Niu Pico

I’ve been spying on the Pigg Matsuri area for a few days and anticipating it’s arrival in Pico. The area got released just as I got back from work, so I made like the Pico-Nerd that I am, and jumped straight into game to check out the clothes~

The handbags are all so cute… am I going to be in trouble…

A fellow Pico spotted Niu wearing matchy matchy outfits with her, so came over for a dance.

Of course, I am all about late night pixel dancing… met Carl, Rainie and Aika-Ball and we rallied to recruit a fifth to test out that special “surprise” that was hinted at on the Pico site area release announcement.

Dance together with your Pico buddies circling around on the beat of the Japanese drums!!!
Something exciting will happen if you dance together with 4 other Picos!!
So make sure you give it a try!!

What!?  What!?  What is it!?  :D

This guy freaky looking guy called “……..” (yeah, that’s his name) was our first recruit, but didn’t stay long… we just thought that the lag was atrocious and he wasn’t patient enough to trigger the event…

And so we zoned to Matsuri 16!  Here we are zoning… pink seems to be the color-du-jour of Zone 7… Some eclectic combos here~

Matsuri 16 was almost a private party.  Usagi, who was also equipped with the bon-dance-action and his Japanese friend, whose name eludes me, followed us over.

Carl was big on formations and took great care directing where each person should stand and which direction we should face. Xi the Bushman (from the Gods Must be Crazy) decided he had to join, but sadly didn’t care too much about the art of being perfectly spaced.

Well, soon he left and we had the run of the tower.  We’d been dancing all this time and no event got triggered.  No dancing NPCs, no fireworks…  *Nothing* happened.  Carl was sure it had something to do with placement and Usagi was convinced it had to do with timing.  I thought it was neither… especially since the lag was killing all of us.  And then again, even when there isn’t lag, if I’m dance-emoting on a laptop next to my brother, our Picos could be in sync on my computer, but not on his.  Anyways, it’s Ameba Pico!  How complicated can it get!?

Usagi thinks that since there isn’t a star award, the Ameba peeps probably forgot to roll out a feature… So Carl posts something on the forum to demand some answers.  Anyways, the sparklers come out.  Sadly, they only last a minute each.  They also have a little timer panel on the side of your interface, like a MMORPG effect countdown.

The night went on and nothing got resolved… Sad!