Messy Player

new at pondside: you can build rooms onto your home now 🏡 pick from a dojo, greenhouse, pantry, curio room, stargazing loft, bathhouse or a tea room. each one has something toby does there: practising at the straw target, watering seedlings, checking on the pickles, studying finds under a magnifier, looking for the toby constellation, or a long hot soak the cottage has space for one room, the treehouse two, all the way up to five in the lighthouse. get bored of a room? take it down and put up a different one. it stays yours, and goes back up free whenever you want it also: - the mushroom cottage gets a workshop now too - new leaves to find at the range and new finds out foraging - the fresh catch meter: every game has a daily stretch where everyday catches pay full. after that they pay half. rare finds and first-ever finds always pay full come build something and decorate it 🌀 pondside.app

🌀Pondside Design a Toby pack The pond votes. The winner goes on sale at Moss's 🏆 The Contest Hall has opened in the Pond Museum. First theme: A Hush Before Dawn The quiet hour before the light. Stillness, waiting, the first glow over the pond, Hush, the dark before something good. What does Toby look like in that hour? WHAT YOU'RE DESIGNING A full pack, just like the ones at Moss's: • 1 skin: Toby's whole look (color, pattern, texture) • 3 pieces he wears, picked from: a hat, eyes, mouth, something round his neck, an outfit, a buddy, or an aura around him • 1 piece for the cottage WHAT TO PAINT Open the Contest Hall and tap Paint your entry. The contest canvas has Toby's outline on it, so you're painting right over him. Paint him wearing the full look: the skin plus all 3 pieces. Add the cottage piece beside him if it fits, or just describe it. Then name your Toby and list the pack, piece by piece. Like: Skin: dawn-gray with misty spots Hat: reed straw hat Buddy: a sleepy firefly Aura: morning mist Cottage: a paper lantern DATES • Entries: Nov 9 – 22. One entry per toad. You can change it until entries close. • Voting: Nov 23 – 29. Every toad who's been around the pond on 3+ days in the last two weeks gets 3 votes (not for yourself). Counts stay hidden until the end. • The top 5 become finalists, and the winner is picked from them. PRIZES 🥇 777 flies, and your design is drawn into a real pack at Moss's with your name on it. You earn 10% of every sale, forever. 🥈 333 flies 🥉 111 flies All 5 finalists stay framed in the Museum for good. (and some extra goodies for everyone that participates!) RULES Your own work only. No real people, and no characters or logos from anywhere else. You don't have to be a great artist. A clear idea wins over perfect lines, and we'll do the polishing. The easel just got a big upgrade for this: shapes, a paint bucket, mirror mode (paint one side of Toby and the other copies it), opacity, pinch-to-zoom, and your painting waits for you if you step away. Who will the next pack designer be?🌀 pondside.app

snagged this tobyist portrait by @MessyyPlayer from the gallery love it 🌀🍃🔺🟦 pondside.app/m/1/art/119