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Post by Duke Pikachu on Apr 1, 2024 19:49:31 GMT -5
It's alright satire... but my issue with it is that it feels half done. Like, okay, we get the mask & Avatar, learn this is Chadley's doing... and then what? And for no reason after the avatar the posters stopped being every page just once in a while. Feel there's something missing. Like, I was expecting that maybe AAA, Abigail or Lulu would suddenly appear and do something to get rid of the posters (and Chadley once again). But nope, nothing.
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Post by Gelquie on Apr 1, 2024 23:18:18 GMT -5
(April Fools gag) I had a lot of fun with this gag. xD A cool commentary and applicable to the grey-ifying of everyone.
I have no idea who this Chadley is because I live under a rock and also am not into the AAA stuff (if I'm interpreting them all correctly). So I have no commentary on that. xP
Anyway, thank you, Smile Withme, your posters (including the demotivational ones) and the mask have singlehandedly cured my anxiety and depression forever. We will never forget you.
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Post by Fraze on Apr 2, 2024 15:19:35 GMT -5
(Not really a spoiler anymore because the event is finished, but.) The dialog box after we get the face reveal said Chadrick or something like that, not Chadley. Nobody else seemed to point that out, is there some lore here I don't know about?
Also, the way Smile Withme hit all the Tumblr sexyman notes couldn't have been accidental: -Morally questionable -Sharply dressed -Moderately unnerving -Ambiguously eldritch -Shaped like a stick of spaghetti
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Apr 2, 2024 17:10:06 GMT -5
(Not really a spoiler anymore because the event is finished, but.) The dialog box after we get the face reveal said Chadrick or something like that, not Chadley. Nobody else seemed to point that out, is there some lore here I don't know about?
Also, the way Smile Withme hit all the Tumblr sexyman notes couldn't have been accidental: -Morally questionable -Sharply dressed -Moderately unnerving -Ambiguously eldritch -Shaped like a stick of spaghetti
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Post by RielCZ on Apr 3, 2024 2:44:51 GMT -5
TNT's April Fools prank was actually the best thing and a) I am reminded why Chadley is in my top-5 favourite Neo characters and b) now I can make a proper Hexadecimal Reboot custom.
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Post by Gelquie on Apr 8, 2024 17:38:26 GMT -5
So there are, as of now, 5 shopkeepers that have been knowingly grey-ified. These are: You did not misread on the last one. There's another victim today, and with them, a small seeming hint to the grey-ifying. We also seem to have switched from the Neopia Central Bazaar (specifically) to Terror Mountain Ice Caves.
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Apr 8, 2024 19:03:20 GMT -5
Well, this just ramped up. It was one thing when it was normal Neopets, but now Faeries are being affected? Yes, since Faeries' Ruin the Faeries have weakened, but they're still generally the most powerful beings on the site. Not Kari per se, I see her magic as more supportive in nature (as well as she's a special Faerie of something niche, so it's more unique than being powerful), but still Faerie magic in general has been treated as something which innately protects Faeries.
So overall I see this as being a big deal. Like this should be the red flag which starts getting Fyora's attention (and of course put all Faeries on alert, like if I was Taelia I would start being cautious).
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Post by Carolyn on Apr 8, 2024 19:30:06 GMT -5
I wonder how long it will be until Fyora is alerted about things suddenly getting greyer. You'd think Hanso, Brynn, et al. would be all over this. And if it's worldwide, it's going to involve a lot of the world's leadership, too.
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Apr 8, 2024 23:18:16 GMT -5
I wonder how long it will be until Fyora is alerted about things suddenly getting greyer. You'd think Hanso, Brynn, et al. would be all over this. And if it's worldwide, it's going to involve a lot of the world's leadership, too.
I can forgive the plot convenience of the Neopia Central Characters slowly being gray-ified and it took time for in-world characters to notice. People may just think the Shopkeepers are having a bad day/week or something personal is going on and don't want to press on what could be a sensitive topic. At most maybe at some point a few noticed several shopkeepers are looking miserable and maybe wonder if some kind of flu or bug is going around. While Neopia is a magical land, you don't want your first reaction to stuff/someone being "off" to be an evil curse; you'd want to build up from less extreme explanations. I would also think it would be the Defenders of Neopia who noticed anything; while I'm sure Brynn & Hanso have been to Neopia Central on their mission, their job is relic hunters so may try to avoid interacting with as many people as possible. This is less dismissive. A Faerie being off/depressed? Not impossible, but very strange. Also, being Kari is in Terror Mountain, word should very quickly get to Taelia. If this happened to say Jhuidah, than maybe it would take some time for word to get to Fyora. But Taelia should soon hear from passing questers about Kari, go down to see what's wrong, and seeing her condition immediately send word off to Fyora as she does her best to care for/cure Kari. Then after Fyora gets word she may send out scouts to investigate any similar strange behaviors elsewhere and that's when the Neopian Central shopkeepers plight will fully become noticed. Though that said even that would take some time and by then the gray-ification could have spread to other characters all over Neopia as a pandemic.
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Post by Ian Wolf-Park on Apr 16, 2024 19:25:01 GMT -5
Not sure how this is related to the plot (if it is), but New Features has an advertisement for Meridell. The ad has been defaced
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Post by Breakingchains on Apr 17, 2024 18:10:26 GMT -5
Unsure if plot related, but did... anyone else catch this in the news...?
The missing letters spell "trophy". I assumed the first one was a typo, then my eyes caught the second one and I was like "Okay hold up." xD;
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Post by Twillie on Apr 17, 2024 20:14:26 GMT -5
Yeah I've seen mention of that, although I'm not sure if there's any confident guesses yet on what "trophy" could be referring to. My wild guess that I don't actually believe but would love to be true:
The darkness is within the trophy, don't let the Altador Cup happen else the void will consume Neopia once the trophy is awarded!!
Just something to tie all regular site events into this plot somehow lol
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Post by Carolyn on Apr 18, 2024 12:04:29 GMT -5
They have posted two defaced images on the Neopets Facebook page now. Looking at them, I am concerned haha
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Post by Twillie on Apr 19, 2024 8:34:16 GMT -5
I saw a Neopia Central one on their Instagram as well yesterday, it spreads!
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Post by Jade on Apr 22, 2024 22:48:17 GMT -5
Seeing as how the cursed Neopians become grey, I wonder if it indicates a Grey Faerie is involved as a villain? I believe that Grey Faeries are mostly powerless though, so I don't know how that's possible.
And the comic with Vira shows the outline of a Dark Faerie, so I might be wrong.
I just would find it weird that a Faerie type whose whole thing is being sad and grey would have nothing to do with Neopians cursed with the same situation.
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