A new (old) friend has made their way to the Keep! Grandpon, the current oldest living Gachagon and Creamsicle’s grandpa, has returned after a long time away from the main hub of the Keep and is shocked to learn that most of the past Gachagon culture has gone away! Even his magical Book of Records isn’t up to date on the population of the species!!

Seeing the sadness of their kin and wanting to help revive the magic and spirits of old Gachagon history, Creamsicle offers to help Grandpon share the lost culture with modern Gachagons, starting with the first initiative of the Gachagon Historical Preservation Project!

The first part of their plan: Teach about the realm’s forgotten calendar system and restart the collection of Hatching Day Certificates! Both may seem like small things, but they are important in order to truly appreciate the realm that Gachagons, Scribblies, and Bitlings call home! Welcome to the very first lore event for the Gachagon Species!

With this, we have a small dialogue event you can read here! Please enjoy!

Take some time to meet and read about our newest NPC: Grandpon!

We have been working hard since the ownership change to bring new life and lore to the species, and we hope you will enjoy participating in the first part of our 2-part lore event!!

In this first stage, please feel free to learn some new lore information regarding these magical world-hopping dragons below!

• A new page regarding the life cycle of Gachagons has been added! 
• New pages about Scribblies and Bitlings have been added! 
• A species-specific calendar page has been added! This page elaborates on celebrations, names of specific months, and more!
• A lost piece of Gachagon history has been uncovered and is ready for you to read - it appears to be a poem that tells about what kind of character a Gachagon will have in relation to the month they were hatched in! It can be found on the calendar page linked above!
• A new (and permanent) special prompt has been added for you to participate in! The Hatching Day Certificate can be filled out once per Gachagon, and is a form of formal registration of information about your Gachagon - what their name is, what month they were hatched in, and whatever other info is important about them! You are free to use our template (linked in the prompt description), or make your own with a similar format!
• More pages regarding species history, lore, and much more are being worked on and will be released soon! We hope to also have artwork for the other species pages eventually, too, but for now you are able to still read about them with no issue!

The pages above will be added to the navigation bar as soon as possible, but for now, you can also find them under Encyclopedia > Info on the left-hand side of your screen!

By participating in this event and by submitting at least one hatch-day certificate and/or completing the temporary prompt, you will earn a badge for your profile, showing you were a part of the Gachagon HPP! 

The prompt for this month is special, as it will be the first of the Gachagon Calendar Specific Prompts! This month is the Month of Growth! It is a special time in the Gachagon realm: the rainy season has come and gone and new life is growing all around! There is even room for growth within each Keep species, especially with the new lore revelations! To learn more, see this page!

The Month of Growth prompt will last till May 21st!

Draw or write about your Gachagon either:

• Learning something new from Grandpon about themselves or any of the Keep species as a whole
• Filling out their own Hatching Day Certificate (which you can submit to the certificate-specific gallery here)
• Experiencing the new growth in nature around them during the Month of Growth

RULES (ILLUSTRATED)

• Your illustration must be (at the least) a halfbody with some form of background!
• Your illustration must be, at the minimum, cleanly sketched and colored.
• Your illustration MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery! (As well as when submitting the prompt, you'll need to link to the gallery submission. Gallery submissions can still be linked to before official approval/while pending, so there should be no reason you can't link it when submitting your piece! Prompt submissions with outside links like Discord, sta.sh, etc. will be rejected.)

RULES: (WRITTEN)

• Your written piece must be at the least 600 words long!
• Use paragraph breaks, it makes it much easier for our mods to read over!
• Your written piece MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery!

Lastly, we want to thank you all for your patience as we navigate the new direction Gachagons is going in! We understand the ownership change was sudden and that not much has been done in the last few months, but we have a lot of new and exciting things planned! Things are still a work in progress, but we hope you enjoy it nonetheless.

We hope you continue to enjoy our species and the characters we all have created together!

Event Credits:

• togekissed: Grandpon’s design, writing of the dialogue event, Hatching Day Certificate templates, badge designs, F2U backgrounds
• break: Art of Creamsicle and Grandpon, including the dialogue artwork
• 39friend: Formatting, proofreading, and quality-of-life updates to pages
• sequiem: Gachagon life-cycle page artwork