Quests & Challenges

@Grendaline Absolutely, will do! The girl of that pair has a different partner set up for next round in order to help push the hickory-to-auburn range, but after that I definitely plan to breed her with her pair partner again - I was pleasantly surprised how quickly the XXX tarnish kiddos were snatched up, it's good motivation to actually finish formatting a proper hatchery page! [size=5]♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦[/size] @pinglist-18122 [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/96676089][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/966761/96676089_350.png[/img][/url] Happy Thundercrack, all! And welcome to Achernar, representative of [b]blackberry[/b]! This fellow comes from the AH, bred by KleinFye. While he'd normally have been a bit out of my budget, he's a rare breed ([s]someday this whole colorwheel will be coatls I swear it[/s]) and that blackberry can also get me closer to shadow and mulberry, so: worth it. (And look at those matching eyes!) This does break up the string of skydancers currently running from eldritch down to amethyst, nice to get some variety in there. :D [size=5]♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦[/size] In other news, new lab assistant banners created! For the Har/Jes XYZs, Har/Jes non-XYZs, XXX Harlequins, XXX Jesters, and just XXX triple-gem-gene breeding partners. Now to actually go through those hundreds of dragons and correctly assign them... [img]https://i.ibb.co/KKMbzmb/Harlequarian-Lab-Assistant-Har-Jes-Close.png[/img] [img]https://i.ibb.co/rtkj9Bt/Harlequarian-Lab-Assistant-Har-Jes-XYZ.png[/img] [img]https://i.ibb.co/74T1Qh2/Harlequarian-Lab-Assistant-Triple-XXX.png[/img] [img]https://i.ibb.co/WGVqyDN/Harlequarian-Lab-Assistant-XXX-Har.png[/img] [img]https://i.ibb.co/KmMbVSh/Harlequarian-Lab-Assistant-XXX-Jes.png[/img] On a similar note, I'm going slowly through my giant wall of breeding plans to do the math on which pairings are most likely to actually produce HJXXXs, and order them appropriately. Working on that. [size=5]♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦[/size] Meanwhile, picked up some more assistants from the AH - [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/96244974]Salvador[/url] is HXXY fire-fire-tangerine and in a couple of weeks will breed with a triple-fire girl, aiming for a HXXX fire kiddo to match with... [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/96667347][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/966674/96667347_350.png[/img][/url] This girl, who came out of the last batch of nests. Most of that batch brought no tremendous success, but we do have a few more general tomato-ish-range lab assistants to work with now, as well as this little pumpkin-pumpkin-fire kiddo, who will be very helpful. The robin hopefuls produced a male clone of the cyan-robin-robin har/jes mother, so that's something, though not ideal. Also picked up this cantaloupe-peach-orange lad - that's adjacent XYZ, which is extremely helpful! [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/96672178][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/966722/96672178_350.png[/img][/url] The newest nest batch hatching in a couple days will hopefully get us something closer to flint and shale, with hopeful fingers crossed for strawberry (two eggs at a pretty low chance each), cream (branching from maize), and chartreuse/spring (branching from crocodile). [size=5]♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦[/size] Finally, welcome to Kulshedra, another representative of [b]sanguine[/b]! [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/96615223][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/966153/96615223_350.png[/img][/url] While I have a pair of sanguine reps, Hanish and his sister Shullat, Kulshedra isn't related to them, meaning that she and Hanish together form a [u]sanguine breeding pair[/u]. (And what a lovely pair, too - glimmer or opal terts, and spiral/fathom between them.) [s]I just really like fathoms, their poses are so active and lovely.[/s] She was bred by Bashett, who also collects and breeds harlequin/jester dragons (psst check out [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3305523#post_3305523]her hatchery[/url]) - I'm keeping a close eye on a lot of pairs there in case they produce rare-tert hatchlings in colors I don't already have... but it was unexpected to stumble across an unrelated dragon in a color I [i]do [/i]have! This brings the total breeding pair roster to 7, which is pretty decent. :D

Awesome finding a sanguine pair! I would love to be pinged when they hatch a nest :)

