After getting back in touch with a relative, Marco throws a picnic to celebrate his Native heritage, and to encourage everybody to reconnect with their roots. Meanwhile, you’ll be harvesting the fruits of autumn with Joaquin, making Native craft art with Kiran, and helping JD set a world record! PLEASE NOTE This hunt will be shorter than our usual events but longer than our shorter ones. Roots & Branches will run from today at noon PST to 6 AM PST on Friday, the 29th of November for top secret reasons. 🤫 A Letter from the ATA Creatives Hey everyone, your friendly neighborhood devs here! For this Thanksgiving, we wanted to do something different from our usual fare and shine a spotlight on the original thanksgivers, Native folks. Looking back at history, we’re reminded that Thanksgiving can be a painful time, and Raven helped us realize that displacing people from their homes or their land disconnects everyone from their heritage and culture. One way forward is to celebrate and reclaim those connections in our own ways. With that in mind, we offer Roots and Branches, a Thanksgiving event about creating connection, to oneself, to one’s culture, and to the friends and communities that build us up. Be excellent to each other. * * * RAVEN JOHN @twospirittrickster Raven, a Two Spirit Coast Salish/Stolo artist, helped us with consultation and direction for the event and let us use some of their fashion designs on the avatars. Their sister @queenalphabetties also provided formline art examples we adapted into the avatars, furniture, and items. Donation Links #Thanksgivingback If you want to give back this Thanksgiving, we highly recommend these two charities: Urban Native Youth Association This is a local charity chosen by Raven, focused on Native Youth in Leadership. American Indian College Fund This is the biggest US-based organization that helps native people go to college. Update to XCs While we've got your attention, we've adjusted the Extracurriculars reward-collection time from 24 hours after an XC is concluded to 12 HOURS. Why? Simply put: having it at 24 hours was melting our servers like cheese on pizza and that is not very good if you want to keep playing PIMD crash-free. Trust me, this is great for all of us. Enjoy! Avatars Feel the fire with these beautiful event avis. Pet Styles Fallin' for these exclusive new Pet Styles that have dropped at the Store! These are available for purchase at varying prices until the end of the event on November 29th at 6 AM Pacific Time. Event Furniture The original PNW feeling. All will be available through the usual means: event boxes, the Fall Furniture Box and the Furniture Store!
It isn't Black Friday yet. Those teaser avis will arrive at 6am PST on BF most likely... like the original post suggests.