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Faerie Quests

For all you newbies (and maybe not so newbies), faerie quests can be a pretty annoying occurrence. Keeping you from shopping with the shop wizard, and thus keeping you from restocking or finding the item they are looking for and completing the quest, I often spent hours looking through user shops and malls until I found what the stupid faerie wanted. That is, until I found the quest board :P. The faerie quest board is where a bunch of really nice Neopians are willing to find that item for you on their shop wizard or super shop wizard, then give you the URL of the shop or the name of the user who has the shop. In my experience, these anonymous altruists are almost always correct, helpful, and speedy. So next time you’re about to get that morphing potion and the light faerie pops up on your screen, don’t fear! Just go to the quest help page! Who knows, you might see me hanging about there too… ^_^

PS: If anyone has ideas or suggestions for a guide on the site, why not post them here? 

Monthly Freebies/Holidays/Keyquest

Hey Neopets fans! Don’t forget to get your monthly freebies this month. Happy August! 

Here is a list of notable days coming up in August:

• Aug 8th - Blumaroo Day
• Aug 11th - Discovery of Brightvale
• Aug 18th - Meerca Day!
• Aug 20th - Annual Usuki Doll Convention
• Aug 24th - Grundo Independence Day
• Aug 25th - Mutant Day
• Aug 29th - Kyrii Day

Keyquest Beta

Neopets Keyquest Beta was open this morning for testing! Thinking I’d be cool and play, then blog about it, I hopped right up to that URL and pressed play. After going through a colorful and tantalizingly simple (yet long) tutorial, I finally pressed “play”. To what did my wondering eyes did appear? Nothing. Perhaps it was that my high speed internet simply isn’t fast enough, or my new computer can’t handle the load (it isn’t), but for some reason I simply couldn’t play. The large game screen would go white after hitting “play”, and it would stay white. I left it there to ponder for almost half an hour until I gave up my hopes of Keyquest. I figured since it was beta testing it probably just wouldn’t work all the time. Just a few minutes ago I tried again, only to see this message appear: 

Thanks for helping us beta test! However, Key Quest is currently offline for maintenance, likely because you crashed our servers from all the load. It’s okay. We forgive you.

The game will return soon. In the meantime, here are some fun things you can do while you wait:

• Get a haircut
• Eat a sandwich (sandwich not provided)
• Invade Mystery Island
• Go outside
• Build a lawyerbot
• Plant a tree (tree not provided)
• Take a nap
• Obey the Meepits (Meepits provided BEHIND YOU! Just kidding.)

Neopets is not responsible for any injures incurred while attempting any of the above tasks.

- The Neopets Team

My suspicions were confirmed! TNT is having trouble with server loads, which is to be expected considering the size and complexity of the game. It’s about bedtime now, so hopefully when I awake the game will be back up. Maybe even out of Beta testing (a girl can dream). For those of you who stay awake in the wee hours, here is the link to the game. Comment if it works for you!

PS: I know I haven’t added any content to the site in the last few days (I sincerely apologize!) I’m about to start working on something fabulous for good ole’ Taelia.net (and I have a little surprise still in formulation mode) so don’t fear, fearless fans! The site will be updated soon! For now, just keep enjoying the awesomeness already on the site!

Image Clicks

Image clicks have been around for a while as a simple Neopoint making scheme. Image clicks come in two forms, one is condoned by TNT, the other is not. This blog post will teach you a little bit about both forms.

Manual image clicks are usually found on 3rd party websites as a list of links on Neopets.com. These links will each take you to a page on the site where you will click something and then receive a few hundred Neopoints. Clicking each of this links and finding the “click” can take a lot of time, but this is the only way TNT says is legal to image click. This method can take a few hours, but will probably earn you 30,000 Neopoints total. Click here to go to a list of manual image clicks. (An offsite link!)

Automated Image Clicks can take only a few minutes, and will basically do the list of image clicks for you. I personally have used automated image clicks and I have never been frozen, but this is a freezable offense (though how would TNT find out?) This will get you 40k or so within 5 minutes, but use at your own risk! If you’re scared of your account, you can always do them on a side and then move them to your main. Click here to go to my personal choice of automated image clicks. 

You can do image clicks, either manual or automatic, about twice a week to every other day. 

The Altador Cup is Over

Finally, after a month of battling, the Altador Cup III is over! The winner was Roo Island, with the final standings in this order:

1. Roo Island (Winner)
2. Krawk Island
3. Lost Desert
4. Shenkuu
5. Meridell
6. Kreludor
7. Darigan Citadel
8. Haunted Woods
9. Mystery Island
10. Maraqua
11. Tyrannia
12. Terror Mountain
13. Altador
14. Virtupets
15. Faerieland
16. Brightvale
17. Kiko Lake (Did not participate)

1k Giveaway Over: Goal Reached!

The 1k Giveaway is finally over on this July 21, 2008! We’re 10 days early in achieving our 1000 unique visitor goal (that’s 1/3 early?) Congratulations to the 5 lucky winners who each received 5 Taelia themed prizes worth approx. 75,000 NP. Thanks to all who participated in the giveaway, and thanks to each and every unique visitor (all 1000 of you) who helped us get so far!

The Halfway Point and Numbers

Everyone, we’re half way through July now and half way through the month of the 1k Giveaway! If you haven’t signed up yet, do so here. Since we can’t be entirely sure we’ll reach 1,000 visitors this month, lets take a look at what we have so far. As of July 14 we have had 680 unique visitors (68% there!). That’s 18% more visitors than we hoped! We’re looking good for our 1k

Some other numbers about the site that you may wonder:

• Game Guides: 20
• Backgrounds: 10
• Blends: 3
• Blogs: 7
• Coming Soon Signs: 3
• Glitters: 39
• Hiatus Signs: 6
• Shields: 12
• Welcome Signs: 5

The Taelia.net 1K Giveaway

Taelia.net is going to celebrate what (we hope!) will be the first month ever where our site receives 1000 unique visitors! There will be a count-up on the Taelia.net 1K Giveaway Page where there is information about the giveaway. Sign up there, too, by submitting your username. After we hit the big 1k mark, we’ll draw 5 lucky Neopians from those that signed up. Then we’ll give them each 5 Taelia-themed items to celebrate this milestone for the site! This is our way of thanking our visitors for helping us get so far. If you have any questions about the giveaway, please contact linnea@taelia.net. Don’t forget to sign up! 

Game Guide Update

Taelia.net has recently added a new feature to many of our game guides: video demonstrations! Now, after learning how to play the game, tips, etc. you can watch one of us actually play the game to show you how it’s done. As of this post, we have 17 game guides. During the next week or so, the staff and I will be adding many more game guides and demonstrations, so check back often. Don’t know where to find our game guides? They’re at Taelia.net in the game guides section. 

Taelia

New Graphics + Staff!

Hey, guys! Recently, Taelia.net has acquired two new staff members: a programmer and a game guide maker. To learn a little bit more about them or contact them, see our about us page. If you’d like to join our growing staff team, go to the apply for staff page.

In other news, I have recently been on a graphics-binge. Taelia.net now features hiatus signs and backgrounds, as well as new Neopets images and blogs. Feel free to browse and choose anything you like, they are all for you! See you soon.

Taelia