So... it's funny how things change. When I started this search, as far as I could find, what I really wanted pretty much didn't exist. And I really wanted exactly that and didn't think I'd want to sway from it. So I decided to go the route of trying to breed it. And the FR community proved to be exactly what I'd seen it to be elsewhere: generously and enthusiastically supportive. I deeply appreciate every one of you who agreed to let me use your dragons, or who offered others, or who just bumped out of support. You all have my many thanks.
As it happens, when ToxicToucan showed me this boy...
...even though he wasn't the girl I wanted (I just happen to like the female SD pose more than the male one), I simply couldn't help buying him. It was too perfect. He was exactly my ideal colors, so I figured that though I'd probably still want to buy a smoke or gembond gene for him, I just couldn't pass him up.
Once I did that, I still wanted an SD girl. But I started thinking in the direction of mating pairs, and I usually tend to like a little bit of variety in my mating pairs - definitely more than I'd get if I got my carmine/ivory girl from breeding. When I saw this girl (sibling of the boy Panderz shared here)...
and scried her as an SD... though I hesitated over the cost of an SD scroll, ultimately I loved it too much to resist.
So... that said, I now have two brilliantly glittery dragons, and I will be able to let the girl I was trying to recreate go without regret (aside from having missed yesterday's carmine+SD bonus :-p. I tried, but I'd forgotten... I'd put her on a nest. :-p), even if I haven't reproduced her exactly. On the one hand, I'm sorry to have particularly pinged so many people for this purpose and then not followed through on the breeding the way I'd intended, but on the other hand, I do figure it means I won't have to tie up other people's dragons and delay any plans there might have been for them. So I'll not end up needing to borrow anyone's dragons. And even though I truly was trying to limit myself to one (and I'll still end up spending a fair chunk on scrolls :-p), I'm really excited about the pair I ended up with. (And who knows, maybe one day I'll end up with the girl I'd originally aimed for, too.)
Thank you all so much once again for your support and willingness to help.
---Left for the Record: How it All Started---
So, some time back, I made a mistake.
I took a fodder into the Scrying Workshop. I'm sure the door signs are to blame. After all, surely I was looking for the Coliseum Workshop, right? Yes, I'm sure that must be it. ;-)
But alas, however it happened, the damage was done. Because I took this girl in the wrong door:
And soon found... well, this:
That's right. If I was willing to spend a veritable fortune on gene scrolls, she had the potential to become a shining, glittering glory in my lair.
(She also, as I found later, got along quite well with
.)
In an instant of insanity (that lasted another two months), I decided to keep her, intending to eventually re-gene her to reveal the true wonder of her potential. Today, finally, some sense crept back. At first I thought of trying to buy another girl of her same colors with my preferred genes...
Fun fact: There have only been two Carmine/Ivory Cry/Fac girls ever... and of those, one is an exalted guardian, and the other is a Noc who looks well-loved aside from being in a mostly-starved lair. :-p
So now we get to what I'd like to ask of you fine FR folk. I'd like to try and breed the girl I want. Preferably, I'd like to borrow a couple of dragons for a breeding or two in an attempt to get the girl I'm looking for. Ideally, I'd like to bring both to my nest, since I think Light eyes would look best on this dragon. If you have such a dragon you'd be willing to lend me, I can pay a studding fee, offer your pick of collateral dragon, and allow the parents' owners to split any extra hatchlings once I've taken first pick of the nest. Or in lieu of a studding fee, if you'd be interested in studding any of my dragons, I'd be happy to let you take that as your collateral dragon and offer an exchange of breedings (my one reservation would be with my cry/fac nocs - I'd be willing to stud them, but in their cases, unless I'm borrowing a noc from you, I'd probably want to work out some share in their nests since they're still on the more valuable side and their cool-down is so long).
If absolutely necessary, I could buy a pair to breed her, but I'd strongly prefer to borrow so I don't end up with three dragons in my attempt to get one. In my next post, I'll ping a few people who have dragons that I know could probably get me what I want quickly, but I'm happy to hear from people who have other possibilities they'd like to suggest.
Now, for specifics (that is, what I'd need in the borrowed parents):
Genes: Cry/Fac strongly preferred. However, I'm willing to work with Iri and Shim if the parents together give me a chance at the Cry/Fac outcome. For tert, I'm going to be aiming for Smoke or Gembond, depending on the tert color range (see below).
Primary Colors: Carmine strongly preferred, followed by Coral or Red. Magenta or Maroon allowable in the absence of other options.
Secondary Colors: Ivory strongly preferred, followed by Gold or Banana. Sunshine or Lemon allowable in the absence of other options.
Tertiary Colors: I'm more flexible on the tert color. I think either a black-range, red-range, or yellow-range tert could work well.
Note: While I truly and sincerely appreciate all wishes to aid me in my quest here, since I'm wanting to borrow dragons - and for everyone's sake would prefer to borrow only once - I'm going to stick pretty closely to the color ranges listed above. I might budge to one color farther out on either side of one, but if it's any farther on any of the ranges, I'm probably not going to go for it, either to stud or buy. This is one of those cases where, if I were willing to significantly change the range on one of the colors, I could probably just buy one now and avoid the trouble of a breeding project. Many thanks, however, to anyone wishing me well in getting my baby.
