year! A lively festival is going on, inviting Guides and Seekers from all over the archipelago into Coast City for the month.

You happen to be one of those individuals, and while walking past the lagoon, you hear a whispered voice, beckoning you towards the crystalline waters. There, right in front of you, floats a mysterious scroll...

Visit the new and improved Magic Academy in the Bluffwoods...

The voice says, before disappearing. Unfurling the scroll you've been given, you see a strange manual:

Is that... no it can't be... 

Maybe Toro knows something?

❥ Ask Toro about Selene

May 20, 2023 – Spring Fair Mixed Batch! (FCFS Flatsale)

May 30-31, 2023 - Tidetouched MYO Sale

Our prompts have updated! Please head over to the prompts page to view them all! 

The main prompt will be the May 2023 Monthly prompt.

❥ CRITTER MUTATION POTION (image above) IS RETIRING! Unfortunately, this item is no longer relevant lorewise, and is not very popular. It's also very hard to manage custom critter subspecies submissions. If you have submitted custom critters in the past, they are still valid! Just that no more can be made using the mutation potion. The item has been removed from the site.

❥ GUIDE AND SEEK INVENTORY GOOGLE SHEET IS NO LONGER UPDATING. I forgot to really put up a notice on our google sheet before, but recently I did. A friendly reminder that we no longer keep track of owned items outside of the site. So for your items to be fully valid, you must have a site account. 

Happy April everyone! The meadows of the GnS Isle are filled with flocks of Meep, as well as packs of Mep. The clambs look a bit perplexed and agitated.

April 9, 2023 – A strange phenomena (Mystery, FCFS Pobble batch!)

April 26, 2023 - Wagashi Tea House Batch (On base flaffle designs, collab batch by studiomaz and asurasleeping)

Our prompts have updated! Please head over to the prompts page to view them all! We have a few new prompts and a rerunning pobble prompt!

The main prompt will be the April 2023 Monthly prompt.

As some of you have noticed, we have several prompts which are tied to specific seasons (eg. seasonal flipsides, gear up for summer, fall time fashion, too much of a squash thing). These prompts will run for 3 months each, to cover each season! We will be adding more as time passes as well. We will also be expanding on critter prompts, and giving out critter focused rewards and pets!

Ahem. Apologies for the mess the slabs made earlier this week. 

Toro and Selene's fake shop will be open for 1 more day! All items have been verified by staff as an apology for the weirdness. They are 100% useable and legitimate, albeit a bit funky looking. Think of it as a fancy limited time item skin, hahahaa... let's hope more are never made.

We will be hosting an easter hunt on our discord on easter weekend! It will be a different kind of hunting you're usually used to, but hopefully still fun! Each hidden egg will come with unique goodies. An announcement will be made once it starts, with a few select rules.

The tidetouched fellows from the smaller, inferior Guide and Seek Isle (*coughs*, this is not the time to get patriotic) are hosting a grand spring festival next month! They promise games, food, shops and critter showcases. It sounds like quite a blast, for a small, beachtown of an island - anyway, you're all invited!!! Keep an eye and ear out (none of which seekers have, sorry about that) for updates!

Hmm... orvaslab sightings this month has increased dramatically... If you see any hints of them around the Isle (site), it is highly recommended to grab (click) them! It is known that orvaslabs often lead to amazing treasure, specifically of the overgrown variety...

This is a mini scavenger hunt/puzzle event!

Browse around the site, looking for signs of Orvaslab. Orvaslab's official appearance is shown in the section above. They are a small yellow slabster with a yellow flower bush hairpiece. If you find them, CLICK CLICK CLICK! Careful though, as some things that may appear like Orvaslab, but are just plain leaves/rocks.

Clicking on a correct orvaslab will lead you to a hint page! There are 4 orvaslabs that can give you hints. There is something important to note about them:

1 always tells the truth, 1 always lies, and 2 will tell 1 lie and 1 truth each.

You will be looking for a location from the hints. Once you think you have the correct location, please input it into the latter section of the below link, like this:

>> https://guides-and-seekers.com/info/locationhere <<

Extra location hints:

- There are no spaces, numbers, or non letter symbols.

- The location is pretty specific, so it goes like [location][specific part of location] (eg. cityoflightsbuilding, paradiseoasiscave, etc)

- An example of a (working) secret page is here: https://guides-and-seekers.com/info/thelonelypebbling

If you get the link correct, it will lead you to a special, secret page, where you can collect all sorts of treasure!! If your link leads to an error, it means you got it wrong.

