THE WISHING WELL
As you walk along the path to the stables, you spot a small structure made of stone and moss-covered wood. Curious, you pick your way through the overgrown flowers and approach the wishing well. You've never really been one for superstition, but there's something interesting about this thing. When you move the plants out of the way, you're met with a single penny resting atop one of the stones. How it managed to stay there during your removal of the bushes around it, you're not sure, but it sure is convenient. Glancing over your shoulder to be sure that nobody is watching, you toss the penny into the darkness. It's deeper than you thought, but eventually the soft plop of copper hitting water can be heard below you.
Five seconds pass, then ten, then twenty. What did you expect to happen, exactly?
Feeling a bit sheepish, you turn to leave, but the sound of coins clinking against one another causes you to spin back around. A small leather pouch rests on the lip of the well- Okay, this is getting a bit uncanny now. With a nervous glance around you, sure by now that someone must be pulling some sort of prank, you grab the pouch and look inside. Sure enough, there's coins. Not just a few, but at least a hundred or so. Adequately spooked at this point, but nonetheless grateful, you shove the pouch in your pocket and continue on your way toward the stables at a much brisker pace than before.
Five seconds pass, then ten, then twenty. What did you expect to happen, exactly?
Feeling a bit sheepish, you turn to leave, but the sound of coins clinking against one another causes you to spin back around. A small leather pouch rests on the lip of the well- Okay, this is getting a bit uncanny now. With a nervous glance around you, sure by now that someone must be pulling some sort of prank, you grab the pouch and look inside. Sure enough, there's coins. Not just a few, but at least a hundred or so. Adequately spooked at this point, but nonetheless grateful, you shove the pouch in your pocket and continue on your way toward the stables at a much brisker pace than before.
Welcome to the wishing well!
This little structure is the source of many gifts, ranging from coin bundles, to custom tokens, to extra potential, or even more exclusive items.
Before you're able to use the wishing well, however, you'll need pennies. Pennies can be earned through gift art, and are given at a rate of 1 penny per 1 xp earned for their horse for the gift art in question. You may include your own horse(s), but you will not earn pennies from their xp. To qualify, the art cannot be a commission, art trade, payment, or anything else but a gift! Co-owned / leased horses also do not count for pennies.
If you wish to redeem pennies from gift art, you will need to list this in the description of your upload along with how many you've earned from it, so that a staff member can add the correct number of pennies to your inventory. Collabs are allowed as long as the horses being claimed for pennies do not belong to any of the collaborators. Collaborators may decide how pennies are split, and should list the chosen amounts in the stat breakdown. Pennies are not to be sold/transferred between players.
Please be sure to NOTIFY the owner of the horse(s) you've drawn! You're welcome to use the submission, discussion, or art share channels to ping other players, or you can contact them via DM / dA note / etc. Just be sure to let them know so they see your gift, since many players aren't watching the Backstretch channels and are likely to miss it!
You may use as many pennies at once as you'd like, and using multiple will increase your chances for a particular wish. This means that if the chance for a certain wish is 1/50, then using 3 pennies, for example, will change that chance to 3/50. It also means that you can guarantee a particular wish will be granted if you have enough pennies to do so. Your current number of pennies can be found by using the "!inventory" command in #the-plaza.
To use the wishing well, simply visit the #wishing-well channel and fill out the form (located in the pinned messages). You may make any of the following wishes (chances are listed in brackets): **chances are tentative & are subject to change!**
- [1/1] Voucher - limited to players with less than ©50k in their account & less than 20 vouchers in their inventory
- [1/5] Sugar Cube
- [1/5] ©500 Bundle
- [1/5] Lunge Whip
- [1/10] Polo Wraps
- [1/12] Stopwatch
- [1/15] Modeling Clay
- [1/30] Golden Carrot
- [1/30] Magic Dice
- [1/35] +5 Tenacity - specify which horse in your wish form (capped at 80 total tenacity)
- [1/35] +3 Potential - specify which horse in your wish form (capped at 65 total stats)
- [1/40] Crystal Ball
- [1/50] Fertility Wand
- [1/50] Anomaly Token
- [1/50] Common Mystery Token
- [1/100] Common Custom Token
- [1/150] Uncommon Custom Token
- [1/200] Rare Custom Token
Art by David Paul