As it happens, when ToxicToucan showed me this boy...
...even though he wasn't the girl I wanted (I just happen to like the female SD pose more than the male one), I simply couldn't help buying him. It was too perfect. He was exactly my ideal colors, so I figured that though I'd probably still want to buy a smoke or gembond gene for him, I just couldn't pass him up.
Once I did that, I still wanted an SD girl. But I started thinking in the direction of mating pairs, and I usually tend to like a little bit of variety in my mating pairs - definitely more than I'd get if I got my carmine/ivory girl from breeding. When I saw this girl (sibling of the boy Panderz shared here)...
and scried her as an SD... though I hesitated over the cost of an SD scroll, ultimately I loved it too much to resist.
So... that said, I now have two brilliantly glittery dragons, and I will be able to let the girl I was trying to recreate go without regret (aside from having missed yesterday's carmine+SD bonus :-p. I tried, but I'd forgotten... I'd put her on a nest. :-p), even if I haven't reproduced her exactly. On the one hand, I'm sorry to have particularly pinged so many people for this purpose and then not followed through on the breeding the way I'd intended, but on the other hand, I do figure it means I won't have to tie up other people's dragons and delay any plans there might have been for them. So I'll not end up needing to borrow anyone's dragons. And even though I truly was trying to limit myself to one (and I'll still end up spending a fair chunk on scrolls :-p), I'm really excited about the pair I ended up with. (And who knows, maybe one day I'll end up with the girl I'd originally aimed for, too.)
Thank you all so much once again for your support and willingness to help.
---Left for the Record: How it All Started---
So, some time back, I made a mistake.
I took a fodder into the Scrying Workshop. I'm sure the door signs are to blame. After all, surely I was looking for the Coliseum Workshop, right? Yes, I'm sure that must be it. ;-)
But alas, however it happened, the damage was done. Because I took this girl in the wrong door:
And soon found... well, this:
That's right. If I was willing to spend a veritable fortune on gene scrolls, she had the potential to become a shining, glittering glory in my lair.
(She also, as I found later, got along quite well with
.)In an instant of insanity (that lasted another two months), I decided to keep her, intending to eventually re-gene her to reveal the true wonder of her potential. Today, finally, some sense crept back. At first I thought of trying to buy another girl of her same colors with my preferred genes...
Fun fact: There have only been two Carmine/Ivory Cry/Fac girls ever... and of those, one is an exalted guardian, and the other is a Noc who looks well-loved aside from being in a mostly-starved lair. :-p
So now we get to what I'd like to ask of you fine FR folk. I'd like to try and breed the girl I want. Preferably, I'd like to borrow a couple of dragons for a breeding or two in an attempt to get the girl I'm looking for. Ideally, I'd like to bring both to my nest, since I think Light eyes would look best on this dragon. If you have such a dragon you'd be willing to lend me, I can pay a studding fee, offer your pick of collateral dragon, and allow the parents' owners to split any extra hatchlings once I've taken first pick of the nest. Or in lieu of a studding fee, if you'd be interested in studding any of my dragons, I'd be happy to let you take that as your collateral dragon and offer an exchange of breedings (my one reservation would be with my cry/fac nocs - I'd be willing to stud them, but in their cases, unless I'm borrowing a noc from you, I'd probably want to work out some share in their nests since they're still on the more valuable side and their cool-down is so long).
If absolutely necessary, I could buy a pair to breed her, but I'd strongly prefer to borrow so I don't end up with three dragons in my attempt to get one. In my next post, I'll ping a few people who have dragons that I know could probably get me what I want quickly, but I'm happy to hear from people who have other possibilities they'd like to suggest.
Now, for specifics (that is, what I'd need in the borrowed parents):
Genes: Cry/Fac strongly preferred. However, I'm willing to work with Iri and Shim if the parents together give me a chance at the Cry/Fac outcome. For tert, I'm going to be aiming for Smoke or Gembond, depending on the tert color range (see below).
Primary Colors: Carmine strongly preferred, followed by Coral or Red. Magenta or Maroon allowable in the absence of other options.
Secondary Colors: Ivory strongly preferred, followed by Gold or Banana. Sunshine or Lemon allowable in the absence of other options.
Tertiary Colors: I'm more flexible on the tert color. I think either a black-range, red-range, or yellow-range tert could work well.
- For the black-range, I'd be hoping to end up with Charcoal, Coal, Black, or Obsidian and a Smoke tert.
- For the red-range, I'd be happy with Rust, Tomato, Crimson, Blood, Maroon, Red, or Carmine and either a Smoke or a Gembond tert.
- For the yellow-range, I'd want Ivory, Gold, or Sunshine with a Gembond tert.
Note: While I truly and sincerely appreciate all wishes to aid me in my quest here, since I'm wanting to borrow dragons - and for everyone's sake would prefer to borrow only once - I'm going to stick pretty closely to the color ranges listed above. I might budge to one color farther out on either side of one, but if it's any farther on any of the ranges, I'm probably not going to go for it, either to stud or buy. This is one of those cases where, if I were willing to significantly change the range on one of the colors, I could probably just buy one now and avoid the trouble of a breeding project. Many thanks, however, to anyone wishing me well in getting my baby.
