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March 1st 2011 New sales are up, last months are still for sale for double price.
From now on, you can buy unlimited eggs in one post (but please be reasonable with your amounts - orders of 10 or more can be a little insane xD)
We're also going to trial-run daily drop offs to spread the growth posts over the week rather than all in one day. This will not effect the growth time of your batties, but will stop people from having to wait almost 2 weeks to go from order to baby batty if they order on a Tuesday.
There are Black and White eggs for sale this month! or there will be... as soon as I figure out how many to put up wink

February 2nd 2011 Ive just removed the one egg per owner with breeding rule.
I think it sucks xD
so now you can keep all the eggs that result from breedings or do whatever you like with them (but PLEASE don't use them for cooking crying )
January 30th 2011 Few small notices:

Custom ordering ends in 24 hours

The first of Feb is the beginning of another batch of eggs for sale, take this as your last chance to get January's batch.

Valentines event is coming, most likely by the end of Monday - it's a joint event with Dreams Aflight.

Free Raffle also ends on Tuesday, so tell your friends to enter wink

Once I've done drop offs on Monday, breedings will be open for ALL of February smile
January 2nd 2011 Just added an eyecolor changing potion to the potions post, it's great if you don't mind a bit of genetic modification wink
You can use it at ANY stage, or, if you just want to buy it and store it with a batty for future use, we'll just place it on your cert til you're ready. You can pick any color eyes for any V2.0 batty.
Also, free raffle for a demonic and angelic batty (2 winners) on page 2 - check it out and refer your friends smile

29 December 2010 We're back. V 2.0 baby! Things have changed, DJ is more active again and planning on having fun.
New Thread, new ideas, better attitude!
We won't be fully open until New Year, but feel free to come in and look around, and prepare yourself for the sales smile
If you have old batties, they are still yours and still able to be used with this new thread!
~DJ

Don't Steal The Lineart - Do we seriously need to say this?
Obey Gaia TOS - Again, does it need to be said?
Patience is a virtue - We have real lives and we will get to all issues ASAP we promise
Read the front page - We took time to sort out the info you may need. If you feel we've missed something, then sure, ask away
Listen to the Staff - Because in the end, we decide if you are welcome back
Name your bats - All hatched bats must be named before you are allowed to buy more from sales, raffles or auctions.

How do I get one?
Flatsales, Customs, Events and the odd chance that someone is auctioning a bred egg

Can I be staff? (colorists, mods etc)
At this point no. We aim to be a simple shop and having lots of extra staff may get in the way of that

Are they RP required?
You do not need to RP your bat to get it to grow. But to breed (for same gender breedings) or recieve other benefits, then RP is required

Do we need to have unique names?
Only if you want to. Certs aren't sorted by name, but by how new the bat is to the shop (they're numeric)

Where do we get uncerts from?
From here. Have a look for yours by checking the number of your cert (the url for all G-B certs is http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn236/gaiabc/GBV2%20certs/gb(number).jpg) then looking for the B-number in the link given.
This is a photobucket account sorted by last uploaded so the more recent your dropoff/growing, the closer to the top it will be
If you have a monthly sale batty, just look for your color, unless you have made eyecolor changes to it, in which case, check the bnumber ^^
Please save uncerts to your own server, to save on our bandwidth!

Is there a guild?
Yes! There is a section for RP and a place to keep track of your Bats. Also the main forum is the place to order breedings, to have certs changed and a few other things

Can I give my bat to someone else?
Although the bat wont like it, you may transfer ownership to someone else. Every time you wish to change the ownership of that bat, it will cost you 1000g.

Life Cycle of a Celestial Bat:
Celestial Bat life begins as an egg. They remain nicely warm in their egg until they are ready to hatch, this takes around a week. The colors of the eggs for some reason they show the colors and sometimes the patterns of the bat inside them. The eggs are around 3cm tall (just over 1 inch).
After hatching, the hungry pups are actively forming bonds with their carers and other bats. Personalities emerge but no matter how independent they may think they are, they still rely heavily on their human carer.
Perma-pups happen as well. It usually indicates something going wrong with the egg and so they are unable to grow to adult stage or breed. It takes a really kind soul to take them in as they usually need more care than normal Celestial Bats. (These are "event" bats, cannot be gotten from customs or in flatsales) Pups are around 5cm (2 inches) tall and wingspan is around 25cm (10 inches) from tip to tip.
After around three weeks, the pups are fully grown and are classed as adults.
Adult bats are usually completely independent from their carers and are looking for love. Although they may still keep contact with their carer, many form small covens and spend the rest of their lives in the bat community. Adults are roughly 30cm (12 inches) tall and wingspan is around 50cm (20inches) from tip to tip.

