Quests & Challenges

[center][img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/a2ce9c049f3a47013eef6832f165815d/tumblr_nlk2qk9u0l1sz016vo1_500.png[/img][/center] [center] [size=7][b]The Stone Thief[/b][/size][/center] [columns][img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/dhxumtdwnex78yz/earthvs1.png[/img][nextcol] [nextcol] Deep in the halls of the Mountain King, a precious treasure was stolen. A thief with a shadowy past and an innocent brigand meet at the maw of the Mountain King's caves and escape with a treasure so precious that the Mountain King sends every ounce of power he holds after them. Monsters, creatures, dragons, magic born in the darkness of his halls. But our precocious thief is wily; they have a reason to survive. And that is far more powerful than any of the Mountain King's might.[/columns] [center][img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/67e4803852c3537ce3760db876ccb220/tumblr_inline_o23f14aTxf1r3lvtf_500.png[/img][/center] [quote] This challenge is inspired by [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/frd/1150203/1]noodlesthing's nuzlocke challenge[/url]. [b][i]Basic rules:[/i][/b] [LIST][*]A death in the coliseum = that dragon must be exalted. This is the most essential rule of a nuzlocke. [*]All loot obtained in the coliseum is irrelevant, as is the loot obtained from gathering. [*]There are no restrictions about applying apparel to your dragons. Do whatever makes sense to you. Same goes for familiars. [*]Ping or message me if you take the challenge ;p (you don't actually /have/ to but I'd love to see how it goes!) [*]And, most crucially, all nuzlocke activity corresponds with the loot you obtain daily from Pinkerton's plundered pile! [/LIST] [b][i]Optional sentimental rule:[/i][/b] If a dragon reaches level 25 it "retires". It can join the ranks of your main lair. [b][i]Drops of Fate:[/i][/b] [b]Food:[/b] Coliseum time! [center] [b]Plants[/b]: 10-20 matches [b]Insects[/b]: 20-30 matches [b]Seafood[/b]: 30-40 matches [b]Meat[/b]: 40-50 matches [/center] Choose from one of these two rules: [i]Hardmode:[/i] You must select coliseum challengers in your lair using a random number generator. Then, select the coliseum arena that corresponds to the highest level dragon of that group [i](For a 'medium' mode, select the venue that is one tier down from that of highest level dragon)[/i]. If your dragons level up while in an area, you can still stay there for the whole day. You can quit your battle streak at any time to regen health, and flee from battles if it is appropriate. Don't try do 50 matches in a row unless you want a wiped-out dragon! [i]OR[/i] [i]Easymode:[/i] Choose whichever team and venue you want and go for it. Running from battles, using health pots, and ending the battle streak is fine, as I explained above. (These ranges can also be altered to suit your level of activity/personal preference.) [u]Materials and trinkets[/u]: Flex your creative muscles! [i]Note that there is currently a glitch in which Pinkerton mislabels materials as trinkets. If you obtain a "trinket" from Pinkerton, double check to make sure its not actually a material![/i] [b]Materials[/b]: Do some writing for your nuzlocke. How does your new nuzlocke clan change and develop? What are your dragons like personality-wise? How do they get along? How do they die? Is there an antagonist in this nuzlocke, or are they merely struggling against the forces of nature? Write dragon bios! Make a blog, or a thread for your challenge in the creative forums! Write short stories or paragraphs, or add to one big one adventure! [b]Trinkets[/b]: Do some art for your nuzlocke! Digital or traditional, use whatever medium feels best for you. Draw deaths. Draw dragons. Draw humanized versions of your dragons (if that's your sort of thing). Draw familiars and dragons together. It doesn't have to be that good or elaborate. If you make a nuzlocke thread, post your art there. Obviously, you might not have time in your day to do something creative. If that's the case, don't worry about it. This challenge is meant to be fun [s]and heartwrenching[/s], not a chore. [u]Rare drops[/u]: Wildcards [b]Familiars[/b]: Buy the cheapest dragon in the auction house of a specific breed. Use a random number generator (between 1-14) to determine which breed you will get! (Optionally: attach the familiar to the new dragon.) [center]1. Fae 2. Guardian 3. Mirror 4. Pearlcatcher 5. Ridgeback 6. Tundra 7. Spiral 8. Imperial 9. Snapper 10. Wildclaw 11. Nocturne 12. Coatl 13. Skydancer 14. Bogsneak [/center] [b]Apparel[/b]: Breed two of your dragons. The dragons you pick are up to you. You can also change one of the genes on a dragon, or use a scatterscroll if you are rich and crazy. Note: You must flip a coin for each hatchling once they hatch. If tails, the dragon is dead and you must exalt it. This is in keeping with the origional Nuzlocke thread's rule, because I really like it. [b]Battle items[/b]: Uh-oh!!! Flip a coin. Heads = DEATH STREAK Tails = Nothing happens DEATH STREAK rules: Randomly select three dragons using a random number generator. Fight in the coliseum using the "food" rules 10 rounds consecutively (ie. you cannot leave that arena), quitting midway if a dragon dies. If you are using the easymode rules, switch to the hardmode rules for battlestones. [s](Note that the 'death streak' needs to be tested for deadliness. It should be pretty deadly, but not totally impossible.)[/s] After testing, it seemed to work as intended! Survival depends on your willingness to be both lucky and cautious. [b][i]Starting out[/i][/b]: Using the method I detailed in the "familiar" possibility above, obtain a small number of dragons (I suggest 2 or 3). If they already have names, keep the name! If not, name them whatever you like. The challenge starts once all of the dragons, if they are hatchlings, grow into adulthood. Alternatively, choose 2-3 existing dragons in your lair to participate. This has certain advantages (eliminates the need to wait for maturity and breeding cooldowns) but also some disadvantages (less random=less exciting). You may want to "partition" your nuzlocke dragons away from your regular dragons so you don't get them mixed up. [b][i]Losing[/i][/b]: If your dragon count falls to zero you have a few options 1. Declare the challenge a "loss" and give up 2. Wait for Pinkerton to drop a familiar 3. Just say "welp" and buy another dragon from the AH without waiting for Pinkerton because you lack patience.[/quote] [center][img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/67e4803852c3537ce3760db876ccb220/tumblr_inline_o23f14aTxf1r3lvtf_500.png[/img][/center] [quote=Pinglist] @/velvetpaws @/ [/quote] [center][img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/67e4803852c3537ce3760db876ccb220/tumblr_inline_o23f14aTxf1r3lvtf_500.png[/img][/center] [center][b]Credits[/b][/center] [url=https://frtaurelia.tumblr.com/post/114205746535/i-made-some-horizontal-flight-banners-too-these]Region banner[/url] by Taurelia [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/2177898]Earth banner & Horizontal Neutral banner[/url] by osiem [url=https://msb-lair.tumblr.com/post/138749447634/more-flight-dividers]Flight Color Dividers[/url] by MSBarrows [center][img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/67e4803852c3537ce3760db876ccb220/tumblr_inline_o23f14aTxf1r3lvtf_500.png[/img][/center] [center] [b]Intro & Rules[/b] | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797#post_45563686]Cast[/url] | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797#post_45563696]Graveyard[/url] | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797#post_45563697]Logs[/url][/center]

