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The Orphanage is Now On Site!

Posted 2 weeks ago :: Last edited 2 weeks ago by pawstepsinthesnow

After entirely too long, the moment you've all been waiting for has arrived... The Orphanage is now live and functioning on ketucari dot com!

With the new digs, there's also some changes. For one: genotypes can now be adopted directly. This should allow for a much larger supply of available ketucari even when admin availability is low. Genotypes play by the same rules as imports, but you get to design them yourself. 

However, this also means that we've discontinued offering a free redesign with imports. Ultimately, having predesigned imports as the only option created a huge bottleneck, and also meant that our team was creating many designs that ultimately weren't used. Imports will still be offered to allow newbies to get into the game faster without having to wait on design approval, but we're going to be treating them as a more special thing going forward. You can still redesign adopted imports, but you'll have to snag a redesign token from the store instead of getting one for free!

The last note is that with the differences in how import transfers are handled on site, the no-transfer rule is now being enforced by using Lorekeeper settings to prevent Orphanage adoptions from being transferred or added to trades.  Once a ketucari has five pieces to their name, just send in a claim with proof of those pieces and one of our admins will lift the embargo so your ket's free to roam. 

Now, as a bonus for members that might have signed up and gotten their first ketucari elsewhere during the long wait, we're offering a gift from now until August 31st of either one Foundling Amulet (allows for another Orphanage adoption even if you've already got a ketucari) OR one Distress Beacon (can be turned in for either a wild or a limited semicustom). Please submit to this prompt to claim, and indicate which you'd like. One gift per player!

(EDIT 7/14/25): Made some changes to the Orphanage page to clarify adoption elegibility criteria and implemented some changes to dropoff rewards.

-pawstepsinthesnow

Wanderer Slot Raffle Season 6

Posted 4 months ago :: Last edited 4 weeks ago by Matriarchs-Haunt

The Wanderers

    A pack of young adult ketucari has recently been spotted roaming the continents, seeking to explore, learn, and socialize wherever they go. Calling themselves the Wanderers, their aim to experience all walks of life may cause their paths to cross with your very own ketucari! 

Current Wanderers

   

 


 

Every month, the group will be raffling off one slot to each of the above ketucari!

Bullet; White There are no restrictions on the usage of these slots.

Bullet; White Each slot also comes with a "built in" Sundisk of Nyssa, so that you may breed them with a male or female ketucari. They also do not require a litter guard.

Bullet; White You may enter once per ketucari, but you may only win one Wanderer slot total for the month.

Bullet; White Wanderers may be bred together if you happen to collect more than one slot over the course of a few months.

Bullet; White Wanderers are guaranteed to pass on their new gene(s), regardless of rarity, to at least one cub in the litter in breedings they take part in during the first 6 months that they’re active. New genes will be guaranteed to drop through September.

How to Enter

Bullet; White Simply create a piece that meets our minimum Group Submission Requirements showing one of your ketucari interacting with the Wanderer who's slot you would like to win!THESE PIECES MAY BE COMMISSIONED.  Collaborations are allowed, but in order to count for all involved parties, each must have a ketucari present in the piece. These pieces can double as any group activity but cannot be used in a second raffle here or in another group.

Bullet; White Only one Wanderer may be included per piece (ie, you cannot depict all six in one piece and use it as an entry for all of them). However, if collaborating pieces, more than one Wanderer may be included at a rate of One Per Person. However each player may only use one piece to enter for one Wanderer.
-i.e. Players 1, 2 and 3 collab on a piece with Hydrangea, Aletha, and Jed. Player 1 can use the piece to enter for Hydrangea, Aletha, or Jed, but not all three. Player 2 can do the same, as well as Player 3.
 
Bullet; White Remember that until they're raffled off, Wanderers are group owned. R rated entries and entries that are found to be disrespectful to either the Wanderer or any real life person, collective group of people, or culture, can be refused and rejected. They're allowed to be portrayed as creepy, or as villains if you like, but they Must be portrayed with respect, if only for the sake of the future owners.
 

Bullet; White Entries cannot double-dip into multiple raffles unless stated otherwise. Noted exceptions are the Annual WaLoS Raffle, and the Annual Eros and Firn slot raffles. Any other Event Raffles are a "no" unless stated otherwise.
This includes the raffles and draw to adopts in other species.


This mostly applies to literature, as it's harder to have blatant disrespect in visual mediums. However, as a bit of a rubric for the sorts of things that might ping as disrespectful:

-Non-spoken lines making fun of the character (such as calling them "gross")
-high number of "in character" or spoken lines making fun of the character
-calling them "it" (or any other pronoun) in a way that deprives the character of personhood (some Wanderers may use it/its! Respect that if/when it ocurrs!) (Your character is allowed to be mistaken, please try to be clear this is a character mistake and not an authorial one)
-entries that feel like they were written from a place of Disliking the character (we understand this is subjective, and other factors will be looked at)
-entries using the character as a mouthpiece for any sorts of views that deny other characters (or any people, groups of people, or cultures) personhood and basic dignity
-entries using the character as a vessel to insult other characters, players, admins, or other species
-portraying them as an obvious charicature of any ethnic group.
-uses slurs against them or involves them using slurs.

