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Once again our yearly Advent Calendar makes its return! From today until December 24th, claim your daily freebie at our Advent Calendar! Simply head over to the calendar, click the day of the month and find the Advent Giver NPC in Lutie. Enter the code you found on the calendar and poof, you have your daily freebie!

Rewards are account-bound and can be claimed on every game account you own. Be sure to check back daily for new rewards!

If the code does not work, ensure you are logged into the same Master Account as the one your game account is on!

P.S. Monthly Patch and Melodia Festival results will be posted soon!

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Melodia Festival 2025 https://talontales.com/melodia-festival-2025/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:25:09 +0000 https://talontales.com/?p=10042 […]]]> Whew! The wait is over. The Melodia Festival gates are finally open! We know you’ve been counting the days, and we’re thrilled to welcome you back to the festivities. Alongside the event, we’ve packed in our usual monthly updates, so grab your broomstick, gather your housemates, and dive right in!

Monthly Updates

  • Our new TamTam’s Odyssey region is: Glast Heim
    • Excludes Prison and Churchyard.
  • GMC Box Rotation:
    • Snack Party Costume [21237]
    • Robotic Eye Swarm Costume [21772]
  • Wave Challenge Box Rotation:
    • Fancy Blue Hair Costume [21489]
    • Stole Of Angel Costume [20847]
  • Sorry. No graphic yet! It’s a work in progress! Feel free to check the Dressing Coach in-game. The November Monthly Box has arrived and is full of brand new goodies as well as some classics. Like last months, we have grouped certain similar costumes together in one box rather than spreading them out over several months. The contents are as follows:
    • Decorated Magic Coat Costume [Garment][33043]
    • Morroc Kid Servant Costume [Middle][21022]
    • Midnight Candle Costume [Middle][30093]
    • Traveler Backpack Costume [Garment][30051]
    • Violet Starlight Costume [Lower][33032]
    • Flying Katashiro Costume [Lower][21588]
    • Tris Sword Costume [Garment][33041]
    • Halloween Hair Costume [Lower][33020]
    • Halloween Candy Hair Costume [Lower][33021]
    • White Fox Hood Hair Costume [Lower][30743]
    • White Fox Hair Costume [Lower][30744]
    • Loli Ruri Moon Costume [Garment][21282]
    • Disguise Mantle Costume [Lower][21279]
    • Astrologer Hood Costume [Upper][21778]
    • White Cat On Shoulder Costume [Middle][21858]
    • Piamette Bonnet Costume [Upper][33030]
    • Blue Rose Ribbon Ornament Costume [Middle][21987]
    • Altair Hat Costume [Upper][30365]
    • Deviruchi Headphones Costume [Upper][20681]
    • Assassin Skull Mask Costume [Middle, Lower][21129]
    • Hahoe Mask Costume [Middle][33045]

Limited Edition Costume

Nightmare Chain
Niflheim Night Sky

For a duration of one week, you can now purchase these [Visual] Niflheim Night Sky Costume and [Visual] Nightmare Chain Costume at the Talon Shop for 6000 Talon Cash! These are Garment slot costumes.

Disclaimer: even though it’s sold for a limited time, it may or may not return in the future to cater towards players from different timezones. Additionally, keep in mind that these visual effects only show up when effects in-game are enabled.

General Updates

  • No more cooldown on Inns.
  • Added Magic Heir Costume to the Costume Swap Fairy NPC.
  • Added Shackles [1]. They can be obtained through the Slotting NPC as an A Rank item costing 1 Elunium and 500,000 Zeny.

Melodia Festival

The town of Melodia is once again opening its doors and welcomes you to the annual Melodia Festival! Despite the delay, many updates have been made that we are sure will elevate the event to new levels! We hope you all enjoy~

While this post is quite concise, you will find a lot of additional details in the Year 2024 and Year 2023 posts as well, so be sure to check that out!

The festival will run for about 2.5 weeks until November 23rd!

2025 Updates

  • Participation check for the final house prize (in case your house wins!) is now determined by rewards purchased rather than competition points. This way players who did not gain competition points (like last year) but still participated will be able to claim the house prize.
  • Monny now always sorts you into a random house, no matter what. While previous years it was already practically impossible to cheese the sorting system, we want to take away any indication that the sorting process might be biased in any way.
    • To further limit indications that one house is doing much better than another, a lot of competition announcements have been anonymized!
  • Added Melodia Broomstick item to quickly warp around event locations. You will be given one by Monny when enrolling into a house as well as by the Ferryman in Prontera in case you lost yours or want to get one on a different character. This item has a 60-second cooldown.
  • Brand new Storyline Quest implemented with exciting new rewards.
    • Added a special reward for the first player who finished the quest.
  • Brand new Error Quest implemented with several new rewards added.
  • Labyrinth Updates
    • Now enabled from the start of the event!
    • Completed the annual minigame shuffling.
    • Now gives a small amount of House Points when finishing.
    • Added a 3-minute cooldown after a run ends prematurely.
    • Added more precautions to ensure the labyrinth resets properly when a party leaves mid-run.
    • Color Memorization / Coffin updates:
      • Fixed the timer not resetting properly between attempts.
      • Lowered amount of colors required per sequence by 1.
  • Deviruchiling Quest Updates
    • Moved Deviruchiling NPCs slightly away from the quest NPC.
    • Lowered the Halloween Ticket rewards given out by Deviruchiling quest slightly.
    • Cooldown is now account-bound.
    • Added new (rare) rewards.
    • Slightly lowered the items required for cooked food and boosted the droprates of the cooked food option.
  • Walk of Life Updates
    • Added a 2-minute cooldown after a round ends.
    • Slightly lowered tickets and house points given out to first place winners.
    • Added more checkpoints for consolation prizes. You can now win 2, 3 or 4 tickets if you did not win, based on how far you made it.
  • Amazing Ragna Race Updates
    • Added a 2-minute cooldown after a round ends.
    • Slightly lowered tickets and house points given out to first place winners.
  • Shadow Tag Updates
    • Shadow Tag Doom Troops can now only be offensively attacked by their respective House Members. You can, however, still use non-damaging skills on any Doom Troop.
  • Town Games Updates
    • When joining Town Games, you now have to sign up with Belle in order to participate. You can play with one game account per round. Furthermore, the Champions will not be visible to you if you have not registered.
    • Hiding, Cloaking or Chase Walk no longer work in Melodia town.
    • Porionette game now gives 10 Halloween Tickets instead of 8.
    • Simon Says/Sequence now gives 12 Halloween Tickets instead of 8.
  • Halloween Challenge Updates
    • Endure no-flinch effect no longer works in this map.
  • Racas Forest Preserve Updates
    • Kavesh can now assign and reward quests outside of Racas Forest Preserve (at his location near the tracks).
    • Added idle checks when farming Racas. Auto followers will no longer get any rewards.
    • Several small updates to Racas Monsters & MVPs stats and skills.
    • Added a stronger version of Stabin Yu for the hard map.
    • Slightly lowered the Daily Ticket Cap (does not apply to the kill quest) from 100 to 75 on the easy map and 150 to 125 on the harder map.
  • Introducing the Melodia Eating Contest! Riella, Sri Tael and Zeno visit from Cirque du Fluff and are readying their stomachs for some bewitching Melodia treats! Wager your Halloween Tickets at the start of Casino hour and see if you multiply your bet!
    • Introduces 6 new Achievements.
  • Get ready for the latest iteration of the Melodia Tournament Instance! Not only is it harder this year, but you can also expect new tricks up familiar opponent’s sleeves and “some” game mechanic upgrades. Additionally, this instance will debut the first version of a difficulty scaling system which promises to make the instance harder and reward greater! Please check out the full patch notes on this below.
  • You will now get updates on Discord on what activities are open, similar to the Status Boards around the event. They will be posted on the #server-messages channel.
  • You will now get a notification if you become the Top Scorer of your house. Status Boards will now also show you who the Top Scorer of your house is. The Top Scorer of every house will also receive an exclusive Achievement and Title at the end of the event!
  • Lowered Bloody Branch price from 90 to 75 Halloween Tickets.
  • Added Silvervine Fruit as an item to be purchased for 12 Halloween Tickets.
  • Added Wicked Collar recoloring to the Coloring Machine. Given that these are Account Bound items, they will be available in the Lutie Vending Machine.
  • Monny now gives you a choice to disable/enable jumpscares after being sorted into a house as well as any time after.
  • Halloweenies and Melodia Matchan now have a 4th option for custom amounts.
  • Various updates to Melodia Town to reduce stuttering.
  • Added proximity checks for warping NPCs and event spawns for town games and trick or treaters so that they don’t get stuck in places you cannot walk.
  • Added extensive logging server-side so we will be able to show proper performance graphs after the event!
  • Added two new costumes to Costume Raffle.
  • Added a new costume to the Drinking Game, but limited the Trick or Treater buff to 15 minutes.
  • Variety of House Points rebalancing across the board.

