Creative Corner

Aw, so that's Corvid's manifestation of his families abilities, isn't it? Cadmium is a good brother.

@Petall It is! And Cadmium has definitely become a better brother than he used to be. Both of them have grown a LOT.

[center][b][i]Day 567-568 - Growing Smarter[/i][/b] [size=1]@Kyrinasha @KCSquib @Caelyn @Tadi @Verdant @Silverhame @Ximena @MoonlitMage @Deathwolf555 @AThousandSuns @Muddledsketches @luckgandor @Violetah @Ezmara @xxWolfii @tigressrising @Neroli @Petall @DragonDraws @Tiirran @Emordnilap @Blackstone359 @clarax @Chelo @Amongthestars @Stormhawke @PyroWyvern @Wickett @TinPinLyn @aliciawonderland @Asphoxia @LilacsandFreedom @catmeow1 @Kavryn @MLPMDog @TropicalDiamond[/size] [b]Pull:[/b] [item=Dickinsonia vendian][item=bluefin charger fin] [b]Sentence:[/b] Art, Writing -----[/center] Avogadro was sitting near the big white tree when he felt the presence of another dragon joining him. Or was it two dragons? He got up and circled around the tree to find the two odd Spirals, having just arrived to pay their respects. "Hello there," "Avogadro," the Spirals acknowledged. "Hello, you two," Avogadro replied. "We came to say..." "We're sorry." Avogadro was a little taken aback. "To me? What do you have to be sorry for?" "To her." The light one indicated the tree. "To the clan too," The dark one clarified. "I still don't understand," Avogadro told them, puzzled. "None of this was your fault." "Actually..." "It kind of was." The Spirals explained what had happened, in their usual back-and-forth manner. Avogadro quickly stopped trying to follow who was speaking what and set his gaze on a point in between them. "We made a bad decision," the dark one concluded. "We can't fix it," the light one admitted. "All we can do is say we're sorry..." "...And we'll think things through better now." Avogadro stared at the light one, then the dark one. "This is all news to me," he finally said. The two Spirals nodded in unified agreement. "Are you angry?" "At us?" That question gave Avogadro pause. "I don't know. I don't know what to think, except that it may be best if I don't have to see you two around for a bit. I'm not banishing you from the clan, just... from me. For a little while." "We understand." "We'll stay around the perimeter." "For a little while." "You'll never know we're here." ----- -The aforementioned busy-busy thing is us moving house! For that reason I'm not doing any art before this chapter because I wanted to write the thing already and all my art stuff is still in boxes and also I don't really have the time for art. I have no idea what to do or when for the new art pull. -Still experimenting with capitalization with these two.

Gosh, those two spirals are fascinating! This was a cool little chapter to have, checking in with Avogadro and acknowledging their part in what happened. I like how they are respecting his need for space.

