SanrioTown posted a screencap in the official HKO blog… and I’m in it! XD

Woot Woot! I pointed to me there. You can also see SaigeMorrow, Sugar_chan and Cricket! We’re all famous!

(If you’re also in that pic and I missed you, lemme know…)

Also… I’m apparently evil.

I was taking some of the cute little quizzes on SanrioTown… and then I took one about Hello Kitty items and got this result:

This… is news to me! XD

I still don’t know how they got that from the silly questions I answered…

Besides, this is SanrioTown! Why are they hatin’ on me??

First and most importantly…

My family isn’t celebrating Christmas on Christmas this year, but I still hope all of you have a wonderful, magical holiday! And it’ll be my turn next week ;)

Now back to our regularly scheduled blog post:

About HKO! XD

Something new in the HKO Founders Reunion was that our pets could now talk. This sometimes resulted in really weird frenzied speech bubbles that you couldn’t even read… and other times, it resulted in some really BIZARRE conversation. Or comments. Or whatever you want to call it.

Exhibit A

Here is my pet dino, Terry Rexman, informing me that he would like to EAT one of the GMs. A specific GM, even.

In fact, I don’t even think he’s telling ME that. I think he’s shouting it at that poor Biff guy as he walks by. My pet’s not only homicidal and interested in eating people… He’s also rude and talks to strangers.

Exhibit B

So I was a little surprised (and a bit alarmed) to find out that my pet had an interest in eating GM-Bacon. But hey, I mean, it’s not that bad. I think everyone in HKO has wondered if GM-Bacon is yummy or not. It’s natural. It’s normal. I could see a pet wanting to eat him.

However, a pet wanting to eat its OWNER is not really a good thing.

Especially if you’re like me and you ARE the owner.

Sorry, Terry… Time to put you away now. O_O

This next screencap kind of speaks for itself…

Yes, that’s the convo that occurred when Saige died and discovered that not only does she look pretty dead, she also can rotate whilst being dead. This conversation made me LOL enough that I took a screencap.

Speaking of Saige… It seems that I’ve acquired a grandchild.

Now, I’m only 30 years old.

But I realize this is older than some of HKO’s players.

 It also happens to be much older than my guildmate Saige.

Which, I suppose, is why she started calling me Grandma…

At first I was a bit confused and annoyed, I’ll admit. But then I realized, “Hey. Stuff happens.” I mean, some days you wake up and it’s raining all day or maybe your aunt sent you $20. Other days, you wake up and you have a virtual grandkid all of a sudden.

Don’t look at me like it’s strange.

That kind of thing just happens sometimes. XD

 My guild likes to take group screenies. Well, I think all guilds like to, actually. And why not? It’s a lot of fun!

We’re just cuter in them, because we’re Super Cute.

(You see, that was sort of a pun…)

A visual representation of a pun. A-ha!

Without further ado… Here are some of the screenies I took of us.

Here’s Cricket, me and Petal (from left to right) gathered in front of Cricket’s adorable little trio of snowmen. I forgot to turn off my Spirit of Christmas for the screenshot, though. Oops. The next time I visited Cricket’s farm, there was a cute little circle of snowmen. I played in it while she was AFK XD

Then there was this impromptu gathering in Cricket’s Grand Central Station house. Surprisingly, I managed to snap a pick where Saige wasn’t sitting on someone! Isn’t that amazing? XD

Here we are goofing around in the Empire State Building.

 That’s me offering a tour, Sugar_chan demanding to know who’s in charge there and Saige claiming it’s her. But we all know who was really in charge there. That’s right.

It’s the rocket/Stanley Cup over there in the corner. O_o

Next we decided to go see Santa! With triumphant cries of “SANTA!” we raced over to get pictures with him.

 Only you can’t really see HIM. It’s just a blob of us. XD

Poor Santa.

But we were really excited to visit him!!!

Then… it was time for the end. *sob*

The final moments of HKO’s Founders Reunion.

Everyone was gathered in New York - and the HKO Founders guild had started a line. Of course, everyone likes to be in a line, so it quickly became a line for everyone - including me and my guildmates.

Here we are in the line!

This was early on, of course. By the time the Reunion ended, even this area was so crowded all you could see was people, sparkles and snowflakes.