@furbyworm Absolutely! I plan to take a break from regular color-hunting in a round or so to breed a bunch of my current pairs, and they'll definitely be among them. [size=5]♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦[/size] @pinglist-18122 [s]Two pings? In two days? More likely than you think![/s] Surprise success from my [b]strawberry[/b] hopefuls, of all things! Two eggs, each with only an [i]8.25%[/i] chance of producing the target... [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/96773776][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/967738/96773776_350.png[/img][/url] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/96773775][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/967738/96773775_350.png[/img][/url] ...both of which struck gold. Introducing Tuoni and Tuonetar! While I prefer opal as a tert for strawberry thanks to the neat orange highlights it creates, filigree is lovely and I am [i]not [/i]complaining. These two are together the second and third-ever harlequin/jester strawberry XXXs on the site - and the first two to have a gem tertiary. Their father is a second-gen lab assistant ultimately coming from one of my earliest toss-vaguely-close-colors-together-and-see-what-happens pairs, their mother a triple strawberry off the AH with neither harlequin nor jester. I'm very happy (and lucky!) to have them both - and excited for next month, since I have a cerise girl already for Tuoni to work with. The red range of har/jes is quite lovely, and it's great to be making progress there.

The strawberries are so pretty congrats!

@Bashett Thank you! I'd offer one for sale if they weren't different genders, but they'll be hard at work in breeding projects for a while. After I've branched out to red and cerise, you'd be welcome to one of them. :D [size=5]♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦[/size] I promise I don't mean to blow up y'all's notifications, but... @pinglist-18122 [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/96786189][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/967862/96786189_350.png[/img][/url] Suddenly [b]bubblegum[/b]! This lil' fellow is from the AH, bred by MizBrimstone. An unexpected find, but a welcome one! Ashlesha can mate with my mauve lady Zwetana next month - and probably for a few months afterwards, since the two of them together have an excellent shot at [b]pink[/b]. Ashlesha is actually the first XXX bubblegum harlequin/jester dragon on the site! He's a fine young fellow - while the pink range isn't the most visually interesting color range for har/jes (not a lot of neat accent colors), it's very striking. Plus, not having non-pink accents means that terts like stained and soap don't actually take away from how the colors "pop" in this range, which is nice! ...That said, given that he'll be mating with my koi-tert mauve girl, there's a pretty good chance I'll wind up with an XXX bubblegum harlequin-jester-koi in the next few months. Which. Uh. Bubblegum koi. Well. That certainly is an accent color. That a dragon can have.

@Amalgemotion
Thanks for the offer :3

And congrats on the AH find! :D

@pinglist-18122 Pretty bad luck from the last round of nests - not even any kids who were closer to target than their parents, which is really unusual... with one exception! Valeska is our new representative of [b]beige[/b]! The second-ever harlequin/jester beige triple, and the first to have a gem tertiary. And she's so [i]pretty[/i]. [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/96893716][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/968938/96893716_350.png[/img][/url] Beige is one of those har/jes colors where the accent shade is just stunning. She's the child of an XYZ fellow I picked up off the AH ages ago, and a triple beige female - she has a sibling who is a female copy of their father (tan/beige/sand, har/jes/stained), who I'll keep to help work towards tan and sand. Great to be making progress in that little-loved corner of the colorwheel! [size=5]♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦[/size] Because no other nests had much success, their pairs are going back into the cycle for another round, which does mean my lair is getting... rather full. I'm very close to maxed out on hibden slots as well, meaning it's about time to update and bump my "PWYW pretties" thread and offload some lovely but not project-helpful dragons. Posting a few of the dragons in question here, in case anyone watching this thread wants first dibs! They're all project offshoots I just couldn't bring myself to exalt. :') [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/96667458][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/966675/96667458_350.png[/img][/url] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/96667346][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/966674/96667346_350.png[/img][/url] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/96524689][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/965247/96524689_350.png[/img][/url] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/96524686][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/965247/96524686_350.png[/img][/url] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/96416105][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/964162/96416105_350.png[/img][/url] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/95993976][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/959940/95993976_350.png[/img][/url] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/95237902][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/952380/95237902_350.png[/img][/url] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/95121515][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/951216/95121515_350.png[/img][/url] ...and about two dozen more. I'll update that thread eventually.

