.:.Shadows of Africa .:. Closed Permanently

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Please see this page for all events happening in which you could win or purchase an SoA, or participate in a storewide plot! Please note that rules for individual events vary, so be sure to read the rules/regulations for each one carefully. All of the general SoA rules apply for any event, however.

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Colorist: Snails
TBD

Time: 6 November 2021 | 3:00pm PST
Fee: 2k Plat

Rules:

1. This is a SPEED flatsale, which means its first come, first serve.
   
2. You may have a proxy if you can't make it, but if you have a proxy, you cannot try to post to claim one yourself.
   
3. Flatsale cost is 2k Plat, and should be sent to the colorist of the SoA you obtain.
   
4. You may only win one SoA from this flatsale - you cannot use a mule to try to obtain more than one.
   
5. The Flatsale will have a 5 minute silence before the start. a large GO! will signal the start of the Flatsale.
   
6. Any posts before the Go post will not count.
   
7. If the SoA you want is claimed, you may try again for a different one.
   
8. You may not edit your post to change your claim.
   

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End Date: 16 November 2021 | 5pm PST

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Archived News

01.01.17 Due to pride owner inactivity for 8+ months, the following prides/packs/clans are being disbanded:

• Zizimisha'Mwili

If interested in re-banding the pride, please read here. The next pride purge is on August 5th

02.05.17 The purge is done and everyone is safe! The next purge is May 5th

01.01.17 Due to pride owner inactivity for 8+ months, the following prides/packs/clans are being disbanded:

• Tokakinji
  
• Kwa Kikombe

If interested in re-banding the pride, please read here. The lined pride purge is on February 5th

11.27.16 We have a Garden Party Mini-Event going on!

11.23.16This is a reminder that non-lined prides inactive for 8+ months will be disband, but we understand that the year has been hectic, so you have until January 1st to get some activity going!

11.16.16 The purge is done and everyone is safe! The next purge is February 5th

11.03.16 Just a reminder that the lined pride purge is on Nov. 5th!

07.27.16 Congratulations and welcome to SoA's newest colorists: Seaki, I Lady Kiya I, and Fairy Snails! Keep an eye ont he guild for the raffle of their entries, and thank you to everyone who took the time to apply!

07.01.16 It's July! Which means it's time for...Christmas? Yep. We're having a Christmas in July event!

Meanwhile there are two weeks left on our colorist hiring, and our new certist will be announced soon.

06.15.16 SoA is looking for a certist and at least one regular colorist!

05.10.16 Sorry for the delay, but the lined pride purge is complete and everyone is safe. Wonderful! The next purge is August 5th.

05.02.16 The lined pride purge is in a couple days!! Please note that there's a slightly new way of submitting your rps in this thread, so post them up asap!

04.13.16 Announcement time, this time regarding certs! We've been at work on a project to remove the gender symbols from our certs, and we're finally (mostly) finished! From the time of this announcement onward, all new regular certs will no longer have gender symbols on them. As for familiar certs, those are a little bit trickier, as aside from the klipspringers and waterbucks, their lines are aren't dimorphic. However, if you would like your familiar's cert to omit the gender line for whatever reason, you are welcome to request one with (for reference/record when breeding) and one without.

For the sake of our beloved certists, we do request that you NOT ask for all of your SoAs to be recerted onto the new style, but you may submit for new certs for any SoAs for whom having the male or female gender symbol is inaccurate.

But wait, there's more! We still need a little help finishing our project. As you can see, more of the cert background is exposed on the repaired certs, but we weren't able to find full background images for all of the prides. If you own any of the following prides and still have your background image, please PM it to Mkodi! If you don't, please send a PM to let us know, and we'll try to repair the images we do have to make them work.

Myrsky Syntynyt received
Kizingo'zaa repaired
Bahari'mtoto repaired
Nchi'mahadhi
Iknimaya
Kitwana'antara
Kuroi'Nera

02.29.16 SURPISE. (And happy Leap Day!) Staff has been hard at work on...a new guild! We still have a little sprucing up to do, but it's been deemed suitable for habitation!

In our new guild, you will also find an OOC contest and IC vote for the leadership of the Firekin! They are officially open as of this posting; exact deadlines will be edited in ASAP. The Firekin are our first priority in terms of prides or lineart that need homes. Next up will be a contest for the old Peke Na/Mpinzani lines, followed much later by the introduction of and contest for a new shop pride, the N'ezi-ozu, which will repurpose the former swampie lines. The N'ezi-ozu are a long way off, but we thought you'd like to know what the plan is for those lines.

