Ahoy! We have a ton of talented Pirates in the way of the arrrrts in the Spiral! Each month we like to feature Pirate101 fan art and fan photo submissions through or official social media like Facebook and Pinterest. There are so many great creative works from all the amazing Pirate players. This month, we picked some of our favorites to show on the blog as well.
Want to submit something creative of your very own? If you are under 13 years of age, ask your parent or guardian for permission to send us your screenshot. If you would like to submit something, send the picture and your character name in an email to community@pirate101.com! Please attach no more than three images per email, and please limit total submissions to no more than nine screenshots in a month. Try to only submit your very best images!
Today is the International Day of Awesomeness! When it comes to Wizard101 and Pirate101, I feel there are tons of awesome things to find. In general, I try to be a half-glass-full type of person and love looking on the awesome side of things.
Back in 2013 and 2014, I gave a shot at trying to list all the awesome things I liked about Wizard101 on my blog. I remember thinking that I wanted to see how long I could go before time got the best of me. I managed to list 46 awesome things before I moved on to other things! Check it out (in no particular order – just how they came to me):
• Awesome Thing #1 — Low-hitting Wildbolt Spells (against me)
• Awesome thing #2 — Health Drain Spells
• Awesome Thing #3 — Regenerate while in Treant Form
• Awesome Thing #4 — The Arcus Cloud Mount
• Awesome Thing #5 — A Pet with Spritely
• Awesome Thing #6 — King Artorius and his Spells
• Awesome Thing #7 — An Undead Stegosaurus
• Awesome Thing #8 — Sun Magic on Low Level Spells
• Awesome Thing #9 — Casting with Class Symbols
• Awesome Thing #10 — Housing Statues
• Awesome Thing #11 — Blade Stacking
• Awesome thing #12 — The Christmas Tree in the Commons
• Awesome Thing #13 — Potion Motion
• Awesome Thing #14 — Allan Ghostdust
• Awesome Thing #15 — Brand New Characters
• Awesome Thing #16 — Daily Presents
• Awesome Thing #17 — Finally Getting that Piece of Gear
• Awesome Thing #18 — Two-boxing
• Awesome Thing #19 — A Really Hard Challenge
• Awesome Thing #20 — Gamma’s Room
• Awesome Thing #21 — Harvesting a Full Elder Garden
• Awesome Thing #22 — Dancing with your Pets
• Awesome Thing #23 — The Loremaster
• Awesome Thing #24 — Krampus
• Awesome Thing #25 — Bartleby
• Awesome Thing #26 — Class Trees
• Awesome Thing #27 — Tempest
• Awesome Thing #28 — Pigswick Schools and Professors
• Awesome Thing #29 — Golem Minion
• Awesome Thing #30 — Mr. Personality (Balloon driver in Marleybone)
• Awesome Thing #31 — The Kraken Pad
• Awesome Thing #32 — Mooshu Spiral Chamber
• Awesome Thing #33 — Memories of Oyotomi Farming
• Awesome Thing #34 — Riding the Young Battledrake
• Awesome Thing #35 — Class Pets
• Awesome Thing #36 — Tower Shield
• Awesome Thing #37 — Feint
• Awesome Thing #38 — Memories of Farming the Ravens
• Awesome Thing #39 — The Lava Bridge in The Labyrinth
• Awesome Thing #40 — Katzenstein’s Dance Floor
• Awesome Thing #41 — Multistrike (AoE) Damage Spells
• Awesome Thing #42 — Teleport Stones
• Awesome Thing #43 — The Labyrinth Dungeon
• Awesome Thing #44 — Toy Trains
• Awesome Thing #45 — Glowy Eyes
• Awesome Thing #46 — Marleybone Cops
Whew . . . that’s my list, but I think you all can do better! Why not take this International Day of Awesomeness challenge and see how many awesome things you can list about Wizard101 and Pirate101! We’d love to see your lists in the comments below.
~ Dworgyn (aka the Friendly Necromancer)
Wow! Let us start by saying this contest was much harder than we anticipated, and we absolutely loved that you stepped up to the challenge. Everyone who participated is to be congratulated.
We had multiple winners by very narrow margins and some items had no clear winners at all. Let’s take a closer look at who our winners are.
Overall—Crazy Cassidy . . . Congratulations on winning 60,000 Crowns! Funny enough, although she only managed to get four Pilgrim’s Campfires the entire day during the allotted time, that was good enough to win the overall category.
Now for the individual categories, our five mystery items were as follows:
– Domed Pyre
– Lantern Post
– Solar Obelisk
– Eagle Head Brazier
– Pilgrim’s Campfire
Here are the results:
Domed Pyre – SNAKE EYES! No one got this item within its time slot (which was very early in the morning for most people). This item was so rare in fact, only four Domed Pyres were acquired all day long. As a result, we’re giving 5,000 Crowns to each of the following players who just found one during the day as a thank you:
– David Hawkins
– Golden Mycin Inglewood
– Bloody Patrick
– Silent Xavier Holystone
Lantern Post—Congratulations go to Bridget Brewster! Only two Lantern Posts were found all day long and she found hers two hours sooner than her competitor.
Solar Obelisk—This was a clear tie between two mega-fans of Pirate101. Two-Faced Anne and Perilous Page both received two solar obelisks at the same time. We’re giving them both 20,000 Crowns. Congratulations!
