Quests & Challenges

I've been on FR since 2014, and I've enjoyed breeding my dragons to see what beautiful babies I'd get. This is the first time, however, that I'll be breeding to get a specific dream dragon. As soon as Veilspuns were released, I knew I had to have one as a permababy. The specifics of the colors and genes took a little more thought (this is why I still don't have a Spiral permabab, despite loving baby noodles the best). When Stitched and Patchwork came out, I thought they'd be perfect for a ragdoll permabab. It was a no-brainer once I found out they were available for Veilspuns. Picking out the tert was harder, but I wanted something that really went with the ragdoll look. I like how Mop can resemble lengths of fabric sewn to a doll to make hair, which is why I chose it. I then spent some time playing with colors in the Scrying Workshop to find the right combo. Surprisingly, it wasn't my usual default of all greens and blues. Behold, Tatterdemalion: [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=0&body=144&bodygene=66&breed=19&element=4&eyetype=11&gender=1&tert=29&tertgene=67&winggene=67&wings=43&auth=e7eaff0a5cd7720efc405c023ab7515d1b1f0023&dummyext=prev.png[/img] In fact, the tert can be Aqua or Teal, and ideally the eyes would be Ice. Maybe I will rent a few Ice nests once I get near the end of the project. Anyway, since this is an Ancient, I'm already breed-limited. That's one of the parameters of the challenge, since I'm not willing to spend the gems for a breed change. I [i]am[/i] willing to brew Stitched and Patchwork, and have already done so. I'd prefer not to buy Mop. If I have to, I have a Mop Veilspun I could use in the project, though her colors aren't ideal. I'd probably end up haunting the AH for quite a while, finding the right mate for her to get my goal colors in the range. If I have to spend time combing the AH regularly, I'd rather just do so for a Mop with the right colors. So, this is mostly a color challenge, but also a bit of a gene challenge, because neither of my starting pair have Mop: [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/67816287][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/678163/67816287_350.png[/img][/url] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/67957893][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/679579/67957893_350.png[/img][/url] My aim is to get one of my target colors (two would be better, but I'll settle for one). Then, I'll take that offspring and search for a mate who either matches on that color or is only one color off, and keep going until I get a match on the next color. Since my tert can be either Teal or Aqua, there's a little wiggle room there, which should make it easier to find my Mop. For now, I have to wait for my first pair to grow up so they can breed. Maybe I'll go play with baby noodles in the Scrying Workshop...

@Bonibaru For next time you pop in. Today's the day! Lugh and Eriu have their first nest: [img]https://flightrising.com/images/nests/4/2healthy_0dead.png[/img] I've been fighting the urge to buy a dragon to try to mate to one of my other Veilspuns to maybe get a hatchie somewhere in the vicinity of what I need for a mate for whatever these two produce. Luckily, the AH prices for anything appealing give me pause. If I get really impatient, though, my wallet's in trouble.

@Bonibaru and @LunaSea in case you're around. Success with the first nest! Lugh and Eriu hatched this little girl with Banana secondary: [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/68530174][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/685302/68530174_350.png[/img][/url] A quick AH hunt found her a mate with my target primary and tert(s) in range and a match on the secondary. Even better, he's got Mop, so there's the potential that'll get passed on along with one of my target colors: [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/68092306][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/680924/68092306_350.png[/img][/url] So, now comes the waiting for her to be breedable, and then we'll see how many nests it takes. I'm also hanging onto her progens, in case I get stuck looking for a good mate and it's enough generations down that I could use one of her siblings.

@SeaJules Leave it to you to find a Veilspun I absolutely love. Such cuteness of permababs!

@LunaSea For me, they were love at first sight, because my brain went, "KELPIES." I think the babs especially look like tiny murder waterhorses, and what would make a better ragdoll than that?

Watch me end up with a squad of Ancient permababs (except Banescales, because I like them less and less the more I look at them, like even Ridgies look better), still trying to find the perfect genes for my noodle baby.

@LunaSea @Bonibaru Today's the day! My girl's finally old enough to breed. And I now have a nest of two eggs: [img]https://flightrising.com/images/nests/4/2healthy_0dead.png[/img] Cross your fingers at least one of them has one of my other colors and/or Mop!

@LunaSea @Bonibaru Well, the first nest is a bust. I got one Banana/Banana/Turquoise and one Crocodile/Banana/Spearmint. They were both Branches, too, no Mop. So, now I have to wait fifteen days to try again. That's the part that always stopped me from doing an actual breeding project in the past. There are ways in which I'm a very patient person. Breeding dragons isn't one of them.

@LunaSea @Bonibaru Here we go! Second nest is laid, with three eggs: [img]https://flightrising.com/images/nests/4/3healthy_0dead.png[/img] With any luck, one of these will have a color I need, or the Mop gene.

@LunaSea @Bonibaru I don't believe it! Only the second nest, and I actually got a boy with Aqua tert: [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/69511572][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/695116/69511572_350.png[/img][/url] Since I'm still find with either Aqua or Teal for my final tert, my plan is to look for a mate with Teal, and Peridot as primary. If I can't find that by the time he's old enough to breed, I'll look for a mate who's two or three shades above my desired colors, to make sure they're in the range. And it looks like I'm still fishing for Mop, but at least that means I don't have to worry about genes for the mate.

@LunaSea @Bonibaru Okay, just to hedge my bet, as it were, I decided to do a second pair. I actually nabbed the male a while back, because AH prices were good, and I decided it could be fun to mate him to another of my Veilspun girls; I somehow managed to breed scroll four Gen1s who all had Stonewash secondary, so I needed to inject some variety in there, and I figured why not try for a baby I could throw into this breeding program. However, despite searching every day, I've had no luck finding a mate for my little guy above. Changing the parameters of the search slightly to find a mate for this other dragon got me results, though. It reintroduces range for the secondary, but that's all right. I'll again keep breeding until I get at least one of the colors I want. Here's my starting pair: [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/68730119][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/687302/68730119_350.png[/img][/url] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/68107606][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/681077/68107606_350.png[/img][/url] And their first nest: [img]https://flightrising.com/images/nests/4/3healthy_0dead.png[/img]