Site News

'Tis the season!

Cherubmas

It's been one year since cherubuns first left the heavenly meadow, and Dove has had the idea to celebrate the anniversary by sharing cherubun traditions with Burrowgatory. The Heavenly Embassy has dubbed this new holiday Cherubmas, a time to celebrate cherubun culture and its integration into Burrowgatory, and is hosting all sorts of festive events for cherubuns and succubuns alike to enjoy.

With the successful cultivation of a heavenly meadow plant called holy holly, holiday wreaths and garlands festoon the streets, and cherubuns teach their traditional winter carols to anyone who wants to join in the song. It's a time for cherubuns to remember their history and express gratitude for their lives in Burrowgatory, and for everyone to come together with their loved ones.

Check out the Cherubmas page for more information, and to collect your daily feather.

Virtues

With this much cherubun cheer in the air, it's easier than ever to be virtuous.

A Virtuous Vessel is available for purchase in the Cherubmas event shop. This item will award you your choice of any one major virtue, which you can put towards your heavenly door collection, or keep as a pet!

When the date rolls over to the new year, all completed heavenly door collections will be reset, allowing players who've already earned one Heavenly Key to work on earning a second one. No existing virtues, partially completed collections, or incomplete prompt chains will be reset.

Additionally, a new minor virtue has been spotted in Burrowgatory!
When submitting site feedbackfor the first time each month, players now have a small chance of receiving a veritia instead of carats.

Site Feedback

Say goodbye to Google Sheets—our official Feedback Form is now hosted completely on-site!

Our Feedback Form accepts suggestions, constructive criticism, and any other feedback you'd like the Succubuns team to review.

Every month, the first feedback you submit will automatically award 15 carats, with a small chance of receiving a veritia instead. Our team thrives on positive feedback, so if you can't think of anything to suggest or critique, you're more than welcome to just write down what you like about Succubuns!

New NPC Themes

Even once Cherubmas is over, you can celebrate two of everyone's favorite cherubuns with these new NPC plush!

The Primrose Plush and Beanny Plush are now available at Cottontail Toys. Keep them in your collection, or open them from your Inventory to unlock the new NPC themes!

New Event Titles

For those who still carry a piece of the heavenly meadow with them, or those who've forsaken it completely, the Cherubmas event shop has two new titles: Heavenly and Fallen.

New Saintly Trait

Cherubuns have been spotted sporting smaller, cuter wings with the new Cherub Wings trait!

This trait can be obtained with a Divine Ambrosia, purchased from the Heavenly Embassy.

New Imp Color

Unlike the flowers used to make ambrosia, holy holly berries are non-toxic for succubuns to eat... But unfortunately, they don't taste particularly good, as Dan discovered after creating a new mochi flavor with them. At least imps seem to like them, and have developed a rather angelic appearance after eating them.

Holy Holly Mochi is available for purchase with feathers in the Cherubmas event shop. It can also be purchased with carats at Dan's Dango, only in the month of December.

In additional to the new angelic color, avia is also now available in brown, pastel, and natural.

Seasonal Drinks

Winter seasonal drinks are now back at The Rabbit Hole!

In addition, the Heavenly Embassy is now stocking Frosty Ambrosia for the season, allowing cherubuns to obtain winter seasonal traits.

Pedigree Imp

Arctoasty can now be purchased at Pedigree Pets! Budrock has been cycled out—so long, budrock.

While we work on getting an on-site subscription service up and running, pedigree imp polls are available to all players. Vote for winter's pedigree imps here!

Monthly Supporter Boxes

The Supporter Shop has been refreshed for the month! Show Succubuns your support and take home some extra goodies, such as items from the Cherubmas event shop and Wagashi to spend at Pedigree Pets.

Gilded Mistletoe Raffle

Congratulations to @mapplwander on winning November's Sanguine Raffle!

This month's raffle bun is just waiting for someone to smooch them under the mistletoe.

Tickets can be purchased with feathers in the Cherubmas event shop. Make sure to open the tickets in your inventory after purchasing, or you won't actually be entered in the raffle! 

Monthly Prompt

The December Monthly Prompt is now available.

Dig that kitschy winter sweater out of your closet for 30 bonus carats!

Dead of Night

After quite the scare, the people of Burrowgatory have settled back into an uneasy peace knowing that vampires live among them...

The Dead of Night event shop will remain open until December 7th, at which point all remaining stakes will disappear.

Hello Burrowgatory,

Deviantart login is once again down, and isn't showing any sign of fixing itself. Unfortunately, this has started to become a common occurence, and to prevent further instances of this happening, we've decided to remove deviantart login as an option from the website.