[center][b][size=7]Active Cast[/b][/size][/center] [columns] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/65318504][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/coliseum/portraits/653186/65318504.png[/img][/url][nextcol] [color=white]...[/color] [nextcol][b]Alona[/b] | [i]The Thief[/i] Alona lost everything to the Mountain King when his reign came to full power. When the Mountain King took everything in his sights, Alona was left without a hoard, without a clan, without a thing to her name. So she stole. At first, just the necessities to live. Food, clothes, a place to sleep at night. Then, she got greedy. Then, revenge began to whisper tantalizing words in her ears. The Mountain King took everything from her, so she would take something that means everything to [i]him[/i].[/columns] [columns][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/65608278][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/coliseum/portraits/656083/65608278.png[/img][/url][nextcol][color=white] ... [/color][nextcol] [b]Zahira[/b] | [i]The Mountain Princess[/i] Zahira was hatched under the wing of a shimmering Spiral flying through the sky. Her first sight was not of the Mountain Hall she would some day call her own. It was not of the sprawling hills and chasms deep and reaching plains that made up her inheritance. It was of the sky, the ever expanding blue of a cloudless day slowly turning to purple dusk. It was the rays of sun poking into the cracks of her egg as the shell fell to the earth below like rain. Zahira saw sky, first and foremost, and she knew it was her domain.[/columns] [columns][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/65608365][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/coliseum/portraits/656084/65608365.png[/img][/url][nextcol][color=white] ... [/color][nextcol] [b]Crest[/b] | [i]The Familiar[/i] Crest does not remember his mother, or father, or nest mates. Crest does not remember growing up near them. Crest was raised by a lone River Flight on the banks of the river, swimming and fishing and enjoying life. But he was aimless, and felt like something was missing in his heart of hearts. Until one day, a piece of Earth egg fell from the sky and coming to rest along the river banks he knew was a strange assortment of dragons. A Spiral, a Nocturne, and a Princess. There was something about that Fae that was...familiar. And so he followed the Princess and would not leave her side.[/columns] [columns] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/65615270][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/coliseum/portraits/656153/65615270.png[/img][/url]][nextcol][color=white] ... [/color][nextcol] [b]Turret[/b] | [i]The Retainer[/i] Turret was young when he joined the forces of the Mountain King's help. His parents worked within the Hall; his father was a gardener, his mother a handmaiden. So Turret worked since he was a young boy. But he always kept his nose to the sky, his eyes on the horizon. He yearned for adventure and knew he would find none in the halls of the Mountain King. Until one day, as he was cleaning about in the nursery, he saw an egg walk off. He followed, sworn to protect everything that belonged to the Mountain King, and managed to catch up to the group shortly after the Mountain Princess was hatched. And he hasn't left her side since.[/columns] [center][img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/67e4803852c3537ce3760db876ccb220/tumblr_inline_o23f14aTxf1r3lvtf_500.png[/img][/center] [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797#post_2942797]Intro & Rules[/url] | [b]Cast[/b] | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797#post_45563696]Graveyard[/url] | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797#post_45563697]Logs[/url][/center]

