Quests & Challenges

[center][item="unstable serthis concoction"][/center] [b]Starting Treasure:[/b] 805,905 + 136 gems [b]Actions Available Today:[/b] Gathering, Trading Post, Familiar Bonding, Fairgrounds (optional), [b]Treasure After Dailies: [/b]835,505 [columns][img]http://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/241856/24185527p.png[/img][nextcol][quote]"Nightvale. I trust the process is...going as intended?"[/quote][/columns] [columns][quote]"Yes. Even accounting for single-egg nests, we should have ample quantities in time. But, sir, if I may...what is the purpose of allowing the others to survive?"[/quote][nextcol][img]http://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/317834/31783370p.png[/img][/columns] [columns][img]http://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/241856/24185527p.png[/img][nextcol][quote]The skydancer looked amused. "Do you think me a monster, alchemist? My goal is first and foremost the preservation of life, not its heedless waste. Sacrifice is not murder, after all. You know what we face."[/quote][/columns] [columns][quote]The dark tundra quailed slightly. "Yes, yes, of course, that is not what I intended...I merely mean, they may be a liability. Those who do not understand could unravel our hard work...?"[/quote][nextcol][img]http://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/317834/31783370p.png[/img][/columns] [columns][img]http://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/241856/24185527p.png[/img][nextcol][quote]"So it has always been, I fear." A long-suffering patient sigh, his gaze traveling into the distance. "Although. Pearl has shown great willingness to cooperate. I believe she is on board with our process, more even than could be expected. Do you know she has volunteered her second nest?"[/quote][/columns] [columns][quote]"Is that why the boys were allowed to leave, then?"[/quote][nextcol][img]http://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/317834/31783370p.png[/img][/columns] [columns][img]http://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/241856/24185527p.png[/img][nextcol][quote]"Undoubtedly they would have left eventually. But it may be advantageous to us. Pearl seems under the impression that she is...challenging me, in some way. And it may be best not to disabuse her of that notion. She seems to have quite clever ideas, when pressed."[/quote][/columns] [columns][quote]"So you will allow them to do as they will, until....?"[/quote][nextcol][img]http://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/317834/31783370p.png[/img][/columns] [columns][img]http://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/241856/24185527p.png[/img][nextcol][quote]"Until such a time as the legacies have diverged suitably, and a union would be both feasible and advantageous, yes." He smiled, pleased as ever at the cleverness of his alchemical necromancer. Good help was so hard to find. "You must admit, the power would be undoubtedly strong from that union. Stronger than any selection of our own doing, certainly."[/quote][/columns] [columns][quote]"And what of the others, then? Do we continue to leave them in the dark?"[/quote][nextcol][img]http://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/317834/31783370p.png[/img][/columns] [columns][img]http://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/241856/24185527p.png[/img][nextcol][quote]"No...no, I think it may be time for them to begin learning the way of the world. Speak with the professors and have a special class period prepared. I think those who remain are trustworthy enough. And if not, well...I believe the process can always benefit from an extra soul or two."[/quote][/columns] [columns][quote]"Making omelettes," Nightvale said, with a toothy smile. "Cracking eggs."[/quote][nextcol][img]http://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/317834/31783370p.png[/img][/columns] @TropicalDiamonds @Aetherstorm @Snaphance @Insectoid @LadyHufflepuff @KyaTessa @Pteranodon @BlueJaysFeather @Skyeset @Honeyflight

[center][item="scarlet satin tunic"][/center] [b]Starting Treasure:[/b] 835,505 + 136 gems [b]Actions Available Today: [/b]Gathering, Trading Post, Familiar Bonding, Fairgrounds (optional), Exalt profits [b]Treasure After Dailies:[/b] brb have exalting to do

[center][item="steam gyre"] Treat yo'self[/center] Whoops I forgot to update my profits yesterday I'll just roll them all into today. [b]Starting Treasure:[/b] 835,505 + 136 gems [b]Actions Available Today:[/b] Gathering, Trading Post, Familiar Bonding, Fairgrounds (optional), Exalt profits, Shopping [b]Treasure After Dailies:[/b] 875,532 - 95k = 780,532 t Looking at my scries, a lot of what I like are Baldwin genes so I decided to spend some $$ brewing skink instead of buying something.