@pinglist-18122 Oof, came down with a nasty respiratory infection and have been out of it for a couple of days. But, good news, I woke up to this lovely girl! [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/96991611][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/969917/96991611_350.png[/img][/url] Vellamo is our [b]seafoam[/b]! She's the site's second-ever XXX seafoam har/jes dragon and granddaughter of our pistachio rep, Sith (who is currently nesting with his long-time mate Millibelle as we speak, in hopes of spruce - or something closer to spruce than he is, come on you two, how many tries are we up to now). Seafoam opal has lavender-shaded highlights that don't seem to match the primary and secondary as well as glimmer or filigree would, but I don't mind - she beat the odds in being an imperial (her mother is a spiral), and I'm just very pleased to have gotten a success out of the last round of nests! [size=5]♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦[/size] The other major highlight of the round is this girl, who is XYY chocolate-brown-brown, an excellent combo that'll help work towards both of those colors! [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/96991373][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/969914/96991373_350.png[/img][/url] [size=5]♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦[/size] In other news, I also grabbed a few more dragons off the AH in colors I already have, just to expand the breeding project possibilities a little. Poker here is a sister to Vanta, our current black representative - I won't ever turn down more coatls: [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/94795144][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/947952/94795144_350.png[/img][/url] And while I already have a sunset breeding pair, Rhun is a fathom, which is a breed I'm becoming increasingly fond of, so he was worth picking up! [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/96902933][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/969030/96902933_350.png[/img][/url] The next round of nests is dipping into the reds a bit - I have two of Pyriphlegethon's (our crimson's) red-range kids paired up with cherry and garnet XXXs. While chances of actual new har/jes XXXs from those pairings are pretty low, chances of XXY/XYY/XYX of the target color are quite good, so we'll likely have a few new dragons in the corner of the wheel in a couple of months! Happy Warrior's Way, all. Keep on keeping on.

@pinglist-18122 Three cheers for [b]cherry[/b]! [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/97119220][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/971193/97119220_350.png[/img][/url] This is Nammu, daughter of Valborg (himself the son of Pyriphlegethon, our [b]crimson[/b]) and Aposema, a triple cherry girl off the AH. I have to say, the red range just does [i]not [/i]play well with stained/soap in har/jes, it rather washes out the lovely accent colors. I mean, look at what could've been, if she'd gotten her father's glimmer tert: [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=116&bodygene=170&breed=2&element=4&eyetype=2&gender=1&tert=116&tertgene=10&winggene=170&wings=116&auth=4bd5d1e95afb400a94341043c1d5356d892ae1fe&dummyext=prev.png[/img] [i]But[/i], like I've said before, I'm not gonna complain - I can breed for specific genes and breeds once the colorwheel is finished. She's lovely as she is, and a little unexpected - her parents' pairing was really intended just to get more red-range breeding partners! This was a ~4% shot if I'm doing my math right, so I'm glad she's here. She's the first triple cherry XXX har/jes on the site, joining the ranks of quite a few harlequarians before her, and in a couple of weeks will start branching upwards. I have a triple vermilion boy I'll probably pair her with, since I don't have any triple ruby fellows handy at the moment, and we'll take it from there. The current batch of nests is more blue-focused, including a shot in the dark at ultramarine, a decent chance at caribbean, and an even more decent chance at robin - alongside a try towards metals and one pairing just hoping to get more green-range lab assistants. So far, progress remains slow but steady!

