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@PCoquelin wrote:

Though I DO appreciate your efforts, each year..
..to provide Easter eggs to be hunted, dear friend.

That's why you get a gift egg every year, dear friend. Your kind greetings, presented by Suntop himself, are a long-standing tradition and completation. Thanky you for being here, PC. Always.

The first gift eggies showed up and will be bartered into bigger versions:

- for wolfmoonsky

As usual it's Skywise, mischievous and flirting, on chrysocolla.

- for PCoquelin ... thanks for the assistance, Moonlight!

For weird reason young Suntop often longs for a dark background - a coloful opale.

- for Yeee

Haken - who else considering our roleplaying stuff - emerging from pietersite!


And then there are still nest eggs to find ...
Wolfie finally found Bearclaw's body. Now the lost ones rest together in Good Friday's nest - and live on how Elves do!
Moonlight reunited the brothers in all but blood ... but there's still someone missing for a trio!
And there are still MANY other eggies waiting to be found! @Yeee, @katcombs ... I call you merfolk to catch special swimming prey! And anyone else can join in ...

Update about lying around unfound:
#00 - 1 eggie (look at the partly filled nest ^^ + Nightfall, Redlance, Pike, Strongbow, Krim ...?)
#01 - well filled
#02 - well filled
#03 - well filled
#04 - well filled
#05 - well filled
#06 - well filled
#07 - well filled
#08 - well filled
#09 - well filled
#10 - well filled
#11 - well filled
#12 - well filled
#13 - well filled
#14 - 8 eggies (Spine, ...?)
#15 - 1 eggie (Cutter, Skywise, ...?)

Redhead wrote:

I like hiding eggs more than I like hunting for them.

Does this mean I can count on you for next year? In this case you better make some more posts. ^^ Or spoiler-tabs ... XD
But first you better go on one more hunt, Redhead ... or invite Moonlight to hunt for your gift egg!

You've visited to help your friend Redlance finding home, Beryl!
Redhead and Moonlight dragged some scared humans in. ^^ Terrified by Kahvi and Tyldak they were hiding in a wring thread.
hehehe my work is done if a nest tells their inhabitants at first sight, Kat! And you've shooed a runaway lazybones home. Ghostly Blackfell had a doppelgänger - sorted it out!
Cheerful Pike for you, Wolfie - I like this! And with cutter you've gathered the second half of Kat's find.
Four more nests are completed now!
How fitting that Kahvi was waiting for you, Outlier.


Update about lying around unfound:
#00 - 1 eggie (look at the partly filled nest ^^ + Nightfall, Redlance, Pike, ...?)
#01 - well filled
#02 - well filled
#03 - well filled
#04 - well filled
#05 - well filled
#06 - well filled
#07 - well filled
#08 - well filled
#09 - well filled
#10 - well filled
#11 - well filled
#12 - 2 eggies (Vaya, One-Eye, Blackfell, Kahvi, ...?)
#13 - well filled

@Yeee ... cannot find another Moonlight egg *pout*

Four eggies again - one for each finger of a hand seems to be your usual quote, Moonlight! I see you've found suitable prey, a guest and a totally not amused Schnitzel ... ähm Cutter. ^^
It was a pleasure to find another well placed Moonlight egg, Yeee!

You've found a valkyrie, Redhead ... and Kat brought in freed spirit. The archer went with Wolfie.

Update about lying around unfound:
#00 - 1 eggie (a lot - look at the partly filled nest ^^ + Nightfall, Redlance, ...?)
#01 - well filled
#02 - well filled
#03 - well filled
#04 - well filled
#05 - well filled
#06 - well filled
#07 - 1 eggie (Hummer, Raven-Eye, Mantricker, Whistlebranch, Longreach, Buckthorn, ...?)
#08 - well filled
#09 - well filled
#10 - 2 eggies (Kahvi, a ferret, ravvit, fish, Tyldak, ...?)
#11 - 1 eggie waiting for a special huntress
#12 - 4 eggies (Vaya, One-Eye, ...?)

One of the brats from nest #07 escaped me *catched and locked in guest room*
Look for the missing #10 in one of the "unspecific" threads ... atypical "prey" XD

There is no "Funny Scene" I can make fit with Good Friday ...


