Usual Sunday Shenanigans

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Though I got my tumblr queues done a bit earlier than usual, which allowed me to get all my DW stuff done instead of having to skip one of the longer things as I usually must do for sleep purposes. So that was nice. Helps that activity was a bit quieter than it usually is on a Sunday evening for me. Hooray for that.

Writing today was mainly editing a bit I'd written already a while back for "Remembering You" -- Victor and Alice's first kiss. Considering the amount of work I did yesterday, I'd say I was allowed a low-key day today on that front. I also got more Winter Bingo prompts up on my website, so that's nice.

DragonVale front -- I went ahead and bought a bunch of nice decorations from the Eggschange, and then got the Swallowtail, since I haven't seen that one pop up in the breeding cave yet. As long as people keep putting out their Duskwings and Lacewings, I have a small chance of breeding those. And at least now I've got three out of the five. Though it looks like they're already planning ANOTHER event. . .can we have a bit more of a break, DragonVale? Please?

Gaming front -- looked up the bit I was stuck on in Portal and discovered it was basically right before the final boss fight, so I skipped Sims 4 in favor of finishing the game. And GLaDOS is -- a lot harder than I originally anticipated! Largely because it took me a while to figure out just how you're supposed to actually HIT her with the rockets (for some reason it didn't click that I should be lining up my shots via LOOKING THROUGH THE PORTALS), and since the last fight is on a timer. . . I got killed quite a lot before finally incinerating all the cores and beating the darn thing. Of course, now there are challenge maps to attempt, and director's commentary to listen to. . .but that can be for later. Right now, I shall just bask in my victory over Science.

And then go to bed, because it's getting late. Night all!

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[gigs_83]

The prompts say "Something Legendary" so...friend for Kairos maybe? *shrug* Edit: Facebook says it's a "she", so maybe Kairos is getting a girlfriend. :p

Also, the mirror thing kind of makes me think of that other universe you had with the King of Hearts in the mirror.

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I was honestly wondering that myself. . . Kinda hoping it's a mini-event if that's the case and we're just getting one new dragon. (On the plus side, concerning the current dragons, after finally breaking down and buying a bunch of decorations and the Swallowtail, I managed to breed both the Duskwing and the Lacewing! Hooray!)

It's actually related -- Victor having a "playmate" in his own reflection has been a headcanon for a while, so I figured it would be only logical in that storyline for the King of Hearts to appear in the mirror if he and Victor needed to talk.

[gigs_83]

From the picture on Facebook it looks like she's part of a nursery upgrade (also...ABOUT GODDAMN TIME!!...ahem). I wonder what her special ability will be.

Edit: She's Kairos' sister and she speeds up hatching and summoning her will involve completing a quest. I'm actually kind of excited for this one. I just hope she's permanent.

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Well that's a surprise -- I'd pretty much figured they weren't going to ever do anything with the nursery. About TIME they gave us something to speed up incubation! And I'm up for new quests. :D Something that sounds like a game, instead of just endlessly harvesting stuff in desperation? Yeah, sure!

[gigs_83]

According to the app update text, her name is Gaia ("the Legendary Nest Dragon") and, much like her brother, you send dragons on quests or races to complete the Legendary Nursery (her perch). Summoning her adds a bonus hatching slot and she can "hatch an egg once every four days".

Edit: The racetrack was updated, too. Only ten plays allowed a day (or 17 hours? I'm not sure...) and the prize-giving is different now. You get keys to open the chests and I've only gotten one or two for three chests. I'm not sure yet what signals to get one or two.

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Not really a big surprise there -- maybe she's supposed to be one of the dragons on the big stained glass window we got for one of the early egg hunts? :P And hey, I'm always up for bonus hatching slots. And even if she can only instantly hatch one egg every four days, that's still a good way to avoid Full Nursery Syndrome. The really nice thing about this one is being able to quest both at Kairos's perch AND the nursery -- twice the chances for getting something new!

So I saw -- I have a vague suspicion keys might be related to how many elements the track features. The only two key reward I've gotten thus far has been for a track with three elements specifically featured. Me, I just like that they've added symbols showing the elements on a track -- except that they LIED on the Marshlands one and made me think it had changed to Dark and Earth when it was Plant, Water, and a bit of Earth like usual! *grumble* At least the prizes have been appropriately revamped to be worth the race. . .