Enrolling into a House

The Halloween festival at Melodia has been and will always be a competition among the houses of Melodia Academy. As such, participating in the competition requires you to be assigned into one of the four noble houses.  The competitive activities offered by Melodia pits all four houses against each other through a huge variety of mini games, designed to test your skills, proficiency and perhaps luck as well. Be certain to try out all of them to experience everything Melodia has to offer you, and also earn points for your house and tickets for yourself.

House Windsor

Led by Remy
House Guile

Led by Faa
House Sorin

Led by Sola
House Emure

Led by Sydo

Begin the enrollment process by speaking to Monny (The Grand Monemus) in Melodia Academy.

  • You can find Monny in the left wing of the academy building, which is where you are first teleported by the Ferryman.

This year, Monny is fully responsible for sorting you into a fitting house, and will pick for you based on what it believes your capabilities can offer.

  • Note that your house assignment will apply to all characters within your master account. We highly recommend consolidating your individual participation to one character – so you can maximize your earned points and prizes more effectively!

The Ferryman will then offer to send you to the town of Melodia, the academy or the Melodia manor at your request! You will receive an achievement and a title upon joining a house! To equip the title once you earn the achievement for joining your house, do the following:

  • If your status menu (aka icons) is not already open, do so by clicking the tiny down arrow right under the Status UI.
  • Go to the bottom left and select the Achievement Challenges Trophy Icon.
  • While in the Achievements UI, select the Adventure tab.
  • Navigate to the Achievement you just earned, go to the bottom right, and click the Collect button.
  • If not already opened, access your Equipment Window by pressing [ALT + Q], and make your way to the right most tab at the top, “Title”.
  • You’ll see the name of the house you just got sorted to here (Windsor, Guile, Sorin, Emure). Equip it by double clicking it, and that’s that!

House Competition

House Points will determine which of the four houses will emerge as victorious this year. House points can be earned by anyone for their team through participating in the Halloween mini games. The Melodia Academy registrar will be keeping a record of the scores hidden until the end of the Halloween festival, when the winning house and runner-up house will be announced!

A special prize will also go to all adventurers who are affiliated with the winning houses! You are expected to have participated at least somewhat in the event in order to claim your house prize. This is based on purchases made through Halloween Tickets.

The house that places first will win one of these at its member’s own choice:

The house that places second will win one of the following:

Furthermore, the Top Scorers of each house will receive a special achievement and title!

Player Competitions

Special Honorary Degrees will be awarded to the thirteen (13) most intrepid adventurers who have helped to settle this year’s tie. Individual prizes will be handed out to winners of various mini games who have demonstrated that their skills are on par with the best-in-class students of each house! Those individuals with the most points at the end of the entire Halloween festival will be announced and receive a special, exclusive prize!

  • Note that top-performance is master account driven – so to compete in this area, so you no longer have to specifically participate with a particular character.
  • Overall, thirteen (13) players will win for top performance in each of the following categories:
    • The top-three (3) Minigame winners by accumulated points.
      • Performance will be based on the number of points accumulated for all minigames. Points accumulated through Blackjack will NOT count toward this individual performance total.
    • The top-three (3) Racas Forest Monster Hunters by accumulated points:
      • Performance is based on the number of monsters killed in The Racas Forest Preserve and Forbidden Section. Points only accumulate during Happy Hour.
    • The top-three (3) overall players.
      • This includes but is not limited to town games, minigames, Racas Forest kills and many more activities! Let the best players win~
    • The single fastest party of four (4) in the Labyrinth when this mini game is made available.
      • Be on the lookout for the Labyrinth mini game during the Haunted Festival. You’ll be able to form parties of four (4) players for this mini game.
  • In recognition of outstanding efforts, each of this year’s thirteen Degree recipients, as well as the new competition winners, will receive:
    • A unique, account-bound Wooden Fairy II Egg.
    • Your choice of MVP Card!
      • Cards eligible for this prize are those currently available from the Talon Shop.
      • Maya Purple is furthermore excluded from this list.

