Dray's Heavenly Body Burbierum Draw - Closed

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Dray's Heavenly Body Burbierum Draw - Closed

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This is going to take a while to get finished all up (I don't have a lot of time to colour these days) but what you're entering a draw for is a unique adoptable cyberpet known as a 'Burbierum'. I'm going to give away two, in fact -- one in the 'badass' stage and one in the 'cute sorta chibi' stage. They'll be customs, which is why I'm holding off showing you exactly what you'll be getting: you get to decide what the little buggers look like. :D

For some (not quite up to date) info on Burbierum check this old website. There's info on how the things grow, and breed, and how items affect them. For the purposes of the Nexus, your Burbierum can breed with the rest of the Nexus population; you'll get a certed Burb' and an uncerted version, since the Nexus doesn't roll by the same standards of most of the adoptable sites out there.

Here are some examples of other Burbierum -- they are not all bipedal humanoid creatures, yours can be a dragon! The glee is that they can look like anything. They're a little like Whorlings that way.

Hellcat -- Burbierum Stage | Nekomata - Burbiem Stage | Pony Princess -- Burbierum Stage | Sea Pony -- Burbiem Stage

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[b]Your Name:[/b]
[b]Your Email:[/b]
[b]Pick a # 1-100:[/b] (I'll be using random.org to pick the number!)
[b]Describe Your Heavenly Creature:[/b] (What's it look like? Based on planets? Constellations? Angelic features? Starry pattern? Is it a dragon? Is it bipedal? etc.)
[b]Pick an Emblem:[/b] (The emblem that you pick will add a randomized feature to the Burbierum; it gives me slight artistic license! Pick from the list below!)
[b]Pick a Plant:[/b] (Plants work the same for chibi/cute stage as Emblems work for the badass/pretty stage. Pick from the list below what you most want for your critter.)

Plants
Black Flower - Adds black (maybe features related to black -- same for the rest of the colour-based items)
Blue Flower -- Adds blue
Brown Flower -- Adds brown
Green Flower -- Adds green
Grey Flower -- Adds grey
Orange Flower -- Adds orange
Purple Flower -- Adds purple
Red Flower -- Adds red
White Flower -- Adds white
Yellow Flower -- Adds yellow

Fire Brush -- Adds fiery features
Horse Radish -- Adds equine features, 'spicy' features
Lotus Flower -- Adds heavenly features, chakra-like features, Buddhist and Hindu myth/religion features
Maple Seed -- Adds autumn-based features, wing-like features
Nightshade -- Adds 'evil' features, poison features, dark features
Potato -- Adds Selampota---er, I mean, earthy features, may mute more extravagant features
Tumbleweed -- Adds wind-based features, light-weight features, scraggly features
Watercress -- Adds watery features, swamp, creek, stream, pebbles, etc. features.
Wolf's Bane -- Adds lupine features, were-like features, bipedal, monstrous features.
Find-An-Appropriate-Plant-And-Tell-Me-What-It-Does Plant -- I don't have a lot of plants made up yet! If you can think of a certain kind of plant (aka, Bamboo Grass for eastern/panda features, or Chestnut for Christmas/festive features, for example) then list it, and tell me what it does. Essentially a 'custom plant', save that it may be used again in the future.

Emblems
Black, Blue, Brown, Green, Grey, Orange, Purple, Red, White and Yellow Emblems -- Adds the colour of the emblem and maybe some feature that is associated with that colour (Orange with fire, blue with cold, etc.)

Nova Emblem - Adds space-like features as we know them from science; stars, constellations, planets, and other space ephemera.
Celestial Emblem - Adds heavenly features as we know them from myth and various relgions; astrological constellations, mythical representations of the planets (mars, venus, etc.), angelic features, etc.
Make-Up-An-Emblem-And-Tell-Me-What-It-Does Emblem: I don't have a lot of emblems made up yet! Make up a name, 'Feather Emblem', 'Darkness Emblem', etc. and tell me what kind of features it would add to the creature when used. Essentially this is like a custom emblem, save that it may be used again in the future.

The Draw will commence in 1 week, or around September 22nd
-I'll pick two numbers between 1-100; whatever two people are closest to that number will get their custom critter! :D

(I hope this goes over okay. XD You could make a Pernese clone if you wanted, for example... I know that the details of the form require a little more thinking than average, but I figure that it's worth it for a custom, unique dragon/critter/adoptable!)
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Your Name: Phoenix
Your Email: thexenoqueen@gmail.com
Pick a # 1-100: 27
Describe Your Heavenly Creature: I'm not much for specifics -- my heavenly creature would be something strange and alien, maybe almost Lovecraftian, out of the depths of space... somewhere along similar lines as my Gravity Wyrms, probably. X3 Something inspired by unusual stellar phenomena and a lot of imagination. (Vague answer is vague!)
Pick an Emblem: Celestial Emblem
Pick a Plant: Lotus Flower
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Oooh, awesome!! :)

