During the "Cyodrake's Gaze" plot, users were tasked with solving a mystery on the eponymous ship. Hoban, the ship's navigator, was shoved overboard and you need to answer a handful of questions regarding the incident. The final question is "Do you Like Hoban's Hat?" It seems odd until you realize that the "correct" answer is yes and the prize for getting them all right is said hat. Saying no is only "wrong" because you've effectively stated that you don't want the grand prize..
The word "Altador" is a combination of "altar" and the French word "d'or", meaning "gold". The kingdom's symbol is a golden sun. Therefore, "Altador" can be taken to mean "altar of gold".
Look closely at the Virtupets logo. It is a stylized red "V"...made to look like Dr. Sloth's cape collar!
The old, hideously ugly Darigan witch, Morguss, beyond all reasoning, has a daughter, the Court Dancer. Now, one would think, "Whose standards could be so possibly low that he would agree to marry Morguss?" Well, remember that she knows a spell that disguised her equally ugly daughter as a beautiful brown Aisha. If she can magically disguise her daughter, she must know how to do the same to herself. It is entirely possible that she did, in order to acquire a husband (however temporary).
Fridge Brilliance laden with Unfortunate Implications: Hoban is a citizen of the Neopian equivalent to Asia, and has two traits of a stereotypical Chinese person: yellow fur/skin and perpetually closed eyes. He's also short, a trait seen in stereotypes of the Japanese.
Ghoti is a petpet based off of a fish. Ghoti in real life is pronounced "Fish" for some reason. Even though in Neopets, it's pronounced Goatee, the name still makes sense.
Ghoti is 'fish' because English has strange pronunciation rules. If you take the sounds f i and she from the words lauGH wOmen and naTIon you get GH O TI
While playing Snot Splatter, I realized something about Meuka. He is a monstrous meerca said to eat "young Neopets that wander astray", and is made of snot. This makes him, as some people would call them, a "bogeyman".
At the end of the 2022 Festival of Neggs, the strange goings on are revealed to be due to the antics of a petpet. When the player is asked what they think caused the antics, out of the options, the petpet is the one that makes the most sense:
It can't have been a ghost, because it left footprints and fur, and Sophie determined that the goo wasn't ectoplasm, whereas if it was a ghost, it probably would have been.
It can't have been another Neggbreaker, because the Neggs weren't being broken; they were being drained out.
It can't have been a faerie, because again, it left fur, whereas faeries don't have fur. In addition, it left pawprints, whereas faeries' feet look more like human feet.
A few old issues of the Neopian Times are available as in-universe items. For one of these issues, Issue 81, one of the actual Issue 81's front-page stories is "100 Ways To Tell If You're Addicted To The Times". If you're the type who even bothers to look up the real equivalents to the issues you read to your pets, what does that say about you?
Kadoaties never ask for chocolate. They're sort of cats, and chocolate is bad for cats.
For most of the site's lifespan, most of Neopia was in Medieval Stasis. The staff said when asked about this in one editorial that while Hand Waving more advanced technology by saying it was from Virtupets would be possible, it wouldn't be advisable because most other pets would be highly suspicious of someone using something so connected with a dictator like Dr. Sloth. In 2022 and 2023 though, the tech restrictions started considerably lessening, and modern tech has been popping up more and more. Dr. Sloth's invasion was in early 2000... about 22-23 years prior. Enough time has passed for the global trauma to wear off.
Lunara has "luna" in her name, which means "moon". She's from Shenkuu, and Shenkuuvians worship the moon, which is probably why.
The 2023 Festival of Neggs featured another petpet, the Bython, a two-headed snake petpet. The Space Faerie found their egg around a quasar, trying to stop it from falling in. However, the egg would have been just fine even if the Space Faerie hadn't caught them; the thing that hatched the egg was the Space Faerie turning up the gravity, and their item description says they can fly at interstellar speeds under their own power. It seems as if mother Bythons lay their eggs in the grip of a supermassive black hole on purpose. With large enough black holes, entering the event horizon won't immediately destroy things inside; the gravity transition will be smooth at first, increasing towards the center. This later spike in gravity hatches the eggs, and viable Bython hatchlings go fast enough to escape even where light cannot, while anything that might potentially threaten the eggs before they hatch — such as Space Fungus, for instance, which the egg was mistaken for at one point — will become trapped inside the black hole.
Water Faeries ask for books when they give you quests. They might need so many because books in Neopia vanish after you finish reading them (although we don't know if Faeries can read them without making them disappear), or because books would get wet and unreadable after spending too much time in the water.
The Beelzebug is notable for having a much larger item image than other petpetpets, appearing a comparable size to whatever petpet it's attached to. It's not an art style consistency error; it really is the largest petpetpet, that's why they named it the lord of the flies.
Early in the site's history, the very sudden destruction of Old Maraqua by a hurricane so large that it could be seen from space, after which Flotsams, Jetsams, and Koi were made Limited Edition. With this in mind, it's very likely that the reason no items sold within its borders were ever seen again — and even the few petpets that were still seen are sold on Mystery Island instead — are because its◊ three◊ shopkeepers◊ were Killed Off for Real.
