Owners Manual / Info

[Shadomu]

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Owners Manual
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Not sure what you can do with your pet? Take a look through the owner's manual below. For more detailed information, click the headings.

ROLEPLAYING

Pretty standard in most shops, you get to "roleplay" (create stories) by playing as both your owner character and your pet(s). All formal roleplays take part in the guild. There are four primary roleplay (rp) forums.

►FIREWORKS

Special Events / Metaplot rps

►WOODEN DOOR

A pet free zone, mostly for people without pets to rp as their owner characters and develop them. No quest thread or official pet is needed to rp here.

►SILVER DOOR || Dream Verse

For any parallel/alternate-universe type stories or rp worlds. Characters experience the evens here as if in a dream (so it bears no effect on physical attributes or relationships).

►GOLD DOOR || New Tokyo

"New Tokyo" - aka set in the modern day, alternate timeline Tokyo.

GROWING

By fulfilling growth requirements, your pet advances between stages. With every stage, you get new artwork. Note that ALL pets are rp required and ALL designs are distinct (no templates here!)

PET SHOWINGS

Pet showings are special events where you pay (gaia gold) to enter your pet in a contest to "show off" the spells they have learned. Each showing has 2 rounds and the final score is determined by a combination dice game and roleplay challenge. The winner takes away a special prize treasure (item art) and half of the showing earnings.

MARKETPLACE

There are 3 main shops areas:

►The Back Alley - where you can purchase customizations
►The Book Shop - where you can purchase spell books
►The Street Vendors - where everyone else (owner) can make their own art shops etc.

TREASURES

Treasures are items (images) that are available for only a limited time and can be collected through either events or Treasure Hunts, as well as random item drops. All items have an elemental type and rarity level. They may be traded/required for spell books or special events. Note: it is the responsibility of the individual player to keep track of their items.

SPELLS

Are learned only by purchasing spell books in the shops. Spell books are bought by "trading in" treasures (from treasure hunts) and/or gaia gold. All spells have an elemental type, level, and "base power" and depending on your pet elemental type, may or may not be learnable.

CUSTOMS

Customizations are available from the Tea Shop only when Customs are OPEN (which is rarer than snowfall in Hawaii). Minimum prices will be listed and they must be bribed depending on the level of cusomization

BREEDING

Available ONLY when slots are open and can be purchased with gold (some 'treasures' may be required). As these are magical pets, gender and species restrictions do not reply. In fact, breedings are one of the only ways you can get mixed species creatures. Their elemental type is determined by the elements of its parents. The only restriction is that your pet must be Stage 4 or higher

 

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Extra Information
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Random miscellaneous information about the Tea Stall, pets, and the world they live in

Pets

The pets in the shop are manifestations of a person's most fervent desires. That means, they are not a specific spirit of an existing animal. These desires draw elemental powers from the earth to come into being (hence why each pet has a specialty element), however, to exist on a physical plane of the earth, it must conserve energy by taking the form of one of earth's existing creatures. That is also the reason why 'mythological creatures' are not commonly abundant and must generally be of mixed element types to be able to draw enough energy to overcome the strain of remaining in that form.

The animal itself is a conglomeration of memories and emotions of all animals of that species on the earth - they aren't necessarily specific or real memories, but rather an impression of them, enough to take that animal's form. For example, a bat pet will know instinctively how to use echolocation to improve its navigation - it will have its instincts intact and may even remember its natural habitat or find certain bats to be more familiar to it. The extent to which a pet has residual memories is completely up to whoever is playing it. Generally though, the concrete or 'real' memories that the pet gains as it grows with its owner are strong enough that they eventually replace those 'impression' memories that it had when it was first created.

To add to that, since these are the manifestations of desires, your pet will instinctively possess the ability to fulfill said desire. Whether or not they choose to consciously, is up to the player.


Pet Classes

Pets are divided into 3 classes: Common (❖), an Imperial (✹) or a Deity (❋). The "Common" class is any pet having only one element type. Most flatsale pets are all of a common type. The "Imperial" class is any pet having two element types. These are generally mythological animals and available only through auctions or special events. The "Deity" class is any pet having two or more element types and a special ability. This can include things like manipulating the weather, seeing into the future, etc. etc. These pets are extremely extremely rare, are available only once in a blue moon, and will have very special requirements to obtain.


Diets

Pets are perfectly capable of consuming human foods; however, they can also eat the food native to their animals (for example: panda-pets can eat bamboo). However much they like one type of food over the other is up to you! Unless in their shadow forms, pets must still eat to survive! And must at least consume a portion of the food their native animal would eat on a regular basis in order to survive.