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Step right up to celebrate the spooky season!! 👻

We've put together a few events for everyone to enjoy this month, including a number of special raffle imports. Our main event this month is Drawlloween, held for the third year in a row in conjunction with a handful of other HARPG groups all over the community. We'll be wrapping up the month with a Trick or Treat scavenger hunt, so be sure to swing by for the festivities!

⏰ This event ends on October 31st at 11:59pm - click here for a countdown!

At the end of the month, we'll be hosting a Trick or Treat scavenger hunt to celebrate Halloween!

Each of the ten candies above will be hidden around the Loshenka website. They are hidden individually, so be sure to look closely! 👀 When you find one, click it to claim your prize! Each candy grants x1 Trick or Treat roll, and they can be found anywhere on the Loshenka website itself. They will not be located on any other platforms. The hunt will last 48 hours, starting on October 30th at 12pm.

The official page can be found here - this page also tells you how many you've already found. Good luck!!!
Note: Please play fairly and do not share any locations with others. All claims are automatically logged!

Art by verdemoun

We're very excited to announce that we've decided to host Drawlloween as an affiliate group for the third year in a row!

Drawlloween is a month-long art and literature event with a set of prompts, similar to other concepts like "Inktober," "Mermay," etc. By completing a certain number of prompts, you can claim a variety of prizes! Affiliated groups may have their own guidelines, prize offerings, etc, so be sure to check out the full list to get the most out of this event! Happy spooky season!

The official event is held by the Faime Registry, and you can find the full list of affiliate breeds in their event journal: https://www.deviantart.com/faimeadmin/journal/Faime-Drawlloween-2024-1101424996 

Art by Dreamcatcher-Stable

We're excited to offer up 16 special raffle imports to celebrate the season!! They include a special background by nebula, and many of them also come with unique accessories! Gender will be chosen by their new owners at time of registration. These raffles will run all month long, and all current raffle tickets can be found here: https://www.loshenka.net/raffles 

You can earn tickets in the following ways:

• 1️⃣ Drawing the raffle horse of your choice (submit to the 2024 Harvest Festival gallery) - limit 15 tickets per horse
  • You may submit one entry per horse, but may include as much art as you'd like on the canvas.
  • Number of tickets is equivalent to the amount of xp earned (headshot = 3 tickets, fullbody = 9 tickets, etc).
  • Total art tickets are capped at 15 per horse, even if the xp earned by your submission goes over this limit.
  • If the horse in question has any accessories on its design, these must be included (if visible for the pose/amount shown)!
  • Tickets will be granted by staff when your raffle entry is accepted to the gallery.
• 2️⃣ Complimenting your favorite Loshenka art/lit in the gallery - limit 5 tickets (one per comment)
  • For this category, please leave a positive comment on any submission in our gallery!
  • Comments must be substantial - please don't just comment "awesome 👍" and move on - and positive; no unwanted critique.
  • You can earn up to five tickets through this method, but you're always encouraged to leave more comments :)
  • To claim, please submit an Item Claim with a link to your comment(s) and attach your chosen ticket(s) under Rewards.
• 3️⃣ Completing 15 and/or 31 Drawlloween prompts - see Drawlloween info above
  
  

After much deliberation, we're excited to announce the winners of our 2024 Loshenka Makeover! 🌹

This year, we had a grand total of 67 finishers and 291 entries submitted. Everyone did an INCREDIBLE job! We did have a few ties, so be sure to look closely at the results.

Please join us in congratulating this year's winners! We hope everyone enjoyed the event, and we hope to see again you next year!!

Join us in celebrating summer time at our 2024 Coastal Carnival, a casual rodeo-carnival hybrid event with a variety of fun activities for everyone to enjoy!! The event is held in a sectioned-off area of the beach, bordered on one side by the boardwalk. Various carnival games, food trucks, merchandise vendors, and amusement rides have been set up on that boardwalk, including a giant ferris wheel that overlooks the event.