 
Bullet; White There will be up to 6 total winners, labelled 1-6. Winners will be asked to list the Wanderers they want in order of preference based on which number they have and who they put in entries for (you cannot put in a Parvana entry and win Chalco, for example, but if you only entered for Chalco you get priority on Chalco).
-i.e. if you are the only person to put in an entry on both Galaeth and Emplisi, you may choose which slot you would prefer to get, instead of receiving Galaeth by default.
-As of Season 5, in the event of low slot turnout players may win multiple slots per month! e.g. if you are the only entrant for Fiiro and Draconis Hart, you get both slots!

Bullet; White You may include multiple entries in one comment.

Bullet; White Comment your entry here:

 


METAMORPHIC FLOW / METAMORPHIC CHROMATA

With the release of Metamorphic, we're hosting a special offer:

ALL extant ketucari genos and imports who have Flow or Chromata (marked by "flowing" or "chromatic" in their phenotypes) and were bred or uploaded PRIOR to March 1st 2025, may have Metamorphic added for free if their player chooses.

If you are interested in this offer and have elligible Ketucari, please post >HERE<


 

Yearly Import Raffle
-CURRENTLY Closed-

 

Each year, the Wanderers will retire from their journey and seek a permanent residence as new pack members take their place. That means they could even end up with you!


Before we get started we need to establish a few things, however. As the Wanderers are not just fancy imports but characters you all have been developing through the year, we want to make the ownership rules clear.

Bullet; White Wanderers may not be redesigned. Tokens may be added if applicable, and accessories, Elemental Blessings, and new backgrounds can be added, but the actual character cannot be redesigned.

Bullet; White Wanderers may Not be resold for USD.

Bullet; White No Deceasing the import. If you don't want them, gift/trade them to someone else or give them back to the group. Imports returned to the group will not be re-raffled without your approval.

Bullet; White The New Owner may Not change their Wanderer's Attunement without use of the Attunement Shift item.

Bullet; White The New Owner will need to complete their Wanderer's Breeding Eligibility. Their Breeding Comment will be "locked" before they are transferred to their new owner. Slots written by the Matriarchs-Haunt account will not count against the Wanderer's used or total Slots.

Bullet; White The new Owner must be aware that their Wanderer will not keep their built in Guardian or Sun Disk.

Bullet; White If a Wanderer is somehow Unclaimed it will remain group-owned as a starter.

Bullet; White The New Owner must be aware that their Wanderer will maintain their "Starter" status and may be added to lineages as needed.

With that established, here is how

 


How to Enter
-CURRENTLY CLOSED-


Bullet; White As with the Slot Raffle, you must create a piece that meets our minimum Group Submission Requirements showing one of your ketucari interacting with the Wanderer who's slot you would like to win! THESE PIECES MAY BE COMMISSIONED. Commissioned entries may be used by both Commissioner and Commissionee as long as each has a ket present in the piece. Collaborations are allowed, but in order to count for all involved parties, each must have a ketucari present in the piece. These pieces can double as any group activity but cannot be used in a second raffle here or in another group.

Bullet; White UNLIKE with the Slots, you may include up to 3 Wanderers in an entry and it will count for all of them.

Bullet; White There will be up to 6 total winners, labelled 1-6*.  Winners will be asked to list the Wanderers they want in order of preference based on which number they have and who they put in entries for (you cannot put in a Emplisi entry and win Fiiro, for example, but if you only entered for Fiiro you get priority on Fiiro).
*Rolling is done in 3 waves: First we determine if a Wanderer has only one entry, and if so they go to that person, then we determine if that disqualifies anyone from the RNG Process/Leaves another Wanderer with only 1 valid Entry. If there are Wanderers left after this process, RNG is done and the winners are numbered in rolling order to give their preference list.
A player can win more than one Wanderer in the following conditions:
- They are the sole entrant for more than one Wanderer
- There are fewer than 6 total entrants and multiple people entered for multiple Wanderers
- If there is somehow a "leftover" Wanderer who has an entry in, but for whatever reason they didn't go out in the First or Second rolling phase.
 

Reputation System

Starting in 2024, Wanderers will have a Reputation system. What this is, is essentially a reward for commitment towards a given Wanderer. Entering for Slots to that Wanderer will increase your chances of winning Ownership of them if you enter the ownership raffle.

If you have Two entries for slots to any specific Wanderer throughout the year, you can gain +1 entry into the Ownership raffle for that particular Wanderer.

How this works in practice is essentially increased priority over others who Don't have that +1, where if you and one other player both enter for Draconis Hart and no other Wanderer, and no one else entered for Draconis Hart, and you have the +1 and they don't, you're going to be the one to receive Draconis Hart.
If you enter for multiple Wanderers, and we have a year where there's competition for them and we actually need to use the raffle list, your name will be entered twice so you have a higher chance of winning.

 



Bullet; White Comment your entry here: >CURRENTLY CLOSED< 

Current Wanderers are due to be adopted out on March 1st, 2026

 

2025 Pride Month!

Posted 1 month ago :: Last edited 1 month ago by AutumnDarkCloud

Pride Month: Velukaelo Style

Open June 2 2025 - July 2 2025 (Ends 11:59 PM Pacific)

Same as last year, we hope you have fun!

Raffles!

Baker here is our Pride starter - a gay man himself, he's excited to join in the celebration! He's happy to make your acquaintaince! Baker carries the Sun's Gift lineage skill:

Sun's Gift
Your ketucari can breed with those of any sex (excluding Intersex)! This skill can only be learned by descendants of KT-3055 or ST-3054.
 
