Out of Time
A Pinkerlocke with Lore
Three individual dragons made their way to the Shifting Expanse separately. Though their backgrounds had many differences, they had one similarity: they all came from a place that they had to escape.
- 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 Pinkerlocke activity corresponds with the loot you obtain daily from Pinkerton's Plundered Pile!
Optional sentimental rule:
If a dragon reaches level 25 it "retires". It can join the ranks of your main lair.
Drops of Fate:
Food: Coliseum time!
Plants: 10-20 matches
Insects: 20-30 matches
Seafood: 30-40 matches
Meat: 40-50 matches
Insects: 20-30 matches
Seafood: 30-40 matches
Meat: 40-50 matches
Choose from one of these two rules:
Hardmode: 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 (For a 'medium' mode, select the venue that is one tier down from that of highest level dragon). 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 regain 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!
OR
Easymode: 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.)
Materials and trinkets: Flex your creative muscles!
Materials: 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!
(My Rules for Materials -
Randomly select a dragon.
RNG Familiar System - Write 50 words from life in past clan.
Born into clan - Add 50 words to the story about their life if they were in another clan with just these dragons. Add more dragons to the hypothetical clan as they get selected using Materials. I know, complicated, but it sounds fun to me. This will be recorded for organization purposes in this thread)
Trinkets: Tidy up a dragon's bio using an existing bio template or by creating your own. If all dragons have templates, add another to the clan using RNG familiar system.
Familiars: Buy the cheapest adult dragon in the auction house of a specific breed. Use a random number generator (between 1-17) to determine which breed you will get! (Optionally: attach the familiar to the new dragon.)
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
15. Gaoler
16. Banescale
17. Veilspun
(Just because I'm going to also go with an RNG to decide flight and gender before I purchase)
Apparel: 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. If all dragons are gened and none are RTB, choose cheapest hatchling using RNG familiar system.
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.
(I'm going to keep flipping coins for each hatchling until at least one of them survives. Anything better than rare automatically lives)
Battle items: Uh-oh!!!
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.
(I removed the flip a coin option just because)
Starting out:
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.
Losing:
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.
Other rules that I've seen and liked:
- Add one dragon per month. Let's face it, Pinkerton doesn't give away familiars too frequently, but this should be enough to keep things interesting.
- Starting with the first nest, an alphabet legacy challenge will be incorporated just because.
- A dragon will get one piece of apparel staggered throughout their coliseum leveling. They start with one. Once they reach:
- 5 - two pieces
- 10 - three pieces
- 15 - four pieces
- 20 - five pieces
- 25 - six pieces