[size=7][center][b]Graveyard[/b][/size] [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/1iai0pmsa13jvqk/neutralh5.png[/img] The dearly departed. [columns][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/65470443][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/654705/65470443_350.png[/img][/url][nextcol][color=white] ... [/color][nextcol] [b]Luc[/b] | [i]The Brigand[/i] Luc once ran a life of crime, an outlaw within the kingdom. He did not lead an easy life, but it was a comfortable one. He did not want for much, except more. But one day, he grew tired of his lifestyle, of the fighting, of the struggle to survive to each new dawn. He was ready to quit his wild life and make a better living, if not an honest one. Then the Mountain King brought his justice to all corners of the land. No outlaw was safe, whether their crimes were in the past or not. Whether they were caught or not. And Luc was caught up in the corralling of criminals. So he was sent to the Mountain King's dungeons. Released after serving his sentence, he came across a Spiral at the maw of the Mountain King's Hall. And she carried within her arms a precious, stolen treasure.[/columns] [/center] [center][img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/67e4803852c3537ce3760db876ccb220/tumblr_inline_o23f14aTxf1r3lvtf_500.png[/img][/center] [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797#post_2942797]Intro & Rules[/url] | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797#post_45563686]Cast[/url] | [b]Graveyard[/b] | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797#post_45563697]Logs[/url][/center]

[size=7][b][center]Daily Logs[/b][/size] Day oo1: [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797/1#post_45566900]x[/url] Day oo2: [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797/1#post_45577052]x[/url] Day oo3: [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797/1#post_45593043]x[/url] Day oo4: [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797/1#post_45602427]x[/url] Day oo5: [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797/2#post_45613845]x[/url] Day oo6: [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797/2#post_45628810]x[/url] Day oo7: [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797/2#post_45644471]x[/url][/center] [center][img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/67e4803852c3537ce3760db876ccb220/tumblr_inline_o23f14aTxf1r3lvtf_500.png[/img][/center] [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797#post_2942797]Intro & Rules[/url] | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797#post_45563686]Cast[/url] | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2942797#post_45563696]Graveyard[/url] | [b]Logs[/b][/center]

