This is the weekly recap of the 102 monetized posts from Kylea and Joseph "Joe" Gomez of Kylea G Weight loss Journey from 05/05/24-05/11/24.
They have made 609+ monetized posts in 5 weeks.
Disclaimers: I am not a physician, influencer, or paid content creator. I am not affiliated with WW. I am semi-retired from the healthcare field with multiple college degrees. These opinions are my own based on social media content. I wish no harm to Kylea or Joe Gomez.
☎️ If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, please call or text 988 for assistance.
📢 To the perfectionists, Kylea has a habit of heavily editing posts 3+ times and archiving/hiding and deleting posts. I do not have a burner account for Facebook and have not viewed every comment made. She does not post receipts and is secretive about her purchases.
The tagline of Kylea G Weight loss Journey is, "I changed my life with prayer and a playlist of songs. No surgery, no meds. Just Jesus."
Of the 102 monetized posts last week on the topic of faith:
0/102 discussed which version of the Bible she prefers
0/102 revealed her church home, a service she attended online/in person, or how she worships when traveling
0/102 discussed a personal/group Bible study she completes/attends
0/102 were a favorite scripture or Bible verse
Of the 102 monetized posts last week on the topic of music:
2/102 referenced music Kylea prefers= an unnamed Taylor Swift song as a clapback to a comment about pizza crust and a drinking buddy anthem duet with Morgan Wallen + Post Malone
Of the 102 monetized posts last week on the topic of health:
0/102 were about intentional exercise
0/102 shared a food, water, or exercise log
0/102 discussed meditation, deep breathing, attending grief group, or therapy for her mental health. (There were references to a mental health care provider that gave her a letter recommending an emotional support animal.)
0/102 shared reputable medical sources for nutrition or weight loss content. (She mentions WW points but does not list a website or how to access their app.)
0/102 shared a recommendation for another weight loss influencer to follow
1/102 shared a source for her recipe (Joe's deceased mother)
13/102 shared a recipe. Shared recipes below.

1. Frozen Pancake Breakfast Sandwiches;
2. Banana Puddin' Protein Overnight Oats,
3. Smothered Crockpot Pork Chops;
4. Trader Joe's Protein Pancakes;
5. Snapple Zero Sugar Peach Tea & Splenda Brown Sugar Marinated Chicken;
6. Dirty Dr. Pepper Protein Ice Cream,
7. Joseph's Lavash Bread Pizza;
8. Lemon Blueberry "Muffin" Cupcakes;
9. Blueberry Sugar-free Oatmeal Waffles;
10. KFC Inspired Bowl;
11. Sara Lee 45 cal French Toast;
12. G Hughes Smoky Mesquite Raspberry Jam Chicken;
13. Lemon Blueberry Greek Baked Yogurt;

⚠️ Disordered Eating- Daily WW Points Consumed (based on monetized content):
Sun 05/05: 10 WW points; Mon 05/06: 11 WW points; Tue 05/07: 7 WW points; Wed 05/08: 7-9 WW points; Thu 05/09: 10-11 WW points; Fri 05/10: 1 WW point; Sat 05/11: 8 WW points;
📢 To our friends at Meta, Kylea can consume up to 30 WW points per day, roll over 4 unused daily points, and consume 28 weekly points. She is clearly underutilizing her daily points and used zero weekly points. This is dangerous and potentially deadly messaging for those on a weight loss journey. 🚨
So what was Kylea's "weight loss content" about? Let's dive into her purchases to find out.
Her subtotal from 05/05/24-05/11/24= $2489.80 est + all applicable taxes, tips, and fees
Her 5-week subtotal from 04/07/24-05/11/24 was $17,133.54 est + all applicable taxes, tips, and fees
🚨 Per Missouri public court records, Kylea Gomez has not satisfied her current medical judgment and is only able to pay $25 per month.
This next section is long due to the volume of purchases. You've been warned...
Weekly Takeout Purchases= $71.73 est + tips;
Sunday 05/05/24 Mexican Takeout Salad with chips/salsa= $15 est + tip (no proof she went with friends);
Monday 05/06/24 Iced/Blended coffee: $8 est + tip (no proof she went with a friend);
Tuesday 05/07/24 Carafe of coffee at unknown restaurant= $5 est + tip (no food shown or proof sister was present); Blended Coffee= $8 est + tip;
Wednesday 05/08/24 Htea0 Happy Hour Drink for 2 + fruit upcharge for 1= $3.25 est;
Thursday 05/09/24 Pineapple Bliss for 2= $6.98 est + tip;
Friday 05/10/24 Blended coffee= $8 est + tip; Wendy's Large Sprite Zero= $2.50 est,
Saturday 05/11/24 Unknown breakfast for Joe= $15 est + tip;
🚨 These additional shopping/travel expenses do NOT reflect her rent, utilities, phone, 2 car payments, etc.
Additional shopping/travel expenses= $2418.07 + all applicable taxes, tips, and fees
⚠️ CBD aka Shopping Addiction: Most of the purchases were for a future puppy.
Monday 05/06/24 Breeder fee for female Cavapoo puppy= $1000 est + fees (breeder unknown); Outward Hound Multi-color Squeaker Ballz Fetch Toy 4-pack= $4.99 est; Outward Hound Blue Whale Big Mouthz Interactive Plush Toy with Treat Ball= $9.99 est, Outward Hound Chicken Roperz Plush Squeak Dog Toy= $11.81 est; Silicone Collapsible Food & Water Bowl= $8.99 est; Plush Oyster Shell with Pearl Dog Toy= $6.99 est; Peppa Pig Squeak & Crinkle Plush Dog Toy= $19.99 est; Pally Paws Butterfly Squeaker & Crinkle Dog Toy= $14.99 est; Woven Dog Bone-shaped mat= $9.99 est; Woven beach bag with pawprints= $19.99 est; Grey fleece blanket= $19.99 est;
Tuesday 05/07/24 *Possible Target Women's Cowgirl Boot Grid Graphic T-shirt= $12.99; Chaco ZX/2 Women's Cloud Sandal in Candy Sorbet= $105 est; Vibrant Life Playful Buddy Emoticon XS 5 count Dog toys= $5.12; Nylabone Puppy Starter Pack-up to 25lbs= $7.57; Nylabone Power Chew Textured Dental Chew Toy Chicken Medium/Wolf-up to 35lbs= $4.97; Vibrant Life Tug Buddy Rope Multi-color= $1.98; Custom Dog Tag for Birdie= $5.99 est; Two Jessica Simpson Pet Dresses= $30 est; Personalized baby blanket for Birdie (Amazon)= $19.99 est;
Wednesday 05/08/24 Roundtrip Gas Joplin, MO to Tulsa, OK= (224mi/33mpg) x $3.85 est = $26.13 est; Costco Skinny Dipped PB Cups= $25.94 est; Costco Deebee's Freezie Pops= $22.75 est; Trader Joe's Frozen Roasted Corn x 8 bags= $40 est; Additional Costco & Trader Joe's purchases= unknown; *Pawdre T-shirt for Joe= $10.99 est; Dog Treat container= $25 est; Patchwork Pet Snuggler White Claw themed plush dog toys= $9.99 est; Smoochy Pet Pals Cheeseburger & French Fry themed plush dog toys= $15 est; Armor All Hammock Style Back Seat Cover= $10 est; Black Dog Bone Mat= $5.99 est; 3 Dog bath towels= $14 est;
Thursday 05/09/24 Alani Nu 12oz Energy Drink Pink Slush for 2= $4.96 est;
Friday 05/10/24 Approx. 72 cupcakes= $41.91 est (Walmart online price used); Mani/Pedi= $75 est + tip;
Saturday 05/11/24 Coleman SaluSpa Air Jet Inflatable Hot Tub in Grey= $609.00 (Amazon price); iCrate 2-door folding black crate= $36.79 est; Kong Blue Puppy Binkie Pacifier Dog Toy= $8.99 est; Kong Pink Puppy Natural Teething Rubber Toy= $7.49 est; Lamb Chop Puppy Plush Regular 10"= $15.90 est; Remy+Roo Small Spring Dog Bandana 4-pack Kathrine Set= $23.95 est; Hubulk Pink Pet Dog Bowl Set with food scoop and Non-Skid Silicone Mat= $9.99 est; MidWest Homes for Pets Deluxe Dog Bed in Grey= $16.99 est; Beirui Cute Little Girl Dog Collar, Harness, and Leash Set= $27.99 est; 3 pack of Blankets Super Soft Fluffy Premium Fleece= $11.99
🤔 Final Thoughts 🤔
Kylea showed her narcissistic greed posting triggering content all week without disclaimers or warnings in clear violation of Meta policy on explicit content and tragedy & conflict. If that is not enough to demonetize and deplatform her, her obvious signs of disordered eating should. Her messaging is dangerous, potentially deadly, and I, for one, ask our friends at Meta to review her content and take action.
All info from Reddit. ✌️

He spins around right 'round, baby, right 'round. Like a record, baby, right round, 'round, 'round
Previous part: 6.
Like always, I've missed some sort of controversy happening in the FNAF community. But this time I had something to say about it as it relates to the lore side of things!
A week ago... Before Scott came and revealed that The Talbert Files were all fake and he had never seen nor written them. I was late to the party this time but next to I'll be on time!
But to boil down what I said, The Talbert Files has outdated information and is unusable to us theorists. Do not use anything in this book to make a point in the current story of the games.
Oh and of course, this controversy came from Twitter or X or whatever. If these past few games have told me anything, it's that being connected to a network for any long periods of time is very bad for your mental health and safety~
And basically, that was the gist of what would've been probably the longest intro ever.
For those new to this series or who have lost which part or place they're on, check out The Jonsie Burrows: Help Wanted 2: Tables of contents to find where you want to go! If you haven't seen any of my stuff before then...
Hello, this is something you might have missed in Help Wanted 2.
Previously Post Interesting things:

1. Our main character, HW Jeremy, Cassie's dad, is already wearing the Security Mask before we even start the game. This means Glitchtrap has access to his mind and body. As for what that entails...
2. Help Wanted 2's AMask-on version of the FNAF6 Pizzaria might be based on Micheal's canonical look for it near the end of Pizzaria Simulator.
3. After completing each minigame, a party hat, plate, and cup will appear on the table next to you. Whose party are we attending as a guest?
4. The protagonist of Help Wanted 2 is HW Jeremy, discovered through the color blue items which are prominent in the game and used for his name and shirt in Ruin. Jeremy was a former employee of Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental and may have been present during the events of Sister Location.
5. In the First Aid minigame of Help Wanted 2, the "GET WELL SOON!" drawings depict Baby's life as seen through Vanny's eyes, hinting towards the game's secret ending. These drawings also reveal that Baby's data card from Sister Location was inside Helpy in Pizzeria Simulator and survived the fire. As a result, her programming was eventually absorbed into the Pizzaplex's Network, leading to her appearance in Help Wanted 2.
6. Glitchtrap may have collected the souls and memories of the original dead kids into the Pizzaplex's Network and in this game, Jeremy is going into Glitchtrap's memories.
7. Help Wanted 2's Fizz Faz minigame's location is the same but different location in Security Breach. They both have identical objects placed in the exact place as each other, giving evidence to the fact that Jeremy is physically moving to certain locations in the Pizzaplex when clicking on the minigames.
8. Helpi in this game is indeed Glitchtrap in disguise. Unlike Ruin, Helpi is not his own entity in this game because we're not connected to the V.A.N.N.I. network due to being in the FNAF6 pizzeria. The V.A.N.N.I. network only covers the entire Pizzaplex but doesn't go past the door to the underground in Roxy Raceway. Glitchtrap has a preference for using proxies and decoys to communicate with the unsuspected to get them to do what he wants.