Your Name: erinnyes
Your Email: temple_of_erinyes@yahoo.com
Pick a # 1-100: 73
Describe Your Heavenly Creature: Something like a Chinese dragon? Furred or feathered, either, with or without wings. I guess it would have four legs and a long, sinuous appearance... Probably don't have to say much beyond Chinese dragon. ;)
Pick an Emblem: Celestial Emblem
Pick a Plant: Tumbleweed
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Awesome, those are both good examples of descriptions. XD A person could potentially put "surprise me" and I could use the theme of the giveaway and the plant and emblem that are chosen to make something... but chances are that it's going to be pretty random. Vague descriptions are fine!
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Your Name: Astra
Your Email: margaret.k.mcnulty@gmail.com
Pick a # 1-100: 42 but of course :)
Describe Your Heavenly Creature: Well, I really like nebulae. And spiral galaxies. Other than that, surprise me :)
Pick an Emblem: hmm, purple nova?
Pick a Plant: lotus flower

I hope I win! But if I don't, can't wait to see what the winners' dragons look like!
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For the emblems it's a 'one or the other' sort of deal, so you'd be able to choose 'purple' or 'nova', though not both. X3

With Burbierum, what you'd be able to do (once I get them set up... some day. XDD) is hoard items that you could use over time. So... if you had a purple emblem and a nova emblem, you could sort of 'level up' your critter and change it over time!
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I really like Nekomata...a lot. Hellcat, too, but I like that one better. XD
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Hey, if you want something like it, feel free to enter. XD There's no pressure to page 'em, they're mostly just shiny collectibles... though according to Gaia, a lot of people RP their adoptables for some reason. o_O
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From what I've seen, the RP is usually a REQUIREMENT for adopting the thing. Proof of use, and such. :P
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Yeah, I've been researching and noticed that that was quite often the case. I had thought that the RP was done in order to gain the forum's money (so that you're both proving the fact that you have the critter and to make money to buy more critters) but I've never been a fan of it being a requirement!

I guess that the artists/creators, having put so much time into their critters, want to know that they're appreciated, but in a forum where money's exchanged for adoptables, you'd think that would be enough. XD Always trying to grub a little more cash out of people, yeesh.
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XD, I'll pass. I probably wouldn't do anything with it. I'm not a fan of collecting things unless I can use them for something like a plot or story. And I'm so behind on everything I don't need to add to my list. I've been drifting to Pern more latley anyway...XD

I just had to say I liked it. :D
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Fair enough -- they're probably about as far from Pernese as one's going to get in the Nexus, too. Thanks for the compliment though! :D
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Your Name: Aressaun
Your Email: kethayr@gmail.com
Pick a # 1-100: 57
Describe Your Heavenly Creature: Bipedal dragon, based on galaxies - think angelic "Milky-Way" dragon with flowing, watery tail/features in a bright white, almost glowing color :)
Pick an Emblem: Celestial emblem
Pick a Plant: Watercress -- Adds watery features, swamp, creek, stream, pebbles, etc. features.
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About two more days to enter this! If you're interested, feel free to sign up -- I'm most likely to do the draw around noon on the 22nd, or late on the 21st, so keep your eyes peeled! :D
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Your Name: Aireona
Your Email: aireona93@yahoo.com
Pick a # 1-100: 93
Describe Your Heavenly Creature: Based on the Orion nebula for colors/patterns, or whatever. I imagine it having a body plan similar to Anomalocaris ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalocaris )- if that design doesn't work, a draconic body plan would be nice as well. Maybe it has a few glowies?
Pick an Emblem: Nova Emblem
Pick a Plant: Lotus Flower
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Your Name: JKatkina
Your Email: heck, you know it!
Pick a # 1-100: 47
Describe Your Heavenly Creature: Kind of surreal dragony in shape, quadruped, with or without wings. Glows, either bright white-something glow or kind of a nebula-y color and glow, with some sort of intricate non-glowy pattern. More angelic than space-based, but with the kind of feel about it that that music from Moon gave. Eerie, I guess.
Pick an Emblem: Spiral Emblem: Adds features consistent with new-age spiritual practices, or from the various ancient cultures/religions that New Age belief systems customarily borrow from. (Expand or reword this if you want, it's a bit lame. XD)
Pick a Plant: Poppy: Adds surreal, trippy or eerie features; bright colors; dreamlike quality.
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The draw for the chibi-stage 'Burbiem' will be tonight, in the next couple of hours. :D Just a heads-up!
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And the runner up, chibi-stage Burbiem goes to............


ERINNYES!

:D I will have your critter drawn and coloured up... eventually. XD I can't give a specific date right now, but I'll work on it when I get the chance! :D
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EEEEE!! :D Thank you! I can't wait to see it! :)
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The draw for the bigbad Burbierum stage will occur within the next few hours! Keep your eyes peeled!
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(For the record, using random.org the first time, I got '75'. X3)

And, using random.org again, I get a '70', so the winner for the Burbierum is.....

Aressaun!

Thanks for participating! I'll try to have these out soon. ^^;
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WHOOOOOOAAAAA. I won? I won?! YAY! So excited :)

This just made my extremely stressful day 100x better. Thanks!
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