Quests & Challenges

Ow, I had a Coatl with glowtail until recently [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/698868/69886751_350.png[/img] exaltet on june 22, so I could still restore her is she would be helpfull her colors are a bit off though caribbean/radioactive/fern

Ah yeah, thank you though! Greetings from vacation! I found myself with a little downtime during my trip, and had nothing better to do than write! I abhor using my phone to web browse, and I hope there will be no auto corrections in this. [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/79367552][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/793676/79367552_350.png[/img][/url][/center] I have two projects completed to blather about, starting with this one, the Smoke/Storm/Eggplant. I had inherited this project from another breeder, and if I recall correctly, it came with a few decent dragons, and well on track. Well, it still took me a hot minute to complete, and became a sprawling mess along the way, so I am relieved to tuck it to bed. I appear to be in a space crunch at the moment... [center] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/78942905][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/789430/78942905_350.png[/img][/url] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/79514523][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/795146/79514523_350.png[/img][/url][/center] Now, these two stinkers. This project frustrated me. I also inherited it from another breeder, and in the first round of babies, I got [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2689551/11#post_49768027]incredibly lucky[/url] with them and was able to produce two phenomenal final pairs that were unrelated to each other. I had the project in the bag, and then RNG threw the bag into the abyss. The 1 in 3 pair had 18 kids total, while the 1 in 6 pair had 19 kids before they gave me a male and female. Both pairs produced a number of females before one decided to give me a male. Argh! But that’s all from me for now! I have the itch for another project, but somehow I have no space currently. I will have to solve that first...

Whoops a month sure flew. It's that awkward time period currently, where the Dragonwish Foundation is mid-check-in, so I am very much anxious to sink my teeth into a new project or two, but am waiting for the results of the check-in to see what wishes need reassigning. But, I do have some news to impart in the meantime. [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/79691313][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/796914/79691313_350.png[/img][/url][/center] I finally got Red [size=2]a month ago[/size]! He was my personal project, and finally hatched with everything perfect! I suppose I could have tried for the Rare eyes, but eyes I've just mostly given up on. I'd rather get the vial, when it goes on Flash sale. If it goes on Flash sale... Super pleased with him, and once I get those Rare eyes, he will be my new avatar dragon! He is the "brother" of Diremon & Gorbadd, my current & previous avatar dragons. [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/79835497][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/798355/79835497_350.png[/img][/url][/center] Next up is this lucky boy from his over-achieving parents. They had a 1 in 780 odds of nailing the colours alone, but seeing as near-misses on the primary & tertiary were going to be acceptable, and he didn't actually nail the primary, I don't think he's full odds on that, so I don't consider him the highest I've ever nailed, since there was quite a bit of acceptable variation. Still, very impressive! And now, I've got a daunting 5 Coatl projects as my oldest projects. They're all... going. That's about what I can say. I did pick up another personal project, and this time, since the last one was an "easier" project, I've gone with the most "challenging" one this time, at least, based on appearance. [quote][columns] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=157&bodygene=1&breed=10&element=1&eyetype=0&gender=0&tert=2&tertgene=11&winggene=1&wings=157&auth=d85bfb0c09ae0acf6944e64d04d16270c4c720c2&dummyext=prev.png[/img][nextcol] [b]Personal Project:[/b] Wildclaw Male with Umber Iridescent/Umber Shimmer/White Thylacine and Earth eyes. Start Date: June 25, 2022 [i]Status: Set up![/i] [/columns][/quote] I've got it set up! And I did get some promising first nests back, so hopefully it continues to be nice to me. I might be okay with some variation, as some of those deep browns can look pretty similar, so hopefully that makes things easier. But I am really chomping at the bit to get some more projects. I've already got one wish that needs reassigning that I've agreed to take, but haven't received the dragons for: [quote][columns] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=142&bodygene=11&breed=2&element=4&eyetype=0&gender=1&tert=100&tertgene=73&winggene=42&wings=51&auth=127120b3d5e34c2a2f832cbfd47d2a0e95d5ae43&dummyext=prev.png[/img][nextcol] [b]DWF Wish:[/b] Guardian or Mirror Female with Murk Poison, Beige Blend, Spruce Koi and Water or Lightning eyes. Start Date: August 23, 2022 [i]Status: Waiting for dragons from previous breeder.[/i] [/columns][/quote] Once I get the dragons, I can see where it is at, and go from there. Other than that, it's a matter of waiting until the check-in finishes.

