Good evening Cinnafriends! We hope this update finds you well. We have some exciting things this week that we hope you'll love! Let's get right into it. 

🎡 BANNER 🎡

This month's banner was done by our friends Spook, Kouriander, and GummySprouts! Who doesn't love a good summer carnival. 🎡 As always, we'll raffle for the next banner artists after this announcement goes live! 

🌊 CINNART FIGHT CONCLUSION 🌌

Cinnart Fight's point shop closes tonight.

Thank you both Teams Cinnamon Seafoam and Voidal Stardust for your wonderful participation! You both have fought valiantly, and we hope everyone has enjoyed the art and items they recieved!

🎆 CINNA OF THE MONTH 🎆

These two lovely designs has won last month's Theme of the Month! Congratulations starspits and Almondlover ! All of these Cinnas have been made official and should be on your accounts. <3

Don't forget, you can choose to draw these Cinnas instead of an NPC for August's Rarity Prompt as well!

This month's theme is "Random Item Pool"! Design a Cinna that you feel fits that prompt and submit it to the gallery HERE!

☀️ August PROMPTS 🕶️

The MYO and rarity prompts have been updated for August! We can't wait to see what you create this month!

🎨 NEW guest artists and pound guest artists 🖌️

The new set of Guest Artists and Pound Guest Artists has been selected!

Welcome to the GA team Coastette , StabbyStarSlime , and ParrotParfait !
And welcome to the PGA team Digital_Space , iAM , and ophelisae !

🔍 SCAVENGER HUNT 🔍

We're happy to announce that this month (August 10th - September 10th), there is an on-site scavenger hunt you can participate in!

"Jeez! I can't believe I'd been so careless with such things... >_< This is sooo awkward..." Seems like HAL the PAL fumbled and scattered some data across the site... Looks like it's time to help her out!

How the scavenger hunt works is that you will be given a hint, and with that hint you will search the site until you see something out of the blue! Once you click on it, read the flavor text AND the next hint, click the link within the text to claim your item reward. Then seek out the next target with the new  clue! It's recommended to go in sequential order, since there is a story! This hunt is not meant to be competitive.

Feel free to comment your findings in the event channel created for the hunt! Make sure to familiarize yourself with the channel's rules and formatting.

🎊 POE GACHA 🎊

Our lovely resident jester poejangles is doing a gacha this month on August 31st!

The plan is to do 25-30 designs, and rolls will be $40 each. More info to come in a separate announcement come closer to time! 

🌠 JERICHO'S MAGICAL WISHING WELL™️ 🌠

A familiar shady saleswoman bat comes out of the shadows. She beckons you closer with a snicker. "Have some items you don't need?"

"Well... do I have the place for you! Head on over to Jericho's Magical Wishing Well! Trademarked... by me, of course." In a grand flourish, the bat unveils a stone structure in the depths of the alleyway, its presence filling the air with the sickening scent of sour candy.

With Jericho's Magical Wishing Well™️, you have a chance to drop an item in the well of your choosing, and possibly get something in return!

"Come on... try it! It's not gonna bite..."

At least... that's what she claims. Due to Jericho's shady practices of Cinnamagic, who knows what could come out of that well...

Jericho's Magical Wishing Well™️ is an on-site activity that allows you to turn in one item per day and will give you a randomized prize in return. Prizes range from nothing at all to Golden Meads and even Dragon Eggs! Try your luck today! 
Item drop rates will not be disclosed, but we will notify you if any major changes are made in the future.

🐀 A NEW CINNAPET EMERGES 🐀

What's this?! A new Cinnapet has found its way into your Cinna's home! Who is this little critter? 

The Jellyboa, created by Playdeadpossum , is a hyper little rodent with a jellybean-shaped body and a long thin tail that ends in a traditional Cinna tail shape. With tippy toes and little hands, what's not to love!

A Jellyboa's favorite foods are extremely high in sugar content, which contributes to their hyper and jumpy nature. Watch out! They have been known to prey on Oozebuds due to their sweet makeup and slow movement.

