Post by Admiral Striker General on Jul 18, 2011 22:54:09 GMT -5
\o/ WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~~~ So today marks ONE WHOLE YEAR since VC was opened for business. To celebrate this TOTAL AWEZOMENESS, you guys get a two-part prize~<3
First of all, many of you have seen by now (|D especially as for those I didn't think would mind much and who I could think of in my quarter-conscious state at 6am this morning, I may have abused my admin powarz to force your skin to this so you'd see it when you first logged on<3) there is a totally awesome (<< RIGHT?) new skin. xP I did my best to take into account everyone's favorite things about the most popular other skins:
essentially, it's a mix of color scheme between Haunted and Darkness (I figured dark + blue and a hot-colored font would be kind of Night Stalkers-y too), in a darkish-but-not-too-dark skin with even darker font to avoid bright contrast in normal reading, with a little touch of red for Jay and to create just enough contrast for a kind of Mind Crush feel (technically Mind Crush is also blue and purple, if way different shades) and actually the same background as it as well, just hue-shifted to go with the color scheme. X3 ... SG actually worked way more days than you'd imagine trying to get the colors on this thing just right. XP And then of course there are cake and candles that I just found on photobucket and altered slightly for different uses (old vs new etc) and recolored the cake but yeah.
BUT HEY YEAH WAAAAY FUCKING COOLER than the skin is ITS BANNER!<3 Kero and I worked long and hard and took a few more hours to finish than we'd hoped, but we haz had it made~ X3 'Tis VC as Pokeymanz enjoying a party. Now, take no offense if you weren't included! We would have liked to have more people, but there's only so much room of course. We especially wanted to include Karma and I wanted Ezio, but we couldn't think of anything to make them and couldn't seem to catch/find them to ask, as was the issue with several others considered. x3 So yeah, mostly it's the staff and a mixture of some of the oldest, the most active and/or popular, and the lulziest members. (For instance, Kitsunaii is only occasionally active, but she's at least somewhat popular and how could we resist adding THAT face? X'3) Also, the focus doesn't mean much, nor does positioning aside from just where people would fit unless specified. x3 Mostly it was all Staff at the table (except Flora in the background slightly due to inactivity) plus two of our oldest still-active members. But yeh. Just a little fun anyway~ X3
Because I know you're all wondering, I'm gonna delay the promo info EVEN MORE by telling you all about the banner~ As mentioned, Kero and I collabbed on this. x3 She totally did most of the real work. But yeah. She started off by doing some rough lines of a few, and then I took over doodling total crap versions of most everyone real quick to set general poses, character designs, and arrangements. (Those not drawn at least had a written thing. x3) Then Kero drew almost everyone, usually following my general design/pose with just cleaner lines and much better anatomy/proportions, though a few were drastically changed and a few she did from scratch. Then I altered some of her lines in places and did flat colors on most of them, and then better coloring was kind of split. x3 She did more but I did a lot of the larger ones, so yeh. 8'3 BUT YEAH, so I'll just tell you who everyone is and who did what. X3 Running from top to bottom, left to right, roughly. Note that Kero did touch/clean up a few of my lines a little and I don't know exactly where, but yeah so you know that that is a factor.
WINDCHIME: Ninetales/Chimecho, because her favorite Pokemon is Ninetales, and Chimecho is a rough chime, and the combo justified many chime tails, to essentially make it a big fluffy windchime. x3
DRAWN: General pose and head by SG, body and face by Kero
COLOR: SG
RYUU: Ryu means dragon (Ryuujin is the Dragon King actually), and Akira has a Shadow Dragonite. XP So we made it chibi for fun and a ghost to poke fun at her inactivity. ... xD Of COURSE she returns this fucking morning and ruins the joke, but we're glad to have her back.
DRAWN: SG
COLOR: SG
NICODEMUS: Because her banner/avatar/favorite Pokemon is a Raichu. The bandanna just seemed to fit and made it a little less "hi I'm plain". x3
DRAWN: Pose by SG, all lines by Kero
COLOR: Kero
CORA: She said she always got Charmander on Pokemon quizzes, and then said she and some friends thought she made a good Blissey, so we spliced them. x3
DRAWN: Kero including pose (my original sucked xD), waist to ankles edited by SG
COLOR: Kero, barring the glow off the fire that I redid. x3 Like one whole click. *fake enthusiasm* XP
LONGCAT('s head): Meowth is a cat. Longcat is long. X'3 If you look, you will see his body used as streamers and platforms all over, and his tail in the bottom left corner. Longcat is loooong.