[center][b][i]Day 569-570 - Slightly Opalized[/i][/b] [size=1]@Kyrinasha @KCSquib @Caelyn @Tadi @Verdant @Silverhame @Ximena @MoonlitMage @Deathwolf555 @AThousandSuns @Muddledsketches @luckgandor @Violetah @Ezmara @xxWolfii @tigressrising @Neroli @Petall @DragonDraws @Tiirran @Emordnilap @Blackstone359 @clarax @Chelo @Amongthestars @Stormhawke @PyroWyvern @Wickett @TinPinLyn @aliciawonderland @Asphoxia @LilacsandFreedom @catmeow1 @Kavryn @MLPMDog @TropicalDiamond[/size] [b]Pull:[/b] [item=amber goby][item=bronze steampunk wings] [b]Sentence:[/b] 30-40 battles in the Coliseum, Breed/Scroll a Dragon -----[/center] [i]Breathe in. Breathe out.[/i] Sylvia meditated near the place she had made into her den. She enjoyed the calm of the morning. Her special stone sat between her front paws. She listened. The trees whispered the weather through the wind in their leaves. It came in cool and dry from the west. The birds sang the events of their days. And the soil brought news from elsewhere. That was always worth hearing, although it was often news of the past, and Sylvia usually could not understand it. This time, she could. A dragon far from her homeland had fallen to an unusual curse. This shouldn't have been important news, but when Sylvia learned it, she felt inexplicably sad. Her left paw, resting on her special stone, tingled with power. The earth had more than news to provide, it seemed - there was magic in the message. Sylvia opened her eyes, and watched as a new pattern spread across her scales, fusing a few together like liquid rock. It spread like an earthworm's tunnels, but shining like the gem under her paw. [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=58&bodygene=3&breed=2&element=10&eyetype=0&gender=1&tert=64&tertgene=38&winggene=6&wings=87&auth=9ad9a6c58671a87d96a21033b2eb96f90f326b4f&dummyext=prev.png[/img] Sylvia did not know why, but this magic had chosen her to bear its mark. And so she would, in remembrance of a dragon she never knew. ----- -I have been super unmotivated on the art lately, but I put in about 20 minutes of work on it tonight. Worked on getting the composition and some shapes blocked in. -Has this been the most underwhelming visual change in the history of this Pinkerlocke? Quite possibly! I got the idea in my head to write this, got really excited, realized Sylvia's tert color is awful for the idea I had, and decided to go through with it anyway and get my point across through the power of Storytelling. There is another gene that would be an option and also be a bit of a pun/reference to what actually happened, but it is a gem gene, which I cannot currently afford - and the two permas I have would get priority on gem genes, anyway. -This event is related to an event in [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2698754]Petall's Pinkerlocke[/url]! It's about a post from like the beginning of December, though - that's about two years removed from now in Sornieth Time. Getting news via worm is not exactly prompt :P

Aw, what a sweet homage to Opal! It made me very happy to read!!!

[center][b][i]Day 571-572 - Tainted History[/i][/b] [size=1]@Kyrinasha @KCSquib @Caelyn @Tadi @Verdant @Silverhame @Ximena @MoonlitMage @Deathwolf555 @AThousandSuns @Muddledsketches @luckgandor @Violetah @Ezmara @xxWolfii @tigressrising @Neroli @Petall @DragonDraws @Tiirran @Emordnilap @Blackstone359 @clarax @Chelo @Amongthestars @Stormhawke @PyroWyvern @Wickett @TinPinLyn @aliciawonderland @Asphoxia @LilacsandFreedom @catmeow1 @Kavryn @MLPMDog @TropicalDiamond[/size] [b]Pull:[/b] [item=steppes pincher][item=sorceress' loopbelt] [b]Sentence:[/b] 30-40 battles in the Coliseum, Art -----[/center] "I notice you and Hura don't like each other." Dina started, almost falling off her branch. She looked around quickly, then relaxed when she recognized the dragon on a branch a bit farther down. "Stars, you startled me!" Dina exclaimed. "Miles, right?" "Sorry." Miles looked up at her sheepishly. "I must walk quiet or something. I'm always accidentally sneaking up on people." Dina stretched her wings. "Anyway, you're right, I suppose. He seems nice enough, but I definitely think he's hiding something, and I can tell he's thinking the same about me. He's not wrong, either, so..." "He is hiding something!" Miles gasped excitedly. "He kind of told us he was doing something when he first got here, but never explained what. I followed him once and he's got this machine out in the forest, but I don't know what it does." "Machine?" Dina asked, suddenly sharp. "Show me." Miles led Dina around the clan, rather than across, and carefully through the trees, trying to keep her as hidden as he was. Soon, he stopped her and pointed. Hura wasn't there at the moment, fortunately, as Dina swore out loud as soon as she saw the machine. "I knew it!" she whispered loudly. "That's exactly why I'm here." "What does it do?" Miles asked worriedly. "Hura said it wouldn't be any danger to us." "The machine itself won't be," Dina replied grimly. "As long as it stays contained. The problem is what it'll bring. Probably soon, if my intel is correct on how long it's been here. Also the stuff inside that tank is poisonous and its effects have largely gone untested. Stormcatch drones have no regards for consequences." Miles stared at Dina. "So... are you here to destroy it?" "I'm here to scout," Dina corrected. "Can't destroy it myself, partly because of the hazardous material they use as a sensing medium. But now that I know it's here I can call in some backup and we can deal with this. Hopefully it'll be out of your forest before [i]their[/i] reinforcements arrive." ----- -Would've been fun to do something water-related since I had two water-related pulls but w/e I have Plans yo -Okay so I cheated a bit and haven't done my art allotment yet. Partly because I left all you Pack readers on a pretty big cliffhanger and didn't want to leave you hanging TOO long... but I'll still be adding to the art for this locke before I get back to that [emoji=mirror happy size=1]