There's also a thread ready for March Customs Month, but please don't post in it until it's actually March.

If you have a pride or pack to move over to the new guild, please see here for how to do that.

Happy exploring! (And have fun moving your journals. ;D)

02.06.16 The lined-pride purge is complete. Every pride is safe!

Due to pride owner inactivity for 8+ months, the following prides/packs/clans are being disbanded:

• Bhanu'Ecchumati
  
• Einaliai Thalassai
  
• Kukusanya
  
• Maestros Del Mar
  
• Nyota-Wasomaji
  
• Seòrsa-fala
  
• Ukungu Mfumaji
  
• Usafi'tukufu
  

There is a slight leeway for a couple prides, as I gave a bit of a grace period. So please make sure you re-activate your prides with your posts, or they will be purged within a month or two.
If interested in re-banding the pride, please read here.

Please note: Saba'Nyumba did have a co-owner and I misplaced my mind, so it is not disbanded.

11.07.15 The lined-pride purge is complete, and the following are demoted:

• Mimsey (Motoujamii-Simo)
  

We will have information about the Firekin's status soon. Sit tight!
The next purge is February 5th.

11.01.15 Just a reminder that the lined pride purge is on Nov. 5th!

Also, as a note to those with non-lined prides: Normally we do a purge of these prides that have absent leaders for 8 months; however, with how slow the shop has been lately, we're giving a bit of a grace period. Come January that purge will resume, so if you've been a bit quiet lately, hop to it so your pride will be safe! smile If you have any questions, please PM the mule.

09.01.15 September is major customs month!

08.06.15 The lined-pride purge is complete. Every pride is safe!

The next pride purge is November 5th.

08.05.15 - Due to the lack of a warning announcement, the pride purge will be conducted tomorrow morning.

05.07.15 The lined-pride purge is complete. Everybody is safe again!

The next pride purge is August 5th.

02.05.15 The lined-pride purge is complete. Meepfur has decided to give the Jini-msemi lines back to the shop to be given to another pride; please keep your eyes peeled for more news on that!

The next pride purge is May 5th.

11.28.14 2014 Secret Santa is here!
We have a Secret Santa thread started! First chance at some crates will even be tonight biggrin

11.23.14 Due to pride owner inactivity for 8+ months, the following prides/packs/clans are being disbanded:

• Antianera
  
• Chokwe
  
• En Gedi
  
• Makono-epesi
  

If interested in re-banding the pride, please read here.

11.05.14 Wow, its been a bit slow on the news front, huh? Anyway, the lined-pride purge is complete, and everyone is safe! The next purge is February 5th.

08.05.14 The lined-pride purge is complete, and the following are demoted:

• Daffupanda (Kizingo'Zaa)
  

If you would like to regain your position, you can learn more about that here. The next purge is November 5th.

7.4.14 Please welcome our new colorists: Polette, pinchmonster, and Shia bean! And thank you to everyone who took the time to enter! There were a lot of awesome entries this round. <3

7.1.14 Mini shops have been re-opened! New information can be found here, so please check it out if you're thinking about opening a shop!

6.6.14 SoA is looking to hire another regular colorist!

5.28.14 Due to pride owner inactivity for 8+ months, the following prides/packs/clans are being disbanded:

• Aikanaro'hini
  
• Ardhi'Mvringo'Patano
  
• Dvergr
  
• Kauzi'Ukame
  
• Mwana-a'Lela
  
• Peponi-pya
  

If interested in re-banding the pride, please read here.

05.21.14 Joining Role Plays (or JRPs) will not longer be required as long as you have proof that your SoA has been admitted by the pride's owners, or has been born within the pride.

• You must provide a link to your proof of admittance in the certing form, most likely to a joining thread or a memberlist showing your SoA is considered part of the pride.
  
• Prides that require a type of joining roleplay will still need to provide a JRP when appying for a cert change. Examples include, but are not limited to; Motoujamii-Simo and Myrsky Syntynyt. Please check with pride owners when applying to join. Exceptions, like pre-approved original members or non-combatants are possible pending pride owner approval.
  
