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I attempted to recreate a simplistic, watercolored ink feel in SAI with this Tribute.  Not convinced I succeeded, but I did at last finish it.  Yotoco and Fruitcrow have been waiting for their EoG for too long!  Warning: storydump ahead.


DAIUS
Fruitcrow, Yotoco and Sage perform the initial leap of their Daius Tribute while Fruitcrow's dam Noe and a protective Willet watch.

Story:
Willet hovered anxiously as her rider Caraclie strapped the harness onto a wiggly young nox corva.  She did not like the idea of feckless Fruity diving over a cliff with HER person.  Caraclie could not even fly if Fruity dropped her!  "There we go," Caraclie said as she finished with the final buckle.  She stepped back to inspect her handiwork, bumping firmly into the pointed tip of Willet's beak.  "Willet!"

The ashy gray corva ducked her head abashedly.  She didn't mean to get in the way, but she was just so nervous.  What if Fruitcrow got distracted and failed to catch Caraclie in the jump?  Or cut too close to one of the arches and bashed their rider against the stone?  Sensing her stryx's concern, Caraclie chuckled sympathetically.  "Oh Willet, it will be fine.  Fruity knows how to bear a rider now.  It's one short flight, then back to training."  She wrapped her arms around Willet's beak and held the large, soft head to her chest.  She could never ask for more devoted, steady, and affectionate mount than her first dracostryx, Willet.

Caraclie hopped onto Fruitcrow's back as her partner Falakros rode up on a second nox stryx, Yotoco.  Fruity tittered excitedly at Yotoco's arrival, flaring her iridescent bib, and Willet huffed.  "Kiya and Sage are meeting us at the north end of the valley?" Falakros asked.  

"Yes," Caraclie confirmed, "Just before dawn.  Are you ready?"

Falakros grinned.  "Let's do this!"  

They arrived at the cliffside where they would begin the race as the sun came up over the horizon.  A stream ran over the edge, cascading downward into mist.  The brownish-olive colored corva Sage was waiting with her stand-in rider, Kiya, and Fruitcrow's dam Noe was present too; Caraclie had invited her rider to watch the Tributes, knowing that Fruity was apt to perform better with the added gravitas of her mother watching.  Willet was the fifth and final corva present, because she refused to be left behind.  

At the sound of a horn, the three young corvas bearing riders sprinted for the edge of the cliff.  Falakros and Yotoco in the lead took a solid leap as one, and swept into the open air.  Caraclie and Fruitcrow followed closely behind.  Fruity was practically prancing with excitement and Willet had to stop herself from lunging forward as the young black corva plunged over the edge with her rider.  A split-second later she heard Caraclie's triumphant coyote how and she dared to peek over the edge.

Willet roused her feathers with relief when she saw her rider safely on Fruitcrow's back.  The rambunctious nox was looking back over her shoulder, squawking loudly as if to say "Look at me ma!" But before Willet could get riled by her ridiculous behavior, Fruity faced front at a guiding pat from Caraclie and resumed the race.  Sage and Kiya were catching up, after all, and Yotoco still in the lead.  As Willet watched, the Tributees disappeared from sight into the mist.  It was out of her wings.  
 
NOKT
The two cotinga-corvas of Coastal Corvas Rookery display their agility by navigating a ficus forest in the dark while Sage follows, eager to prove she can keep up.

GALYX
Sage and her rider Kiya are attacked by a keythong.  Fruitcrow, Caraclie, Yotoco and Falakros swoop in to defend her, and together the three bring the vicious beast down.

Fruitcrow 3804 by EyeOfGalyx
1x3-Fullbody
2x3-Colored
1x3-Shaded
2x3-Background
1-Biorhythm bonus
2x3-Rider
2x3-Tribute
1-Added Member Stryx (Daius)
1-Personal art
2.5-Literature (Daius)
AP: 35.5
Yotoco 4587 by EyeOfGalyx
1x3-Fullbody
2x3-Colored
1x3-Shaded
2x3-Background
1-Biorhythm bonus
2x3-Rider
2x3-Tribute
1-Added Member Stryx (Daius)
1-Personal art
AP: 33
Sage 4586 by EyeOfGalyx
1x3-Fullbody
2x3-Colored
1x3-Shaded
2x3-Background
1-Biorhythm bonus
2x3-Rider
2x3-Tribute
1-Added Member Stryx (Daius)
1-Personal art
AP: 33
Willet 1592 by EyeOfGalyx
1/2-Fullbody (small)
1-Colored (small)
1/2-Shaded (small)
1-Background (small)
1-Added Member Stryx (Daius)
1-Personal art
2.5-Literature (Daius)
AP: 7.5
Noe 2113 by EyeOfGalyx
1/2-Fullbody (small)
1-Colored (small)
1/2-Shaded (small)
1 1/2-Background with biorhythm bonus (small)
1-Added Member Stryx (Daius)
AP: 4.5 for Xx-HeartAttack 
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comixqueen's avatar
These are awesome!! I thoroughly enjoyed reading the storydump, too! :D


Kiya cameo!!