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Welcome to the set-up for the final and most arduous leg of the quest that I have undertaken. If you've been here for a while, you may remember my first thread pertaining to this, Matasoga's Quest: The Devil's Errand. That was in order to get the mid-level wings, The Incubus Wings. This is the final queest of these wings and my chance to get a complete version of an item so rare and valuable that I don't believe more than a dozen people have ever attained... If even as many as that.
So needless to say, I will need your help. I feel that this was designed as more of a community endeavor than a one-person mission, so I am, just as before, pulling the community in on it and rewarding donation. Last time I said this:

The deal still stands. You can now add to whatever bonus you had (or start from 0, if you didn't donate last time) but there is a limit. I still don't want ranks to be purchased, so you can only donate and get the bonus up to one tenth of your post count.
For example, say someone has a post count of 1,520 posts. No matter how much they donate, the maximum bonus that they may receive will be 152. The limit is determined at the close of the connection. For example, if you have 1520 posts and make another fifty during the course of the drive, your limit will be 157, regardless of when you made which donations.
Remember, items count, too, as long as I need them for the quest or can be used to make items that I will need. For example, I will need a whole hell of a lot of red ink to complete those body dyes. If you give me a mix of red ink and gold adding up to a total of 100K, then you will be credited for a +1 bonus. Most everyone has away of gathering up some red ink, so anyone who likes could help with that.
I hope that I can count on your generosity, once more. It is my goal to have these wings before 2014. I can't make that happen without even more help than I had last time.
...And now you have. Thanks to all who helped me along the way.

As of Jan 7, 2013: I don't remember precisely how it was calculated, but I believed I used a system of dividing the total gold earned by months. It was through these means that I estimated that it would take me 12 months for me to complete the wings, so let's put the initial projection at January 6th, 2014. Please, help me push this back.
As of Jan 13, 2013: Now that the list is completely compiled... It could take hours just to tabulate the worth of all of this. It's... Staggering. It's astronomical. It seems silly to even attempt it right now. I'll wait and hopefully at some point be able to buy down most of these and then try again...
As of May 21st, 2013: I have looked at the numbers, figuring out what we need and how much of it and I finally have an estimate.
At a rate of two caches a day, (my current production rate), assuming that we get exactly what we need from the caches (or can make up for it in sold caches) it will take no less than three years, or (rounding with the decimals) June 2016.
This does not even factor in crafting costs (or failures), expensive non-cache components, the need to sell off caches after we complete certain ones, etc. This is the impossibly optimistic date that assumes financial windfall as a given. The truth is sure to be so very, very much worse.
For every two caches we get from you (collectively or individually), we can shave a full day off of our planned production time... But I'm not asking anything so large as a full caches. any Boldur Fish you can spare will help us trade up for the Rubyback. Red Inks, or even red bugs will allow us to trade for the body dyes of which we need so very many. Any of these and any gold contributions that you could make will be greatly, desperately appreciated. Of course if you are of a mind to generously grant us a cache, we will never forget your kindness.
Amidst all of the awful things that Gaia has done, lately, one thing that they did that I feel takes us all quite by surprise is releasing caches... For gold. There are some negative effects, yes. Cache grinding is no longer a thing that brings in the gold that I need, but on the more positive side, all of the cache prices have dropped, sharply. This allowed me to make some real progress, but the sum totals that I need are still unavailable. I'm not sure if the market has ever been less stable than it is now, making my total incalculable, but success has never seemed more likely than it does now.
As of February 23, 2014: At this point, I am at last finished gathering components, but I still need gold for crafting costs, and lots of it, since failures are guaranteed with the crafting. A great deal of gold will be simply lost, but it is all essential.
It is also possible that errors were made and some thing will need to be repurchased, but I've hit a financial wall while crafting the base components, so I won't very easily be able to check until I've got enough gold to finish that.
For that, I will need your help.
As of February 26, 2014: At long last, our quest has come to an end.

To make things easier for me to track, I'll keep track here at the end of each page, just as I do in the last post of each.



Final Page (15):
Brooke: + 4
Jess: + 1,080
Val + 1
Jade + 363
Taeryyn: + 17
Shelwin: + 10
Kat: + 5
Rita: + 32
Rita (New) + 182
Chinami: + 10

Collecting funds for the cause as always, sir! emotion_bigheart

Nana contributed 300,000 for +3. Thanks, Summer.

Finished compiling all of what we need exactly. ...And felt like crying afterwards. gonk

Progress has been slow... very slow. We're gonna need a Christmas miracle, here. gonk

Now that I am back I will be working on getting you gold again smile

Administrative Edit- Current Totals, So Far:
Nana: + 3