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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!

Needy meets Tipsy #15


Willkommen im Eierjag-thread, Moonlight! Ich hoffe, ihr hattet wundervolle Ostern, eine tolle Eierjagd im Freien  und viele bunte leckere Eierchen. Plüsch-SBUEF ist der Wahnsinn! Damit hatte ich nicht gerechnet!
Deine Ostereier sind toll. Hast du klasse gemacht ... du hast ganz bestimmt schon viel gezeichtet und geübt. Bleib dabei - ich bin überzeugt, dass es sich lohnt. Die Eier sind eine echte Bereicherung für diesen Thread!
Yours of course too, Yeee! Especially the last one is so adorable. You've made Harpy babies real.

And there was another virtual eggie for your Easter basket, Moonlight. Now only one motive of the Freiday nest is missing.
You've found the matchmaker, Redhead ... I'm surprised that Spine stayed alone!
You've brought the second-last eggie for the BIG nest, Wolfie. One more day and this season will slowly come to an end.

Yeah! Thanks to Kat and Wolfie I can complete three more nests!
Leaves only the "fathers" from nest x14 and two elders (actually an old couple) from the BIG 00. And ... the 48 hours have passed already.^^

*leaves to fill in the found ones*
btw: I'll make the 'hint' for nest #15 a link - in case someone wonders, why Wendy Pini shows up there!




*runs back to drop a special nest for a special lurker*

for #15
for #14

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?

for #15

for #15
Sorry wrong thread

All eggies are dropped. I'm sue the before mentioned one will wait (unreserved) for you til tommorrow, Redhead ... or longer.
btw: The hint for #15 is a quote.

*waves at Redhead Ember* I trust in you that you will find the 3rd eggie for nest #15 ... which is hidden elsewhere!

... how deep will she be willing to go then? #15


All the eggies are dropped by now. Lots of prey lying around - old ones still hiding, brand new ones waiting ... even a nest with 7 eggies. Enough for everyone to fill a basket!

@G0lden wrote:

Timmain for 12.

No need to worry, G0lden. I know that this hunt is slightly confusing, given how irregular nests and eggies show up. I felt the need to remind of infamous "rule #6".

Oh oh oh! I found half of the nest 15!!

Timmain!!!#15

Equals #15


People are busy with family and friends at Easter. I wish you all a pleasant and joyful time. Not a surprise that only half of the eggs were gathered so far!
G0lden found a sunny golden child first, assisted by Vaeri. So fitting that "Aunty" Shenshen accompanied him. And Wolfie caught the chief-to-be sister.
Last not least Kat showed up with Toorah ... I have the notion that you got the right idea.

Four more eggies to fill the nest. Yes - four. Again there is one more than the egg count.
btw: little Ember is NOT the Redhead-special element! ^^

For fun's sake I re-read the old blurbs...
The blurbs start talking of Angrif's "massive assault" on the elves in #6, in #9 the fleet is "Cutter's greatest concern" and since #15 they are close to the Father Tree (already seven issues!).

Since #8 Suntop's call is out and we get repeated talks, how the elves are going to decide and to leave and to stay and, yeah, decisions again

Small wonder FiQu is so unsatisfying, it promises and promises and never delivers

#15

I had a feeling it would be there!

#15

#15

Happy Easter, friends!



of Sun and Snow #15

@Embala wrote:

Four chapters with six issues each - that's what I've read again and again. Issue #15 puts us in the middle of the third chapter.

I guess I missed that. A little thing, but somehow it helps it all make a little more sense.

So we have

Chapter 1 - Ember gets captured by the Djun and finds the strength to deny Recognition
Chapter 2 - This doesn't seem to be quite as cohesive but seems mainly to be concerned with everyone's choices in response to the palace's call.
Chapter 3 - Cutter's identity crises.

I wonder if chapter 4 will depend on all the other chapters and tie them together or not.

Maybe Timmain knows she can't be split and wants Cutter to go in the palace, so the whole seduction of Skywise was to have his help in pressuring Cutter to choose the palace. Will it come down for Cutter to a choice between Leetah and Skywise? He said something about how long will they wait for him, he doesn't seem to know that Leetah's already made her choice. Maybe that's why she looks happy on the cover, while Skywise appears more apprehensive.

It really looks like Cutter is maybe delusional and stuck in the time of the palace war.

Maybe part of our problem with understanding is that the FQ is supposed to be ALL THIS
- hero's identity
- humans versus elves
- mortality versus immortality
- and this unkown "ancient wrong"
pressed into too few pages.

@Outlier wrote:

How many issues are supposed to be left? Are we in the middle of the story, or near the end?

Four chapters with six issues each - that's what I've read again and again. Issue #15 puts us in the middle of the third chapter.

According to the #15 thread WP stated, that Haken as a character does not exist.

Guess he has an alternate view on it? ^^

Seeing as Redlance and Nightfall actually swap eye colors on one page of #15 (the naked love-in one - which also features the return of the blue-eyed Skywise) I'm starting to doubt he can even RECOGNIZE colors!

@Wisp wrote:

Wendy on FB: "Elfquest - the Final Quest #15 contains some of the most beautiful work Sonny Strait and I have done together. We both have such a deep love and understanding of the organic, that must be why."

*Neighbours start knocking on my door because they're worried about the hysteric laughter coming from my house*

@Shadowpath wrote:

I do like Rayek getting smacked in the head.

