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March Newsletter
Posted 23 February 2024, 12:59:41 EST :: Last edited 9 March 2024, 12:19:16 EST by Staryon✦ Happy Spring, Sushi Rolls! ✦
This month's newsletter is jam-full of updates including new ownership of the species, a new adventure prompt, mod hiring, and more!
If you have any questions, please ask us in the community discord server. Enjoy!
Change of Ownership for Sushi Dogs
Can you believe the Sushi Dogs group is turning 11 years old this year? Sushi Dogs has been around before that, too!
If you've been around for most of it like I have, then you've heard it before: Sushi Dogs has a new owner!
What does this mean?
Well... nothing really, yet! (Besides me changing a lot of things on the masterlist...)
For those unaware, kayy and I have been in Sooshes together when we both joined as mods in 2017. That's more than half a decade!
We did a lot of group work together, and a lot of development I personally helped with. She was the calm to my storm. This is why when life got hectic for her, I offered to handle the community as much as I could. This meant learning how to upload site assets, prompts, newsletters, and more! It was a big undertaking but I did it for my appreciation for Kayy and my love of Sooshes. She was just as passionate for the species as I am, and I am forever grateful for everything she helped set up in the species! This site wouldn't be so manageable if it weren't for her, and I again thank her for the dedication to it.
Though she has stepped down as owner, I'm excited to know that she is able to participate in the species as a regular member again. I have lots of ideas and plans I'd love to come to fruition, and nothing is more exciting than being part of the community to get those surprises. I'm already well-equipped for this role as the fill-in for her absence, so if you enjoyed any of the previous festivals, thank you! I do my best to take in suggestions and ideas from the community, and I will continue to do my best from here on out.
I cherish Kayy with all of my heart, and I know this was a big decision for her. Her role with me in Sooshes was a lot of my life, and I am eternally grateful. I wish her all the happiness in the world! So please don't feel like she stepped down due to a lack of love; it was quite the opposite. She wanted the community to get more and felt she was no longer able to dedicate herself to that. I know it was a hard decision for her, and I just hope she can come to enjoy and love Sooshes as much as we always have.
My treasured art from Kayy from around the time we first became mods. Time flies!
Snowfall Festival Winners
Custom Sushi Dog Raffle
Each submission to the festival prompts granted one ticket for this raffle, for a max of 7!
Available artists: aisu, PrinceDipper, Rannarbananar, Staryon
This Sushi Dog custom is allowed up to 3 gourmet OR winter seasonal traits. You can mix-and-match those as well!
Grand Prize Winner: ThorinFrostclaw
Feel free to comment here or DM Staryon the artist of your choosing to establish contact for custom details.
Seasonal Traits Bundles
One entry was granted to each user who submitted an entry to the festival prompts for this raffle.
3rd Place: LightWind
You've won 1 seasonal trait and a winter pet box!
2nd Place: Robotic-Sparks
You've won 2 seasonal traits and a haute potion!
1st Place: GlitchedOcelot
You've won all 3 winter seasonal traits and a Sooshapon Token!
For 3rd and 2nd place above, please comment here or DM me on Discord with which traits you would like!
For a refresher, the winter seasonal traits are: Gemstone Cheeks, Patterned Bandana, and Magic Aura.
Congratulations to everyone, and thank you for participating!
A new adventure prompt is now live!
Ready to gain more virtue points to further your quest to become mythical? There's a new adventure prompt live today!
Seems like there was a giant crash! What was it? Are you brave enough to check it out?
Maybe you want to befriend one of the strange creatures mingling around? No matter the purpose, maybe you can solve this mystery for the town!
Bunny Hop Day approaches...
Sounds like the eggs are back and some Sooshes are hiding along with them...
Worried about being too slow or unable to find the time? No worries! This year, all Sooshes will be raffled off to give members ample time to participate in the hunt and still have a chance to take home a sweet Soosh.
As usual, eggs will have goodies inside so you still take home some fresh new stuff even if luck isn't in your favor!
March 31st, 12pm EST the hunt begins!
Sushi Cat OTA on March 9th & Sushi Dog Carat Auction on March 16th!
To celebrate Star's new ownership of the species, he has designed two cute and fun Sooshes that don't require IRL currency to obtain! Better save up those carats or maybe keep a hold of those Sooshes you want to mirror...
Some members in the discord got a sneak peak at the upcoming designs during a livestream!
We're Hiring!
We opened a pool in the past but with restructuring, we have different needs now!
There are a few openings, so please be sure to read these jobs clearly to know which one(s) you want to apply for.