We understand that this may be frustrating to those of you who primarily use DA, but we hope you can understand our concerns with deviantart's frequent issues. If you use DA login and don't have a recovery email or toyhouse authentification also set, we can assist you in adding one in the Succubuns discord.

If you need login assistance, please open a ticket with the following form filled out:

Account username:
Birthday, including year:
Desired email:

We'll need your birthday as a security measure! Please note we can only do this for accounts with no email present. If you've attached an email in the past, please utilize succubuns forgot password feature to login.

We apologize for the inconveinence to everyone who uses DA login, and we hope that utilizing email login or toyhouse login will be able to help decrease these issues in the future. Thank you!

Dead of Night Wrap

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in the Dead of Night plot! We know it was a bit of a risk to tell a story with such a different tone for Succubuns, so we hope you all had a great time on our gothic horror ride.

For those who want to reread their favorite parts or revisit the plot at a later date, we've created an index of all of the plot pages.

Dead of Night Index

The rewards for completing the plot will be available until the end of November 30th.

If you have yet to finish playing through the plot, we recommend you do so before reading the rest of this news post to avoid being spoiled!

Vampires

After Lord Lagosi's actions, there's no covering it up anymore: vampires exist within Burrowgatory. While some may still write the whole thing off as a hoax, others seek to understand the truth about vampires... or even become one themselves?

You can read the new vampire lore page for full details on how they work in this setting:

Vampires

In order to make your player character into a vampire, you'll need to apply the Vampire status to them using a Vampiric Ichor item.

Vampiric Ichor is an account-bound item available from the Vampiric Rites prompt chain. Completing this prompt chain will also give you access to Calla's Sanctum, where you can purchase additional Vampiric Ichors once per month.

More information can be found on the Vampires page.

New NPC: Timothy

Introduced in the Dead of Night plot, the eternally exhausted vampire Timothy has joined our NPC roster.

Once a regular joe working the night shift at a hospital, Timothy has been thrust head-first into the life—or unlife—of a vampire. You can read more about him in his profile, or get to know him in his new NPC prompt.

Burrowgatory Hill Hospital

Timothy works at Burrowgatory Hill Hospital, where you can find a number of trinkets and titles that may be of interest to medically-minded buns.

The hospital also supplies donated Cherubun Blood to any vampires seeking to free themselves from their curse.

New NPC: Calla

Introduced in the Dead of Night plot, the vampire lord Calla has joined our NPC roster.

As capricious as she is mysterious, Lady Calla has assumed control of vampire society in the wake of Lagosi's plot. You can read more about her in her profile, or get to know her in her new NPC prompt.

Calla's Sanctum

As part of her efforts to bring a semblance of order to Burrowgatory's vampires, Calla has transformed her own hidden stronghold into a meeting place for vampire kind.

In order to gain access to Calla's Sanctum, you'll first need to complete the Vampiric Rites prompt chain.

Once you possess the Sanctum Key, you'll be able to purchase the account-bound Vampiric Ichor item for 500 carats or $25 USD. The Bloodthirsty Title and Anemic Title, introduced in the Dead of Night event shop, will also be available in Calla's Sanctum.

Oleander

Much to Mercy's relief, Oleander has returned to normal in the wake of Lord Lagosi's defeat. After having to make an incredibly awkward announcement to his congregation that he had been incorrectly pronounced dead, he has returned to his normal duties at the church.

The church has avoided mentioning vampires in their explanations for Oleander's return, leading those not in the know to make their own assumptions about All Sinners' Day drunkenness, mysterious illnesses, or demonic miracles. However, for those who've heard the whispered rumors of vampires, or who themselves suffered under Lord Lagosi's plot, it's not too hard to put the pieces together...

Lord Lagosi

After the events of the Dead of Night plot, all of Lagosi's spawn have returned to life, and Lagosi's whereabouts are still unknown.

Perhaps we'll see him again someday...?

Content Warning: The Dead of Night plot is a gothic horror story that contains blood, violence, and death. While these elements will not exceed a PG-13 level, this plot is much darker and more dramatic than any official Succubuns content released thus far, so reader discretion is advised.

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The final installment of the Dead of Night plot has been released. Is this the end for our heroes?

> Read Dead of Night Chapter 5

> Start from the Beginning

To give everyone time to read the ending before having it spoiled, a wrap-up post announcing new content will go up tomorrow, on the 21st.

Hello, Burrowgatory! We have a couple small updates to the Titles feature for you today.

As we had hoped to add since release, Titles will now display on players' Characters pages. We hope you'll enjoy being able to see your collection of titles all laid out in a row!