DRAWN: Kero, with SG adding the top whiskers. Top pose SG and rest pose Kero.
COLOR: SG on the "main" bit up at the top with the head and 0.1% of the torso, Kero on the body and tail. x3
FLORAMEI: Serperior/Sunflora. One of her very favorite Pokemon spliced with another she likes enough that includes her name. XP Also, when Snivy was released we died saying it was PokeFlora due to the species and color scheme. Awesome/troll face because it's Flora. X3 *SHOT* Kind of close to SG cuz she be mah bestie.
DRAWN: Kero, with ears and yellow back marks added by SG. Pose by SG.
COLOR: SG
JAY: Torchic/Articuno, with the color scheme of all staff colors because Jay likes them and she's like all the staff jobs/has literally been every rank. x3 Torchic because it's a bird and her favorite is Blaziken, and Articuno because it's a legendary blue bird. Also, sitting on SG's head because Jay sits on heads (and SG didn't want to share her). XP
DRAWN: Kero, with SG redoing the whole head and face aside from the Articuno crest. Pose mainly SG.
COLOR: SG
JAXA: Arcanine in the colors of his FurSona. X'3 Lurking in the window like a lurker with a |D face because he's Jaxa.
DRAWN: Kero, with pose kind of split.
COLOR: Kero, aside from the like 10 pixels that make up the eyes XP
KITSUNAII: Octillery because she loved them, in her favorite/FurSona colors. Rape-faced because--... she's Kitsunaii! XPP *SHOT* Also lurking like a lurker (and waiting to catch whoever comes outside first >D *shotmoar*). X'3
DRAWN: Kero including pose. xD PRAISE HER.
COLOR: Kero
PUPPET: Banette/Vulpix puppet hanging because the prior is a doll and she had a fox avatar on Chatango forever. x3; Not the most creative but fun. |D *also might just be a fan of terrifying Banette faces*
DRAWN: Kero
COLOR: Kero
PALKIA: I'm not going to justify this with an explanation.
DRAWN: Kero including pose and even design. Originally I wanted a chibi, but she ended up doing the thing off the side instead and I liked it. x3 SG altered eyes for Pal's deadpan expression but no more.
COLOR: Kero
-Next 'row'-
INKWHISPER: x3 A modified Flareon; her usual PokeSona.
DRAWN: SG 8U
COLOR: Kero
WILLOW: When asked, "What kind of Pokemon are you?" she eventually answered as a Flareon/Vaporeon and mentioned blue with a red mane.
DRAWN: SG
COLOR: Kero
TWIST: When asked the same question, he answered a Tyrogue with a marking on his left eye and linked the marking. x'3; Kero did get pretty close at least, but hot damn that was annoyingly complex for something to be made so small. xD Praise her.
DRAWN: Kero, general pose by SG.
COLOR: Kero
SOUTHIE: Growlithe. Just small and cute and I BELIEVE his second-favorite Pokemon after its evo (but Jaxeh was already a pure Arcanine). Next to Auxy because they've been dating for like literally like forever. Originally they were going to be cuddling, but SG got a lulzier idea. X3
DRAWN: Kero
COLOR: Kero
AUXY: Mismagius, just one of his favorite Pokemon. See Southie.
DRAWN: Kero
COLOR: Kero
-And now around the table, starting bottom-left and going right/clockwise-
MC STORM: Zekrom/Lillipup. X3 Because he needed Zekrom to be black and storm-tastic. ... And something ridiculously small, cute, and obnoxious because he is MC. XD And I saw Lillipup and like died. X'3 We considered things like Skitty, but MC really isn't catty at all and rodents didn't really fit. XD But yeah. Dogs are ridiculously stubborn and not always the brightest but ungodly loyal and generally lovable. X'3 And it was perfect<3
DRAWN: Kero, with SG just posing and touching up the tail slightly.