Approvals Mod
- This moderator is responsible for approving soosh designs in our design queue. This role has vast knowledge of our traits, unallowed features, and guidelines regarding accessories on designs. This role is best suited for someone with a keen eye for detail, and good memorization to ensure sooshes do not break any design rules. You will need to have an easy time transferring images and text from our site to an offsite source for the entire team to approve together. You will also need to be comfortable rejecting designs and informing users of the issues to resolve. You will also handle appraisals for the species.
Discord Mod
- This moderator is responsible for managing the activity in our official discord server. This role sets up and hosts game nights, giveaways, drops, and more they see fit. This role is best suited for someone who can work independently and take feedback as needed. You will have access to bots used in the server and their dashboards in order to set up giveaways, drops, and more. This is a more technical role and is best suited for someone already with experience running a server and its bots.
General Mod
- This moderator is more flexible, and is able to help in numerous facets of the community. This role is best suited for someone with skills in art, discord, and database management. You will be knowledgeable in all things Sooshes, and will help in areas that need that extra hand during busier times. If you love being helpful, and love to learn new things, this may be a great fit for you!
Moderators are paid with in-game currency on a monthly basis. You will also gain the privilege of participating in monthly mod sales, which is optional.
Moderators also help develop future events, traits, and get special behind-the-scenes looks at future content!
Site Changes 03.01.2024
Limited Opening Changes
- Shop items no longer have limited stocks. Everything is unlimited! Items do not sell out that often anymore, so this is no longer a concern of ours for users to buy items in large bulk.
- The Enchanted Mirror is permanently open now! No longer must mods and members be burdened by the mirror's limited magic. Pommelraie has noticed that every Soosh that looks into it gets stuck inside now, so he has a special disclosure form and the mirror in its own separated room now. Great thinking, I guess, Pommel!
- Koinpeito forms are closed. This is going to be temporary as Staryon works on things behind the scenes. If you are in desperate need of KP, feel free to DM Staryon or comment on the post. However, if you can wait, I suggest so as there may be changes to the cash shop in the future!
Rarity Changes
- Adjusted colors for all rarities
- Added Specialty, Seasonal, and Felidae rarities. This was to divide up the previously overfilled Limited trait which is now retired.
- Supreme Soosh and Celestial Soosh have had the term "Soosh" removed for redundancy. They are now just Supreme and Celestial respectively. This also allows this rarity to be tied to their unique traits.
- Specialty holds the remaining traits that are tied to more abstract situations such as Limited Foods and Magic Affinity. It also holds the Confetti Swirls trait as that is our special trait to celebrate all things sooshes during our anniversary event.
- Reverted Weresoosh back to Vampsoosh.
Trait Updates
- Adjusted all previous seasonal traits to move from Limited to Seasonal rarity.
- Enchanted Bell and Kitty Whiskers are now under the Felidae rarity.
- Celestial (theme) has been changed to Cosmic (theme). This is to help encompass the more abstract themes allowed previously, and because I hated seeing "Celestial (theme) Celestial (rarity)".
- Changed Cosmic (theme)'s rarity from Limited to Celestial.
- Similarly, Specialty Food (theme) has been changed to Limited Food (theme) so we did not have "Specialty Food (theme) Specialty (rarity)". Also limited helps further push the fact that many sooshes with this theme will never share it with another due to copyright issues or retired allowances.
- Added Colossal trait - this trait is for the large build that Supreme rarity sooshes exhibit to further differentiate them from standard sized sooshes. Also mods and members kept forgetting the village leaders were big.
Masterlist Adjustments
- Added Bihead, Trihead, Triptych, and Diptych subtypes. In the current framework, the subtype class works best for these. The former build traits to differentiate these bodies are now retired.
- Sooshes are now classed by their highest rarity trait. This is why we needed the build trait for Supremes, and the adjusted rarity for the themes for Celestials. This does mean any Soosh with 1 mythical trait are classed as that mythical type - wow! Others with mismatched traits will be classed as the type they most resemble.
- Created new character categories for previous owners of the species. OFF (official) will only contain original Witchpaws/Spikedpeach sooshes, while CHI (Chital), KAYY (Kayy), and STAR (Staryon) will contain their designs respectively.
- Created new character category for collaborated designs (CLB). This is due to the confusion on older designs that were done by both the original owner and a second party.
- Created new character category for moderator designs (MOD). This is once again to help divy up the types of designs better so members no longer get confused vs who is/was an owner, mod, or guest artist.
- Created sub-masterlist for NPCs so new members have an easier way to separate them for use in prompts.
- Numerous adjustments to masterlist code numbers for sooshes to make up for new categories separating large chunks of designs. This mostly affected GST sooshes, so make sure to update any off-site links accordingly!