Now back to our unregularly scheduled series!
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"The carousel is broken. Fix it!" That was what greeted you in the void along with a pictograph of a carousel. It sounded very simple but you knew better now.
"Fix all the broken fuses, then replace any broken switches and turn on the power."
"Repair the circuit board. Don't forget to solder in new wires with the soldering gun." Were the rest of the instructions given to you for this task, hovered over the "START" button but before you pressed it, a new sound reverberated in the void.
There was always a noise, a certain ambiance in this place of darkness. Whether it be the sound of blowing air or some distant jingle, there was always something to occupy the ears. But this was different.
It was like the noise of someone pulling a wire along a corner very fast, like the sound of something struggling to play out of a static radio, a blare of a machine in motion that started malfunctioning. Whatever description one wanted to use, it didn't change the fact that it was getting increasingly louder.
But before you hear more of it or even figure out what it was. Your hand betrayed you and completed the motion of pressing the "START" button. Whisking you off to your next destination over the cover of darkness.
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Okay, that's it! I've got to find this ambiance in the Help Wanted 2 soundtrack! It's driving me nuts! Alright, I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that I found the exact track that plays in the void! It's called Main Menu Ambiance or as its file name refers to it, ambience_main_menu. The bad news is that this sound I'm hearing is not there.
This means one of two things, this track has a different variant of it somewhere in the soundtrack, or the sound belongs to some animatronic or creature in the game.
Personally, I hoping for the former as that's much, much easier to find as the latter requires me to rip open the game for the sound. What makes this even more difficult is that it might be randomized to play while in the void and pretty much everyone doesn't stay in the void any longer than to read the instructions, claim their prizes from the claws, or press the "RESTART" button in the "GAME OVER" void.
(Although I haven't gone over the "GAME OVER" void yet in this series, I have heard it play in there too on my searching through other people's playthroughs of the game.)
Time to go back to searching for this mysterious sound.
I can't find it. I've searched YouTube but there aren't a lot of people uploading the entire soundtrack to this game and the one who has doesn't have it listed in their playlist of 769 videos. Oh, joy! It looks like we have our first Help Wanted 2 mystery! What a coincidence considering my last post.
So for now, I'm going to leave the research for this until I write out Help Wanted 2 Mysteries: The Mysterious Sound in the Void. But to leave you all hanging and confused about what exactly I'm hearing, I'll give you the timestamp of the walkthrough I heard it from right here.
Now, let's see what awaits us at the Carousel.
"Attention, This Carousel is out of service and will require repairs before we open tomorrow."
The Daycare Attendant, Sun, spoke from somewhere close by in this new environment you found yourself in. You were standing inside a Carousel in a dark room, the only light source seemed to be a light from above as you faced an open panel on the central pillar in the middle of it. Inside the panel, live currents of electricity crackled and popped as they ran across and through yellow wires into two out of six fuses that the wire ran through.
The fuses were in two vertical parallel rows, and the yellow wire ran in and out of one row and went back through in the next until the very last row where it came out of the last bulb and disappeared into the side of the panel. Judging by how the two fuses were lit as the electric current went through and the other four were unlit with no visible electric current going through them, you bet a greasy pizza that you'll need to replace those four fuses.
"That is the end of my instruction. If I had been programmed with the knowledge to fix it, it would have already been done." That would've been nice, but you think they would've just gotten another broken carousel for you to fix.
During your listening to his speech, you figure that "Sun" was only just a recording as his voice had a sort of radio-like quality to it that sounded much like it was recorded at an earlier date.
To your left was a stand with three hatches opened, showing off items within them while what looked to be colorful wires sat on a small divot in the stand.
To your right, was an interesting set of items that seemed very out of place to you. There was a small rectangular haystack that sat on the right side of the pillar, with a skinny pumpkin and an oil lantern. What are they doing here? (What indeed, but perhaps there's a clue around here.)
A brief look around showed you that the area outside the carousel was blindingly dark, but grabbing the flashlight that sat on the tool cabinet-like stand on your left and flicking it on, revealed what was hidden in the darkness.
Further from you, were the carousel seats that took after the appearances of some of the classic Freddy's animatronics. You see with the help of your flashlight, you see a classic (FNAF1) Bonnie seat, a classic (FNAF1) Chica seat, a classic (FNAF1) Mr. Cupcake, Toy Freddy, and Toy Foxy? Weird, you've usually seen Toy Foxy in their mangle variant rather than their fixed state.
(Despite the darkness and the unmangled form of this white foxy, you can actually tell which of the closely resembling Foxys it represents. While Scott did make Funtime Foxy, (From Sister Location, not FNAF World) very similar to Mangle/Toy Foxy. He did make them slightly distinct from each other in the coloring department besides their different structures.
The official model of Funtime Foxy(Sister location) actually has dark pink cheeks while Mangle/Toy Foxy has rosy-red cheeks just like the rest of their Toy companions. So this carousel is really repping FNAF 2-era, I wonder why...)
You thought you saw balloons at the edge of your flashlight, but before you could verify it, something spoke close by from where you were standing.
"The merry-go-round broke down." The slightly hoarse, raspy voice ended with a snicker as you struggled to find the source of it. Something was definitely in the dark room with you. (Hey Moon!)
You the source continued to elude you before you gave up and focused on the problem in front of you. Waisting time to find the voice was a fool's game, your best bet was to quickly fix this problem within the panel before the voice became a problem for you.
Still, you felt that you knew that voice.
Out you pulled the broken fuses and set them on the side, in went the new fuses you took from the hatch in the stand one by one as they came out of the hatch. Once you put the final new fuses, the pillar in front began to spin, and dozens of mini yellow lightbulbs lit up on its side.
Lights in the distance flickered on and music from the carousel started playing. (Carousel: Doomsday Ride Phase 1.) The pillar came to a stop on its next side but the outer ring full of rides of the carousel continued to spin clockwise around you. It's there where you spotted the one behind the voice and finally put a name to the foggy figure in your memory, Moon, the Daycare Attendant's other personality.
And the most difficult one to deal with. But you knew how to deter this side of him, you thought as you pointed your flashlight at his face as he rode a Bonnie seat in the outer ring of the carousel.
"What makes you so special?"
You heard him say as he started to shake his head from the brightness of the light, but you handled your flashlight well to keep the light on his face before he fell off the Bonnie seat with a frustrated and agony-filled growl from overexposure.
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And there it is! The most important line in this game! This line is a hint at the hidden ongoings within Help Wanted 2, a hint towards our mysterious protagonist's identity, and a hint that things are not what they seem in this game.
Or at least that's the excitement I would've felt when we finally got to this line in the game if I hadn't already spoiled everything during the Circus Baby and Helpi discoveries in the First Aid minigames!
Now, I really don't have much to say regarding the "What makes you so special?" line or any new thoughts about it. Maybe that'll change in the future, but for now, let's focus on another unexpected return in the form of the villainous side of the Daycare Attendant.
Yep, that's right. Just like Circus Baby, this is the actual Moon from Security Breach and Ruin! Unlike Circus Baby though, we have a precedent from Ruin for the Daycare Attendant to be able to appear in the Network, which this "game" is connected to, even in the FNAF6 pizzeria.
Honestly, I probably wouldn't I gotten that far in uncovering as much as did in Help Wanted 2 if I hadn't discovered that little hidden tidbit about Sun and Moon's network switched mechanic thing they have going on.
But for those who don't remember or don't know what I'm talking about you can read where I first talked about it in the fourth section of my "Roxy's true purpose" post. But to summarize it for those who don't want to click the link and go more in-depth about it for those who do, one of the oddest and unexplained moments that occurs in Ruin, is Sun talking to Cassie in the AR world while Moon speaking in the real world.
Back then, It always puzzled me when Sun said "Not me! The other me!" when approached by Cassie with the mask on to reboot him. And afterward, when the Daycare Attendant has been rebooted into Eclipse, Cassie could hear Sun say "thank you" in the real world after Eclipse left her outside of the daycare, even though he should've been gone with the reboot.
But the missing pieces to figure out this Daycare Attendant puzzle come in three, the Security Mask, the Faz-Wrench, and the Network. It is very important to remember what the first two actually do in Ruin and to not forget how the AR world exists.
The Security Mask lets you view the Pizzaplex through Augmented Reality, a digitally altered perception of reality influenced and dictated by Fazbear Entertainment (and Glitchtrap) and by the sub-network of the main network of the Pizzaplex.
That mask also has another function it, which is hinted in the name of its sub-network, V.A.N.N.I. or Virtual Augmented Neural Network Integration Unit. The Security Mask, with your consent under normal circumstances I presume, implants your brain with an occipital transponder. This implant allows you to retain some visual perks of V.A.N.N.I. like Helpi the onboard assistant who could still show up to assist you without the mask.
But this implant is a double-edged sword in truth. This implant is permanently attached to your brain and is constantly feeding information from and to your brain to the network. The Pizzaplex's Network holds a lot of information, like guest profiles for those who enter the Pizzaplex, the security system that safeguards and watches over everything, the various data collection regarding each location within the Pizzaplex, and is connected to every single animatronic/bot within the Pizzaplex.
The Network is a valuable tool for the employees and Fazbear Entertainment, providing plentiful assistance in various tasks. However, the situation regarding the implant would not have been grave had there not been a sinister entity lurking within the network. Glitchtrap now has complete access to a person's brain without their knowledge, posing a significant unknown threat to those who have it.
If you want to know what Glitchtrap is capable of doing to someone implanted with the occipital transponder, just read my Security Mask and Cassie being controlled post.
This leaves us with the unassuming Faz-Wrench, a tool that almost goes unnoticed by practically everyone. But like any tool, it will shine best when used for its purpose. That is besides being used as a simple tool for the simple conduit puzzle, it's a powerful tool to connect, activate, and deactivate everything connected to the Network.
So applying everything I've said to the Daycare Attendant situation in Ruin, then you can figure out many secret things about him that were unsaid.

