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UPDATE: Thinking about opening shop when half of the adult art is done (that's 10 pieces out of 20, give me a break) so we can get this going. Anyone have any opinions on this? It's just an excuse to be lazy get the shop open earlier.

Hey there! Welcome to the Brigadoon B/C interest thread, a shop built around dryad and their many forms and reincarnations. We are a shop that has been planned and constructed to promote both high-quality art and storylines for an environment that is welcoming to both casual breedables collectors and those who like to actively RP their pets.

So please, look around the front page, take a vote at the polls, and post to let me know your opinions!

• Complete sketching soul lantern, sapling, youth, and adult dryad stages.
  
  Lantern - Base + 3 different caps, 5 decorations.
  Sapling - Base + 3 different caps, 3 facial expressions
  Youth - 4 Bases, passive/active males/females. 3 different horn buds.
  Adult - 20 Bases, passive/active males/females. 6 different head flourishes.
  
  
• Complete inking soul lantern, sapling, youth, and adult dryad stages.
  
• Template all stages.
  
• Create the cert.
  
• Hire some beautifully talented artists!
  
• Hire some awesomely energetic managers?
  
• Shop mule design/creation.
  
• Shop graphics for the main thread.
  
• Set up the main thread.
  
• Purchase a guild. lol fallen ilu :'D
  
• Set up guild.
  
• Opening day!

Running a shop all by myself would be hella lame and having to color/create all these dryad on my lonesome is a terrible idea on multiple levels. Therefore, I want to hire some friends talented colorists to keep me company help the shop grow! How many colorists am I hiring? WHO KNOWS. It all kinda depends on how many people apply and how much I like their work. That said, please don't apply if you know you won't have time for the shop, it'll just be disappointments all around if you apply then ~break my heart.~

• MUST be able to line edit. Dryad do not come with hair, or foliage on their wooden apendages/horns (if you want to make your own templates, that's fine.)
  
• Able to open, edit, and understand templated .PSD files.
  
• Match the template style.
  
• Cert your own creations.
  
• Show a good understanding of color.
  
• Show a good understanding of form (ex: No blatant brush abuse.)
  
• Good time-management skills.
  
• Someone who is active in the thread. Don't just drop in to sell, let us love you!
  
• UPDATE! AIM or some other messenger is preferred. Gaia PMs are really slow sometimes, and otherwise, how can I stalk love you?!
  
• UPDATE! I am accepting part-timers, if you're interested. I don't want to have too many artists only doing part-time work, though. (If 60% of staff was part-time, we might have a hard time getting stuff done!)
  
• Good sense of humor! heart

• 80% of flatsales/raffles.
  
• 90% of auctions.
  
• 100% of customs/bribes.
  
• One custom upon hiring.
  
• Earning customs/bonuses as a reward for consistent and high-quality work.
  
• Running your own mini-events (with consent) - you get 100% of the profit from these, as they are completely up to you.
  
• Epic high-fives.

Sound good? Awesome! Mosey on down to the application, use the fiad (NEW TEMPLATE HERE) for your examples - you're required to have at least one example in your application. Also, note that these are sort of outdated - the designs/poses will be the same, but there will probably be a softer shading on the furry body parts.

The old templates can be found here ((FEMALE/MALE)) if you just want to look at them/play with them as well.

exclaim I'm looking for creativity in your applications. That means if you want to do cosplays in your application for fun/to show off your skills, then please also include something of your own imagination's creation.

The store's storyline will be done in monthly installations, much like a comic format.


I don't feel like changing this from the chatlog so READ ALL THIS JUNK YOU JERK ↓↓↓
Not Zilon: So, BC.
Macrocosm says: :3?
Not Zilon: ...I have accidently written the best creation myth ever.
Macrocosm says: ... Really!
Not Zilon: Short version: eternal omnipotent being decides to spend her divinity watching the rest of the cosmos like one big soap opera, jetting around on her ethereal god-island between worlds and dimensions as she got bored between shows. However, this eventually wasn't enough for her and like a fan of basically everything ever, she wanted to CREATE HER OWN s**t
Not Zilon: So she starts shaping her little island, makin' mountains and trees and little people to have stories with
Not Zilon: Then she figures out shiiiiit I don't know how to make souls these are basically autonomatons this isn't going to be very interesting if there's no surprises.
Not Zilon: So she just starts slamming her island into boats at sea, absorbing the souls of the dead seaferrers, and stickin' them into the bodies she made.
Macrocosm says: pfff
Macrocosm says: Nice.
Not Zilon: SUPER TWIST ENDING some people don't get absorbed, the island ends up being some crazy mash-up of world cultures and technologies from all over the goddamn place
Not Zilon: The best part is I went into this writing her as this serious character
Not Zilon: She had been serious since her conception like a year ago
Not Zilon: And now she's some sort of deranged fangirl on a phasing island motorbike
Macrocosm says: It's much better this way.
Not Zilon: It is



Rupert Thornrose: A gentleman, biologist, world historian, and (once) wealthy eccentric, Rupert arrived on Brigadoon after his ship crew mutinied on him and threw him overboard. By some strike of luck (good or bad, depending on how you see it) Rupert washed up on the shores of Brigadoon. While he finds the island absolutely fascinating from a scientific standpoint, he yearns to return to his own time and place, refusing to acknowledge the relative impossibility of the matter. He's somewhat genre-savvy and actually speaks up about Flidais being a jerkward god.

Flidais: According to her worshippers, she is a goddess of natural order and beauty, the matron deity of Brigadoon, whose personality and actions can seem cold and detached due to her "survival of the fittest" philosophy. In reality, Flidais is kind of a jerk with a short attention span who ignores problems because drama makes for better entertainment. Though she acts more like a small child with dolls than an actual deity, she does honestly care for her children (more or less) even if she has to steal the souls to make them. As a shape shifter, she is rarely seen or known of in any true form.

Ossian: Flidais's self-titled champion, Ossian is a warrior-poet who has taken himself to be the protector of the shifting island of Brigadoon. He is usually the first resident newcomers meet, though he isn't the best welcoming crew - he tends to draw his sword or bow before any pleasantries are exchanged. While he is extremely serious about his self-imposed duties, the island's eternal time frame has left him forever 16, mentally and physically - meaning his own immaturity often gets in the way of his well-meaning deeds. His own special moral code causes him to clash with Rupert quite often, but he otherwise tries to take care of the newcomer.

Ailill: A high priestess doe with a masochistic bent to her methods, due to having a conflicting guardian memory who frequently possesses her body. While she initially appears sweet (Ail), she will cheerfully hand out condemnations and punishments to any who cross her (and according to her, the goddess's) path(Ill). As a high priestess, she is an avatar for Flidais, and takes care of young dryad who came directly from the goddess at her temple. She dislikes Rupert's atheism and is very suspicious of him.

Want to trade links? PM me or post in the thread and I'll put you up. 3nodding