Road Map
Priority Updates
- Patch art! A lot of patches never got art as we were stretched very thin during events. With the hiring of new mods, we hope to alleviate a lot of this and have a lot more focus on site assets.
- Reuploaded/redrawn assets.
- Site images. This includes shop art, inventory art, and others!
- Readjusting Soosh's categories and correcting their numbers.
Planned Updates
- Site refresh! I do adore the teals and paws used for Sushi Dogs but as we further push into foodie culture, I feel that a rebrand would help solidify that.
- Site asset refresh. This includes renaming items, updating or changing their art entirely, and more.
- New items! We've said this before and we've done it for seasonal traits, but now that those are mostly caught up we're able to focus on other traits now.
- More extensions! I won't specify which, but this simply means more things on-site to interact with.
- New events and prompts!
- New things for Sooshes! What could this even mean...?
Known Issues
- Mirror purchases don't go through for members 90% of the time. It has to do with the coding for different currencies allowed for purchasing, so this may be removed in the future if it cannot be resolved. This is a very tedious process behind the scenes so it's difficult for mods to manually send Sooshes!
- Patches were never made for previous festivals, or were oversized. This will be corrected in future updates.
- Mismatched art styled assets. We are branching away from the faux-sticker look, but this requires reuploading many of the site's first items.
- Koinpeito purchases need to be reenabled so users can continue to purchase slots or items using IRL currency.
December Newsletter
Posted 3 December 2023, 11:08:12 EST :: Last edited 7 March 2024, 09:36:01 EST by Staryon✦ Happy Holidays, Sushi Rolls! ✦
This month's newsletter reveals Autumn Harvest Festival winners, shows off the advent, and a reminder of our returning festival!
If you have any questions, please ask us in the community discord server. Enjoy!
✦ Autumn Harvest Festival Raffle Winners ✦
3rd Place:
Haute Potion + Autumn Pet Box
sheepuns
2nd Place:
Sooshapon Token + Autumn Trait Item (Color Change, Glowy Cheeks, Object Head)
arawruh
(Please let me know which trait item you want!)
1st Place: Smoked Lava Cheese Buns
Qualeo !
Congrats to every winner, and thank you all for participating in our festivals!
✦ The Advent Calendar is live! ✦
Every day in December, a new Soosh is revealed for the holidays! Are you itching to preclaim one? Or excited to hopefully bid on another?
You can check out all the teases of the themes here, and check out pricing to help you decide if you want to nab one for a holiday gift!
Advent Calendar
✦ Secret Soosh Reveals✦
To: 0Koji-chan From: garlitbread
To: Amber-Nemyris From: Sealveri
To: Andreaigaku From: Blu-jayz
To: arwen From: RaiinbowMochii
To: awkwardnuggs From: Andreaigaku
To: booplet From: Vixen-dawg
To: c_candy From: ThorinFrostclaw
To: ChupacabraPrincess From: CarrsCrap
To: DessertDingo From: Sibbo
To: Fucal From: GlitchedOcelot
To: garlitbread From: DessertDingo
To: GlitchedOcelot From: Kyasarinn
To: PaddlePudds From: 0Koji-chan
To: Qualeo From: ChupacabraPrincess
To: RaiinbowMochii From: pygmypear
To: Robotic-Sparks From: PaddlePudds
To: shadesofangelite From: Skywardthedragon
To: Sibbo From: awkwardnuggs
To: Skywardthedragon From: Snek
To: slug From: shadesofangelite
To: ThorinFrostclaw From: Amber-Nemyris
To: Vixen-dawg From: Robotic-Sparks
✦ Snowfall Festival returns next month! ✦
And with that, we are back in our seasonal rotations for the festivals! Sounds like there may be a couple of new traits this time around though... I wonder what they could be?And that's all for this month! We hope you are as excited as we are!
As always, feel free to comment or send us a message if you have any questions!
November Newsletter
Posted 6 November 2023, 11:07:17 EST :: Last edited 6 November 2023, 12:00:43 EST by Staryon✦ Happy November, Sushi Rolls! ✦
This month's newsletter reveals the mid-festival update, Dream Soosh Raffle, Secret Soosh sign-ups, and advent calendar details!
If you have any questions, please ask us in the community discord server. Enjoy!
✦ Autumn Harvest Festival Raffle Reveal ✦
3rd Place:
Haute Potion + Autumn Pet Box
2nd Place:
Sooshapon Token + Autumn Trait Item (Color Change, Glowy Cheeks, Object Head)
1st Place: Smoked Lava Cheese Buns
This feisty Soosh has the new and fun Object Head trait; good luck to everyone entering the raffle!
