Header art credit to Bex! Charts to Mistywren (Zemi and Ettie) and Bayfire (Azzie)
Three flights for three clutches on Meraki's volcanic black sands, the tenth dragon hatching cycle has begun for an average of two hatchings per year for the past five years! This cycle features the maiden flights of two (more!) Deimos Class dragons alongside Meraki's oldest clutcher, Green Azaneth.
Remember how Deimos was lousy with uteruses? These mark the third and fourth of Deimos' fifteen dragons to lay clutches on Meraki's sands, with at last two more slated to join them someday.
Each Flight was over twenty individual Chasers, with the flights being run according to the clutching dragon player's preferences; Seirye's Gold Zemirath was two rounds of posts and as many entries as you preferred, every color welcome (though she later realized Zemirath wouldn't choose a Bronze,) with the player choosing based on who she believed impressed Zemirath the most. Boop's Garnet Etiath was one round, one week, metallic males only, winner based on Vibes alone. BumbleBoarBee's Green Azaneth was weighted RNG, with points awarded for various qualities both OOC and IC, roundless, fourteen days allotted to post.
Zemirath chose Black Eoth, Wingleader of Zenith Wing, played by Pan, because his arrogance and self-certainty, his ferocity and his confidence, impressed her! Etiath chose Garnet* Rielth, played by Merry, because he was a gentleman and the post made Boop laugh! Azaneth chose Bronze Ekinth, a site-hatched dragon from the Titania Clutch played by Bayfire, via wheel-spin for his temerity as the largest dragon in the Flight, his cleverness in responding to an IC attack by another dragon, and her desire to 'step on him'!
Art credit to Boop, Mistywren, and Dyne (me!)
Mothers were varying hugenesses of Eggnant, and fathers, various shades of smug, contrite, and dignified.
But after all the hardships, the thousands of words posted about dragons in flight and in flirtation, the anticipation of a hatch cycle to come --
FIFTEEN EGGIES! Clutch themes are Sharks (Zemirath), Betta Fish (Etiath), Bird Eggs (Azaneth)
Template by Raum, colors/alterations/eggs by Mistywren
Misty, as usual, absolutely slaughtered the clutch art; the anomalies on Azaneth, the scars on Eoth, the billions of freckles on Etiath's ass - tres bien!
And here's all the eggs in their vivid egg-y glory!!
Coming up next: the touching, which on Meraki has two parts. The actual Touching involves what is essentially a prompt of impressions one gets from each egg, and then Meraki has a part two where Candidates have an overnight in the Stands, and many will share a dream with one of the dragons still in the eggs. These are written by Staff and contain clues as to what is in the eggs, who might be Impressing them, and what the dragon is actually like.
We'll look forward to a great deal more creativity from members and staff alike as we approach this eventful Tenth hatching!
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