Creative Corner

[center][size=5][color=orange][b]Coliseum Battle Post #12[/b][/size] [size=4][color=orange][b]Fulfills task for: Day 39 (May 12, 2017)[/b][/color][/size] [color=orange][b]Battles Completed: 41 Item of the Day:[/b][/color] [item=meaty bat wing] [/center] [b]Loot[/b] [item=maple leaf] x6 [item=strangling vine] x5 [item=harvestman] x5 [item=bamboo leaves] x5 [item=strangler seeds] x5 [item=coral grouse] x4 [item=wildwood moss] x4 [item=sakura owlet] x4 [item=blooming vine] x3 [item=blooming pods] x3 [item=river wiggler] x3 [item=phytocat toy] x3 [item=fragile antler] x3 [item=sakura moss] x3 [item=grouse] x3 [item=game fowl] x3 [item=daddy longlegs] x3 [item=dwarf fawn] x2 [item=vampire eel] x2 [item=herdbeast hoof] x2 [item=wildwood owlet] x2 [item=tiny feathers] x2 [item=grouse basilisk field notes] x2 [item=leafy pack] x2 [item=red maple leaf] x2 [item=flycatcher] x2 [item=clown charger fin] x1 [item=rotting leather] x1 [item=minor health potion] x1 [item=false leaf] x1 [item=sticky pollen] x1 [item=basilisk feather fan] x1 [item=pestilent slash] x1 [item=tropical birdskull necklace] x1 [item=forestpath rooster] x1 [item=bamboo phytocat] x1 [item=clover] x1 [item=unhatched nature egg] x1 [i](OOC: Yes, that really is an egg. Yes, I really did get it from the coli. Yes, it will come into the story, but not until much, much later. I have many more milestone events I plan to write before I get to that. Also, Kessel and Rythorn both leveled up to Level 5 during this round.)[/i]

[center][size=5][color=orange][b]Coliseum Battle Post #13 - #18[/b][/size] [size=4][color=orange][b]Fulfills tasks for:[/b] - Day 40 (May 13, 2017) - Day 41 (May 16, 2017) - Day 48 (May 21, 2017) - Day 50 (May 23, 2017) - Day 51 (May 24, 2017) - Day 52 (May 25, 2017)[/color][/size] [color=orange][b]Battles Completed: 145 total (31+11+31+11+20+41) Items of the Day:[/b][/color] [item=cardinalfish] [item=cindershroom] [item=grey catshark] [item=notocactus] [item=dung beetle] [item=java sparrow] [/center] [b]Loot[/b] [item=giant desert centipede] x14 [item=bamboo leaves] x13 [item=wildwood owlet] x12 [item=decorative centaur quiver] x12 [item=blooming pods] x11 [item=Thick Meat Strips] x11 [item=wildwood moss] x10 [item=harvestman] x9 [item=phytocat toy] x9 [item=river wiggler] x9 [item=zebra cricket] x9 [item=dwarf fawn] x9 [item=micro deer] x8 [item=maple leaf] x8 [item=blooming vine] x7 [item=vampire eel] x7 [item=strangler seeds] x7 [item=fragile antler] x7 [item=bonepriest venom] x7 [item=grouse] x6 [item=zeeba horn] x6 [item=songbird mimic] x6 [item=hardy antler] x5 [item=false leaf] x5 [item=coral grouse] x5 [item=Miniature Potash Peach] x5 [item=strangling vine] x5 [item=strangling root] x5 [item=jar of vapors] x4 [item=red maple leaf] x4 [item=daddy longlegs] x4 [item=grouse basilisk field notes] x4 [item=game fowl] x4 [item=herdbeast hoof] x4 [item=white-masked dustbug] x3 [item=clover] x3 [item=clown charger fin] x3 [item=rotting leather] x3 [item=minor health potion] x3 [item=wisp fruit] x3 [item=venus flytrap] x3 [item=bottled embers] x3 [item=pineapple shiners] x3 [item=leafy pack] x2 [item=sakura moss] x2 [item=bluefin charger fin] x2 [item=coral basilisk field notes] x2 [item=basilisk feather fan] x2 [item=sticky pollen] x2 [item=expertly-crafted spear] x2 [item=dried jerky] x2 [item=white pawn] x2 [item=forest field guide] x2 [item=decorative feather fan] x2 [item=forestpath rooster] x2 [item=leather centaur quiver] x2 [item=rambra horn] x2 [item=zeeba] x2 [item=emerald shiners] x2 [item=extinguished jackalope pelt] x2 [item=janustrap root] x1 [item=flycatcher] x1 [item=snowflake urchin] x1 [item=sand] x1 [item=diseased acuity fragment] x1 [item=rusted treasure chest] x1 [item=centaur ration pouch] x1 [item=sakura owl] x1 [item=leaf bolt] x1 [item=tiny feathers] x1 [item=umbral catfish] x1 [item=ward] x1 [item=red-winged dewbug] x1 [item=owlcat journal] x1 [item=archer crate] x1 [item=extinguished bunny] x1 [i](OOC: I decided it was dumb to fill this thread with 30+ separate posts full of nothing but coli loot, so, taking a cue from the wonderful and talented Clarax, I decided to combine 6 days' worth of food drops into a single post. Why 6 of them? Because that will get my coli, story, and event posts all caught up with each other. By the way, level-up reports: In Round 13, Mindor and Mithril both leveled up to Level 5, and Starbloom reached Level 9. In Round 14, Kessel reached Level 6, and in Round 15, Rythorn and Mithril both did the same. In Round 17, Kessel and Mithril both reached Level 7, and Mindor reached Level 6. In Round 18, Felicity reached Level 9, and Mindor reached Level 7.)[/i]