• Born-In Members: If your SoA is from a unique lined-pride, no proof is needed as long as your SoA are on the lines and it has not been certed on any other rogue/pride cert. For non-unique lined prides, a link to either the memberlist containing the SoA's information or the breeding form of the SoA's parents will suffice.
  

04.24.14 A new power common to all gods in SoA has been added to the list, which can be found HERE. All gods may now officially create tokens that can be used to summon them when they are needed. This is a common power that has been in general use for a while, but now we are explicitly stating that this is perfectly fine!

03.30.14 It's come time for mini shops to get the same revisions as a lot of the other rules and regulations have this year! We want to make the shops more fair to everyone, and give some definition to what are very vague standards right now.

That being the case: mini shops will now be CLOSED starting in April. Shop owners MAY NOT take orders while the new rules are being created, because shops are going to need to re-apply when the new system goes into effect! We feel it's the best way to make sure shop owners don't feel like new rules are being forced upon them.

You may finish up orders from March, but no one is allowed to create new edits starting April 1st! (and this is not a joke! ^_~)

ADDITIONALLY: We are pleased to announce a new set of subforums, where all SoA are welcome to explore the lands that were previously inhabited by large prides that were disbanded, usually due to activity issues. Complete information and links to these new subforums can be found here! Enjoy!

03.25.14 More information on Familar certs is now available! Information about the cert itself has been added to Certing Information and a list of pride rules regarding familiars has been made available in Current Prides and Packs! If you own a pride with unknown rules, or if there is something wrong with your pride's listing, PM Mkodi with an update!

02.26.14 We would like to announce that we will now have familiar pride certs available for your familiars that are living in prides. Click here for an example. As of now, you can request a pride cert for any familiar attached to a pride lion/leopard/etc. Those not attached will require permission and a JRP, as per normal certing rules. We will be PMing all pride owners about exactly what familiars are and aren't allowed in their lands so certists know the rules.

02.05.14 The lined-pride purge is complete, and the following are demoted:

• wooga Paes (Jini-msemi)
  

If you would like to regain your position, you can learn more about that here. The next purge is May 5th.

As a note, because of the hiatus we will be handling non-lined inactive prides soon, but giving some leeway because of the hiatus. If you have any questions, concerns, or anything else, please PM the mule. smile

02.01.14 A nostalgia-themed flatsale for first-stage SoA will be held Saturday the 8th! If you have 20 SoA or less, you are more than welcome to participate. Or you may proxy for someone who does.

01.26.14 Our first lined-pride purge of the year is happening on February 5th! Because of the past hiatus, we are going to extend the window for eligible roleplays for this specific purge only. Roleplays from August 8th up until Feb 4th are eligible as long as they are in this thread. Thank you!

01.18.14 The first god breedings of the New Year are available! You may post in the raffle thread until February 1st.

12.18.13 To celebrate the holidays, we're having a God Raffle! Celebrate the Mid-Winter Festival with the God of the Winter Solstice!

12.05.13 The SoA Secret Santa thread is here! Check it out to send some gifts to your friends! SS are free this year, to thank you all for being so patient with us through our hiatus! Happy holidays!

12.02.13 Shop status updated from Hiatus to Semi Hiatus!

The breeding change poll is now closed! Thank you to those who placed feedback and voted! The first option, to lose the Juvenile stage and adjust growth times accordingly, was selected by a large margin! Please visit this thread to review the coming changes to breeding and custom ins as the shop comes out of its hiatus!

Some colorists are now out of hiatus, and will be posting new breedings/customs and other fun, new things for December and beyond! We sincerely thank everyone who helped bring SoA forward, and all the hard work and dedication from both staff and patrons alike.

And look forward to Christmas Secret Santa slots to return soon! What better way to welcome the shop back and ring in the holidays than a chance to give some SoA to friends?

11.09.13 Changes are coming to SoA's breeding system, but some of them are up to you! Please go here to review the options and cast your vote. Remember, don't post in the poll thread! If you want to discuss the changes, please do so in the main shop thread.

10.14.13 We are pleased to announce that, thanks to the dedicated work of both staff and temporary colorists - and thanks to the support of the community - SoA is out of the woods. There is still work to be done, and we will remain on hiatus until everything is complete, but there is no further cause for worry.

You can expect to see some changes - and some celebrating! - when we come back. And, thanks to you all, we will be back.