Whew, the check-in finally finishes today! And with it, two of my inactive projects, the Jade/Antique/Jade and the Amethyst/White/Yellow, have been tossed, as the corresponding wishes have been inactive long enough to be removed from the wishlist entirely. The Obs/Sunshine/Moon has also been moved to the inactive list, which isn't entirely unexpected for me, and I do think they'll be back, so I will continue that one, like I did last time this happened. I did get the dragons for the Murk/Beige/Spruce project, and discovered two males with the exact colours, so asked the wisher if they wanted them. They did, so that wish had been marked complete without me doing anything, so I don't count to my breeding projects complete. But, I have still managed to complete a project since! [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/80587839][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/805879/80587839_350.png[/img][/url][/center] This one is a relief to have done, because it was not playing very nice for a long time. I believe I had commented when I first picked this project up that it was nice to have an "easier" Coatl project for once, and... it [i]should[/i] have been much easier than it was. My pairs really wanted to show me just how much rotten luck I have by consistently giving me the worst possible combinations. I had to fight tooth and nail and replace quite a few dragons with better AH finds to get this one done. Now, I said I would pick up projects once the check-in is done, and it is done, and I have picked up a few more wishes! I just... don't start them until I hear back from the wishers and I haven't heard back yet. I shall just have to sit tight and wait.

"Let's be reasonable and take a normal (1) amount of new projects on at once," said me never. In total, I took 7 wishes. 2 I haven't heard from yet [size=2]that won't come back to bite me, no sir[/size], but the other 5 are... [quote][columns] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=151&bodygene=19&breed=8&element=2&eyetype=0&gender=0&tert=72&tertgene=10&winggene=24&wings=163&auth=8cbab079a0119b864bc1534e13e143610cfeeee0&dummyext=prev.png[/img][nextcol] [b]DWF Wish:[/b] Imperial with Phthalo Jaguar or Flaunt, Cream Noxtide, Wine Glimmer and Plague, Light, or Arcane eyes. Male preferred, eyes in order of preference. Start Date: August 1, 2022 [i]Status: Should be a quick one.[/i] [/columns][/quote] Okay technically I did not just take this Imp. I just somehow forgot it existed in my previous two log updates. It exists, and it's doing well. [quote][columns] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=153&bodygene=0&breed=15&element=6&eyetype=0&gender=1&tert=105&tertgene=10&winggene=0&wings=105&auth=c26081dfba156674b6a7c7deca82c5cd15123a4b&dummyext=prev.png[/img][nextcol] [b]DWF Wish:[/b] Obelisk Female with Algae/Peach/Peach Glimmer and any eyes. Start Date: September 19, 2022 [i]Status: Also should be a quick one.[/i] [/columns][/quote] This obelisk has a case of "that's a lotta studs". Uh, I think it should be relatively quick? [quote][columns] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=0&body=62&bodygene=17&breed=8&element=8&eyetype=0&gender=1&tert=42&tertgene=21&winggene=17&wings=10&auth=3c6f1702f054eefc3007b8affecc2a30b14c1c45&dummyext=prev.png[/img][nextcol] [b]DWF Wish:[/b] Imperial with Red Metallic, Obsidian Alloy, Lemon Filigree and Light eyes. Start Date: September 19, 2022 [i]Status: Genes are a little dicey.[/i] [/columns][/quote] Metallic/Alloy, my beloathed. Quite a few of my more infamous projects have had Metallic and/or Alloy. One of them even had Filigree. Once again, I had a hard time getting enough dragons with even one of the required genes. And I also had a blast from the past ([url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/68611060]a reject from a previous infamous project[/url]) join the ranks for this one. Funny how that works. [quote][columns] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=55&bodygene=10&breed=6&element=1&eyetype=0&gender=0&tert=2&tertgene=5&winggene=10&wings=10&auth=43f6e96177a8e0a5f8658611917d94be9ee55973&dummyext=prev.png[/img][nextcol] [b]DWF Wish:[/b] Tundra Male with Brown Cherub, Obsidian Paint, White Underbelly and Earth eyes. Start Date: September 20, 2022 [i]Status: Picked this one up from another breeder, it is in good shape![/i] [/columns][/quote] And the last one [s]for now[/s]. I've got it in a really good place, so hoping it finishes up quickly! I will be picking up where the previous wisher stopped, and they got pretty far along. My itch for new projects has been temporarily scratched, and I am now facing a new problem: My den is nearly full, and I am out of tabs to put new projects in. So, until at least the tab problem is fixed, I will be holding off on more