Instance Patch Notes

  • Added new rewards to Treasure Chest.
  • Added a new side cutscene somewhere outside of the instance when completing the instance at least once.
    • No, it doesn’t give you any additional rewards.
  • Removed Practice Rounds.
  • Rewards for clearing the instance fastest and first have been removed.
  • Enemy HP no longer scales with party size.
  • Lives are now restored between rounds again, and lives/returns are now increased and restored to 50 and 10 respectively by Zarevok again.
  • Added a new scaling difficulty scaling system that goes all the way to 25. Starting at Level 0 (base instance). Every time you clear the instance, you will unlock a higher level difficulty. Each level adds MaxHP + 25% and ATK/MATK + 15% to your opponents.New rewards inside Zarevok’s Treasure Chest will start to appear and will exponentially improve with higher difficulty.
    • Improved Zarevok Treasure Chest rewards include but aren’t limited to Level 10 Stat Foods, Raw Gems, and higher MvP Card Rates.
    • You will not earn a higher level difficulty if your max level difficulty is lower or higher than the difficulty level the instance was created with (example: your max is 2, but the instance was created with a party leader that opened it with level 3).
  • The leaderboard now sorts by difficulty first and then by time.
  • Significant AI and Monster Behavior Updates to all opponents. For discovery reasons and to keep the element of surprise there, we will only reveal information about behaviors already known from previous years and critical information.
  • Instance Ruleset Changes
    • Updated Instance Element Table to the following. Furthermore, elements that now provide an elemental advantage (such as Fire against Earth) now get doubled if the damage is magic (30% -> 60%, 15% -> 30%). This buff does not apply for Bolt Skills;
  • MvP HP Bars are now visible during the Instance Ruleset.
  • DEF Piercing Skills such as Spiral Pierce, Acid Terror, and Piercing Shot are now allowed to ignore DEF but only at a 50% Rate instead of 100%.
  • Critical Attacks now ignore only 50% of DEF instead of 100%.
  • Enchant Deadly Poison now boosts Sonic Blow by only 25% in the Instance Ruleset. Furthermore, its general ATK% Scaling is changed to 20 x Skill Level% (200% Max at level 5).
  • Spellbreaker’s Cooldown now only applies on success.
  • Spellbreaker Success now scales against bosses in the following way: 20 x Used Skill Level%.
  • Only the following skills have Cooldown Restrictions now at the following amounts: Dispel (10 Seconds), Land Protector (10 Seconds), Tarot Card (10 Seconds), Spellbreaker (6 – Used Level Minutes).
  • Gospel DEF/ATK Penalties have been reduced from 100% to 25%, but they now also affect MATK and MDEF respectively.
  • General Mechanics
    • Mobs are now capable of executing defined scripts when they use their normal skills.
    • Conditional skill entries such as those that only trigger after a certain skill was used on them now ignore can act delays, which allows mobs to more fluently combo/utilize their skills without as much dead time in between.
    • Around target skill entries can now be assigned AoEs as high as 25×25 as opposed to just up to 9×9 from before.
    • Added a damage reduction over time mechanic. When present, damage gets resisted over time according to -(MaxHP – HP) / (MaxHP / 75)%. It can be applied in many varieties including Short Range Physical, Long Range Physical, Magical, MISC, or All Damage.
    • New Target Type “Auto Attack”. Skills with this target type will now auto-cast the assigned skill as if they were using Sage’s Autospell.
    • New Mode “Sniper”. Mobs with this mode assume level 10 Vulture’s Eye and level 10 Snake Eyes when using skills that support them. This has no effect on normal attacks.
    • New Mode “Pursuit”. Mobs with this mode will attempt to chase players for a while after initiating a cast time before going still similar to Sage’s Free Cast.
    • New Mode “MvP Resist”. Applies the previously mentioned damage resist over time mechanic for all damage.
    • New Skill Condition “Out of Attack Range”. Triggers when this monster is attacked outside of both its attacking range and casting range regardless of current state and sight range.
  • Professor RK-9
    • Adjusted DEF and MDEF.
    • Adjusted ASPD.
    • Now resists Short Range Physical damage over time.
    • RK9’s Gear Shift mechanic can no longer be Dispelled.
    • During Gear Shift’s effect, Fixed Damage and Damage applied after the Element Immunity check no longer slips through the cracks and is now properly ignored (such as Soul Breaker’s MATK portion of damage).
    • RK9 Laser’s rotation is now faster than before.
  • The Doom Troops
    • All: Adjusted Movement Speed, DEF, and MDEF.
    • Windsor: Adjusted Min and Max ATK.
    • Guile: Adjusted INT.
    • Now resists Magic and MISC damage over time.
    • Back Stab mechanic renamed to Infiltrator. Infiltrator now inflicts 50% MaxHP base damage, increasing by another 1% for every target Hard DEF, and inflicts a 3×3 splash AoE around where the target is chosen.
    • Extreme Potion Pitch now heals more often and has a more consistent rate of healing that improves with other troops dead.
  • Nightriff
    • Attack Range increased.
    • Adjusted DEF and MDEF.
    • Adjusted Min and Max ATK.
    • The Equivalent Exchange Field effect changed completely. Walk Speed is still fixed, however, all Holy Magic now ignores MDEF and short range attacks are no longer resisted, but long range damage now gets resisted over time.
    • The teleporting Dark Grand Cross mechanic has been replaced with a new skill.
  • Arthur the Berserker
    • Adjusted DEF and MDEF.
    • Adjusted Min and Max ATK.
    • Stance Change slightly updated.
      • Champion’s Stance: Immunity to Long and MISC Damage, resists Short Range Attacks over time.
      • Spellblade Stance: Immunity to Magic Damage, resists Long Range Attacks over time.
    • Judgement Day Magnus Exorcismus units now get removed any time he uses another Signature Attack such as Excalibur Smite to make it easier to see what’s going on without too much overlap.
  • Zarevok
    • Attack Range increased.
    • Adjusted DEF and MDEF.
    • Adjusted Min and Max ATK.
    • Adjusted VIT.
    • Adjusted ASPD.
    • Now resists All Damage over time.
    • Reduced Tempest MDEF / Magic Resist% Ignore from 40% to 33%.
    • Zarevok’s Element Shift Mechanic will boost his elemental damage by 25% if the used skill matches the current rotated element.
    • Zarevok’s Element Shift Mechanic now results in elements that aren’t favorable against his current element being reduced by 25%.
    • Now has Holy, Shadow, and Ghost Element states in addition to Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth.
    • All Signature Attacks are now slightly faster on average and do a lot more damage or instant kill.
    • All currently known Signature Attacks now have a random certain number of times they can be used in a row except for Titanic Plate which always gets used 3 times in a row.
    • Flamethrower now causes Zarevok to teleport to certain fixed locations in the map prior to using the skill.
    • Chain Reaction now has 2 units when 2 or more players are present in the arena rather than 1.
    • Titanic Plate can now be used in the center in addition to the left and right sides.
    • Inferno Barricade now gets temporarily disabled during the usage of a Signature Attack. It will then be re-enabled following a cast time shortly after the Signature Attack ends.


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Amazing Summer Race 2025 https://talontales.com/amazing-summer-race-2025/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:57:25 +0000 https://talontales.com/?p=9185 […]]]> Quick and easy news post as I am not home at the moment, but you all know what this about anyway, don’t you?!