P.S. There will be no lined-pride purge in November. Everyone gets a free pass! smile

8.17.13 We are hiring temporary help to get everything done! And, as some of you have requested, you can opt out of receiving missed stages (but are under absolutely no obligation to do so).

8.15.13 Well. We were going to wait until we were 100% concrete on what, exactly, we were going to do to fix this (and rest assured, we are going to fix it), but as that could take a few more days and we don't want to leave everyone waiting and worrying, it's probably best that we just get this out there.

As you know, over the years, many colorists have come and gone, and more than a few did so without completing their work. When that happened, remaining staff would take the abandoned SoAs and color their adult stage. A few days ago, we learned that that was the wrong course of action to take. Regardless of who the original colorist was or who took on the responsiblity of the adult stage, by not completing the adolescent and/or juvenile stages, this qualified as scamming...which, of course, Gaia takes very seriously.

We must now color every skipped stage of every SoA that has ever skipped a stage. Ever. We are still in the process of refining our list and obtaining an exact count, and that exact count will ultimately determine how much time we have to accomplish this. I know that some of you will want to help, and believe me, we will need it. Desperately. Once we have everything organized, double-checked, etc. to ensure that this is as orderly and efficient a process as we can make it, we will post a temporary hiring thread where you will be able to apply. Details will, of course, be provided once we have everything ironed out.

Finally, we do ask that you continue to be the wonderful people that you are. We are all upset. We are all worried, and even a little afraid, and that's okay. We will get through this, but we will not do it by getting angry, pointing fingers, or taking it out on each other or on Gaia staff. We will do it by pulling together and being there for each other, because this is nothing we can't handle together.

8.14.13 Shadows of Africa is officially on an indefinite hiatus.

As some of you may have heard, there are some rather serious things going on behind-the-scenes at SoA right now. It's not something we are currently at liberty to discuss at any length, but for now I can tell you this: everything will be fine. There will be changes, and it may be several months before the hiatus is lifted, but ultimately, everything will be fine. As of this month, SoA has been around for 9 years. Over those years, countless people, some staff but mostly customers, have poured their time, effort, and heart into this shop and made it into a community. Those years have not been without their rough spots and mistakes, but SoA has endured in spite of it all, because of every one of you who has ever called it home.

We promise you that we will do everything possible to ensure that it continues to endure, so that we can all continue to call it home for however many years this magical, insane, wonderful place has left in it.

8.8.13 The lined-pride purge is complete (a few days late, sorry about that), and the following are demoted:

• Kimaria (Motoujamii-Simo)
  

If you would like to regain your position, you can learn more about that here. The next purge is November 5th.

7.06.13 Due to pride owner inactivity for 8+ months, the following prides/packs/clans are being disbanded:

• Ashnai'le
  
• Nguvu'Utawala
  
• Pepo'porojo
  
• Ukuucha'Wafalme
  

If interested in re-banding the pride, please read here.

7.03.13 Effective immediately: DFA will be growing all of her remaining owed Gods. After that point, she will be allowed to use credits earned previously at the shop. However, she is not being rehired and has no moderator permission: If you have God or growth related questions, please PM Mkodi. The same rules for colorists apply: do not PM DFA directly.

If you are waiting for a god to be grown and have not yet posted in this thread, please do so.

6.17.13 God breedings are open here.

5.5.13 The lined-pride purge is complete, and the following are demoted:

• Meepfur (Jini-Msemi)
  

If you would like to regain your position, you can learn more about that here. The next purge is August 5th.

3.30.13 Lined-pride purge is just 5 days away! Get your RPs in, pride owners!

3.11.13 We're looking for a new regular colorist! And still a god colorist as well.

2.5.13 The lined-pride purge is complete, and the following are demoted:

• Syrius Lionwing (Bahari'mtoto)
  
• Saint Sergio (Kizingo'Zaa)
  
• Meepfur (Pridelands)
  

If you would like to regain your position, you can learn more about that here. The next purge is May 5th.

2.2.13 Pride purge is in just three days! Lined-pride owners, make sure you've got your rps in!

1.6.13 We need a new god colorist! This is a new hiring thread with slightly different rules, so even if you applied in the old one, please check this one out! We're working on getting gods back on track and making them a bit more available, but we need someone to help us with that! If regular coloring is more up your alley, though, have no fear - we'll be looking for a few more of those in the future, but this comes first.