✦ The mid-festival update is live! ✦
Seems like it's time for some sub quests to those who have already completed the mainline quests, or maybe those who just want to have a little more fun during the event!
The Sub Quests prompt is now live!
The Holiday Shoppe is stocked with our free Monster Candy Loot Box - just an extra 100 event currency to help you decide on a minor purchase or maybe save up for a bigger one!
Check out the shop!
✦ Mainline Quest End Dates ✦
As a reminder, the end dates are different for the main quests so our team has plenty of time to grade everything in time to prevent any rejections that cancel out the rest of the quest submissions.
Part I: November 28th
Part II: November 29th
Part III: November 30th
Prompts above close at 11:59pm EST on their respective dates.
✦ Secret Soosh Signups ✦
Every year when the colder months begin to creep upon Culario, sooshes from all over join together in the Sanctuary to celebrate the Winter Snowfall Festival. A particular favorite activity is the exchanging of art between sooshes in the "Secret Soosh" event!
So come sign up and get paired with a random secret partner in this exciting art exchange event!
Only 50 members will be accepted for organizational reasons, so sign up soon!
If we do not hit the limit before the end of the month, entries will close on November 26th.
Sign Up Now
✦ Dream Soosh Custom Raffle ✦
Nov 06 - Nov 30 @ 11:59pm EST
Yes! Our dream soosh raffle is back again for our 2023 Winter Advent Calendar.
For the past four years, the final spot in our annual advent calendar has been reserved for a free custom by fawncore for a random member of the Sushi Dogs community. This year is no different!
To enter, simply fill out the entry form using the link below. The winner will be decided by random chance, with the design revealed on December 25th. More information and rules are provided on the dream soosh giveaway entry form. Entries close on November 30.
✦ 2023 Advent Calendar ✦
This year for the Sushi Dog advent calendar we are celebrating that warm and fuzzy feeling the holidays give you. And more so what food really makes you feel that way!
Do you look forward to something warm and savory to share with your loved ones, or a special sweet treat when no ones looking? What food gives you that sense of nostalgia and hominess that you just can't find any other time of the year?
Like last year, the themes will be shown in advance as "A gift for someone who loves ___", but we are going to do a twist on this with the gift being for someone who loves a key ingredient in the dish!
Our focus is to showcase our love of food, and thus have a Soosh represent the same love! Of course, the exact food won't be shown, but we hope the mention is enough to help you decide on potential adopted Sooshes... and they still need to be revealed on their respective dates, of course!
And that's all for this month! We hope you are as excited as we are!
As always, feel free to comment or send us a message if you have any questions!
October Newsletter
Posted 3 October 2023, 09:34:34 EDT :: Last edited 3 October 2023, 11:20:10 EDT by Staryon✦ Happy Autumn, Sushi Rolls! ✦
This month's newsletter reveals the anniversary raffle winners, the new Autumn Harvest Festival, and plans for this month regarding sales!
If you have any questions, please ask us in the community discord server. Enjoy!
✦ Anniversary Event Raffle Winners ✦
We hope everyone enjoyed the raffles for the event! 10 years is a long time and a big deal, so we had to go all out for it!
There's quite a few new Sooshes heading into new homes, so let's go ahead and reveal the owners:
✦ Raffle Winners ✦
FTO Raffle
Won by: MellieFox
WTE Raffle
Won by: PaddlePudds
DTE Raffle
Won by: slug
And the Free-to-Enter Dracosoosh raffle winner is...
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Congrats to
mcsfit
Congratulations to every winner here! We're so glad you guys were here to celebrate with us, and we look forward to many more years with Sooshes.
✦ The Autumn Harvest Festival is live! ✦
This event has two separate questlines you get locked into once you submit a first part - it's personal preference!
Are you a stickler to traditions, or are you one to change it up once in a while?
Check out the prompts!
The Holiday Shoppe is stocked with the new festival items! As usual, we have 3 new seasonal traits, a pet box, and the raffle ticket to enter the Autumn Harvest raffle!
What are the prizes? Wait and see during the mid-event update in November!
Check out the shop!
Since the shop still has previous seasonal traits for those still deciding which trait they desire, here are the new trait items for easy findings:
Fallen Leaf - grants COLOR CHANGE
Glow Stick - grants GLOWY CHEEKS
Headless Plush - grants OBJECT HEAD
These traits have their descriptors to clarify how each one works, so please check them out in our traits guide!
✦ Prompt Changes ✦
We love the community's enthusiasm on finishing every prompt before events end, but sadly we have had to make some adjustments to prevent repeated issues and delays in closing events!
