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[center][size=7]Tolerant: A Pinkerlocke Challenge [img]http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/yy95/m3ssyd3struct1on/deviders/animated%20deviders/th_twinkle.gif[/img][img]http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/yy95/m3ssyd3struct1on/deviders/animated%20deviders/th_twinkle.gif[/img][img]http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/yy95/m3ssyd3struct1on/deviders/animated%20deviders/th_twinkle.gif[/img][/center] [columns] [img]http://flightrising.com/images/cms/trinket/178.png[/img] [img]http://flightrising.com/images/cms/trinket/886.png[/img] [img]http://flightrising.com/images/cms/trinket/5412.png[/img] [img]http://flightrising.com/images/cms/trinket/1166.png[/img] [img]http://flightrising.com/images/cms/trinket/3592.png[/img] [img]http://flightrising.com/images/cms/trinket/7889.png[/img][nextcol][size=5] The story[/size] [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=32612853] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/326129/32612853_350.png[/img] [/url] Within her own flight, the Gladekeeper adores hatchlings. The bursting of new life, from a seed or pod or an egg, delights the nature goddess. From other flights, she regards hatchlings with guarded joy- life is life, after all. There is one exception to the rule, however. Plague hatchlings. Their life, to her, means death to others. A carrier of destruction and rot and decay. She certainly does not tolerate their grown forms invading her territory. For one particular plague hatchling, the nature territory is the only safe place left.[/columns] [center][size=5] The technicals[/size][/center] [quote][columns][url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2121309]Pinkerlocke Rules[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093#post_27029563]Characters[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093#post_27029927]Prologue[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/1#post_27035499]Day 1[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093#post_27050045]Day 2[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/2#post_27069674]Day 3[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/2#post_27084705]Day 4[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/3#post_27104670]Day 5[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/3#post_27118434]Day 6[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/3#post_27144015]Day 7[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/3#post_27161567]Day 8[/url][nextcol] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/3#post_27176142]Day 9[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/4#post_27193413]Day 10[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/4#post_27213738]Day 11[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/4#post_27228546]Day 12[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/5#post_27243392]Day 13[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/5#post_27257648]Day 14[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/5#post_27280083]Day 15[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/6#post_27676345]Day 16[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/6#post_27710054]Day 17[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/6#post_27711377]Day 18[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/6#post_27895452]Day 19[/url][nextcol][nextcol] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/6#post_27930035]Day 20[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/6#post_28024819]Day 21[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/7#post_28046008]Day 22[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/7#post_28064942]Day 23[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/7#post_28239400]Day 24[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/7#post_28250396]Day 25[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/7#post_28587318]Day 26[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/7#post_28706023]Day 27[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/8#post_28706399]Day 28[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/8#post_28781945]Day 29[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/8#post_29186583]Day 30[/url][nextcol][url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/8#post_29186678]Day 31[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/8#post_29186750]Day 32[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/8#post_29186795]Day 33[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/8#post_29186840]Day 34[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2179093/8#post_29186892]Day 35[/url][/quote] [center][size=5]Inspirations and Further Reading[/size][/center] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2160650/1]Clarax's Pinkerlocke Challenge[/url] [url=https://smile.amazon.com/Amazonia-James-Rollins/dp/0061965839/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_g2609328962?_encoding=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0&ie=UTF8]James Rollin's [i]Amazonia[/i][/url] [center][size=5] Announcements[/center] [size=2] 8/31/2017- I live! I hope you all love the newest installments. I'd love to hear what you think about them! 8/16/2017- Another hiatus. My boss's energy drink spilled on my laptop. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon! 6/11/2017 - I'm back to writing! Had to take a hiatus due to finals, but I'm back and will be posting multiple times a day in order to catch up. (I've been screenshotting all my pinker loot)[/size] [center][size=5]Pinglist[/center][/size] @Clarax @Xemriss @Illuria @MissBlindBat @KyaniteGem @Leopardmask @Alixe @MorganK @Decidueye @CatkinStarchild @Silverhame @Craneoflores @BarbaraFett @EmeraldJubilee