Time to Mourn #12

There will be 6 eggies for hunt - two for each time to mourn.

OOPS ... I'd lost my bet! You have gathered the "not so mysterious" 3rd eggie, Kat. You've recognized the quote?

Most nests are showing well filled now - others still miss eggies:

#00 All about Silkstuff - Savah, Venka, Sunstream, Ahdri, Newstar, Skywise, Moonshade, Aurek, Ruffel, Harotim, Korafay, Maleen - the 3 missing ones are elders
#11 A Gift With a Sting - Rain, Leetah, Winnowill, Snakeskin - You might guess what the found ones have in commen ... and find the missing one?
#12 - Winnowill, Rayek, Timmain, Savah - still 1 missing ... you cannot focus with 1 eye ^^
#14 - Skywise - and 6 fathers are waiting for hunters
#15 - Skywise, Wendy Pini - who'll complete the trio?

Moment of Knowledge - they havn't seen their child grow up #14


#00 All about Silkstuff - Savah, Venka, Sunstream, Ahdri, Newstar, Skywise, Moonshade, Aurek, Ruffel, Harotim, Korafay - waiting 3 by now
#01 Another Kind of Offspring - Nonna, Adar, EQ ... couldn't resist this twist
#02 About a Soulname - Tyleet, Dewshine, Scouter, Tyldak, Winnowill ... she too knows Dewshine's soulname!
#03 Broken Dream - Moonshade, Ahnshen
#04 I live(d) to see my niece - Pike, Teir, Ember, Joyleaf, One-Eye, Shenshen, Krill
#05 Agemates - Yun, Jirda
#06 My Boy Lollipop - "Clony", Cutlet, Mender, Trinket
#07 Caught! - Crescent, Woodhue, Redlance, Cutter, Skywise, Darshek, Mantricker, Ember - 1 missing
#08 Chiefs in Reserve - Urda, Zey, Mardu
#09 Another Kind of Offspring 2.0 - Bearclaw, Madcoil, Dark Pool, Shaman
#10 Displaced - Rellah, Talen
#11 A Gift With a Sting - Rain, Leetah, Winnowill, Snakeskin - 1 missing
#12 - Winnowill, Rayek, Timmain, Savah - still 2 missing ... some need to be found twice ^^
#13 - Rosie - 3 waiting
#14 - eggies still need to be dropped

Someone want to assist G0lden to bring her recent finds home?

I see you've gathered another basket full of eggs, Wolfie. Hungry Wolfie! Please - collect no more eggies for nest #12. Your share for this one is more than fullfilled.
You might want to look for the missing eggies from the BIG #00 ... there are old eggies lying around in other than the most expected nest.

Wellcome, PC! Thank you for adding a slightly different facet to this year's EggQuest. I'll share them with Stormcatcher. ^^


*needs to hatch the eggies for nest #13 now*

for #12
for #12
for #12
for #11

A well filled basket gathered, one more nest completed, another one started ...there are still lots of eggies lying around. Please keep in mind that Good Friday's nest #12 needs SIX eggies to be well filled.



Mixed Origin #13

... and you can think about today's nest (no eggies dropped so far)

Eggies for nest #11 are dropped. Enough for each hunter to grab one.



High Ones ... never achieved - always been - newly attained #12

Good Friday's nest is not an exeption this time - despite you need to find the characters in question twice. Twice ... with a twist.
I apologize that eggies will not be dropped before eight or ten hours.

Interesting analysis, jabberwookie! #11 found

And you've pointed out the time when Winnowill #12 found was most interesting. BEFORE she turned into a cardboard villian.

I found Tyleet! #12

Leetah for nest #12.

Bridges #12

This time the nest for Good Friday will not be a double riddle. It's all about bridges. ^^ But it will bring double fun - there are 6 eggs to hunt .

Has this been found yet?

#12

Sky Dance #12

Today's nest is an exception from the "Love Nest" theme - a variation. There are "special" characters in those eggs ...with a double identiy - a double look. And they don't have a thread.  

I'll drop them in other character threads ... characters who "envisioned" them. You can try to find out which chars will hatch - if you are right you can basically "look up" the threads where they will be dropped most likely. Or - scan all the of them until you stumble across the first lucky find.

I admit that it's rather random this time.   The look of the eggs is a pretty good clue, tho.