Please note that this isn't a hardcore western rodeo event, nor a polished horse show. Everything here is hosted for fun and entertainment, and nobody is particularly serious about the competitions going on. All age groups are welcome as long as they participate safely. A select few events and games are featured below as part of the group event, but you're 100% welcome to RP/draw/write your characters doing more stuff at the carnival! As long as it fits the theme/event, feel free to expand. Canonically speaking, there's a lot more going on here than what we're hosting as a group.

⏰ This event ends on August 31st at 11:59pm - click here for a countdown!

During this event, you'll earn seasonal currency - carnival tickets - which can be used to purchase items from The Boardwalk! This event combines last year's Clover County Carnival and Beachside Bonanza, so we've combined the item selection and will be utilizing carnival tickets this time around! Any leftover seashells from last year can be converted to coins or spent on a Seasonal box at The Boardwalk.

Click here to visit The Boardwalk!

The items available in the shop are as follows:

• ​Sunscreen: Adds heterozygous Orchid (nOr) to an undesigned import.
• Fruit Basket: Adds Plum (nplm) or Berry (nBr) to an undesigned import, only if it would be carried on the existing base.
• Snowcone: Grants coins for a single piece of art/literature, made by you, of one of your own horses.
• Freeze Pop: Rerolls a breeding, like Magic Dice/Spellbook, but preserves twins (will not reroll twin chance).​
• Passport: Allows you to apply a seasonal oddity outside of its season - still requires purchase/tokens, just grants permission.
• Watermelon: Adds Flecked, Grease Spots, or Birdcatcher Spots to an undesigned import or foal.
• Cotton Candy - Adds +5xp to a horse of your choice without the need for art or literature.
• Carousel Horse - Allows a Mutation to be added to a designed import with no breeding slots booked.
• Sticky Hand - Moves a Mutation gene from one option to the other on a single horse's roll (foal or import).
• Plushie Pony - Adds Rapunzel to any undesigned foal (if possible from parents) or import.
• Chocolate Coin ​- Grants one additional breeding slot for a horse you own. Slot can be booked for anyone. 

For the very first time, we're testing out fully automated minigames! Instructions can be found on each of their pages, and your winnings will be automatically deposited to your bank. No need to submit item claims or keep track of Discord links - hooray!! Each game can be played 3 times per day. There's a short timer to prevent the button from being spammed, so if you get an error message, just wait a few seconds and try again.

Please let me (Paige) know if any of the games are not working as intended or if your daily plays don't reset at rollover. Have fun!

Lucky Duck

Balloon Darts

Ring Toss

Fifteen lovely Loshenkas are being offered up for your consideration! This breeding grid features three mares and three stallions, paired up for a total of nine surprise foals. While the parents' designs are available to be viewed upfront, the foals will remain hidden until they've found new homes! Until then, you can get a sneak peek from the grid below, as well as their silhouettes... 👀

Click to view fullsize + links to all horses in the grid.

FAQ/Notes:
- The foals here have not been counted toward the parents' slots, so they still have all 10 available.
- Foal genders are up to the buyer - just include this as part of the Registration form when registering them!
- If desired, you may Paintbucket, Base Transfer, etc, but please keep in mind that this means they'll lose their exclusive base.
- Renaming the parents is perfectly fine (with a Parchment item, of course). They just have names for proper listing in their foals' lineage grids!

Event Guidelines:

• All entries must meet the following minimum requirements (your choice of art or lit - both is fine, too!):
  • Art: Simple fullbody with props/details that clearly depict the event, and handler/rider (silhouette/stick figure min) if required
  • Lit: 600 word story clearly depicting the event in question, and handler/rider present if applicable to the specific event
• All entries must adhere to the usual Art/Lit Guidelines. Please keep gallery quality in mind even if choosing simple fulls/stick figure handlers/etc.
• Tack used is up to you, as long as the horse has some form of headstall and is clearly kept under control. Saddles and beach-themed accessories are optional.
• Though the events are quite chaotic, participants must ride respectfully and take care not to crash into, push/pull, or otherwise cause harm.
• You may enter each event up to 3 times with different horses (15 entries total). A horse should only be the focal point of an event once, but can be featured in others.
• Using our Group Horses or borrowing a horse from a friend is fine, as long as you have permission for the latter (none needed for Group ponies!).
• Collabs are allowed as long as the minimum is met for each participant (i.e. two collaborators = 2 fb+props or 1200w story). Each will get the full amount of tickets.
• Submit your entries to the 2024 Coastal Carnival gallery folder and include your chosen event in the description.

