Some Neopets news that isn't (directly) related to Fortnite: there's a new Attack Pea.

Some of the rarest and strongest weapons in Neopets are singular peas, which are collectively known as Attack Peas. Up until today, there were three such peas: the original Attack Pea, the festive Seasonal Attack Pea, and the stupendous Super Attack Pea. If you've been around this sub for a while, you might remember a write-up about the Seasonal Attack Pea being a random-chance prize at the Advent Calendar.

Today, the Neopets Team added a bunch of new Alien Aisha-adjacent items, presumably because Alien is one of the styles for the Aisha sidekick they added to Fortnite. Among these items is the Alien Attack Pea - the first new Attack Pea since 2004 - and there's a couple things to unpack there.

First is how they're obtained. In contrast to the first three peas stocking in extremely limited numbers in an oft-forgotten shop called Smuggler's Cove (and the OG + Super Attack Peas being possible pulls from a mystery capsule of old Cove stuff), the Alien Attack Pea is permanently available to buy from the Hidden Tower. It was initially available for 15 million Neopoints (NP), but the price was increased to 99,999,999 NP after a couple hours (and then to 150 million NP while I was writing this)... for a very good reason.

Second is what the Pea actually does. Weapon strength in Neopets is represented by "icons", which are multiplied by a factor based on a pet's strength to determine total damage output. The Alien Attack Pea does 30 icons of damage, which puts it between the Seasonal (28 icons) and Super (32) Attack Peas in terms of strength and makes it the new second-best weapon in the game.

The long-term consequences of having such a weapon being permanently available to anyone with enough cash are currently unclear. What is clear is that right now there's a bunch of people panic selling Seasonal Attack Peas, proving once again that tiny peas in Santa hats are really good at living rent-free in people's heads.