[center][size=5][color=orange][b]Journey Chronicles - Scene 26[/b][/size] [size=4][color=orange][b]Fulfills task for: Day 85 (June 27, 2017)[/b][/color][/size] [color=orange][b]Task completed on: July 29, 2017 Item of the Day:[/b][/color] [item=extinguished jackalope pelt] [/center] For the next few weeks after that, Clan Ashfeather tried to heal and rebuild. Nobody really wanted to do much of anything that didn't absolutely need to be done at first. It really stood out to Felicity how different life was here by the edge of the Sea of a Thousand Currents than it had been on the outskirts of the market town in the Scarred Wasteland. Here, they were isolated from civilization, which meant there was very rarely anyone to trade with other than the occasional passing traveler or sailor. Most of the time, they were on their own to gather their own food. Thankfully, the natural environment here was a bit more abundant with life than the Scarred Wasteland had been. Everyone went to get seafood for Diego and Kessel at least once, and Diego hunted and foraged for plants for the others in return. Together, they quietly nursed their wounds and strengthened their bonds. At the nexus of those bonds stood the rapidly-growing hatchlings. All the adults, not just Felicity and Diego, treated them like their own children. As soon as Kessel and Mindor could speak and understand such an abstract concept as a map, Felicity unfurled the map of the world that she had helped make back in the Starfall Isles and showed it to them. She and Starbloom told the hatchlings about how they and their other best friend, Ember, had drawn this map long ago, and taught them that the goal of their clan was to follow the route marked on the map until it ended in the Ashfall Waste, where they would live someday. The two hatchlings gazed at the map, wide-eyed. Until that moment, they had had no idea that the world was larger than their cave, the beach, and the shallow waves that Mindor occasionally splashed in. After that, their games of pretend revolved around walking along the road they'd seen on the map, having wonderful adventures in distant lands and talking about what they would do when they finally got there. At the same time, a strong bond was forming between Belladonna and Rythorn. Everyone knew that the Light and Plague Flights had had a particularly dramatic struggle for dominance at one point, so it might have seemed unlikely to others that the two would even be friends, but the fact of the matter was that she had been raised in Arcane territory and he in Nature territory, so their loyalty to the flights whose elements they bore was somewhat tenuous. He was fascinated by the ability the alchemical arts granted to create more food than the alchemist had had to start with, albeit at the cost of a certain amount of taste and enjoyability. She explained that alchemy operated on a principle called "equivalent exchange." You wanted food? You had to sacrifice some of the food you had to get the type of reagent you needed. New clothes? You had to sacrifice some of your old ones. New familiar? You had to sacrifice at least a representative sample of an existing one. Bogsneak egg? Well, that took a little bit of everything, and more reagents and flasks than Clan Ashfeather had at the moment. Fortunately, there was an easier and more fun way to create more eggs. Belladonna was both excited and afraid to have laid only a single egg. She looked forward to raising a child of her own... assuming the hatchling survived long enough for her to raise it.