Eyyyy, we're finally getting a closer look at what Hura has been up to! I'm very curious as to where this is going to go!

[center][b][i]Day 573 - Backup[/i][/b] [size=1]@Kyrinasha @KCSquib @Caelyn @Tadi @Verdant @Silverhame @Ximena @MoonlitMage @Deathwolf555 @AThousandSuns @Muddledsketches @luckgandor @Violetah @Ezmara @xxWolfii @tigressrising @Neroli @Petall @DragonDraws @Tiirran @Emordnilap @Blackstone359 @clarax @Chelo @Amongthestars @Stormhawke @PyroWyvern @Wickett @TinPinLyn @aliciawonderland @Asphoxia @LilacsandFreedom @catmeow1 @Kavryn @MLPMDog @TropicalDiamond[/size] [b]Pull:[/b] [item=otherworldly aura] [b]Sentence:[/b] Adopt a Dragon Roll: Ridgeback -----[/center] Dina and Hura both watched the skies intently over the next few days. When a new dragon's shadow crossed overhead, Hura recognized it as a Ridgeback and was the first to fly up and meet the newcomer. [url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=59131865] [img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/437840120738086922/680488042732978258/Viper_intro.png[/img] [/url] The Ridgeback wore goggles, making it impossible to see his eyes in the bright sunlight. Hura approached cautiously and greeted the visitor the way he'd been trained. "Welcome, stormfriend. Here on business?" The visitor gave Hura a suspicious glance. "Not business that concerns you." As the visitor turned and dove, Hura might have imagined it, but he thought he saw a glint of pink behind the goggles. And, wait - had this dragon arrived from the southeast or southwest? [i]Crap.[/i] Viper dove to a near-vertical landing in the middle of the trees. His contact had given him coordinates somewhere near here... A brown and red Nocturne with bright pink eyes poked her head out of a tree. She eyed him. Viper caught her attention, smiled, and raised his goggles. That was enough to convince her. "Are you the disposal dragon I called for?" she asked. Viper nodded. "You must be Dina." A loop of green descending briefly caught Dina's gaze. Viper turned to look and saw the Spiral he had just talked to landing in what was clearly his home tree. Viper lowered his voice. "And I assume that's the Stormcatch worker you told me to watch out for?" "It is," Dina replied. "I'd show you where the leysensor is right now, but he must already be suspicious, seeing us talking like this after you've just arrived." "He doesn't trust me anyway," Viper pointed out, "but at the moment he'll definitely be even more on edge. If the leysensor disappears on the same day I show up, that'll be an instant red flag. Show me tomorrow, or in the next few days. You said its job is probably close to completion anyway, so a couple more days aren't going to make the situation much worse." "Exactly my thought," Dina affirmed. "In the meantime, enjoy your stay here. I've only been here for a little while myself, but I've seen the excellent hospitality these guys offer. You'll be welcomed right in." ----- -Art Update: [img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/444724100963893259/680487138223325259/Marlatree_reasonable_size.png[/img] I still have one more trinket pull in storage and I have no idea what to do with it. Since I've been doing a number of complex pieces lately maybe a quick sketch would be nice. Suggestions?

Oooooooooo new arrivals! I wonder what this will mean for the clan...

Also, that' a beautifully drawn tree! It looks amazing!!!