Aeshion once again returned to the city of Hydlaa for a short visit. Her flower shop on her home level was doing just fine, but she had hoped that perhaps the flowers of the First level had finally begun to bloom. She had been told of their great beauty by many a person before her first travels to the city , and that was indeed why she had come.
On her first trip, she looked around the city itself, and even as far as the hills near the city everyone called ‘Oja’, but no flowers she could find. Mushrooms she did find aplenty, but no one in their right mind would want to buy a bouquet of fresh mushrooms. Just the thought had made Aeshion cringe.
Now on this second trip, she still had yet to locate even a single bloom. She asked around as best she could, though that did not come easy to one with no voice. None of the people she met and asked had ever seen a flower in the lands, and many of them had gone much further than her. In fact, no one even seemed to notice the lack of flowers until she brought the subject to light.
Aeshion began to wonder what curse had befallen this land, so that the look, the smell, and the soft touch of the gentle bloom had vanished even from the people’s minds. Sadly, she began to wonder if it was once again time to go back to her home. Even more so since Einnol, the one she had really come to see, seemed to have vanished. Flowers gone, Einnol gone, and a foreboding feeling kept creeping through her skin.
Perhaps there would be a miracle, and Einnol would return to tell her nothing had changed with the…thing she feared, and the flowers would burst into full bloom. Perhaps…
[[Yes, I know this is not the storywriting forum, so on to the art! Your challenge is to put a smile on Aeshion's face by transforming this:
into something more like this:
Or something of your own choice or vision.
To make it a little easier, this is the original texture (in PNG form, the newest client has it in DDS, grass_short01a.dds):
As grass makes for poor flowers, please make your textures as much from scratch as you can. if you want to go to the extreme, you can make an entirely new sprite model. Bonus Moonpoints to someone who creates a hold-able flower out of one of the equip-able items, or makes flowers bloom at the Magic shop.
Timeline... well, you have until Aeshion decides to leave again. So, she could leave anytime, unless something comes along in roleplaying to make her want to stay longer. Good arting and RPing!]]