Please note that this only applies to the pages linked on your profile (Succubuns.com/USERNAME/characters) and not your editable characters page (Succubuns.com/characters), as the title boxes don't play well with the custom sorting feature. 

Additionally, Search By Title on the masterlist is now active, allowing you to search for all of the buns who have a specific title applied. This includes buns who don't have it set to their primary title, as long as it's not set to hidden.

As always, if you run into any title-related bugs or issues, such as having multiple Primary titles set simultaneously, please let us know with a Bug Report or in our official Discord Server. We hope you enjoy these quality of life updates!

Content Warning: The Dead of Night plot is a gothic horror story that contains blood, violence, and death. While these elements will not exceed a PG-13 level, this plot is much darker and more dramatic than any official Succubuns content released thus far, so reader discretion is advised.

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The next installment of the Dead of Night plot has been released. A new event prompt is now available. 

> Read Dead of Night Chapter 4

> Start from the Beginning

The final installment will be released at 8pm EST on November 20th.

Hello, Burrowgatory! After the incredibly positive reception of our updated Design Guide this summer, the Succubuns team has been hard at work on another guide revamp to help you with your art and writing submissions.

The Updated Carat Guide

With 8 new pages, detailed guidelines for common submission pitfalls, and tons of visual examples provided by our amazing mod team, we hope this carat guide will make submitting prompts easier than ever!

The guide isn't the only thing that's been updated, though!

Updated Carat Payouts

Over the past two years, Succubuns has grown immensely, adding many new features that have allowed players to earn carats through on-site gameplay. Unfortunately, the easier it is to earn carats in other ways, the less worthwhile it's become to engage with the primary focus of an ARPG like Succubuns: creating art!

To that end, we've updated the carats earned for art and writing to better reflect the current value of carats, and the relative effort it takes to submit creative works.

Art rewards have been increased by 5-15 carats, depending on the type of art.

Writing rewards have been increased by 1 carat per 100 words, and the method for calculating earnings for written pieces has been streamlined to avoid confusion. You can learn about the new method on the Writing Rewards page of the updated Carat Guide.

We hope that these payout increases will make the effort of submitting creative works more worthwhile, and will help motivate you to draw and write about your succubuns!

An Important Note About Inflation and MYO Items

We know that inflation is probably the last thing you want to be thinking about right now, but it is an inevitable fact of all economies. In virtual game economies like Succubuns, gentle inflation is actually a positive thing for the health of the game, making it easier for new players to "catch up" to older players! However, it can still have unintended or negative effects that need to be corrected for, such as the fallen relative value of art and writing rewards prior to this update.

As carats have fallen to nearly half the value they possessed when Succubuns first started, MYOs have become increasingly easier to obtain, and the rate at which new MYOs are submitted continues to outpace the rate at which our player count grows. In order for MYO items to retain their intended value, and to keep MYO submissions from growing exponentially, we may need to raise the base price of a Hell in a Handbasket to match carat inflation.

This is not something that's happening immediately—our plan for now is to observe the impact that October's new features and the new carat payouts have on the economy and the rate of MYO submissions. However, if we determine it necessary, we may raise the price of the standard Hell in a Handbasket item starting in the new year. We hope that you can understand why this is something we need to consider!

Content Warning: The Dead of Night plot is a gothic horror story that contains blood, violence, and death. While these elements will not exceed a PG-13 level, this plot is much darker and more dramatic than any official Succubuns content released thus far, so reader discretion is advised.

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The next installment of the Dead of Night plot has been released. 

> Read Dead of Night Chapter 3

> Start from the Beginning

A new event prompt is now available. 

Content Warning: The Dead of Night plot is a gothic horror story that contains blood, violence, and death. While these elements will not exceed a PG-13 level, this plot is much darker and more dramatic than any official Succubuns content released thus far, so reader discretion is advised.

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The next installment of the Dead of Night plot has been released. Where will our trio's investigation take them next?

> Read Dead of Night Chapter 2

> Start from the Beginning

A new event prompt is now available. 

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As a reminder, player characters cannot be vampires. At this time, vampirism is limited to the characters involved in this plot, and more information about Burrowgatory's vampire lore will be revealed throughout the story.

Hello, Burrowgatory! We hope you've all been enjoying using the new Titles and Ties features to help flesh out your Succubuns characters.

Now that everyone has had some time to get used to these new features and think about what else they would like to see from them, we're opening up suggestions for new Titles and new relationship labels for Ties.

Title Suggestions

Relationship Suggestions

Due to the limitations of our forms feature, you can submit one suggestion per day to each form, so those of you with multiple suggestions will need to spread them across several days.

We're excited to hear what sorts of additions to these features you're interested in seeing, and to make some of your suggestions a reality!