Offspring of Baker will be able to learn this skill at Renowned!
 
To enter into the raffle, depict your ketucari doing anything pride-related - going to a gathering, showing their personal flags on attire, hanging out with loved ones, etc! Fullbody required for visual art (no background required), 300 words for literature (600 for collabs). You can use your entry for both raffles, or just one, whichever raffles you want to be involved in.
 
3 Slots will be raffled off!
 

-Baker slots may not be sold for real life currency, or traded outside of Ketucari
-If the Winner of the slot chooses to use the slot in a Split breeding, the Winner of the slot must get Pick of the Litter. This is to prevent more experienced players from taking advantage of newbies, which we have been seeing more of as of late.

Furthermore, all raffle entries can be redeemed for a bound potion - the exact stat that it'll wind up as will be randomized, but all adventure stats will be 50 points and all battle stats will be 100 points! (If you prefer an unbound potion, please let us know in your comment!)
 
They can also be used as adventures/skills/etc if they meet requirements for such!
 

June Breedings!

Every player, for the month of June, gets a special additional breeding.
What makes this breeding special, aside from getting a 4th breeding this month?
Well the short version is this: It has a free built in Sun Disk and/or Lunar Amulet and Guard (unless you opt out of the guard).
ALSO, much like Matchmaker, it doesn't count against your ketucari's used slots!
 
This bonus slot can be used in splits (only counts toward's the Host's bonus slot). All you need to do to claim this bonus slot, is state in your breeding post that it is your Free Pride Month Bonus Slot.
 

And More!

 
Please check out this month's Bounty on the front page of the dA group (going up later today)! It's also pride-themed!

What a Load of Shift 2025 (RAFFLE ANNOUNCED)

Posted 3 months ago :: Last edited 2 months ago by Matriarchs-Haunt

WHAT A LOAD OF SHIFT 2025!

 

WHAT A LOAD OF SHIFT 2025!

It's that time of year again! Darhaskos doesn't usually like to come out and play, but it seems that he was in the mood for one particularly pesky prank!
 
A handful of Ketucari have woken up transformed into new bodies! What in the world is happening? It appears Darhaskos has put you into the shoes of the other races of Velukaelo. The magic is strong, but is bound to wear off in a few hours. Maybe you can learn to harness this skill and use the magic as your own? Or maybe you just want to go home and sleep it off? (You weenie. Get out of bed.)
EVENT ENDS 5-21-25
 
This event is reoccurring, and will happen again in April 2026.
 
WINNERS: Will be announced here at the end of the event!
 
Note: If you want, you may enter multiple times with one ketucari*.
This is for those who want only one or two ketucari changed, or do not own more than one. After your initial entry that shows their new form, you can do more pieces depicting them for additional entries!! HOWEVER, these still counts towards your entry limit. Keep that in mind!
 
You're only able to get up to five tickets for this event.
 
*If entering multiple times for a humanoid form with one ketucari, they must either be the same race in each depiction, or you must be very clear in the descriptions which race their shift form is. Unless they have the Glamour lineage skill a ketucari may only have one shift form of each type (Humanoid, Fauna, God). Prompts do not have to be "new" (as in posted after the event starts) however they cannot have been submitted for previous years, used with Darhaskos's Talismans, or with Small Flip Coins.
They CAN replace Darhaskos's Talismans or Small Flip Coin entries and you will get the item back.
 

2025 Special update

Due to extenuating circumstances at this time, Ketunomaly shift forms may not be added. There is a possibility they will return later this year or in future years, depending on extenuating circumstance.

 

ART PROMPT

Darhaskos has played a trick on you! Your ketucari has been transformed into one of the following of Velukaelo's races or a Fauna. Draw your ketucari as one of the following. (Your choice!)
Human
Akadri
Jordskar
Hibridi
Heldyr
Lucedarian
 
As of 2021, you may instead transform your ketucari into one of Velukaelo's fauna (or any earth animal)!
You may make a reference, a simple standing sketch, a full illustration, or anything in between! All are acceptable.
Fauna Forms cannot have any extra traits or tells, such as danuoc scales carrying over between forms.
 
Must be full body.
70% of the body must be visible. (For those of you who hate drawing hands!)
Must be colored. Does not have to have shading.
While humanoid shift forms don't need to resemble the ketucari, please remember that animal forms Do.
Yes, you are allowed to include an outfit! Darhaskos isn't that cruel.
Nudity allowed. Please censor The Bits and apply the correct filter on whatever site you're hosting on.
Please be mature about this and do not include anything that would be considered erotic, thank you.
Submit your entries HERE
 

WRITING PROMPT

Darhaskos has played a trick on you! Your Ketucari has been transformed into one of the following of Velukaelo's races, or a Fauna. (Your choice!)
Human
Akadri
Jordskar
Hibridi
Heldyr
Lucedarian
As of 2021, you may instead transform your ketucari into one of Velukaelo's fauna (or any earth animal)!
What happens when they transform? How do they deal with it? How do others react to it? What do they look like? Tell us a story about this life-changing event! 300 words minimum per Ketucari.
Must have a decent description of what the Ketucari looks like in their new form at some point in the literature piece.
While humanoid shift forms don't need to resemble the ketucari, please remember that animal forms Do.
Roleplays are allowed, as long as the above requirements are met!
Submit your entries HERE
 

RULES

You may transform up to five (5) of your own Ketucari.
This limit still applies if somebody else designs your ketucari's new forms for you. You can draw/write for your own Ketucari, or for others. Please get permission before designing for other players.
The five Ketucari transformation limit only applies to your own Ketucari, you may design for as many people as you desire, as long as they do not go over their FIVE limit. You are allowed to do more than one art/lit piece. Do as many as you wish, but keep the above limit in mind. If a Ketucari with this new skill is transferred to a different player, they will keep the skill, and the new owner will be able to redesign their new form.
 