One of the most popular events of the year is finally making its return – The Amazing Summer Race! Read below for more information about the event and what has changed about it this year around.

Also – our regular Monthly Updates will happen in a couple of days.

Amazing Summer Race

The Amazing Summer Race is now live and will last until September 6th. Once again you can race every couple of hours and gather Kordt, Sograt, Darmian, Kokomo and Bonus Badges! Exchange the badges for a Basic Summertime Box or risk them all to gain Advanced Badges and eventually a Pro Summertime Box. Come visit Port Malaya and talk to the Amazing Race Officer for all the information you desire. You can also find a plethora of information on our dedicated Summer Race Wiki page.

  • TamTam’s Tikibar returns on August 1st until August 30th. Find this year’s tikibar right here. To claim your daily freebie, simply talk to SeiSei in Comodo and enter the code found on the tikibar.
  • 4 new weekly Treasure Maps can be found by combining pieces found through Treasure Hunting. The first one to create a weekly map and find the treasure it leads to gets a valuable prize! Treasure Map pieces will start dropping starting August 1st and will end on August 28th.
  • Added new region NPCs as well as new NPC finding quests, monster killing quests and item collection quests. We have also retired a couple of older region NPCs.
  • Added 2025 versions of the Summertime Boxes. This year’s boxes have been seriously overhauled and feature over 100 new costumes and pets!
  • Added a ton of new costumes to the Conjuress recoloring quest, including some cheaper ones.
  • The Starlight Soiree is scheduled to make its return after the Summer Race ends! Prep your dance moves and playlists and see you then!

We hope you all enjoy the Summer festivities! Read on below for more general updates.

General Updates

  • Properly fixed Homunculi not running away when you lose all intimacy.
  • When you lose all Homunculus intimacy, your Homunculus is now put in Rest mode.
  • Pets no longer lose intimacy when you die while using Life Insurance.
  • Updated Elysian Garden entrance to now ask if you want to enter or not, rather than consuming your item right away.

Like mentioned earlier, we will have our regular Monthly Maintenance in a few days from now. The Amazing Summer Race will furthermore end around September 6th.

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May 2025 Patch https://talontales.com/may-2025-patch/ Sun, 04 May 2025 19:03:57 +0000 https://talontales.com/?p=8542 […]]]> We hope you are all enjoying the Cirque du Fluff festival! We are once again starting the month with our usual monthly maintenance. This also includes various fixes and improvements to the event. We hope you enjoy!

Monthly Updates

  • Our new TamTam’s Odyssey region is: Nameless Island
    • Yes really
  • GMC Box Rotation:
    • Crystal Scythe Costume [30390]
    • Sweet Corone Hair Costume [21374]
  • Wave Challenge Box Rotation:
    • Walking Baby Panda Costume [21253]
    • Runaway Accelerator Costume [21325]
  • The May Monthly Box has arrived and is full of brand new goodies as well as some classics. Like last months, we have grouped certain similar costumes together in one box rather than spreading them out over several months. The contents are as follows:
    • Cookie Ribbon Costume [Lower] [30235]
    • Resurrection Bow Costume [Garment] [30824]
    • Omega Golf Bag Costume [Lower] [30041]
    • Walking Tiger Costume [Lower] [21664]
    • Walking Black Tiger Costume [Lower] [21996]
    • Riding Noni Backpack Costume [Garment] [30822]
    • Doughkun Costume [Lower] [30812]
    • Wanderer Curls Costume [Lower] [21976]
    • Wanderer Curls White Costume [Lower] [30274]
    • Wanderer Curls Blue Green Costume [Lower] [30688]
    • Wanderer Curls Red Costume [Lower] [30689]
    • Wanderer Curls Jet Black Costume [Lower] [30690]
    • Wanderer Curls Light Blue Costume [Lower] [30691]
    • Wanderer Curls Light Purple Costume [Lower] [30692]
    • Wanderer Curls Brown Costume [Lower] [30693]
    • Wanderer Curls Silver White Costume [Lower] [30694]
    • Wanderer Curls Yellow Costume [Lower] [30695]
    • Evil Eyes Costume [Lower] [30407]
    • Muka Sombrero Costume [Upper] [30816]
    • Fumi Hausu Doll Costume [Upper] [30813]
    • Poncho Costume [Lower] [30817]
    • Golden Gladiator Helm Costume [Upper] [30838]
    • Hongyun Serpent Costume [Middle] [30789]
    • Gluttony Crown Costume [Upper] [30837]
    • Geisha Makeup Costume [Middle] [21143]
    • Wind Milestone Costume [Upper] [20519]
    • Joker Jester Costume [Upper] [20516]
    • Moonlight Hat Costume [Upper] [21581]

General Updates

  • Cirque du Fluff:
    • Fixed Snakes & Ladders incorrectly giving everyone a double consolation prize in certain situations.
    • Fixed Win achievements for Eating Contest triggering even if you did not win.
    • Added a reminder when an Eating Contest match is going on about which contestant you placed a bet on.
    • Added missing Yggring Egg and Leafeing Egg rewards to Easterlina.
    • Lowered the Circus Token requirements for certain older event rewards in the Easterlina reward shop.
    • Added some new visual effects to Snakes & Ladders.
    • Fixed Bunbun Beret not being in the Costume Stash NPC.
  • Fixed Faceworm Queen Leg + Giant Snake Skin combo not triggering transformation bonus.
  • Fixed Yggring, Sapling and New Year Doll giving wrong healing bonus. They now properly apply it to healing done on yourself, rather than when you are the one who casts it.
  • Fixed whobuy command displaying buying stores that have zero quantity of the respective item.
  • !noks now no longer works when you are in close vicinity of an MVP.
  • New Costume Swap Fairy entries:
    • Lunatic Hut
    • Radish
    • Teapot
    • Doughkun
    • Omega Golf Bag
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Cirque du Fluff 2025 https://talontales.com/cirque-du-fluff-2025/ Sat, 26 Apr 2025 23:36:57 +0000 https://talontales.com/?p=8498 […]]]> Our annual “Cirque du Fluff” event has once again returned to the world of Talon Tales! All the minigames and activities you loved before have returned, and are complemented with a brand new quest, prizes and a new minigame!

