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Post by NPC on Jul 3, 2021 17:24:58 GMT -6
Welcome to the Beauty Show Ring!Show Ring EndsPlease remember to include the following: - A copy of your application from the registration thread in your first post - A list of every item, move, ability, trick, and skill your creature used in a each post Keep in mind that everything you intend to use in the show ring will have to be officially trained. Check the tutorial for any extra information you might need! The following are allowed to show in this thread:
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Post by Skylos on Jul 4, 2021 4:52:45 GMT -6
Maybe its a case of show nerves. Maybe he just plain forgets in the heat of the moment. But the mammalian recalls something very important once the contest staff registry (did they ever stop smiling?) take his parchment, guide him through writing down his entry in Common script (which he can do), and put him in line with the rest of everything that's bigger then a puppy. Heck, even the FAERIES are bigger then she is. Importantly forgotten part: he doesn't speak Common. like at all. He taps the table twice before the staff gets up to leave, and scribbles down he would like an interpreter who knows Greek. Greek must not be a common language because the helper in question looks, still smiling, and shrugs. What was he supposed to do, mime? Point and grunt like a common illiterate thug? Nope, no help at all. He listens to the opening announcements; its not a common contest, beauty. Opinionatedly, Kitri looks more cute then beautiful but even flowers start off as sweet seedlings. So he decides to make a complete fool of himself, and go first. Just get it out of the way, once the announcer is done talking. Kitri doesn't need much to drag him onto stage. She's really strong for her age, and he's not entirely sure how old the young pup actually is. They find their way onto stage in a bit of a zigzag form because something catches the worginu's nose's attention. The crowd is making noise, like a conversation buzzing around him. Not many voices, but many sounds. Some 'awww', others blink and point, talking behind their hands. He clears his throat once or twice, taking his cap off, smacking it once against his knee, and readjusting his headwear, pushing his long fur out of his eyes. "Skylos." He points at himself. "Kitri." He points at Kitri. Who is presently taking a roundabout sniffing around the stage. The stage lights glint off her softened puppy fur, smelling faintly of shampoo, catching the coloring of her kerchief. He's better knowing of her strength at the second, and lets her walk him around the stage a few times. Occasionally making animated gestures of 'wow' or 'aww' at her. Finally, she seemed to be getting bored and literally hops off the stage. Its not far, and she lands with a 'plumph'. Before being pulled off himself, the mammalian bows to the onlookers, and hops down himself. -end
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Post by Noa on Jul 4, 2021 10:55:49 GMT -6
The Houluh contest's show ring had wrapped up not too long ago, and to Noa's mild surprise, they had come out the victor in that one. But there had been little enough time to bask in the victory -- not that it felt like terribly much of one, Noa never could get worked up enough about contests -- before the show ring for the beauty contest began. ... Not that he could get very worked up about this either. In fact, if he had to say, Noa rather thought this was the worse of the two; at least the Houluh show had been a strength-themed one, where he could show off Nana's fighting prowess, scant as it might have been. This time, however, he was here with Azalea, who had fighting prowess to spare... in an event where there would be no occasion to show any of that, at all. Rhys was here too, and not just to cheer them on this time. He was an essential part of the operation. Even during this preparatory phase, he was an extra pair of hands, or five. With his telekinesis, he could reach places that Noa had a hard time getting to, which was no small boon when working on a creature of Azalea's bulk.
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Post by Noa on Jul 4, 2021 10:56:55 GMT -6
They were, between the two of them, decorating her with flowers. It was the best either of them could come up with for this 'beauty' theme. Noa wasn't really in the habit of collecting creatures for the sake of their appearance alone... And the few that he did have, he certainly didn't bother working with them. What was the point? His energies were better spent on creatures that could perform more functions, rather than whatever pretty, useless thing would best appeal to the kinds of masses that turned up for this event.
But it wasn't as if all his fighting beasts were wretched to look at, Noa had reasoned; and Azalea was friendly enough, not to mention bedecked with flowers. People thought flowers were beautiful, did they not?