[center][size=7]Characters[/size][/center] [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=32612853] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/326129/32612853_350.png[/img] [/url] [size=5]Mgeni[/size] With a name meaning Outsider, Mgeni was not born to greatness. Forced to flee from the Abiding Boneyard to the Viridian Lanbrynth, all he wants is a safe place to lay his head. But the so-called 'nurturing' environment is not welcome to his kind. He'll have to be cunning in order to make a home where he isn't wanted. [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=32813660] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/328137/32813660_350.png[/img] [/url] [size=5]Sound a Water Droplet Makes[/size] Sound a Water Droplet Makes, or just simply Droplet, has been alone as long as he can remember. He came down from the pink mountains to the nature territory to find a place to stay, but no clan will take him in, They say that he's... odd. [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=33042395] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/330424/33042395_350.png[/img] [/url] [size=5]Capriccio[/size] Cappricio is an agent of the Gladekeeper, and works with the Behemoth Sap to perform medical miracles. Though it will cure any wound or illness, it comes with a steep price that Capriccio himself is terrified of paying. [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=33260507] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/332606/33260507_350.png[/img] [/url] [size=5]Permafrost[/size] Permafrost is the mysterious fae working an outreach program in the Southern Icefields, but has a secret to hide beneath her snowy white cloak. She becomes Mgeni's superior after he too is sent to the far south. [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=34330612] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/343307/34330612_350.png[/img] [/url] [size=5]Kuga[/size] Met Mgeni as a hatchling, and the two quickly bonded over being plague dragons who had been Changed by nature. He feels uneasy about himself and his past, and wonders what would have been had his egg not been tampered with. [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=35144478] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/351445/35144478_350.png[/img] [/url] [size=5]Lavender[/size] An egg consumed by Droplet. It is unclear how she survived the void in that state, but she is the only one of her clutch left alive. Her green eyes are a mystery, given that she was born in shadow to a plague and arcane dragon.

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues. ~Albert Canus

Pounding. Paws on scrabbling rock. Heart throbbing beneath scales. Bigger claws, in pursuit, or maybe his own. Mgeni did not know. Too small to fly the diminutive thing could only awkwardly hop-run across the wastes of the Abiding Boneyard.

"Outsider! Outsider!"

One of his wings was not Right. He had never had other wings but he was sure that they were both supposed to be the same size, not one clasped, shredded, to his side like a broken kite. That, he thought, was the reason that the dragons outside his egg had snapped and clawed at his egg until he was suddenly thrust out into the bare earth, and ran, still covered in slime. That had been suns ago.

"A Mgeni! An outsider!" Another dragon had called him. So that was what he called himself.

His breath tasted like copper, and the dried slime crackled on his skin. It wasn't until he felt fresh earth on his paws, and the coolness of the trees, that he was sure he was away from them, and he dragged his body beneath a cluster of bright red hibiscus blooms, that he stopped, and peered around his environment.

No one. No dragon.

He ran a tongue over his scales, wincing at the bitter, smoky taste of the albumen that had once kept him safe inside his egg. His ears pricked, listening. There was no dragon nearby. He was safe. He allowed his crests to relax against his cheeks, and curled his tail around his hind legs.

Lap. lap. Lap. Rumble.

He was hungry.

He bit into the leaves of the sweet-smelling plant over his tiny head. Was he supposed to eat this?

As soon as the fuzzy texture of the leaves hit his tongue he gagged, and the fae backpedaled out from under the plant, coughing and sputtering and heaving things that had never entered his long throat.

No, he was not supposed to eat that.

He began to hop, sniffing, wondering what, if anything, he could eat. Bark was a no. The grass tasted awful. A mouse he'd come upon tasted Wrong, and so did the floating fish that brushed his nose when he tried to take a drink. But the bugs nearby, the crawling wriggling white things. Those, he could choke down with surprising ease.

Bugs, he could eat.

He explored his new surroundings, making little noise as he trembled through the undergrowth. Little noise, so he could suddenly hear a big noise, walking towards him.


@clarax @Xemriss

@moonlitlegacy
Add me to the pinglist please!

@Leopardmask will do! Thank you!