new projects for now. But I have been thinking, maybe I should just... make one tab for all the DWF wishes, and separate them by pages? There is a tiny problem: My fodder tab lags quite a bit, and it only has about a hundred dragons in there. The DWF tab would have many more, [i]and[/i] I would need to use it frequently. Edit: I missed one. Somehow I missed the biggest one. [quote][columns] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=0&body=159&bodygene=13&breed=12&element=8&eyetype=0&gender=1&tert=44&tertgene=10&winggene=13&wings=159&auth=38892574cff7e879ff72a410218b052bdc88ba2a&dummyext=prev.png[/img][nextcol] [b]DWF Wish:[/b] Coatl Pair with Blush or Cottoncandy Petals, Blush or Cottoncandy Butterfly, Ivory Glimmer and Light eyes. Start Date: September 20, 2022 [i]Status: Going to buy one half from a hatchery pair, then I'm going to need to breed the other half.[/i] [/columns][/quote] This one is... a doozy. Not only is it among the oldest wishes on the DWF's wishlist, it's a [i]pair[/i] wish with all gem genes. The one saving grace is that I will be able to acquire one half of the pair through a purchase. But that still leaves me with having to breed an all-gem gene Coatl that needs to be unrelated to that purchase, who will be related to virtually every other dragon remotely in range. The DWF Triples library is saving my bacon a little bit here, I managed to make 5 pairs (terrible colours, mind you) from a bunch of Petals/Butterfly/Glimmer brown-range Coatls. If not for them, I would still be quite a few pairs away from what I need to make this happen. Also, fun fact! Two more dragons from previous projects are helping in this one, specifically, [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/64301614]Howard[/url] and [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/64226576]Maria[/url] from that Red/Red/Metals Coatl project, who I kept as a pair for my [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3066352]hypothetical hatchery[/url]. They'll be split apart into different pairs for this one, though, since I'd like to take advantage of the fact that I have two unrelated dragons near the goal colours.

Whew! After a pretty long dry spell, I've had a flurry of projects complete! [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/81452731][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/814528/81452731_350.png[/img][/url][/center] First up is Gothmog, who was very nearly perfect except for getting Bee instead of Alloy. However, the wisher decided Bee works just as well, and so she is done! The DWF had to cut back on what wishes are eligible for gem genes, and we're grandfathering in wishes previously eligible, but not allowing any more to be eligible until they're in the 10 oldest wishes. This project just barely missed the cut-off, and I was getting a little worried because my dragons had a mean tendency to give really good dragons... except for the genes. All's well that ends well, though! [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/81440446][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/814405/81440446_350.png[/img][/url][/center] Next up, the Veilspun! I wasn't expecting this one to complete so suddenly, and I don't know [i]why[/i] I wasn't expecting it, because her parents were a 1 in 12 pair. I guess I've just been so bogged down with all my bad luck lately that I haven't bothered to get excited for anything more than a 1 in 4, and even 1 in 4 has me doubting, thanks to a [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2689551/3#post_42627797]certain[/url] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2689551/4#post_43366884]curse[/url]. Well, maybe this is a sign my luck is finally turning around! [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/81609390][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/816094/81609390_350.png[/img][/url][/center] The last one is this Imp! Just need to hear from the wisher, then I'll be getting a Fade gene for her and sending her on her way, because she is otherwise perfect! I [i]was[/i] expecting this one more than the Veilspun, because she came from a 1 in 8 pair! I am also pleased I was able to get 2 genes for her inherited. Could have had all 3, but Tapir really didn't want to give Fade any room to breathe. ----- Updates for other wishes: The Obsidian/Sunshine/Moon's wisher returned, as I was expecting, and they returned before the pairs were even off cooldown since going into the inactive bin, lol. So, they're back to the not-inactive bin! This project is [i]finally[/i] down to grandparents, and though genes are a little dicey, I am so pleased to say it's getting really close now! The Blood/Pistachio/Eldritch, however, seemed to envy the Obsidian/Sunshine/Moon's position as most challenging wish, and has spited me