Every year, a visitor appears and spreads good cheer amongst other realms. No one is quite sure where they come from -- when the visitor tries to speak the name of their homeland, naught but static falls upon the ears of those who hear.

Despite this, the visitor is well liked and greeted kindly, as they oft bring gifts for Lyth's inhabitants... but only those who have first given a gift to someone else. Thus many realms have developed a custom of exchanging gifts, to be sure they are on the visitor's good side when they arrive... as there are rumors about what may happen if you are not.

Sign-ups for next month's "Secret Santa" event have opened! This is a digital creation exchange for all members of Lythbound! Full information is available on the Secret Santa event page.

The deadline for sign-ups is November 25, 2020 @ 23:59:59 Eastern time!

Guest Artist Applications

We have updated the process for applying to be a Guest Artist and participating in related design events. There is a new form available completely on-site, found here.

The updated process for choosing temporary Guest Artists will be as follows:

- You must submit your application via this page (if you emailed us before November 5th, 2020, please submit a new application on the new page)!
- Your application will be stored until you update or delete it.
- We will announce when we are seeking Guest Artists for designs, and an event will be displayed at the top of the application page for anyone who has a submitted application. Details for the specific event will be provided in the description, and a button will be there to indicate your interest in participating. You will need to indicate your interest in each event separately, as this will help us when organizing and knowing who is able to participate.
- If chosen to participate, we will then contact you per-event with instructions and further information.

We are excited to move forward with this new system as it should help us have guest designs show up more frequently, and make the organization and structure of their creation smoother. As always, if you have questions, please contact us! And again, if you emailed us a Guest Artist application prior to this news post, please resubmit via the new form.

Upcoming Guest Artist Event

An event has been listed in which we are seeking Guest Artists for winter/holiday designs. Please go here to indicate your interest!

(The deadline for designs in this event is relatively short, due to waiting until this new system was complete to announce the event. Please apply soon if you would like to participate. We will aim for longer deadlines for future events!)

Free Igalyph Raffle

A free raffle for a wonderfully ghastly Igalyph has been added to the raffles page, provided by Call-me-Cinder! Please enter via the raffles page and good luck!

Reminders

The Haunted Faire is ending November 7 at 23:59:59 Eastern Time! Please get your entries and participation in before it disappears for this year!

You only have until November 8 (this coming Sunday) at 23:59:59 Eastern Time to submit designed versions of FPCs. Any that are not designed (still showing the NPC, non-customized version of the art) will be removed after this point. Please refer to this news post for full information.

Will turn to staff mode once over. Lets go guys! Tell me a thanksgiving / fall / turkey ect joke or pun. 10 random will get a White Familiar of Choice. Favorites will get a White Familiar of Choice + 1 CWP. Ends @ - 5:30 AM EST / Wajas time. Good luck!

Wajas Etsy Shop I dont know if any of you would be interested but I've added a bunch of wajas figurines to my Etsy Shop. @__@

Last week's round of What Am I has ended.

The item description was: Pow! This shooting star can fly around Ichua in a matter of seconds.
The answer was: Star Chibi.

8 out of 11 Ichuans answered correctly.

A new round of What Am I has started. Good luck!

Congratulations to our Snapz! of the week winner: May


If you want to have a chance to win next week, make sure to keep your Snapz! updated and current for the season.

This month's free bonus item has been released to everyone who kept their account upgraded.

To be eligible for the bonus item next month, make sure to upgrade your account at the Upgrade Center

Today's winning Mega Money Madness number is: 3347

There were NO winners.

If you want to be a winner next time, check out the Mega Money Madness under the GAMES icon.

Congratulations to suered001, who has just won the Ichu Lottery! The jackpot was worth 50,500 iP and the item prize was Pantheon Ignomi Stamp!

This week's item prize will be Jar Of Cobwebs! Lottery is drawn every Wednesday.

I have finished grading the Crossword Puzzle from the Halloween story. Prizes have been sent, but here is the correct answers for those who were curious: I am grateful to everyone who took part, and I hope you had as much fun partaking as I did writing. Staff is currently judging the main games, after they finish the main games, I will be tossing the minigames - paper crafts and three lines - at them. I haven't forgotten them, just trying not to overload the staff. Thank you for your patience! /Sadi.

Every week, we will be selecting a random pet's blog from the Pet Zone. Only up-to-date blogs will apply for this.

This week, the award goes to Tango, who is now weaving an endless, beautiful web in the sky :( -- (read the blog to find out more)

For having an up-to-date blog with cute pictures, they have earned their owner Akkrenskarin a free account upgrade! Congrats!

Make sure you don't forget to put your real life pet images in the Pet Zone and ADD/keep UPDATED BLOGS to your pet images, so you have a chance to win!

Who knows, they might win the next weekly Pet Zone contest.


" Deepest condolences to *Akkrenskarin* on the loss of your pet spider :(

Friendship flourishes as faithful familiars furnish fresh friends

Fiona's Menagerie Expands!

Fiona has befriended several new familiars, and will bestow them upon those who have a great familiarity with those of their kind. 18 new feats are now available!

Cozy New Vistas

The Treasure Marketplace has a new cozy harvest vista stocking from time to time!

Rockbreaker's Ceremony Skin & Accent Contest

The eighth annual Rockbreaker's Ceremony will begin on November 22, and we're running a skin and accent contest in celebration! Click here for more information!

Swipp Skins Retired

The Swapper Clan has officially retired the following skins:

Some new Scarabs have been spotted!
A few of you may already have found the ones in our games and quests...



Allow me to introduce our latest crystalline beetle friends! :)

¢¢ Bacon Prism Scarab
This tasty looking Scarab has begun showing up in random events!




¢¢ Beach Prism Scarab
Available in Miss Mingo's for 300k pp!




¢¢ Fae Magic Prism Scarab
Obtained as a tier 1 reward from Maurice!




¢¢ Forest Spirit Prism Scarab
Dug up while playing Excavation!




¢¢ Radiant Prism Scarab
Available in Miss Mingo's for 300k pp!




¢¢ Sorbet Prism Scarab
Traded at Festivia's for 10 Royal Scarabs!




¢¢ Weeping Mists Prism Scarab
Obtained as a tier 1 reward from Maurice!





Thank you Flooffy #10399 for all these awesome scarab colorations!


Be sure to drop by [ Leo's Loot ] to pick up some freebie scarabs!


Edited: 11-03-2020 04:57 pm

Hello, hello! I went through and nabbed this list of features we've released this year for a returning user on things that we've added in this year, and figured it was worth a news post for other returning members. Draggable / Resizable Items Dress Up Contests (judged by users!) Arctics NEW BREED! Wajas Mech! Pings! Referral System Crafts - This just shows what crafts are, visit the library for more information! Save your streak for pear game Mutation Markings It's been a busy year and we hope you've all enjoyed it so far! I might have missed a feature or two - I just did a quick run through of all news post for the year, so forgive me if I've missed highlighting anything.

The bait has been hooked, fishing line cast and we have caught Kuchiki_Rukia for this weeks aquarium contest winner! ....Congrats!

"¢Remember, make sure you feed and care for your fish/tank and collect your nessies bonus daily, if you want a chance to win next week!

It's time to head over to Miles Magic Box and see if you can figure out which item is depicted by the artistic rendering. If you do before next week, you'll win a cool prize!