REWARDS

You will be able to draw your ketucari in this new form when participating in all future group activities!
They will be able to tap into their magic to shapeshift into this new form at will. This is entirely optional, but can be considered canon!
You will also be entered into an RNG giveaway.
 
Two members will win herbal brews (strong or normal,) and one lucky member will win two starter slots of their choice!
Three members will win their choice of a Small Flip Coin or a Darhaskos's Talisman!
The more entries you do, the more tickets you receive.
Five tickets max.
Raffle tickets go to the owner of the ketucari being transformed.
 
 
Lastly, we will be raffling off an import to one lucky grand prize winner!
IN ORDER TO BE ENTERED TO WIN THIS KETUCARI, YOU MUST COMMENT YOUR ENTRIES ON THIS THREAD: POST HERE WITH AT LEAST ONE COMPLETED ENTRY TO ENTER FOR THE RAFFLE KET
 
 

WINNERS!

The raffle ket goes to: AutumnDarkCloud!

The choice of breeding slot to a non-Lineage Skill or Wanderer Starter goes to:
CosmicShenanigans!

The choice of Small Flip Coin and Darhaskos's Talisman goes to:
Pawstepsinthesnow
Steampvnks
and IIIXKitsuneXIII!

The Herbal Brews (player's choice of regular/Herbal)
go to AutumnDarkCloud
and Feral-Ringo-Zebra!

For those who have a choice to mame: Post here: https://ketucari.com/comment/5337

Regarding Veluchasm (IMPORTANT)

Posted 2 months ago :: Last edited 2 months ago by IIIXKitsuneXIII

Hello everyone.

It is with sad hearts that we announce the official end of Veluchasm.
Please do not bother any of the admins, here or in Chasmhome, about the interpersonal drama that led to this.

Many of you are likely wondering how this affects ketixi, k-nomalies, and ketixi manticores, and if your genos and earned characters will still be honored and valid.
The good news is, they will be!

As of posting this thread the Ketixi Design Approvals Thread is now open and you may once again submit your Ketixi and Ketixi Manticores there. Any designs that have been waiting while we tried to work things out behind the scenes will be looked at and design approvals will be run. Genes from the rixixi side will be approved to the best of our ability, but we cannot guarantee accuracy across both groups. If you later submit the design to Rixixi and it gets dinged for a Rixixi side gene, we apologize.

Similarly, Ketu-Nomalies may once again be submitted as companions with proof of origin. Again, they will be run through the approval for use in the game to the best of our ability but we cannot guarantee that they will meet B-Nomaly design rules. If you later submit the design to B-Nomaly and it gets dinged for an error, we apologize.

Ketucari will continue to honor cross-group work and allow "double-dipping" with art and literature created with Ketixi, Ketixi Manticores, and K-Nomalies. We will not be checking if created works were submitted to both groups.
However, the ketucari side will also no longer honor any items or accessories or gene edits applied from the Chasmhome side. The imports will be treated as completely separate entities. What this means for design approvals is quite simply: We're going to trust that you're using those items on Rixixi's side. For post-upload edits on the Ketucari side you need to ketucari-side items.

 

"What if I no longer want my ketixi, manticore, or ketu-nomaly"?

We will set up a thread over in Breeding Requests, where you can exchange your ketixi/manticore genos (on the ketucari side) for semi-customs of roughly equal value. Exact exchange rates for mutations->genes are still being hashed out.
Ketu-nomalies will be able to be exchanged in the same place for player's choice of +1 Friendship Bracelet, their choice of legendary tier item, or a not yet determined amount of Gold, Laurels, and LP.

Thank you everyone for your understanding and patience during these last few months.

Crafting Rebalance Update

Posted 4 months ago :: Last edited 4 months ago by pawstepsinthesnow

Eagle-eyed players might notice something a little different about two of our oldest crafting disciplines today. We've overhauled Archaeology and Alchemy to be more accessible and straightforward, and now the results are ready for everyone to enjoy!

Archaeology

Archaeology has always been a bit of an odd duck-- artifacts operated on a completely different system from other disciplines' items. While the idea of piecing things back together was a cool concept, in practice the RNG of getting exactly the pieces you needed to complete an artifact started to resemble getting something good out of a rather unbalanced gacha. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Archaeology recipes have been completely retooled-- artifact pieces are now non-numbered "fragments". The number of fragments needed to reconstruct an artifact is equal to the number of pieces it had previously. As balance for the fact that archaeology recipes no longer depend on obtaining a number of unique items, ore or Engineering parts have been added (as raw material or tools to reconstruct any missing pieces). 

While all activity rewards should be converted to the new system (if you still end up with some old style pieces dropping, it's a bug! Please let us know!), there's still a ton of old-style pieces still out there. All piece 1s have been seamlessly converted to the new fragment items, but if you still have any other numbered pieces,  don't worry! We'll accept them in craftings and transmutations as if they were fragments. If you really want to declutter your inventory, you can send them into Claims and one of us will convert them. Just please don't do more than five unique items [for instance, a Stone Tablet (2/4) and a (3/4) would be two unique items] or 20 total artifact pieces per claim to avoid math mixups on either your end or ours!

