Oldies but goodies... recovered petz show-off! (part 1?)
Aug 31, 2020 20:44:06 GMT -5
Buck, Arie, and 4 more like this
Post by Kayla on Aug 31, 2020 20:44:06 GMT -5
HELLO. I have returned from my brief "oh crap my laptop screen cracked" and "well my laptop is fixed but now I have to leave for college" and "I've been back on campus for over a week when did that happen?" hiatus. And I come bringing petz!
To start at the beginning, one of the reasons I left the PC about 5 years ago is because I thought I lost all my petz to corruption. When I came back in April, I didn't recover any of them, with the exception of some from CatCreature (thank you again! And I think I need a few more of your newer hexies xD). I didn't really think it would be worth the effort to try to recover any of my other petz... whether from my old computer, or from any other people still active in the community that I might have adopted from 5 years ago (who keeps backups of random petz they adopted out +5 years ago? I probably wouldn't). So I was content to build a new crew from PUGS (before it closed) and adoptions on this forum.
But a few weeks ago, I was digging around in my inbox cleaning out old emails that I didn't need anymore, and near the bottom I discovered a few with .pet files attached to them. Apparently, at some point when I was mainly using my old desktop computer, I decided to email some of my favorite petz to myself - although it was after I thought they had corrupted, so I'm not sure what goal I had in mind. Maybe I was hoping I could fix them somehow? Maybe hoping that, despite the multiple error messages I received upon trying and ultimately failing to open my Petz 5 game, my assumption that they were all corrupted would be wrong.
I don't know what I was thinking. But when I found those emails, I knew I had to try. Even if they all ended up being corrupted... I had to try.
Some seem to be truly corrupted or broken, sadly, but obviously not all of them were, or you wouldn't be reading this xD
So, meet some of my crew, circa 2015...
PART ONE
I tried to make this image as clean and organized and their names as easy-to-read as possible, because GAH... LOOK AT MY CHILDREN. Aren't they beautiful? They're all so fun and beautiful... it makes my heart so happy to have them in my game again! <333
I desperately want to give credit where credit is due, but for many of the original breeders or hexers, I have no idea whether they have an account on here, or if they're even active in the community at all. For a few of them I changed the profile owner name to mine (why did you do that, past me?) so I don't even know who the original owner was. If you recognize a name or a pet (which I'm guessing is probably unlikely, since these petz are all at least 5 years old) and can give me an account or a name to tag/credit, please do!
Cheesecake is from Alyssa!
Clarence is from Arie !
Zantac and Cassiopeia are from Bailey!
Bingo is from Buck ! (and oh my goodness is he beautiful, I had great taste in petz 5 years ago xD)
Mukuro is from Cas!
Aurora is from Cyove ! (one of the hexers I most looked up to - I am SO HAPPY I recovered Aurora <3)
Clint is from Jaida!
Palm is from Janelle!
Irvette is from Mockingham!
Azemar is from Rafa! (when did I get a horse hexed for me? where? how? why? idk but he is majestic and he makes me happy)
Appaloosa is from Susan at THK!
For Charles and Gabby, I'm fairly certain they were both bred by myself. My name is in their profile, and for each of them, I know I own each of their dads (Charles' dad Clarence is in this pic, and you'll meet Gabby's dad Chevy later in this post), and just by looking at their family trees I'm pretty sure I own their moms (although I'm not sure if I'll be able to recover them to be 100% positive).
As for Cleopatra, Carvidelol, and Darkness... their original owners are sadly unknown. My name is in their profile, and I didn't make a note of their original owner. I suppose it's possible I could have bred Darkness and Carvidelol... but I'm pretty certain I didn't. I have vague but distinct memories of playing with them, as they were a few of my favorites... and I have the distinct impression that I got them from someone else. I just wish I knew who. And I know I definitely did not hex Cleopatra... my hexing skills were (and probably still are) below the hexing skills of her creator xD It's particularly annoying, because I feel like I would remember knowing her hexer if I knew their name... if anyone recognizes her, Darkness, or Carvidelol, let me know! They're all lovely petz! <3
PART TWO
My hexies... I didn't think I've ever find pictures of my old hexies again, let alone my hexies themselves... a small part of me wishes I hadn't xDDDD They're so cringe! And I only used Pet Workshop! I didn't anchor or fix anything in LNZPro... how did I give any of these out to people? Why did people want them? Why did I make a fluffy pink chihuahua with purple eyes? Just... why???
