New here? Hahahaha...

[Pega]

Sooo, I'm Pega! Some of you already know me... and some of you do not. :/ I am way busy being a first year 4th grade teacher... BUT! I do get bored sometimes, and I WANT TO get back into Cyberpet stuff!! However, I have no idea how Secundi works... is there a "How to?" Hahaha... it seems to work much differently than The Orchard or any of the other boards I use..d.

I also wanted to see if anyone would respond. XD I miss this kinda stuff.

Loves!
-Pega

[springacres]

Welcome, Pega!  Secundi does work a little differently than a typical virtual pet site; it's sort of a combination of virtual pet site and hand run adoptable site.  But we're a friendly bunch and always happy to help a new person out

[YourLoveOnly]

Hi Pega! It's YLO from Garden Terrace I have to run off right now, but I'm totally willing to help (so is everyone else ^^) and if no one beats me to it I'll write you a quick guide once I'm back home!

[Pega]

Hey, SpringAcres! Your avatar's art style looks familiar-- Did you have any names you went by in the past?

I like the hand-drawn adoptable stuff, which is why I was drawn here, but I was mostly wondering how the general rules and expectations go and such.

Hey, YLO. I knew I'd see some friendly faces around here!

[Wildfilly94]

Welcome! I'm generally called Wild, but whatever you want to call me works

The only rules I can really think of you may not know already would be that you may not create additional accounts to get more pets, Silv will find out and you will get in a lot of trouble. However, if you have another house member with the same I.P. playing, you can contact Silvanon to get that straightened out so she knows your not just cheating.

No chatspeak is really tolerated (Or everyone here is just good with not using it.. XD) No cursing is allowed, and just be nice to everyone.

[PonyMama]

welcome Pega

[YourLoveOnly]

Okay, back(ish)! I wrote a tutorial XD We have a Getting Started post on here, but it's rather outdated and mostly explains what area is for what, not really where the activity takes place and what you can do.

Basically most of the activity takes place on the forum, not the main site.

Only Gidgets, Wobbles, LilBitties and Horses can be received through the main site as they are computer-generated instead of manually created for each user. Other Agencies (that's what we call the pets who have a section on the main site) will have events on the forum to adopt out critters. All Agencies can viewed by clicking on the Agencies tab on the main site (you go from the forum to the main site by clicking on the Secundi banner).

Gidgets and Wobbles work in a similair way, so I'll explain those at once. You can get one Gidget and one Wobble for free by clicking on Adopt on its Agency page. More can be purchased by searching Gidgets/Wobbles that are for sale/bid using the Search function. The games tab has a button to let all your Gidgets/Wobbles attempt to breed, but each baby will have one of the parents' colors, they don't produce unique looking offspring. Spare Gidgets/Wobbles can be turned in for points and those can then be used for items, Wobbles have items to save up for that get you unique looking ones made just for you!
LilBitties you can get by using the Adventure tab on the main site. Basically the main thing for these 3 Agencies is collecting, a lot of people try to get as many different colorations as they can, it's like Pokémon XD
Horses work differently, you buy a scroll and then get to summon a Horse with it, but they cost a lot of SG. They were invented as a way of keeping the Secundi economy balanced, so mostly aimed at the richer users

The main site's Game tab also has some ways of earning you a bit of extra SG. Other ways of earning SG is partaking in the main site's Competitions, selling critters and running your own adoptable shop.

Adopting
As mentioned before, all other shops adopt out personally to users, like you're used to from Garden Terrace. All events are posted in General Booths, so that would probably be the place you spend the most time! There are a ton of events always going on, both free and for SG (secundi gold, the site's currency).

Other areas involving the adoptable shops are Trading Booths (to swap pets you've adopted for SG or other pets, some adoptables sell customs here too), Breeding Area (mostly used to advertise your critters up for stud/RB or to find a mate for your critter when a shop has a breeding event) and Help Booths (to ask questions about a shop and also for adoptable owners to get feedback on their shop).

Most shops are templated, meaning they have some sets of lineart that are recolored every time, we only have 2 or 3 shops that have all completely custom posed things and a few more shops who offer customposed/handdrawn versions occassionally.

Pets you collect on the forum don't have to be displayed on a website of your own like old cyberpetting, but you can if you want! You can simply save them onto your computer and/or put them on your Display on the main site or in the Boarding Area on the forum.