Questlines will now have different deadlines for each part - the final part being the final day of the event. Each part beforehand will end a day earlier than the one after.
For clarity and easy understanding, here are the due dates for this event's questlines:
Part I: November 28th
Part II: November 29th
Part III: November 30th
Prompts above close at 11:59pm EDT on their respective dates.
These changes are to ensure members can correct any issues regarding their first parts - in the past, if you submitted all three at once and had any rejected, it could prevent you from getting any event rewards if you waited until the last day!
We don't mean to be strict, but we cannot handle multiple part last minute submissions, so please try to keep these dates in mind. Don't forget to read over the prompt guidelines thoroughly, or ask in the server if you are confused on what is needed.
Thank you everyone!
✦ Frightfully Fun Festivities ✦
✦ Trick-or-Treat Gacha Sale ✦
The artists have been chosen and set to their themes!
The GAs for the Trick-or-Treat sale are:
Rocco, Tamurachii, care, Kyu, Alexdream12, and Miizue!
What are the themes, you wonder? That'd be too much info!
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01001100 01001001 01010110 01000101: 1698768000
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And lastly... seems like there are two Sooshes rarer than the others in the mix..!
✦ Weekly Mythical Auctions ✦
That's right - we're doing the mythical auctions for three weeks leading up to the gacha sale!
Wait... didn't I mention something about changing up the tradition? Nocte's convinced me - seems like it isn't just Vampsooshes that will be in the mythical spotlight this month! Sounds like a tricky mythical is finding ways to get into the festivities.
Auctions may be revealed earlier on-site as Star will be on vacation during the last two, but comments will not be opened until 12pm EDT on their respective dates.
Carl will generously offer his help again by notifying in our discord server when auctions are live, so don't forget to join and pick up our Soosh Sales role!
Auctions are on Saturdays @ 12pm EDT, with end dates 2 days after auction start
October 7th: Tamurachii
October 14th: linborghini
October 21st: Ponkochi
✦ Well Wishes to the Wedded Couple ✦
Our owner, fawncore got married this past Saturday!
I got to attend the beautiful wedding, and it was a blast! Many cherished moments, memories, and fun laughs were had. Even if I was shy and didn't know anyone, I still had to hold back tears from watching one of my closest friends enter this new stage in her life.
I hope Kayy had the wedding of her dreams, and all of us on the team are so happy for her!
If you were unable to sign the last minute wedding gift to her, feel free to leave your congrats and messages here. Even if you already signed, feel free to say it again! Her and her husband are a powercouple that both jointly work on the site and have shaped it into what it is today. I am eternally grateful for them!
If you missed the photos, feel free to hop into the photo-gallery channel in our server to check them out and reply more personally to her!
Once again; Congrats, Kayy!
And that's all for this month! We hope you are as excited as we are!
As always, feel free to comment or send us a message if you have any questions!
September Newsletter
Posted 4 September 2023, 11:26:27 EDT :: Last edited 7 September 2023, 08:21:49 EDT by Staryon✦ Happy Anniversary, Sushi Rolls! ✦
This month's newsletter announces the Team Fight winners, raffle soosh winners, and the current Anniversary event! We'll also briefly mention the next seasonal festival - the Autumn Harvest festival! Yes, it's about that time again.
If you have any questions, please ask us in the community discord server. Enjoy!
✦ Summer Starlight Festival Winners ✦
What team won?
Why, it was
Team Food!
Congratulations! The fight was still tight in the end - Team Food won by only 2 tickets!!
But the rules are rules so... congrats to my fellow Foodies! I knew we were always right in the end.
Patches will be made and granted during this month. As a reminder, the patches are for the Winning Team (Food), Losing Team (Drink), Traitors (both teams), and Loyalists (one team)! Look forward to them!
✦ Raffle Winners ✦
Team Drink
3rd Place: Haute Potion + Any Summer Pet Box
Winner: arwen
2nd Place: Sooshapon Token + 1 Summer Seasonal Trait Item
Winner: Mooncyder
1st Place: Sunrise Soda Sushi Dog
Winner: LightWind
Team Food
3rd Place: Haute Potion + Any Summer Pet Box
Winner: NaiKat
2nd Place: Sooshapon Token + 1 Summer Seasonal Trait Item
Winner: muthecat
1st Place Prize: Choco-dipped Banana Sushi Dog
Winner: Whitefang1738
For anyone who won 2nd or 3rd place, feel free to comment on this news post or dm Staryon on discord to claim your choice of Box or Trait! Thanks everyone, and we hope you all enjoyed!