This was just posted on the site:

"The Final Quest is steadily marching towards its ultimate conclusion.  The story has reached the halfway mark with issue #12 of the Final Quest. To commemorate this milestone, Ryan and David invited Wendy and Richard Pini back to the podcast to share their thoughts on the Final Quest and their experience creating it over these last few years.

This episode is filled with inside insight. You don’t want to miss it!  Listen to it here."

http://elfquest.com/listen-to-special-halfway-mark-episode-of-the-elfquest-show-podcast/
https://soundcloud.com/theelfquestshow/episode-22-an-interview-with-richard-and-wendy-pini-at-the-halfway-mark-of-the-final-quest

I didn't finish listening but I encourage people to listen since Wendy and Richard are talking. It's a lot of spiritual perspective here...granted, I'm not done hearing the whole thing but there's a lot of talk about Jung so far and the Anima. Wendy's been discussing how Timmain represents the Anima and how it tends to be rejected immediately at times... what do you think?
I think it's kind of weirding me out because I always kind of considered Leetah to an extent to be the anima to Cutter's animus....does this thing with Timmain sort of trivialize their bond/lifemating? Does it cheapen it on some level to actually spell it out ? I feel like the Jungian thing is being taken a bit *too* literally here...I just want it to flow in the story and it's beginning to feel like I'm getting a lesson on Jung...which I don't need.
What do you all think??

A lovely love scene to end the calendar ... hopes for this season to turn out well.
I've mislead you again with a very much obscured collage, G0lden - and by taking a motive from FQ #12. I get the impression you had no chance to read it til now? The Human in the baubles is just a random Armada guy with a gun. A kill-crazy murderer ... but the "villian" I'm going for is the weapon itself.
Hehehe... Greymung was a bit pale. Representing him in a green throne chamber made for a healthy green complexion.

Of course the sleeping couple! When you've suggested it in the podcast thread last minute I would have even dropped what else was planned for the second last window to include them, Redhead. Buuut ... actually they were the first "trio" I've made ^^ (mentioned it somewhen ago) - the last to post, tho. Of course those two deserved a spotlight in the "couples" calendar.
Yup, Sykwise with Timmini - or ... how someone worded it: Cutter with female parts - is the last addion to the Cutter + X series. XD


It's Three Kings Day, a holiday for Bavaria, that marks the end of Christmas time.
   



Couldn't have found anything better than these T(h)reefungusmungus Elves in a set of fir tree bells to herald the end of of this season!

I love the new made bauble for Leanan, Embala! Very beautiful! I love the effect you made in her bauble and that beautiful blue color of course! Love the background as well!

Awww! Little Suntop and little Ember! Gold for Suntop and red for Ember, these colors were made for them! It's great to see the siblings back together! I love that you made their baubles small! They were cubs after all! I like the background as well. I love the images you used. They look so exited and happy!

Cutter and Timmain! The Tams! Or just Tam?  Anyway, It's great to see the both of them together, Embala! Specially after final quest #12!! I live these images you used! I love the position of cutter, looking at her, while she sits in her chair. Kinda love seeing Petalwing as well, sitting on her shoulder like that Perfect colors for their baubles and i love that their baubles look so shiney! Very beautifull background! I can't seem to see what's in their background. I'ts very pretty!

I love that you always make time to give everyone your feedback! Wonderful feedback!

well this dream WAS before #12 came out...XD and they were still lifemates in my dream.

Nothing positive about #12? I'll kick this off,- I actually quite liked what happened to Reef. It made sense and gave his character a new dimension.

When I complain about "reused art," I'm definitely not talking about the "flashback" scenes from earlier comics that you listed, Redhead Ember. In theory, I don't have a problem with such flashbacks at all. In practice, I think they often ruin the unity of the pages on which they appear because Wendy's old style was so different from the style of Final Quest, but that's a matter of opinion.

I'm glad that you haven't noticed the other, more egregious, "short-cut" art in Final Quest. It's probably a big part of why you're able to enjoy it. And I'm glad it's making you happy! I wish I could enjoy it too.