Stage Area is where you can show off pets you've adopted and are very happy with, it's not meant to display your entire collection, that's what the Boarding Area is for. Boarding Areas are personal threads for just the topic starter to post in, Stage Area topics usually get comments from other peope.

Forum
Other areas of importance are the Herald, where new Site Agencies are elected every few months, all users can vote on which ones they want to become Agencies!

Then there's the Courthouse for new ideas on how to improve the site, the Library to ask questions about things already on the site.

Town Square is the off topic chatter section for anything you wanna talk about, but no really heavy subjects like politics or religion that can easily cause arguments (but I think that's a rule on every site).

Art Booths would be where you go if you are looking to purchase artwork to run your own shop with and Art Gallery is for artist to show their work. A common thing is for people to post a joinme link in the Art Gallery when they are working on their adoptables, you can watch what they are doing and chat in the meantime, it's a fun way to get to know people! A lot of people do games and giveaways in these joinme sessions too.

Other Areas aren't used much, so I think this covers the important basics

[springacres]

Hey, SpringAcres! Your avatar's art style looks familiar-- Did you have any names you went by in the past?

I like the hand-drawn adoptable stuff, which is why I was drawn here, but I was mostly wondering how the general rules and expectations go and such.

Hey, YLO. I knew I'd see some friendly faces around here!

No, I've always gone by springacres (or riverridge) but the avvie is a headshot of one of my Kennel dogs and the lineart for that adoptable was done by Garney, maybe that's why it looks familiar?

[Pega]

YLO! You're the best! We should post your tutorial in the "tutorial" section. So the adventure part isn't super important? Most of the action happens here? That's AWESOME! (What I was kinda hoping. ^^) Anyhow, I do have one more question-- I caught... (lol, like a pokemon...) FOUND a Lilbitty while I was adventuring, and can't figure out how to name it--- ? Is there a button? Or was it there when I first found it and missed it? Because if so, it shall me "Name Me" for the rest of it's Lilbitty life. :/ Poor thing.

Springacres-- It actually reminds me of stuff that an artist called Kimmers did when I frequented a pet marketplace eons ago. Garney sounds familiar, too... but I don't remember why.

Wild and PonyMama, thanks for the welcome!!

[Wildfilly94]

You have to go to the main site, click agencies, click lilbitties, go to store, and buy a naming item (1sg). Then you go the the left panel under your account, use agency items, lilbitties, and select the naming item and the pet, then fill in the name in the blank section ^^

[Ryuukokoro]

Hi Pega! ^_^ Nice to meet you here! Congrats on finding a LilBitty, they're so cute lol.

I remember Kimmers from PonyIsland, actually! Garney used to run adoptables on PonyIsland as well. Their style does look a bit similar.

And wow YLO, that tutorial really is awesome! Thanks for typing it up!

[Saturnalia]

Pega! I remember you from back in the Orchard days *wavewave*

[YourLoveOnly]

Aww, it's really nice to hear you guys think it's useful. I don't mind it being added someplace if the staff finds it helpful ^^

Also, the naming thing Wild explains works the same for every Agency, although I think there's one or two Agencies where the Naming item doesn't work yet (our admin Silvanon has to manually add in coding for them to work), like Pecora.

I'm really glad to see you here, I know Nyaro also plans on migrating over here now that the Terrace is so quiet. We have a really friendly community, bigger than GT but still small enough that everyone knows each other and we have sooo many different adoptables there is always something to do

[Pega]

Wild, Thanks!! I now have named my LilBitty. Ryu, I remember you from somewhere-- are you A GTer too? Ooor...?

Saturn! So good to see you! Great!

So this is what Silv's been up to. She's pretty awesome!

[Ryuukokoro]

I used to be very big on PonyIsland, but that was years ago. These days I only stick around Secundi. ^_^ I've heard a lot about Garden Terrace, but never made my way over there!

[Pega]

Hmmn... I was never huge on PI. My lil' sister, Stormelle is still addicted to it though. Maybe she knows/knew you? Or maybe I've just seen your name around.

[EquineGoddess101]

Just want to extend a welcome your way, Pega =) I am new to Secundi as well!! I have caught on really quickly even though this is my first cyber-pet game (I did role-play back in the day and that gets addicting too but, not in the same way) so, no doubts that you will as well!!

