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I've created the badge for those who have finished all 31 prompts! As I said before, there is no timeline for completing it, you can do the full prompt list next April and still qualify to use it!

Below is the Flight Rising size:

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Dergtober 2024, Day 31: Rising. Happy Halloweeeeen!!!

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Dergtober 29-31

Day 29: Warrior, featuring Aella and Kuntur sparring, two of the dragons I used in Warrior's Way rp duels that happened for a few years, where one is conveniently a plague dragon. I wanted multiple panels choreographing different part of the fight, but most of my energy went into the first one in the upper left so I'm much happier with how that one's posed. I still like the idea of Aella teaching Kuntur how to use bladed weapons, though (it didn't occur to his harpy parents that dragons can learn swordsmanship), so I might return to those panels too after October.

Day 30: Mimic, featuring a young Darter discovering the creature that will become her namesake. She's part of the nocturne thief band mentioned days 4 and 20 (the members that haven't come up yet are Westra, Mapache, Flint, and Nicandra). They collectively hatched without any parents to be found, so they sort of raised themselves together and chose their own names based on plants, animals, etc. that they liked and wanted to emulate. Baby Darter decided she wanted to mimic an unassuming but dangerous little frog that matched her coloring.

Day 31: Rising, featuring Aural rising in life from a socially outcast hatchling to a beloved and self-confident leader. Flight is very important to him, so I wanted him to become gradually more upright with each stage. He's also followed by a little feather, the sort he would have blow around as a hatchling with somewhat above average magic, and a variation of which eventually became the clan symbol. Fellow dragons are ignoring and moving away from him in the first stage, and then are running with him and looking to him in the final one. The more prominent mirrors in the last stage are probably going to be Akantha and Minstrel? I want them to be clanmates that were around before he had a nest of his own since he was pretty settled in life before then.

And that's a wrap! I have nearly 30 drawings to finish at my leisure, but while I'll probably start chipping away at them soon, I probably won't go through them very quickly because I have so much other art to be doing, and some of my other projects came to a halt during dergtober. They will start appearing on here as I finish them.

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Dergtober day 31: Rising 

Shhhh it's totally October still. 

Anyways I have a few dergtober prompts that got to the sketch stage that I might still refine during November. For now I had fun doing what I had the time and energy for, also tried some new stuff ^^

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Dergtober -- Day 31 -- Rising

im lov my frembs ;-;

featuring @mikadostoy @fr-mayaohmu @melonmarzal and thewarywatcher13 <3

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Dergtober Day 31: Rising

My last Dergtober piece!!! This is Elderith (above) and Eros (below). Elderith is a dragon who was afraid of a lot of things, until he challenged himself to climb the massive tree his clan lives in and around. He managed to conquer his fear with the help of Eros!

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Thank you to everyone who has participated in Dergtober! It's been a great month, and I have adored seeing everyone's art and interpretation of the prompts! In the next coming days, I plan on drawing a badge for everyone who has completed all 31 days!

There is no deadline for Dergtober, so if you are behind on prompts or haven't started at all and still want to do them, go ahead! I'll still be checking the tag regularly (though maybe not always daily) for more Dergtober art to reblog. You also don't have to have finished all 31 days in October to earn the badge, the only requirement is to draw something for every prompt. They can be late, you can combine prompts, or do doodles, whatever you interpret as having done it!

Keep an eye out in the next little while, I may be planning a Dergtober Secret Santa for the upcoming holiday season....

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Day 30 -- Dergtober -- Mimic

my nayme is weep and wen it nite or wen shadybindyr is sleepingg tite i sneek about ruins and hyde i greet hallo i burn hte eyes

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"Lass, I have a question."

As Marmaroth and Lassuarium climbed down some winding stairs to the lower tiers of the lairs, the low ceilings became more chipped and crumbling, Lassuarium frowned she'd have to send someone to repair it.

Candles lit the way, casting a dim light for the two tundras who gently took one stair at a time in single file; this was possibly the oldest route down to the bottom tier they had, the enchanted candles were floating limply from neglect.

"What is it?" "What does, err, Weeper...even...do?" Marmaroth trailed as they reached the bottom floor to the corridor.

It had four rooms in this particular branch, it smelt of algae and some of the walls had films of shininess. Marmaroth had brought a broom and a pan for spot cleaning, but the sheer number of snails would mean a need for more supplies. A floating candle followed after them sluggishly. As they pressed forward, glowing satin mice in groups of three or five skittered into one of the bare rooms. Around the entrance of the last chamber at the end of the hall on the left was a crust of thick starmoss, the door had been dismantled and abandoned further down the hall.

The two shuffled inwards into the pitch black, "Weeeeeeper, are you in?" Lassuarium called. The candle soon caught up and light up the small chamber, clutching her claws on the ceiling Hellweeper made a hissing clicking noise that obviously communicated how unwelcome guests were.

"Weeper. We need to inspect the lair for damage, don't mind us." Lassuarium stated as she started to pick her way around the den. On the floor were multiple bottles of poison scattered about in loose collections, in the center of the room a telescope was trained straight up at the ceiling, regardless of how far they were underground. In the corner, a large glass terrarium sits with with a noxious coral climber inside.

"Also, we haven't seen you in six months, we wanted to see if you were alive." Marmaroth, usually a fearless no nonsense dragon, shuddered and gulped.