Additionally, legendary archaeologists have gotten a rather special present. By popular request (and as a result of how seldom we have raids), codex pages are now craftable! This is a little tricky, to suit the value of such rare items-- creating the items neccessary will require having an Advanced Alchemist (or Cook) and an Advanced Armorsmith. (Or you could just ask someone else to craft for you. :P) In addition, codex pages require offerings in exchange. 

Alchemy

The main draw of alchemy has always been the custom potion system-- put herbs in, get stats out. However, custom potions are complex and resource-intensive, and that's been called out as a particular pain point over the years. As a result, we've given potions a complete overhaul! 

The old custom potions have been completely retired. All potions currently in player inventories will still be valid, but no new old-style potions will be craftable or issued as group rewards. The new system is less open-ended, but hopefully more flexible and easier to grasp.

A potion can now only boost one stat at once, and has been standardized to require 10 herbs or animal parts (equivalant to an old-style potion with two stacks).  All ranks except for low now give a higher boost per herb, with the advantage increasing the higher rank materials you use. Using two stacks as a comparison point, medium ranked potions have gone from +20 to +25; high has gone from +30 to +50, and a legendary potion has gone from +40 to +100(!). Binding Reagants have had another price cut, with a regular reagant going from 25g to 15g, and a fateful has been taken from 15g to 10g. While items from different tiers can no longer be mixed, the new potion types allow for a little bit of a new sort of mixing and matching...

Unbound potions have also been majorly buffed, since very few players used them (for good reason!). They now give double the stat boost of their bound counterpart for a single activity, and can boost a ketucari's stats beyond the usual cap. (Hey, maybe a good combination with one of those fancy laurel shop boosters?)

Miscellaneous

As a special thank you (and to help give folks who might not have a high-statted ket just yet or have been away from the game for a while), we're doing a present of a set of special potions that can max out a ketucari's stats. Please submit to this prompt to claim yours-- just remember that you can only claim once per user!

Many legendary Archaeology items (and a few assorted others) have had their descriptions edited for clarity and in a few cases, more inclusive language. This will probably be an ongoing process, so drop a note here or in the Discord if there's anything that particularly sticks out to you! 

We're also in the process of porting more group pages off dA and onto the site-- please mind the dust! An extra special thank you to Wolfenru for handling a ton of that for us. And just to let you know, today's crafting updates aren't the only revamp in the pipe... 

-Sian (pawstepsinthesnow)

The Wanderer Slot Raffle Season 5

Posted 1 year ago :: Last edited 5 months ago by Noirmori

The Wanderers

    A pack of young adult ketucari has recently been spotted roaming the continents, seeking to explore, learn, and socialize wherever they go. Calling themselves the Wanderers, their aim to experience all walks of life may cause their paths to cross with your very own ketucari! 

Current Wanderers

 


 

Every month, the group will be raffling off one slot to each of the above ketucari!

Bullet; White There are no restrictions on the usage of these slots.

Bullet; White Each slot also comes with a "built in" Sundisk of Nyssa, so that you may breed them with a male or female ketucari. They also do not require a litter guard.

Bullet; White You may enter once per ketucari, but you may only win one Wanderer slot total for the month.

Bullet; White Wanderers may be bred together if you happen to collect more than one slot over the course of a few months.

Bullet; White Wanderers are guaranteed to pass on their new gene(s), regardless of rarity, to at least one cub in the litter in breedings they take part in during the first 6 months that they’re active. New genes will be guaranteed to drop through September.

How to Enter

Bullet; White Simply create a piece that meets our minimum Group Submission Requirements showing one of your ketucari interacting with the Wanderer who's slot you would like to win! Collaborations are allowed, but in order to count for all involved parties, each must have a ketucari present in the piece. These pieces can double as any group activity but cannot be used in a second raffle here or in another group.

Bullet; White Only one Wanderer may be included per piece (ie, you cannot depict all six in one piece and use it as an entry for all of them). However, if collaborating pieces, more than one Wanderer may be included at a rate of One Per Person. However each player may only use one piece to enter for one Wanderer.
-i.e. Players 1, 2 and 3 collab on a piece with Hydrangea, Aletha, and Jed. Player 1 can use the piece to enter for Hydrangea, Aletha, or Jed, but not all three. Player 2 can do the same, as well as Player 3.
 
Bullet; White Remember that until they're raffled off, Wanderers are group owned. R rated entries and entries that are found to be disrespectful to either the Wanderer or any real life person, collective group of people, or culture, can be refused and rejected. They're allowed to be portrayed as creepy, or as villains if you like, but they Must be portrayed with respect, if only for the sake of the future owners.
 

Bullet; White Entries cannot double-dip into multiple raffles unless stated otherwise. Noted exceptions are the Annual WaLoS Raffle, and the Annual Eros and Firn slot raffles. Any other Event Raffles are a "no" unless stated otherwise.
This includes the raffles and draw to adopts in other species.