✦ 10 Years of Sooshes ✦
The discord has been popping off with all of the new happenings - so let me lay it all out in this newsletter!
Anniversary MYOs open again!
This is our yearly free myo event for any member who has not previously created one. This is a free Sushi Dog that is locked to your account - perfect for sentimental designs that you plan on keeping forever!
Check it out here: Anniversary MYO Event
The anniversary questline is live again!
Doing all three prompts will net you 1000 carats, a Party Popper, and a small chance to win a Haute Potion or Enchanted Bell!
New memories prompt!
Missed out on a seasonal trait you wanted? There's a new chance to earn one - just one! This prompt's difficulty is higher, but it's just one prompt to gain your seasonal trait. Are you ready?
Check it out!
Three raffles to enter!
Are you a FTO? Or do you like writing? If you just draw, that's okay too! We have a raffle for each of these categories!
Just click on the images below to be taken to their respective prompts.
10 Sooshes for our 10 years!
Wow - 10 Sooshes for 10 years of Sooshes! Isn't that something?
Check out all of the designs and their upcoming auction dates - here is their previews!
Monstera Fruit has become an OTA, so feel free to offer to gain a uniquely plant-based Soosh!
Gold Drip Rainbow Cake's auction goes live today - do you want to take home a fluffy, regally excited Soosh? Check it out!
Good luck to everyone planning to bid or autobuy!
We hope you love each design as much as we do.
✦ Final Festival (they will return!) ✦
As usual, look out for new seasonal pet boxes, three new seasonal traits, and the prompts to earn the festival currency!
This is our final one to reveal - we hope you have enjoyed each one! Of course, they will continue to return annually, so look forward to them! I heard there may be new traits in the winter as well...
And that's all for this month! We hope you are as excited as we are!
As always, feel free to comment or send us a message if you have any questions!
August Newsletter
Posted 7 August 2023, 11:30:06 EDT :: Last edited 7 August 2023, 11:30:06 EDT by Staryon
✦ Happy August, Sushi Rolls! ✦
This month marks the last half of the Summer Starlight Festival, reveals the Art Fight Soosh Raffle Winners, and has news about the upcoming Sushi Dogs Anniversary! An entire decade of Sooshes - wow!
If you have any questions, please ask us in the community discord server. Enjoy!
✦ Art Fight Raffle Winners✦
Team Vampire Raffle Prize
Winner: Mooncyder
Team Werewolf Raffle Prize
Winner: Silvetz
These Sooshes are transferred to their new owners, and are on a month-long cooldown. Their pets are also character-bound, so they will always have their little friend... it's in their inventories!
Please give a special thanks to Tamurachii for offering to design these prizes last minute (seriously, I'm mildly terrified) just for an incentive for the community. We got a ton of entries this year so we hope the grind was fun for participating members!
✦ Summer Starlight Festival ✦
Of course, we need to show off the raffle prizes to make sure you guys know what you are aiming for!
It's also time to reveal the raffle prizes:
Team Drink
1st Place Prize: Sunrise Soda Sushi Dog
2nd Place: Sooshapon Token + 1 Summer Seasonal Trait Item
3rd Place: Haute Potion + Any Summer Pet Box
Team Food
1st Place Prize: Choco-dipped Banana Sushi Dog
2nd Place: Sooshapon Token + 1 Summer Seasonal Trait Item
3rd Place: Haute Potion + Any Summer Pet Box
These prizes are so summery, are they not? Hopefully we see some more fun seasonal traited Sooshes in the future!
Once the festival ends, we will be giving out patches for these findings:
Winning Team
Losing Team
Loyalists
Traitors
These patches are simply awards, so please do not be pressured to stick to a team if you want a chance at winning either Soosh. Do note that you can only win once, so you'll be granted the highest placed prize. Thanks so much everyone!
Keep an eye out sooshlings - seems like there's an abundance of Ocean Splashers washing up, so look out for surprise drops in the discord server! They are not confined to any channel, so keep an eye out in case you can take some extra event currency home. There does seem to be more pet boxes in the shop. Where did they come from?
✦ Soosh Sales ✦
Theme? Well, I think Sooshes are my favorite animal, but there are some other cool ones.
✦ 10 Years ✦
Since the summer festival takes place in August, the anniversary event will continue to take place in September.
Seems like there will be 10 Sooshes to show off all throughout September! You'll have to keep your eyes peeled every Monday and Friday.
These will all be auctions until the final, grand reveal! So if you're looking for a brand new Soosh to commemorate the anniversary, you better start planning!
Not exciting enough? Well... each Soosh do have a new trait from this past year of festivals. If you can't decide what you're looking for, maybe write a list of your favorite seasonal traits and look out for them!
