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OMG I just got notified that I have won an Honorable Mention prize in this year's raffle!

I don't know what to choose.

Of course, like everyone else, I would love to have a CB Holly, but I already have two Hollies, so I would have to release one of them in order to get another. My first Holly is a messy-ish 10th gen... but I love him and would feel bad sending him to the Wilderness. On the other hand... this is my one and only chance to have a CB Holly, and I would love to be able to breed 2nd gens for people. I could breed pretty 2nd gen commons all year long! And maybe next Christmas I could trade a 2nd gen Holly for that elusive CB silver I've been wanting for years...

If I don't release one of my Hollies, though, I have no idea what to choose. I have all the other Holiday dragons and CB frills and Legendaries and so forth. Probably a red stripe, which would be a fun little anomoly to have, since only TJ has CB colored stripes. I'm sure people would love to have an offspring, although it wouldn't have the same value as a 2nd gen from a Holly.

Aargh! I have to make up my mind soon! What would you all do?

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Congrats!!!!!!!! SO excited to know someone that won!! You musta been flailing all over the place!

If it was me, I would totally go Holly. Pretty babies, pretty lineages and awesome trade potential. Holly!! :) If I won 1st - 3rd I'd go Prize dragon, but for HM Hollys would be it for me.

And that being said, if you do go Holly..I am not ashamed to be tacky *grin*, and ask... if you start a wait list, I would love to be on it! Not sure what I can offer but I can try, and my whole scroll would be your scroll!

I was so shocked! I know the first round of selections went out weeks ago; he must have had to choose a 2nd round because of not getting responses from some of the original winners. I have been deliberately avoiding the Raffle thread on the forums, so didn't see any announcement (if there was one) that more selections were going out. I totally had to get up and walk around the house with my hands over my mouth making incoherent squeaky noises.

I am pretty much talking myself into choosing a Holly. How could I not, it's such a rare chance. It's a shame I can only give away one a year, I would totally hand out 2G Hollies to everyone here! I will probably want to try to trade the first offspring for a CB silver (unless I get lucky and catch a couple this year, who knows? I randomly caught my two CB golds within 3 days of each other one extremely lucky week last year), but after that I'll probably just give them to friends, so stay tuned!

I would have been running around, being crazy,and traumatizing the cats in the process. :P I bet you are still pretty darn excited a day later! :)

Good choice on avoiding the thread. There is some whining and a lot of "I never win anything, I knew I wouldn't. Congrats to the winners I guess" stuff in there. I stopped reading after the 2nd day because of it. TJ has been updating his original post with edits. And yeah, that is what happened. He said X amount of people had not responded and he would give them a couple more days. A couple days later he updated again saying he was droping those people and sending out new emails to new people. Which was.. YOU! :)

I'm like you, I get attached to my little pixels. I was still a noob when the Yulebucks dropped in the cave and instead of grabbing 2, I grabbed one then bred it to get my second one. Which was dumb enough BUT I chose a mate with as horrible, messy lineage for its mom. I've had the poor little thing up until last year. A friend offered me a 2G Yulebuck so I had to let mine go finally. I felt terrible when I did. Crazy how it feels that way over pixels.

Enjoy your new shiny when it arrives!!! Congrats, again!

Okay, I did it -- I released my older Holly and requested a CB Holly prize. Whew! Now I can relax. It was awfully hard to press that "Release" button, though! I get so attached to my dragons. I still have his code so I can go visit him in the Wilderness.

OMG, congratulations! Yeah, I would have gone for the Holly, too, even if I still have no CB Golds and that would have been a temptation. But CB Holly - that's a chance you only get once.

Thanks! Yeah, that's what I figured. I can still get CB silvers from the cave or from trading *eventually*, but I'll never have another chance for a CB Holly. If you're going to get an HM prize, you might as well use it for something you'd never be able to get otherwise. Which was why my second thought was for a CB colored stripe, but in the end, I couldn't resist the lure of the Holly!

Oh, I had no idea the CB coloured stripe was an option, too. Wow, that would be tempting. How about CB alts? Were they on offer, too?

Also very tempting, since I didn't manage to get them with my nasty slow connection, a CB Sweetling or a CB Marrow. *sigh* No use thinking about that, though. Maybe there'll be another raffle this year. *g*

Holly! ♥

You can request anything that's available in the Cave or by breeding during the time period of the raffle -- so, you can request a colored stripe, alt black or vine, CB hybrid like bluna or geode, and so on. I know at least one person requested a CB alt Black one year. You can request CB Holiday dragons (Holly, Yulebuck, Snow Angel, etc), but not Valentines or Halloweens, because it's not their season, so you wouldn't have been able to get a Sweetling or Marrow anyway. But maybe there'll be a raffle event for Valentine's Day or Halloween one day!

Ah, okay. Pity that. :) But I have to admit, a CB Bluna or a CB Geode would be really, really tempting. Even rarer than a CB Holly. *g*

holy crap! congrats! If I'd had everything else, I guess I would have gone for a cb holly too. :) and the other holly will always be yours in your heart.

Thanks! Yeah, my scroll is pretty complete already, so I wanted the HM prize to be something really special. I'll miss my first Holly, but at least he's still alive out there in the Wilderness, probably kicking up his heels and having a great time with all the Wild lady dragons.

congrats!!! If you ever start that 2nd gen list, I'd love to be on it ;-)

Thanks! Heh, I've already traded his first Holly offspring - was offered a CB silver for it before he was even quite grown up! So it will be Christmas 2014 at least before I will have one to give away. We'll see what happens then!

Hey Congrats! Somehow I missed this post. I think I would have chosen a CB Holly too.

Thanks! It's exciting to have a CB Holly! I was offered a CB Silver in trade for his first Holly offspring before he even grew up!

I did feel bad about releasing my older Holly, though. I hope you don't mind that the Holly egg I traded you now has a Wild father. If it bothers you, I would be happy to re-negotiate our trade.

I wonder if I can ask you a favor -- I never kept any of my released Holly's children, but after I released him, I wished I'd bred an egg from him first, so I could at least have a child of his on my scroll. I only bred him a couple of times and you're one of the few people who has one of his offspring. If you wouldn't mind, I'd love to have an egg from your Holly -- it doesn't really matter what breed, I just want to have a descendant of his on my scroll.

No problem at all! I think a Shadow Walker would be a good mate, but we would have to wait till Halloween for it. If not, I would suggest a Red Dorsal (but it could breed Purple Dorsal) or a Red (they are always handy for incubating).

It doesn't bother me at all that it is a Wild dragon; I am still working on my CB Golds, but they have only given me pink eggs for the time being. They are due for breeding again later today. Let's see if they cooperate while everybody is busy with the Valentines.

A Red Dorsal mate would be fine. I don't mind if it's a Purple Dorsal egg. Thanks!

I'm glad you don't mind I released the father of your dragon! Whew! I did worry about that.

At least Pink eggs from Gold x Bright Pink are desirable eggs in themeselves! Lots of people would be happy to get one.

I have PMed you the link.

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