[center][size=5][color=orange][b]Event Post #6[/b][/size] [size=4][color=orange][b]Fulfills task for: Day 53 (May 26, 2017)[/b][/color][/size] [color=orange][b]Task completed on: May 26, 2017 Item of the Day:[/b][/color] [item=green birdskull wingpiece] [/center] I put Belladonna and Rythorn on my second nest of my Pinkerlocke challenge the day I got my second apparel drop... and it was a 1-egg nest. Since I didn't think to take a screenshot at the time, here's the best visual representation I can do with the official art. [center][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/323355/32335425.png[/img] [item=unhatched arcane egg] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/272142/27214166.png[/img][/center]

[center][size=5][color=orange][b]Journey Chronicles - Scene 27[/b][/size] [size=4][color=orange][b]Fulfills task for: Day 88 (June 30, 2017)[/b][/color][/size] [color=orange][b]Task completed on: July 30, 2017 Item of the Day:[/b][/color] [item=sickle claws] [/center] In due time, the solitary egg started to hatch. Once again, the entire clan gathered around to greet and welcome their new little one. The hatchling emerged in a tangle of deep-maroon wings - six of them - wrapped around a long, looping silver body. It was a girl - the first girl ever hatched into Clan Ashfeather. She was the most adorable thing the newer members of the clan had ever seen. [img]https://68.media.tumblr.com/874ca9a465a93346d45c706d37cabd2a/tumblr_otwr527GIj1sp47bko1_400.png[/img] Her mother couldn't believe it. A girl! Oh, thank Plaguemom! When she tried to pick her up, the baby Spiral instinctively coiled her long body around her foreleg. Belladonna lay down and curled up so that she could caress her new daughter with her long tongue. She decided to name her Brandywine, after the color of her wings. The clan's cooing over and admiration of their new little girl was interrupted by the cry of the Murkbottom Gull that had been Kamien's. Felicity and Diego hurried out to the seashore in pursuit of the calling gull - was it trying to alert them to danger? No - a visitor. It was Oranea, the Maren Wavesinger who was Captain Summerstone's familiar. "Felicity!" she called out to them. "Diego! It's good to see you again. Can you come to the ship? Captain Summerstone would like a word with you." "About what?" Felicity asked. "He has a favor to ask. Don't worry, it isn't about fighting." "All right." Felicity and Diego flew over to the ship, where Captain Summerstone was waiting for them. "Why did you want to see us again, Captain?" Felicity asked. "We ran across something we weren't expecting to find the other day," Captain Summerstone said. "Seabreem?" Seabreem, the first mate, came forward, carrying a canvas sling in his mouth. He laid the little bundle at Felicity's feet. It wriggled, and a little beige Snapper hatchling shook the fabric off her head. "We found this one stowed away in one of our cargo baskets," Seabreem explained, "with all of our ore and gemstones. We thought she was a boulder at first, but then she squeaked." He laughed. "We don't know where she came from, and no one we've traded with has laid claim to her, so we assume she hid in there on her own." "We've been taking care of her as best we can, but I'm afraid a ship is no place for an orphaned hatchling," Captain Summerstone added. "You have a lair fit for raising hatchlings in. We were wondering if you might be willing to adopt her." A smile spread across Felicity's face, but there was a tinge of sadness to it. Even though she was a Snapper, the beige hatchling reminded her a little of Kamien when he had just been hatched. "Yes," Felicity said. "Clan Ashfeather would be very happy to do that for you. Belladonna just had a daughter - we can raise them together." Felicity and Diego took the canvas sling, put the baby Snapper back in it, flew with it back to their lair, and told the others what had happened. Their clanmates were happy to welcome another hatchling. Since she had been hiding among gemstones, she was named Garnet.

[center][size=5][color=orange][b]Event Post #7[/b][/size] [size=4][color=orange][b]Fulfills task for: Day 58 (May 31, 2017)[/b][/color][/size] [color=orange][b]Task completed on: May 31, 2017 Item of the Day:[/b][/color] [item=amber gulper] [/center] I was looking back at the notes I took last summer when I was recording my Pinkerton draws for this project, and I realized that I got my third familiar on the same day that my second nest hatched. I went back and extended Scene 27, and then split off what had been the second part of Scene 27, revised it, and made it into its own separate scene. On May 31 of last year, I was very excited to finally get another familiar. Random.org gave me #9, so I got the least expensive Snapper on the AH at the time. This is what she looked like. [img]http://78.media.tumblr.com/50cd046660397aa12102a966ff40c368/tumblr_otwr527GIj1sp47bko2_r1_400.png[/img]