1. When one of the Daycare Attendant's personalities is dominant or in the foreground, the subservient one will still be active in the background and is still aware of what's happening around him. Yes, this means that Sun knows about Vanny, Moon, and Glitchtrap, and what happens to Moon's victims. I still wouldn't label him a villain, just complacent, because he still hasn't hurt or harmed anyone even with all the information we've gained from the books and games.
2. If Cassie had used the Faz-Wrench while wearing the mask, she would have deactivated the Sun persona and disconnected the Daycare Attendant from the Network. This might've led to him completely shutting down and deactivating as The Daycare Attendant is connected to a lot of things within the network. If not, it would just leave Moon as the dominant personality. (For those thinking this would be a good thing for the villains, remember that Moon would still be severely sensitive to light and useless in any lit environments. Eclipse was the best option for villains regarding the Daycare Attendant.)
3. The Daycare Attendant is active in the Network at all times when functional. In fact, I believe that the Sun and Moon weren't exactly removed from the Daycare Attendant's data once Eclipse was made the dominant personality from the reboot as the fact that Sun can still communicate with Cassie even after Eclipse takes over backs this up. I'll even go as far as to say that Sun and Moon are still around but can only interact with anyone through the network.

This brings us back to Help Wanted 2's carousel minigame and Moon's presence within it. If you had no doubt guess with all the information above about how Moon here, is actually Moon, then let me spell it out for those struggle to make sense of what I'm saying.
The Moon that's appearing here is the same Moon we first met in Security Breach. As for how? The Daycare Attendant is much more connected to the Network than all other animatronics as he is the only one who can actually talk to someone through it rather than playing past voice lines as we see from the other Glamrocks in the AR world.
And it's here in Help Wanted 2 that it's revealed that he's fully conscious enough to travel through the networks and sub-networks and interact with anyone and anything integrated into it, i.e. Vanny, Cassie, Jeremy, and Glitchtrap.
Oh, and as for why he has a physical body here, this is just a digital form created by whatever program that "Help Wanted 2" is in-universe as Ruin showed us through the M.X.E.S. Entity and M.X.E.S. program that digital entities can appear to have a physical form through their programs and can be viewed the Security Mask.
If Moon didn't the "Help Wanted 2" program to help create a digital body, he would most likely appear as a motionless digital creation like that Giant endo in Fazbear Theator or probably wouldn't even have a form and be like an invisible ghost that you can only hear. (That sounds like a great idea for an enemy in a future game. Steel Wool if you're reading this, I have no ownership over this idea, so it's free to use!)
However, I don't think before the reboot into Eclipse, that both Sun and Moon could be in the Network at the same time. One of them has to occupy their physical body while the other waits for their turn in the network.
In Ruin, Moon was occupying the body most of the time while Sun was stuck and talking to Cassie through the network, and at no point did we hear Moon talking through it.
So since Help Wanted 2 is a prequel to Ruin and in turn pre-Eclipse. The opposite must be happening here with the Daycare Attendant in regards to who occupies the body and whose in the Network, because from what I remember from the entire game, Sun gives not a single hint that he's the real one rather than a simple digital recreation.
This means that during the entirety of Help Wanted 2, Sun is presently occupying the Daycare Attendant's body while Moon is present in the Network and interacting with/observing Jeremy while following Glitchtrap's, and secretly Vanny's, orders.
Which then begs the question, is this Moon in the carousel minigame the same one in the Arts and Crafts and Foxy Log Ride minigames? Or to rephrase it, are the other minigames' Moons just digital recreations?
I'm not sure, but it's something to look out for in the future when we get to those minigames. But for now, I'm going to hold off on making any Moon "Prove it!" post until we cover those minigames. Now, let's finish this minigame.
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The Pillar had stopped to show a new panel for you to solve that had three dial knobs and a missing one from top to bottom, alternating from side to side with three wires running through all of them.
Already having an idea of what to do, you quickly turn the first two dial knobs and watch electricity flow through them. But when you got to the third one it came off as soon as you touched it, falling to the ground and out of sight.
Oh no! What could you do now?! Panic started to creep in as Moon's laughter reached your ears. This time sounding a lot closer than before. Quickly looking around for both Moon and another way to fix the panel, you spotted a spare dial knob in one of three hatches on the stand beside you. Grabbing it and another for the knob-less fourth one, you speedily attached them and turned them for the electric current to go through all of them.
Snatching up your flashlight, you desperately searched for Moon as more of the carousel ride became alive with more moving seats, more lights, and more energetic music to accompany it. FF(Carousel: Doomsday Ride Phase 2.)
You even saw more of the seats that were obscure in the darkness before. There was a Toy Bonnie seat, a Toy Chica seat, a Classic (FNAF1) Freddy seat, and finally balloons in a barrel seat which is where you found Moon ridding before you flashed your light at him, causing him to scream and fall off it.
(Hmm... No FNAF1 Foxy. Oh! And just to clarify, I'm referring to these seats as 'classic' because they are likely modeled after the original withered animatronics, rather than the restored ones we met in FNAF1.")
Returning to face the new problem panel on a different side of the pillar, you were met with a circuit board with frayed wires, with a small display screen on top of it and a big red button underneath it. There was also some kind of blue gun beneath all of that, in a holster built into this side of the central pillar.
Luckily, it seems that someone thought to help you out on what you were supposed to do here as there was a clipboard board hanging on the side of the pillar with a paper attached to it. The paper titled "SOLDERING INSTRUCTIONS" was exactly as the title said, showing what you want to do with the circuit board.
It didn't look like you could use the one on the pillar, so you took it off and grabbed a new one that you spotted in the third hatch and put that on the pillar swiftly. You grabbed a couple of wires that were sitting on the stand and pulled out what you previously thought was a blue gun that was actually the smoldering gun and quickly went to work as Moon ominously snickered from somewhere very close around you.
"Naughty Naughty."
One, two. Only two wires you managed to solder onto the circuit board before you pushed your luck to your breaking point and grabbed the flashlight in one smooth motion as turned around and looked for Moon. The goodness you found him immediately, the bad news is he's just one seat away from where you're standing.
Acting quickly before he could move close and bring death along with him, you flashed your light at him, sending him over the seat in agony. Not even bothering to see him completely go over the seat, you finished soldering the last wire and smacked the big red button underneath it.
And loud alarm sounded throughout the area as the pillar stayed put this time, but the closest seats around you started to spin with the rest of the carousel and the music became jumbled. (Carousel: Doomsday Ride Phase 3.) A timer lit up and started counting down from 1 minute on the screen above the circuit board along with the following words: Time Until Reset.
Let like you need to survive until the reset happens as there is nothing else for you to fix. So grabbing your flashlight again, you prepared yourself as could be to last 1 minute of Moon's onslaught. During this terrifying minute, sparks shot out from beneath the ceiling of the carousel as all the lights inside it turned all. But if Moon wasn't enough to deal with, a fire appeared at the farthest end of the area you were in as the lights flickered off and on while the carousel continued to dangerously spark from different places on the machine.
(Hmm... Could this be the event that gave the Daycare Attendant his Ruined appearance?! This actually might be it!)
As machinery grind and screeched, the fire multiplied, the sparks became numerous, and Moon was relentless, but eventually... The carousel came to a stop after you repelled Moon with your light once again as another alarm sound rang out. Turning around you saw the timer was at zero, meaning your work here was finally done. The last thing you heard was another Sun recording shouting "Ho, ho!" before darkness whisked you away and dropped you into the "GAME WON!" void.
Immediately, under the usual children's congratulations scream, your ears picked up that mysterious sound you heard earlier. The unknown sound, similar to that of an old radio distortion, lingered in the void until it faded away, leaving the usual ambiance of the void.
(What. Is. IT?!)
With no answer for the mysterious sound and no way to discover it, you pushed its existence to the back of your mind and pressed the claw machine button to claim your hard-earned prize. But before you grabbed your capsules out of the machine you heard a new sound... (What?)
It sounded like middle c on a Xylophone, maybe a bit deeper than that. It repeated itself in a quick 1, 2, beat in the same pitch then repeated itself an octave higher in the same pattern before disappearing.
(Am I being prank? Maybe there's something wrong with the video I'm watching, I don't remember hearing this anywhere else. Then again, the other YouTubers I'm watching talk a lot or just quickly move on when in the void. This requires further investigation. Okay, I've just checked a completely different Youtuber and found that, yes, this is a real sound in the game and not an edit. If you would like to hear this, I timestamped it here. It goes by very quick, so listen closely.
But on the sound itself. I don't why but I'm getting Daycare vibes from this. I might need to take another look at that place in Ruin and maybe even Security Breach for some kind of clue. After all, we do find Jeremy's shirt in the Daycare for some reason...)
The prize this time was a Carousel Toy which was fitting to you as you pressed the "RETURN TO HUB" button and were blinded by darkness and found yourself back at the restaurant. A quick survey of around you, showed that nothing has changed, except for something new sitting on the red-clothed table next to Mystic Hippo. It was your carousel toy that you've won.
You picked it up and gave it a once over, noticing Classic Freddy, Bonnie, and Freddy as the only seats to it and that it had a Sun & Moon theme appearance. (Not the Daycare Attendant but the actual Sun & Moon.)
You sat the toy back down, glanced at Mystic Hippo, and then returned to the computer in the middle of the room. (I'm still not sure about Mystic Hippo but I go over that at a later date.) You clicked the Ticket Booth folder and found that the last two files were unlocked for it. Captn. Foxy's Log Ride and another glitched and broken file.
What? I thought that there was another Carousel minigame! Well, I guess I'll talk about some of the other stuff I was going to research for now, instead of later. First, let's talk about the carousel itself, I can only remember one game that had a carousel in it and that's FNAF 2. And that's before I saw that the seats were making references to it too.
However, looking through all the locations in that game reveals that while there is a carousel in it, it's hilariously skinny compared to the one here. That's not even going into how it looks completely different. In fact, I think it might be a non-functional prop. So that's a dead-end.
And finally the haystack and the pumpkin, not much to say about it besides being another hint to this FALL FEST thing going on in the new era games. Now, the lantern on the other hand was something that stood out to me as there were a couple of lanterns that stood out to me in Ruin. The one in Vanny's room and the one in Roxy Raceway pt 2. Unfortunately, neither of them was a match for the lantern in the carousel minigame.
This leaves us with one last place to look for a match, Help Wanted: Dreadbear DLC. Oh? I think we might've found something! In the hub world for the DLC, the lamppost lanterns have a remarkably similar design to the lantern in Help Wanted 2. Of course, the Dreadbear lamppost lanterns are too far away to truly know if they're truly one and the same, but maybe we can find something else in this DLC.
I know exactly the one more place we can check to find a lantern, the secret basement containing the Vanny you unlock in the Corn Maze minigame. And "Ding, ding, ding ding!" We have a match! Now what it means for the carousel minigame is unknown to me at this date in time.
Possibly, there's a connection here to the Dreadbear DLC. Maybe this "game" was also a DLC to the original Help Wanted in-universe. Or maybe this scenario happened around the sametime as Dreadbear DLC depicts its FALL FEST in, 1983.
But like I said, I need to sit on this and see if I can find some other connections. Other than that, scoping through the Dreadbear DLC has given me some thoughts about certain things. I'll discuss it in the next part, so let's wrap this up.
So it's the only one available to do, you clicked on Capt. Foxy's Log Ride and saw what its pop-up window had to show you. "Set sail for adventure with Capt. Foxy! Pillage and plunder a town of Wild West landlubbers!"
What a mashup of settings were your thoughts before you clicked on TUTORIAL and were whisked away again by darkness and found yourself in the void.
Well, that unexpectedly took a while. But heads up, I'm going to be a bit busy with work so the next part is going to be slower to complete. Yet there are lots of interesting things going on here in this one to tie you all over, including a brand-new mystery for all of us to solve! Just goes to show that Help Wanted 2 just seems to have even more things for us to discover!

