Long before the dragons began their reverberating hum, guests were ushered into the sands and candidates were rounded up. As guests were seated and candidates were located, the dragons began their hum that announced the imminent hatching was about to begin.
Despite best effort, chaos ensued as people rushed to the sands to get the best seats, or find friends to continue bets with, and candidates quickly joined those waiting. Once (most) of the candidates were gathered they were led onto the sands. Formality was tossed for those that could not fit into an impression robe or who had shown up too late. As long as the attire was simple and not flashy, Raytah let it slide. When it came to the candidates, there were some that had caused quite a stir of curiosity, mostly from the weyrbrats that had either found some of them terrifying or interesting. The latter usually resulted in barrages of questions before the children were shooed off by the adults (some simply replacing childish questions with adult ones). Philippe had questioned Searchriders bringing in candidates (as they had had help for this event), about locations - he was always looking for new ‘hunting grounds’ after all.
The eggs were rocking, some tumbling down into other eggs causing loud cracks that made a few people wince with worry. The Geneticist were there, helping and righting potential disasters - there was plenty of room on the sands but as some candidates moved to eggs they had been drawn to during the few egg touching events - room became a luxury.
From the stands, dignitaries and representatives from all over the Nexus watched as the first eggs shattered - and, as if this was the cue - dozens of eggs rocked, cracked and the tiny hatchlings broke free in heaps of limbs, wings and tail. Watching each Impression was soon impossible but for those on the sands beside the rocking, shattering eggs, it was a very different experience...
Each Impression will be handled in a separate event out of order of others unless RP links them. There are 141 eggs and probably more dragons than that (though at the moment of the RP I don’t know who are getting twins and who is not so there will be some details that will be revealed at the official hatching). If you have multiple characters, please only post 2-3 at first, then once Impressions are done for them, we can move to the next group otherwise I will no doubt get confused.
If you notice that I have a gender, color, size (if mentioned but I will gloss over this as I have not rendered genetics yet), or name, that you want changed, please inform me within your next post and I will make the changes. I will try to keep things as straight as possible but no promises; I’m human. I make mistakes.
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