High cringe levels and joking aside... I actually am happy to have found these old friends, even if it's only to see how much my hexing skills have improved just in the few months I've been playing petz again (speaking of, I did finish a hexie... but that's another showoff for another day). And I do like Coreen... I may do a remake of that file someday...
You might be wondering who's left for a part three... I showed off my hexies, and all the bred and hexed petz I have from other people, right? Well, not quite.
There's one more left for this round. A special boy named Chevy. So special he gets his own special fancy graphic.
PART THREE
I didn't want to get my hopes up when I saw Chevy in my emails. When he came trotting out of the carrying case, it felt like I had stepped back in time.
Chevy is one of the very few petz I had clear memories of. I don't know how many of you reading this were around the community back when Ashley was around doing the Mai & Chedy stories... Chevy had a very small part in those stories. I loved reading about the adventure of Mai and Chedy and their friends and family, so when she offered Chevy and a few other pups for adoption on the RKC... there was something about Chevy that got me then, and I've loved him ever since. He was always my good boy(R), the one I could trust to behave if I stepped away from the computer for a few minutes. Which seems ironic to me now - I dug around and found many of Ashley's stories on Whiskerwick, and found that Chevy's father is Torino (who was the rowdy "bad boy" of the group, if you don't know or remember). It's ironic that I trust his son so much... but Chevy's never proved me wrong xD He's just always been... special. I guess some petz are like that for us - we love all our petz, but there's always some that dig into our hearts a little deeper for whatever reason.
ANYWAY... My success in recovering these petz inspired me to get back on my old desktop computer, find my petz folders, and email more petz to myself to try to recover... and by more I mean like all of them... yep... so there might be more of this in the future. As well as a crew site. Because if I recover half of my old petz, I'm gonna have a hecking big crew xD I guess if there's a moral to this story, never give up hope! And it's worth the effort to try to recover your petz. Yep yep.
I hope y'all enjoyed my little trip down memory lane <3
To start at the beginning, one of the reasons I left the PC about 5 years ago is because I thought I lost all my petz to corruption. When I came back in April, I didn't recover any of them, with the exception of some from CatCreature (thank you again! And I think I need a few more of your newer hexies xD). I didn't really think it would be worth the effort to try to recover any of my other petz... whether from my old computer, or from any other people still active in the community that I might have adopted from 5 years ago (who keeps backups of random petz they adopted out +5 years ago? I probably wouldn't). So I was content to build a new crew from PUGS (before it closed) and adoptions on this forum.
But a few weeks ago, I was digging around in my inbox cleaning out old emails that I didn't need anymore, and near the bottom I discovered a few with .pet files attached to them. Apparently, at some point when I was mainly using my old desktop computer, I decided to email some of my favorite petz to myself - although it was after I thought they had corrupted, so I'm not sure what goal I had in mind. Maybe I was hoping I could fix them somehow? Maybe hoping that, despite the multiple error messages I received upon trying and ultimately failing to open my Petz 5 game, my assumption that they were all corrupted would be wrong.
I don't know what I was thinking. But when I found those emails, I knew I had to try. Even if they all ended up being corrupted... I had to try.
Some seem to be truly corrupted or broken, sadly, but obviously not all of them were, or you wouldn't be reading this xD
So, meet some of my crew, circa 2015...
PART ONE
I tried to make this image as clean and organized and their names as easy-to-read as possible, because GAH... LOOK AT MY CHILDREN. Aren't they beautiful? They're all so fun and beautiful... it makes my heart so happy to have them in my game again! <333
I desperately want to give credit where credit is due, but for many of the original breeders or hexers, I have no idea whether they have an account on here, or if they're even active in the community at all. For a few of them I changed the profile owner name to mine (why did you do that, past me?) so I don't even know who the original owner was. If you recognize a name or a pet (which I'm guessing is probably unlikely, since these petz are all at least 5 years old) and can give me an account or a name to tag/credit, please do!
