Key Quest | |
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1.00 Points = 1 NP | |
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Neopia Central | |
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High Score Page (Defunct) | |
The Daily Neopets | |
Key Quest was Card & Board game from Neopia Central on Neopets. It was hosted by Bree, who was effectively known as the Key Quest Faerie.
Gameplay[]
Key Quests involved 2-4 players, with their main objective being to collect 2-5 differently coloured keys on the board before being the first to reach the Quest Door.[1] At the end, everyone was awarded with NP that they had accumulated during gameplay, as well as a reward key (gold for 1st, silver for 2nd, bronze for 3rd, and lead for 4th) that they could the open the vault with and receive some more prizes.
Tokens[]
Tokens are items that served as the players' game pieces. If the player had more than one, they would have the option to select which token to use each time they would start a game. (This could be done via the player's Quick List in their Collector's Case.)
Alignments[]
Each token had an alignment based on the six Faerie elements: water, fire, light, dark, air, and earth. If a player landed on a tile with the same alignment as their token, it would boost them; one the other hand, landing on a tile of a different alignment as their token would curse them.
Charms[]
Hexes[]
How to Obtain[]
Some tokens can be obtained in multiple ways.
Starter Tokens[]
Each player was awarded a free, basic token the first time they played Key Quest if they had not already purchased and/or redeemed one already. They could not choose which token they would receive, trade for a different one, or own more than one starter token.
Merchandise Codes[]
Originally, tokens could only be redeemed via special Key Quest codes, which came with corresponding Neopets merch (i.e, plushies)*. When entered, these codes would award the player an exclusive item.
*Said merch is no longer being sold in stores, making certain Key Quest tokens difficult to obtain. Luckily, a large majority of these have been re-released through the NC Mall.[2]
NC Mall[]
The tokens available in the NC Mall are a mixture of exclusive and re-released tokens, and typically cost between 250-500 NC. Once activated, it cannot be traded to other players.
Site Events[]
When Key Quest was a more popular site feature, tokens could also be obtained from certain site events such as the Advent Calendar[3] and Daily Dare.[4][5]
Boards[]
There were different types of boards, Sweet 1 being the most popular out of them all.
- Neopia Central
- Haunted Woods
- Terror Mountain
- Sweet 1
- Springtime
- Ti-Key
- Moltara
- Sweet 2
- Springtime 2
- Ti-Key 2
- Neovia
- Ice Caves
- Sweet 3
- Springtime 3
- Ti-Key 3
- Haunted Woods 2
Mini-Games[]
In between the general gameplay, players would compete in some Mini-Games, which were activated via landing on the starry space or activating a Pocket Minigame power-up. At the end each one, players were awarded with in-game Neopoints, while the winner would be awarded with a key or power-up of their choice.
- Berry Blast - Players blasted Bomberries from the tree to get the most points.
- Purple Bomberry - 1pt
- Red Bomberry - 2pts
- Grey Bomberry - 3pts
- Daring Dig (removed) - Each player controlled their Zomutts to dig toward the finish line.
- Faerie Labyrinth (removed) - Each player controlled their Faellies to make it to the maze's treasure.
- Flower Frenzy - A Neogarden version of Techo Says.
- Fruit Picker - Players had to gather fruits from the tree into their appropriately coloured baskets.
- Ghastly Guzzler - Players competed to see who could toss the most food at the Esophagor. Be careful, though - feeding him too much food at once caused him to vomit! Getting hit by the vomit caused the player(s) to lose points.
- Neogarden Grow - The players' objective was to tend to their flowers and harvest them once fully grown.
- Nova Matcher - Players had to get points by removing 2 or move Novas of the same kind.
- Orbliteration - Each player controlled a Cuttlebot and competed to see who could collect the most orbs, while also avoiding Kreludor's craters.
- Blue orb - 25 pts
- Pink orb - 125 pts
- Petpet Pamper - Players had to hose down a very dirty Meowclops.
- Petpet Pond - Players had to fish for aquatic Petpets to see who could pull in the most points.
- Petpetpet Snare - Players had to draw loops around Petpetpets to catch them.
- Poogle Carnival Racing (removed) - Players had to throw darts to make their respective Poogles win.
- Shenkuu Showers - Players had to keep the Pandaphants dry from the rain, while also avoiding pink storm clouds (which shrank the player's umbrella).
- Cloud - Protected the player's umbrella from the storm clouds' lightning for 10 seconds.
- Lightning - Doubled the player's points for 10 seconds.
- Umbrella - Doubled the size of the player's umbrella for 10 seconds.
- Spyder Scare - Each player controlled a Robot Spyder to see who could collect the most bolts. There were also power-up orbs to collect.
- Dark Orb - Froze one of the player's opponents.
- Silver Orb - Sped up the player.
Power-Ups[]
Super Power-Ups[]
Super Power-Ups were essentially beefed-up versions of their normal counterparts.
Character Cards[]
Location Cards[]
Once a player landed on a location space, they would be awarded with 200 in-game Neopoints.
Random Events[]
History[]
Release[]
Key Quest was launched on July 3rd, 2008 (in premium beta - it was fully released on October 18th).
Retirement[]
The game was taken down the site on September 18th, 2014, following Neopets' transition from Nickelodeon to JumpStart servers as key files for the game were lost in the process.[6]
On July 19th, 2018, JumpStart CEO Dark Lord had announced [at Comic Con] that Key Quest would be returning as a mobile game, but on December 3rd, 2019, it was announced that the plans will not go through for the time being due to TNT shifting their focus on converting Flash games.[7]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/history/key-quest/
- ↑ https://www.jellyneo.net/?go=keyquest&id=tokens
- ↑ https://www.jellyneo.net/?go=advent&id=08
- ↑ https://www.jellyneo.net/?go=gamesmaster08
- ↑ https://www.jellyneo.net/?go=dailydare09
- ↑ https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/history/key-quest/
- ↑ https://www.jellyneo.net/?comments=13290