This page all you need to figure out the location the slabs are hinting at. Browsing through it is highly recommended (for future puzzle events as well)

WORLD LORE INFO PAGE

Happy March everyone!! Ever slowly, the land starts to turn green, and creeks again begin to bubble. Don't get lost in all the vegetation!

March 18th, 2023 – March Birthday Bash Batch by honeydebt (FCFS flatsale + free raffle)

Honeydebt has wonderfully volunteered to create a batch featuring our favorite mutated dumplings! We are both March babies so this is a wonderful surprise and lovely idea! 

Our prompts have updated! Please head over to the prompts page to view them all! 

The main prompt will be the March 2022 Monthly prompt, with 2 new and 1 returning prompt! 

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Many things happen in March! It is also known to be an exceptionally... lucky month!

Keep an eye on on March 17 for the start of a small site-only mini event! You may be able to snag some overgrown dumplings, among other items!

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O, and, well, speaking of events... Have you talked to the NPCs yet? They may have some interesting things to say about a mysterious new game? Wonder what all that's about.

NPC Pages (click description, then toggle spoiler)

Over the next few months (and for the past few months), I've been slowly working on some illustrations for key locations of the GnS Isle, just to help enrich the lore and to help people visualize the environment their characters inhabit better! I will be sharing finished pieces as they come along.

Our first full site-only sale has gone pretty well! We will be moving forward with making all future sales site specific. A reminder of some new rules below that will be implemented in future sales:

❥ All payment must be sent within 48 hours of receiving payment info, or the design will go to someone else/be pu back up for sale

❥ All non gacha designs will have a 1 week cooldown period before they are able to be traded or resold.

❥ You may no longer switch entries for flaffles. You are still allowed to rescind if something comes up, but please delete your message if you do. We urge everyone to be mindful and think thoroughly before entering for designs. Switching creates a potential opening for confusion and mistakes when tallying and sorting through entries.

Thank you for your understanding, and happy March!

Hey all! Swad's messenger services are officially open! Want to send a sweet message to a friend? Please head on over to our discord server and fill put a quick form in our 💌-vday-message-service channel.

RAFFLE REWARDS: 3 GIFTBOXES OF LOVE

Every message you send will net you 1 raffle ticket, which you can put towards one of these gift boxes! Everyone can only win 1 raffle giftbox, if you are drawn for multiple you get to choose the one you want more.

The exact contents of each gift box is a mystery, but we can say that they include neat things like GnS items, MYOs, premade designs, and custom site pets! Each set of rewards will be themed, and the preview images are a hint to the theme.

The messenger service will end on February 14th, so please get your forms filled out by then! The raffle will commence a few days after. You will be notified of the number of raffle tickets you've earned upon the end of the message service.

YIKES! As part of the messenger service, these sweet treat boxes were supposed to be sent out to everyone. Unfortunately, they have made a grand escape! Perhaps you can find them? Swad has given up on catching them, so finders keepers, they say.

There are 10 sneaky boxes hiding around the site, find them quick before the end of this month and they expire!

Opposites attract! Attract trouble ... unless??

February 25th – Mix N' Match Offbase Batch (flaffle - flatsale raffle)

We may also have a few bunny themed critter drops in our discord server, or other bunny themed events because how can we not celebrate the year of the rabbit?

Our prompts have updated! Please head over to the prompts page to view them all! 

The main prompt will be the February 2022 Monthly prompt, with 2 new and 1 returning prompt! One of the new prompts is a pobble prompt, for 2 pobble tickets this time!

Have you talked to the NPCs lately? Specifically Swad?

Do you all even remember Swad? After a year of off-world travel to "find himseld", Swad has reappeared in the GnS Isles once again, this time with some new knowledge from his travels.

Swad is working on something reeeeaallll special, which will be revealed soon, so keep an eye out!

Oh, and by the way, if anyone talks to you about weird postbox and form? Well, it has nothing whatsoever to do with what Swad's working on! Some... uh... beta testers may have leaked some information without knowing the sensitive nature of the surprise! Not that it matters, because it has nothing to do with anything... yeah... nothing at all...

