Keypers Foundry

Hello everyone! Thank you all so much for sticking around with us for one whole year, wow! And welcome welcome to any new members just now joining us! We're so excited to share with you guys all the fun events we have planned throughout the month to celebrate Keypers turning 1 year old!!

Without further ado, let's get into all the events you can expect to see throughout the month!

Anniversary Event Hub

In case you missed the clickable banner on your account dashboard, there's an event hub page over here that houses all of the special event links for the month. You can find a timeline of events, a mini event market shop, a link to the advent calendar, as well as handy links to all of our currently open design sales! The advent calendar will open March 11th, so make sure you check back on that day to start claiming your daily goodies!

Event Market

The event market will be open March 1st through March 31st, and will be stocked up with free Basic MYO Kits, discounted Special Trait Inscriptions, free design raffle tickets, and a special fun new character frame! You'll be able to claim or purchase anything from the Event Market directly through the anniversary event hub page, or access it through the 'All Shops' link in the navbar!

As a little note, raffle tickets will only be stocked and available to claim when a raffle is open for entries, so don't worry if you don't see any in the event market right now.

Advent Calendar

A daily advent calendar will run from March 11th through March 25th, and it's stocked with plenty of fun prizes each day! You'll be able to claim a number of gem shards, character frames, and Special Trait Inscriptions! You do have to log-in and manually claim your prizes from the advent calendar each day, and won't be able to claim past prizes if you miss a day. So make sure to stop by every day!

Design Sales and Raffles

Along with our usual monthly mod design sale and free mod raffle, we'll also be hosting a special Guest Artist free raffle event! The free raffles are going to work a little differently than they have in the past. Instead of filling out a google form to enter yourself into a raffle, and Kye rolling the winners using a bot in the discord server, we'll instead be using the Keypers Foundry website!

In order to enter yourself into our on-site raffles, you'll first need to claim your free raffle ticket from the Event Market. Raffle tickets will only be stocked on the day that a raffle is open for entries, and you'll need to claim a separate ticket for each design you want to enter for. Once you've claimed your raffle tickets, you'll need to head over to your Inventory and follow the instructions below to use your tickets and enter your desired raffle(s):

1. After claiming your raffle ticket(s) from the Event Market, access your inventory (Menu bar > Home > Inventory).
2. Click on the raffle ticket you want to use.
3. On the new window that pops up, click the checkbox next to the item's name.
4. Click on the "Open Box" dropdown below the table with the item's name, then click the "Open" button here.
5. Your ticket has now been used, and you've been automatically entered into the raffle! If you claimed multiple tickets, repeat these steps for each ticket.

If you run into issues using your ticket, and the raffle has not yet rolled, PLEASE message Kye on discord directly and they'll help you out! Since this is a new system we're trying out, please be patient with us as we work through learning it all!

New Character Frames

Along with a very sweet event frame being released, a new permanent frame has been added to the Gem Shard Exchange as well! A wonderful silver Metal Frame has been added for purchase so you can decorate your Keypers' masterlist art! More frames will come in the following months, so definitely keep an eye out for those!

Changes to Monthly Prompts

Since 2023 will be a year full of new and challenging life changes for me (exciting changes!! nothing bad, I promise!), we'll be retiring the monthly themed prompts from here on out. This means that only the free-for-all monthly open prompt will be available, but to make it up to you guys, we're relaxing our restrictions on monthly prompts. Instead of only being able to submit one prompt a month (themed or otherwise), we're making it so you can submit up to three art or writing pieces to the site gallery to earn gem shards! The gem shard rewards will not be changing, so this means you could potentially earn up to 30 gem shards a month if you wanted! Changing the system up this way will mean that I can sit down and schedule the entire year's worth of prompts in one sitting, that way they're immediately open and available to submit to once midnight on the first of the month rolls around. I am notorious for accidentally ignoring the passage of time (I mean, is time even real?? haha), so there have been a couple months this past year where I completely forgot to open prompts at all! Whoops!

If you find that you do need a little bit of inspiration to kickstart your character development, I'll be releasing a short list of inspiration prompts to the site over the next month or so!

Event Planner/Lore Writer applications still open

Did you know we're still looking to add a new staff member? This was mentioned in the last news post, but my main goal with this species is to introduce a community-involved, interactive storyline. I want to create something that community members are able to participate in and help the Keypers world (and species as a whole!) change over time. While I have some great ideas and starting points, I’m struggling to create the actual details. Plus, my writing isn’t very strong, so!! I’m looking to bring on another staff member to help out!

We didn't receive any applications last time, so here's the link to the application form again if you'd be interested! I’m currently looking to bring on someone who enjoys writing to help me plan out seasonal events, compile lore/wiki entries, and contribute to the species storyline! This will be a volunteer position, but mod work can be compensated either through in-game currency, items or MYO tickets, or through monthly character adopt sales. This position is also more of a specialized staff role, and not necessarily a moderator, so you won’t be expected to handle typical mod duties.

And I believe that covers it for this announcement! Thank you so much for your interest in this tiny little species, and here's to another year!! See you guys soon!