I have a this thought.... This possibly controversial thought that I know will get some people upset... It's driving me crazy and I do not know what to do. I only told my brother ( who is autistic ) about my line of thinking. Now, social interaction and such are not his strong points. So, I told him about it and to my surprise, he understands my line of thinking. But, it terrifies me to even say anything about it. Hell, it makes my anxiety act up because of it. I will generalize it. Basically, you can like one thing and not the other. When I look at the world, I see that not a lot of people understand that; nor even think about this at all. I mean, there are those that do understand this line of thinking, and have tried to teach everyone else about it. The thought of true free will is both exciting and terrifying to me at the sametime. Kinda like, finally unlocking an old lock that nearly everyone has given up on. To some, it's stupid; but to me it's not.

I was dating this guy for about 6 months and every time we met we were going on well. The last time it was almost like we were a couple but he never introduced me to his friends, I know two of them and they know me but this was cos they were his housemates. He did ask me out on Valentine’s Day this year but didn’t want to wish me happy v day, it felt more like a situationship. So recently we started texting a lot more, he would message me when he finishes work and I would message him good night. There were sometimes heart emoticons exchanged… the texts recently was he who initiated it mostly. But when I asked to meet he said he was extremely busy and tired from working two jobs but definitely wanted to see me soon. Anyway last Sunday I finally asked, that I would love to have an honest conversation with him, about what he wants, he replied that he would be happy to do that but not over text. I said ok I agree and since then we haven’t talked. I am waiting for him to tell me when he is free since he’s always the busy one or tell me when he is free but it feels like he doesn’t want to do it first? Should I still ask? Cos right now it feels like me asking this question has caused a drift and this is our break up… Why do you think he wanted to speak face to face?
Please help

First of all, this thing is enough of a solid metal beast to be a replacement for Mac mini or even a PC desktop but the form factor fights you constantly. The lack of a power button means you always have to open the lid to turn it on.
Why can't Apple add at least one small indented circular button at the side that could be reminiscent of the old iPhone/iPad home button that was associated to powering on those devices? That could free up a whole button for screen shots or just make F4 screen shot since command space already does the same thing more easily. There's a whole button for emoticons which are typically triggered by keywords when the Mission Control button is F3.
The button layout is just awkward with command c, v, z etc being too cramped while the button that'd be the most comfortable and intuitive to use is bizarrely useless.
Overall I know you can remap the hotkeys but I kind of want to learn how to use Mac the way it is so my muscle memory takes over before I change everything.
So many of these issues are just for lack of buttons, lack of touch screen, thus over reliance on the track pad which feels crude and gets annoying. Adding a row of circular buttons that'd mirror the traffic light windows control menu so you'd have the ability to turn the volume up and down as well thus allowing Apple to add an actual setting to allow the display to be closed without going to sleep (without having to use a UNIX command line to toggle the setting on and off. I'm presuming that's why the option exists as a simple power management setting on windows but is hidden on MacOS) so you could continue playing music and power the device down without having to open the display and dive into the keyboard for everything you don't want to have to resort to having to use the track pad to do.
Speaking of hidden, what's with the battery saving options and why's it so hard to toggle on and off? Who uses the "only when plugged in" option for battery saver? Why doesn't it allow for the typical "turn battery saver on at x%" like you'd expect a battery saver mode would? I would also love a "while the lid is closed" I.E. When I'm signaling I'm not actively using the machine.
Those are pretty much my only issues, the rest is a joy to use which is unfortunate when something is so close to being perfect but just seems to refuse to do so because of something akin to "conservative values".
It's also hard to reconcile the absence of both the touch layer and any form of Face ID, Samsung was willing to have a device with an iris scanner, finger print sensor AND facial recognition. It seems like Apple could use its own AI to learn the difference between a picture or video of a face vs an actual face. I can come up with several ways that it could be done where a picture or a video couldn't be used to fool it.
And finally, Apple doesn't have to have MacOS be entirely touch based just to add a touch screen unless it's planning on doing a surface go/pro/book clone. Just the ability to flick a page up when you need to is plenty good reason which is 99% of what I still keep trying to do. To those who don't want a touch screen then don't use it, I don't want to have to resort to having to use the track pad for everything. I also don't want to have to use my finger print and would rather any facial recognition system.
TLDR Read if you're curious what are some thoughts from someone who's never truly used a Mac before and is coming from another 1st party OS device the Surface Pro.

hihi, i'm Eryn :3
i'm a 25yo nb transfem looking for other (aspiring) femmes (bangs eventually required). prefer an age range between like 20-30 though feel free to text me if you're outside of that. i'd like you to be below 80kg/175lbs at least, if it gets much more it'll be a dealbreaker for me.
i'm very much an extremely obsessive person and would like to end up in a mutually obsessive relationship, sorta looking for someone with an excitable dog personality ig, someone that loves to respond to my messages with the same vibe/energy and maybe even exaggerates it. lots of words or sentences in full caps, a worrying amount of spamming, constant playfighting, banter, bullying, slunamecalling (so have some thick skin please :3), manipulation, h&rniness and all kinds of degeneracy, schizo/cursed/degenerate or just plain as f#ck cringe humor that makes you wanna reply with just a "." -lovebombing and worshipping. all day long, so being a neet/hiki is a requirement, or at least wishing to be one as i can just have you move in if things work out. all of this is my love language and i'd want it to be for you as well. if any of this feels too much for you, makes you uncomfortable or feel hurt, we won't vibe really.
the way you text, reply, type and just generally react is very important to me. i'm looking for a somewhat sillygirlclub/Needy Streamer Overload type of vibe, :3 TwT ^w^ etc etc. mostly text emoticons rather than emojis (:pensive: is cool tho), little care for punctuation, anime gifs/pics along with your replies, lot's of hmm/hmh/umm's while you're thinking of what to reply, lots of small messages rather than fully fleshed out sentences even if they just say the same thing in the end (spam me spam me SPAM ME), commas instead of periods after one of us said something extremely flattering, embarrassing and lewd,,, just be really, really expressive and responsive (in time/delay as well, i don't wanna feel like you're texting other people or have to wait like 30 seconds before your replies every time).
i basically want to feel like i'm inside of you(uwu)r head and can see/read/feel every thought that is going through you AS they go through you, not after you've thought of what to say and hit me with that reply with your carefully crafted opinion consisting out of 378 words. i want to see when you pause to think while writing, see what you initially thought and wanted to say but instead of backspacing it you just say it regardless, and follow up with your new/second thought (love JT). i want to end up feeling like i know EXACTLY how you think (this includes TYPOS, don't feel pressurized pressured to correct them immediately, just send the word and correct it afterwards. i love making fun of them :3). it's extremely important to me because i'm mute and have been mute for the majority of my life, and this way chats still feel like.. alive yanno? to me it just feels like replacing your actual voice with TTS otherwise. it's also very important to the flow of the convo, whiiiiiiich is kinda necessary if we're both obsessive NEETs spending +12h a day with each other writing and talking about shit. if we can bullshit through the entire day with very few actual meaningful convos/topics, that'd make me feel incredibly hopeful for our future. i doubt either of our lives would be that eventful to begin with it, so we'd def need it lmao. i realize that it miiiiight be a bit harder to include that in your intro as there's no bullshitting from me matching you, so i'll prob overlook quite some of it, but i still want it to be present! if your intro looks like it could've been sent to a prof at uni, i'll be very much so turned off. this whole paragraph is a dealbreaker for me.
i'd love to have a relationship that's based on primarily affection, gaming, anime and music. these are my core interests pretty much, and what i plan to spend most of my time on until the day i perish. for games i'm hugely into almost anything that can be played together, from Monster Hunter to Vermin- and Darktide (Helldivers 2) to RoR2 and more relaxing games like MC/Terraria. i prefer playing stuff on higher difficulties and doing end game content. as long as it can be played together really, i'd be down to play almost anything. also really, really into roguelites. my taste in anime isn't too picky, though i'm not really a fan of slice of life. music is kind of a rough one. i've never really been able to connect with people (i'm also very much to blame for that sadly), so i never really cared much for it. but after finally having been able to i realized it might be way more important to me than i felt like it was. it might actually be a dealbreaker, i don't know for sure. >.< - currently listening to Sewerslvt full-time, and i love Kikuo (Hanatan <33) and Inabakumori aside of that. also some um.. epic/trailer music? idfk the genre exactly. basically choiorchestral music, movie type of background music you hear during the final battle of a movie or smth. i also want to try harder to connect with music that falls outside of my taste, it's hard but i really want to try! besides that i do like politics and um, like, bugs. be a fellow commie or at the very least be sympathetic to commie/socialist and anti capitalist/imperialist ideals. not gaming or not being into anime is a dealbreaker, music might be a dealbreaker, idk about that yet sadly. oh, already wrote that. anyway, music might be a dealbreaker, but i'm not so sure about that yet.
i'm mute and heavily prefer to stay mute, but for the right person i'd be able to start talking again. though i lose a lot of my personality while not texting, so i'd still prefer to stay mute. too autistic to feel myself while talking, i've always hated it. i'd prefer to text you despite sitting right next to each other. while still pretty much masc, my voice isn't really the problem with talking, it's just my brain suppose. tried to refund it but it's outside of the warranty period. TwT - also i feel like it's incredibly adorable if i sat on your lap and wrote and showed you my texts rather than talking! i'm in love with the idea. :3 - i'd be down to turn on my mic at all times so you can hear like background noises, me chuckling or laughing whenever you're being funny, calling you names or saying something sweet/romantic here and there. that's ideal for me but i don't mind trying to have full conversations at times, though there's probably still going to be a lot of typing during it. it'll also take a very, very VERY long time for me to open up to the point of being able to hold convos or get used to talking again.
i'm autistic, probably adhd but never got diagnosed, and i'd be down for a closed p0ly relationship. all my friends either have autism or adhd and while it's not a requirement or anything, i've never found myself to be able to vibe with people without either of them. a closed p0ly relationship would be cool but it's not a dealbreaker at all, 1 person can be my entire world. :3 - child and most likely pet free, got some trauma with the latter. i'm not a caretaker (except for you), and neither will i ever trust myself to become one. i'm also very VERY bad with responsibilities. i'd be down for like bugs or reptiles, but you've basically gotta shoulder the responsibility on your own really. i can do some household chores in the meanwhile.
i'm a switch and i'd like my partner to be as well. i really love constantly switching up the roles or fighting over who can be the d0minant one, i find it very adorable and loving. libid0 has been in the ditch since starting hrt, butttt i'm still really excited, mostly for irl stuff. doing it solo already takes so much effort on E and distracting myself with constantly texting or trying to be verbal takes even more effort, though i'd still be down for it from time to time. i'm also more of a teaser with pics and vids rather than texts or voice. i love showing off so you'll get plenty of stuff regardless hehe. ;3 - my preference goes to other transfems, i'm very much comfortable with my own body and would love it if you were as well.
please do put some effort into your intro, i'm a very, very very very, very very very very very VERY picky person. include what we do not have in common! if there's too many knowledge gaps in the things we could have in common i will probably not respond. saying you're into gaming as well doesn't mean much if it's only MOBAs or FIFA idk, which i'm very much not interested in.
ALSO, include slurs or insults in your intro!! i wanna feel LOVED and they're the quickest way to my heart. anything goes besides racial slurs really (and even then i'd let ya know if you said something i didn't like, no hurt done so dw really). no mercy. i'm autistic, trans, stupid as shit, depraved, desperate af for you, yada yada yada. again probably a lil bit hard to actually include in your intro without it just feeling like unwarranted insults ig? maybe insult yourself instead lmfao. would make for an interesting intro, definitely. :3
um, anyway, that's about it i suppose. ty for reading. feel free to resend your intro as my preferences/dealbreakers have changed somewhat, though you'd most likely be ignored anyway if i didn't reply to it the first time, sorry hehe.
from +80k character posts to <9k, rip long post format. for anyone who remembers me by name, you flatter me <3