Cheesecake is from Alyssa!
Clarence is from Arie !
Zantac and Cassiopeia are from Bailey!
Bingo is from Buck ! (and oh my goodness is he beautiful, I had great taste in petz 5 years ago xD)
Mukuro is from Cas!
Aurora is from Cyove ! (one of the hexers I most looked up to - I am SO HAPPY I recovered Aurora <3)
Clint is from Jaida!
Palm is from Janelle!
Irvette is from Mockingham!
Azemar is from Rafa! (when did I get a horse hexed for me? where? how? why? idk but he is majestic and he makes me happy)
Appaloosa is from Susan at THK!
For Charles and Gabby, I'm fairly certain they were both bred by myself. My name is in their profile, and for each of them, I know I own each of their dads (Charles' dad Clarence is in this pic, and you'll meet Gabby's dad Chevy later in this post), and just by looking at their family trees I'm pretty sure I own their moms (although I'm not sure if I'll be able to recover them to be 100% positive).
As for Cleopatra, Carvidelol, and Darkness... their original owners are sadly unknown. My name is in their profile, and I didn't make a note of their original owner. I suppose it's possible I could have bred Darkness and Carvidelol... but I'm pretty certain I didn't. I have vague but distinct memories of playing with them, as they were a few of my favorites... and I have the distinct impression that I got them from someone else. I just wish I knew who. And I know I definitely did not hex Cleopatra... my hexing skills were (and probably still are) below the hexing skills of her creator xD It's particularly annoying, because I feel like I would remember knowing her hexer if I knew their name... if anyone recognizes her, Darkness, or Carvidelol, let me know! They're all lovely petz! <3
PART TWO
My hexies... I didn't think I've ever find pictures of my old hexies again, let alone my hexies themselves... a small part of me wishes I hadn't xDDDD They're so cringe! And I only used Pet Workshop! I didn't anchor or fix anything in LNZPro... how did I give any of these out to people? Why did people want them? Why did I make a fluffy pink chihuahua with purple eyes? Just... why???
High cringe levels and joking aside... I actually am happy to have found these old friends, even if it's only to see how much my hexing skills have improved just in the few months I've been playing petz again (speaking of, I did finish a hexie... but that's another showoff for another day). And I do like Coreen... I may do a remake of that file someday...
You might be wondering who's left for a part three... I showed off my hexies, and all the bred and hexed petz I have from other people, right? Well, not quite.
There's one more left for this round. A special boy named Chevy. So special he gets his own special fancy graphic.
PART THREE
I didn't want to get my hopes up when I saw Chevy in my emails. When he came trotting out of the carrying case, it felt like I had stepped back in time.
Chevy is one of the very few petz I had clear memories of. I don't know how many of you reading this were around the community back when Ashley was around doing the Mai & Chedy stories... Chevy had a very small part in those stories. I loved reading about the adventure of Mai and Chedy and their friends and family, so when she offered Chevy and a few other pups for adoption on the RKC... there was something about Chevy that got me then, and I've loved him ever since. He was always my good boy(R), the one I could trust to behave if I stepped away from the computer for a few minutes. Which seems ironic to me now - I dug around and found many of Ashley's stories on Whiskerwick, and found that Chevy's father is Torino (who was the rowdy "bad boy" of the group, if you don't know or remember). It's ironic that I trust his son so much... but Chevy's never proved me wrong xD He's just always been... special. I guess some petz are like that for us - we love all our petz, but there's always some that dig into our hearts a little deeper for whatever reason.
ANYWAY... My success in recovering these petz inspired me to get back on my old desktop computer, find my petz folders, and email more petz to myself to try to recover... and by more I mean like all of them... yep... so there might be more of this in the future. As well as a crew site. Because if I recover half of my old petz, I'm gonna have a hecking big crew xD I guess if there's a moral to this story, never give up hope! And it's worth the effort to try to recover your petz. Yep yep.
I hope y'all enjoyed my little trip down memory lane <3