[center][size=7]Day 1[/size] Plants- 10-20 matches [img]http://flightrising.com/images/cms/food/1132.png[/img][/center] An awkward hop-trot, like his, and scales brushing against thick undergrowth. Thwick-thwick of the leaves flicked like warning bells that could be his pursuers. Mgeni shrank into a bush just as three, bigger faes hopped through the leaf litter. His red eyes roamed over their larger forms. Their wings. Two, of the same size, tucked carefully against their sides. He looked to his own mismatched pair. His eyes returned to the other faes, studying the patterns that flowed and ebbed over their scales. Was he supposed to have patterns? And clothes. He didn't have any of those. Was he supposed to? He thought so. He followed them. He could learn from them. The three of them turned the bend and before his red eyes a mith appeared, a giant moth with humanoid form. Bigger than he'd ever seen. A bug would eat him. But instead of shrinking back the three darted forward, clawing at the creature with a hungry rage before it could charge its magic. They picked over the body, and then left. Mgeni poked out, and walked towards the creature. A meal that would feed him for days. He followed the faes, to take note of where their opponents fell. They weren't all insects: most were birds. Big ones with a billion eyes, tiny angry birds with veins that throbbed with rage. A few mice like the one Mgeni had already found, antennae poking from their fur like catkins in the field. But enough miths to feed him for days. He was a little sad, then, to see them heading to a deeper part of the forest, to a place where he dare not tread. The branches were so thick it was like trailing from day to night, and he'd hate to be lost when the sun went down. He returned to the first mith, and tried to drag it under his bush. This was a good a place to stay as any. He laid his head down and settled into the cooling body, able to see out for strangers but hidden beneath the strong hydrangeas. And he was alone. And he could not defend himself, for he was alone. ----- I misjudged the age of the fae, so he can't fight yet. But soon. Soon! @Clarax @Xemriss @Illuria @MissBlindBat @KyaniteGem @Leopardmask @Silverhame

@MoonlitLegacy
This is a great start! I'm intrigued and I'd love to be put on the ping list please?

@Alixe can do, and thank you!

This is great so far! I'm crossing my fingers for little Mgeni, I hope he will survive in the forest. Hopefully he's tiny enough that the deities can't or won't be bothered by his presence. Im picturing the Gladekeeper and the Plaguebringer arguing over who has to watch the Fae lol.

Also I lIke how you worked with the coli pull with the 3 other dragons passing through!

[center][size=7]Day 2[/size] [size=5]Seafood 30-40 matches[/size] [img]http://flightrising.com/images/cms/food/18917.png[/img][/center] The mith attracted bugs. Not that he minded, but it also smelled. He crawled out from under the bush into the quiet. He couldn't move the mith, so it was time to move on. But small bugs was not all the mith attracted. He heard a shriek of rage, and suddenly a clawed paw thwacked his body away. He rolled and smacked into submerged roots. Leaf litter kicked up. The world spun. He looked up. Another mith. A bigger mith. It charged him, flaring bright wings that dazzled as he tripped away. Nowhere to run. Nowhere a flying creature couldn't easily catch him. He batted at the mith like he'd seen the other faes do. The mith smacked him back, against a tree. His breath sharpened and he swatted back, jumping the thing with needle teeth meant for piercing the exoskeleton of a smaller creature. The mith wailed and clawed at him, dislodging him, striking again. Again. He pounced, and clung and scratched and kicked until the thing finally stopped moving. And then he fled. He limped to the stream when he'd first seen the fish, shoulder throbbing. He lapped at it, wincing at the metal taste. Water instead. He slipped into the stream, careful to stay at the shallows. There might be more of those things, in the water. He gazed fearfully up at the trees. There had been birds, yesterday. He stayed in the water until he couldn't stand the cold anymore, and crawled out, crouched and shivering. Not from cold. He hobbled away to a sunny spot, trying to warm himself, when in the distance he heard a thick buzzing. His crests rose in alarm. More of the bugs were on their way. He needed to hide. He flung himself off the warm stone and scrambled into a hole in a nearby tree. He was startled to find it lead to a long, thin tunnel. Unable to turn back, he was only able to squeeze forward until he came to a cavern, far away from the angry buzzing outside. Exhausted, he curled up in the hole of leaf litter and mith down. The buzzing continued into his dreaming. [i]I see you.[/i] He heard a voice like the hiss of rustling leaves. [i]I see you, outsider.[/i] Outsider. [i]You don't belong here.[/i] Other voices joined the hissing, and he felt branches, rough, wrap around his form. Squeezing. Choking. [i]Outsider! Danger! Plague! A blight on the earth! Outsider![/i] ----- I was so sure he was going to die on my gosh the coral carpenter critted five times in a row, and other enemies always critted at least twice. When did the training fields get so intense??? I hope he can be joined by another dragon soon;; @Clarax @Xemriss @Illuria @MissBlindBat @KyaniteGem @Leopardmask @Alixe