Event Details

  • Cirque du Fluff Quest(NEW in 2025!)
    • Speak to Bunny O’Hare to begin the quest!
    • What starts as a simple egg tasting turns into a wild trip through wacky worlds, clashing assistants, and curious cats. Choose your path, uncover secrets, and help bring peace (or chaos) to Ol’ White’s circus of madness!
  • Easter Eating Contest (NEW in 2025!)
    • Introducing a brand-new event for this year’s celebration: the Easter Food Eating Contest! Held every hour at xx:30, this high-stakes minigame lets players wager Circus Tokens on which of three quirky contestants will triumph in a five-course feast.
    • Meet the competitors:
      • Riella, a fashionable speed-eater who excels at sweets but falters on fiery dishes
      • Sri Tael, a slow starter with a powerful final push—perfect for a surprise win
      • Zeno, the reliable veteran with balanced skills and a steady pace
    • How to play:
      • Talk to Emily during the 5-minute betting window.
      • Bet 1 to 10 Circus Tokens on the contestant you believe will win.
      • Once the contest begins, the three NPCs compete over five themed courses (sweet, savory, spicy, exotic, or mystery).
      • Each contestant’s performance is affected by their unique strengths and weaknesses.
    • Winning bets earn:
      • 3x your wager in Circus Tokens
      • A bonus payout drawn from the losing bets (up to 20 extra tokens!)
      • You’ll also earn progress toward Easter-exclusive achievements for participating and winning. So choose wisely, bet boldly, and enjoy the drama of culinary combat!
  • The Golden Easter Egg Shines Brighter in 2025!
    Back again with many new rewards, the Golden Easter Egg holds more surprises than ever. Costumes, consumables, and much more!
    Crack it open and see what’s inside this year!
  • Many new rewards and activities!
    • Many new rewards and things to explore have been added to Cirque du Fluff. Play the event and find them all~
  • Achievements and Titles
    • Last year, you chased down 25 unique achievements. This year, we’re turning it up with 8 brand new ones for a total of 33!
      Unlock exclusive Titles, earn hidden rewards, and experience fresh challenges woven into the 2025 questline.
  • Easter Delivery
    • Purveyor 389, an Easter treat provider, arrived to bring delicious freshly made goods to everyone around the Cirque du Fluff. You can help on delivering them to some of her customers every full hour, but only within a short timeframe. So make sure to be on time and hurry to bring yummy treats to the generous customers!
  • Down the Rabbit Hole
    • Mr. Hare is hopping around on random fields every hour, ready to surrender his stash of Circus Tokens to the one who clicked him last! Find him quickly before someone else does!
  • Dyestation
    • The Dyestation we introduced two years ago year is making its return! Now with a brand new costume to recolor!
  • Easterlina
    • Easterlina is your go-to NPC for all your prizes! Exchange your Circus Tokens here for a large variety of not only classic but also many new rewards!
  • Explosion
    • Try to stay alive in this minigame by avoiding explosions for as long as possible! The players who survive longest win! Talk to Arinea to join.
  • Runaway Rabbits
    • Hutch Keeper is searching for help to gather all the White Rabbits. Can you catch as many as possible within 5 minutes?!
  • Seiren’s Egg Hunt
    • Seiren has lost his precious Easter Eggs. Join together with other players to find as many as possible and get rewarded with some Circus Tokens!
  • Snakes & Ladders
    • The classic board game Snakes & Ladders returns this year once again. Join with 3 of your friends and make it to the finish line before they do!
  • Easter Tea Party
    • Scribe Esther is searching for adventurers to help her find missing ingredients for the tea party she’s hosting. Help her find the items she needs and she will reward you with some tokens!
  • Melodia Trainer Jen
    • Jen is visiting the island from Melodia and once again offers her amazing EXP services for a small amount of tokens. Got some characters to level up? She’s your gal! She also sells some delicious new food items for you all to enjoy.

The event will stay online for around two weeks, until (give or take) May 10th.

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Talontine 2025 https://talontales.com/talontine-2025/ Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:48:03 +0000 https://talontales.com/?p=8001 […]]]> Talontine’s Season Event

Talontine’s Season is now active and will run until February 28th.

Head on over to Jawaii’s Heart Island to check out the quests and LoveDuo Showdown instance! You may also speak with the Talontine Warper in Prontera to be directly warped.

In this year’s Talontine’s Season, Estellise makes her return with the opportunity of a partner ring exchange (with several new rewards to be obtained), amongst other quest rewards. Poringa also needs your help again!

On Heart Island, you will also find the Misses LoveDuos, ambassadors for the LoveDuo Showdown instance, a 2 versus 2 match where pairs work together to earn points over their competition. The LoveDuo Showdown rewards points earned in the form of Showdown Tokens which can be exchanged for various prizes from the Showdown Token Exchange on Heart Island.

Many new rewards have been added to the event, so be sure to check them out~!

Find your best mate and check out what this Talontine’s Season has to offer!

P.S. Related to some updated event quest lines, the permanent Sapling Hat Quest has been slightly updated.

Limited Edition Costume

For a duration of 72 hours, you can now purchase these [Visual] Popping Hearts (NEW), Sakura Petals and Scarlet Rose Costumes at the Talon Shop for 4500, 5000 or 6000 Talon Cash! These are Garment slot costumes. You can of course preview them at the Dressing Coach NPC.

Disclaimer: even though it’s sold for a limited time, it may or may not return in the future to cater towards players from different timezones. Additionally, keep in mind that these visual effects only show up when effects in-game are enabled.

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Lunar New Year Event https://talontales.com/lunar-new-year-event/ Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:07:07 +0000 https://talontales.com/?p=7861 […]]]> Mid-month (ish?) patch? What? Yes. It’s back!

This patch introduces a bunch of fixes and preparations for upcoming updates and events, as well as our Lunar New Year Event to celebrate the Year of the Snake! Read on for more details.

General Updates

  • Bulk Crafting Updates:
    • Added new command: @nobulkcraft which will disable the default bulk crafting on things such as Cooking, Stone Crafting, Jewelcrafting, Aqua Benedicta, Create Deadly Poison, etc. This command persists after logout.
    • Added missing mentions of bulk crafting in skill descriptions.
    • Fixed bulk crafting sometimes having the wrong success rates.
    • Added a message when bulk crafting that shows details on total as well as successful attempts.
  • Fixed Champion Chen not teleporting upon rude attack.
  • There is now a map-wide announcement when a special poring is killed on the map it was spawned in.
  • Alllll the preparations for Battle of the Nine content. Blame Blackstar and Lance.

Lunar New Year Event

To celebrate the Year of the Snake, we have decided to release a good old event we hosted all the way back in 2013! While similar 12 years (!!) ago, it was updated with the newest standards and has received a wide variety of new rewards.

Talk to the Heavenly Guard in Prontera who will warp you to Li Liang to get started on your quest. This quest is repeatable and can get you up to eight different rewards. While they are random, you will not receive the same reward on your character if you already received it before. Plus, if you’re lucky, you might get a little extra or two.

That’s all for now. Happy Gaming everyone!

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December 2024 Patch https://talontales.com/december-2024-patch/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 07:55:37 +0000 https://talontales.com/?p=7563 […]]]>

December has been going on for a little while now and we have just concluded our Melodia Festival. We will be announcing the winners in a couple of days, so be sure to keep an eye on that! The annual Advent Calendar has also started a few days ago for those who might have missed it.