This mostly applies to literature, as it's harder to have blatant disrespect in visual mediums. However, as a bit of a rubric for the sorts of things that might ping as disrespectful:

-Non-spoken lines making fun of the character (such as calling them "gross")
-high number of "in character" or spoken lines making fun of the character
-calling them "it" (or any other pronoun) in a way that deprives the character of personhood (some Wanderers may use it/its! Respect that if/when it ocurrs!) (Your character is allowed to be mistaken, please try to be clear this is a character mistake and not an authorial one)
-entries that feel like they were written from a place of Disliking the character (we understand this is subjective, and other factors will be looked at)
-entries using the character as a mouthpiece for any sorts of views that deny other characters (or any people, groups of people, or cultures) personhood and basic dignity
-entries using the character as a vessel to insult other characters, players, admins, or other species
-portraying them as an obvious charicature of any ethnic group.
-uses slurs against them or involves them using slurs.

 
Bullet; White There will be up to 6 total winners, labelled 1-6. Winners will be asked to list the Wanderers they want in order of preference based on which number they have and who they put in entries for (you cannot put in a Sylphy entry and win Kurra, for example, but if you only entered for Jed you get priority on Jed).
-i.e. if you are the only person to put in an entry on both Hydrangea and Jed, you may choose which slot you would prefer to get, instead of receiving Jed by default.
-As of Season 5, in the event of low slot turnout players may win multiple slots per month! e.g. if you are the only entrant for Aletha and Kurra, you get both slots!

Bullet; White You may include multiple entries in one comment.

Bullet; White Comment your entry here:
February 2025 (Current)
January 2025
December 2024
November 2024

 


Start-Of-Season Bonus Raffle

For March and April, we have a bonus raffle, due to accidentally not including the Deep Well modifier in our list of wanderers! (oops)

Skaði has come out from Rastyn's territories in Aegrus to join the Wanderers for a couple of months! They have the Deep Well modifer, Brow horns, and Spur horns from this year, as well as Noisy Wrought and Maltese from last year!

Raffle Closed! 
Skaði has returned to Rastyn's territories for now

Skaði is a regular starter and will not be raffled off for ownership.


 

Yearly Import Raffle
-CURRENTLY OPEN-

 

Each year, the Wanderers will retire from their journey and seek a permanent residence as new pack members take their place. That means they could even end up with you!


Before we get started we need to establish a few things, however. As the Wanderers are not just fancy imports but characters you all have been developing through the year, we want to make the ownership rules clear.


Bullet; White Wanderers may not be redesigned. Tokens may be added if applicable, and accessories, Elemental Blessings, and new backgrounds can be added, but the actual character cannot be redesigned.

Bullet; White Wanderers may Not be resold for USD.

Bullet; White No Deceasing the import. If you don't want them, gift/trade them to someone else or give them back to the group. Imports returned to the group will not be re-raffled without your approval.

Bullet; White The New Owner may Not change their Wanderer's Attunement without use of the Attunement Shift item.

Bullet; White The New Owner will need to complete their Wanderer's Breeding Eligibility. Their Breeding Comment will be "locked" before they are transferred to their new owner. Slots written by the Matriarchs-Haunt account will not count against the Wanderer's used or total Slots.

Bullet; White The new Owner must be aware that their Wanderer will not keep their built in Guardian or Sun Disk.

Bullet; White If a Wanderer is somehow Unclaimed it will remain group-owned as a starter.

Bullet; White The New Owner must be aware that their Wanderer will maintain their "Starter" status and may be added to lineages as needed.

With that established, here is how

 


How to Enter
-CURRENTLY OPEN-


Bullet; White As with the Slot Raffle, you must create a piece that meets our minimum Group Submission Requirements showing one of your ketucari interacting with the Wanderer who's slot you would like to win! THESE PIECES MAY BE COMMISSIONED. Commissioned entries may be used by both Commissioner and Commissionee as long as each has a ket present in the piece. Collaborations are allowed, but in order to count for all involved parties, each must have a ketucari present in the piece. These pieces can double as any group activity but cannot be used in a second raffle here or in another group.

Bullet; White UNLIKE with the Slots, you may include up to 3 Wanderers in an entry and it will count for all of them.

Bullet; White There will be up to 6 total winners, labelled 1-6. Winners will be asked to list the Wanderers they want in order of preference based on which number they have and who they put in entries for (you cannot put in a Geiger entry and win Leslie, for example, but if you only entered for Geiger you get priority on Geiger).
A player can win more than one Wanderer in the following conditions:
- They are the sole entrant for more than one Wanderer
- There are fewer than 6 total entrants and multiple people entered for multiple Wanderers
- If there is somehow a "leftover" Wanderer who has an entry in, but for whatever reason they didn't go out in the First or Second rolling phase.
 

Reputation System

Starting in 2024, Wanderers will have a Reputation system. What this is, is essentially a reward for commitment towards a given Wanderer. Entering for Slots to that Wanderer will increase your chances of winning Ownership of them if you enter the ownership raffle.

If you have Two entries for slots to any specific Wanderer throughout the year, you can gain +1 entry into the Ownership raffle for that particular Wanderer.

How this works in practice is essentially increased priority over others who Don't have that +1, where if you and one other player both enter for Sylphy and no other Wanderer, and no one else entered for Sylphy, and you have the +1 and they don't, you're going to be the one to receive Sylphy.
If you enter for multiple Wanderers, and we have a year where there's competition for them and we actually need to use the raffle list, your name will be entered twice so you have a higher chance of winning.