🎟️ Each entry will receive 5 Carnival Tickets for participating! These will be given when your entry is processed.
These events are just for fun and won't be officially judged, but we may pick a few Staff Choice entries to give extra prizes to.

After the success of the last two years’ makeover events hosted by Sagebrush Sanctuary, rescues all over the world have reached out to learn how to implement them in their own countries. This year, over a dozen rescues have partnered with Sagebrush to involve their local communities in the event. The horses selected for the makeover come from diverse backgrounds: retired show horses, beloved children’s mounts, feral herd members, injured horses, and those simply in need of a fresh start. With the right care and attention, Sagebrush and its affiliates believe each of these horses has a bright future ahead of them.

As a participant in this event, you'll be randomly assigned a rescue Loshenka with one or more issues. Over the next two months, you'll have the opportunity to work your magic and help your Loshenka heal and thrive. There are three stages to the event, each one giving you the chance to showcase your creativity and share your horse's journey with the community through art or literature.

⏰ DEADLINE OVERVIEW || Signups - May 30th | Phase 1 - June 15th | PHase 2 - June 29th | Phase 3 - July 20th || Click here to sign up!

Art by CreationsByAiden

• You must sign up by 7pm on May 30th to participate - click here to enter!
• You must be a verified member of both the website and the Discord server in order to participate.
• A maximum of 90 participants will be able to enter this event. If more than 90 people sign up, the list will be randomized and additional entrants will be placed on the waitlist.
• All three required phases must be completed in order to keep your allocated horse. Any horses who do not have all three phases done will remain under group ownership.
• Until the event has finished, all horses are still officially owned by the group. Please do not enter them in other events, create additional art/lit unrelated to the event, etc until the event has concluded.
• Entries submitted are expected to be of finished quality; we will not accept in-progress or under-minimum submissions as placeholders for meeting the deadline. A 48-hour grace period is given for minor corrections (or up to the phase deadline if submitted early). Submitting before the actual deadline is highly encouraged in case more extensive corrections are requested.
• Horses are predesigned and cannot be edited, swapped between entrants, or rerolled, nor may their issues be changed once chosen/accepted. You may add to them (additional issues on the side, more explanation for causes/backstory), but cannot remove or change them.
• There is no obligation for players to keep the horse’s backstory after the event, but it is considered canon during the event itself.
• While this event does cover sensitive topics, please be mindful of how you portray them. Please do not submit overly graphic or morbid entries per our rules.
• If you are unable to complete your entry or have lost interest and would like to withdraw, please let us know as soon as possible.
  

Art by Phantillyc

Initial Allocation:

• Each participant will be pinged on Discord and will have a choice between two horses, each with its own unique Issues and Description attached.
• Participants will have 24 hours to choose one of the two horses rolled for them, or decline. If this deadline passes or they decline both, they will be placed at the back of the waitlist.
• To accommodate all 90 participants, there will be two separate rounds (randomized):
  • Day 1 (May 30th): 50 participants get 2 choices each
  • Day 2 (May 31st): 30 participants get 2 choices each, rolled from unchosen Day 1 horses + extras remaining on the admin account
  • All remaining signups will be placed on the Waitlist (see below).
• As soon as you’ve confirmed your choice, you’re good to start!
  

Waitlist:

• When a horse is dropped, the waitlist will be randomized to select a new participant. 
• The waitlist will only be used to reassign horses until June 19th. After that date, horses will no longer be reassigned - we want to ensure the deadlines are doable!
• Participants selected from the waitlist will have 24h to choose one of the two horses rolled for them, or decline and be placed at the back of the waitlist.
• If you are selected from the waitlist after June 8th, both the first phase and second phase entry must be completed by the phase two deadline. If selected before then, all deadlines will remain as-is. Extensions will not be given!