There are a lot of ways to smack a head.  A sledgehammer is a bold choice.[/quote]
I really feel that should have knocked him out a bit longer.
...Then again that's not the first time he's gotten knocked out by Two-Edge's hammer.

HAHAHAHAHA

Wendy on FB: "Elfquest - the Final Quest #15 contains some of the most beautiful work Sonny Strait and I have done together. We both have such a deep love and understanding of the organic, that must be why."

@Shadowpath wrote:

I do like Rayek getting smacked in the head.

There are a lot of ways to smack a head. A sledgehammer is a bold choice.

This issue. Sigh.

[All spoilers below]



The art is the art. The newly created drawings continue to get better and better, as far as I'm concerned. There were even a few panels in #15 where Nighfall didn't look like a desiccated skeleton--win! The reused art continues to be a sticking point. If I see that paperdoll cutout of Moonshade one more time...Wendy has literally used it at least four or five times. And there's basically only one image of Korafay which gets its limbs jumbled from time to time. Sure, the Wavedancers live underwater, but that can't explain why Korafay has double-jointed knees. Noticed a few sloppy color errors, par for the course.

@Zadzi wrote:

Dr Dre gets a hummer from compost elves and then it's Woodstock time. Wtf.

Yup. There is definitely a "reach-around" happening at one point. I laughed out loud at the look on Dr. Dre's face. He's like "yeah, you know you want this. Hummmmm." And a lot of those fungus elves creep about at a very convenient height. I think it's inadvertently suggestive, which honestly just makes it feel a bit gross. Like, I don't think Dr. Dre and the others were really having an orgy, so why did they have to take off their clothes?? Do we get any explanation at all? Redlance's roll in all this was underwhelming. Our speculation on this board was way more interesting!

Random question: who made Cutter (and Leetah's) new furs? Chitter? I assumed Moonshade was out of the tanning business.

I love the idea that the fungus elves dislike Leetah because she's a healer. They've embraced the cycle of life, including the process of death and decomposition, to the point that her skills have become repulsive to them. That's pretty cool. Also, I'd bet that they're the what's left of the Rootless Ones, Savah's original group of early generation immortal elves. Humans scattered them and drove Savah's group into the desert, but maybe other survivors went into deep cover in the woods. Certainly, they seem quite magical, just like Savah herself. Of course, the way her name came up in conversation with Cutter was a little contrived, but it was still a cool reveal.

I don't like the new explanation of Dr. Dre's powers. He brings the low high, and the high low, and hums everything into a stupor. WTF does that even mean. It sounds like he's the elves' drug dealer.

I throw my hands up over Moonshade and Strongbow. I seriously care less and less about them the more time they spend mooning and angsting over one another. They're 1000 years old, but they act like teenagers wallowing in the drama of their failed relationship. And now Moonshade's internalized the idea that her self-exploration is somehow "selfish." Good job, Strongbow!

Chot and Door are back. Fine. And Door's intentions are not friendly. It seems a little late to introduce a new villain. If only he'd come along sooner to inject some tension.

Rayek/Ekuar/Two-Edge. This makes only the barest amount of sense. Why exactly did they have to confine Rayek? So he couldn't defeat the murderous human fleet...even though that's exactly what the elves need right now? He's powerful enough to kill every human in the world (according to him), why does anyone think the Djunmen stand any chance of harming him? And I can't believe the reason he's refusing to allow Winnowill to be healed in the palace is because he can't guarantee that she'll love him as much as he loves her. That really is "character murder." RIP nuanced-and-interesting Rayek.

The palace-ex-machina has been removed from the board--Venka says violence would "poison" the power of the palace. Is that what happened to it when the High Ones were massacred in its halls? Did it have to go dormant to recover? In any event, this mostly seems like a convenient way to sideline an overpowered element in the story. It's clumsy, and a little ham-fisted, but it obviously had to be done somehow.

The Wavedancers are the worst part of this for me. Not only do we see a ton of recycled art in their scenes, but the whole plot with Salt and Spray is almost incomprehensible. I had to read it several times to understand it at all. At first, I thought Salt was getting legs so he could walk to the palace...but then why was Spray getting a tail? Eventually, I realized they would both have tails for the ocean portion of the voyage and legs for the overland hike. But that is not clear. And why give Salt legs in the water? He can't "practice" walking. Just leave him with his tail until they reach land and shape him there. Such a weird, confusing, unnecessary scene. And Spray's proportions didn't look elegant to me for some reason. I always thought a Wendy-drawn mermaid would be incredible. Spray...was underwhelming.

Ember is pretty harsh on Daboi. Yikes. Looks like the Wolfriders will reunite.

Interesting that Sunstream and Brill are at the same impasse as Cutter and Leetah. Liked that detail.

Shuna suggests that the Djunsmen are coming to conquer the humans of the Iceholt continent as well as to murder the elves. That's a really good point. Then she says that even a "peaceful" alliance of Iceholt humans and elves would be unlikely to defeat the Djunsmen. Uh, how about a non-peaceful alliance. Or are they just going to lay down in front of the tanks? Stuff like this is where the plot really frustrates me. I get that Wendy's a new age hippy, but if you inject real-world elements like imperialism, genocide, and asymmetrical military technology into your story, treat those themes with the gravity and realism they deserve.

For me, this was not as good as the preceding few issues, both in terms of the art and especially the story.