Eagle Head Brazier— SNAKE EYES! Another item with no clear winner . . . Only seven Pilgrim’s Campfire Housing Items were acquired all day long. As a result, we’re giving 5,000 Crowns to each of the following players as a thank you:
– Alex
– Evan Ironside
– Wolf Silver
– Diego
– Fearless Dino
– Virtuous Leo Silver
– Husky Samuel Mickleson
Pilgrim’s Campfire—Since Crazy Cassidy won the overall category, our next-in-line winner is Bold Belle Barclay, who pulled in a Pilgrim’s Campfire exactly one minute before her nearest competitor . . . and simultaneously at the same time as Bridget Brewster (who already won for being the first to acquire the Lantern Post.) What a close battle!
Thank you for your participation in this extreme house hunting challenge. We hope you had fun! (We learned a lot, and next time we’ll choose some easier targets to collect.)
Abracadabra! Do you want to give your young Wizard a party to remember? Throw a Wizard-themed sleepover and make the magic come to life. Here are a few ideas to get you started.
First, the Invitations
Roughly two weeks before the party, you’ll want to invite your guests over for a spellbound night of fun. For invitations, dye pieces of cardstock with tea bags to give a worn effect. Once the paper has dried, use fun calligraphy to write the details of the party, requesting that your child’s Wizard friends wear their favorite magic pajamas. Add glitter and roll into a magic scroll with ribbon for a fun twist!
Prepping for the Party
The day before the party, you’ll want to get everything set up for a night of spell-casting. Start off with everyone’s favorite: food.
Create a magical potion for guests by putting a couple of drops of food coloring into three or four different pitchers of lemon-lime soda. The kids can mix and match their drinks to create kooky potions.
For dinner, serve sandwiches or slices of pizza cut with a star-shaped cookie cutter to keep up the magical theme. Add carrot sticks, celery, and broccoli as a means of Mana Energy.
For dessert, create mystical cupcakes. Homemade or store-bought, add a Wizard’s flair to colorfully frosted cupcakes with sprinkles, edible glitter, and a pretzel stick as a wand. For older Wizards, set up a cupcake-decorating station with all of the ingredients for conjuring up an enchanting snack to get them excited for the night ahead.
It’s Game Time!
Entertain the kids with this variation on a popular party game. Instead of pinning a tail on a donkey, the kids will Pin the Wand on the Wizard. Draw or print a large picture of a Wizard (Merle Ambrose, anyone?), and give the kids Popsicle sticks with their names on one side and double-sided tape on the other. Blindfold each kid one at a time and spin them around before they try to get the wand as close as they can to the Wizard’s hand.
After a fun game of Pin the Wand on the Wizard, give each kid a plain dowel rod and set up a “wand shop,” a table where the kids can decorate their wands. Provide paint, glitter, sequins, and even tinsel icicles as “unicorn hair.” The kids will have a blast conjuring up their own spells with their one-of-a-kind wands.
Next up is a fun game of Wizard-themed Mad Libs. Write descriptions of popular wizard stories (or your own!), such as the tale of King Arthur or the plot of Harry Potter. Then replace important words with blanks labeled with things like “funny noise,” “Wizard name,” “favorite food,” etc. Encourage the kids to have fun and use Wizard-themed words and phrases to fill in the blanks for an enchanting story.
Winding Down for the Night
With so many exciting things to do during the course of your child’s slumber party, you’ll need true magic to get all the kids to settle down. You can unlock this achievement by planning the evening accordingly, with quieter activities, such as the word games or a movie, at the end of the evening.
There are lots of great, age-appropriate Wizard movies to help you get the kids ready for bedtime. For younger Wizards, go with a classic like Disney’s “The Sword in the Stone,” or perhaps “The Wizard of Oz.” For kids who are old enough, the “Harry Potter” and “Lord of the Rings” movies are other Wizard favorites.
Taking these tips and adding your own creative flair will certainly help create a memorable party for your favorite Wizards. Happy party planning!
Unique Names Day is one of those weird holidays that . . . we simply love! Recently while building a graphic for our 50 Million player celebration, we ran some statistics that showed our “Top Wizard” and “Top Pirate” names. You know who you are . . . Wolf Dragonflame, Scarlet Swift, Brave Scarlet Silver, and Dead-eye Wolf Silver!
This same search for information also showed us the “least popular wizard names,” but we don’t like to call them “least popular” . . . we like to call them “unique!”
Here’s the list for Pirate101:
Pirate Least Common Prefix – Male
1. Darling
2. Cowardly
3. Pretty
Pirate Least Common Prefix – Female
1. Gawky
2. Cowardly
3. Glib
Pirate Least Common First Name – Male
1. Layne
2. Caley
3. Carlyle
Pirate Least Common First Name – Female
1. Layne
2. Anneke
3. Fabienne
Pirate Least Common Last Name – Male
1. De Bouff
2. Norrington
3. Ushawe
Pirate Least Common Last Name – Female
1. De Bouff
2. Ushawe
3. Upham
So using the least common parts you get:
Darling Layne De Bouff (Male)
Gawky Layne De Bouff (Female)
Here’s the list for Wizard101:
Wizard Least Common First Name – Male
1. Caley
2. Cowan
3. Lail
Wizard Least Common First Name – Female
1. Brecken
2. Deirdre
3. Ginelle
Wizard Least Common Last Name – Male
1. DaisyPyre
2. WyrmFlower
3. DaisyWraith
Wizard Least Common Last Name – Female
1. FrogBrand
2. WyrmFountain
3. WyrmPetal
So using the least common parts you get:
Caley DaisyPyre (Male)
Brecken FrogBrand (Female)
Now THOSE are some unique names!
As it turns out, Unique Names Day is actually a part of a week-long “informal” holiday known as “Celebrate Your Name Week.” So let’s celebrate your names, Wizards! If you love your in game name, please share it in the comments below.
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