• Main Phases: Fullbody (non-simple) + BG or 1200 word story minimum
• Bonus Prompts: Headshot or 300 word story minimum. This does not apply to the main phases! 
  • Note: Bonus Prompts can be submitted at any point during the event and are not subject to the main phase deadlines.
• All entries must clearly depict the issue/phase/prompt, either through actions, other characters, props, background elements, etc. We recognize that some issues may be more difficult to depict than others, but overall, the intent should be clear as opposed to Random Horse Standing™️! Overly vague or generic entries will be asked to resubmit. For main phases, you don't need to answer/address every bullet point, but your entry should capture the overall intent/spirit of that category.
• You may combine art and literature if desired, but must meet at least one of the minimums. For the main phases for example, 300 words + a fullbody/BG is allowed (meets art minimum), but 900 words + a headshot is not (meets neither).
  
  

To submit your entries, please follow these steps:

1. Start the title with [PHASE #] or [BONUS PROMPT #] for clarity.
2. Submit to the 2024 Loshenka Makeover folder, not general art/lit.
3. Fill out this form in the description:
   

Event: 2024 Loshenka Makeover
​​Phase Number:  OR  Bonus Prompt:
Horse ID#:
- Issues: (paste Issues from your horse's official profile)
- Description: (paste Description from your horse's official profile)
XP Breakdown:

Art by northamber

• Judging will be done by at least 2 admins, and each participant’s final score will consist of all judge scores added together. 
• Each phase will be judged individually based on the following criteria:

• The overall arc (all three phases together) will be judged based on the following criteria:

• In addition, one bonus prompt may be completed per phase. These are worth 1-3 RNG points each and will be rolled by each individual judge. Completing all three counts for an additional +1 to your final score.
• The total number of points possible per judge is 100 points. Each phase is 25 points, Overall Arc is 15 points, and Bonus Prompts are 10 points total.

Art by Elkhund

🦄 All Participants [Everyone who completes all 3 main phases!]

• Ownership of your Makeover Loshenka
• +20xp applied to your Makeover Loshenka
• Lucky Horseshoe applied to your Makeover Loshenka
• Rope Halter (optional, but can only be applied to your Makeover horse)

​👑 Grand Champion

• Legendary Import Token
• x2 Token of choice (Custom, Mystery, Mut/Oddity)
• x2 Item of choice (incl. exclusive/seasonal)

​🏆 Reserve Champion

• Ultra Rare Import Token
• x2 Token of choice (Custom, Mystery, Mut/Oddity)
• x2 Item of choice (Seasonal/Exclusive or below)
  
  

🥇 1st Place

• 5,000 coins
• x2 Token of choice (Custom, Mystery, Mut/Oddity)
• x2 Item of choice (Exclusive or below)
  
  

🥈 2nd Place

• 3,000 coins
• x2 Token of choice (Custom, Mystery, Mut/Oddity)
• x1 Item of choice (Exclusive or below)
  
  

🥉 3rd Place

• 2,000 coins
• x1 Token of choice (Custom, Mystery, Mut/Oddity)
• x1 Item of choice (Exclusive or below)

• Once you've created an account on the site, upload at least 1 character for others to "attack" you with art of!
• If you add any Loshenkas, be sure to add loshenka.net as the species sheet link and add the #loshenka tag for easy searching.
• Be sure to post your profile link (and optionally, your team card - see below!) in the Art Fight channel on Discord so we can all find each other!
• Submit your Loshenka-related attacks to our Art Fight gallery folder and claim coins at a boosted rate of XP x 50!
  • To claim this bonus, add it to the coin breakdown as "Art Fight" and include the link to your AF submission in the description.
• If you receive an attack from someone who is not a member of the group, submit it to the folder and credit them in the description with a link to the attack.
• Good luck, and have fun!! We hope to see you there!

