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Rules
Here are the rules that you must follow :
Additionally, new members will not receive their calendar privileges until they make their first post on the guild board and will be deleted if they do not do so within a week.
If any of these requests sound unreasonable, please neomail lotsabots with reasons why.
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Mission
Our goal at the Helping Paws Adoption Center is to help abandoned pets find a good home and brighten their experience getting there by giving them a loving foster home to live in while they await the day they will finally be taken into the arms of a new parent.
Additionally, we aim to prevent the degrading of pets and the treating of them as objects that has come with the new pound feature. (The treating of pets as objects extends fully to the "trading" of pets.)
Finally, we hope that this benevolence will expand to the real world and one's treatment of animals and other human beings.
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Adoptees
To adopt one of our fosters, please read How to Adopt.
PETS UP FOR ADOPTION
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How to Adopt
You don't have to be a member of the guild to adopt, so if you want to adopt a pet, you must follow the following steps:
A simple neomail application will suffice. You don't need to get too fancy.
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How to Foster
Fostering is as optional as roleplaying in this guild, but if you want to take in a pet while you find her or him a home, here are the rules and steps to follow:
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How to Transfer
Follow these instructions when transferring a pet from one account to another:
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Advertising
We need more chatty, active members like yourselves. So, as an incentive for you to go out and recruit, we're holding a little contest. Whoever recruits the most real members (no cheating!) wins a prize. Be sure to tell people you recruit to neomail Lotsa and tell her that you recruited her and check out the Activities Section for details!
Feel free to copy/paste one of these advertisements into any "Guildless" or "Looking for Guild" board under the Guilds board, or create your own advert (Encouraged!):
Or you could use one of our nifty buttons:
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Activities
Advertising Race
After every 10 members we gain, the top recruiter will receive a gift of appreciation.
After we get to 50 members, the top recruiter will receive a larger gift of appreciation.
Moderator: Lotsa
Guild Foster
The guild foster is a pet for all the guild to foster. His or her purpose is to be a foster for those who cannot foster a pet on their own account whether it be for financial reasons or space constraints or anything else of the sort. Any members in the guild (or outside benefactors) can send codestones, dubloons and books to the foster as well as donate neopoints to the guild till that will eventually be spent on a potion or morphing potion.
The guild will vote on what color to paint the foster as well as review the adoption applications for the foster as a whole.
Our current guild foster is: Jozeitho
Riddle
What is it that you keep only after giving it to someone else?
Neomail Lotsa if you think you know the answer.
Congratulations to everyone for answering:
What is so delicate that, when you say its name it is broken?
The answer was: silence
Scavenger Hunt
Third Place: If you're the first to guess the Neopian Land
Second Place: If you're the first to guess the section of the Land (e.g. the Castle in Meridell)
First Place: If you're the first to guess the specific part of the Land.
Moderator: Lotsa
In the freezing place you go,
You keep body low and lo,
Here you find a wooden address,
Where you'll get your themed bequests.
The last hunt question was:
Are you in the mood for an adventure?
You might find yourself in many lands,
All in the quest for another.
Nightfall brings deep darkness,
but your reward is sure to be 'smart-ness'.
Answer: Haunted Woods, Main Page, Brain Tree
Winner (1st, 2nd, and 3rd): Hope (fish_sticks_x)
Alphabet Post
Alphabet Post is a little posting game we play. Sometimes, we post alphabetically such that the first letter of someone's post is the next alphabetically to the first letter of the last person's post. For instance:
Member 1: All right, let's play "Alphabet Post" everyone!
f
Member 2: Brilliant idea!
Or sometimes, we post such that the first letter of someone's post is the same as the last letter of the last person's post. For instance:
Member 1: Hey, everyone! Lets play "Alphabet Post Two!
Member 2: Okay, that sounds like a great plan!
It is a great way to add a little flavor to regular posting, and it is fairly easy to pick up and fun to play. It's not something we play constantly, but we do play it often, so, if you cant tell if we are playing it, feel free to ask!
Roleplay
When the normal chat is becoming monotonous, someone might choose to spice it up by declaring a Rolepaly Day. We may choose a plot or we may
simply roleplaying out the happenings in the guild as they happen. So, if you've just adopted a new foster, have the foster, you, or your pets come in and talk about it! The setting is the neohome on the hpacdonations account . Right now, all we need is furniture, and Lotsa is working very hard on furnishing it, but with the rising prices, she could certainly use your help and would appreciate it. (Though this is completely up to you.) We'll eventually add a top floor just for the foster dorms to this neohome, but for now, we just have the one floor. Should be fun, no?
Other Activities
Charity
Petpet Adoption
Homework Helper
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Charity
Outgoing
To get supplies out to you, we have check trades and auctions where you can get items for your pets and fosters for little expense. (If there is nothing there, neomail Lotsa.)
Incoming
The longest-running program we have is our donation shop. Our HPAC Donations Shop is connected directly to our guild till.
Charity Auctions are where you can offer on various HPAC items to raise money for the guild. All proceeds to the hpacdonations Guild Till. These are events that happen occasionally when we are raising money for a specific thing.
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Hierarchy
In our guild, we have five guild member levels of Hierarchy and they are explained as follows:
Friendly - This is the level that anyone who enters the guild for the first time is.
Patron - This level is reached after having been in the guild for one month and having posted 40+ messages.
Excellent - This level is reached after having successfully fostered a pet and given him or her to a good owner.
Lab Mapper - This is a title given to anyone in the guild who has a lab map and can zap their fosters. These members also have another title but it is not displayed.
Trustworthy - This title can be given to a member that a council member feels is totally trustworthy, and can be lent valuable items with the knowledge that they will be returned. Specifically, that a member of council knows personally.
We are going to choose the council when we have:
20 Members - #3
25 Members - #4
30 Members - #5
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Avatar Library
This feature is only available to Trustworthy members or above and is funded by the donations shop. Members will choose through a poll whether to fund this or not each month. The avatar library consists of items, pets and petpets.
If you are zapping a foster and they turns into an avatar pet that we do not already have in our care, it is your choice whether you give him or her to us or to keep them as a foster. If you do chose to give them to us, we will try to fit her or him with a petpet (if they're not too attached to their own) that will obtain an avatar as well, and we assure you that they will both be well cared for.
Here is the list of the item avatars available to the Trustworthy members:
Click here while holding our Green Koi Plushie.
Click here while holding our Sloth Faerie Plushie.
Visit your inventory while holding ten of our dung items.
Visit the King Kelpbeard TCG while holding our Maractite Cord.
Visit Mufaseo's lookup when he is on your account.
Visit Mufaseo's lookup when he is on your account.
Visit Glub's lookup when he is on your account and while you have an item with "spotted" in its name in your inventory.
Visit Glub's lookup when he is on your account.
Feed Zenkashi an item with the word "popcorn" in its name.
The avatar pets we do not have in our care are:
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