Jellyboas, like all Cinnapets, can also have a Titan form, seen here in another sketch by Zero: 

With voracious appetites, Titan Jellyboas will eat anything and everything in an attempt to get their sugar content for the day. One Titan tends to reign over a large colony of smaller ones, who will collect sweet treats and hoard them for their leader. Titan Jellyboas also do a lot of structural damage to trees, buildings, and other hard surfaces, as they gnaw on things to keep their teeth from overgrowing. 

 You can create Jellyboas of your very own with Construct Sugars, just like any of our other adorable pets. 

☝️ TRAIT UPDATES ☝️

We have a few trait changes going into this month!

Firstly, UB: Slime has been renamed UB: Sludge to cover more ground, such as oil, glue, and other sludgey materials!

Secondly, and most notably, we have decided to remove Alternate Palettes as a trait entirely.

After years of re-making visual guides, going case-by-case on approvals and still being unsure, etc., we've finally decided the best course of action is to not treat it like a trait at all, but like an item. Moving forward, a Magical Food Dye must be used to unlock any alternate palettes. The plus side here is once you use the potion, your Cinna can have as many palettes as you'd like! These palettes will not required admin approval unless you want them officially recognized on the masterlist, in which case you'll submit for approval like normal. The used Magical Food Dye will be visible on your Cinna's inventory on their page, much like badges.

We also want to let you all know that the masterlist staff has want ahead and given flavors to ALL Cinnas that were listed with "Needs Flavor". If you want to change a staff-given theme to one of your choosing, you can submit a claim. 

The masterlist staff will proceed with all of these changes accordingly. Thank you all for your patience!

💻 SITE UPDATES 💻

The site has been recently updated to be up to date with newest version of Lorekeeper!
With this, it will continue to update as more features and fixes come out!

Here are important site-related changes:

• Character rarities have been re-labelled as Sweet, Savory, and Unusual, leaving behind the three-star system
• Cash shop price adjustments: Morpho Cookies, Magical Food Dyes, and Lycan Potions have all been changed to $10
• Search characters by Awards
• Forums have been removed due to lack of activity
• More site themes incoming! Done by Buck!

Here are some site feature highlights:

• Recent gallery submissions on the dashboard + gallery tab
• Linking gallery links easier on Prompts
• Designated profile pages for showcasing a user's masterlist art and designs
• Hoverable icons on a person's profile on gift art and writing permissions
• New encyclopedia layout
• Comment likes and edit logs
• Registering via Toyhouse
• Two-factor authentication in your settings
• Mentioning characters and users
• General format changes and improvements for users and staff
• Bugfixes
• And more!

Nothing overtly drastic to heavily impact user experience, but we hope these additions improve your experience with the site. Alongside, we are always open to considering suggestions for further site improvements!

And as a reminder, all site help related prompts have been moved to claims!

With keeping the site more consistently updated with each Lorekeeper update, there is always the potential for bugs to be out and about, so please send in bug reports as soon as possible! Thank you!

That is everything for this month! As always, if you have any questions about changes or new additions, you can ask us in #ask-the-staff! Lots of love. ❤️ 

TL;DR

• New banner by Spook, Kouriander, and GummySprouts
• Cinnart Fight conclusion and shop closure
• Cinna of the Month Winners: starspits and Almondlover
• Cinna of the Month: "Random Item Pool"
• New August prompts
• New GAs: Coastette , StabbyStarSlime , and ParrotParfait
• New PGAs: Digital_Space , iAM , and ophelisae
• Scavenger Hunt: https://cinnaverse.net/hunts/1 
• Poe Gacha: August 31st, 25-30 designs, $40 rolls
• Jericho's Magical Wishing Well: https://cinnaverse.net/activities 
• New Cinnapet: Jellyboa by Playdeadpossum
• Slime UB -> Sludge UB
• Alternate Palette traits removed, will now be obtained just solely through the Magical Food Dye
• Needs Flavor Cinnas have been given Flavors
• Site updates