at every turn. It's extremely rare that I have to do this, in fact, I can think of only [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2689551/2#post_39679267]one other project[/url] where I had to, but I had to make a second tree. The grandparents I had for this project, (which were, by the way, perfectly good enough to be grandparents), were extremely fond of giving me the worst possible combinations, and I couldn't make a final pair better than 1 in 48, which is not nearly good enough for any breeds, let alone Coatls. I [i]have[/i] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2689551/4#post_43478804]nailed 1 in 48 before[/url], but that was a fluke, and I don't like relying on flukes. So, I bit the bullet, and set up a second tree. The 1 in 48 pair is now a grandparent pair, and I am working on breeding them a second grandparent pair to pair their kids to. This one has a while yet, sadly. Everyone else is going slow and steady, nothing to remark yet. The Red/Obs/Lemon project has been really nice so far with some excellent kids! The Blush/Blush/Ivory is starting to have babies trickle in, and so far, I've already paired up some kids and started eliminating parents! [quote][columns] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=165&bodygene=40&breed=13&element=9&eyetype=0&gender=1&tert=68&tertgene=4&winggene=25&wings=175&auth=3ac6ca167a7f6a9a460afd80b2c9088857202307&dummyext=prev.png[/img][nextcol] [b]DWF Wish:[/b] Skydancer Female with Driftwood Leopard, Nightshade Constellation, Heather Gembond and Arcane eyes. Start Date: October 18, 2022 [i]Status: The inactive Metals/Amethyst/Violet Wildclaw project helped get Constellation in here.[/i] [/columns][/quote] I also have a new project I've started, this Skydancer. I actually had a number of rejects from the Metals/Amethyst/Violet, and even a current parent for that project, that were useful for this one, so they really gave the project a much-needed leg up, especially given they were on the rare side of Driftwood/Nightshade/Heather, as well as having Constellation. (The common side, of course, being filled with red-range/Obsidian/Obsidian.) It was a bit of a stretch to find Leopard, (literally, had to do no colour specifications and just Leopard, gem secondaries, and Skydancer+ for breed. There were only 5 pages with unlimited colours.) but we got both Leopard and Gembond in the mix, so here's hoping this one might not require any scrolls in the end! Always a satisfaction when the baby comes out perfect. I am itching for more projects, of course, and will probably pick up my next one when I'm done writing this, but my den is full of fodder hatchlings I'm aging up for Nature's conquest this week, so gotta go slow until the conquest is done!

Oh boy, oh boy. Another flurry of projects complete! Some of these were quite lucky hatches, too. [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82065604][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/820657/82065604_350.png[/img][/url][/center] First one aboard the luck train is the Periwinkle/White/Sanddollar. Though his parents were a grandparent pair, they actually were pretty close themselves, with a 1 in 64 odds of hatching him. That's definitely not final pair material, but well within fluke baby range. I actually received the babies back from the nester while I was away on a trip, and didn't initially realize they weren't a final pair. [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82112932][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/821130/82112932_350.png[/img][/url][/center] Next is, unbelievably, the project that refuses to be overshadowed by any others. Taking the crown for most difficult project I have ever done, it was an old enough wish to be eligible for 2 gem scrolls via the DWF bank by the time this boy hatched. Did I need them? Well... let me tell you how the last two nests went. [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/81697458][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/816975/81697458.png[/img][/url][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/81697459][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/816975/81697459.png[/img][/url][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/81697460][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/816975/81697460.png[/img][/url][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/81697457][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/816975/81697457.png[/img][/url][/center] These four kids may not look like anything too special. Their parents were a kid from a grandparent pair, and an unrelated stud (thanks, Benjibean!). Between the two parents, they were only guaranteed Starmap. It's a 1 in 8 odds for a kid to also inherit all 3 of Coatl, Constellation, and Opal. 8[sup]4[/sup] is... 