Here are the artists participating:
aisu Alexdream12 Kyu linborghini Miizue
pudipon Rannarbananar Starkindler Staryon Tamurachii
As usual, we will also open up forms to make an Anniversary MYO soosh! This is a free Soosh you can design that is trade-locked to your account. Make a sentimental design, a Soosh form of an existing beloved OC, or a design that you find fun to draw for future art! Each account can have one ANN-XXX design, so if you have never made one yet feel free to start thinking up some ideas.
That's it for this newsletter - we hope this busy season continues to give you guys much excitement!
And that's all for this month! We hope you are as excited as we are!
As always, feel free to comment or send us a message if you have any questions!
July Newsletter
Posted 8 July 2023, 11:15:48 EDT :: Last edited 8 July 2023, 11:32:13 EDT by Staryon
✦ Happy Summer, Sushi Rolls! ✦
This month has the beginning and end of Art Fight, as well as the start of our Summer Starlight Festival! Not only that, but the long-awaited reveal of the Summer DTE winners!!
If you have any questions, please ask us in the community discord server. Enjoy!
✦ Summer DTE Winners✦
Manta Ray Soda Pop Winners
1st Place: Tigitigerchen
2nd Place: CarrsCrap
3rd Place: Peach_moon
Bubblegum Bottle Fizz Cocktail Winners
1st Place: Celtrist
2nd Place: Robotic-Sparks
3rd Place: roxybirdie
Grapefruit Margarita Winners
1st Place: NaiKat
2nd Place: Bushka
3rd Place: GlitchedOcelot
Dragon Fruit Bowl Winners
1st Place: PaddlePudds
2nd Place: ThorinFrostclaw
3rd Place: Starryservals
Summer Fruit Rolls Winners
1st Place: Mooncyder
2nd Place: Leah
3rd Place: Snek
BBQ Chicken Skewer Winners
1st Place: muthecat
2nd Place: LightWind
3rd Place: saphiresong98
Prizes will be deposited later today! If you are a winner of a DTE Soosh, please DM Modmail in the Sushi Dog discord with your toyhouse username to receive them faster!
Thanks so much again everyone, and thank you to the GAs that let this happen!
✦ Summer Starlight Festival ✦
The prompts are going live at 12pm! We ask that you stick to a Team this month, but if there is an obvious disbalance next month... maybe it'll be a good time to be a traitor to your team.
No worries though - more prompts will go live in August for the festival! Also, seems like there's supposed to be more pet boxes... what's that? You'll have to gift to a friend or foe? What could that even mean? Guess we'll find out!!
✦ Soosh Sales ✦
Otherwise, save you wallets for the mod batch or for another GA auction batch in August. We hope you love critters!
You might be asking if we already have a theme for this month's mod batch... personally I think it stinks!
✦ 10 Years ✦
Since the summer festival takes place in August, the anniversary event will continue to take place in September.
Everything is under wraps but we hope this decade is fun for everyone! We'll have more details as we get closer to it!
And that's all for this month! We hope you are as excited as we are!
As always, feel free to comment or send us a message if you have any questions!
June Newsletter
Posted 30 May 2023, 17:07:13 EDT :: Last edited 2 June 2023, 10:36:08 EDT by Staryon
✦ Happy Pride Month, Sushi Rolls! ✦
This month has our annual Summer DTE and the return of Adventures - we hope members have fun participating in this month's activities.
If you have any questions, please ask us in the community discord server. Enjoy!
✦ Summer DTE ✦
Alexdream12 , linborghini , Kyu , Rocco, and Tamurachii !
You can only win one, so if your name is raffled off as a winner for a Soosh and you win another, it will be rerolled! This is to ensure more users can win a Sushi Dog (or Cat!) of their own.
Good luck everyone!
Check out the DTE Prompts!
Raffle Prize Winners
The Spring Blossom Festival has concluded, and with that the raffle has been rolled. Congrats to these winners!
3rd Place: Sunset Buttercream Cake by Tamurachii
Won by: roxybirdie
2nd Place: Grande Matcha Latte by linborghini
Won by: AcuteExposure
1st Place Grand Prize: Spring Time Cake, Sushi Cat by aisu
Won by: LightWind
Thank you, everyone!
This past year has been packed with new events and happenings, and it makes our days when the community expresses how much they love them. We're getting close to finishing our first year of seasonal festivals - just two more to go!
We hope you continue to enjoy them all and look forward to the new traits and items that come with each one.
The current Holiday Shoppe will still be open for another week for any last-minute purchases for those who haven't decided on what they wanted! Raffle tickets have been removed as well.