COLOR: Kero
RYDER: Another of those that isn't very creative, but Ryder's been here forEVER so we forced something out. X'3 A few people managed to guess it already so SG is actually proud of that<3 But yeah, just based on two Pokemon she uses a lot in-RP.
DRAWN: Kero
COLOR: Kero
DARE: Persian/Liepard with rave-ish neon rainbow spots. X3 Sona SG made for Dareh a bit ago (>3 secretly TO figure out what to do for this project >D) based on a convo with her. Next to Tere cuz they be gewd friendz.
DRAWN: Kero, with SG redoing the eyes and ear tips and little bits of the tail (not the main tip) showing behind Ryder. Also pose started with Kero and then was altered slightly by SG and altered slightly more by Kero again. XP
COLOR: SG
TERE: Rattata/Delcatty/Houndour (technically a Serperior shape to face but meh). x3 Based on a sprite she made to represent herself. The original had Masquerain wings and then she said she'd really prefer Pidgeot's prolly, but it ended up being too hard to fit any with the Delcatty neckpiece being so big and the close quarters, but ah well. See Dare.
DRAWN: Kero
COLOR: SG
CADEN: Alternately colored Pachirisu based on his squirrel-boy Chatango avatar. X3 (I think its name is Josh?) Looking like a happy spaz because it be Caden. ... Who has actually seemed kind of Dx and overwhelmed lately but he's most epic when he's happier and maybe it'll cheer him up. X3
DRAWN: Kero, with pose kind of split
COLOR: Kero, with eyes and (unshaded) mouth and cheeks by SG. x'3; He was one of the last we colored so yeah slight hurry.
ELAYNE: XP Deerling/Togetic, because Elayne is just an innocent adorable deer, and said she always gets Togetic on Pokemon quizzes. It was originally going to have Togetic markings too but it devolved into just the wing, ironically before shading. Purple because she loves it and pink because Shiny Deerling are and it goes well with purple and the general "adorable sweet" theme. x3
DRAWN: Kero including pose and idea to make the general floof a flower<3
COLOR: 8U SG~~ I AM SO PROUD OF HER I CAN'T EVEN. Like. Elayne was the third thing I colored. And Kero explained some shading tips to me and I understood them, but doing Jay and myself (Jay actually being first) it was just like "ah yeah this is kind of working". And then I colored Elayne, and it was just like "8U I AM GOING TO BE ORGASMIC NOW FOR NO REASON". And looking at the finished result I was like.... 8U OH. THAT'S how you shade!<3 XD And went back and touched up the others, but I don't think anything else I did got nearly as good as Elayne's purple. x'3
SG: X3 Suicune/Vulpix-or-Ninetales-I'm-not-even-sure-anymore, my PokeSona since I was 12 and half the reason SG is SG (originally SuicuneGirl). Also the very first Original Character I had that wasn't a Pokemon or character in my games, or at least the first I can remember. x3
DRAWN: Kero, with a few diamonds added and snout altered by SG. x3
COLOR: SG
ETHER: Arceus/Dunsparce. XD<3 Because she is our creator andshe is online about as often as Dunsparce is encountered she loves Dunsparce, and the combination of the two was too great. XD Also, based loosely on a character she had a few years ago on another board I was on with her. :3
DRAWN: Kero including most of the pose, with face/some head and wings by SG.
COLOR: SG
KERO: Ledian/Leafeon, because Kero is a Leaf and a Little Black Bug. X3 SG made suggestions based on that until we found something she liked. X3 Then I did a doodle for the hell of it when I did the arrangement base and apparently she liked it well enough as it didn't change TOO much when she redid it. X3
DRAWN: Kero including full pose.
COLOR: Kero
RIKKA: Espeon/Umbreon/Growlithe, based on "What kind of Pokemon are you?" asked of her and a semi-Sona she's had for a while. x3
DRAWN: SG
COLOR: SG
-ON table- XP
FISH: Shiny Magikarp. X3 Because he is. On the table fearing for his life, because we tease about eating Fish in the box way too often. x'3 And we love him<3
DRAWN: Kero; praise her. xD SG's original pose was sort of close, but SG can't foreshorten to save her life. x'3
COLOR: Kero~
~OTHER~
ROOM!: x3 Set up by SG. Table by SG but later lined (it was originally brown even at the edges) and shaded by Kero. Everything else drawn by Kero. Room itself colored by Kero. Cake base-colored by SG and shaded by Kero. Candles including flames/glow and banner colored by SG, and text on the banner and cake hand-written by SG. X3 (Because Kero's font wouldn't show up on the image for some glitchy reason and SG was using GIMP (as PS is just on my comp but its been having power issues and I didn't want to risk losing work) which doesn't make curvy font easy to type. XPP)
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|D WHOOOO. So now you know about that. Be sure to praise Kero for her win.