There is also a bi-breed of Celestial Bats that resembles angels and demons (celestial beings, not the famous book xD). No one is quite sure how angelics and demonics happened and more information needs to be gathered on these very rare species.
(Angels and demonics can only be obtained through bribes or potions)

Fertility Potion The fertility potions adds an extra egg to the breeding roll. This must be bought and used at the time the breeding is announced, you cannot use it after the amount of eggs has been decided.
cost: 2.5k
Amount available: 3
Loquita_de_Indiana owns 2






Eyecolor Change Potion With the magic of genetic modification, we are able to change the eye color of you batties. We can even do this from egg stage! (careful injection - you understand right?) All you have to do is pay for the treatment and pick the eye color you want to have. You don't even have to use the treatment when you buy it, you can just store it for later use (I'll place it carefully on your bats cert). When you're ready to use it, just post your batties cert and the eye color that you would like. Only works with v2.0 batties - sorry
cost 2k
amount available: 10








Gender Change Was your bat born the wrong gender? Don't worry, it happens to the best of us. But instead of expensive surgery, one drink of this vial will "fix" everything. Effects can take up to one week to show. Can only be used at adult stage. Can only be used once per bat.
cost 5k
Amount avaliable: 0







Angelic/Demonic Potion This is the potion that will show your bats personality in physical form. Some bats will sprout spikey parts while others go all soft and fluffy. Effects can take up to a week to appear.
cost: Bribe or auction only
Amount avaliable: 0

Growth Halting Potion If you want your bat to stay at a certain (non-adult) stage forever, then this is the potion for you. Because your bat never reached adult stage, it will not be able to breed.
When this potion has been used, an image of the bottle is on the cert to signal to me that I'm not to grow it.
cost: 1k
Amount avaliable: 0






Growth Restarting Potion If you halted your bats growth but now want it to become an adult and breedable, this is the potion to buy. Within a week of drinking this potion, your bat will grow to its next stage.
cost: 1k
Amount avaliable: 0


Form for using these 2 potions:

[b]Type of potion[/b]
[b]Bat being used on[/b]
[b]Stage to stop growing at/next stage to grow to[b] (stop growing at teen or if using restarting potion, the next stage that the bat should grow to)

Do you have certain colors that you would love to see in your bat? This is the place to find out more.
A custom bat and matching familiar only uses one slot!

Basic Info
There are no line-edits or Cosplays.
Angelic and Demonic are by bribe only, contact the mule to offer.

Prices: Bats
Semi-custom - You pick up to 3 colors, colorist uses them as they will on your bat.
Costs 15k adult only 25k fully growing

Fully custom - You pick your colors and placement on the adult bat. Growing stages are done to colorists interpretation of that.
Costs 25k adult only 50k fully growing
Please add 10k for extreme detailed colorings.

Prices: Familiars
Semi-custom - You pick up to 3 colors, colorist uses them as they will on your familiar.
Costs 5k for regular familiars, 10k for special (moonfly, Starbird and the giraffe)

Fully custom - You pick your colors and placement.
Costs 10k for regular familiars, 20k for special (moonfly, Starbird and the giraffe)
Please add 2k for extreme detailed colorings.


Pet Trades - You offer a pet from your shop and ask for a custom of the same type from here. (A semi for a semi etc)
Please PM the mule with your pet trade offers.
We have no list of ones that we would love so everyone can feel free to offer. If one of us doesn't like the offer, maybe the other will.

Custom slots
Demeter's Custom Thread - open until Monday 31 January

Custom form
Adjust to the type of custom you are getting

[b]Custom Type:[/b]
[b]Colorist:[/b]
[b]Owner:[/b]
[b]Bat/Familiar type:[/b]
[b]Bats name/to be attached to:[/b] (please put Bnumber in for attaching)
[b]Bat gender:[/b] (if needed)
[b]Colors/Markings:[/b]
[b]reference:[/b]

[b]Total cost::[/b]

Staff
DemeterJade - Owner and colorist
Fawnzy - Guest colorist


Credits
Original idea - Chobi_chocobo and Zsabrina
Sketches - Chobi_chocobo
Inking - Zsabrina
Templating (bats and familiars) - Zsabrina
Cert - Zsabrina