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Gold Roszadyth x Bronze Lythronath
Flight Date:	5 September, 2015 / Day 25, Month 9, Turn 38
Clutching Date:	2 October, 2015 / Day 22, Month 12, Turn 38
Hatching Date:	DD Month, YYYY / IC Date
Egg Theme:	Scary Places
Clutch Count:	13

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-|composition=}} A mere ten days after Niahvth rose to take the weyrleadership, Roszadyth followed her lead and rose for her maiden flight. Despite a whole array of foreign bronzeriders, it was local bronze Lythronath who caught the queen, resulting in a second clutch for the northern Weyr.
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+|home=A mere ten days after Niahvth rose to take the weyrleadership, Roszadyth followed her lead and rose for her maiden flight. Despite a whole array of foreign bronzeriders, it was local bronze Lythronath who caught the queen, resulting in a second clutch for the northern Weyr.
+|credits='''Egg Writers:''' Aiden, Alida, A'rist, Edyis, Everett, Farideh, Faryn, Jocelyn, K'del, Leova, Lycinea, Ulyana
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 '''Search Committee:''' Alida, Drex, Edyis, Farideh, H'kon, H'vier, Irianke, K'del, Leova, Z'kiel
+|egg-list====Down Once More Egg===
+Black, blacker, blackest: this squat egg is ''dark'', a near-oblong mass of inky swirls that appears to have little else on display at a first glance. Its shell isn't wholly smooth, sprinkled with a fine dusting of grayish-browns and slimy greens in random, chaotic patterns along its length. If the light should hit it in just the right manner, thin tendrils of a taupe more reminiscent of the latrines than a good neutral for decor appear to curl upward, downward, sideways in clumpy patterns.
+'''Inspiration:''' Staring down into a hair-toothpaste-soap-gunk clogged drain is never a pleasant sight (or smell). Shudder-inducing enough in my book to fall under creepy ''and'' gross.
+'''Credit:''' Jocelyn
+===Oppressive Vessel Egg===
+Greys and blacks' uneasy shadows insinuate themselves upon this egg like so many unsettling realities into a sleeper's subconscious. Those claustrophobic spaces grow increasingly confined from base to tip, channeled along maze-like corridors before meeting beads of seeming-moisture that appear to ooze from above... and drip. At first there might seem no escape from the nightmarish hues, but broken into one asymmetrical side is a lighter blotch of stuttering sodium yellow. Relief. Safety. At last. ''Except'' for how its surrounding jagged edges glint, when light hits the shell's curve just right, as might gaping metal teeth that promise a monstrous death.
+'''Inspiration:''' Based off of the innards of the commercial towing ship 'Nostromo' from the 'Alien' movie. The winding, claustrophobic, metallic confines of much of the vessel set the perfect stage for the hidden terror of the xenomorph to evolve.
+'''Credit:''' Alida
+===Doomed in Darkness Egg===
+It must be a trick of the light, that white-hot glow that swirls madly amid incandescent reds and blistering oranges. When looked at for too long, the colors might even seem to spin beneath the vast spatters of charred black that coat the entire surface of this large egg: not smoothly but erratically, thick here and thin there as with some wild, primal tempo.
+'''Inspiration:''' Lava Pit from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ([http://www.theraider.net/films/todoom/gallery/makingof/mo_77.jpg image])
+'''Credit''': Edyis
+===Pasty Screaming Egg===
+Much of one 'side' of this egg is a pasty white, broken only in the center by what looks like a distorted dark red mouth - as though pressing against the egg from the inside, trapped - and 'above' it, two black blotches spaced like eyes, the more sinister for how blank and staring they may seem. Beyond, the majority of the egg is a large splash of bright red, the tendrils of its edges a stark contrast to the white, impassioned face.
+'''Inspiration:''' Some people find clowns scary, so I thought a scary place would be a clown car where they're all squished together. This egg was inspired by the the thought of a clown with his face pressed against the window. The actual clown description is inspired by Pennywise in IT as portrayed by Tim Curry in the TV miniseries.
+'''Credit:''' Aiden
+===Death By Pink Egg===
+A faint flush of pink bedecks this egg's shell, creating a filmy, frilly backdrop that might be quite lovely, actually, if it weren't for the more garish shades that overwhelm the rest. It's as if someone took the pink and magnified it: not only frivolous polka dots in fuschia, but magenta fronds that curl their way up towards that pointed end, like an insidiously creeping nightmare. Towards the lower curve, so often tucked into the sand as if to hide it from the world, those pinks grow brighter still - blinding and brilliant, potentially terrifying in their vibrance.
+'''Inspiration:''' The bedrooms of little girls. You know the kind.
+'''Credit:''' K'del
+===The End (is Near...) the Beginning Egg===
+Thinly embossed, geometric lines cover this egg so densely as to make it appear black from a distance. Up close, they're simply neatly oriented and tiny paths, a maze on chalky white, and given time could probably be navigated all the way around the shell to the inevitable conclusion. Or could they? It's easy to lose track of where the path started: to have to turn around, to try again. The exit has to be ''somewhere''.