BUT NOW, the reason you all actually came to this topic: BIRTHDAY PRESENTS!
You can take ONE of EACH of the following prizes: A, B, C, D, and E. You may ALSO swap one prize letter for another, but no more than two of one. This means you could take ABCCD or BBDDE or whatever, but only five total. Also, the cash option cannot be taken twice for the same prize letter. x3 You can take the same or different choice within an prize number otherwise, though.
On Pokemon of choice options, only one fossil OR pseudo-legend can be taken via this promo, and only up to second stage. (That is, you can get a Dragonair, just not a Dragonite. Evolved fossils are fine.) No taking more than one of the same family. Pokemon and egg colors are decided with normal spawn odds, except in Prize E, where the normals will always be normal. x3
|3 For a little random fun, you can pick all the info of Random Pokemon, but on those where you get to pick the Pokemon, you may only choose gender and mods will do Ability and Personality. ;P (You can have the mod pick gender if you want, though.) You must state the gender when you pick a Pokemon if you want it or the mod will assume you wanted random.
THIS PROMO IS ON A PER-PLAYER BASIS, NOT PER-CHARACTER. Meaning if you only have a few chars, you'll rake in, but with a lot it won't seem like much. It's just to thank all members equally, since all old and new regardless of number of chars have helped make VC what it is today. x3 <3 It also means you can give stuff to your WIPs. :3
You may ONLY take this promo IF YOU JOINED BEFORE JULY 18, 2011. However, see the very bottom of the post for a smaller promo if you came after.
PRIZE A:
3 Random Pokemon -OR- 4 Items of choice (excluding rare candy) -OR- $500
(May include even those Pokemon you can't choose (again). May or may not be evolved. :3)
PRIZE B:
1 Evolved Pokemon of choice -OR- 2 Unevolved Pokemon of choice -OR- $1000
(Either becomes "Random" if prize is taken twice.)
PRIZE C:
1 Super Rare Candy (cannot be sold or traded) -OR- 2 Unevolved Pokemon of choice.
(Candy can be taken a second time, but not for the same character.)
PRIZE D:
Choose two Pokemon, and receive two hybrid eggs, each including one of those Pokemon and something random it can breed with. ;P There is a 1 in 100 chance of getting a THREE-species hybrid from these eggs! Only SG can mod this particular prize, excluding her own of course. You'll know what's in the egg when you get it, though; you don't have to wait until it hatches. x3
PRIZE E:
2 Random Unevolved Pokemon in your choice of color -OR- 2 Random Evolved normal Pokemon -OR- $1000
(In the first one, you can't choose the Pokemon, but you can choose which colors you want and which Pokemon is which color(s) AFTER seeing what you get. :3)
|D Please reply stating your choices for everything in the format of the following Example~ (Which are not my choices because SG can't make decisions that fast. xD;) Please specify who stuff is for with the exclusion of money, since it's collective. :3 You can wait to decide who gets Randoms until you see them, but then please reply stating which Pokemon they'll be going to once you do. :3 Just for our records~
ENJOY<3
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The above promo is to thank everyone who helped VC get to its first birthday, but newbies can still celebrate with us~ These can be taken before you finish your first bio, even. :3 THIS promo is ONLY available if you joined ON OR AFTER July 18, 2011. Similar rules to the one above, except no fossils or pseudo-legends at all.
