i've been thinking back to the first couple plots (of which i was not a part, as i think i joined several months after the old LDP), and remembered that with the Coltzan's Shrine plot, you had to take the ransom note into MSPaint and find a hidden message, and with the VirtuPets plot, you had to look up a particular shop using the key word 'ummagine.'
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yeah, none of that here. although i've been trying my best. i've painted the Temple, the Repository, the Lost Desert itself, each type of block in the Repository, the crystal...
and i tried looking up 'ring', 'jazan', and even 'clue' (because by then i was frustrated and desperate...)
and it seems like it's always a weekend here, with NO NEWS from TNT... bah! scarabug!
EDIT: i was just looking at the Wikipedia entry for Neopets, and found something interesting...
The main setting is Neopia Central, a city where the main stores are based. There are also different themed settings, called worlds: Tyrannia (prehistoric), Faerieland (faeries), the upcoming Altador (Greco-Roman) and Bogshot Village (swamp) perhaps one of these is the something that will come back to life upon fulfillment of the prophecy? for my money, Altador seems the more likely