Happy Heartbloom to all!

The Heartbloom Fete or Heartbloom Festival is a time in the land of Exturil when the Heartbloom flowers finally, well, bloom. There are many old tales throughout the world regarding these flowers, some say that these flowers bloom when romance is at its height and love is in the air, while others say that they spring to life at the touch of true love. Due to this, it’s believed that genekit romantic partners who have these flowers growing naturally on their property are soulmates. While family units on such properties are often considered to be very loving. 

The flowers themselves come in many different colors, but are always heart-shaped. These different colors have been given different meanings, such as familial love, platonic love, romantic love, etc. Though many young kits don’t know this and will pluck random colors to give to friends, family, and crushes.

Indeed, during Heartbloom Fete, many genekits will pluck some of these flowers and utilize them in bouquets for loved ones or as part of floral crowns. Though many botanist and florist genekits are trying to move the populace away from harvesting wild Heartblooms in order to preserve them in the wild and to instead encourage everykit to buy ones grown specifically for the fete.

This Heartbloom, it seems a lot of kits are reflecting on themselves, their romantic lives, and those they love around them. Perhaps with a little self reflection, they may stumble upon something wonderful, or perhaps make some new friends along the way.

This Heartbloom, each user has the opportunity to earn one Fabled or Afflicted MYO by completing the Quest of the Heart!

This quest contains five prompts, each of which requires the previous prompt to be completed first. Each prompt gives a reward, but if you complete all five with one genekit, you can get a bonus prize of an Afflicted or Fabled MYO. You may complete the quest with as many genekits as you like, but you will only be eligible to earn one special MYO. Each kit may also only do each prompt in the quest once. The prompts are linked at the bottom of this post.

New members, don’t worry as you can still participate! You can claim the free MYO in the shop by buying the New Adventurers Starter Kit to make your first genekit, enter for any currently open genekit adopts or use any of our NPCs in the quests instead! There are also some free adopts open until February 3rd over on the sales tab! There may be other adopts popping up throughout the month too.

Note: If after you have registered, it gives you an error, your account has still been created and you can then login!

This event will continue all through the month of February, last submission for raffle and prompts is 23:59 EST on the 28th February.

Earn more prize by bringing in friends!

Heartbloom is also a time of platonic love, and we would love to see some more friends in the Genekit community, so we are doing a recruitment raffle. Everyone can enter once for free, but if you want more entries there are a couple of things you can do. If you post a journal/status on deviantart you can gain an additional +2 entries, and if you post on toyhouse, you can gain an additional +2 entries as well. Comment under the featured comment, including any links to claim your entries.

Note: Due to a slight glitch, comments must be made on a computer or on desktop mode on mobile

Prizes:

1 x Diamond MYO

1 x Fabled MYO

1 x Afflicted MYO

1 x Glowing Tome of Transmorgrification

1 x Large Tome of Transmorgrification

1 x Trickster Elixir

1 x Malediction Dedoction

PROMPTS: THE QUEST OF THE HEART

As mentioned above, we have a series of prompts available for you to complete with your genekits. Each prompt will provide you with a set amount of gems, as well as a roll (or two, for the final stage) on the heartbloom table. You can see what is in the Heartbloom table below.

These prompts go live at 12:00:00 AM Est

The Other Half Of My Heart 

Heartbloom is the perfect time for a kit to daydream about the kind of life they want, and the kind of partner they may want.

Draw or write about what your kit may want in a partner, or if they want a partner at all. This may describe their current partner if they have one.

The Last Celebration of Heartbloom

Perhaps your kit is looking back at the last Heartbloom, praying that they have as wonderful a time this year. Perhaps they had an awful time, and never want to repeat it again. Regardless, it is a time of reflection.

Draw or write about what your kit did last Heartbloom

The Core of My Being

Heartbloom is not just a holiday for romance, but for all kinds of love. It is important to celebrate those that you love, romantic, familial or otherwise. Perhaps it’s even a pet!

Draw or write about who your kit loves most in the entire world.

The Anguish of the Search

Often around Heartbloom, kits try to find companionship that they have not yet found. Sometimes, unfortunately, this goes unbelievably badly for them

Draw or write about a time your kit went on a date that went disastrously wrong.

The Final Mystery of the Quest

Your kit, on the dawn of Heartbloom, has found a small pulsing crystal, atop an abandoned shrine. It looks as if a new genekit will be born this very night! What does your kit plan on doing with this crystal? Will they take in the new youngster, give them to someone they know to look after, or perhaps abandon them entirely?

Draw or write what your kit plans to do with the crystal, soon to hatch into a baby genekit, that they have found.