PRIZE A:
1 Unevolved Pokemon of choice -OR- 1 Random Evolved Pokemon
PRIZE B:
$700 -OR- Name 1 Pokemon and receive a hybrid egg of it and something random
:3 Hope you like it<3
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Both promos will end at the end of this month. :3
First of all, many of you have seen by now (|D especially as for those I didn't think would mind much and who I could think of in my quarter-conscious state at 6am this morning, I may have abused my admin powarz to force your skin to this so you'd see it when you first logged on<3) there is a totally awesome (<< RIGHT?) new skin. xP I did my best to take into account everyone's favorite things about the most popular other skins:
essentially, it's a mix of color scheme between Haunted and Darkness (I figured dark + blue and a hot-colored font would be kind of Night Stalkers-y too), in a darkish-but-not-too-dark skin with even darker font to avoid bright contrast in normal reading, with a little touch of red for Jay and to create just enough contrast for a kind of Mind Crush feel (technically Mind Crush is also blue and purple, if way different shades) and actually the same background as it as well, just hue-shifted to go with the color scheme. X3 ... SG actually worked way more days than you'd imagine trying to get the colors on this thing just right. XP And then of course there are cake and candles that I just found on photobucket and altered slightly for different uses (old vs new etc) and recolored the cake but yeah.
BUT HEY YEAH WAAAAY FUCKING COOLER than the skin is ITS BANNER!<3 Kero and I worked long and hard and took a few more hours to finish than we'd hoped, but we haz had it made~ X3 'Tis VC as Pokeymanz enjoying a party. Now, take no offense if you weren't included! We would have liked to have more people, but there's only so much room of course. We especially wanted to include Karma and I wanted Ezio, but we couldn't think of anything to make them and couldn't seem to catch/find them to ask, as was the issue with several others considered. x3 So yeah, mostly it's the staff and a mixture of some of the oldest, the most active and/or popular, and the lulziest members. (For instance, Kitsunaii is only occasionally active, but she's at least somewhat popular and how could we resist adding THAT face? X'3) Also, the focus doesn't mean much, nor does positioning aside from just where people would fit unless specified. x3 Mostly it was all Staff at the table (except Flora in the background slightly due to inactivity) plus two of our oldest still-active members. But yeh. Just a little fun anyway~ X3
Because I know you're all wondering, I'm gonna delay the promo info EVEN MORE by telling you all about the banner~ As mentioned, Kero and I collabbed on this. x3 She totally did most of the real work. But yeah. She started off by doing some rough lines of a few, and then I took over doodling total crap versions of most everyone real quick to set general poses, character designs, and arrangements. (Those not drawn at least had a written thing. x3) Then Kero drew almost everyone, usually following my general design/pose with just cleaner lines and much better anatomy/proportions, though a few were drastically changed and a few she did from scratch. Then I altered some of her lines in places and did flat colors on most of them, and then better coloring was kind of split. x3 She did more but I did a lot of the larger ones, so yeh. 8'3 BUT YEAH, so I'll just tell you who everyone is and who did what. X3 Running from top to bottom, left to right, roughly. Note that Kero did touch/clean up a few of my lines a little and I don't know exactly where, but yeah so you know that that is a factor.
WINDCHIME: Ninetales/Chimecho, because her favorite Pokemon is Ninetales, and Chimecho is a rough chime, and the combo justified many chime tails, to essentially make it a big fluffy windchime. x3
DRAWN: General pose and head by SG, body and face by Kero
COLOR: SG
RYUU: Ryu means dragon (Ryuujin is the Dragon King actually), and Akira has a Shadow Dragonite. XP So we made it chibi for fun and a ghost to poke fun at her inactivity. ... xD Of COURSE she returns this fucking morning and ruins the joke, but we're glad to have her back.
DRAWN: SG
COLOR: SG
NICODEMUS: Because her banner/avatar/favorite Pokemon is a Raichu. The bandanna just seemed to fit and made it a little less "hi I'm plain". x3
DRAWN: Pose by SG, all lines by Kero
COLOR: Kero
CORA: She said she always got Charmander on Pokemon quizzes, and then said she and some friends thought she made a good Blissey, so we spliced them. x3
DRAWN: Kero including pose (my original sucked xD), waist to ankles edited by SG
COLOR: Kero, barring the glow off the fire that I redid. x3 Like one whole click. *fake enthusiasm* XP
LONGCAT('s head): Meowth is a cat. Longcat is long. X'3 If you look, you will see his body used as streamers and platforms all over, and his tail in the bottom left corner. Longcat is loooong.
