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EXPLORABLE LEYLINE!

When passing between two forked trees, a strangely silent doorway, or through another Space Between, some people have reported the shadows leaning into them, a blue mist swirling at the corner of their eyes. Some have gone missing, and only a few have turned up later. Fewer yet come back with their face.

The Leyline is now explorable due to Phoenix Update 14! (Phoenix Lore here!)

Turn in Explorations here - Read about Canon Worlds here

As this is the Nskanetian land of the dead, it comes with some risks - that is to say, a unique Temporary Condition, Cursed. Unlike other Temporary Conditions, Cursed rolls at an uncommon rate - however, it will only appear in the Leyline, and will only restrict the Rixixi from traveling to the Leyline until cured. It can be cured with a Funerary Mask item, which has been added to the First Aid kit! Any user who has previously redeemed the Temporary Conditions Starter Pack has received a Funerary Mask.

You might notice two of the immunities in the Temporary Conditions list for Cursed currently don't exist! Those will be implemented in the next Phoenix release.

Several items have been added with the release of the Leyline - more will be coming in the future, but for launch, the new items are:

• Shuck's Bushel - Berries native to the Leyline
• Leywine - Fermented Shuck's Bushel and questionable chemical substances, tastes like embalming fluid. Some Leyline locals find it nostalgic. Permanent +50 to a random stat but causes an instant debuff due to being a hard liquor.
• Hagfish - Hagfish! I'll be adding hagfish slime in the future.
• Eel - Suggested by Ace574 ! I love eels.
• Leystone - It's the "pure" form of Corecracker Lodestone, and can be broken down into it.
• Leyline Barghest - A very common threat in the Leyline.
• Funerary Mask - Doesn't drop in the Leyline, but still a newly added item. Created via crafting.

The Leyline is a major part of the I'm Here For You event, and you'll be seeing more of it in the Rixixi side of the event soon! There may be some more delay than expected getting it out - hopefully not much, will give an update if needed! I am a walking medical drama right now.

Barters

Barters have cycled! Apologies for the delay, there was some IRL stuff going on.

- Anarchisme

Hello, happy new year! Here's a really, really quick update to kick off the year!

This is primarily a Rixixi update, but I'm excited to have various updated throughout the year for you!

it's pig

Lemon Pig companions are now available in the Witchin' Kitchen! They're essentially just a reskinned Mini Rooter that drops Citrus Fruit instead of Root Vegetables on a failed roll, but it seemed like a fun and silly quick idea to put a little companion out on the New Year since they have New Year's connotation <3 Here's hoping it's a good one!

One more small thing - since there'll be a Karma Season soon, the Karma page has been moved to Nsk Net and rephrased a bit.

There are some pretty big updates coming soon! I'm excited to get them ready!

- Anarchisme

Happy Solstice! Rixixi has cycled over to Winter, but there's also a bit of B-NOMALY news in this since we're having a multispecies event!

(The next update for The Lost should be out later today, but might be delayed a bit due to IRL stuff. Should be really soon though!)

Multispecies News

One of the Winter Festival prompts is a multispecies prompt! Check out Leyline-Connected: Chipper and the Harbinger if you'd like to do some B-NOMALY + Rixixi interaction! As it involves depicting two different species, its rewards are doubled from the usual B-NOM prompt/Winter Festival currency, and it grants 20 seasonal currency (Rixixi) and 2 Silver Tokens (B-NOMALY)!

Rixixi News

Winter Changelog

• The Harbinger of the Funeral Pyre has arrived - another Ghost starter. While they are a standard, they have the full Primal Blood set and can throw Primals at combo mut chances.
• There's still a little story and hub on dA!
• And here's a direct link to the Events prompts!
• The Harbinger has a new gene - Blaze (nBlz/BlzBlz), an uncommon gene! This will be appearing in Chrono Shards from December 21, 2020 until April 21, 2021.
• As there is no new gene to add to Supercharged Chrono Shards, I'm randomizing a past date to pull from for both regular and supercharged chrono shards as well, and it is October 24, 2019. December 21 2020 - April 21 2021 Charged Chrono shards will also have Gallus Face, Drake Scales, Fissure, Mojave, and Dullahan. The Supercharged Chrono shards will have Shield Wings and Lava Lamp. I'll be adding this to the Chrono page soon!
• As previously mentioned, there aren't new seasonal items this year to make time for more updates. As a result, all past winter items are available in the Event prompts - there's a selection of three in Around the World and Time to Chill, and Winter Radiation is available as a bonus prompt in Dragon Sighting.