4096. This nest of 4 eggs had a 1 in 4096 chance of all 4 babies getting all the right genes, and these babies did it. I was flabbergasted. Arcturus, the first boy, was a one-off to boot, so I had initially offered him to the wisher. The wisher decided to hold out for Sunshine, and I was perfectly fine for that, because Arcturus still had one pair in the project whose kids I could pair him with, and he was about as close a father I could get without getting the goal baby. That other grandparent pair apparently took lessons from these guys, and despite not being guaranteed 2 genes, for a 1 in 4 odds for perfect genes on each of the kids, something they had only done once in their previous 13 babies, they too also gave perfect genes on all 3 kids in the final nest. [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82112930][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/821130/82112930.png[/img][/url][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82112931][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/821130/82112931.png[/img][/url] [i][size=2](The goal baby's nestmates.)[/size][/i][/center] In total, this [i]grandparent[/i] pair had a [b]1 in 640[/b] odds of getting the goal baby. Hang on. I didn't know it was that high, I literally just did the math now. That... that broke my previous record. My previous record was [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2689551/10#post_48565427]1 in 512[/url]... Yeah, this project absolutely refuses to be overshadowed by any other. [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82118804][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/821189/82118804_350.png[/img][/url][/center] With that discovery, I don't even know how to segue into talking about this brown Tundra. He managed to inherit Imp over Fae, and his Fae sisters (annoyingly, but inconsequentially) inherited Myrid for one, and Myrid & Morph on the other. We're just playing with all sorts of fun odds here! Overall, an easy project, especially when I found his grandmother with all the right genes in a nice, tight range. [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82171046][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/821711/82171046_350.png[/img][/url][/center] Lastly, the Fae! He unfortunately didn't inherited Facet, but the wisher decided they liked Alloy too, and he inherited everything else correctly, so off he went! This one was kind of getting out of hand with a lot of [i]almost[/i] great final pairs, so it is a relief to have it be done. Between this one, the Periwinkle Coatl above, and the Chocolate/Grape/Watermelon Skydancer I'm still working [s]and a new one[/s], I've been needing a lot of Water nests, and I always get a little worried the nesters might get sick of me constantly ask for nests, ha ha. ---- With so many projects being completed, have I been picking up new ones? A few... [quote][columns] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=163&bodygene=42&breed=12&element=7&eyetype=0&gender=0&tert=167&tertgene=14&winggene=1&wings=127&auth=72ce2c9db496cef15aae3feb40c0e9536818540c&dummyext=prev.png[/img][nextcol] [b]DWF Wish:[/b] Coatl Male with Cream Fade, Blackberry Shimmer, Buttercup Runes and Shadow eyes. Start Date: October 29, 2022 [i]Status: First round of breedings incoming.[/i] [/columns][/quote] This one... is one of those funny ones where I have no recollection of picking up the project, picking up the dragons, setting up the plan, or anything to do with this project, really. But I have the dragons, they're in my nesting calendar, and I've been nesting them as they become RTB. So... it's in progress, I guess? I don't know what it is about certain Coatl projects just... being forgettable for me? Have I done too many? This is not the first time this has happened. [quote][columns] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=157&bodygene=101&breed=20&element=8&eyetype=0&gender=1&tert=157&tertgene=92&winggene=101&wings=42&auth=3b9e908d28d5f7cf480f5e08eeb8e5debb3fad9b&dummyext=prev.png[/img][nextcol] [b]DWF Wish:[/b] Aberration Female with Umber Pharaoh, Lemon Sarcophagus, Umber Scales and Light eyes. Start Date: October 31, 2022 [i]Status: Oh boy...[/i] [/columns][/quote] The above's wish's problem of being forgettable might be the fault of this one. I finally found a project to really sink my teeth into since the Obsidian/Sunshine/Moon, and it's this Aberration. Still not as dire as the Obsidian/Sunshine/Moon was when setting up, but it's pretty rough. I was seriously considering doing a double-tree, at least until I started getting nests back. I've gotten a few promising babies so far, which is giving me hope that it won't be as bad as I initially thought. [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82132027][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/821321/82132027.png[/img][/url][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82105802][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/821059/82105802.png[/img][/url] [size=2][i](More babies like these might save this project.)