[center][b][size=7]Day 1[/b][/size] [item=crested river flight] [size=2][i]A new dragon joins the squad![/size][/i] [columns][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/65608365][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/656084/65608365.png[/img][/url][nextcol][color=white] ... [/color][nextcol] [b]Crest[/b] | [i]The Familiar[/i] Crest does not remember his mother, or father, or nest mates. Crest does not remember growing up near them. Crest was raised by a lone River Flight on the banks of the river, swimming and fishing and enjoying life. But he was aimless, and felt like something was missing in his heart of hearts. Until one day, a piece of Earth egg fell from the sky and coming to rest along the river banks he knew was a strange assortment of dragons. A Spiral, a Nocturne, and a Princess. There was something about that Fae that was...familiar. And so he followed the Princess and would not leave her side.[/columns] [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/67e4803852c3537ce3760db876ccb220/tumblr_inline_o23f14aTxf1r3lvtf_500.png[/img] A familiar right off the bat! Thanks Pink! Meet Crest, the cheapest Imperial dragon on the AH today--at 5300 t. There were some really pretty ones further down, but I had to go with the cheapest and that was Crest. He was initially named something totally left field (Like StripedMonitor?) and so I also had to get him a renaming scroll. So TECHNICALLY he cost me 12300t.

[center][size=7][b]Day 2[/b][/size] [item=Clouddancer] [size=2][i]A new dragon joins the squad![/size][/i] [columns] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/65615270][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/656153/65615270.png[/img][/url][nextcol][color=white] ... [/color][nextcol] [b]Turret[/b] | [i]The Retainer[/i] Turret was young when he joined the forces of the Mountain King's help. His parents worked within the Hall; his father was a gardener, his mother a handmaiden. So Turret worked since he was a young boy. But he always kept his nose to the sky, his eyes on the horizon. He yearned for adventure and knew he would find none in the halls of the Mountain King. Until one day, as he was cleaning about in the nursery, he saw an egg walk off. He followed, sworn to protect everything that belonged to the Mountain King, and managed to catch up to the group shortly after the Mountain Princess was hatched. And he hasn't left her side since.[/columns] [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/67e4803852c3537ce3760db876ccb220/tumblr_inline_o23f14aTxf1r3lvtf_500.png[/img] Two familiars in a row! I worry for how this is going to go when my luck runs out.[/center]

@opalrender

What a neat story idea! Could you please put me on your ping list for updates?

@velvetpaws

Absolutely!

@velvetpaws [center][b][size=7]Day 3[/size][/b] [item=Winter's Delight] [size=2][i]Coli time![/i][/size] Since Alona & Luc are my only adult dragons at the moment, they'll both be going into the coli. I used a random number generator to pick a number between 10 & 20 battles, and they have to survive 16 fights! I'm also doing Hardmode for this, so once we get a few more adult dragons, this may get dicey. Let's see how this goes... [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/67e4803852c3537ce3760db876ccb220/tumblr_inline_o23f14aTxf1r3lvtf_500.png[/img] First fight against two Leafy Moths in the Training Fields, and they BOTH crit my dergs. These were the most crit happy Moths I'd ever seen! I fled from that fight real fast. After spending so much time with my Mire Monk training fodder, I totally forgot how squishy level 1, unstatted and unstoned dergs are. [emoji=spiral sad size=1] The next few battles went alright, using some turns to heal helped. Once they hit level 3, things went a bit more smoothly. There was one close call where a Crimson Emperor's critted Contuse almost took out Alona because I hadn't realized how low she'd gotten, but all 16 rounds have been accomplished and both dragons are level 4 now!

[center][size=7][b]Day 4[/size][/b] [item=berserker] [size=2][i]Death Streak?!?[/i][/size] This was about to be real rough. Alona & Luc are still my only adults and sending the two of them into 10 consecutive battles would not have been easy with their luck so far in the coli. But using Google's Flip a Coin thingy, I landed on tails and so nothing happens today. They're all safe and still escaping notice by the Mountain King's forces. [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/67e4803852c3537ce3760db876ccb220/tumblr_inline_o23f14aTxf1r3lvtf_500.png[/img] @velvetpaws