Still, it didn't really change the fact that Azalea's abilities were almost entirely centered around... things other than looking nice for an audience. And so their approach for the show ring was just to turn her into a living floral float... Or maybe a massive garland would have been a better description, given her proportions. At any rate, she was veritably covered with flowers, real and fake, by the time that Noa and Rhys were finished with her.
(all flowers are used to decorate Azalea)
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Post by Noa on Jul 4, 2021 11:00:32 GMT -6
Rhys gave her a once over to make sure everything looked good and was secure, while Noa looked out at the ring. "Let's get this over with," he said. Their turn was coming up. This time around they were quite early in the lineup, which suited Noa fine, since he would rather be somewhere else anyway.
{Good to go,} Rhys announced, just as the lights dimmed. Noa made a small noise of acknowledgement, then gave Azalea a command. On his cue, the flowers on her back -- the ones that were usually attached to her, and not any of the new additions -- began to vent mist. Rhys beat his wings rapidly to help direct that mist into the show ring. The lights went up on a bank of fog, and through this, Azalea slithered very slowly out into the ring, still venting more of it. She wasn't visible just yet, and Noa could see that it was having the desired effect; the audience murmured among themselves, a sense of anticipation filling the air.
Through the ribbon, Noa gave her another command, and a moment later, a sudden burst of lightning struck the center of the ring, dissipating the gathered mist all at once.
(Azalea uses Hidden Mist, Call Lightning)
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Post by Noa on Jul 4, 2021 11:06:50 GMT -6
What was left was simply Azalea herself, revealed in all her bedecked glory, artfully coiled in the center of the ring. Her head was up, the first quarter of her length held off the ground. She stayed like that for a moment to let the audience take her in. And then, on Noa's prompting, she slithered in a slow circle around the outside of the ring, showing off the flowers covering her back. Beneath all of these, her scales shone with a subtle iridescence of their own.
It was a short and simple routine. There wasn't really room for them to do much else, and Noa didn't want to spend too much time wracking his brain for ideas. So once Azalea had taken her single circuit, they were done; she left the show ring, and they began the meticulous work of removing all the flowers they had so painstakingly attached. At least Azalea was patient about it, and after being assured by Noa that she had done well, didn't fuss about anything.
{Whew, that was a lot of flowers,} Rhys said, gathering the lot of them up and putting them away in a bag.
Now that they were done and packed up, they could take their leave.
(end)
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Post by Silver on Jul 7, 2021 17:27:51 GMT -6
Ising - Offspring Faeron Level: 1 | Loyalty: 1 Stamina: 2 Strength: 1 Resistance: 0 Dexterity: 4 Mentality: 3 Special Abilities: Fly, Gleam, Physical Immunity Moves: Telekenesis, Rainbow, Moonlight, Flash It was going to be time for the Beauty Show soon, and Silver needed to get Ising ready. Most of the time they just let their creatures do their own thing, only bathing them when necessary for their own well being. This, however, was a beauty show, so they figured they had to get it right. One thing they knew about Faeron was that they did not usually like being handled. They had their work cut out for them today. "Okay Ising, if you behave, you'll get lots of treats, okay?" they explained. Ising was nibbling on something he had found on the floor. They quickly dumped the supplies as well as a large wash tub on the floor of the dressing room. They filled the tub halfway with warm water and tested it with their paws. It seemed cool enough, so they went to grab Ising and slowly eased him into the water. Of course, he thought this was a fun game and began squirming and flapping about to avoid touching the water. 1[126.05; 1.4]
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Post by Silver on Jul 7, 2021 17:41:09 GMT -6
"No, no, you have to... go in the.. water!" Silver grumbled between attempts to dunk him into the bath. Eventually, they bribed him with a treat they had brought and he finally got into the water and realized that he actually liked it. It was nice and warm, which he found pleasant. He swam around in tight little circles until Silver gently stopped him with their paw.