[/i][/size][/center] The genes for this project happen to be the least of my worries. It seems Pharaoh & Sarcophagus are by far the most popular gem genes on Aberrations, and for that, I am grateful, because everything else is a bit brutal. The colours especially were my biggest concern, and the reason I thought I might need two trees for the extra generation of wiggle room. But kids like the above two [i]are[/i] hatching, and might be enough that I don't need to go to that extreme. But another problem I am facing in this project is [i]there aren't very many Aberrations that aren't related to each other.[/i] The only other project I remember having issues with bloodlines to this extent was the [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2689551/1#post_39209727]Red/Red/Metals Coatl[/url], and I am honestly unsure which project had this problem worse, but in any case, it makes for a headache when pairing up kids. [quote][columns] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=26&bodygene=17&breed=10&element=4&eyetype=0&gender=0&tert=136&tertgene=17&winggene=17&wings=26&auth=5bb69fdc8779bc50c1a07bfd835383cfef5dd560&dummyext=prev.png[/img][nextcol] [b]DWF Wish:[/b] Wildclaw Male with Denim Metallic, Denim Alloy, Cobalt Opal and Water eyes. Start Date: November 22, 2022 [i]Status: All set up![/i] [/columns][/quote] And... I was going to conclude this post with "and I'd love to pick up more projects, but between scrambling to make a costume for a trip in a week, and then going on said trip, I don't have time" except that one of those wishes I picked up whose wishers didn't appear to be active... came back this morning. So here's one more. It's blue. I guess. I set it up rather quickly and with decent pairs because blue range overbred yay. I'm sure being a Wildclaw, it'll do something mean, but it's not like I have a shortage of blue dragons to replace parents who refuse to behave. [i]Now,[/i] I will say, I'd love to pick up more projects, but, well, you already know why I can't.

Hello, it's me again, making bad decisions again. [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82756683][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/827567/82756683_350.png[/img][/url][/center] First up, I've completed this boy's project! Being amongst the oldest wishes on the DWF's wishlist, it's a relief to have him done, and he was a lucky baby, too, coming from a grandparent pair. Because he came from a grandparent pair, I was also able to provide the wisher with an additional unrelated dragon, because they have plans to breed him a mate as well! Best of luck! I love it when goal kids from my projects become breeding pairs, because now this range will be potentially more accessible in the future, as well. The more of that going around, the easier time breeders like I have breeding oddballs. So, what have I been up to? Well, bad decisions, AKA, giving myself more projects. I'm up to 17 now. It looks like these 4 are the ones I haven't talked about yet. [quote][columns] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=162&bodygene=17&breed=13&element=8&eyetype=0&gender=0&tert=171&tertgene=13&winggene=13&wings=171&auth=66580978f1f1dd460386dde7452a62f7eebcc985&dummyext=prev.png[/img][nextcol] [b]DWF Wish:[/b] Skydancer Male with Dirt Metallic, Cantaloupe Butterfly, Cantaloupe Contour and Light, Fire, or Earth eyes. Start Date: November 25, 2022 [i]Status: Forgot to check bloodlines against the intended mate. Got lucky anyway and the project isn't related.[/i] [/columns][/quote] First up is another wish whose wisher took a while to respond to me, so I have finally started it. It's a tiny project, though. The range seems to be in good supply! [quote][columns] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=10&bodygene=18&breed=14&element=2&eyetype=0&gender=0&tert=97&tertgene=5&winggene=82&wings=140&auth=f5fb5e1ca736f971e5cbbd993a9f92be50bedae9&dummyext=prev.png[/img][nextcol] [b]DWF Wish:[/b] Bogsneak Male with Obsidian Savannah, Metals Flair, Antique Underbelly and Plague eyes. Start Date: November 27, 2022 [i]Status: Almost forgot I had this one. Inherited a 1 in 4 pair.[/i] [/columns][/quote] Yeah, I almost forgot I had this one. I actually inherited it from another DWF breeder who needed to go on hiatus, and it came with a 1 in 4 pair ready to go, so I'm basically just finishing it for them. [quote][columns] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=77&bodygene=0&breed=8&element=11&eyetype=0&gender=0&tert=46&tertgene=5&winggene=0&wings=162&auth=5e4fdf7155b3cc5d7bd27f36fd62e55bb08b042e&dummyext=prev.png[/img][nextcol] [b]DWF Wish:[/b] Imperial Male with Cinnamon/Dirt/Sunshine and Fire eyes. Start Date: December 11, 2022 [i]Status: An abundance of close options should help this finish quickly.