I, Lumen Quill, have a lot of virtual pets and stories to tell about them. This website is here to archive all those feelings and boast about my collection.
Digital Monster (DMOG)
I obtained my first Digimon v-pet almost entirely by fluke. Since I was a little kid, I had the loose goal of owning the quest game digivice from each season of the Digimon anime. One day, while browsing eBay for digitizes in the mid 2010s, I discovered a lot containing an English D-3 and a yellow cased original v-pet. It was fairly priced, however I didn’t have the money at the time, but a friend did and kindly bought the lot for it for me, changing the course of my life forever.I distinctly remember the listing saying they wouldn’t send batteries with the lot, but when it arrived the DMOG (as the original v-pet were called) had a battery in it and displayed the image of a bouncing egg on screen. For those who know DMOGs, this is just what the startup screen looks like, but I thought I had done something and the egg had already been booted, so I hastily set the time and began my journey to raise that egg.I cared for him, from Agumon to Greymon to MetalGreymon, for the next month, taking care to follow the instructions carefully on File Island. I had never really liked Agumon or its line before that, but I quickly found myself growing attached to the little guy and as such, in my last year of high school, I raised my first Digimon. He lived to 27 days, I believe.When I got the DMOG in question, it was scuffed up, missing the prong cover, had someones name carved into the back of its screen, and missing the keychain. I have since replaced those parts, and now its one of my most cherished devices.
Digimon Pendulum (PenOG)
I remember my first time hearing about the Digimon pendulum was from my lifelong friend Mato on a Digimon forum in our early teens. They said they loved their Pendulum 4.0, a Wind Guardians themed device that later earned the name Aero. At the time I was jealous of the bond they shared with a device, having little attachment to my one digivice I owned at the time.I didn’t get a Pen of my own until my first year of college, in which I obtained Deep Savers (not pictured because it broke on me), Nightmare Soldiers (not pictured because I can't find it atm), and Metal Empire. I did eventually get my own Wind Guardians too. There’s something very comforting about how the gameplay improved from the DMOG, being a lot easier to wrap your head around evolution requirements and a lot harder to meet those requirements due to it being much easier to have your Digimon randomly decide it won’t evolve. But of course, you can always jogress with a friend if that happens.My crowning achievement with a Digimon Pendulum was getting Wargreymon naturally in a v-pet tournament where everybody else jogressed to get to Mega. He’s a cool guy, that Wargreymon.For those who don't know, the name of this website is inspired by the "Ready! Count!" prompt that comes up whenever you train or battle with a Digimon Pendulum, and many later V-pets.
Digimon Pendulum Progress (Penprog)
Its no secret that the penprog is one of my favourite devices, and it was my goal to obtain one much of my youth. The Penprog 2.0, otherwise known as Armageddon Army, is a delightful device themed after angels, demons, and mythical beasts, and probably one of my favourite devices of all time. For what reason, is the penprog so good? Well it doesn’t die.Let me explain. Penprogs are a fairly low maintenance device, taking a long time to beep at you to demand anything. Its very hard to kill a pen-fog by mistake, as they have no “dying phase” where they start to become needier in their old age, like most v-pets do. You can keep a prog alive as long as it has battery power with minimal effort, even forgetting it for days. I knew someone who kept one alive for two years!But they’re a bit of an investment with that in mind. Its likely not going to die naturally on you, and has no pause function unless your running the rare Penprog 3, so the likelihood you just end up hitting reset to kill it after getting tired of raising it is high.Nonetheless I love my penprog. Its a treasure and a friend. I’ve also painted penprogs before, and pro tip, don’t do that, at least not with acrylics. They tend to whittle away at the plastic and make it break down over time, it seems.Also I love how the penprog can jogress with the d-scanner? Heck yeah.
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Resources
These are all resources I get V-pet information from, or use to jive with other v-pet fans.
Check them out if your interested in learning more!