NPC Pages (click description, then toggle spoiler)

We have a few updates to announce ~

❥ SMALL CRITTER MASTERLIST: With the tireless help of Orva's main site mods, salem and maz, we now have a place on the site to officially track leafree and pebblings! Thank you and BIG PROPS to those two for working so hard getting everything set up! If you would like to enter a pre-existing critter onto the new masterlist, we have a dedicated channel in our discord (#critter-masterlist-upload) that maz has so helpfully set up.

❥ ITEM CATEGORY CHANGE: For more flexibility on the sheer number of petling types Guides and Seekers can have, we have decided to group all items from the Rock, Plant, and Slabster category into 1 single category: pets. This way, it is simpler to categorize and also gives staff the freedom to create a higher variety of pets without necessarily sticking with only 3 category options. In the future, we hope to add a system that allows people to display a pet along with a character masterlist profile, but we ask for your patience as it may take a bit!

January will be a quiet month to reste after out very large winterborn gacha! However you should keep your eyes peeled for some possible surprises!

January 8 – FCFS community critter gacha (Free to enter)

Our prompts have updated! Please head over to the prompts page to view them all! Based on some feedback, each prompt (sans the main monthly one), can be completed more than 1 time. The exact number depends, but it will be listed in the prompt description. However, repeat submissions of the same thing will not be accepted. Each submission must still be unique.

The main prompt will be the January 2022 Monthly prompt, with 3 additional prompts!

Many of you have probably already noticed this, but every month (or every other month depending on events), the NPCs will have something new to say! Usually these are just little snippets of what they're up to, but it can often be hints and previews for future events! Sometimes they may even hide goodies and treats too.

NPC Pages (click description, then toggle spoiler)

December means its time for comfort and joy!

Originally a bundle of traditions from outside the isles, the guides and seekers have fully made the winter festivities their own. Everywhere you look, you'll see merrymaking: a group of guides singing carols; a seeker being turned into a snow mermaid; leafrees adorning the trees with tinsel; a seeker pouring hot sauce into a mug of cocoa—hey, wait, that last one wasn't very merry!

It's not just a one-off either. In every neighbourhood, pranks are being played by naughty guides and seekers on their unsuspecting acquaintances. It's all the work of some conniving slabfluencers on RikRok, rallying against the forced cheer of the season.

"Aren't you tired of being nice," they'd asked their viewers, pointing their little slabby hands at the camera, "don't you just want to be naughty?"
"No!" replied a different group. The traditionalists, nice guides and seekers brimming with holiday spirit, who are just all the more determined to make the festivities a success—with gifts and glee galore! Who are you rooting for? Do you prefer the tricksters who are creating their own cheer at the expense of others! Or would you rather those good guides and seekers save the holidays, spreading the cheer far and wide? The decision (or lack thereof) is yours!

UPDATE: You may now choose to claim on the site or on DA! Please go to our sales page if you wish to claim here!

Happy December! Another year is almost over, and I am forever thankful to be able to share so many winters with this wonderful community. Even though it is cold outside, you warm my heart <3 (Shut it with the cheesy banter, orva).

We got plenty of stuff lined up this month! Our general holiday theme is: GIFT BASKETS!

December 18 – Winter Pobble Batch (FCFS on site)

December 24 – Winterborn gacha (FCFS gacha)

December 30 - Winterborn critter gacha (FCFS free gacha)

December 30-31 - Winterborn MYO sale

Our prompts have updated! Please head over to the prompts page to view them all! This month will feature one prompt, the December monthly prompt. This prompt will be the same as participating in the event, you just get extra monthly prompt goodies for granting wishes! Have fun!

You may already know this, but around every 1-2 months, the NPC dialogues will be updated to reflect current events. Sometimes they have little gifts to give, other times they will give you information about future events. Most of the time, they just want to have a little chat! You can check on them every once in a while to see if anything is new!

To "check up on" NPCs, please head over to orvaenta's owned characters page, then click on character description. The new conversations are usually under toggle spoiler. If there isn't one, it means there is likely nothing new.

Seeing the harvests and gathering families, Finch has been generous in offering her special ROCK PIE to all who ask!

Leave a comment below, sharing something your Guide, Seeker, or critter character is thankful for to grab a piece!
It looks so good, you might as well be drooling.

All commenters will be given 1 Pebble! 
This will remain open for responses until 11:59pm PT, November 25th.
Finch knows the holidays are busy, and they want to give travelers a chance to grab some pie, too.