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Post by Audaxity on Jan 13, 2023 13:01:12 GMT -7
Week One: January 8th - 14th
□ Introduce your petz team! Post pictures, names, and any other info you want.
□ Dress up your petz in their team colours!□ Make a Winter Olympics stamp to share.□ Update your avatar or signature to show team spirit!□ Introduce (or re-introduce) one pet to another and see how they do.Total: 5 / 5
Week Two: January 15th - 21st
□ Set a timer for 2 minutes and see how many times your pet jumps through the hoop.
□ Share a photo of a pet drinking hot chocolate. □ Share the reasoning behind one or more of your petz names. □ Take a photo of a pet doing a trick for a treat!
□ Decorate the snowman in the snow scene with one or more petz.
Total: 5 / 5
Week Three: January 22nd - 28th
□ Set a timer for 2 minutes and see how many treatz your pet can eat.
□ Bows, bows, bows! Dress up your pet(z) in them and share their cute photos.
□ Send a surprise card/graphic to a person who hexed/bred one of your petz to thank them. □ Help one of your petz discover their favorite toy.
□ Get one of your petz to go for a ride on the sled!
Total: 5 / 5
Week Four: January 29th - February 4th
□ Set a timer for 2 minutes and see how many times your pet catches the frisbee.
□ Get a show pose out of one of your petz and enter them in a show. □ Share a cozy photo of your pet(z) snuggled up by the fireplace. □ Introduce your pet(z) to Mitzy or Bear at the snow scene and see how they do.
□ Write a short paragraph about why you and your petz (hopefully) enjoyed WinOly 2023.
Total: 5 / 5
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Post by Audaxity on Jan 13, 2023 13:33:53 GMT -7
The team...has arrived!
I ended up with 16 petz in my team for this season's olympics, and organized them using a few personal rules - three in each "category" (bred catz, hexed catz, bred dogz, hexed dogz, and others [ended up with 4 in the last category]), and each had to be from a different person! At the end, this team still does not encompass all the wonderful petz and people I received them from this year, unfortunately, but I felt any further would be reaching unmanageable levels to really spend quality time with. Without further ado, here are the selected petz (pre-dressed in the appropriate colors, as well)!
Bred Catz
Jem - From Rylan - A smol but feisty Chinchi girl!
Runaway Mystery - From Xoops - Named because he ran away the first time I opened the game with him, and the why of it, well, remains a mystery! Maybe he's just really shy XD
Cheese - From Tigris/Svetlana - An Alley/RB mixie who is generally chill with most petz! Though he and Mystery hate each other for some reason....
Hexed Catz
Blululemon - From Queenie - A blueberry lemonade Drinkitty! I promise her hat is green, wireframe petz and clothes just tend not to cooperate, haha!
Pinion - Fro Arie - A beautiful bird kitty from the WW Advent Calender. I was so lucky to snag him! He's very silly, too!
Kinder - From Rebecca - A blueberry pie kitty who was generously gifted after being on my wishlist. She's honestly usually tuned out to whatever chaos is going on around her with the rest of the petz! Fun fact, she and Blululemon were both originally named Blueberry, along with a third pet on the team!
Bred Dogz
Pope Julius - From Joni - A fuzzy, Chi-eared religious authority, apparently. All the dogz in this category were from the WW Advent Calender, and Julius is especially right up my alley with his floofy tail and lab personality!
Milk Tea - From Lex - a lovely trotting boy who may not be cut out for acrobatics, but is ready to give it his all in the other categories!
Wonderland - From Penny - Adorable and rather hyper Dachie girl, eager to run rings around the competition.
Hexed Dogz
Blueberry - From Shaina - The one blueberry who got to keep his original name! I won him on TFM. His reactions to the camera are...generally interseting, but he's been picking up on tricks like a natural!
Desta - From Pinto - Another WW Advent nab! She's a trotter, too, and thus unusually non-acrobatic for a Doberman, but her pose-training is going super well.
Piano - From Buck - An SS gift from Buck, and an excellently wolfy boy. It was hard to choose which SS pet to include, but in the end, it had to be him!
Others
Dollop - From Bunni - This lil mini-pig was another wishlist pet. I think she's a little confused by...everything, but she's happy to be here!
Marielle - From Wapiti - Another off the wishlist! She's such a graceful deer and I love her...you know...deerly
Relax - From Gilda - Despite their chill reputations, this capybara is actually a bit of a bully to the other petz sadly :,) (Also, she's wearing a green bow, its just obscured by her head angle, silly girl)
Ashie - From Me - I had to hex a Valaptor of my own and decided to include her as a bonus pet in this category because...why not? She fetches surprisingly well!
And that's everyone! I'm very grateful to have gotten them all, and look forward to training and spending time with them in the coming weeks! (and, of course, for Team Evergreen's inevitable victory!)
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Post by Audaxity on Jan 14, 2023 17:07:24 GMT -7
Gauging the Team Dynamic!
With the team assembled, it's time to start seeing how they feel about each other! Once again going by groups to start out with, since it's easier to play with/observe smaller numbers of petz at a time!
Bred Dogs
Things are calm at first, with even some play going on, while in the background, Wonderland practices her entry into the School of Silly Walks
...Tensions soon rise, however, as it turns out Milk Tea is a very jealous boi, and starts bullying Pope Julius:
No full on fights, thankfully...and individually, both of the boys get along with Wonderland just fine!