Also, Barters

Myrk's seasonal deal is in, and so is Fang! The faction T1 prompts have been cycled!

Gonna go cycle Myrk's shop out and other seasonal item changes!

- Anarchisme

Links: Prologue: The Lost | Event Prompt: The Lost

Adoptables: Trailblazer | The Seers

The Prologue has updated, and another B-NOMALY has appeared! Two, actually - Vic has returned, and has a currently unreleased mutation as a result of his travels. It's probably obvious what this mutation is, and its guide will be coming out when one more B-NOMALY comes out with it - there's another planned adoptable, it'll be out soon <;

Links: Prologue: The Lost | Event Prompt: The Lost

Deep in the basement of the B-NOMALY labs, past crumbling hallways and failing machinery, a roiling crack splits the tiled floor. Dubbed the Vat, the chaotic pit would be difficult to find for most strangers stumbling across the old laboratory, as nothing leading to it is particularly of interest. Most of the inhabitants of the labs know it well, however, and it's an even split on whether a B-NOMALY might seek it out or avoid it - it's rumored to grant power and mutations, and Fogholders drift towards it without thinking about it. As the Vat is a direct link to the Chasm, the rumors aren't exactly unfounded.

Lately, more and more of the B-NOMALIES that seek out the Vat aren't coming back, and the few that do are reporting a strange phenomenon - every so often, the Vat is replaced by a glowing blue mist. Eventually, it dissipates as unexpectedly as it came, and anyone caught up in it is lost.

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We're hosting a multispecies event, the prologue is hosted by B-NOMALY and the next few chapters will be on Rixixi. This is sort of a test (I want to see how hosting this on Nsk Net and Chasmhome works, as well as doing this with both B-NOMALY and Rixixi), but I think it'll go well?

There'll be more news updates as the story unfolds! There'll also be more B-NOMALIES to adopt, so far Trailblazer is available!

Hello! I wanna go over some plans that'll hopefully happen in the next year, so that y'all can know what's going on! First, though, I missed some news in the previous post, so real quick:

Rixixi News: The Glowstick Pack now contains a Domestic base - sorry for the delay on that!
B-NOMALY News: There will be S-OLSTICE B-NOMALIES this year - less than last year, December is a bit of a mess!

The rest of this news post will be plans for 2021 and on  - a lot of this is for Rixixi, but some of these are for B-NOMALY as well. Some of these were plans for 2020, but due to Eclipse and IRL issues, they had to be put on hold while things were figured out.

I really don't have solid ETAs at this time, just ideas.

Event Changes - Festivals, Karma Seasons

This is mostly Rixixi except for the one part at the end

I have a bunch of ideas for events and major releases, and I want to get some headway on them. Due to Rixixi's size vs. how much is planned, though, I'm swapping a few things around in how events work:

Seasonal Festivals in 2021 will not have new apparel/accessories. It might not have new items in general, I might just make the older items easier to obtain from the prompts for a year, but if I can think of something fun to include (a companion or something), I might do that as well. This is entirely to make sure focus can be put on other things, and to have less to catch up on when subspecies are made! This is a fairly minor change compared to some other things on this list, but it does exist.

Karma Seasons are now medium-sized events - smaller than Here There Be Dragons, but larger than, say, the April Fool's events. Massive events like Here There Be Dragons (which was scaled to nearly match the main storyline) are unwieldly, and due to Rixixi being a small ARPG, are unlikely to get the kind of attention they'd require - this is why HTBD dragged on for like a year.

I do have a medium-sized Karma Season in the works - this might seem sudden considering I'm only just announcing this change now, but I'd like to test how events might work on Nsk Net + Chasmhome anyways, and I kind of started writing it and I've already got the first chapter (and some extra) done + the rest outlined. I need to get the art for Chapter One done, and I'm not sure how long that'll take. It might be out sometime during the winter?

I'll have to rework the Karma journal into a new page with updated info, too.

Large-sized events/releases are no longer Karma Seasons. Something the size of HTBD or higher is too unwieldly to be a Karma Season, but there will be story-based releases in the future. I'm not actually sure how they'll work - possibly similar to the Phoenix Shrine where a release and story is put out every so often, I just know that some plans I have for the future would work better as huge story-based releases spaced out over a large period of time, but they're too big to be regular events at the current size we're at. More on that in the future, I guess?