[/i] [/columns][/quote] This one is another small project. Another DWF breeder had picked up a couple super close options, and kind of like the Dirt/Cantaloupe/Cantaloupe, I had easy pickings of dragons to choose from. [quote][columns] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=130&bodygene=1&breed=7&element=7&eyetype=0&gender=1&tert=136&tertgene=13&winggene=22&wings=22&auth=9da8fbfa43362edb94f28d00bea877add967b1df&dummyext=prev.png[/img][nextcol] [b]DWF Wish:[/b] Spiral Female with Radioactive Iridescent, Splash Trail, Cobalt Contour and Water or Wind eyes. Start Date: December 22, 2022 [i]Status: All set up![/i] [/columns][/quote] My latest project to work on, I just finished setting it up today, and it shouldn't be too difficult! It is a little bigger than the above projects, but it's no monster-sized project. ---- Other than them, my projects have all been progressing. Impromptu, today I decided to comb through AH listings for all my projects, and picked up a few decent Aberrations, which I know will be very helpful for the Aberration project, and lucked out on a fantastic find for the Cottoncandy/Ivory Coatl pair wish. I have 2 pairs of grandparents now, with a lot of left-overs, and I'm kind of wondering where that hatchery pair has been, because I haven't heard from them in months. Maybe I should just make an entirely unrelated pair. At this rate, I may very well end up doing so.

[center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82970939][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/829710/82970939_350.png[/img][/url][/center] Do I... count this one? I was basically given a ready-to-breed 1 in 4 pair, and all I had to do was find a Plague nest, and the goal baby was in that first nest. Technically, I finished the project, but I certainly didn't do any of the legwork to get there. I even gave the previous breeder the credit for completing this wish instead of myself on the DWF thread. Hmm. I have included one-nest wonders in my projects completed list, because they do count, but I know that there was more to [i]this[/i] breeding project than the 1 in 4 pair. I'll have to sit on it and think about what I count as a project I've done. ----- [quote][columns] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=84&bodygene=24&breed=15&element=8&eyetype=0&gender=1&tert=48&tertgene=22&winggene=25&wings=46&auth=f24e3a686ce8d2bbd6765ca6c5bcf7db4c361c31&dummyext=prev.png[/img] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=84&bodygene=7&breed=15&element=8&eyetype=0&gender=0&tert=48&tertgene=21&winggene=8&wings=46&auth=fbabdf762dbec73a3823af0f78d49765da81c2cc&dummyext=prev.png[/img][nextcol] [b]DWF Wish:[/b] Light Obelisk Pair: Female with Saffron Starmap, Sunshine Constellation, Fire Firefly; Male with Saffron Crystal, Sunshine Facet, Fire Filigree. Start Date: December 29, 2022 [i]Status: This one came back to haunt me.[/i] [/columns][/quote] So... this one did, in fact, [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2689551/12#post_52325161]come back to bite me.[/url] The good news is, it's the last previously-inactive wish that I hadn't started yet but assigned to myself, so I won't get any more surprise projects for now. The bad news is... I ran out of tabs in my den. Yep. No matter which way I squished them, none of the big projects were small enough to fit into the small projects category, and under my previous sorting system, each needed their own tab. And I had no more tabs left for this one. So, it's the dawn of a new era in my lair. No longer it is a giant wall of 20 tabs that has been described as an eyesore, and instead, I have shoved all my DWF projects into one giant tab. The den tab lags pretty horribly for me, so we're gonna find out how long I can tolerate this until I find a [i]new[/i] sorting system. As for the project itself, well, I'm gonna get the girl way sooner than the boy, ha ha. At least, with what I currently have. The non-gem tertiary is a huge boon to her half of the project, while the boy having Crystal, Facet and [i]Filigree[/i] is going to be a bit more tricky to coordinat. Crystal/Facet is not uncommon in the orange range, thankfully, but Filigree is, especially with Crystal/Facet. I've got a potential stud to help speed it along, but I need to get her a mate. Oh, and Fire tertiary was another big hang-up for both sides of this pair. It's just barely out of range for the more common oranges, so it was a bit of a challenge to get dragons on the brown side of Fire while remaining close to the primary and secondary.