Hellweeper snorted a laugh, "We have been collecting samples, categorising samples, experimenting with the culinary properties of the samples and sneaking out at 4am to scare wayward souls amongst the ruins." She iterated that last part very quickly as she tented her claws, she hung upside down and stared down at Lassuarium through the lens of her goggles.

"Yes, well, you've contributed rent, and that's not the issue. Although if you could please cease scaring people at night that would be wonderful. The issue is that this corridor is neglected and we think all your ceiling crawling might be damaging the lower foundations." Lassuarium sat below Hellweeper with a clipboard, spectacles balancing on her nose.

"Hmmmmmmmm that might not be possible, the floor contains contaminants." Hellweeper rattled. "We can install some grip tiling on the ceiling for you, but for now you'll have to come down so we can inspect it." "Can you not work around me?" The pearcatcher asked, almost offended, "I refuse to move, you're both contiminated." "That's it." Marmaroth muscled in front of Lassuarium and began jabbing at the ceiling with her broom, "WALK. ON. THE. FLOOR. LIKE. A. NORMAL. DRAGON."

Before she could continue her assault, Hellweeper hissed, lodged her rather a lumpy pearl in her mouth and scuttled down and on to the floor, where she removed a rotten rug on the floor to reveal a tunnel through which she wriggled. "Well that's one problem solved... We better look into that though..."

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Dergtober Day 30: Mimic

Mynx is a dragon who has the ability to fully mimic inanimate objects! I drew her with some of her draconic features so that it is obvious that it is her, but when she wants to, she can be indistinguishable from an ordinary piece of furniture.

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Dergtober -- Day 29 -- Warrior.

"Marvellous, simply marvellous. You're gleaming, darling!" Maelle shifted upon the velvet drape and fidgetted at the buckle of her wing plates. "Thank you...?" She tried to smile, compliments always managed to slip between the gaps in her armour. Azelice was making all sorts of disconcerting clattering and ruffling noises from behind the enormous canvas she had insisted on using. Her official portrait of graduation from apprentice to weapons-master didn't need to be life size, yet Azelice seemed excited to portray something daring and bold. Maelle didn't feel very daring or bold. The helmet tucked between her paws was heavy, the polearm was threatening to slip out from her claws. The laurel leaves on her horns were itchy. She sighed and drew herself up again, she had to at least pretend to impressive and noble. "I've never painted a warrior before." Azelice poked her head from behind the canvas, tempura smudged on her snout. "Well, I'm afraid I'm not a warrior. I'm a guard." "Ehh -- same difference, I am sure." Azelice hummed. "Well, erm, no. I don't want to push the issue too much but, I would never take up arms for the sakes of starting a fight. I am a defender." Azelice looked about at her, tilting her head. Perhaps she was trying to get a better perspective on her, or inviting to her to continue. Maelle cleared her throat, "My charge is clan Black Glass. I would die for it. But I would not kill for it, unless the circumstances were grave." "I see... I am always curious to hear Guardians talk about their charges, what drove you to select our clan of all places...?" Maelle sat silent for a while, listening to Azelice's brushstrokes as she began mapping out her outline. "My father... he was a member of this clan, I was his first born. He began as the custodian of the tombs, he served well but old age took his mind. He began to become belligerent and unkind. He had always been impatient but he ... changed. Yet, in the face of it all, Orodo and Hark kept the ward open to him. He was given gifts to calm his sleep, tea from Liette and pillows from Cluster. He was looked after in spite of his confusion and irritability." She stared out as she trailed off, "The clan gave him not only a place to live but a place to die. Everyone understood he needed to heal and a bed to rest his last upon. No matter how he spat and ranted." Azelice put down her brushes and padded over to Maelle, putting a paw to her cheek. "I apologise, I didn't mean to pry. If you'd like to come back another day to pose..." "No, no." Maelle sniffed and shook away her tears, "I am still grieving. But I found myself here, because of him, that with all my heart and strength I need to protect others. Not only for the best of times, but the worst. I will give myself to this lair, this clan and its kindness, so they can have the best of times." "Those are the words of a warrior, if I have ever heard them."

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Dergtober 2024, Day 27: Rot. Bloodsucker gets her own post <3

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Dergtober Day 29: Warrior

I did a really quick drawing today of Alps! They are a warrior who despises war and usually only fights to try to end it. They usually are pretty calm, but I figure any situation where they are forced to fight would make them pretty angry that they have to fight, hence the expression.

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Dergtober day 7: Ancient

Ever since Crysant met the most (in)famous alchemist of the citadel, they have had one goal. To become the greatest alchemist of all time and create a better goo than Mother (the Plaguebringer)!!

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Dergtober -- Day 28 -- Game

Dioxippe as the dungeon master of the clan. Absolute dork.

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Dergtober day 8 & 9: Portal & Exalt

That moment when the clans youngest members discover a strange glowing pool. Remember the stories the aberrations tell of self improvement by bathing in the wyrmwound . Takes a dip and finds themselves exalted to fight with the plaguebringer herself.

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Dergtober 16 (Bounty) and 17 (Lost)

Figured that a harvest was the way I wanted to roll with bounties; the kiddos are Pyrite (a farmer) and Charles (a soil researcher)! Not too much more to say.

I don't know what's more lost than a poor ghostie PC with a broken pearl. Psyche's lived in my lair for a while and still hasn't told me what's up with her... but at least she's not as scary as she looks. And yes, I did kinda go overboard with the rendering- the airbrush really lends itself well to the ethereal vibes.

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Dergtober 2024, Days 7, 24, 25 & 26: Ancient, Alchemist, Queen, and Treasure!