Events are more likely to affect multiple species due to the Lorekeeper hosting the Chasm-Connected Universe. Hopefully I can pull this off in time for the S-OLSTICE.

General Plans, Features, Etc

This involves multiple species

RIXIXI:

• Semi-Custom Sale??? - ETA: January or February 2021. - Actually please feel free to tell me which one y'all would prefer. I was originally planning to do this in the summer or fall and just... didn't?? so I might repeat this in the summer this year too. This is primarily to cover Chasmhome site costs.
• Chasmhome Story Modes - New Karma Season likely to be tested before moving other story modes.
• Chasmhome Adventuring, Hunting, Mining, Kellas Cats, possibly Chasmjumping - No ETA, but likely early 2021. To-do list includes moving pages off dA, testing mostly
• Chrono Shards with Automatic Dates - No ETA because Anar is the one typing this news and doesn't have access to that - We're working on it! Had some code issues.
  
• Mymber Houses? - This might not happen in 2021 but I figured out some ways to do it. To-do list includes Art, setting up a whole mymber house building system, new items, redeems, etc
• Factions (Joinable/Tier 2) - No ETA at this time, this was planned for 2020 but heavily sidelined due to Eclipse. To-do list includes Apparel, finishing shop stock, figuring out how to work the prompts on chasmhome.
• Biomechanix - Domestic - The optional base was supposed to be made ages ago but I can't figure out what I want it to look like I'm sorry. ETA: whenever I can think of an appearance that isn't a furby. Please feel free to suggest things that aren't furbies. I have no problem with furbies, it just can't be the optional import lmao
• Dragon Body Type - ETA: I'm trying to get this out for the winter solstice 2020 actually!! If I can't, it'll be out very early 2021!
  
• I have 3 subspecies that I want to release over the next year or two please help me I am a fool

B-NOMALY:

• MOVING SERAPH'S STYLING STATION OFF dA - ETA SOON!!! I can't even parse the journal myself and I can barely edit it I'm so sorry guys
• B-NOM masterlist on Chasmhome - This could happen really early 2021 - To-do list: Add Fogholder + Doppelganger to traits, I finished testing this so it's all good
• Rework the B-NOM info that's on Nsk Net because some of y'all still reference it and it's SO OLD - I don't have an ETA on this but I should do it sometime. It's so old.

OTHER CHASM-CONNECTED/MULTISPECIES:

• Add Aexent and Chasm Horsemen to masterlist? - Unconfirmed - I haven't even tested this, but I'm considering it. It should work fine since B-NOMS do.
• Aex info on Nsk Net - I'm working on this kind of slowly! ETA: soon, the image guides are really hard to read.
• CHASM and LEYLINE traits guide - I don't have an ETA on this, I just want a guide to visual traits creatures from the chasm and leyline have

I know there's a lot that I'm forgetting and I didn't list, like, individual item plans here, forgive me V: If I very obviously forgot to say something, that's probably why.

Scatterings are currently on standby, however, because I'm not sure how to handle player-owned groups with dA doing the thing it's doing. Feel free to send me feedback and opinions? I'm just kinda unsure.

Okay, that's it for now, because I just can't remember what else to say so I should probably move on for now. Signing off for now but here for you! ;0

-Anarchisme

Hello! I've got a bunch of Rixixi news for you today!

Rixixi News

Barters

Barters have cycled - it's roughly the last barter cycle before the Solstice, so Lunar's barter is in! You can get anything in the shop for the price of one Fallen Leaf, once every other day! This barter is known for its wild comments, so stop by if you've got spare leaves! The current art barter has a bunch of soups and smoothies available for those interested in sparring!

Companions

There are two new companions out:

• Anareizh's Patron - A snake! Grants one healing from Temporary Conditions per week. Can be bought at Anareizh's Shrine.
• Barghest - a fierce canine that can assist in hunting and legendary hunting! Appears on Earth and in some Hunting drops.

You can find alternate skins on the Companions page!

Shrines In General

All Nskanetian Shrines are handled through a Lorekeeper prompt now! There have been a few updates to shrines due to this.