DRAWN: Kero, with SG adding the top whiskers. Top pose SG and rest pose Kero.
COLOR: SG on the "main" bit up at the top with the head and 0.1% of the torso, Kero on the body and tail. x3
FLORAMEI: Serperior/Sunflora. One of her very favorite Pokemon spliced with another she likes enough that includes her name. XP Also, when Snivy was released we died saying it was PokeFlora due to the species and color scheme. Awesome/troll face because it's Flora. X3 *SHOT* Kind of close to SG cuz she be mah bestie.
DRAWN: Kero, with ears and yellow back marks added by SG. Pose by SG.
COLOR: SG
JAY: Torchic/Articuno, with the color scheme of all staff colors because Jay likes them and she's like all the staff jobs/has literally been every rank. x3 Torchic because it's a bird and her favorite is Blaziken, and Articuno because it's a legendary blue bird. Also, sitting on SG's head because Jay sits on heads (and SG didn't want to share her). XP
DRAWN: Kero, with SG redoing the whole head and face aside from the Articuno crest. Pose mainly SG.
COLOR: SG
JAXA: Arcanine in the colors of his FurSona. X'3 Lurking in the window like a lurker with a |D face because he's Jaxa.
DRAWN: Kero, with pose kind of split.
COLOR: Kero, aside from the like 10 pixels that make up the eyes XP
KITSUNAII: Octillery because she loved them, in her favorite/FurSona colors. Rape-faced because--... she's Kitsunaii! XPP *SHOT* Also lurking like a lurker (and waiting to catch whoever comes outside first >D *shotmoar*). X'3
DRAWN: Kero including pose. xD PRAISE HER.
COLOR: Kero
PUPPET: Banette/Vulpix puppet hanging because the prior is a doll and she had a fox avatar on Chatango forever. x3; Not the most creative but fun. |D *also might just be a fan of terrifying Banette faces*
DRAWN: Kero
COLOR: Kero
PALKIA: I'm not going to justify this with an explanation.
DRAWN: Kero including pose and even design. Originally I wanted a chibi, but she ended up doing the thing off the side instead and I liked it. x3 SG altered eyes for Pal's deadpan expression but no more.
COLOR: Kero
-Next 'row'-
INKWHISPER: x3 A modified Flareon; her usual PokeSona.
DRAWN: SG 8U
COLOR: Kero
WILLOW: When asked, "What kind of Pokemon are you?" she eventually answered as a Flareon/Vaporeon and mentioned blue with a red mane.
DRAWN: SG
COLOR: Kero
TWIST: When asked the same question, he answered a Tyrogue with a marking on his left eye and linked the marking. x'3; Kero did get pretty close at least, but hot damn that was annoyingly complex for something to be made so small. xD Praise her.
DRAWN: Kero, general pose by SG.
COLOR: Kero
SOUTHIE: Growlithe. Just small and cute and I BELIEVE his second-favorite Pokemon after its evo (but Jaxeh was already a pure Arcanine). Next to Auxy because they've been dating for like literally like forever. Originally they were going to be cuddling, but SG got a lulzier idea. X3
DRAWN: Kero
COLOR: Kero
AUXY: Mismagius, just one of his favorite Pokemon. See Southie.
DRAWN: Kero
COLOR: Kero
-And now around the table, starting bottom-left and going right/clockwise-
MC STORM: Zekrom/Lillipup. X3 Because he needed Zekrom to be black and storm-tastic. ... And something ridiculously small, cute, and obnoxious because he is MC. XD And I saw Lillipup and like died. X'3 We considered things like Skitty, but MC really isn't catty at all and rodents didn't really fit. XD But yeah. Dogs are ridiculously stubborn and not always the brightest but ungodly loyal and generally lovable. X'3 And it was perfect<3
DRAWN: Kero, with SG just posing and touching up the tail slightly.
COLOR: Kero
RYDER: Another of those that isn't very creative, but Ryder's been here forEVER so we forced something out. X'3 A few people managed to guess it already so SG is actually proud of that<3 But yeah, just based on two Pokemon she uses a lot in-RP.
