Distorted Signals Expedition

The Distorted Signals Expedition is the Camp NaNo event for July 2023.

## Event Outline

* June 28th: The timer and event page appeared, with the event set to kick off on June 30th at Noon EDT.
* June 30th: The event began with the opening of the Alien Teleport Station.
	+ The Alien Teleport Station included 13 Aliens - 10 which haven't been seen since the 2019 Meteoroid event, and 3 new creatures - 10 quests, and token and crystal stores.
	+ Nowigno returned to the Multiplayer Battle Room, along with 2 new quests.
	+ The event timeline was announced, with each stage adding additional creatures and items based on community votes:
		- July 5th - Teleportation Ready, Signal Deciphering Begins + Voting Phase 1
		- July 9th - Voting Phase 2
		- July 13th - Voting Phase 3
		- July 17th - All Creatures Teleported
	+ Two 6 months subscription bundles were added as a special sale, one including the Alien Background.
* July 5th: 3 "Glitch" creatures were added, along with a short 2 part quest chain.
A community challenge was introduced, in which the glitched creatures fought the most times will have their regular version added to the event (first and second place of each round).
* July 7th & 8th: The glitched images began to resolve, becoming more clearly defined and narrowing their color palettes.
* July 9th: 5 new creatures were added - 2 "clear" creatures, and 3 additional glitches. 3 quests were also added, along with additional Wardrobe and House items.
* July 11th & 12th: The new glitches became clearer.
* July 13th: 5 new creatures were added - 2 "clear" creatures, and 3 additional glitches. 3 quests were also added, along with additional Wardrobe items (House items were added as quest rewards).
* July 16th: The new glitches became clearer (this happened a day later than with the previous rounds).
* July 17th: 2 "clear" creatures were added, along with two quests and additional wardrobe items (a single house item was added as a quest reward).
The images for the glitches from the previous round have also been updated.
A new 72-hour voting round started, including the three glitches which have lost the previous rounds, with only the first place winner to be added as a "clear" creature.
* July 20th: 2 new creatures were added - Lijon and Giant 404 Glitch, along with additional Wardrobe and House items.
A new 96-hour **Giant 404 Glitch Community Challenge** was added, set to end at 4:44PM on July 24th, which involved fighting the new giant glitch as many times as possible, with several reward tiers (for 10 tokens each, once unlocked):
	+ 1,500 times - Alien Teleport Station Profile Background (for the Account page)
	+ 3,000 times - 404 Glitch Poster (House item)
	+ 6,000 times - 404 Glitch Hair (Wardrobe item)
* July 24th: Only the first 2 Milestones were achieved during the challenge. A new Gratitude quest was added.
* August 1st: The event ended at 4:44 PM EDT.

## Lore

### June 28th

The aliens have heard that we'll soon venture out into the worlds beyond our Valley. So they bring with them scans of creatures from those distant worlds so that we may know what's out there. It's our opportunity to gather as much information as possible before we venture out into the unknown.

Together, we'll prepare a teleportation lab where we'll beam in these creatures using the scans they've collected! These novel creatures will give us a glimpse of these new worlds and prepare us for our journey ahead.

### June 30th

The Aliens have set up a new lab close to their main base on the Impact Crater, and the new special event area “Alien Teleport Station” is open for every Dust Warrior!

During this first phase of the event we’ll be meeting the alien crew and helping them get their teleport station ready. The station should be finished in a week or so.

Letter from Captain Piak:

*Greetings Dust Warriors,*

*It is I, Captain Piak. While I’m currently away from the Teleport Station on business, I’ve placed Commander Niftra in charge and told Zals to stay away from the area. We have no need of any more Zanutaki running amok on the ship.*

*In fact, the Teleport Station is a project of Morvivia’s. She’s been working on collecting records from other islands surrounding the Valley, and has devised a machine which will replicate flora and fauna from collected images.*

*Morvivia is slightly new to my crew, and I’m asking you to help her as much as you can. Truthfully, I feel Scout Saso has already made fast friends with others on board and Lusas joined highly recommended by their siblings, so I worry… I digress though, disregard that. I’m sure Commander Niftra will be warm and welcoming.*

*I look forward to seeing what delightful new life forms have been found. And again. No laboratory splicing experiments.*

*I’ll be back in a star’s blink,*

*Captain Piak.*

### July 5th

The aliens have brought with them scans of creatures from World 2, but the Dust in the Valley has glitched the scans, and they need our help deciphering the glitched scans so we can teleport those creatures into the Valley!

### July 9th

Everything seems to be running normally with the teleporter so Morvivia and the other aliens are starting the next round of voting immediately. This time we’ll be teleporting in slight larger monsters and the three new glitches (201, 202 & 203) are available for fighting and voting.

### July 13th

The next round of voting begins immediately with our largest monsters yet! Hopefully the teleporter holds for the full experiment.

### July 17th

The aliens are very happy with the way teleportation experiments are going so we’re going to try one last teleportation! The losing glitches from each round will have one last chance to be teleported to the event, this time, only the winning glitch will be teleported.

### July 20th

As the last creature, Lijon (Glitch 102) was teleported into the lab, it caused the teleporter to overheat. Morvivia and the other aliens tried to shut the teleporter down but the system glitched and a new Giant Glitch monster appeared at the Alien Teleport Station!

The Giant 404 Glitch is threatening the entire area so a community challenge, where every Dust Warrior helps defeat the giant in small chunks of 500 words, has been called to action.

We have 96 hours to defeat the 404 Glitch monster 6,000 times (3 million words) between all of us. Each Dust Warrior battle will add to our community total.

The Aliens are offering new rewards as we cross battle milestones. Each time we cross a milestone that reward will be added to the Alien Token Store for 10 tokens.

We need your help at the Alien Teleporter Station Dust Warriors, together, we’ll defeat the Giant 404 Glitch!

To battle!

### July 24th

With the 404 Glitch under control the Alien Teleport Lab area is safe to remain open for the final week of the event. The aliens will be conducting safety checks, but no further experiments are expected.

## Badge

The Distorted Signals Badge was given to every dust warrior who fought any monster during the event.

## Multiplayer Battle Room Quests

Repeatable
Medium: 12,320
Hard: 14,080
    Win 4 Co-Op battles with a hard difficulty or higher
    Win 4 Co-Op battles with a medium difficulty or higher

## Co-Op Battles

**Nowigno**
1,100 words/60 minutes
(on Easy Difficulty)

## Voting Challenge

Each stage of the challenge determined which creatures were to be added to the event.

### Round 1

Contenders:

**Glitch 101****Glitch 102****Glitch 103**
Teleported:

**Takkat**
First Place**Hlao**
Second Place
### Round 2

Contenders:

**Glitch 201****Glitch 202****Glitch 203**
Teleported:

**Rokya**
First Place**Toscion**
Second Place
The results for this round were very close.

### Round 3

Contenders:

**Glitch 301****Glitch 302****Glitch 303**
Teleported:

**Yurto**
First Place**Ranha**
Second Place
### Round 4

This round included all the losing creatures from the previous rounds, and a single winner.

Contenders:

**Glitch 102****Glitch 202****Glitch 303**
Teleported:

**Lijon**