Back in January 2016, which I think wasn’t long after Cliones first opened up their adoptable shop for the adoptables with familiars, I had been really interested but wanted to see if I could pay with the festival currency at the time since it was during the festival week. They let me pay with 450 Eternal Snows. I had also offered to still be put on the waiting list wherever I would be at that moment rather than budge, as I just wanted to pre-pay with the Snows while they useful.
I don’t remember where I was on the list at that time or anything, as it’s been a while, but I remember that the list was pretty long as it was, so I knew it would probably be a while, maybe even a couple months, but I was okay with that.
I then sort of forgot about it for a while and I tend to not keep track of time very well, to be honest. I follow Cliones on tumblr, tho, so I would see the updates sometimes and knew the wait list was moving, so I didn’t think about it. At some point, I realized I hadn’t seen any familiar adoptables in a bit and went to check on the shop. I noticed it hadn’t been updated in a little bit, but Cliones was clearly still active, so I figured they were just doing a lot of their other art services, since I know they’re in really high demand.
Then I realized it still hadn’t moved in a bit and wondered what was going on, maybe I had missed something, so I messaged Cliones on July 30, 2016. (I mostly explain all this because this not being discussed until almost August is basically all on me not remembering to ask rather than anything on Cliones’ part.) They responded in a day or two apologizing profusely that they hadn’t remembered me. I was marked down in the wait list section rather than the slots section, not unusual with popular art shops, so they hadn’t seen me when they’d checked. They also explained that they’d been quite busy with exams in July and that they’d just started a month and a half vacation.
Cliones offered to start working on the art while they were on vacation, but I reassured her quite strongly that I was perfectly okay with waiting until their vacation was over. Vacation is vacation! I didn’t want to stress them out and I’d already waited a little bit, so it wasn’t a big deal to me.
I had actually just been thinking I should check in again when I saw that they had sent me the finished adopt! I had requested one with the smokey effect and one without, which they also did for me, no extra charge or anything.
They were incredibly nice to me throughout this process. I’m confident that if I had messaged them earlier, I would have likely been able to get the adopt earlier as well, so the long delay is mostly because of the long waitlist and also because I forgot to ask for a while. I’d been nervous to contact them because Cliones is a pretty well-known artist in the community and I was worried I’d come off as annoying, but they were very nice. They were even willing to work on my adopt while they were on vacation, which is incredibly generous of them! I love the adoptable I got and would definitely recommend them.