DRAWN: Kero
COLOR: Kero
DARE: Persian/Liepard with rave-ish neon rainbow spots. X3 Sona SG made for Dareh a bit ago (>3 secretly TO figure out what to do for this project >D) based on a convo with her. Next to Tere cuz they be gewd friendz.
DRAWN: Kero, with SG redoing the eyes and ear tips and little bits of the tail (not the main tip) showing behind Ryder. Also pose started with Kero and then was altered slightly by SG and altered slightly more by Kero again. XP
COLOR: SG
TERE: Rattata/Delcatty/Houndour (technically a Serperior shape to face but meh). x3 Based on a sprite she made to represent herself. The original had Masquerain wings and then she said she'd really prefer Pidgeot's prolly, but it ended up being too hard to fit any with the Delcatty neckpiece being so big and the close quarters, but ah well. See Dare.
DRAWN: Kero
COLOR: SG
CADEN: Alternately colored Pachirisu based on his squirrel-boy Chatango avatar. X3 (I think its name is Josh?) Looking like a happy spaz because it be Caden. ... Who has actually seemed kind of Dx and overwhelmed lately but he's most epic when he's happier and maybe it'll cheer him up. X3
DRAWN: Kero, with pose kind of split
COLOR: Kero, with eyes and (unshaded) mouth and cheeks by SG. x'3; He was one of the last we colored so yeah slight hurry.
ELAYNE: XP Deerling/Togetic, because Elayne is just an innocent adorable deer, and said she always gets Togetic on Pokemon quizzes. It was originally going to have Togetic markings too but it devolved into just the wing, ironically before shading. Purple because she loves it and pink because Shiny Deerling are and it goes well with purple and the general "adorable sweet" theme. x3
DRAWN: Kero including pose and idea to make the general floof a flower<3
COLOR: 8U SG~~ I AM SO PROUD OF HER I CAN'T EVEN. Like. Elayne was the third thing I colored. And Kero explained some shading tips to me and I understood them, but doing Jay and myself (Jay actually being first) it was just like "ah yeah this is kind of working". And then I colored Elayne, and it was just like "8U I AM GOING TO BE ORGASMIC NOW FOR NO REASON". And looking at the finished result I was like.... 8U OH. THAT'S how you shade!<3 XD And went back and touched up the others, but I don't think anything else I did got nearly as good as Elayne's purple. x'3
SG: X3 Suicune/Vulpix-or-Ninetales-I'm-not-even-sure-anymore, my PokeSona since I was 12 and half the reason SG is SG (originally SuicuneGirl). Also the very first Original Character I had that wasn't a Pokemon or character in my games, or at least the first I can remember. x3
DRAWN: Kero, with a few diamonds added and snout altered by SG. x3
COLOR: SG
ETHER: Arceus/Dunsparce. XD<3 Because she is our creator and
DRAWN: Kero including most of the pose, with face/some head and wings by SG.
COLOR: SG
KERO: Ledian/Leafeon, because Kero is a Leaf and a Little Black Bug. X3 SG made suggestions based on that until we found something she liked. X3 Then I did a doodle for the hell of it when I did the arrangement base and apparently she liked it well enough as it didn't change TOO much when she redid it. X3
DRAWN: Kero including full pose.
COLOR: Kero
RIKKA: Espeon/Umbreon/Growlithe, based on "What kind of Pokemon are you?" asked of her and a semi-Sona she's had for a while. x3
DRAWN: SG
COLOR: SG
-ON table- XP
FISH: Shiny Magikarp. X3 Because he is. On the table fearing for his life, because we tease about eating Fish in the box way too often. x'3 And we love him<3
DRAWN: Kero; praise her. xD SG's original pose was sort of close, but SG can't foreshorten to save her life. x'3
COLOR: Kero~
~OTHER~
ROOM!: x3 Set up by SG. Table by SG but later lined (it was originally brown even at the edges) and shaded by Kero. Everything else drawn by Kero. Room itself colored by Kero. Cake base-colored by SG and shaded by Kero. Candles including flames/glow and banner colored by SG, and text on the banner and cake hand-written by SG. X3 (Because Kero's font wouldn't show up on the image for some glitchy reason and SG was using GIMP (as PS is just on my comp but its been having power issues and I didn't want to risk losing work) which doesn't make curvy font easy to type. XPP)
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|D WHOOOO. So now you know about that. Be sure to praise Kero for her win.