@pinglist-18122 [size=5]♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦[/size] Snappers incoming! Freshly-hatched in the wee hours of this morning, please welcome Yaya, representative of [b]caribbean[/b]! [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/97224453][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/972245/97224453_350.png[/img][/url] He's the first triple caribbean XXX har/jes - I'm honestly very surprised how many of these dragons are the first of their kind! This is a newer set of genes, sure, but it's one of the gene pairs with the most accent colors and thus lends itself really well to non-boringly-monochrome triples. Clearly har/jes just needs more love. I'm doing my part. I find snappers with opal kinda funky, especially as adults (it's mostly that big opal splotch on their faces that just sticks out too much to me) - so as much as I do really love snappers, Yaya is probably going to get a breed change eventually. It's easier to work towards abyss with a plentiful breed, so I might go with fae, just cause... I mean... look at this lil' guy: [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=28&bodygene=170&breed=1&element=4&eyetype=0&gender=0&tert=28&tertgene=17&winggene=170&wings=28&auth=023c172d729c2454ab5bccf36f5e5d737c94003d&dummyext=prev.png[/img] You know, I've never talked about how I name dragons; most of 'em have names from either astronomy (lots of minor planets, which themselves are named after all sorts of things) or various mythologies of the world. Most of the time the choice of origin for the names aren't related to the dragon's colors, but for [i]caribbean[/i], it seemed only appropriate to draw from Taíno cosmology. Shoutout to the Windward Islands, hope anyone there is doing alright post-Beryl. ...And now I'm getting all homesick. [size=5]♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦[/size] But as for a snapper without opal (whom I'm happy to keep a snapper!), please also welcome Crafty, our new [b]chartreuse[/b]! [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/97220048][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/972201/97220048_350.png[/img][/url] He's a delight. Look at those matching eyes. That smug little face. I gave him the port town scene and now I'm going to commit to it, when Talk Like A Pirate Day comes 'round this fellow is going to become an absolute [i]scallywag[/i]. Crafty was bred by VoidedMortal, alongside a few others on the roster! (Our lead, brick, and crocodile in particular are highlights of theirs.) I definitely bought him a reasonable amount of time after he was born, which was definitely more than 20 minutes, because I definitely do not have a tab open to an XXX har/jes search on the AH which I refresh constantly throughout the day. [size=5]♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦[/size] Not much luck from the rest of the last batch of nests, I'm afraid - the robin hopefuls fizzled (it was a long shot, but with three eggs I was optimistic) and the ultramarine-blue and gold-metal pairs both didn't even produce one kid with har/jes. As branching pairs, both of those were aiming for XXY/XYX/XYY har/jes kids, who would go on to mate with another XXX of the target color, but it looks like both pairs are going back into the roster rather than passing the torch to the next generation. [emoji=coatl sad] This next nest set has one position taken up by a non-har/jes XXX twilight pair I'm breeding by request. Though that's also in the middle of a currently-empty span of colors, so this is also an excuse to get a couple more lab assistants between eggplant and navy. [emoji=coatl tongue] Apart from that, we have... oh. -sigh- Looks like it's Dalim♦Denebola up again. Out for [b]blood[/b]. ...Dalim is har/jes Blood/Blood/Sanguine. Denebola is XXX Blood. That's a 12.5% chance, the absolute best I'm going to get unless I magically find an XXX Blood female with either harlequin or jester who isn't related to Dalim. These two have had [u]nine children[/u] together. Over [u]five nests[/u]. [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/926325/92632431.png[/img][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/939091/93909066.png[/img][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/939091/93909067.png[/img][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/951216/95121514.png[/img][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/951216/95121515.png[/img][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/959940/95993991.png[/img][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/966675/96667456.png[/img][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/966675/96667457.png[/img][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/966675/96667458.png[/img] So, uh, give it up for round six. Three eggs. Wish 'em luck. With the same odds, we've got the [b]pumpkin [/b]hopeful pair Pie♦Louhi (featuring a male from my old first colorwheel attempt a couple years ago), a valiant long-shot attempt at [b]magenta[/b] in Kakashi♦Enlil (featuring one of the many coatls I've gotten from the marvelous Arumi!), and the Aristarchus♦Walpurga pairing that with any luck will give us an XXY/XYX/XYY har/jes shale/flint kiddo. (They could [i]theoretically [/i]make a triple [b]shale[/b] har/jes, but I'm not holding my breath, I think the odds are ~4%.) [size=5]♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦[/size] I'm also renting a nest (for the first time ever, if you can believe it) to breed my sanguine pair - while I'm still working towards both garnet and blood, the most optimal pairing for those don't involve this pair, so they're free to do their own thing! Will post the hatchlings here, when available. [center][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=93026577][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/coliseum/battlesprites/930266/93026577.png[/img][/url] [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=96615223][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/coliseum/battlesprites/966153/96615223.png[/img][/url] [b][u]Hanish[/u] x [u]Kulshedra[/u][/b] [color=#2F0002][b]SANGUINE[/b][/color] Spiral (75%) / Fathom (25%) Harlequin / Jester / Glimmer|Opal (50%)[/center] [size=5]♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦[/size] [size=2]...*stares at Bashett's newest hatchlings* IdonotneedanotherSunsetIdonotneedanotherSunsetIdonotneedanotherSunsetIdonotneedanotherSunset[/size]