hihi, i'm Eryn :3
i'm a 25yo nb transfem looking for other (aspiring) femmes (bangs eventually required). prefer an age range between like 20-30 though feel free to text me if you're outside of that. i'd like you to be below 80kg/175lbs at least, if it gets much more it'll be a dealbreaker for me.
i'm very much an extremely obsessive person and would like to end up in a mutually obsessive relationship, sorta looking for someone with an excitable dog personality ig, someone that loves to respond to my messages with the same vibe/energy and maybe even exaggerates it. lots of words or sentences in full caps, a worrying amount of spamming, constant playfighting, banter, bullying, slunamecalling (so have some thick skin please :3), manipulation, h&rniness and all kinds of degeneracy, schizo/cursed/degenerate or just plain as fuck cringe humor that makes you wanna reply with just a "." -lovebombing and worshipping. all day long, so being a neet/hiki is a requirement, or at least wishing to be one as i can just have you move in if things work out. all of this is my love language and i'd want it to be for you as well. if any of this feels too much for you, makes you uncomfortable or feel hurt, we won't vibe really.
the way you text, reply, type and just generally react is very important to me. i'm looking for a somewhat sillygirlclub/Needy Streamer Overload type of vibe, :3 TwT ^w^ etc etc. mostly text emoticons rather than emojis (:pensive: is cool tho), little care for punctuation, anime gifs/pics along with your replies, lot's of hmm/hmh/umm's while you're thinking of what to reply, lots of small messages rather than fully fleshed out sentences even if they just say the same thing in the end (spam me spam me SPAM ME), commas instead of periods after one of us said something extremely flattering, embarrassing and lewd,,, just be really, really expressive and responsive (in time/delay as well, i don't wanna feel like you're texting other people or have to wait like 30 seconds before your replies every time).
i basically want to feel like i'm inside of you(uwu)r head and can see/read/feel every thought that is going through you AS they go through you, not after you've thought of what to say and hit me with that reply with your carefully crafted opinion consisting out of 378 words. i want to see when you pause to think while writing, see what you initially thought and wanted to say but instead of backspacing it you just say it regardless, and follow up with your new/second thought (love JT). i want to end up feeling like i know EXACTLY how you think (this includes TYPOS, don't feel pressurized pressured to correct them immediately, just send the word and correct it afterwards. i love making fun of them :3). it's extremely important to me because i'm mute and have been mute for the majority of my life, and this way chats still feel like.. alive yanno? to me it just feels like replacing your actual voice with TTS otherwise. it's also very important to the flow of the convo, whiiiiiiich is kinda necessary if we're both obsessive NEETs spending +12h a day with each other writing and talking about shit. if we can bullshit through the entire day with very few actual meaningful convos/topics, that'd make me feel incredibly hopeful for our future. i doubt either of our lives would be that eventful to begin with it, so we'd def need it lmao. i realize that it miiiiight be a bit harder to include that in your intro as there's no bullshitting from me matching you, so i'll prob overlook quite some of it, but i still want it to be present! if your intro looks like it could've been sent to a prof at uni, i'll be very much so turned off. this whole paragraph is a dealbreaker for me.
i'd love to have a relationship that's based on primarily affection, gaming, anime and music. these are my core interests pretty much, and what i plan to spend most of my time on until the day i perish. for games i'm hugely into almost anything that can be played together, from Monster Hunter to Vermin- and Darktide (Helldivers 2) to RoR2 and more relaxing games like MC/Terraria. i prefer playing stuff on higher difficulties and doing end game content. as long as it can be played together really, i'd be down to play almost anything. also really, really into roguelites. my taste in anime isn't too picky, though i'm not really a fan of slice of life. music is kind of a rough one. i've never really been able to connect with people (i'm also very much to blame for that sadly), so i never really cared much for it. but after finally having been able to i realized it might be way more important to me than i felt like it was. it might actually be a dealbreaker, i don't know for sure. >.< - currently listening to Sewerslvt full-time, and i love Kikuo (Hanatan <33) and Inabakumori aside of that. also some um.. epic/trailer music? idfk the genre exactly. basically choiorchestral music, movie type of background music you hear during the final battle of a movie or smth. i also want to try harder to connect with music that falls outside of my taste, it's hard but i really want to try! besides that i do like politics and um, like, bugs. be a fellow commie or at the very least be sympathetic to commie/socialist and anti capitalist/imperialist ideals. not gaming or not being into anime is a dealbreaker, music might be a dealbreaker, idk about that yet sadly. oh, already wrote that. anyway, music might be a dealbreaker, but i'm not so sure about that yet.
i'm mute and heavily prefer to stay mute, but for the right person i'd be able to start talking again. though i lose a lot of my personality while not texting, so i'd still prefer to stay mute. too autistic to feel myself while talking, i've always hated it. i'd prefer to text you despite sitting right next to each other. while still pretty much masc, my voice isn't really the problem with talking, it's just my brain suppose. tried to refund it but it's outside of the warranty period. TwT - also i feel like it's incredibly adorable if i sat on your lap and wrote and showed you my texts rather than talking! i'm in love with the idea. :3 - i'd be down to turn on my mic at all times so you can hear like background noises, me chuckling or laughing whenever you're being funny, calling you names or saying something sweet/romantic here and there. that's ideal for me but i don't mind trying to have full conversations at times, though there's probably still going to be a lot of typing during it. it'll also take a very, very VERY long time for me to open up to the point of being able to hold convos or get used to talking again.
i'm autistic, probably adhd but never got diagnosed, and i'd be down for a closed p0ly relationship. all my friends either have autism or adhd and while it's not a requirement or anything, i've never found myself to be able to vibe with people without either of them. a closed p0ly relationship would be cool but it's not a dealbreaker at all, 1 person can be my entire world. :3 - child and most likely pet free, got some trauma with the latter. i'm not a caretaker (except for you), and neither will i ever trust myself to become one. i'm also very VERY bad with responsibilities. i'd be down for like bugs or reptiles, but you've basically gotta shoulder the responsibility on your own really. i can do some household chores in the meanwhile.
i'm a switch and i'd like my partner to be as well. i really love constantly switching up the roles or fighting over who can be the d0minant one, i find it very adorable and loving. libid0 has been in the ditch since starting hrt, butttt i'm still really excited, mostly for irl stuff. doing it solo already takes so much effort on E and distracting myself with constantly texting or trying to be verbal takes even more effort, though i'd still be down for it from time to time. i'm also more of a teaser with pics and vids rather than texts or voice. i love showing off so you'll get plenty of stuff regardless hehe. ;3 - my preference goes to other transfems, i'm very much comfortable with my own body and would love it if you were as well.
please do put some effort into your intro, i'm a very, very very very, very very very very very VERY picky person. include what we do not have in common! if there's too many knowledge gaps in the things we could have in common i will probably not respond. saying you're into gaming as well doesn't mean much if it's only MOBAs or FIFA idk, which i'm very much not interested in.
ALSO, include slurs or insults in your intro!! i wanna feel LOVED and they're the quickest way to my heart. anything goes besides racial slurs really (and even then i'd let ya know if you said something i didn't like, no hurt done so dw really). no mercy. i'm autistic, trans, stupid as shit, depraved, desperate af for you, yada yada yada. again probably a lil bit hard to actually include in your intro without it just feeling like unwarranted insults ig? maybe insult yourself instead lmfao. would make for an interesting intro, definitely. :3
um, anyway, that's about it i suppose. ty for reading. feel free to resend your intro as my preferences/dealbreakers have changed somewhat, though you'd most likely be ignored anyway if i didn't reply to it the first time, sorry hehe.
from +80k character posts to <9k, rip long post format. for anyone who remembers me by name, you flatter me <3

The sad truth is that many companies are adopting bullshit programs to maximize programmer’s output.. schedules and gant charts isn’t art, it’s the death of innovation. My suggestion to free jam is to find the few creative guys and allow them to noodle around. Allow them 10 hours a week to goof around. Let them do stupid shit for the sake of fun. Doing a copy of rc 2015 is already lame enough… such a boring time to choose. Allow creative people to implement silly things and let’s see what happens.ps make me a poop holographic emoticon.