✦ Summer Starlight Festival ✦
What team are you choosing?
I heard Zero exclaiming that his insides are powered by gamer juice. Not sure what that means exactly, but he seems quite passionate.
Look forward to it, everyone!
✦ New Adventure Prompt ✦
Seems like there's a damsel in distress... in a tower...? What exactly is going on here?!
Find out when the prompt goes live on site, and have fun using your magic to save those in need!
✦ Soosh Sales ✦
✦ Balancing Changes ✦
Specifically in this: writing changes and magic questline adjustments.
Writing minimum requirements have been adjusted to be a minimum of 1000 words. We had lowered this in the past for users who claimed writing that many words was far too much, but with the influx of written entries we see that this is an easier alternative to artwork. This was never our intention!
Writing was always meant to be inclusive for community members who did not draw or were not confident in their art abilities. This was never meant to be an easier alternative for artists. Thus, we determined that changes to writing requirements were necessary.
The requirements are laid out in the prompt guide page, so please read it over if you plan on submitting writings.
We love the passion but this overwhelmed us in times of events!
And that's all for this month! We hope you are as excited as we are!
As always, feel free to comment or send us a message if you have any questions!
May Newsletter
Posted 5 May 2023, 11:11:53 EDT :: Last edited 5 May 2023, 11:22:27 EDT by Staryon
✦ Happy May, Sushi Rolls! ✦
Back with another news update!
This is a bit of a slower month before we slam into Summer - which means we have plenty to look forward to.
If you have any questions, please ask us in the community discord server. Enjoy!
✦ Mid-Event Update ✦
Check out the Holiday Shoppe!
Raffle Prizes Reveal
This event has a few Sooshes that need rehoming! Thus, the raffle will have 3 winners in total - each winning a lovely Soosh.
3rd will get: Sunset Buttercream Cake by Tamurachii
2nd will get: Grande Matcha Latte by linborghini
1st will earn the Grand Prize: Spring Time Cake, a Sushi Cat by aisu !
This flowery soosh has the Sheer Bandana trait that you can earn in this event!
We hope that this raffle reveal brings more excitement to players who would rather earn Sooshes than traits during the event, or simply have reduced time and unable to grind for the seasonal traits this year. (#relatable)
Thank you, everyone!
This event was quite similar to our previous Snowfall event - just filled with way more sub quests and seasonal traits! No worries though... get ready to pick a side and fight for your honor in the Summer Starlight Festival beginning in July. Want to know the teams? Keep reading!
✦ Summer DTE ✦
The annual Summer DTE is happening next month! There will be 6 Sooshes up for grabs, with one being a Sushi Cat!
Remember, as this is a DTE, winners are just chosen at random. You can enter for every Soosh but only win one. This information is just a refresher so you can plan ahead if you want to participate.
There is one more thing - these sooshes are participating in the Team Fight for Summer Starlight Festival! I can't reveal too much yet, but it has to do with what you enjoy having at the table...
✦ Soosh Sales ✦
✦ Returning Activities ✦
Be on the lookout as he may sporadically host one randomly!
And that's all for this month! We hope you are as excited as we are!
As always, feel free to comment or send us a message if you have any questions!
April Newsletter
Posted 1 April 2023, 12:08:09 EDT :: Last edited 1 April 2023, 12:08:09 EDT by Staryon
✦ Happy April, Sushi Rolls! ✦
This month is the beginning of a brand new seasonal event packed with new traits and pets!
If you have any questions, please ask us in the community discord server. Enjoy!
✦ Soosh of the Month Break ✦
I will be putting this prompt on a break due to low entries every month. For those who entered in March - thank you! I will be getting into contact with each of you to give a separate prize as this is a last second change. I want to take suggestions on how to make this prompt more thrilling and desirable for users, so please let me know in the discord server or down below what you'd like changed!
✦ Spring Blossom Festival ✦
Happy beginning of Spring Blossom Festival, Sooshes!
Woah - seems like there is a massive flower overgrowth problem?! And... flowers coming to life? What is going on?
Figure out by participating in the event questline and solving the mystery in the sub quests!
Gain our new event currency, Petals , by participating in these event limited prompts for the duration of April and May and spend them in the Holiday Shoppe for special seasonal items that can only be found at this time of the year!
✦ GA Sales Return! ✦
Sorry for the delay - with Kayy's life duties swallowing up her time, I've been allowed to take over GA sales and will resume posting them on Saturdays!
Thus, the first sale starts today:
Shortbread Flower Cookies
This lovely collab design by Flufflebear and Ponkochi is an auction open for two days - please take a peek and good luck bidding!