They had dumped a handful of pleasant smelling shampoo into their other palm, and now that they had him in one hand, they used the other one to smear the shampoo onto his head and into his crest. At first, he chirped in protest, but he eventually calmed down. The sensation of his head being rubbed was totally worth it. He began to softly purr as Silver washed his head and rinsed it thoroughly.
"There, that wasn't so bad was it?" they asked with a smile. Except now, his crest was all fluffed up with bits sticking up every which way. They let him sit in the water while they used a wide-toothed comb to straighten it out the best they could. The thing about Faeron crests was that they were never totally straight, but they did a decent job of getting it looking very tidy with the comb.
2 [126.1; 1.6] [Silver uses Big Comb and Fancy Pet Shampoo.]
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Post by Silver on Jul 7, 2021 19:59:31 GMT -6
"Ok, dry off time," Silver said. They plucked Ising up out of the water and dried him off with a hand towel that was meant for dishes. He probably didn't know the difference, though. Silver beamed at him, already pleased with their grooming progress.
"You'll be the most beautiful dragon in the whole show," Silver said with a smile. Quin might have taken offense to that, had he not been napping on the table nearby. "Now let's do something about those gnarly claws, eh? Here, take this."
They gave him a very chewy treat to munch on while they grabbed his hands and feet and clipped to his claws down. His mouth was stuck closed by the chewy treat and he furiously licked the inside of his mouth, not even noticing that his claws were now shorter. "Perfect," Silver said with a grin.
"Now, put this on your hands, it'll make them smell nice, and its good for your smaller scales," they explained. They used their thumbs to rub a little bit of lotion into Ising's hands, and on a few other places where his scales were more like skin than plates. "Now you smell nice!" they said cheerily with a little laugh.
3 [126.15; 1.8] [Silver uses Lotion and Claw Cutters.]
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Post by Silver on Jul 8, 2021 0:42:28 GMT -6
"Now, for the sparkles," Silver said. "You're already pretty shiny, but I think this should improve the effect a bit."
Silver plucked the large bottle of scale shine out of the basket of grooming supplies and popped open the cork on top. Unfortunately, it only came in 'Wiurn-sized' and there was far too much of it for a single Faeron. At least it would last them a while, they thought. They were happy to buy a ton of it if that's what they needed. They could also use the leftovers on their hordes of Faeron at home.
"Let's see now, just a bit here... and here," Silver hummed a bit as they rubbed the product into Ising's scales. As they worked, they gave him plenty of treats so that he wouldn't be as bothered. They continued to work at it until Ising's already bright scales reflected even more light. "Wow you're so... shiny! Relu better watch out for you," Silver laughed and booped him on the nose.
4 [126.2; 2] [Silver uses Scale Shine.]
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Post by Silver on Jul 8, 2021 19:27:50 GMT -6
Ising was clean, he smelled nice, and now it was time for the decorations. Since Silver didn't usually require their pets to wear a collar or anything, it felt weird to them to pull one out of their bag. The inspected it, looking over the gems embedded into it. They honestly didn't even remember where they got it, but there it was. It was a little big for Ising, but they thought that he could figure it out.
"Alright now, this might be a little weird," they explained, grabbing Ising and reaching around him to clip the collar onto him. After they worked it around his tendrils, wings, and horns, it ended up looking more like a sash than a collar. Ah well, it was sparkly and pretty, and that's all that really mattered.
"Now, for the final piece," they said. "You've been such a good sport, Ising, remind me to buy you some more of those gummies you like." Ising was chewing away at the treats that he had been stuffed with for the entire process.
5 [126.25; 2.2] [Silver uses Jewel Collar.]
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Post by Silver on Jul 8, 2021 19:37:47 GMT -6
"I bought this from Kale," Silver explained, as though Ising knew or cared who Kale was. "It's supposed to be temporary, and I tested it on myself," they said. They held out their tail to show that the tip was still faintly pink from the dye. "Anyway, I think it'll make your crest look really cute, if I can get it right." Had they practiced before the event? Of course not. Well, there goes nothing!