Welcome to Secundi!
EquineGoddess101 (EquineGoddess; Equine; EG, whatevs else you want to! )

[Kahlira]

Hello and Welcome! Always nice to have new faces around =D

[Daimas]

welcome to the insanity^^

[red_uni387]

Welcome Pega! It's awesome to see so many new peeps being added to our little community <3

I've seen your little sister around PI

~Runi

[Pega]

Hey Erribody! Stormie says she remembers you, too, Runi. Well, fun! I love drawing and will probably get a stall started this summer. Hafta wait til then because for now I am a first year teacher.

[skysnolimit]

PEGA!!!!!!!!! *glomps*

Reptile Girl here!

*snugsnug*  Glad you finally made your way over!  It's definitely kept the old spirit alive ^.^  The same thing happened to me--in my senior year of college I was kind of like, forget schoolwork, I miss cyberpets.  ;_;  And I came back.

I'm teaching now too!  Teaching high school math in China.  It's a huge growing/learning experience for me.  I hope you enjoy your work!

[Pega]

:3 Another familiar face!! *snuggles back*

I am trying to find the right balance. This weekend, I cleaned the house and painted eggs and made food! And still managed to apply for some stuff here. The harder part will be getting a scanner and getting C'banae integrated on here. I've always been iffy about selling C'bana, but I could think of a new adoptable as well. I dunno.

I love teaching! I moved to Kansas to do it--- the true middle of nowhere, if you ask me! But I had a friend teach English in China. she loved it! (Brought back lots of cheap movies, too-- XD) How long are you out there?

[Silvanon]

Pega!!  *waves madly*  It's awesome to see you!

[skysnolimit]

C'bana C'bana C'bana XD  I love them!  You don't have to sell on Secundi--the SG part of things is optional.  It's a marketplace messagepost compromise XD

Haha, I've never been anywhere even nearby to Kansas...... (*checks a map with chagrin*)

I love it here too!  For all I'm concerned, it was a permanent move--I just try to fly back to the US to visit loved ones whenever I can, like once a year!  =D  It already feels like home and I'm going to go out to the grasslands this weekend to do what I guess you could call prospecting...

[jojo]

Welcome Pega! Your name looks really familiar, but I just lurked on adoptable forums in the past Nice to meet you

[Leafy]

Oh em gee you!! HIIIIIIIII Long time no speak! Glad you've come to join us here

[Pega]

^^; Well, then, it looks like I have some interest at least. It's been awhile since I've drawn C'banae, soo... the first ones may be different. Haha. But I am pretty excited to draw again, regardless.

I think that when the year is up, I may have my kids create a new kind of animal, and use C'bana as an example. XD LOL. (So, Kids, I took my 2 favorite types of animals and mixed them together!) And we could talk about adaptations (C'bana use their paws to dig up things like potatoes and carrots, and also to plant-- did you know?) and mutations--- (I think I'll mostly talk about patterns here, and how a striped zebra would survive better than a solid colored one, etc.) FUNFUN!

*wavwaves at Silv* Heyyo! I was just remembering how we bought our two Gerbils from you... And thinking about breeding my own Ratties. <3 Do you still have lots of little Gerbils?

And, Jojo! I don't know you... YET. But it's good to meet cha.

[Silvanon]

Ah, that's right, I'd kind of forgotten that.  XD  We've mostly lived in places that don't allow gerbils the past few years, but just recently we moved to an apartment that allows up to 2 of them, so we've got a pair of males now.  It's nice to have gerbie friends again.

[Stormelle]

*steps in behind her sister and peeks out* Hello...?

[Pega]

*tackleglomps sister* XD Hello!!!

This place is fun. It's like Gaia and PI and the Orchard had a BABY. o.o Don't ask me how that threesome works.

[Stormelle]

Ep! *ish pounced*

*giggle snorts* I'm...Still poking about curiously. But that is indeed an odd threesome. >> Silly, silly sister.

[Saturnalia]

*waves* 'ello, Stormelle!

[Kahlira]

I do remember Stormelle XD Welcome!

[Silvanon]

And Stormelle came too!  *wave wave*  Hiya Stormie! 

[Stormelle]

'Lo Saturnalia! Been awhile. o.o'

Hello Kahlira! I believe I've seen you about PI, yes...?

Hi, hi Silv!

[Wildfilly94]

Welcome Stormelle! I was on PI, but I don't think I ever saw ya XD

[Kahlira]

Yes ^_^

[Pega]

Question--- where would it be appropriate to post a to-do list?

[Silvanon]

Question--- where would it be appropriate to post a to-do list?

The Notary Office is probably the best place to put it.

[Pega]

Thanks, Silv! ^^