Breeding.
The Breeding process in Green Grass Gradation holds nothing sexual about it. When elves have reached maturity and feel ready to establish a family of their own they come before the Mother Elf to be granted children.
The mother elf will take portions of the mother and father's code to create offspring, the codes themselves and strikes of luck will determinate how many children they might have.
[ The Process ]
An elf that wishes to form a family with another elf will have to 'propose' with an item called the "Crystal Rose of Proposal". This item will be given to the elf it wishes to form a family with.
If the proposed elf accepts to form a family, the item "Crystal Rose of Acceptance" will have to be purchased and given to the proposing elf. These items will be displayed in the elves' certificates and thus marked as 'mated'.
As a mated couple, the elves now must approach the mother elf and request for children. The "Vial of Life" item must be presented to the Mother Elf, where a sample of their codes will be stored.
After that, through luck and the parents code, new data cores will be formed and given to their parents to guard and protect until their hatching time comes. Remember the Dark Elf could easily be stalking the oportunity of new elves' births to corrupt their cores.
Some important things to keep in mind about mating:
- Both elves have to be adult to be ellegible for the process.
- Their apparent gender does not matter, so yes, same gender elves can have their own babies.
- Elves 'mate' for life.
- Each couple can breed twice if they belong to the same guardian.
- Couples that have different owners can breed a max of three times.
- You can breed two of your own elves once by the regular method. If you breed any more elves owned by you or the same couple once more, you'll be charged an aditional fee when purchasing a new "Vial of Life".
- After the first breeding of an elf or a couple, the following breeding attempts, either for different or the same elves will have to provide evidence of some sort of activity, wether's having a journal for any elf owned, roleplaying (acting the proposition and acceptance of the roses counts enough as RPing) or merely being in the thread every now and then.
[ Single Parenthood ]
Sometimes, elves wish for their own offspring without feeling the need of/ or having established a mate already. These elves could be in luck. An elusive and very rare species of Pe-tto, the Zorre-tto, is capable of granting the single elf's coding to produce offspring. This, still requires the item "Vial of Life" to be presented to the Mother Elf, though.
- Single parents can only breed once through Zorre-tto's help. But may have one more breeding if they find a mate.
- "Vial of Life" is still going to be charged with an added fee if the owner of the single parent has mated and breeded two elves of its own.
- The elf must be adult before it can breed.
[ Corrupted Breeding ]
Corrupted elves can breed. And follow the same process for mating and breeding than the regular and have the same restrictions. They still have to perform the proposition and acceptance ritual, and present the "Vial of Life" to the Mother Elf.
- Corrupted Elves can breed with non-corrupted elves as well as other corrupted elves.
[ Cosplay Breeding ]
Cosplay elves can breed, too. They follow the same process for mating and breeding than the regular and have the same restrictions. They still have to perform the proposition and acceptance ritual, and present the "Vial of Life" to the Mother Elf.
- Cosplay Elves can breed with regular elves as well as other Cosplay elves.
[ The Batches ]
Any elf couple can have between 1 to 4 data cores produced. But single parents cannot produce more then 3.
- One single core can turn, without warning, into twins!
- Twins will be considered as 'one' and can be kept, given away together or separated, or auctioned through the store.
- You can keep up to two of your elves for yourself. If your litter has more than 2, keeping each additional elf will cost you 500g if you intend to keep them for yourself.
- You can give away any of the babies to anyone you want for free. You won't be charged anything extra if you gift two of your, say 4 elves, to friends.
- You cannot sell the additional cores yourself. Please talk to us and we'll handle events to place your cores into loving homes. Colorist will keep 30% of the profits and the other 70% will go to the owners.
[ Cross Breeding ]
- You can crossbreed Hacker System Elves to Nurse System Elves.
- You can crossbreed Animal System Elves to Nurse System Elves.
- Hacker System and Animal System cannot crossbreed.
- Normal and Corrupted elves can crossbreed.
[ The Outcome ]
The offspring that results from the cores is bound by the species of the parents. However, in crossbreeding, parents of different species aren't a warranty that the offspring will be mixed.
This means that Cavarial and Nurse parents won't have nurse and cavarial babies. All babies could end up being Cavarials or all could end up being nurses.
Cores that are the offspring of a single elf will be the same species of the fathering elf.
- Elves born from crossbreeding of Animal and Nurse Systems could spawn an anthro subspecies for the Animal System.
- Elves born from certain species could spawn, without warning, an unique baby. (for example, if the father's a Male only Surnite Species, and the mother a female only Mappie species, there's a very slight chance of one of the children to be a female Surnite or a Male Mappie.)
- Babies born from corrupted parents are NOT necesarily going to be born as corrupted elves themselves.
- Couples owned by different guardians that produce just one core will receive a second core.
[ The logistics ]
Now, how do you get to breed your elves? At any random time regalwily deems it appropiate, 2 breeding slots will open for regular elf breeding. The breeding process might vary from time to time.
They can be in a first come, first serve basis. 'Raffle style' or gifted in events.
One slot for Cosplay Breeding will open randomly at regal's convenience.
- All the logistic process is handled exclusively by regalwily. This means, the amount of cores, their genders, and what 'species' they'll belong to. As well as wether or not any particularities will occur to them. This includes, unique children, like a female surnite for example, or twins.
- Depending on the amount of cores each couple ends up with, regalwily will assignate the colorists to one particular baby once its gender and species have been determined. When possible, all colorists will participate on the breedings coloring regardless of wether or not they colored either of the parents. Regalwily is always going to color at least one core.
- For cosplay breedings all the process, including all designing and coloring, is carried by regalwily.
- When the breeding slots have been granted, regalwily will roll a 4 sided dice to determinate the amount of cores to be granted to the couple.
- When the amount of cores has been determined, regalwily will roll as many 4 sided dices as cores were granted. Depending if the number -divisible between two or between 1 and itself- I'll determinate the genders. This will only be revealed tot he staff to keep it a surprise for all parents!
- Wether or not babies are born normal or corrupted will be determined by regalwily at the time of hatching to surprise the parents.
- All items to be purchased will be found with their respective instructions in our item-shop, or the Pe-tto section.