Silver snapped on an old cleaning glove and dipped their fingers into the bottle of blue paint. The first thing they did was smell it. It smelled nice, like a shampoo. Well. There goes nothing. They rubbed the dye into certain parts of Ising's crest, to mimic the pink to blue fade of his tendrils. They were excessively careful and used their spare hand to hold down Ising's hands so he couldn't touch it before it dried.
"There, you look fabulous! What do you think, are you ready for the show?" Silver asked. Whether or not he was 'ready', the two of them skittered out into the hallway and took their place backstage, ready to make the show.
6 [126.3; 2.4] [Silver uses Feather Dye.]
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Post by Silver on Jul 8, 2021 20:41:18 GMT -6
"Are you ready?" Silver asked. It was entirely possible, even likely, that they were asking more for their own sake than for Ising's. They always hated these shows, at least a little bit. They were used to it now, but their heart still raced. They were always worried about presenting in front of a crowd. The getting all dressed up part, they liked that, but the actual show? Well they just hoped they didn't fumble too badly before they finished.
"Quin, it's almost our turn. You'll be a good buddy and stay here for me, won't you?" Silver nodded, encouraging Quin to nod as well. Quin didn't love having to stay back stage during shows, but he knew that he had to, especially after...
It was a blur of motion and sensory input as Silver was whisked onto the stage with Ising. They stared wide-eyed into the crowd for a moment while they gathered the courage to speak.
7 [126.35; 2.6]
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Post by Ashe on Jul 8, 2021 21:55:54 GMT -6
Owner Name: Ashe Pet Name: Saleos Stat Base: Common Equillion V1 Stamina: 8 Strength: 7 Resistance: 5 Dexterity: 3 Mentality: 2 Special Abilities: Run Moves: Buck, Nip, Grace, Foreshadow Trained: N/A Ashe led Saleos into the arena, feeling a little out of place here. Maybe he should have had Jinx do it, she was into beautiful things after all. He was more interested in the powerful and excessive... Ashe had left Inyala what was essentially "backstage," making sure she was safe back there and also not distracting from Saleos himself. Ashe wanted all eyes on him. The man picked up the pace, and Saleos broke into a trot to keep up. His ears were pricked forward, his tail held high like a banner streaming behind him. His Inky black mane fell about his shoulders like silk. He tossed his head, turning as Ashe chanted direction. The man and Equillion pair trotted a full circle around the arena, then came to a halt in the center of it. Ashe dropped the lead rope, trusting his equillion to stand, as if ground tied. He made sure to keep the rope from being a danger of being stepped on, of course. Thats when he brought out his grooming supplies; brushes and combs. Saleos had been bathed before coming to the contest hall, for that extra shine. He doubted people would want to see the whole process of course, so he did the washing and drying at home. But now for all this hair!
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Post by Ashe on Jul 8, 2021 21:59:38 GMT -6
It was already sleek and shiny, and he quickly brought a comb through the strands, putting emphasis for the viewers on just how long and rich that mane and tail were.
Through the process, Saleos stood still. More so out of enjoying the pampering than proper training, if we were being honest, but the result was the same. Ashe brought the comb through and through until every tangle was removed. He held up the mane, letting it fall a few strands at a time, allowing the light to catch and dazzle. He ran a soft brush over the top of the mane, and left it alone to shimmer.
He repeated the process for the tail. Soon, the equillion was Velvet in motion- or, rather, stillness at the moment, but the promise of motion. That's when Ashe finished it all up with the big brush, running it over Saleos' body, bringing the natural shine out there as well, ridding him of any travel dust.
Ashe then picked up the halter again and encouraged Saleos into a graceful trot. The stallion seemed to float, his limbs moving so gracefully, his mane and tail trailing behind him like a wedding veil. Ashe did a circle each way, then bowed to his audience and exited the arena.
(2 brushes and 1 comb are used on the mane, tail, and body of Saleos)
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