• Lucida and the Messenger's shrine are on Nsk Net now!
• Anareizh has obtained 2 new skills that can be purchased at their shrine:
  • Field Medic - 30% resistance to temp. conditions, grants resistance to all others in pieces with this Ixi
  • Antivenom - temporary resistance to Damage over Time in combat
• Thoriane has obtained a new skill that can be purchased at her shrine:
  • Smuggling - allows +1 equippable to be brought into combat; multiturn skills work for +1 turn

Phoenix Update 13

I think it's 13 at least?

• Sacrificial Runes - effectively allow you to play Two Truths and a Lie with Phoenix
• More lore if you're reading that!

That's it for now! I'm still planning on making a larger post detailing what the plans are for this upcoming year but here's a small leak:

There may be a Karma Season (smaller than HTBD) coming surprisingly soon?

- Anarchisme

A B-NOMALY update for you today!

B-NOMALY News

A seasonal prompt is available for the month of December! You can show your B-NOMALY or a NPC doing something winter/winter holiday related in the Snowbunny Solstice prompt, and in return for your first entry, you'll receive a Mutant MYO! (3 Anarchic traits included)

Just in time for more MYOs*, almost all B-NOMALY traits are now located on Chasmhome! Fogholder and Doppelganger are not located on Chasmhome - their guides will be upgraded with images when I have the time to do this.

*this was not intentionally timed haha

Some B-NOMALY NPCs are now on Chasmhome to test and see if the character masterlist function will work well enough to host user B-NOMALIES - so far, it's working well, I just have some more things to test (and the remaining traits to prepare) before that's ready!

More Rixixi and B-NOMALY news coming soon, and some larger updates/year-end wrapups coming soon before the winter solstice!

- Anarchisme

Hello! Got some Rixixi updates today!

Rixixi News

Barters

Barters/Prompts have cycled! Fang is back, the Faction Tier 1 Prompts have cycled, and there's another Fall-themed prompt, this time with Uuner! Feel free to check them out! c:

Also, some of you might have noticed that Lunar's barter was missing in the summer - She needed some wording tweaks, as I didn't want to come across as making light of IRL situations. Plus, from a gameplay standpoint, I wanted to get used to actually using the staff reply function before using a reply-heavy barter like Lunar's. Good news is, she's coming back near the end of the season, in the Cat and Mjilikae barter. It'll function basically the same as her old barter, I'm just calling it something different.

Combat

Combat has been reimplemented! It's been moved to a Nsk Net page, and is submitted here on Chasmhome as a claim - check out the page for more information on that! There've been several tweaks:

• Equipment used in combat is now limited by what level your Rixixi is at! This was initially mentioned by the new Leveling Up page, but Combat itself was under construction at that time. Equipment in general is not limited - this refers to what you can take into an individual fight.
• Battle Modes are now fully customizeable - and I mean fully, I've included ways to add arena hazards and everything. You can choose a Standard Mode if you don't care about all that.
• There's some additional combat drops! Mushroom Soup, Chicken Noodle Soup, and Stone Soup to Go have been added to Uncommon combat drops. Nabeyaki Udon, Mushroom Soup (Large), Chicken Noodle Soup (Large), Stone Soup, Irish Stew, and BBQ Platter have been added to Rare combat drops.
• THE BEAST of AlternateFatality fame has finally been added to the list of NPCs who can be fought! This is a feature that's been talked about since like 2018, it's about time. To fight The Beast, you have to first encounter them in Chasmjumping - your Rixixi can then take revenge as long as you have your AlternateFatality comment as proof!
• General combat wording tweaks, hopefully helps with some clarity

Have fun, fight on!

Kellas Cats

A rule change has gone into effect for Kellas Cats: "This ability can be activated once a week per Kellas Cat, and up to 3 times a week per user." (Previously no mentioned limit per user)

Kellas cats originally had no real limit on how many cats could be sent out per week - it was only limited by the amount of Cats you had attached to Rixixi. This was honestly an error that I never really fixed because you all, the players, have been keeping the amount of cats sent out really reasonable - I've seen a maximum of about 3 a week most of the time. Thank you. I'm setting this rule mostly so that we don't have to worry about it later, and I'm basing it off the maximum y'all were going off of, because it was working. 3x a week per user works well. If we have to tweak it later, hey, that's fine too, but this works and it was totally my error that there wasn't a limit before.

(This only really came to mind in the first place even because I was editing the Euphoria rules and Kellas Cats run on Chasmjumping logic V: )

Anyways, have fun! I'll be back soon with more stuff!

- Anarchisme