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Post: 56064075_1 created on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:28:09 +0000
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..........Hello there! Peas and Thank-You! is a very special pet shop. Instead of being the kind of place where you buy just one special pet and keep it... The focus here is on buying MANY pets, and breeding them to mix traits and create special one-of-a-kind creatures!

..........New babies are borned! Just head on over to page 58!

..........((Also, please go ahead and just say "Hi!" even if you are not interested in my pets!))

....................................................................................................1. Announcements and Table of Contents
....................................................................................................2. Rules and F.A.Q.
....................................................................................................3. History
....................................................................................................4. Buying Some Peas
....................................................................................................5. Expanding Your Pod
....................................................................................................6. Current Sales
....................................................................................................7. Garden Shop
....................................................................................................8. Genetics
....................................................................................................9. Flowers and Weeds
....................................................................................................10. Current Farms

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Post: 56064075_2 created on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:29:40 +0000
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Rules
1. Be kind. Don't exclude, flame, harass, or abuse anyone ever.
2. Be polite. Use pleases, thank-yous, and would-you-minds.
3. Be Gracious. If you lose, or if you win, please be tactful.
4. Be Literate. We use every key on the keyboard here, kthnx.
5. Be Knowledgeable. Read twice before you ask a question.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I get peas!?!?!?!?!? gonk scream dramallama eek crying
..........Please read the fourth post, titled "Buying Some Peas". Then, check the availability for barns and peas in the sixth post, titled "Current Sales".

Do the peas ever grow up?
..........These peas only have one stage. The focus is on the way the peas change and evolve over generations by breeding, as opposed to how one individual pea grows over its lifetime.

Why don't your peas have certs?
..........Due to the nature of these peas, you may own forty, fifty, or a hundred peas in your lifetime. As you breed new peas with more interesting features, you will want to give away your old peas. You may trade peas with other owners, or you may give away peas to new owners you are friends with. Your pea roster will constantly be shifting and changing. So, if every owner has hundreds of peas during their life... Well, you can just imagine how much work that would be for me! :O

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Post: 56064075_3 created on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:30:35 +0000
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..........Once upon a time, there was a lovely man by the name of Gregor Mendel. One day, probably just before supper, he was out in his garden picking peas. He noticed something peculiar, just then, about his peas. Some had red flowers, and some had white ones. And he knew that he had started out having all white flowers, and just one red one. With each year, more and more red flowers had appeared. He decided that something about the "Red flower" gene must be dominant- when mixed with any other gene, the red would show up instead! He began to study the peas more in depth. He discovered many things about genetics... But the one thing he didn't expect to discover...

.............was that one day, the peas would come to life! After spilling some chemicals on his carefully cultivated peas, they grew eyes, and mouths, and became fully functioning animals! The transition from flora to fauna was a puzzling one indeed... And while no one could quite figure out HOW it happened, everyone in the scientific community was quite pleased with the result! Now, those very same peas are available- Just for you! Another thing he didn't predict was just how much these living peas would genetically mutate. Not only were new colors showing up rapidly, but peas with tail, peas with wings... They just kept changing and growing!

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Post: 56064075_4 created on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:31:23 +0000
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.........Here at "Peas and Thank You", we don't believe you should have to spend outrageous amounts of money, just to enjoy the splendor of genetics. in order to obtain these pets, you will have to buy a barn. Your barn will hold a certain amount of pets. After that, the pets themselves are very cheap. (Usually fifty gold or under, a piece). Then, to breed them is absolutely free! It will take some time, these things always do, but after that, you're golden! Of course, you won't be able to keep all your offspring unless your barn has room for that!

.........To purchase your peas, you will have to wait until a flatsale. Due to the nature of these pets, I find it highly unlikely that we will ever hold auctions or raffles for the pets themselves. However, I may begin to hold alternative methods of acquiring barns, especially those with larger holding capacities.

.........Any pets you don't want to keep, or can't keep, will be sent right back to the pet shop, where other new and aspiring owners can purchase them. If you are giving back a lot of interesting pets and a profitable rate, Bryxn may even agree to let you keep some of the profits your unique pets are bringing in! Isn't that exciting?

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Post: 56064075_5 created on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:32:21 +0000
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Can you feel the love tonight...?

