✦ Happy Spring Blossom Festival, Sushi Rolls! ✦

This month's newsletter is jam-full of updates and the beginning of the Bunny Hop Day Event! Tomorrow begins the Spring Blossom Festival, and that means the return of our Spring season.

If you have any questions, please ask us in the community discord server. Enjoy!

Sushi Dog Discord

Spring Blossom Festival

The Spring Blossom Festival is now in session!

Turns out there is a commotion going on with thefts - again! Why does this keep happening in Culario?

Check out the prompt questline below!

Spring Blossom Festival Prompts

New Pets!

Welcome, Shroomis!

These new sentient mushrooms are a main part of the questline - participate and you can take one or more home with you!

New Trait!

The Maple Spinner is here - it grants the very community-requested trait, Small Pixie Wings!

You can purchase this item in the Holiday Shoppe with 500 Petals. You can also get it via a Spring Seasonal Trait box for 2000 Carats, or with 30 KP!

What are you waiting for?
Zero is happily manning the shop this year, so stop on by!

Holiday Shoppe

Bunny Hop Day Event

March 31st - April 30th

Our annual egg hunt event is here!
There are 10 identical eggs hidden around the site. As usual, we have prizes in each egg and more!

For a refresher, here is some basic hiding place guidelines:

• Eggs will not be hidden on MYO Sooshes.
• Eggs will not be on any staff or mod profiles.
• They can be on official shops, pages, and more!

Each egg has 50 carats and 1 Marshmallows .
You'll be exchanging this currency for your gift basket once you find all 10 eggs!

Some Bunny Hop Day Sooshes have joined the commotion this year!

Pink Blossoms Bundt Cake by Tamurachii

Flower Baskets Cupcakes by Alexdream12

Rosemary & Eggs by Rocco

Cottontail Fluff Candy by linborghini

This year, all Sooshes are raffled off instead of having any being a first claim basis. This is to ensure every member can take their time participating in the event and get an equal shot at a Soosh they love!

You may only enter one Soosh raffle, so be sure to choose your favorite! You will get a ticket in your Bunny Hop Day Basket. How do you get one?
When you find all 10 eggs, be sure to open them all to gain 10 Marshmallows!
Once you have all 10 Marshmallows, head over to the Holiday Shoppe to claim your Bunny Hop Day Basket!

It seems like the commotion also brought over a few new pets. What a fun time of year!
Sooshes will be raffled when the event ends, so stay tuned to next month's newsletter for winners!

Well, what are you waiting for? The hunt has started!

Bunny Hop Hunt

Welcome to our new moderators and staff!

silver Alexdream12 pygmypear SamiTheDreamer arwen Tamurachii
We have a handful of new members being promoted to mod and staff! Congrats!
I am very excited to have more enthusiastic community members join us behind-the-scenes to help refine and push the species growth further. Since I left behind some roles with my own promotion, I had extra space to fill with applicants I felt would be a good fit. I had a lot more applicants than I anticipated, so I'm very thankful for that to give me a chance to fill in any gaps I felt any applicants were good fits for!

For everyone who applied: thank you! It means so much to me that you are interested in helping the species.

I also decided to hire on an asset artist! Many of you are already familiar with them as a Guest Artist: Alexdream12! Burr and I have a long history in Sooshes together, I think even longer than Kayy and I, so it's very exciting for me to have them join me in this endeavor. Alongside Burr in the new Asset Staff team is Radio, who was previously under the Event Moderator role. Radio is our dedicated prompt writer and lore writer!

And to lessen the pressure off of myself and have updates be a bit more streamlined, we have hired silver as our Site Developer! I was very excited to see that someone with frontend/backend development was interested in joining the team. This is something I really desired to be with someone who loves and knows Sooshes, so this is very exciting for us.

Lastly, with the new mods comes another change. dizzyplush has stepped down from the moderator team. This is no ill-will or shock; just like Kayy, we are very close! I knew life has gotten busier for her lately as she got her desired career established!! I am endlessly proud of her and will miss her presence in the mod team, and I just hope she enjoys being a member again as well.

Due to this... we are hiring for one more moderator position!

If you just applied, I encourage you to please apply again! Previous responses were not saved, and this position was not advertised last time. Maybe this role is an even better fit for you?

Masterlist Mod

• This moderator is responsible for fully approving Sooshes, approving Soosh transfers, and handling the Mirror transfers which includes Pommelraie's toyhouse account. This position also has to set adoption stock for the Enchanted Mirror to allow users to adopt mirrored Sooshes. This role is knowledgeable in our traits, rarities, and what we allow for masterlist images. In busier times, you will also be uploading Sooshes fully from scratch to the site!

If you feel like this is a good fit for you, please apply using the button below!

Apply now!

Carats Rebrand

We're closing the form a little bit early to announce the theme we are going for!
The new name we are going for... is not decided fully yet!!

However, we have settled on a themeing around the currency.
We are going with

Cookies!

I felt this was a very fitting choice to go with our mascot seen in our pixel dividers - Cookie! She has been our mascot for years now, and I think having the currency fit around her theme only makes sense. She is the one who represents us, and is the one who normally helps with festivals and events! We love Cookie and we believe this change is more fitting to our site and aesthetics.

Discord Game Night

SamiTheDreamer is going to be hosting a game night in the Discord server! It's been quite a long time since we have had game nights, and we really hope to have them become a more regular occurance again.

The details are below:

Jackbox Party Pack 6
on Wednesday, April 3rd @ 6pm ET

This game is playable on tablets or phones, so be sure to get those ready for game night!
Sign-ups will open in the discord before the assigned time, so keep an eye out and pick up the Gamer Soosh role to be pinged when it happens!

Look at these changes!

Koinpeito Shop

• The Cash shop is now the Koinpeito Shop. This is where KP items are sold, and the form is in the shop description to purchase KP.
• Koinpeito has had a slight face-lift! They now come in many bright colors to further represent konpeito.
  
  
• New Seasonal Trait Box items are now available in the KP shop! These are purchaseable with KP for one seasonal trait of choice for the corresponding season. In-season boxes are sold at a discount!
• We want to hear from you! Are KP prices fair, or do you believe some adjustments are needed?
  Please respond on this page and receive 5 KP!
  >>> Koinpeito Price Survey <<<

Pommelraie's Salon

• Pommelraie's Salon now stocks the Sooshapon Machine, and the corresponding Sooshapon items for Mirror Shards.
• All KP items have been moved to the Koinpeito Shop so his salon is not overwhelming for a newer user.
• The Sooshapon Machine now has a discounted FTO token! This is a one-time purchase of 1000 CR so newer members have an easier time getting their first Soosh. We love when new members join, and we want to encourage them to develop their own Soosh!
• The salon now has a link to visit the Enchanted Mirror. It's always been in Pommel's salon, so now it's easier to access when checking out shops!
• Eventually, many of the Salon Special items will be renamed and changed to further fit the shop! The only remaining tonics are the Decadent and Energizing Tonics, which affect Magic Affinity, and they are stocked in the Koinpeito Shop now as they have always been KP exclusive.

Site Features

• Pronouns are now on-site! Go into your account settings to set them if desired, and they will show up beside your username!
  
• We now have a revamped Team page! You can find the link in the footer of the website as well. This shows our current team and their roles, as well as where to contact them.
• Additionally, team members will have their role title beside their usernames on-site like how I have Owner above!