 



Bullet; White Comment your entry here: >CURRENTLY OPEN

Current Wanderers are due to be adopted out on March 1st, 2025

 

Matchmaker 2025

Posted 5 months ago :: Last edited 5 months ago by AutumnDarkCloud

Matchmaking 2024

Animated Pink Heart Divider by Gasara

Welcome to our February Matchmaking Event! In recognition of Valentines day, we will be doing randomly paired litters with your ketucari, which will give each of you a surprise cub! You will have from February 1 - February 14 to submit your ketucari to the breeding pool. The event will close after two weeks and admins will use RNG to pair the ketucari and roll your litters! The litters will be rolled within the next two days after. The final day to submit a ketucari for this event is February 14th at 11:59 PM PST

Let the pairing begin!


How to Participate

Animated Pink Heart Divider by Gasara

Reply to the comment below with a link to a doodle, blurb (300 words) or collabed entry of one of your ketucari going on a date with another (If you use someone else's ketucari for the second, please check with them first!), preparing alone for a date, or showing some other form of romantic love. If you don't have anyone to ship your ketucari with or don't see your ketucari as the romantic kind we have a few starter pairs you can doodle instead!
 
Then include a link to one of your ketucari to be used in the event! It does not have to be one of the ketucari depicted in your work.
 
Your ketucari will be randomly paired with another member's entered ketucari and you will both receive a surprise litter with a set of identical twins, one for each of the parent ketucari's owners. After your litter is posted, you are free to do what you want with the cubs like any other litter.

Ketucari Breeding Requirements

Animated Pink Heart Divider by Gasara

:bulletblue: You may only submit ONE ketucari.
:bulletblue: The ketucari must belong to you.
:bulletblue: The ketucari that you enter in this event must have their breeding eligibility confirmed BEFORE entry.
:bulletblue:  Ketucari will not be paired with a match that results in inbreeding. That being said, no inbred ketucari are allowed.
:bulletblue:  Any ketucari who do not receive a match among the entered ketucari will be paired with a randomly rolled starter ketucari or magically 'disked' to create a litter.
:bulletblue: This will NOT count against your monthly limit of breedings or your ketucari's breeding slots.
:bulletblue: These litters cannot have items added.
:bulletblue:Cubs from these litters will not be subject to matriarch killings.
:bulletblue: Cubs from these litters may be sold, traded, gifted, etc. as you please.
 

Entry Requirements

:bulletblue: Solo entries are not required to be colored or contain a background. These submissions may be headshots! Literature minimum is 300 words.
:bulletblue:Collabed entries MUST be at least two colored fullbodies. They do not need to meet adventure requirements.
:bulletblue: Collabed writings must be at least the length of an adventure for as many ketucari as are depicted in it (600 words minimum for two ketucari)
:bulletblue:If works follow all guidelines for adventures or other group activities they may be used for those activities.
:bulletblue: All entries may be used for Bonding, however only works that follow guidelines for other group activities may be used for Themes.
:bulletblue: All works must have been uploaded after 2/1/2024

Bonus Raffle

Animated Pink Heart Divider by Gasara

:bulletblue: All people who make an entry will also be entered in a bonus raffle (you may opt out by saying so in your comment)
:bulletblue: The winners of the raffle will win a Sun Disk
:bulletblue: Three Sun Disks total will be raffled off
:bulletblue: The raffle will be rolled on February 15th, after all entries have been turned in
:bulletblue: Winning a sun disk will not affect the cub you receive or pairing in the main part of the event
:bulletblue: You MAY win both an a Sun Disk and an Eros slot if you're lucky 

 

Ketucari Slot Raffle

Eros has returned! This beautiful ketucari is back in the spirit of love! He brings with him the Endearing Display lineage skill!

Slot rules:
You may only win one slot, which will come with the following restrictions.
-Eros slots may not be sold for real life currency, or traded outside of Ketucari
-If the Winner of the slot chooses to use the slot in a Split breeding, the Winner of the slot must get Pick of the Litter. This is to prevent more experienced players from taking advantage of newbies, which we have been seeing more of as of late.

:bulletblue: All people who make an entry will also be entered in this bonus raffle (you may opt out by saying so in your comment)
:bulletblue: The winners of the raffle will win a Full slot to Eros
:bulletblue: Three slots total will be raffled off
:bulletblue: The raffle will be rolled on February 15th, after all entries have been turned in
:bulletblue: Winning an Eros slot will not affect the cub you receive or pairing in the main part of the event
:bulletblue: Everyone is eligible for this slot raffle, regardless of if you've had a slot to an Endearing Display ket before
:bulletblue: You MAY win both an Eros slot and a Sun Disk if you're lucky!

Raffle Winners!

The winners of the Eros slots are:
 Goo-lion, Pawstepsinthesnow, IIIXKitsuneXIII!
Congratulations! You will each receive your Slot permission as a comment response to your Matchmaker entry!
 
The winners of the Sun Disks are:
AutumnDarkCloud, Asimplemoon, Noirmori
Congratulations! Your Sun disk will be deposited in your hoard shortly! 
Thank you all for participating in this year's Matchmaker event and we hope to see you next year for more fun!

Due to a mistake on my part, Wolfenru got a rerolled bonus slot! -AutumnDC

Solstice Festival 2024 (12 Days of Gifting)

Posted 7 months ago :: Last edited 7 months ago by AutumnDarkCloud

WELCOME TO THE SOLSTICE FESTIVAL!

 

(Kaur is mad about festivity by Anarchisme)

It's back!
Once more Suadriga emerges from the far north to bring joy and merriment to those who have survived another year.
And this time, he brought a Feast!

