June 7 News
Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:20 am
7th June
* The penultimate part of the Curse of Maraqua plot is now live. King Kelpbeard has decided to take matters into his own hands and see to Captain Scarblade himself...
* Darkest Faerie Update - Gamespot has a new interview all about the Darkest Faerie with more sneak previews of gameplay and some of the zones, as well as snippets of the story behind the game. Click here to see the E3 2005 GameSpot Live Stage Demo.
* You can now have King Kelpbeard or Captain Scarblade adorning your desktop with these new Backgrounds.
* Guilds Update - Guild searching has returned. Now guild leaders can define up to five keywords that describe what their guild is about and rank the importance of each term. To search the guilds, go to the main guild page and click on "Search" on the guild tool bar. You will be presented with the option of searching for keywords or for guild names. To add/edit your guild's keywords click on "Guild Layout" under the admin section, then click "Modify Guild Keywords".
* Five Neopets themed poems have been added to our Poetry Gallery.
* New Game - Swarm - The Bugs Strike Back! A new and improved version of Swarm is now available for your gaming pleasure
Show people how much you like the game with these snazzy Buddy Icons.
* Skatermonkey7 has just earned themselves a shiny Minigolf Spotlight award with their level - Possible??.
* The Toy Shop has four never seen before plushies of Faerie Neopets on sale.
* Congratulations Kisze_misze and Meardow, your webpage - The Draik who fails, but wants to be evil has just won the latest Site Spotlight award.
* In the distance a gate creaks, you hear an eerie howl and somewhere a baby starts to cry... Another game has been dragged screaming into the Game Graveyard...
* As well as the new buddy icons, there is a Desktop Background with a Swarm theme.
* Congratulations Mathswhiz! Thanks to your level - Trapped!, you are now the proud owner of a Faerie Caves Spotlight trophy.
* The penultimate part of the Curse of Maraqua plot is now live. King Kelpbeard has decided to take matters into his own hands and see to Captain Scarblade himself...
* Darkest Faerie Update - Gamespot has a new interview all about the Darkest Faerie with more sneak previews of gameplay and some of the zones, as well as snippets of the story behind the game. Click here to see the E3 2005 GameSpot Live Stage Demo.
* You can now have King Kelpbeard or Captain Scarblade adorning your desktop with these new Backgrounds.
* Guilds Update - Guild searching has returned. Now guild leaders can define up to five keywords that describe what their guild is about and rank the importance of each term. To search the guilds, go to the main guild page and click on "Search" on the guild tool bar. You will be presented with the option of searching for keywords or for guild names. To add/edit your guild's keywords click on "Guild Layout" under the admin section, then click "Modify Guild Keywords".
* Five Neopets themed poems have been added to our Poetry Gallery.
* New Game - Swarm - The Bugs Strike Back! A new and improved version of Swarm is now available for your gaming pleasure
Show people how much you like the game with these snazzy Buddy Icons.
* Skatermonkey7 has just earned themselves a shiny Minigolf Spotlight award with their level - Possible??.
* The Toy Shop has four never seen before plushies of Faerie Neopets on sale.
* Congratulations Kisze_misze and Meardow, your webpage - The Draik who fails, but wants to be evil has just won the latest Site Spotlight award.
* In the distance a gate creaks, you hear an eerie howl and somewhere a baby starts to cry... Another game has been dragged screaming into the Game Graveyard...
* As well as the new buddy icons, there is a Desktop Background with a Swarm theme.
* Congratulations Mathswhiz! Thanks to your level - Trapped!, you are now the proud owner of a Faerie Caves Spotlight trophy.
Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:32 am
I'm not so sure I am happy with the new swarm. The scoring is different and the game is tougher to play. I guess no more 3k off of playing it 
Though the bugs look strangly familiar to my first ever art gallery submission. I did a flat scene in illustrator of my ruki shooting down red beetle like bugs with green or yello eyes...
Makes me want to find that drawing. Though I think they modeled them after the beetle petpet, not my drawing.
Though the bugs look strangly familiar to my first ever art gallery submission. I did a flat scene in illustrator of my ruki shooting down red beetle like bugs with green or yello eyes...
Makes me want to find that drawing. Though I think they modeled them after the beetle petpet, not my drawing.
Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:48 am
The new Swarm is interesting. I got my highest score out of it ever with this new version- 4250 or so, but because of the powerups- namely the fast/big bullets, wall restore, and laser. The waves aren't really increasingly harder, but the sheer amount of bugs are really making it run slow. Also, the bug running around the top destroys a lot more wall than the old version.
However, it makes a very tedious 1000 NP.
However, it makes a very tedious 1000 NP.
Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:53 am
Gah...I'm getting behind on my Buzz gallery for sure now. >_< Must get plushie...too cute!