[center][item="brent goose"][/center] [b]Starting Treasure:[/b] 780,532 + 136 gems [b]Actions Available Today:[/b] Gathering, Trading Post, Familiar Bonding, Fairgrounds (optional), Coliseum [b]Treasure After Dailies: [/b] 783,332 Bula and Rivo's kids, Mai and Yan, are old enough now to prove their worth in battle. I sent them out to the training fields with a university student as a coach. [quote] "Stormageddon, you are one of the most trustworthy students in this academy. I trust you will comport yourself admirably." "I will try, sir." The nervous-looking Imperial shoved his glasses up his nose and tried for a smile. The young guardians were quiet and attentive to his instructions as they made their way outside. A boy and a girl. He wondered if they had been informed of the instruction he had been given.... [i]"My most vital instruction to you...if one falls...you must leave them to die. Is that clear?"[/i] He did not understand why, but he had been too frightened to argue. [/quote] We started our battle with two of the dodgiest (as in, dodging every single round) moths you could ever imagine, which was a frustrating start. Storm took the most damage out the gate, but of course he doesn't count because he's the coach ;) I backed out at level two to give them some rudimentary stats (mostly to avoid the every-round dodging because it was annoying), which apparently gave them the weird benefit of becoming effectively immortal as we were in that win streak for like a million years??? I never backed out or ended the battle streak, they just kept leveling up before anyone had a chance to die?? Clearly Storm is a good luck charm. But, FINALLY, Mai managed to be the last man standing, by the skin of his teeth. [img]https://i.imgur.com/RycQ2Zy.png[/img] Yan (the female) will be exalted if no one wants to salvage her. They're level four now! wtf! I thought I was going to age out of the stupid training fields before anyone would die. BUT WAIT! I still have rounds of Coliseum to fight for my Pinker-drop! Welp. Guess we'll check in and see how Rivo is doing with the boys down in that merchant down.... [quote] "You're gonna be a dad soon," Nether pointed out, with a lopsided grin. "You really shouldn't be coming out and risking your life like this." "Well, Rivo is ALREADY a dad, and he came out to help us," Endor pointed out, reasonably. Rivo blinked, following behind. He supposed that was true. He would be...a grandfather, perhaps, maybe by the time Endor's own hatchlings were grown. But he was so young? It didn't make sense. What Pascale was doing...it defied the natural order of things. Dragons reproduced swiftly by nature but this...this was too much.. "Besides, we're not doing anything really dangerous. Just taking him out for a bit of practice before we send him home." "Don't have to tell me, bro. I'm just saying, so nobody blames me for it later. Plausible deniability." "Nether, do you hear yourself talk or do you just open your mouth and let sound fall out...?" The brothers shoved each other, childlike, laughing and teasing. Rivo felt an intense and almost melancholy affection for them. [/quote] Took the boys out onto the woodland path to level up. [quote=Notable Drops] [item="Dryad"][item="leafy pack"]x3 [/quote] Except....OH NO WHAT. [img]https://i.imgur.com/2f0quVF.png[/img] Noooooo that Janustrap just critted him dead in one shot! He had as much health as his brother! Jeez these Janustraps are vicious. I am going to write the aftermath of that death scene tomorrow because it is Too Sad. @TropicalDiamonds @Aetherstorm @Snaphance @Insectoid @LadyHufflepuff @KyaTessa @Pteranodon @BlueJaysFeather @Skyeset @Honeyflight @SpaceSnake

[center][item="nogglebane leaf beetle"][/center] [b]Starting Treasure:[/b] 783,332 + 136 gems [b]Actions Available Today: [/b]Gathering, Trading Post, Familiar Bonding, Fairgrounds (optional), Coliseum [b]Treasure After Dailies:[/b] 803,201 I seriously need to start doing the same re: backing out as soon as I see the janustraps. Those things are INSANE. On the bright side, at least all of the deaths save me lair space and make for some premium plot material...? lol. Pascale certainly appreciates them. [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=40914256][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/409143/40914256.png[/img][/url][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=40914257][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/409143/40914257.png[/img][/url][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=40914258][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/409143/40914258.png[/img] [/url] Coinflip says: Hatched, Hatched, Inert I should've written the scene I had in mind yesterday because I slept and now can't remember what it was going to be, lol. Whoops. [quote] It had never been Cainwen's intention to become a single mother. Truthfully, she hadn't thought ahead enough to really mean to be a mother at all. Her time with Endor had been brief, and hearing the news felt...uneasy. Awkward. Sad, but in a distanced way, too much a stranger to him to properly grieve. All the same, she was grateful when the boys approached her. "Do you want to keep them as your own?" Rivo asked, gently, gesturing to the two young hatchlings. "Raise them here, among the merchants?" She shifted uneasily, not certain what the right answer was, whether this might be a trap. The pearlcatcher smiled encouragingly, extending a talon to touch her forearm. He had grown so good at this, in such a short time: learning to accept the loss. It was a good thing he could. Nether was a wreck, quiet and trembling with an inconsolable grief at his back. "We are going home," he said, to the spiral. "There is...an academy. Family. We're going back there and...we can bring them with us. If it's too much for you." "Will they be safe?" Pleasing eyes, upturned, but weary with an unspoken challenge. He swallowed, hesitated. Did not want to lie. "I'm...not certain what safety even means, anymore." She smiled, grateful for the honesty, feeling the truth of it in her own heart. "Take us all." Rivo blinked. "Pardon?" "Bring me with you. I'd like to see it, this academy. The family. Let me come along." "Well..." Rivo glanced at Nether, who shrugged. They may as well? Together, shepherding the sleepy hatchling girls, they began preparations for the journey home. [/quote] Tucking some hatchlings between their wings, our three intrepid (and very tired) heroes make the journey back to the Library of Forbidden Knowledge. By which I mean they battled out 30 matches in the Training Fields to bring Cainwen up to speed. Rivo is level 5 now, so I gave him the Dark Bolt ability since I had the stone sitting in my inventory. Meanwhile! For those starting to lose track, here is the Legacy family tree: [img]https://i.imgur.com/ppuKh5o.png[/img] I picked up a mate for Mai, who I will introduce properly tomorrow probably. But that makes 3 generations of offspring. I've got 7 generations left til the end -- do you think I can get some proper upgrades by then?!? @TropicalDiamonds @Aetherstorm @Snaphance @Insectoid @LadyHufflepuff @KyaTessa @Pteranodon @BlueJaysFeather @Skyeset @Honeyflight @SpaceSnake