However, to partake in the feast, you must do well unto your neighbor! What does that mean?
Gifts.

So many Gifts.

For Twelve Days, he will be handing out presents.

You may enter for each present only once, and only on the day that it is being offered.

How do you receive a gift?
By giving one!

Daily Solstice Festival

Gifting

The requirements are simple!

Your minimum requirements are a colored headshot OR 100 words.
The catch? The ketucari CANNOT belong to you. No using Co-owns to get around this.

Your headshots may be sketchy, you may INCLUDE your own ketucari, but the focus should be on the recipient.
To account for this, we asked the lovely Draginraptor to fix up our Gift Art settings! They are now fully searchable, gift writing settings are now actually visible, and you can now set your gift setting en-masse if you want specific default settings!

There's one more catch to your gifts, however, in the spirit of trying to include everyone, and that is: You CANNOT gift to the same person two days in a row.
If you want to spoil your bestie rotten, that's fine! But every other day you have to share the love.
You may also only gift to a Starter once (unless additional Starters are Player-Owned Wanderers (please ask if you are uncertain)).

If you use the on-Site Gallery for your piece, please make sure you submit to the Winter gallery!
For anyone hosting their images outside of the site gallery, Please do be sure to share your art on THIS THREAD to ensure your recipient sees it!

Days and Rewards

Entering for even just 1 day enters you into the Holiday Ketucari Raffle!
Rollovers happen at 11:59 PM PST

Day 1 : December 19-20th
POST HERE

Rewards: 2 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet)

Day 2 : December 21st
POST HERE

Rewards: 3 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Angel Hare

Day 3 : December 22nd
POST HERE

Rewards: 4 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Trinket

Day 4 : December 23rd
POST HERE

Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Trinket, Bone Growth Shake

Day 5 : December 24th-26th
POST HERE

Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Trinket, Bamboo Stew

Day 6 : December 24th-26th
POST HERE

Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Trinket, Tangy Salad, Large Trinket

Day 7 : December 24th-26th
POST HERE

Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Trinket, Focus Draught x4

Day 8 : December 27th
POST HERE

Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Stoplight Stuffed Peppers, Sweet and Smokey Dinner, Iron Ore x10

Day 9 : December 28th
POST HERE

Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Peace Offering, Frostberry Pie, Bone Growth Shake

Day 10 : December 29th
POST HERE

Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Trinket, Large Trinket, Combo Slammer, Fragrant Roast

Day 11 : December 30th
POST HERE

Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Banshee Confit, Fertility Feast, Ambrosia Ale

Day 12 : December 31st
POST HERE

Rewards: 5 Laurels, random candy (2-5 Regular or 1-3 Gourmet), Lover's Banquet, Divine Wine, Frostberry Pie

 

Holiday ketucari Raffle

As per tradition, some new friends have come to join the festivities! Remember the birds seeking last year's goat? Well they're here this year!
If we get 5 raffle entries, a second ketucari will appear. If we get 10 raffle entries, a third will!
When you post your entry, please say whether or not you are joining the raffle!
As a reminder, free raffle ketucari cannot be sold for real life money.

Firn Slots Return!

This year there is NO limitation on who can enter for Firn slots! It doesn't matter how many Tauratu children or slots you may or may not have, or even if you own Tauratu yourself, you're welcome to enter for Firn's raffle!


This year Three Firn slots will be raffled!

-Firn slots may not be sold for real life currency, or traded outside of Ketucari
-If the Winner of the slot chooses to use the slot in a Split breeding, the Winner of the slot must get Pick of the Litter. This is to prevent more experienced players from taking advantage of newbies, which we have been seeing more of as of late.

Simply comment here to enter for Firn Slots!

 

7 Days of Trick or Treating IV

Posted 9 months ago :: Last edited 9 months ago by AutumnDarkCloud

TRICK OR TREAT!

Hello and welcome to a small Halloween event! It's back again!

Each day, a prompt will appear on this journal with a small prize for its completion! To complete each prompt, you only need to do  a headshot sketch OR 100 words, but if you meet our Minimum Art Requirements, you can also get your piece rolled as an adventure, skill, or other relevant roll! There will not be an additional prize for completing all 7 days, so don't worry if you miss one! However, you will only be able to complete each day's prompt on that day! Some prompts will be returning from last year, and many prizes will be returning!

Have a happy, safe, and haunted end of your October! Have fun!

Each prompt will show up at midnight pacific time!

TODAY'S PROMPT

The Raffle

We have a raffle again this year! To enter, you only need to make an entry for any day, and link it on the thread you want to enter on! One entry can be used for both raffles!

This raffle seems a little creepy... a little crawly... a little, uh, spider?

Atlach here is the starter for the Arachnid Ambusher lineage skill! 3 of its slots will be raffled!

-Atlach slots may not be sold for real life currency, or traded outside of Ketucari
-If the Winner of the slot chooses to use the slot in a Split breeding, the Winner of the slot must get Pick of the Litter. This is to prevent more experienced players from taking advantage of newbies, which we have been seeing more of as of late.

>Atlach's Thread<

 

If you're looking for a spider ketucari to take home, for the second year in a row Atlach's line has produced a grandchild, able to learn the Arachnid Ambusher skill at renowned, with Atlach on the second lineage line:



>Desmoxy's Thread<


Enjoy 7 Days!