+'''Inspiration''': Nothing's scarier than a place so twisty turny confusing you can get lost in it; fictional labyrinths are one thing, but real life places like the Odessa Catacombs and stories like this are another. ([http://weekinweird.com/2014/12/29/gruesome-discovery-beneath-odessa-catacombs-illustrates-dangers-urban-exploration/ image])
+Credit: Faryn
+===What Burns Beneath Egg===
+Green squares separated by white lines cover this egg nigh in its entirety, as if a map had been smoothed to the rounded surface. It even has clusters of cothold-blocky shapes, along with the larger green blotches of trees. Yet, something seems slightly amiss - or ''a mist'', if one were to look closer at the base. Great cracks and fissures appear to have formed on the shell, but it's as much an illusion as the shifting gray and white smoke that billows as though to cover the rest of the too-settled terrain.
+'''Inspiration:''' Oh, Centralia, Pennsylvania. A fire started in the underground coal mines back in 1962 - and it's believed that it will continue to burn for another 250 years. The city is largely abandoned, though there are a few residents that remain. The place might not look too dangerous on the surface, but there are signs of the fire in the form of warning signs, vents, and fissures that spew smoke and steam.
+'''Credit:''' Ulyana
+===Do Not Approach the Dog Park Egg===
+A band of electrified paleness wraps an eccentric orbit about this otherwise featureless obsidian egg. Only occasionally, from the corner of one's eye, might one glimpse an elusive sight: the semblance of hooded figures, their shadows parading darkly along just the right - or the wrong - segment of the band, arising where the shell's closer to matte than shine.
+'''Inspiration:''' "Citizens are not even supposed to be consciously aware of the dog park, so they could not possibly be receiving a menacing and unearthly voice instructing listeners to bring precious metals and toddlers to the dog park! Dog park! That could never, ever be real." - Night Vale Mayor Pamela Winchell
+'''Credit:''' Everett
+===The Pit(s) Egg===
+Stickily black, the egg glistens and draws and sucks and pulls: what could well be an inescapable and seductive darkness, with unfathomable, irresistible depths promised beneath its surface. It persists over the whole of the shell, greedily gobbling up the light that hits it but in those few places - the pessimistically bubbling tip, the subtle ridges and sinister curves along its sides - whence glints a sickly ocherous brown, as though mockingly playing over the remnants of other struggles against its limits.
+'''Inspiration:''' It's a tar pit. Pretty scary, if you're a wandering dinosaur. Or, you know, anything that steps into it.
+'''Credit:''' A'rist
+===False Sense of Security Egg===
+It's perfect! ''Too perfect''. This oblong egg sports a length of cream in delicately creased perfection across one half of the shell, its edges seeming to dangle as though to hide the shadows that envelop the rest. Dotted across the cream at measured intervals are whiter circles with a smattering of organized color. Along the center of the cream is a streak of pale pink mixed with peach and plum accents with little dollops of bright yellow that might pass for lights. It's inviting. It's lovely. It's a trap.
+'''Inspiration:''' One of the scariest of scary places: the dinner table where you meet your significant other's parents for the first time. Mommy Ros and Daddy Lynner, anyone?
+'''Credit:''' Lycinea
+===The Unsea Egg===
+This rock is smooth, matte, and solid onyx - wait, no, that's not a stone! It's just another egg, that happens to be completely devoid of any other color but pitch black. Medium in size and perfectly symmetrical otherwise, its inky surface lends an ominous effect... and the question of just what monster might lurk beneath.
+'''Inspiration:''' The Shadow Fold (aka The Unsea) is a swath of darkness, which  cuts the fictional country of Ravka in half, in Leigh Bardugo's Grisha trilogy. It's complete and utter darkness within 'the fold', and inside  lurks unspeakable monsters, once men, that seek to destroy anyone who steps within the dark.
+'''Credit:''' Farideh
+===Out of Order Egg===
+The sallow shell has a roughness to it, patterned with overlapping angles like a riffled deck of cards... but run amuck. What might once have been cottony cream has yellowed towards old ivory, particularly those angled edges attacked as though by acid. Worse, though: the base's smooth and logical pattern disrupted as it rises, a wildly demonic tumult that rips and creases and ''disorders'' until the tip's merely a piled mass.
+'''Inspiration:''' This raw deal isn't just playing cards, but a ''card catalogue'' flown out of order in the days before computers. ('Ghostbusters' was on TV the other night, and it wasn't the slime that was scary!)
+'''Credit:''' Leova
+===Under the Bed Egg===
+Too obscured by dusty grey to be fully in the realm of perception, what shapes and patterns there are on this shell are left to slip all too easily into the realm of imagination. Are those striations mere stretches from its formation, or the traces of claws dragged form the known to the unknown? Were those animalistic splotches ever only innocent speckles? At times its silhouette might seem too round, too squat to be an egg, but rather the crouching form of some lurking creature, biding its time, waiting for the dark.
+'''Inspiration:''' We're all grown adults who know exactly what's not under the bed, right?
+'''Credit:''' A'rist
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