Anyone notice that the Scarblade BG image is the EXCAT same one from Scarblade Day? XD
Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:09 am
The penultimate part of the Curse of Maraqua plot is now live. King Kelpbeard has decided to take matters into his own hands and see to Captain Scarblade himself...
Ummm... I'm a little slow. But, what the heck is penultimate?
Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:09 am
The penultimate part of the Curse of Maraqua plot is now live. King Kelpbeard has decided to take matters into his own hands and see to Captain Scarblade himself...
I honestly hope they don't make the end of the plot a "Kelpbeard comes in to save the day and in doing so the pirates are automatically PWNed" sort of thing, which they actually seem to be setting up. Even if the Maraquans win (and I'm guessing they will), the final battle should be quite a challenge for the plot characters.
Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:18 am
matterbug wrote:The penultimate part of the Curse of Maraqua plot is now live. King Kelpbeard has decided to take matters into his own hands and see to Captain Scarblade himself...
Ummm... I'm a little slow. But, what the heck is penultimate?
Just a fancy word for "second to last"
Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:24 am
http://www.neopets.com/water/plot_com.phtml
On 4/4 on Chapter 20.... It isn't loaded for me.
Can someone screencap it for me?
On 4/4 on Chapter 20.... It isn't loaded for me.
Can someone screencap it for me?
Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:37 am
Click here for a screenshot of page four...
FRAME ONE
As the tide of battle turns, the realisation slowly dawns on the pirates that their captain is elsewhere-- and they have nowhere to run.
FRAME TWO
Talek: Bring on the next scoundrel!
FRAME THREE
Red Peophin: Anyone would think you were enjoying this, sir.
FRAME FOUR
As night falls for the rest of Neopia, King Kelpbeard begins his battle, determined to free his kingdom once and for all.
FRAME ONE
As the tide of battle turns, the realisation slowly dawns on the pirates that their captain is elsewhere-- and they have nowhere to run.
FRAME TWO
Talek: Bring on the next scoundrel!
FRAME THREE
Red Peophin: Anyone would think you were enjoying this, sir.
FRAME FOUR
As night falls for the rest of Neopia, King Kelpbeard begins his battle, determined to free his kingdom once and for all.
Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:52 am
Yoshi wrote:The new Swarm is interesting. I got my highest score out of it ever with this new version- 4250 or so, but because of the powerups- namely the fast/big bullets, wall restore, and laser. The waves aren't really increasingly harder, but the sheer amount of bugs are really making it run slow. Also, the bug running around the top destroys a lot more wall than the old version.
However, it makes a very tedious 1000 NP.
I got 2,453, my first try (minus the one I had to close-so I could set the graphic quality to very poor) so it is possible for me to make 3k off of it, but like you said it took me awhile. it took me about an hour, though it could have been more. I wasn't timing myself.
Looks like they have a limited number of rounds, because I didn't die, but I was forced to send my score after about round 10.
Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:03 am
I got close to 6k on my first try just now, beat all 10 waves.
Think I might have a chance to win a trophy?
Edit: 1st place on the score board so far is 4,499.
*crosses fingers while waiting for her score to be reviewed*
Double Edit: I just realised I played on my lab account and not my main one.
Think I might have a chance to win a trophy?
Edit: 1st place on the score board so far is 4,499.
*crosses fingers while waiting for her score to be reviewed*
Double Edit: I just realised I played on my lab account and not my main one.
Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:31 am
Easy 3k for me on Swarm 2 *nods*
It DOES run a tad slow, but it's much more fun I think; I happen to like taking chances with nowhere to hide from massive flame drops
High score's around 3543 points. I got up to the ninth wave and then casually "forgot" I had nowhere to hide anymore and subsequently got 'splodied by a wave of fireballs
It DOES run a tad slow, but it's much more fun I think; I happen to like taking chances with nowhere to hide from massive flame drops
High score's around 3543 points. I got up to the ninth wave and then casually "forgot" I had nowhere to hide anymore and subsequently got 'splodied by a wave of fireballs
Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:04 am
Second try got me 6385 points.
On my main account, this time. -_-
On my main account, this time. -_-
Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:32 am
The quest we tried had us investigating a crypt in search of a prince's family history so that he could prove to his fiancée's parents that he was of a royal bloodline.
First this:
._. I thought Neopets weren't allowed to date.
Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:42 am
o_0 wrote:The quest we tried had us investigating a crypt in search of a prince's family history so that he could prove to his fiancée's parents that he was of a royal bloodline.
First this:
._. I thought Neopets weren't allowed to date.
But real people are, and those are the kind who get neogreetings
There are greetings for "congratulations on your new baby" too
I want/need/will kill for one of these:
So what's the betting it's uber expensive