.........Sooner or later, your little peas are going to get into some mischief. For the most part, you can control this by keep your little peas in separate pods. Whenever you receive new peas, they will automatically have the separated status. However, when you decide that you want to start creating more peas, you need to move them into a a social pod. These pods will have both boys and girls inside it, and they will get up to mischief at their own pace. If you are trying to conceive very specific traits, you may want to put just one boy and one girl inside the social pod. The basic barn only has one social pod. Larger, more expansive barns may have several social pods, giving you greater control over your offspring! To change which pod a pea is in, just post in your journal.

.........Your journal is a very important place. Bryxn will make regular posts in your journal, which she will set up for you. It is a place for you to work together to keep track of all your peas, their pedigrees, and their genetic traits. Also, your journal is a place that other owners can find out about potential breeding partners.

.........Once you have moved around your peas within your journal, nature will run its course. After a while, your female pea will likely become pregnant. (Whether or not your pea becomes pregnant is decided by public dice rolls in the main forum.) You will receive a notification as soon as this happens! Then, after about a week, your happy little pea will give birth. How many peas are in the litter, the gender of the peas, and their traits are all based on genetics and random number generation, where applicable. It's just like in nature! (Kind of!)

.........On average, peas give birth to about 4 peas. However, they can have as many as 8, or as few as 1! Once your peas are born, it will take a few days before they are able to breed and give birth themselves. Also, the two parents of the peas will be unable to conceive again for several days, mostly due to chasing around their baby peas! (Young peas are known to be quite a handful!) During these times, your peas' statuses will be written in blue. Once the color of their status goes back to black, you will be able to put them into social pods again.

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Post: 56064075_6 created on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:34:25 +0000
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None.

...........In order to buy and raise peas, you will need a barn. Currently, the only kind of barn for sale is the Basic Barn. It is sturdy, but rather cozy, only holding eight peas at a time. Perfect for beginners!

Basic Barn: 5000 gold

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Post: 56064075_7 created on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:35:25 +0000
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..........There are only two items in the whole entire "Peas and Thank-You!" world. Both of these are feed to pregnant peas before they have a litter, and it affects the offspring. The first item is vitamins. If you give your pea vitamins while it is pregnant, it is more likely to have more babies with less genetic mutations. The other item is nuclear waste. If you feed your pea pre-natal nuclear waste, it is more likely to have less babies with more genetic mutations. Both of these items are free for you to use. If you give your pea neither supplement, it's litter will have normal amounts of babies and mutations.

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Post: 56064075_8 created on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:36:10 +0000
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..........Because not all of us are geneticists like Mendell, I have prepared a crash course in genetics, just for you! Okay, so first off, let's say we have one dark blob, and one light blob. In this case, the dark blob's gene is going to be dominant. That means that if their baby blob has one dark gene, and one light gene, the blob will look dark, because the dark gene is dominant. Here is a chart of all the possible babies the dark and light blob can have:

..........All the babies have one dark and one light gene, so all of them look dark. But, if two of those babies have babies, below are all the combinations their babies may have. They can either have an all-dark baby, a half-and-half, or a light baby! So even though both parents looked dark, they actually have a 25% chance of having a light-colored baby!

..........Now, there's only one more factor to take into consideration here! That is mutations. Sometimes, even when you think you have a pretty good chance of predicting what might happen... you could be wrong! Often, something random may show up, just for fun! Genetic mutations are very important- they cause new colors, new shapes, and new features to show up when you thought they weren't possible! In this case, it was a new "medium" lightness blob gene. We'll have a rainbow of blobs in no time!

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Post: 56064075_9 created on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:59:15 +0000
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Flowers:
Lovely individuals who've helped me make Peas and Thank-You! a better place

Weeds:
People who need to take a break from Peas and Thank-You! for a while

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Post: 56064075_10 created on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:01:32 +0000
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..........Here are the listings of all the current Pea-Farmers. Feel free to snoop around. Many of the owners are willing to breed their peas with other owners, and this is the perfect place to find a potential match!

Owner // Farm Name // Peas Owned // ~Link~

Ichitoko // Mildew Frost Farm // 6 // ~Link~
likeLinen // Happy Tofu Farms // 8 // ~Link~
Corset // Lifstykki Farm // 4 // ~Link~
YourPersonalStranger // Dé Haoine Farm // 2 // ~Link~
RulerofEverything // Un-named Farm // 3 // ~Link~
NarcoticxRemedyr // I Belli Fagiolini Farm // 3 // ~Link~