BUT NOW, the reason you all actually came to this topic: BIRTHDAY PRESENTS!
You can take ONE of EACH of the following prizes: A, B, C, D, and E. You may ALSO swap one prize letter for another, but no more than two of one. This means you could take ABCCD or BBDDE or whatever, but only five total. Also, the cash option cannot be taken twice for the same prize letter. x3 You can take the same or different choice within an prize number otherwise, though.
On Pokemon of choice options, only one fossil OR pseudo-legend can be taken via this promo, and only up to second stage. (That is, you can get a Dragonair, just not a Dragonite. Evolved fossils are fine.) No taking more than one of the same family. Pokemon and egg colors are decided with normal spawn odds, except in Prize E, where the normals will always be normal. x3
|3 For a little random fun, you can pick all the info of Random Pokemon, but on those where you get to pick the Pokemon, you may only choose gender and mods will do Ability and Personality. ;P (You can have the mod pick gender if you want, though.) You must state the gender when you pick a Pokemon if you want it or the mod will assume you wanted random.
THIS PROMO IS ON A PER-PLAYER BASIS, NOT PER-CHARACTER. Meaning if you only have a few chars, you'll rake in, but with a lot it won't seem like much. It's just to thank all members equally, since all old and new regardless of number of chars have helped make VC what it is today. x3 <3 It also means you can give stuff to your WIPs. :3
You may ONLY take this promo IF YOU JOINED BEFORE JULY 18, 2011. However, see the very bottom of the post for a smaller promo if you came after.
PRIZE A:
3 Random Pokemon -OR- 4 Items of choice (excluding rare candy) -OR- $500
(May include even those Pokemon you can't choose (again). May or may not be evolved. :3)
PRIZE B:
1 Evolved Pokemon of choice -OR- 2 Unevolved Pokemon of choice -OR- $1000
(Either becomes "Random" if prize is taken twice.)
PRIZE C:
1 Super Rare Candy (cannot be sold or traded) -OR- 2 Unevolved Pokemon of choice.
(Candy can be taken a second time, but not for the same character.)
PRIZE D:
Choose two Pokemon, and receive two hybrid eggs, each including one of those Pokemon and something random it can breed with. ;P There is a 1 in 100 chance of getting a THREE-species hybrid from these eggs! Only SG can mod this particular prize, excluding her own of course. You'll know what's in the egg when you get it, though; you don't have to wait until it hatches. x3
PRIZE E:
2 Random Unevolved Pokemon in your choice of color -OR- 2 Random Evolved normal Pokemon -OR- $1000
(In the first one, you can't choose the Pokemon, but you can choose which colors you want and which Pokemon is which color(s) AFTER seeing what you get. :3)
|D Please reply stating your choices for everything in the format of the following Example~ (Which are not my choices because SG can't make decisions that fast. xD;) Please specify who stuff is for with the exclusion of money, since it's collective. :3 You can wait to decide who gets Randoms until you see them, but then please reply stating which Pokemon they'll be going to once you do. :3 Just for our records~
A: $500
A: Dusk Stone and Clean Scale for Abbie, and 1 Magnet for Billy, and 1 Magnet for Candy.
B: Male Rapidash for Billy.
D: Charmander hybrid and Riolu hybrid for Candy.
E: $1000
A: Dusk Stone and Clean Scale for Abbie, and 1 Magnet for Billy, and 1 Magnet for Candy.
B: Male Rapidash for Billy.
D: Charmander hybrid and Riolu hybrid for Candy.
E: $1000
ENJOY<3
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The above promo is to thank everyone who helped VC get to its first birthday, but newbies can still celebrate with us~ These can be taken before you finish your first bio, even. :3 THIS promo is ONLY available if you joined ON OR AFTER July 18, 2011. Similar rules to the one above, except no fossils or pseudo-legends at all.
PRIZE A:
1 Unevolved Pokemon of choice -OR- 1 Random Evolved Pokemon
PRIZE B:
$700 -OR- Name 1 Pokemon and receive a hybrid egg of it and something random
:3 Hope you like it<3
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Both promos will end at the end of this month. :3