Oops January flew by quite quickly for me. In the past month, I've slowly dealt with the lair space & den space squeeze I was struggling with, a large part thanks to these three projects finishing, and a bunch more making some leaps in progress. [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82970933][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/829710/82970933_350.png[/img][/url][/center] First one done is this girl! And I am sad to say I still don't have any more clarity on why the wisher wanted her. She's a near-miss from the original goal, with Lemon and Yellow Crackle being extremely similar. The project overall felt very quick, especially for such an oddball Wildclaw. It seemed luck favoured this one. [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/83541087][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/835411/83541087_350.png[/img][/url][/center] Next up, we go from the strangest scry to the prettiest scry on my list, this girl. It was a matter of time before she would hatch, as I was down to final pairs for a little bit now. She did not, in fact, get Petals, that Wasp from Trouble persisted the whole way down the bloodline, and in the pairs that had the Wasp parents present, my percentages for Wasp versus Petals were definitely skewed towards Wasp. Annoying. But the project was old enough to be eligible for a gem scroll, so the priority was to get it done. [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/83760990][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/837610/83760990_350.png[/img][/url][/center] And lastly, this lady is also done! Which is a tremendous relief for me. I wound up not going for any genes or the breed but Glowtail, and that resulted in having a bunch of plentiful pairs for my final pairs. Good gravy, plentiful pairs are annoyingly quick to become RTB when you're used to Coatls and Wildclaws. This project was a large reason for the clogging of my lair and den, and I am so glad to see the last of these plentifuls leave. ----- Due to the aforementioned lair space issues, I've only just recently picked up another project to work on as I've cleared more space, and it's this one. [quote][columns] [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=111&bodygene=110&breed=12&element=7&eyetype=0&gender=0&tert=158&tertgene=73&winggene=59&wings=17&auth=904b01c0386f8badcd34fd9560dac030252f248a&dummyext=prev.png[/img][nextcol] [b]DWF Wish:[/b] Coatl Male with Eggplant Boulder, Violet Patchwork, Pumpkin Koi and Shadow eyes. Start Date: January 26, 2023 [i]Status: I had hoped such a pretty scry might have a market already in existence, but I am not surprised it doesn't. Going to be a typical 16-pair Coatl project.[/i] [/columns][/quote] I've got some pairs picked up already, but it's taking a bit of time as I clean out the AH of suitable dragons with Koi each time I go looking. As the AH replenishes, I'm going to be filling out this project probably over the course of the next few weeks. And, in my sort of fashion, I usually only pick up new projects once the previous one is fully set up, so I will see where I'm at when I finally get the last pair for this one. I am itching for more, but Nature has a conquest at the beginning of March, for which I will be stockpiling fodder, and then I will be looking at the next check-in towards the end of March, which means I usually leave space open to pick up a few projects needing reassigning. ----- As for my not-completed, not-new projects, I've actually made good progress on quite a few of them! [LIST] [*]The Blood/Pistachio/Eldritch still taunts me. I have a few temporary pairs, but holding out hope for better options from their parents. Though one of the former parent, now grandparent pairs loves giving me one-offs, I have yet to make a good final pair. [*]Ginger/Hunter/Jungle just needs a little more luck, but we're down to final pairs! We've hatched two perfect boys so far. [*]Glowtail Coatl is being stubborn about inheriting Glowtail. [*]My personal project is probably the one that's stagnating the most. Crossing fingers for some pairs currently on nests. [*]I've gotten a fantastic burst of luck on the Red/Obsidian/Lemon project, and I've got an excellent final parent. Just need to breed him a mate. [*]I have actually acquired one half of the Coatl pair project! She came from a grandparent pair, and I had enough leftover pairs to make a second tree. I may very well wind up breeding a pair completely unrelated to the current roster of Cottoncandy/Cottoncandy/Ivory Coatls with these genes, which I've discovered to be nigh on impossible to acquire an unrelated breeding pair from. I may or may not breed myself a pair to keep for the Hypothetical Hatchery, just to keep this niche available. [*]The Driftwood Skydancer saw good progress and we're onto the third generation! [*]The Cream/Blackberry/Buttercup is stagnating a little bit, but we've got options. [*]I am pleased with the Aberration's project! We've officially left the first generation and we're comfortably on G2 & G3. [*]All the rest of my projects need more time to get in rebreedings, they're just starting, essentially. [/LIST]