So overall, some tensions, but it could have been much worse in this group!
Hexed Dogz
These guys were a pleasant surprise, in contrast! Look at em. They're just buddies! Everyone got along just fine and enjoyed playing with each other! Not a single snarl to report!
Bred Catz
Yeah things got rougghhh here.
I'll let the hate orb speak for itself. Cheese and Runaway Mystery despite each other, and Jem just....watches. This group is gonna be fun, I can tell!
Hexed Catz
Another success story! More friends! Also Kinder decided to...slide down the wall. She's weird.
Otherz
The final group! And probably the one with the most complicated dynamic. For starters, Relax and Marielle hate each other:
So much for deer and capybara being peaceful...
On the flip side, Relax gets along with both of the little ones, at least!
Marielle also doesn't mind mini-pig Dollop....but she and Ashie aren't on good terms.
Vicious predations, 2023, colorized. Though in all serious, there is a lot of glaring, angry chasing, and growling/hissing between these two. Not friends at all!
Conclusion
The team is a real mixed bag when it comes to getting along! Luckily not too many who outright hate each other, and most made fast friends. Inter-group dynamics remain to be seen, but that can wait for another day!
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Post by Audaxity on Jan 14, 2023 17:27:05 GMT -7
Stamps
16 of them, free to collect!
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Post by Audaxity on Jan 16, 2023 12:34:04 GMT -7
Photos!
Here are the pets that helped with this week's photo or misc challenges!
The first challenge was quick and easy with Relax, who was more than happy to drink some cocoa! Several cups of it while I tried to get a pic I was happy with, in fact!
Desta *begged* to be included next - or at least, begged for a chicken treat! She picked up on it very quickly, even if she looks a bit derpy XD
Finally, Kinder is waiting to hear the story of her name! Not sure how opening her eyes so wide helps with listening, but sure why not.
So, when I was little, I really loved the TV show Little Bear. It was extremely cute and one of my favorites. And I had a computer game based on the show that I also loved, where like Little Bear is throwing a party or something? And one of the minigames is collecting different types of berries and making a pie for it.
Rebecca's pie kitties always made me think of that game! When I got one and had to give him a proper name, my sister and I looked to see if that game was archived anywhere and what its actual name was (plus some other childhood favorites for funsies) and turns out it's literally just called "Little Bear Kindergarten Thinking Adventure" (what a mouthful!) There wasn't a whole lot there to turn into a name that functioned as an homage, but in the end I shortened Kindergarten to Kinder, and the rest is history! I'll admit it's an extremely niche reference, though!
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Post by Audaxity on Jan 18, 2023 11:34:15 GMT -7
Today seemed like as good a day as any to make that snowman! I also decided to use it as an opportunity to introduce some pets in different groups!
Today's helpers are Piano and Runaway Mystery, peering at each other curiously here:
And the verdict is...
Friends! Woo!
So I bundled them up more and off we headed to the snow scene, where they promptly got distracted doing nothing but sledding.
As you can see, I was using Amanda's carrot bag during this endeavor, only to learn...you can't use those on the snowman oops. At least Piano and Mystery were also willing to help with carrot cleanup!
Then, we took a detour to the greenhouse to grow some carrots from the fixed seeds. Turns out those don't work either, but hey, Piano got to enjoy a nice shower and some radio!
So in the end, we just had to do what we could with the bag of coal, leading to...this monstrosity...
Yes, they did, in fact, immediately knock some of the coal off. Given how weird this thing looks...that might even be an improvement.
Oh well ^.^; Fun was had nonetheless!
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Post by Audaxity on Jan 20, 2023 14:47:25 GMT -7
Hoop Jump!
Wonderland is ready to participate in this task!
She didn't seem sure of the hoop at first, circling it endlessly with her silly lil poodle walk and knocking it out of my hand, but after a few jumps and lots of rewarding, she seemed to learn pretty quickly, so I turned the timer on. She had a bit of a slow start, but...
After two minutes, she pulled off 9 jumps back to back! Not the most impressive number in the world, but not bad, either! So far, she's probably the jumping star of the team, so I only see her getting better from here!
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Post by ashleykap on Jan 22, 2023 19:07:50 GMT -7
What an organized way to pick a team! all i did was pick at random xD Lol Way to go with the hoop jumping Wonderland! <3
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Post by Buck on Feb 1, 2023 13:44:47 GMT -7
Awww how cute that all the hexed dogz get along I'm enjoying seeing Piano participate in WinOly! That snowman almost looks like it has spider eyes >.>
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#frostisboss
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Post by Audaxity on Feb 1, 2023 14:02:47 GMT -7
Treat-Eating Challenge!
I readied up a timer, and once it was set, went about filling the playpen with a veritable buffet for the lucky pet participant! After today, I'll be changing up my toy and clothes closet for Spring, so I decided to go all out with Winter treats especially. I put 12 each for all the treats I chose!
Thus, the stage is set! And the pet I chose for this challenge is Milk Tea, who seemed pretty darn happy to be let loose in the field of sweets!
He started in the bottom left corner, and then worked his way across the screen, nearly clearing a neat horizontal strip off the area. When he was done, the playscene looked like this:
...and Milk Tea himself looked like this:
...I guess I'd be a blob too if I ate 33 treats in two minutes XD
Then I brought the rest of the team out to help with cleanup, so he won't be the only one needing some exercise after this challenge! But hey, at least the playpen's clean!
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