In the meantime, we are hard at work to bring you our annual Christmas event very soon~

For now, you will still see some leftovers from the event such as your House Title, which will be cleaned up in the next couple of weeks most likely.

Melodia Competitions

House Competition

House Sorin is the winner of this year’s House Competition! House Guile was the runner-up, followed closely by Emure and finally Windsor. Monny can now be found in Prontera to claim your prizes!

Individual Competitions

Top 3 Minigames:

  • Kaseylicious
  • SniperAres
  • Kuraido Edlyc

Top 3 Racas:

  • Bacsojin is Hidden
  • Enla
  • ScionOfBalance

Top 3 Overall:

  • Bacsojin is Hidden
  • Orvius-
  • Sierra Lyn

Fastest Labyrinth Party:

  • Party Name: eatmorefruit
  • Time: 4 minutes, 16 seconds
  • Members:
    • Asura Kohen
    • — Newl —
    • TheUnbidden
    • did he died

Fastest Melodia Gauntlet Tournament Party:

  • Party Name: Melodia11thStarIsUnity
  • Time: 4 minutes, 5 seconds
  • Members:
    • Myung Soo
    • – Saint Ket –
    • Delvra Hibiscus
    • DoYoon Jang
    • Sofi-nyan
    • Lodia Mist
    • Sergei Smirnov
    • JunChan

First Melodia Gauntlet Competition:

Logged through AccountIDs, so names might be inaccurate.

Members:

  • B u n n e h
  • – Hammer Cat –
  • Xu Feng
  • DoYoon is Precious
  • Delvra Snowdrop
  • Otters
  • Roman Baryshnikov
  • Lodia

To all winners, please DM GM Seiren on Discord with your choice of prizes (as seen on the event post) and we will mail them out to you as soon as possible!

Once again our yearly Advent Calendar makes its return (since December 1st)! From earlier this month until December 24th, claim your daily freebie at our Advent Calendar! Simply head over to the calendar, click the day of the month and find the Advent Giver NPC in Lutie. Enter the code you found on the calendar and poof, you have your daily freebie!

Rewards are account-bound and can be claimed on every game account you own. Be sure to check back daily for new rewards!

Monthly Updates

  • Our new TamTam’s Odyssey region is: Winter Maps
    • Manuk Fields 1 to 3.
    • El Dicastes Fields 1 to 2.
    • El Dicastes Dungeon 1 to 3.
    • Lutie Field.
    • Toy Factory 1 to 2.
  • GMC Box Rotation:
    • Spell Circuit Costume [20455]
    • Purple Abyss Aura Costume [21667]
  • Wave Challenge Box Rotation:
    • Floating Ball Costume [21040]
    • Alchemist Square Bag Costume [21215]
  • The December Monthly Box has arrived and is full of brand new goodies as well as some classics. The contents are as follows:
    • Stellar Gratia Costume [Garment] [30658]
    • Bow On The Back Costume [Garment] [21631]
    • Festive Sakura Ribbon Costume [Garment] [21490]
    • Ribbon Braid Hair Costume [Lower] [30560]
    • Silky Long Black Hair Costume [Lower] [30076]
    • Walking Cat And Dog Costume [Lower] [30085]
    • Walking Snow Fox Costume [Middle] [21157]
    • Blue Tinted Blinking Eyes Costume [Middle] [21367]
    • Faith Of Yggdrasil Costume [Upper] [21925]
    • Fenrir Adventure Hat Costume [Upper] [30662]
    • Fluffy Bunny Ear Costume [Upper] [21275]
    • Doram Headband Costume [Upper] [30660]
    • Wing King Poring Headphones Costume [Upper] [21869]
    • Valkyrie Feather Band Costume [Upper] [21014]
    • Bone Head Costume [Upper] [20794]
    • Beanie Costume [Upper] [20505]
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Melodia Updates https://talontales.com/melodia-updates/ Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:25:29 +0000 https://talontales.com/?p=7493 […]]]> Now that the event is well underway, it’s time for a first set of patches that should fix a bunch of the issues players have reported. Some of these were already hotfixed in the past few days, while others are brand new.

Also – we will be opening the Labyrinth and the Tournament on the 27th!

  • First and foremost, fixed a lot of cells in both the Racas Forest as well as Melodia itself that caused monsters to get stuck.
  • Fixed Increase Agi buff on Liamette Pet not working.
  • Fixed Forbidden Section mobs not giving any EXP.
  • Fixed Forbidden Section mobs not dropping Deviruchiling food.
  • Enabled “allowks” mapflag on Racas Forest Preserve and Forbidden Section when MVPs are up.
  • Increased amount of points gained for Individual Competition when killing Forbidden Section mobs vs regular Racas Forest Preserve mobs.
  • Swapped menu options in Kavesh to prevent people from accidentally quitting their hunting quest.
  • Added a clone of Kavesh in Melodia at the train station to complete your quest. You can -not- use this Kavesh to accept a new quest however.
  • Added extra checkpoints to Amazing Ragna Race and added a check to prevent players from somehow skipping a checkpoint (cause of this still to be determined).
  • Fixed “Freak Out!” achievement for recoloring the Candy Pouch Costume not counting. Players who have completed one or more recolors already have gotten the appropriate amount of Achievement points for this.
  • Added Bicolor Cat Witch Hat Costume to Lutie Vending Machine so that players who had this costume from years ago can claim it. Doing this will also prevent you from accidentally getting it from the Costume Raffle.
  • Fixed Jump Scares triggering too often.
  • Fixed Shadow Tag not rewarding players sometimes.
  • Fixed Walk of Life not starting when less than 6 players joined, even though only 4 players were required.
  • Various minor text fixes.

That’s all for now. Thanks everyone <3

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Melodia Festival https://talontales.com/melodia-festival/ Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:51:43 +0000 https://talontales.com/?p=7391 […]]]> Hey hey, it’s Patch Day!

As announced previously, due to the unfortunate sudden unavailability of the staff member responsible for the Melodia event, we had to seriously postpone the festivities as the work fell into the lap of our other staff members.

Luckily, the day has come to release the event. We’ve included the November Monthly Patch while we’re at it, because it’s, y’know, November. So we hope you all enjoy the updates!

The event will last for around 2.5 weeks and is scheduled to end on December 8th.