For perspective, this story starts around October 2022 and ends around January 2023
October
When I was in year 11 I was pulled out of my English class along with 2 other students by a different English teacher , we'll call this teacher Lalo. Lalo told us that we were invited to an after school club he hosted called the creative writing club that took place every Wednesday after school.
I'm not much of a writer or anything but I decided to go one day to see what it was like, that and I think Lalo is a rlly cool guy.
So I walk in the room and I look across to the end of the room and I see a girl ( her codename was Lunnettes, my friends came up with it, we'll get to that later) in the year below me, I vaguely recognise her by face because our form rooms are opposite each other. We make eye contact and she instantly starts giggling with her friend. I was intruiged by this, but I didn't talk to them, I just sat and did the activities provided with someone I knew in my year.
I notice that Lunnetes and her friend, we'll call her Yoyo keep giggling and Lunnetes keeps looking at me. Despite all this, I still didn't say a word to her, nor did I catch her name, but she seemed lovely and funny.
This whole glancing and giggling thing continued when I showed again at the club, and it also started happening other places we passed by each other like at break, walking in the hallways etc
This all caused me to develop a lil crush on her, because she seemed lovely, funny and she was cute. Also the idea that she likely thought that I was cute was the main reason I liked her ( I know that that is a stupid reason to like someone, but I was stupid back then)
November
One day I accidentally found her on Instagram ( yes I know that sounds stupid but that's how it happened). I didn't follow the account, because at this point, we still haven't had a conversation, this was also how I found out her name. I also found out that she really liked a specific anime movie, so that gave me an idea, I decided to watch the movie, in hopes that when we do have a convo, and I could bring it up in that convo
At this point , I had told my 3 main friends about it, their code names will be Fox, Capybara and Cricket (ik they are stupid names I just thought of these on the spot), Capybara came up with the code name for her, " Lunnettes" , he decided upon that because she would wear glass's but never over eyes, only above her head which rlly annoyed him, we just decided to roll with it
Then one day I saw her walking by( keep in mind that because of the insta, i knew her name but she didn't know mine or the fact that I knew her name) then I went up to her and asked her if she was going to the writing club that week, and then asked her for her name (even tho i alr knew it), then gave her mine, this then gave me a valid reason to know her name yk
December
Fast forward to the last week of school before the Christmas holidays , one last writing club before Christmas break
I go to the writing Club, and I ask to work with her and her friends (Yoyo included), she said yes, and we actually got on really well. This was when I brought up the movie to her (as if I didn't just watch it to interest her)
Then the Christmas holidays had started and I decided to follow Lunnettes on insta, then at like midnight she follows me back and sends a friend request on snapchat ( my snap is in my insta bio) , I added her back on both
Then around 5 or so days into the holidays she sends a vid on snap to me, the problem is that I opened it in a go karting lobby, so I couldn't hear the vid very well. The vid was of her friends (Yoyo included) at a Christmas party all talking to the camera, the only words I heard were my own name, and the words "alpha male" , and since it was on snap, it wouldn't let me replay it , so I sent a snap back asking what that vid was about, and she responded later saying she didn't even remember sending anything, which was just odd
January
New years eve came round and I sent her a happy new year text, she sent one back with 3 heart emoticons
Holidays end and school starts again
This is where things start to go wrong, the glancing and smiling continued but less frequentthan before, but then I started to start talking to her on snap, and hope that I could get to tall to her at the writing club, I went to that club almost every week but she wasn't rlly showing up to it, and when I'd text her, her interest was lacking. But I was stupid, so I kept perusing.
Then one day she actually showed up to writing club, she didn't look as happy to see me as she did one month ago, I worked with her again, but there was no connection and she seemed disinterested, unlike the time we worked together just before the Christmas holidays. After the club was over, on my way out, I did one of the most regrettable and embarrassing things I've ever done, I asked her if she was free that weekend, she wasn't
Then the next day Capybara and Fox went up to her friend group but just stood next to them, in hopes that I and Cricket would follow them, I did, mistake number 3. And so there we are just stood like 7 metres away from them, and I'm really nervous whilst her friends and my friends are all laughing, then the bell rings and me and my friend walk away, but my other two friends stay there for a moment, as I'm walking away, I hear Yoyo and another one of her friends go over to Capybara and Fox who are still stood there and one of then says "ok, which one of you likes her". Me and Cricket are standing by the gate waiting for the other two to come back, we see them walking to us and they're absolutely dying of laughter, I can tell something bad has happened, my friends come back to me and my other friend and Capybara yells "SHES A LESBIAN!"
My world was completely flipped upside down, I remember feeling like the whole school was gonna find out and that I'd be a laughing stock
But a week passes and I get a text from Yoyo on insta telling me that the whole lesbian thing was a joke and that Lunnettes finds me "fit" (her words not mine) and suggesting that i talk to her, then her other friend messages me, I'm presuming to make fun of me or something but just ended up saying hi. Lunnettes then messages me saying not to listen to them.
Her friends started approaching me and my friend group in school asking us all sorts of weird questions, they even asked Fox if he was "coochie" (again, their words not mine) along with all sorts of odd things for about a week or so every break time.
Then Yoyo messages Fox, and Fox wanted answers, and he ended up finding out the truth. It turns out that lunnets used to like me but doesn't anymore, then lunnets messages him wanting to know what's going on, Lunnettes ends up telling him that she never liked me, according to him she was a "prick" and she said bad things about me to him, even something along the lines of "how could I ever like someone so unsociable" he told me that he was glad I didn't go out with her because she turned out to be horrible.
I believe him, but it's been over a year since all this, so I'm open to the possibility that she's changed, rumors about her tell me that she hasn't, but I take them with a pinch of salt, because at the end of they day, they're rumors/gossip
I haven't heard from her since (at least irl)
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this, anything at all.To those that actually sat through and read all this, thank you very much, I appreciate the fact there's so much to read. :)

Wanna skip the wall of text? Just skip to the Strategy Guide section if you wanna keep information to a minimum. I'd recommend using the rest of the post as a wiki to refer to when you have questions rather than reading through the entire thing to begin with anyway.
I'm gonna try to cover as much as possible and explain almost everything related to the event. Some of the things are still uncleauncertain so I will highlight those.
I will start by explaining every part of the event and then I'll end with a strategy guide for the "optimal" way to complete the pass and some tips.
All images linked below can be found in this imgur album if anybody wants them all in one place instead of having to open multiple links.
The event can be accessed from the main menu in game. The first act is the only one available as of now. Clicking on that takes you to the event section (which functions similarly to the battlepass). There are three tabs: The Overworld Map, The Crownfall Store and the Candyworks Caravan (locked initially).
The Overworld Map
The overworld map consists of (for Act 1) 53 nodes (including the start and finish node). To complete the main quest you'd need a minimum of 21 nodes to be completed. Completing a node involves at the very least reaching said node as well as, for some of the nodes, completing an additional task. To traverse the map you'd need to unlock the paths between nodes using tokens. The tutorial goes over this and gives you a sample token to use.
You can complete upto 35 out of the 53 nodes without making any purchases. The remaining 18 nodes are in the 2 side quests: 11 in Divided They Fall and 7 in The Missing Smith.
Reaching different nodes awards you with Store coins (detailed in the store section), Candy Bags (explained in the candyworks caravan section), Crownfall treasures, MMR Double Down Tokens, Emoticons, Loading Screens, Sprays, Showcase Decorations, Sets, and Style Unlocks for the sets.
Token System:
As for the tokens, they are obtained by literally just playing dota games. Each hero in the game has 3 tokens assigned to them. Examples below:
Ancient Apparation
Sniper
Medusa
Drow Ranger
Troll Warlord
As you might have noticed, some heroes can even have multiple of the same token. There are 18 tokens assigned to heroes (aside from quest specific tokens that are unlocked through other methods): Walking, Running, Flying, Floating, Slithering, Mounted, Crawling, Jumping, Teleportation, Melee, Ranged, Disabler, Escape, Durable, Initiator, Nuker, Pusher and Healer. The token inventory is available at the bottom and shows the list of tokens that can be earned as well as the availability. There is a 19th token type in act 1, namely the pathfinder token that can be unlocked by buying the pack (I will go over this in a later section).
Each hero has 3 tokens assigned to them, each token type has at least 1 hero and up to 3 heroes that have 2 heroes corresponding to them. The two exceptions being crawling (no heroes have 2 crawling tokens but brood has 3) and Nuker (a staggering 7 units have 2 nuker tokens).
Winning a game with a hero gives you all the tokens that are assigned to the hero while losing a game gives you a random 1 out of the 3. Turbo games give 2 tokens for a win and none for a loss. The token system is an overhaul of the pre-existing cavern crawl system. IMO this system is better as you don't have to wait for a hero to unlock to play it, losing still progresses and you're not forced to pick a certain hero at any point (so no more despairing over the chens and earth spirits).
Clicking on a token shows you which heroes provide it and how many of them. You can hold down Shift to select multiple tokens to see which heroes fit a certain combination.
Now back to the map, the paths can require anywhere from 1 to 3 tokens, here's an example of a path needing 1 ranged token, and the token kinds required are random for everyone. Some paths can even require duplicates of the same tokens (one of my nodes needed 2 flying tokens for example). If a path requires multiple tokens, clicking on any of the tokens will show you which heroes fit the combination of the tokens you do not own for the required path to be unlocked. This is how a multi token path looks like.
Edit: The final path before the End node + reward chest actually requires 4 tokens to unlock, u/Asekeeewka and u/PlaneswalkingBadger were kind enough to remind me of the fact.
Upper Half and Lower Half of the map, since I can't get them both in one image.
While most of the nodes just complete on reaching them, some nodes are Encounter nodes that offer additional rewards/features/mechanics to try out. I will go over each and every one of them in order to explain them. They can be identified by being diamond-shaped and bigger than the smaller, circular nodes across the rest of the map.
Start node: Where the journey starts, the only encounter node that isn't diamond shaped.
A Pair of Dangerous Eyes: A dialogue that provides you with 3 tokens, not sure if everyone gets the same 3 but here are mine.
Token Trader: Allows you to trade either 3 of the same tokens or 4 of any combination of tokens for a specific token. Not recommended to use early on (I'll bring this up in my strategy guide later).
Candyworks Caravan: Unlocks the Candyworks Caravan (detailed in a later section).
Fishing With Tidehunter: Fishing minigame, reaching 1k points in a single game gives you a fishing token (required to unlock another part of the map, i forgot which). Reaching 4k, 7k and 10k points also grant 2, 3 and 5 random tokens respectively for a total of 10 tokens. This is optional and can be skipped in favour of just playing more dota games if you find this a hassle (only the fishing token is required to be obtained from here).
To obtain all the rewards a total of 10k points in one minigame would be required (out of 5 fishing attempts). My advice would be to look for the high value fish and try to catch them exclusively and retry/restart if you fail twice. Each high value fish should give you around 2.5k points so just 4 of them should be enough.
You can aim for specific fish by moving your mouse left and right accordingly (look at the cursor position) and then holding down the left mouse button to adjust power. The closest fish to where the lure lands will be the one that gets hooked. Catching the fish is then akin to how you'd do it in stardew valley, clicking/holding the left mouse button makes the bar go up and releasing it makes it go down, the goal is to move the bar to match the movement of the fish.
Sometimes there won't be any so I'd recommend restarting.
Hard to show with just images and no video but these are the high value fish, they're also harder to catch though.
There's an even higher rarity but that doesn't spawn often and is even harder to catch, it gives like 4k points or sth tho iirc.
Edit : another tip here from u/kughanr
Fadho the First-Time Snake Charmer: Provides a slithering token after you win a game, iirc this reward refreshes once a day according to some people (I'd like confirmation on whether it does so and if there's a limit to this).
This comment from u/Storytellergg seems to indicate that only unranked and ranked wins count towards obtaining a token and that turbo games do not count. However, this other comment from u/n0stalghia seems to indicate that you get the token even if you lose your game.
Future Site of Scree'Auk Temple: A pyramid-scheme like dialogue that requires you to provide 4, 8, 12 and 16 tokens (the specific tokens required are likely randomly generated and different for everyone) according to this comment. The rewards are 4 candy bags, 6 candy bags, 10 rerolls on the candyworks caravan and 12 candies respectively. I am currently at the 12 token part and this is how the interface looks atm.
An Always-Closed Candlemaker's Shop: Supposedly provides a candle token that is supposed to unlock a currently inaccessible part of the map due to the token not being available right now. The token will likely be available during a later act so don't worry about this for now.
The Pecking Post: Allows you to pick 1 out of 3 random heroes to "free". Freeing a hero rewards you with the 3 tokens assigned to that hero. You can only pick 1 hero to free. This node is locked behind the Pathfinder Side Quest, Divided They Fall and cannot be accessed without purchasing the pack.
A Mysterious-Looking Vendor: I don't remember exactly so somebody correct me in the comments if this is wrong but if I recall correctly, this node allows you to pick one of the 3 options given which involves trading 1 of a specific token for 5 other tokens. There can be duplicates in the 5 tokens you'd obtain as a reward. You cannot pick more than 1 of the deals.. This node is locked behind the Pathfinder Side Quest, The Missing Smith and also cannot be accessed without purchasing the pack.
The Crownfall Store:
The next part to explain is the Crownfall Store.
First of all there's crownfall coins that are obtainable around the map. 10 coins can be used on any item in the shop for an 8 USD or equivalent currency (635 INR for me, for example) discount on it. Any item 8 USD or lower becomes free. There are 15 coins available in act 1 and 10 more coins locked behind the side quests unlocked by the pack.
Now obviously to maximize value we'd wanna use these on items worth 635 (I'm just gonna use the INR currencies here, I apologize in advance for any confusion) or more, which thankfully most items are. The Midgate Pathfinder Pack is 1190 (seems to be 15 usd?) or 555 after the coin discount, the Crownfall Royal Bundle which is 635 (8 USD) aka free after the discount and the arcanas at 2790 each (35 USD) which become 2155 after the discount are the relevant stuff here that i'd be focusing on.
The store contains the following items:
"The Ressurrection of Shen" - Vengeful Spirit Arcana
"The Devotion of Dragonus" - Skywrath Mage Arcana
"Midgate Pathfinder Pack" - Think of the event as being a free battlepass and this purchase the paid/premium battlepass with extra content, akin to what you'd find in other games with battlepasses. Gives you the custom creeps and the tokens to unlock the side quests, one of which provides you with a riki immortal as a reward for completing it.
"Crownfall Royal bundle" - Provides 30 candy bags, 10 Caraval Rerolls and 20 MMR double down tokens.
Crownfall Treasures 1 and 2 - Can be purchased individually or in sets of 9 for a discount of approximately 10-11%.
The side quests also give u 10 coins in total so the pack is the best thing to buy first since u get the coins back. There are 15 coins in act 1 and 10 coins from the pack quests so 25 unlockable coins in total (15 left to spend after buying the pack.
I'll detail the optimal purchase routes for various scenarios later.
The Candyworks Caravan:
The interface looks like this. This is a rehaul of the candystore from last year. As of now the candyworks caravan has 20 slots for candy (with 10 more locked) and 2 rewards slots available. The tooltip indicates that the caravan can be upgraded by visiting more nodes on the maps but since there's only the 1 node in Act 1, the assumption is that the upgrades will be available in future acts. The upgrades will likely increase the candy limit, it is uncertain/unclear atm if we will also get more reward slots in future upgrades.
Edit: The upgrades are actually shown in game when you first unlock the Candyworks Caravan. This image from u/lessenizer indicates that the candyshop unlocks would reward the following from each act:
Act 1 - 3 additional candies obtained for each caravan unlocked
Act 2 - 1 Additional space on the Candyworks Shelf aka 3 item slots instead of 2
Act 3 - Not 100% sure but this seems to be an additional recipe for the weekly candy exchanges.
Act 4 - 10 more candy slots, increasing the space from 20 to 30.
Opening candy bags reward you with a random 1 out of the 5 available candy (all of which can be seen in the image above). The reward slots display random rewards that you can exchange candy to obtain. If you don't have the required candy, you can also exchange certain kinds of candy for others. 3 such recipes are available weekly for exchanges and you can exchange for any of the recipes as many times as you'd like during that week. Apart from which you can also exchange 3 of a particular candy for any of the other 4 candy.
If you don't like the available rewards, you can also reroll your caravan to obtain a new set of rewards. Rerolls are earned by winning dota games. Turbo games provide half a reroll. You can earn 10 such rerolls a week this way.

