The Poachers

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All was peaceful, until the poacher accounts attacked.

The Kids Need to Know
AJHQ, in the form of a pink and goofy crocodile named Major, watched the playful jammers from a distance. They were laughing, trading, and roleplaying. Pure innocence and joy filled the building.

Clark Stacy thought about this for a moment. "We've given these wonderful children an animal experience. But, we're missing one big part of an animal's life".

The part that Stacy was referring to was an animal's number one fear: poaching.

Clark knew what change had to be made. They needed to add poachers to Animal Jam.

The Instagram Contest
Animal Jam implemented Poachers into the code soon after Clark shared the idea. But, they had no clue how to distribute them. If they put too many and made them for all jammers, they feared the kids would become power-hungry.

They came up with a resolution. Seven accounts with poachers would be created and six would be distributed via a contest.

On Animal Jam's Instagram page, they posted that there would be a contest. Six winners would be awarded with a free account with an exclusive new mystery "animal".

Instagram's jammers raced to make Masterpieces to submit to Animal Jam. The contest ended quickly. Six jammers had already won their accounts. All six were sent emails with details on how to enable their brand new Poacher accounts.

Poachers
Poachers played Animal Jam in a very different way. They only had six buddy slots that were already taken up by the other six in-game Poachers (the five other contest winners and AJHQ's Poacher).

They shopped in an underground subway station-like area. They could shop for gear such as jackets, coats, t-shirts from AJ Outfitters, and safari hats to decorate the human they played as. They could also buy chairs, sofas and lamps to decorate the bases where they resided.

All seemed well until a new shop came along.

Weapons
The new shop was known as the Weapon Shop. The shop carried Pirate Swords and Bows: typical Animal Jam items. But, that was not all.

The Poachers could buy even more dangerous tools. Machetes, AK-47s, and silver pistols were also up for sale. These weapons could be lethal if put into the wrong hands.

Killing in Jamaa
Only a few hours after the Weapon Shop was released, the swords, guns, and bows were given an upgrade. They could now be used to fight.

Bushes were added to the scenery of each world. Poachers could hide among the bushes to prepare their attacks.

You'd think that they would be killing Phantoms with their weapons, but they were assigned to a different target.

The jammers...

Poachers would hide in the bushes, then enter a first person view. They could shoot the animals from the bushes or pounce on their targets with their swords.

The Poachers had an unfair advantage against the jammers. Jammers had no way to defend. Their swords and bows were powerless, unlike the ones owned by the poachers.

Blood would ooze out of jammers' wounds. Jammers would fall to the ground in sleep position. But, their chests would not sink and rise. The animals would face death.

Poachers would profit from killing jammers. They would obtain their skins to sell for money or craft into objects such as coonskin caps, fox hats, hoodie jackets, fur coats, alligator shoes, bear skin rugs, and leopard print sofas.