If you are an existing member and have not yet finished the verification/migration process, be sure to complete all of these steps:

1. ​Register an account, then verify your email address. We suggest keeping your username close to what you've been using for the sake of recognizability, but ultimately you may choose whatever name you'd like (within reason, of course). Usernames can only be changed once per month.

2. Go to the Verification page and link your dA account. All existing members should specifically use dA for initial aliasing, as that's what all of your owned horses and slots have been logged under! Don't worry, you can always add your TH later if you prefer. Please note that your horses, genos, and slots will not show up in your account until you've completed Step 3 - don't worry if they aren't there immediately.

3. Head to the new #introductions channel on Discord and fill out the intro form. We'll get your LK account verified as soon as possible so you can continue!

4. Submit an Item Claim to transfer all of your currency, items, and achievements. All of these should be entered under "REWARDS" - leave everything else blank.
   
   - To see your bank/inventory, use /bal and /inv in the #bot-spam channel.
   - To see your achievements, click your name in the server.
   NOTE: Seashells and Carnival Tickets exist as currency on the site rather than items, so be sure to enter those accordingly.

5. Once a staff member has checked and accepted your claim, you're good to go!

Afterward, we strongly recommend reading through the new Guidebook to get a sense of the new processes: https://www.loshenka.net/info/getting-started  

Note - Please migrate your currency, items, and achievements by April 30th. After this point, old records stored on Discord may be cleared out.

With the transition to the new website, quite a few things changed. Aside from the obvious modifications to submissions/workflow, the following is a (non-exhaustive) list of changes made and notes to keep in mind as you get settled in. More notes may be added as needed. If you run into any errors, bugs, or mistakes, please let us know in the #help-channel. General questions should be directed to the #help-channel.

Art by Highwy51

• Existing XP/ranks have been preserved. If your horse's XP/rank doesn't match the registry, let us know.
  
  
• You may notice a difference in your horses' breeding slots versus their ref. We found a lot of missing/double-used slots during migration, and all unused slots marked for banned users have also been cleared out. Before reporting discrepancies as a bug/issue, please search your horse's ID in the breeding and notif channels to ensure the slot is actually incorrect.
  
  
• Normal queues and activities will be reopened over the next few weeks, so we can be sure the site is running as intended and fix any bugs/errors before we're back in full force!
  
  
• If your birthday is in March and/or it passed while we were closed, submit a separate item claim for x1 Birthday Present (this is an openable item that contains all the normal bday rewards!) with a link to the Discord message. If your birthday is in April or beyond, you'll receive your presents on the first of each month as long as your Birthday Publicity is set to 1+.
  
  
• Ancestry XP has been removed due to limitations from the new masterlist. Existing Ancestry XP was preserved as-is on all designed horses.
  
  
• All designs on LoshenkaAdmin have been archived, as the website is now considered the only official source of up-to-date records. If you are linking your horses for any reason (selling/trading, art references, etc), please be sure to link to the site from now on! This also goes for breeding slots. Please do not use your horses' dA refs to update slots, as dA refs will no longer be used. You must (re-)register your horse on the site to add slots.
  
  
• Outdated queue channels, inventory/bank bots, registry spreadsheet, etc will be cleared out on April 14th. Please be sure to finish migration and double-check everything you own before then to avoid losing anything!
  
  
• Any errors or discrepancies found should be reported to the #help-channel. Please be sure to provide any relevant links/info needed for us to help you efficiently! 
  
  
• Genos created from this point forward will not be assigned an ID until a design is accepted. Please note that the number in the url is not your geno's ID, it's just the number the site itself is using in the database while it's undesigned! Once a design is accepted, an ID will be automatically given and the URL will convert to the normal, full character "ID-(####)" format. 

We're excited to finally announce the winners of our 2nd Anniversary Event!!

Thank you to everyone who participated this year - everyone's entries were absolutely gorgeous, and I think I speak for everyone in saying it was very hard to choose 😭

Congratulations to all of our winners! All prizes have been handed out here on the site and can be found in your inventory.