Candyworks Caravan items drop chance and cost
Hero Set (4 candies) — 63.1%
Wards (5 candies) — 12.62%
Courier (5 candies) — 9.46%
Old Treasure (8 candies) — 6.31%
Announcer (9 candies) — 4.73%
Treasure with Immortal items (12 candies) — 3.15%
Event Coins (14 candies) — 0.315%
Arcana (16 candies) — 0.315%

Source: https://escorenews.com/en/dota-2/news/57898-dota-2-crownfall-candy-shop-drop-chances-are-revealed-it-might-take-around-160-rerolls-to-get-an-arcana
Also I've seen elsewhere that the coins mentioned above are 10 coins, so an entire discount's worth.
Additionally the arcana pool has also been datamined.

Demon Eater (Shadow Fiend)
Blades of Voth Domosh (Legion Commander)
Feast of Abscession Bundle (Pudge)
Tempest Helm of the Thundergod (Zeus)
Swine of the Sunken Galley Bundle (Techies)
Fiery Soul of the Slayer (Lina)
Fractal Horns of Inner Abysm (Terrorblade)
Frost Avalanche Bundle (Crystal Maiden)
Flockheart's Gamble Bundle (Ogre Mage)
Manifold Paradox Bundle (Phantom Assassin)
The Magus Cypher Bundle (Rubick)
Bladeform Legacy Bundle (Juggernaut)
Great Sage's Reckoning Bundle (Monkey King)