When we say that Wendy uses "the same base" with every character, we don't mean that she has an image in her head or that she draws them consistently. The problem we're noticing is a product of her switch to digital drawing as opposed to good old paper, pencil and ink. Wendy has described (on facebook, I believe) how she has template images of each character in her tablet. She can just plop this "clip art" character into a scene, move the arms and legs a little (just like a paper doll), paste on new eyes or a new mouth (for a different expression,) and voila!

ErinC1978 put together an excellent sample of images from the last few issues in the "Final Quest #12" thread at the bottom of page 31. There, you can see how a single drawing of Leetah's face was used in a dozen panels with only minor modification. Wendy did not draw Leetah from scratch in these panels. She copy-and-pasted the base image, and then adjusted an eye here or a mouth there, positioned the hands,flipped or rotated the image so that the character faces another direction, etc.

Here's another quick example with Korafay: Issue 8, cover and page 7; Issue 11, page 4; Issue 12, page 12. These are all the same image with slight adjustments made using the computer, and I'd wager it's been used other times too but I don't have time to look for more examples. I'd estimate that at least 20% of the art in each issue is recycled in this way. Once you see this stuff, you can't unsee it. And you can't stop noticing it either. It's annoying and it makes the art feel cheap and rushed.

Anytime there's a panel with more than 2 elves in it, at least some (if not all) of them are cut-and-paste jobs. The crowd scenes look terrible for this reason. The characters look like they've been plucked from different panels and jumbled together in a sack. The frankly crappy coloring doesn't help matters.

I like your differentiated approach on this issue, Tymber. Very much appreciated.

@Tymber wrote:

Now I am not a big fan of the Wavedancers, so they already have that mark against them. And a lot of this next bit has to do with what little I know about Reef as a character - but his "change" into that "sea creature" shape just didn't do it for me. I don't see how that's a "finished" version of his broken self... So perhaps someone could shed some light on that and change my view of this shape changing thing he did?

I kinda like that Reef got a surprising developement. Tho I really hope this will be a case of "switchon/switchoff" ... I love his lean and slender elvin look too much! And his soft espression ... It would be a loss if this change turns out to be permanent.


I've tried to explain the "why" and "how" of this change to myself. Reposting from the FQ #12 thread:

IN CASE the events of the earlier Wavedancer comic are still (more or less) canon when it comes to Reef I may have an explanation.

Yes, Reef was shapchanged and mind-twisted by Winnowill after she was dropped on this small island by Tyldak.
This "old" Reef was a healer himself. I can imagine that Winnowill's attack and the later healing PLUS the influence of the Palace has triggered his own shapechanging powers. Unconscious tho - still traumatized like Reef is shown so far instincts easily take over when his people are attacked ... when his safety is destroyed again. He does NOT want to be a victim ever again.

*shrug* Just a try to make sense of it. Good chance Wendy proves me wrong. XD

Just finished reading #12.

Just one question? What Crack pipe is Windy smoking from?

Soreyes wonders off shaking his head because he is totally lost.

I've read #12 and I have to say: it made me laugh.
I was left with many questions after reading the preview and I hoped that the rest of the issue would explain a bit more about the situation... Maybe answer some of my questions. Instead, it's about the elfs not understanding it, either.  

I think Dart and Freetouch went with Mender to Whatever Holt. Makes sense to me; I think they are more useful there.
I love Dart and Menders cuddle. I was hoping to see that.

I agree that Strongbow is passive-agressive. I don't think this is the last word that's been said about their relationship. At least, if I were Moonshade I would want a real talk about it, after they've been together for so long, instead of just a childish comment. But I don't expect them to stay together.

I think Venka's reaction is mostly shock, because she's been hit by a strange weapon. It doesn't look like they hurt her that badly. And I don't think this will slow Rayek down at all... I'm looking forward to his reaction.

I don't care about the wavedancers, although Reef looks pretty cool as a monster.

Windkin's wings get even more ridiculous.

Both the art and the storytelling are the worst I have seen of Wendy   but I still like it more than the work of most of the other artists they had before, and I really want to know how it ends.
I fully agree on the eyes being ugly. Mender looks like he's blind most of the time.
And I agree on Nightfall, too. As Wisp said: I also liked her earlier design.

BTW My eldest daughter came hanging over my shoulder when I read it, so I ended up translating it for her while reading it for the first time myself.  
My youngest seems to like Korafay. I think it's the pretty hair.