Happy Feet

Have your pet golem participate in or disrupt the strange golem pet dance ritual.

Requirements

This achievement requires at least 9 people to accomplish it. Each person must have at least one of the following pets:

• Shem of the Crawling Plague
• Shem of the Elder Forest
• Shem of the Flowing Stone
• Shem of the Frozen Truth
• Shem of the Liquid Fire
• Shem of the Living Clay
• Shem of the Lunar Metal
• Shem of the Raging Torrent
• Shem of the Unforgiving Sand

Everyone involved must be at the entrance to Agartha, where they would appear when using their Agartha conduit or when entering from the faction hubs. Each person then pulls out one of their pets, so that there is one of each type summoned. All players must then stand still while their golems run off to dance.

Where you are when you summon your pet is not critical, as long as you are on the entrance platform in Agartha. However, once you have summoned your pet, do not move or else they may leave their position and come back to you.

The circle the pets make is fairly large, and if there are many people in the area it can be hard to keep track of which pets are involved in the dance and which are not. Note that any pets involved in the dance will occasionally beat the ground with their arms and make a grunting noise. Starting at the northern position and going clockwise, the pets will line up in this order: Fire -> Ice -> Stone -> Forest -> Plague -> Sand -> Water -> Lunar -> Clay.

If all 9 pets have successfully been summoned and run to join the dance, you will begin to hear drums in the background and the pets will begin dancing. They stomp their feet, pound their fists on the ground, and then rotate positions. This happens 3 or 4 times. Afterwards, a column of yellow light shines in the middle of the circle and The Gatekeeper appears inside it, before casting something to destroy all of the pets.

• NOTE: After you summon your pet, it takes about 5-15 seconds before they run off to join the dance.

If your pet is not unique (there is already another pet of the same type in the dance spot), your pet will not do anything other than what it would normally do when summoned.

There currently appears to be a 60 to 180 minute cooldown timer per Agartha instance. If you summon a Shem, and after 10-20 seconds or so it does not run off to join the dance, the instance of Agartha you are in is probably on cooldown. You'll have to try again later or travel to a new Dimension.

There is a timer on the pet joining the dance. If it stands in its position for a fairly long period of time (1 or 2 minutes) without the dance beginning, it will return to you. You can put the pet away and re-summon it, and after a short wait it will run back to its position.

This achievement appeared with the 2nd Anniversary Event, and it uses the pets from the 1st Anniversary Event, but it is uncertain if it can only be accomplished during the event or if it can be done at any time. Also note that the Shem of the Lunar Metal is no longer obtainable - you will need to find someone who had it previously to finish this achievement.

Rewards

• 5 Achievement Points
• 15,500 Experience

Related Links

• TSW Forum: Guide for the Happy Feet achievement