In the epilogue for the Faerie's Ruin, Altador goes out on a quest to find the Darkest Faerie statue. What is he carrying? A pickaxe. Keep in mind, the characters seem to think she's still a statue. But capable of being revived. And maybe conscious.
In one plotline, Krawk Island had apparently been reduced to a bunch of smaller islands by some unknown entity. If that's the case... what had happened to everyone on the island?
Go for a scroll through your Safety Deposit Box. Take particular note of all the food you've got stored up; Blumaroo Steak, Squishy Brain Wrap, Eye Candy... All fairly common foods. Probably mass manufactured. Special note goes to the Grundo Stix, with the caption "I dont think the Grundo who became this meal did it willingly..." But of course these all still register as edible and "tasty" foods with your Neopets, so bon appetit!
One Mutant Day (August 25th) tradition TNT had was to change the avatars of all pets to its Mutant version (ex: a Red Scorchio's picture becoming a Mutant for the entire day). It was slightly creepy, especially since TNT did it without warning. But wait, wasn't Dr. Sloth's original plan was to turn all the Neopets into Mutants? Suddenly, something either mildly amusing or spooky gains a unsettlingundertone.
Similarly, the Bearog is a Petpet with three heads, but the Mutant Bearog only has one head. A regular Bearog's three heads do not share a Hive Mind, as its description says that they never agree on anything. Does painting it Mutant effectively "kill" its other two heads??
Every so often, TNT decides to carry out an account purge to clear space on the Neopets servers, permanently deleting a certain number of accounts that have not been active for at least a year and a half (although one has not occurred since October 2012, and it is unknown if another will ever be carried out). Neopets are sapient in-universe, so when an account is purged...
Since the site has waned in popularity over the years, hundreds of accounts have become inactive and abandoned. This means that there is an epidemic of Neopets whose owners have left them behind, forever lonely and starving. Even worse than being left in the Pound, because at least in the Pound they have a chance of being adopted by another owner. At that point, being purged and deleted might be the equivalent of a Mercy Kill.
Not to mention there are pets who live in Jelly World, so one would think that one of them would have spilled the jellybeans by now. Who or what exactly is keeping it under wraps? Some users have suspected resident Illuminatiexpies The Sway, but we'll never know for sure.
When you adopt a Grundo from the Space Adoption Agency, unlike other pets they will have a 'dim-witted' intelligence stat at first. However, they can have their intelligence leveled up using books, much like other pets. Considering the Grundos' backstory as a brainwashed Slave Race, this implies Sloth kept them as uneducated as possible or, worse, directly influenced their logical processing ability to make them more obedient. That's not going into their apparent habit of crying at night, either...
One random event is that it seems like a petpet has a petpetpet in its mouth, but it's just a leg. Does that mean the petpet ate most of the petpetpet?
Petpetpets have become one of the most desired items on the site, as they are absurdly expensive and difficult to acquire, but many of their descriptions say that they have unpleasant effects on your Petpet. For example, the Cooty causes rashes, the Flankin causes burns, the Greevix secrets a slime that irritates the skin, the Lightmite bites, the Moquot likes to drink blood and the Veespa causes red lumps. Does that mean that if you give your Petpet a Petpetpet, you are basically making them suffer for the sake of having a status symbol on your pet's page?
The Three are a trio of spirits representing revenge, greed and ambition that are said to whisper in the ears of kings and rulers during dark times, corrupting them and making them fall to evil. They influenced the Darigan Citadel to attack Meridell, and entire kingdoms are said to have fallen because of them. Given the right circumstances, could they corrupt a benevolent ruler like King Altador or Queen Fyora?
Faeries are regularly shoved into bottles and sold like chattel, and this is apparently considered acceptable by the entirety of Neopia. Buying one is considered no different than buying a Green Apple or Orange Chicken, and you can throw them in your Safety Deposit Box and leave them in there for as long as you like, which can be years or even decades (and come to think of it, you can do this to Petpets, too). Balthazar isn't even the only one who bottles Faeries; one of the companies on the Stock Market is Balthazar's Faerie Bottling Inc.—an entire company exists solely to kidnap Faeries, shove them into bottles and sell them for a profit. Their description even says, "Why anybody lets these people on the Stock Exchange is beyond most people!"
Baelia the Grey Faerie is a Faerie who has lost her wings and her magic. Although it has been many years since she first appeared on the site, she is still a Grey Faerie. She is friends with many Faeries, up to and including Fyora the Faerie Queen, so surely one of them could have figured out how to restore her by now...unless even they can't find a solution, and the loss of her magic and wings is permanent.
Many of the censors fall victim to the Scunthorpe Problem. If you want to write about a Grape Chia stepping into a basement to retrieve an important document, you're out of luck.
Unfortunate Implications: Hoban is a citizen of the Neopian equivalent to Asia, and has two traits of a stereotypical Chinese person: yellow fur/skin and perpetually closed eyes. He's also short, a trait seen in stereotypes of the Japanese.
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