Source: https://escorenews.com/en/dota-2/news/57869-dataminers-leak-list-of-free-arcanas-to-earn-in-crownfall-s-candyworks-caravan
The shop reset at 7 AM GMT on Thursday, weekly. After each of these resets you will obtain 3 new recipes and can earn 10 more rerolls that week. As of now it is unclear whether you keep leftover rerolls, we'd have to wait for the first reset to confirm whether or not we do.
Edits:
Correction here from u/Aluerie. There are 2 separate weekly resets on Thursday. The one at 7 AM GMT changes the available candy conversion recipes while another one at 4PM GMT is when the weekly rerolls would reset.
A comment from FanFiTa regarding the rerolls not stacking can be seen here.
Also further clarification from u/ Lombrado and u/Yash_swaraj in these comments below regarding the rerolls.
Buying rerolls from bundles or obtaining them from the temple (not 100% sure for this one but I believe it to also be the case) will grant you the full number of rerolls. So say you have 4 rerolls left and you obtain 10 from the bundle, you'd be at 14. However you would no longer be able to obtain any of the weekly rerolls until your current reroll number goes below 10.
Strategy Guide:
So now the question is, "How do I grind the event efficiently?" and I'm here to answer that. Make sure to at the very least read the tl;dr and question 8 of the FAQ below.
Since you obtain 3 tokens for a win, you're guaranteed to obtain the token kind you need when you win, even if the corresponding hero only has 1 of said token assigned to them. And losing still grants you a 1 in 3 chance. However, turbo games providing 2 tokens for a win means there's still a chance to not get the right tokens when you win and you get none when you lose. Playing turbo is ineffecient and not recommended if grinding the event is the focus, stick to unranked
Outside of the encounter nodes, the event is pretty straightforward, you can click on a token type or hold down shift to select a combination to decide what hero you'd need to play. I'
Firstly for the encounter nodes. Some of them are just obtaining rewards so those are pretty straightforward. The ones that need extra context are the Token Trader, The Future Site of Scree'Auk Temple and to a lesser degree, the Pecking Post and the Mysterious Looking Vendor.
The Token Trader is pretty inefficient (3 or 4 tokens exchanged for 1) and should not be used until the very end. I have not used it once yet and I'm at 52/53 (only Scree'Auk Temple remaining, 2/4 parts completed). It should not be used be used until u have the final part of Scree'Auk Temple unlocked and no other hidden paths so u know for sure that the tokens that you're converting are indeed excess tokens and not tokens that might be needed later on. The only acceptable scenario to use it earlier than that would be if you cannot play ANY of the heroes that have a particular token type assigned to them.
The pecking post and the mysterious vendor are efficient (3 free tokens and 1 token exchanged for 5) and so you don't NEED to treat it the same way, but it is more efficient to kinda do the same with regards to claiming those as well.
As for Scree'Auk's Temple, I'd personally recommend prioritizing parts 1 and 2 of it over other paths on the map (once you have it unlocked ofc) so you know what you'd need for part 3 before progressing elsewhere.
And well now the important part, the tl;dr:
Progress down the main path from the start.
Unlock A Pair of Dangerous Eyes.
The Token Trader isn't a priority.
Unlock the Candyworks Caravan.
Unlock the Fishing With Tidehunter node and try the minigame out (read above for instructions/tips). Ideally try to get 10k here as it cuts down the tokens required by a fair bit. You need 1k at least to progress the story later.
Unlock Fadho the First-Time Snake Charmer and collect 1 token every day after you win a game.
You have the option to also progress the side quest Lost and Found now. None of the nodes are a priority, so you shouldn't focus on this node, but progressing it while focusing on the main quest is always a nice bonus.
If you plan to buy the battlepass however, completing the first node rewards with 3 more coins, which puts you at 12 coins when you finish the next step
You reach the Future Site of Scree'Auk Temple. The node before this also gives you the last required coins to get the discount on the pack. It's probably most efficient to finish the 4 and 8 token submissions ASAP.
Buy the battlepass now using the discount if you plan to. Make sure you've enabled the discount and you see the discounted price before you purchase it.
You don't NEED to finish the main quest right away but its like 2 nodes away at this point so you might as well.
(Battlepass buyers optional step) If you wanna be extra efficient however, I'd rush the side quests from the battlepass and unlock the Pecking Post and the Vendor first.
Finish the 4 and 8 token submissions in the temple if you haven't already.
Finish all the remaining nodes in whatever order you'd like.
Read the Token Trader section so you'll have an idea of when to use him, if you'd need to. I'd personally not bother until you're at the 16 token submission for the Scree'Auk Temple.
Now for the Scree'Auk Temple. DON'T claim the 12 token reward (10 free rerolls) until after we confirm that the rerolls stack (which we'd know for sure on Thursday, read FAQs 2 and 3 below).
If the rerolls do stack, just finish the Temple now. If they don't stack, wait for Act 4 to fully upgrade the candyshop before u claim the rerolls from the Temple. Don't purchase the candyworks bundle yet either, for the same reason mentioned above.
Edit: We have (sorta) confirmation, don't claim the 10 free reroll reward until after you've unlocked at the very least the second candyworks caravan from Act 2 so you'd have 3 slots instead of just 2. You do not NEED to wait for Act 4. Similarly, do not purchase any of the shop bundles at least until Act 2 is out and you've upgraded the caravan.
FAQ:
Q1. Do we have to buy pathfinder packs for each act?
A: Unknown/unclear as of now. Likely yes but we have no confirmation as of now.
Q2: Do we keep the rerolls earned after a weekly reset or do those reset to 0 as well? Does the shop get automatically rerolled at the end of the week.
A: Both unknown/unclear as of now. Comments have claimed that those stacked from last year and didn't reset so if that's true, that's likely the case. I doubt the shop rerolls automatically either, but we don't have confirmation yet.
Q3: Should I use all my rerolls now or later?
A: If, according to the previous statement, the rerolls do stack, it'd be best to save them for when we finish upgrading the candyworks caravan (likely in act 4?) to get maximum value out of the rerolls. If they don't however, then just use the weekly rerolls as you obtain them and hold the Scree'Auk Temple ones for when we get to Act 4 (also don't buy any of the Candyworks bundles until Act 4 in this scenario)
Q4: What rewards are worth claiming from the Candy Store?
A: I'd personally say the Arcanas are always worth it. The 10 coins are as well (I'd personally always buy them since they equate to a full candyworks bundle so 10 more rerolls). The immortal treasures are kinda debatable but I personally wouldn't. Everything else is not worth it imo. However most of the other stuff is cheap enough to the point where I'd say if you see something you like, go ahead and claim it! It probably won't cost enough to make you lose out on an Arcana.
Q5: Are the candyworks rewards tradable/marketable? What about the Venge/Sky Arcanas?
A: Going off last year's candyworks equivalent, the rewards should mostly not be tradable/marketable. The Venge and Sky Arcanas, as well as the Riki Immortal from the side quest, are marketable in 2025.
Q6: Will candy/tokens reset when we get act 2?
A: Tokens will not reset but you apparently can't earn more tokens after 53/53ing the map and the inventory does say Act 1 inventory, so it's likely you'd need to farm separate tokens for each act. It is highly unlikely that candy will change as the caravan seems to be independent of the map outside of potentially upgrading the caravan.
Q7: Can you stack multiple coins on a purchase? Can you use coins on gifts?
A: No you cannot. Confirmation from GoodWin on his discord server. You can only use 10 coins (aka a single discount per purchase). You can use coins on gift purchases as well though, also confirmed by GoodWin.
Q8: Most optimal path to purchase stuff?
A: Gonna split this into a few cases. Note that for all cases, buying the pathfinder's pack gives you 10 coins in return so you don't lose the discount. So its just a matter of considering the pack at its discounted price is worth it. The pack provides you with 20 candy bags, 3 Treasures, the Riki Immortal, the custom creeps and a couple of style unlocks as well as the last few emotes/sprays. This purchase is skippable if you don't feel it's worth the money. However do keep in mind, purchasing the pack is required if you plan on unlocking the 3rd style of the venge arcana.
If you are purchasing the pack, make that your first purchase. I personally am purchasing it for the style unlock.
In all the cases below I will skip the optional step 0 of purchasing the pack, if you plan on doing so, make that your first purchase.
Case 1 - If you don't plan on buying the Arcanas or the treasuresat all. I'd just spend all the coins on the Candyworks bundles at the end of the event (or right away if we confirm they stack so you have more time to spend your double down tokens if you'd like).
Case 2 - If you do plan on buying the Arcanas, just spend your first discount on whichever one you want and you should be able to get the other discounted during Act 2. All the remaining coins can go into buying candywork bundles(costs nothing with the discount) or buying treasures if you want.
Case 3 - You plan on skipping the arcanas but wanna buy the treasures. Buy the treasures whenever you have the discount available and save for your money for now. Ince we have all 4 acts out and you've obtained and spent all the discounts, you can consider buiying them at full price.
My personal priority list has been Pack (purchased) -> Venge Arcana Purchased -> Sky Aracana -> Spamming candyworks bundles. I plan to not purchase any of the treasures. If any packs release for the future acts I will purchase those first as well, once the discount is available for them.
That should be everything, if you have any other questions feel free to ask and I'd answer them to the best of my knowledge.
Q9: Do double down tokens expire or do we get to keep them after the event ends?
A: The last time we had a battlepass of this nature the tokens expired when the pass did so expect this time to be the same. No official confirmation but its highly unlikely they change this.
Q10: When do I stop earning tokens?
A: You stop earning tokens when you have completed EVERYTHING on the map that requires a token. You do not need to worry about this, if you complete everything except Scree'Auk Temple, you still earn tokens. If you were to stop earning tokens, that would imply you don't need them anymore. This also implies that the token inventory for Act 1 very likely does NOT carry over to future Acts.
Q11: How long do I have to wait to claim the rerolls from Scree'Auk Temple and/or buy the Crownfall Royal Bundle?
A: There are 2 relevant milestones here. Well 3 if we include actually unlocking the caravan but I'll not count that one.
The first and most important one is unlocked during Act 2, a 3rd item slot for the caravan, essentially making every reroll 50% more efficient. Do NOT claim rerolls from the Temple or buy the royal bundle until you've unlocked this version of the shop.
The second, less important one is during Act 4 where we get 10 more slots for candy. The reason this is relevant is that the Arcanas require 16 candy (and coins require 12) out of 20 slots. That only leaves 4 to 8 slots worth of leeway so if you end up missing more of the right candy than those slots worth, you'd likely be forced to make less efficient trades to claim the arcanas or whatever. Waiting for Act 4 can give you more wiggle room and there's no downside in doing so, so this would be the most "optimal" way to do it.
However, I understand many of you (and myself as well) are impatient and wanna gamble try our luck early on, so if you fall into this category, you can do it after Act 2.
Good luck and happy grinding.
Edit: thanks to u/FanFiTa , rerolls do not stack apparently. If this is the case use all your weekly rerolls and don't finish the 3rd part of Scree'Auk Temple or buy any of the candy bundles until after the Candyworks Caravan is fully upgraded, likely wait for Act 4.
Edit(s) 2:
1) Thanks to u/lessenizer for the image and u/CuteNepgear as well as others in the comments for pointing out that the candyworks upgrade list and order were shown in game when the candyworks is first unlocked. The optimal way to use the rerolls has been updated accordingly.
2) Additional information as to whether or not the rerolls stack
3) More info on the slithering tokens
4) 3 more FAQs pertaining to questions that've been asked in the comments below
5) Fishing tip added from
6) Correction on the max tokens a path could require thanks to u/Asekeeewka and u/PlaneswalkingBadger.
7) Correction on the weekly reset time thanks to u/Aluerie

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Edit: Please refer to this guide here instead, it's updated with all the relevant info.
After just waking up and reading through shit for 10 mins, I might have some sorta idea about the most optimal spending route for the event, if somebody wants to buy stuff and get value for their money.
Note there will be assumptions since it's unclear about what stuff in act 2+ will have and the coin system as well, if there's any reliable information regarding this, please let me know and I'll edit accordingly.
Quick explanation on how the event works first. There's an event map that works similar to cavern crawl. You have paths that need tokens to unlock. Unlike cavern crawl though where you'd mostly be forced to play specific heroes, these tokens seem to be more generic. Each hero has 3 predermined tokens and winning a game will grant you the 3 tokens specified, while losing will grant you a random 1. A turbo win only counts for 2(also random) and a turbo loss gives you none, so I'd recommend avoiding the mode if you plan to grind. I'll share some token distributions for some heroes below.
Ancient Apparation
Sniper
Medusa
Drow Ranger
Troll Warlord
The first path to unlock requires a nuker token but you get a free token from the tutorial for it so the first actual path requires a ranged token a random token, mine happened to be ranged.
Edit: some paths also require multiple tokens, my very next path requires a ranged and a flying token.
Edit 2: some paths can require 3 tokens as well.
Now with that out of the way, we can talk purchasables.
Entire shop
First of all there's crownfall coins that are obtainable around the map. 10 coins can be used on any item in the shop for an 8 USD or equivalent currency (635 INR for me, for example) discount on it. Any item 8 USD or lower becomes free. There are 15 coins available in act 1 and 10 more coins
Now obviously to maximize value we'd wanna use these on items worth 635 (I'm just gonna use the INR currencies here, I apologize in advance for any confusion) or more, which thankfully most items are. The Midgate Pathfinder Pack is 1190 (seems to be 15 usd?) or 555 after the coin discount, the Crownfall Royal Bundle which is 635 (8 USD) aka free after the discount and the arcanas at 2790 each (35 USD) which become 2155 after the discount are the relevant stuff here that i'd be focusing on. I'll be ignoring the treasures for now.
The pack unlocks 2 side quests that have their own rewards (including the riki immortal). The side quests also give u 10 coins in total so that's the best thing to buy first since u get the coins back. There are 15 coins in act 1 and 10 coins from the pack quests so 25 unlockable coins. That means 10 each for the pack and another item of choice, let's say the crownfall royal bundle (I'll explain what the other rewards in this are later). Now I have 5 coins leftover and assuming act 2 has the same 15 coin reward, that's 20 coins, 10 each for the arcanas. Any coins leftover from act 3 and act 4 can go towards buying treasures if u so wish.
So tldr: Earn 10 coins then purchase Midgate Pathfinder pack, finish side quests and purchase the arcanas and potentially the royal bundle all after.
The pack routes also seem to have 3 coins in each quest so another 6 coins that seem to be independent of the quest rewards(i think, not sure), so you'd be at 21 coins after buying the pack and can buy both arcanas as well.
The arcanas and treasures are pretty self-explanatory, but what about the royal bundle? Why would anyone buy that? Out of the other rewards that includes emoticons, sprays and what not (and even mmr double down tokens!), there's candy sacks which can be used in the candyworks caravan. I assume this works like last year's candy shop where we can earn arcanas and stuff based off the description, I'll update you guys when I find out.
That should be everything of note, please ask if you have any questions.
Edit: https://imgur.com/a/ztfvqzf all the images in one place.
Edit 2: I'm not sure if u can stack the coin discounts (ie spend 20 coints for -1270 instead of 10 for minus -635) but either way you can't get more than 15 coins without buying the pack anyway, so you guys might as well just buy the pack as soon as you can and worry about the rest later