But hey, look at us! Aren’t we a good-looking bunch? XD

And finally…

The final moment of HKO’s Founders Reunion.

So now it’s all over… and the wait for Open Beta begins!

Here’s hoping it’s not too long of a wait…!

(It better not be, or we all might go crazy!)

Hello Kitty Online opened its doors again for all the founders to come in and play for a Christmas treat! There were Christmas quests and all kinds of decorations all over Sanrio land. And, of course, I was there!

Here I am, just seconds after entering HKO for the Christmas Founders Reunion. I spotted Grandma and Grandpa Kitty in London by this adorable Christmas tree, so I just had to grab a screenie. So cute!

I had to venture down to Sanrio Harbor to pick up the Christmas quest from… Cinnamoroll! I wish I’d gotten a picture with him (he’s my awesome guild’s mascot!), but I forgot to. I was very excited to be back in HKO, so I forgot to take a lot of different pics I kept meaning to take. Oops!

After embarking on the Christmas quests, I got to explore (and get lost in) New York City - which was ALL decked out for the holidays and even had festive Christmas music. How nice!

The quests also sent me to visit a new NPC - Tuxedo Sam! I absolutely adore Tuxedo Sam. I grew up with him and Hello Kitty, long before a lot of the other characters were made! I was very excited to meet him in game.

…but why is he so small???

Seriously, the guy is TINY! I always pictured him being at LEAST as big as Hello Kitty, if not a bit bigger and… fatter. He’s like a midget. I never dreamed he would be so small!!!

Oh, and notice my outfit. Yeah, I raced right into that Item Mall first thing. The shoes were supposed to be the pink dress shoes, but I actually liked these weird black sandals better, anyhow. Weird.

My next stop was to check out my farm and gather some things from my warehouse. Remember that great farm design I made for the Crop Circles contest? (Incidentally, I didn’t win that contest T_T) Well, I’d left my farm looking like that when Founder’s Beta closed. So I arrived at my farm to find it looking like this:

Umm… Ew. My entire farm was COVERED in flies!

Although, bizarrely, the crops could still be harvested without any problem. Weird, huh? So I harvested… and cut some down… and harvested some more… and made some money, at least, during the TEDIOUS work of ripping up my whole farm. T_T Booooo.

After clearing out my farm, I planted some of the things I would need for the cooking and snowball quests for Christmas. I then set out to gather the needed supplies. I basically spent all of the first couple days of the reunion working on the quests. It was fun - but a lot of work! I finally finished with them Saturday night. Woot! Hooray! Then I set out to gather honey for my Secret Santa giftee, Sugar_chan. I gathered up 60 honeys for her and meant to get the rest the next day, but she finished the quest on her own before I could. Oops! Sorry, Sugar_chan! I meant to be more help than I ended up being… ^_^;;

It occurred to me that poor Cricket was so busy organizing the Secret Santa event that she wasn’t able to take part in it, herself. That just didn’t seem right. Luckily, she decided to post a wishlist anyway. So I set to work to get her some snow, since it was on her wishlist. I went to my farm and…

Cricket, these snowmen all had your name all on ‘em! XD

I swear, the darn snowmen never bloomed like this when I was gathering snow for myself… but once they found out I needed some snow for Cricket, they were all falling over themselves to have their snow plucked off. I guess Biker Snowmen have a thing for you, Cricket! XD

That same day, something VERY interesting happened to me. I was wandering around, chatting with my guild… and noticed some new names in the guild chat window. I figured maybe someone had been doing some recruiting or something.

Then I saw Kaito’s name in my guildchat. I seriously did a double-take. I mean, he’s only the leader of THE largest guild in HKO. What the heck was he doing as part of MY guild all of a sudden?? I PMed Cricket for the scoop…

…only to find out she had NO idea what I was talking about. XD

Turned out to be a weird glitch that was effecting only me. I could see all of my OWN guildchat - AND all the guildchat from the HKO Founders guild. Weird! I PMed Kaito and then GM-Ava about all of this. Here’s the screenie I took of the whole fiasco:

 Everyone in HKO Founders was super cool about this glitch! I promise I won’t ever tell anyone about your plans for the hostile takeover of the world. Your secret’s safe with me! *nod*nod*

Stay tuned for Part 2 of this blog post! :D