[center][size=5][color=orange][b]Journey Chronicles - Scene 28[/b][/size] [size=4][color=orange][b]Fulfills task for: Day 90 (July 2, 2017)[/b][/color][/size] [color=orange][b]Task completed on: July 30, 2017 (Revised February 4, 2018) Item of the Day:[/b][/color] [item=lizardscale cloth] [/center] The little Spiral and Snapper girls grew up together, and were like sisters to each other. Their half-grown older clanmates, Kessel and Mindor, wanted to play with them all the time, but they had to be very careful not to accidentally step on them when they did. They were especially cautious around Brandywine, who could only slither like a snake or crawl like a caterpillar at first. When she grew big enough, her father began teaching her how to make the partially-magic-powered, looping, spiraling motion that was Spiral flight. It was slow going, but little by little, she mastered the motion. She grew to be fast, clever, and good with her claws, making her talented at catching insects and weaving nets and baskets. Brandywine loved the ocean more than anyone else in the family. When she wasn't working, her favorite pastimes were swimming through the waves or simply staring at the edge of the water, watching the ships come and go over the horizon, and wondering where they were going and what might lie beyond it. One day, she asked her father about what was out there, and he told her to go and ask her mother. Her mother reluctantly told her about the last time she and Starbloom had traveled to the Water Flight's Coliseum, and how her son Kamien had been lost to them there. She said she didn't want her daughter to go back there anytime soon; she wanted her to enjoy life as much as possible, right where she was. Brandywine nodded, but silently decided to begin preparing and training herself. Someday, she wanted to go on an adventure, fight beasts, and win prizes and honor for her clan.

[center][size=5][color=orange][b]Art Post #7[/b][/size] [size=4][color=orange][b]Fulfills task for: Day 78 (June 20, 2017)[/b][/color][/size] [color=orange][b]Task completed on: January 21, 2018 Item of the Day:[/b][/color] [item=antique oil lamp] [/center] This is an illustration for the story post above this post. I tried to draw Brandywine looking off to the horizon, but alas, figuring out how to draw a Spiral in an original pose was far, far beyond my abilities. Here's the part that I thought turned out well, her head. I drew her with Water eyes because she was hatched there according to the lore I'm writing. [img]https://78.media.tumblr.com/a05b8ae309b318d72cc444e1c752b0cd/tumblr_p2xn8u4eRs1sp47bko2_1280.jpg[/img]

[center][size=5][color=orange][b]Coliseum Battle Post #19 - #20[/b][/size] [size=4][color=orange][b]Fulfills tasks for:[/b] - Day 57 (May 30, 2017) - Day 60 (June 2, 2017)[/color][/size] [color=orange][b]Battles Completed: 42 total (21+21) Items of the Day:[/b][/color] [item=thunder scarab] [item=winged barb] [/center] In Round 19, Mindor reached Level 8, and Rythorn reached Level 7. In Round 20, Felicity reached Level 10. [b]Loot[/b] [item=giant desert centipede] x17 [item=songbird mimic] x10 [item=fragile antler] x8 [item=bonepriest venom] x8 [item=dwarf fawn] x8 [item=zebra cricket] x8 [item=white-masked dustbug] x6 [item=rambra horn] x6 [item=decorative centaur quiver] x3 [item=wisp fruit] x3 [item=jar of vapors] x3 [item=forest field guide] x3 [item=thick meat strips] x2 [item=dried jerky] x2 [item=leather centaur quiver] x2 [item=miniature potash peach] x2 [item=zeeba horn] x2 [item=searing bunny] x2 [item=wave slash] x1 [item=umbral catfish] x1 [item=dark acuity fragment] x1 [item=Minor Health Potion] x1 [item=Zeeba] x1 [item=Red-Winged Dewbug] x1 [item=expertly-crafted spear] x1 [item=searing jackalope pelt] x1 [item=ebon-edged spear] x1 [item=centaur nut mix] x1 [item=bottled embers] x1

[center][size=5][color=orange][b]Art Post #8[/b][/size] [size=4][color=orange][b]Fulfills task for: Day 80 (June 22, 2017)[/b][/color][/size] [color=orange][b]Task completed on: February 3, 2018 Item of the Day:[/b][/color] [item=moth-eaten mith doll] [/center] It occurred to me recently that I’d never [i]really[/i] sat down and figured out the route that Ember, Starbloom, and Felicity marked on the map they made when they were planning their journey, so that’s what I did for this art post. I took a screencap of the World Map page and drew on it in GIMP. [s]Which totally counts as art. Don’t judge me. XD[/s] The star over by the Observatory is Clan Adeptica’s lair. The one in the Ashfall Waste is where they want their new clan’s lair to be, when they get there. The other two stars are the places Clan Ashfeather has stopped and stayed so far. The one in the Scarred Wasteland is where Plague’s market town is (in my head, YMMV), and the one at the edge of the Sea of a Thousand Currents is the cave where they took care of Rythorn and where Kessel and Mindor were hatched. [img]https://78.media.tumblr.com/8e5d5006132c9eccfb6bc19c7fbd84a2/tumblr_p3lsw0F19h1sp47bko1_1280.jpg[/img]