Monthly Updates

  • Our new TamTam’s Odyssey region is: Glast Heim
    • Excludes Prison and Churchyard.
  • GMC Box Rotation:
    • Snack Party Costume [21237]
    • Robotic Eye Swarm Costume [21772]
  • Wave Challenge Box Rotation:
    • Fancy Blue Hair Costume [21489]
    • Stole Of Angel Costume [20847]
  • The November Monthly Box has arrived and is full of brand new goodies as well as some classics. The contents are as follows:
    • Baphomet Scythe Costume [Garment] [30531]
    • Baby Seal Costume [Lower] [30649]
    • Commentary Booth Costume [Lower] [30652]
    • Sparkly Rainbow Hair Costume [Lower] [30655]
    • Adventurer Map Costume [Lower] [30650]
    • Kings Crown Costume [Upper] [21756]
    • Sakura Witch Hat White Costume [Upper] [30647]
    • Scarf Of Hero Costume [Lower] [21236]
    • Squinting Eyes Costume [Middle] [30654]
    • Gorgon Coronet Costume [Middle] [21997]
    • Drops Mascot Costume [All] [30653]
    • Angeling Hairband Costume [Upper] [30651]
    • Forest Guide Costume [Upper] [21122]
    • Rose Headband Costume [Upper] [21747]
    • Wunderkammer Costume [All] [30129]
    • Viking Helm Costume [Upper] [21711]

Limited Edition Costume

[Visual] Lost Wing Costume

For a duration of one week, you can now purchase this [Visual] Lost Wing Costume at the Talon Shop for 6000 Talon Cash! This is a Garment slot costume.

Disclaimer: even though it’s sold for a limited time, it may or may not return in the future to cater towards players from different timezones. Additionally, keep in mind that these visual effects only show up when effects in-game are enabled.

General Updates

  • Fixed Snake Encyclopedia not properly working on the previously-announced worm-type monsters.
  • Custom pets now don’t speak to you anymore when first logging in. This was most notable when custom pets that did not have a talking table would speak like they were a Poring.
  • Added a Plagiarism NPC in the Battlegrounds Lobby.
  • New Costume Position Swapping options:
    • New Halloween Costume
    • Baby Seal
    • Adventurer Map
    • Commentary Booth

We hope you all enjoy! See you soon for more updates~

Melodia Festival

A Hallowed and Halloween hello to all! Despite some unfortunate circumstances and setbacks (details to be found on Discord), Melodia once more opens its gates to host the Haunted, Horrifying, and Heart-stopping Halloween Festival!

While we may not have been able to implement all of the changes and updates we had wanted to, we hope that this simple, yet spookily spectacular serving of the season of spirits and scares serves you the excitement you’ve been looking for. Now, let’s get on to the Talon Tales Halloween Updates!

While this post is quite concise, you will find a lot of additional details in last year’s post as well, so be sure to check that out!

2024 Updates

  • Lingering Echos: After helping a lost soul find rest and her friend some peace of mind, the forces behind last year’s hauntings seem to still be at large. News of possessions, transformations, and lurking creatures disturb the peaceful town, and it’s up to you and a few returning friends to get to the bottom of it. Head to your house lead to find out what’s going on, and hopefully put a stop to this persistent pestilence once and for all.
  • Melodia Touch-up and the Racas Forest Revisited: We’ve added some small changes and additions to both the town map as well as the Racas forest to reinvigorate the spooky surroundings as you go about your Trick-or-Treating ways. Not everything is as it seems, as some people and places may have been moved around, but that’s more reason to explore! Also, we may not have been able to fit everything we wanted, but we managed to fit in a little trick ’round town, so keep your eyes and ears peeled for the treats we’ve hidden.
  • The Nightmare on Hallow’s Eve: By popular demand, the ever-beloved and beloathed Racas Forest has returned, but with a new option! The Forbidden Section introduces harder mobs but with greater rewards and more tickets to be picked up and gathered through daily quest! Dare you risk venturing deep into the dreaded woods?
  • The Mystery Man Makes A Comeback: Whispers abound that a mysterious item has once again been spotted amongst the forest frolickers. Retrieve this suspicious scroll and uncover its secrets. Seek the Grandmaster’s help, you’ll need it. The Man Who Hides lies in wait, and he would love to have you as his guest.
  • Reward Rebalancing: We want you to explore and see all that we have in store for you for this season, and not shut yourself in on just one part of it. This is why we’ve gone ahead and rebalanced a lot of our attractions and of course added a lot of new goodies to them.
  • Halloween Instance Hash-up: While the Halloween Instance last year may have been a push-over for some, we’ve called in Melodia’s heroes for a touch-up and a tune-up! Expect some beefier resistance this year, and a more formidable gauntlet, so bring your A-game! As usual, it will begin a week into the event, but you can do practice rounds prior to that!
  • Achievement’s Ahoy!: As with our previous Seasonals, we’ve also added some Achievements for this Halloween! New title rewards are up for grabs, so go out there and bring your boo-mbastic best!

2024 Full Changelog

  • Claiming the winning House Competition rewards now only works if you actually participated in the event. A certain amount of points gathered throughout the event is now required to claim the final reward if your house won the competition.
  • Updated Melodia town with new sections and several overhauls. Also updated the Racas Forest Preserve maps with new lighting, areas and textures for easier navigation.
  • Brand new, repeatable, storyline quest that rewards you with a new recolorable unique costume, Halloween Tickets and House Points.
  • Added a third Costume Collection set to the Prize Distributor with several new costumes added to it. The NPC now also no longer requires you to have existing items in your inventory to not get duplicates. It verifies if you unlocked them in the Lutie Vending Machine and won’t give them to you again if you already got them in the past. Also added back False Ears Costume after player requests.
  • Ferryman NPC now can warp you to four locations in Melodia: the Docks, West Plaza, Tournament and Academy.
  • Added a new NPC: Jolly Jelly Jill, which allows you to purchase Acorn Jelly.
  • Added a second room for the Halloween Labyrinth.
  • Updated Trick or Treaters fun new (and useful?) Trick additions.
  • Racas Forest Preserve
    • Added Forbidden Section as a more difficult option to the regular Racas Forest Preserve. This allows you to collect up to 150 Halloween Tickets daily. The ticket count is shared with the easier map. You also earn 3x more House Points per kill than you would in the regular Racas Forest Preserve map.
    • Daily Mission for Racas Forest Preserve now requires 200 kills rather than 100.
    • Added a new Daily Mission for the Forbidden Section. This rewards you with 56 Halloween Tickets rather than 32 for the easier map. It requires 125 kills to complete. You can only choose one of the two quests per day and you cannot swap between them.
    • Lowered Stabin Yu spawn on regular Racas Forest Preserve and added additional ones to the Forbidden Section. It also ain’t lootin’ anymore, only stabin’.
    • Knight of Tempest and Alpha Creature now reside in the Forbidden Section and have gotten a power-up as well as increased drops. MVPs killed in the Forbidden Section earn your house 900 points instead of 600.
    • When MVPs spawn in the Racas Forest Preserve and Forbidden Section, they emit a dark aura that prevents certain benefits when being resurrected.
  • Added Achievements for a variety of gameplay tasks. There are 28 Achievements to collect plus 3 additional ones for completing 10, 15 or 25 Achievements. For many achievements you can now also see the progress within the achievement window itself.
  • Added 9 new pets that can be obtained throughout the event.
  • Added dozens of new costumes to be obtained throughout the event.
  • Updated Trick or Treat Boxes with new rewards and removed some old rewards.
  • Added a new Error Quest and included new rewards for exchanging the Mysterious Grimoire.
  • Added new rewards to Deviruchiling Quest.
  • Fixed last year’s bug where the Racas Forest Daily Quest would count towards your daily ticket cap.
  • Added a Kafra and Doctor next to the Tournament Instance entrance.
  • Updated Tournament Instance, including Ruleset and Skills:
    • Your party no longer gets Revive and Return Amount refills throughout the instance apart from the final fight against Zarevok. You now have a total of 30 revives per player and 10 returns per party for the entire instance. You get 10 additional revives per player for the final fight.
    • Your party now gets dispelled upon entering the tournament.
    • Lowered the amount of Halloween Tickets you can get throughout the instance, and added a daily cap of 91 tickets.
    • The droprates of the Treasure Chests are now lowered based on the party size. So, the fewer party members, the higher the droprates.
    • MVPs in the tournament now get more HP depending on the amount of party members.
      • +10% HP per party member for each Doom Troop.
      • +500k HP per party member for the other MVPs.
      • +700k HP per party member for Zarevok.
    • We are now using the updated Instance Ruleset that was introduced during last year’s Christmas Event rather than last year’s Halloween Event.
    • Added back a Dispel cooldown. While last year’s Halloween Event had a 2 minute cooldown, it was completely removed during Christmas. It is now added back as a 7 second cooldown.
    • Added a 2.5 second cooldown to Tarot Card.
    • Nightriff’s Equivilent Exchange now receives 75% less Melee damage versus 66% last year. Magnus Exorcismus now does 50% more damage rather than 25%.
    • Zarevok now ignores 40% MDEF and Magic Resistance rather than 25%.
  • Jump. Scares.

Enrolling into a House

The Halloween festival at Melodia has been and will always be a competition among the houses of Melodia Academy. As such, participating in the competition requires you to be assigned into one of the four noble houses.  The competitive activities offered by Melodia pits all four houses against each other through a huge variety of mini games, designed to test your skills, proficiency and perhaps luck as well. Be certain to try out all of them to experience everything Melodia has to offer you, and also earn points for your house and tickets for yourself.

House Windsor

Led by Remy
House Guile

Led by Faa
House Sorin

Led by Sola
House Emure

Led by Sydo

Begin the enrollment process by speaking to Monny (The Grand Monemus) in Melodia Academy.

  • You can find Monny in the left wing of the academy building, which is where you are first teleported by the Ferryman.

While your preferences may be weighed in, Monny is ultimately responsible for sorting you into a fitting house, and will pick for you based on what it believes your capabilities can offer.

  • Note that your house assignment will apply to all characters within your master account. We highly recommend consolidating your individual participation to one character – so you can maximize your earned points and prizes more effectively!

The Ferryman will then offer to send you to the town of Melodia, the academy or the Melodia manor at your request! You will receive an achievement and a title upon joining a house! To equip the title once you earn the achievement for joining your house, do the following:

  • If your status menu (aka icons) is not already open, do so by clicking the tiny down arrow right under the Status UI.
  • Go to the bottom left and select the Achievement Challenges Trophy Icon.
  • While in the Achievements UI, select the Adventure tab.
  • Navigate to the Achievement you just earned, go to the bottom right, and click the Collect button.
  • If not already opened, access your Equipment Window by pressing [ALT + Q], and make your way to the right most tab at the top, “Title”.
  • You’ll see the name of the house you just got sorted to here (Windsor, Guile, Sorin, Emure). Equip it by double clicking it, and that’s that!

House Competition

House Points will determine which of the four houses will emerge as victorious this year. House points can be earned by anyone for their team through participating in the Halloween mini games. The Melodia Academy registrar will be keeping a record of the scores hidden until the end of the Halloween festival, when the winning house and runner-up house will be announced!

A special prize will also go to all adventurers who are affiliated with the winning houses! New this year is that in order to claim your reward, you need to have at least somewhat of a participation history with your house this year. No longer can you claim a reward by joining a house and not participating.

The house that places first will win one of these at its member’s own choice:

  • Big Magic Book Costume
  • Adventurer Pope Egg
    • Increase Magical damage against Fire, Water and Wind element monsters by 2%.
  • Big Lollipop Costume
  • Bloody Murderer Knife Costume (NEW. ID #30622)
  • Atroce Egg (NEW)
    • STR + 2, INT + 2, DEX + 1
    • Increases Physical and Magical damage against Rachel Sanctuary monsters by 10%.

The house that places second will win one of the following:


Player Competitions

Special Honorary Degrees will be awarded to the thirteen (13) most intrepid adventurers who have helped to settle this year’s tie. Individual prizes will be handed out to winners of various mini games who have demonstrated that their skills are on par with the best-in-class students of each house! Those individuals with the most points at the end of the entire Halloween festival will be announced and receive a special, exclusive prize!

  • Note that top-performance is master account driven – so to compete in this area, so you no longer have to specifically participate with a particular character.
  • Overall, thirteen (13) players will win for top performance in each of the following categories:
    • The top-three (3) Minigame winners by accumulated points.
      • Performance will be based on the number of points accumulated for all minigames. Points accumulated through Blackjack will NOT count toward this individual performance total.
    • The top-three (3) Racas Forest Monster Hunters by accumulated points:
      • Performance is based on the number of monsters killed in The Racas Forest Preserve and Forbidden Section. Points only accumulate during Happy Hour.
    • The top-three (3) overall players.
      • This includes but is not limited to town games, minigames, Racas Forest kills and many more activities! Let the best players win~
    • The single fastest party of four (4) in the Labyrinth when this mini game is made available.
      • Be on the lookout for the Labyrinth mini game during the Haunted Festival. You’ll be able to form parties of four (4) players for this mini game.
  • In addition to the above, there are also some -other- competition categories this year, which include the following:
    • The first party to get 100% completion in The Melodia Gauntlet Tournament Instance.
    • The party that has the fastest time on the Leaderboard for The Melodia Gauntlet Tournament Instance.
  • In recognition of outstanding efforts, each of this year’s thirteen Degree recipients, as well as the new competition winners, will receive:
    • A unique, account-bound Creeper II Egg.
    • Your choice of MVP Card!
      • Cards eligible for this prize are those currently available from the Talon Shop.
      • Maya Purple is furthermore excluded from this list.
         


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