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You enter the cave as you did daily to adopt a dragon hatchling or egg, adding to your family. But what you find were no dragons, no eggs, only something else, something much more sinister than the annoying Lagmonster Dragon you tackled once before. Piles of adult dragon and hatchling bones scattered about as well as egg shells of various dragons. A low growl is heard as you enter the cave and soon you find your path blocked by a sinister dragon that was feared by all. Sharp fangs gnawing in flesh as claws ripped apart everything in its path. Solid datachip wings were folded to its back as its red eyes of death make you shriek in terror....you were staring into the eyes of none other than the Datamonster!

All was thought to be lost for the beloved dragons and there was thought to be no hope in rescuing them, no matter how hard the owners tried. The Datamonster was just too strong! Just then, a knight stood out amongst them all by the name of TJ09.

Raising his trusty sword-of-recovering, TJ09 took a mighty swing at the Datamonster's vile bloated stomach. The awesome power of sword nad TJ09's own 1337n355 rent asunder the evil beast hide, releasing and reviving all the dragons trapped with in. The Datamonster let out a final mighty roar of anguish, clawing at the sky as if trying return the escaping dragons to his gaping maw. Having released the dragons TJ09 made a mighty leap and with one sure sweep of his magnificent sword beheaded the vile Datamonster, ending it's threat once and for all!

But, unbeknown to TJ and the revived dragons, The ferocious and evil Datamonster still clung to the mortal coil. As the brave knight walked away, the cybernetic beast's limbs began to twitch, nearly imperceptible to the eye. Then the camera panned in on the creature's severed head, as it's glowing red eye slowly opened up and narrows, vowing to seek revenge.

TJ09 is now a hero! He lead the way as all the dragons returned home to their beloved families. The owners cried with joy as they were reunited with their beloved dragons. TJ09 smiled, knowing the journey was long, the battle was hard but all in all, it was worth it all. With the mission completed, the brave and heroic knight disappeared into the light, awaiting for the next time his help would be needed.

(Thank you Jimer0 and Loss_Theif for the additions to the story!)

What happened was NOT a lagmonster. Lagmonster is when the site is up but seriously lagging.

Datamonster is its cousin, where the site is DOWN and dragons are eaten up.

If anyone has any buttons to share, let us bring forth them!

Note to mods: I dont want this closed off. I want people to share their stories and moments and have this topic open for others to read.

Sketch of the Datamonster by Clicky!

Sketch of the Datamonster by Ahkalia!

Sketch & Sprite of the Datamonster by Nakase & Co.!

Sketch of the Datamonster by Umbreonage! & Sprite 1 / Sprite 2

Sketch of the Datamonster by kurai!

Do give some input! :3 We got some real good ideas and also could use some spriters that wanna try for this! All art is linked with permissions.
NOTE: Nakase only wants RayneKitty, Sif, and Jazi to make sprites for it. Please respect that and do not attempt without her permission.

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This post has been edited by Malygos on Sep 7 2009, 01:47 AM

Thread wiped, thanks to Z! *hugs* If people still wanna talk about their experiences, go for it. :3

Was the datamoster a real thing or a made up story? Whatver it is, the sketches and banners are good!

It's a monster that ate up the data, Doctortux. Well, not all, but more than enough to make people angry. And it's not a real thing, but not exactly made up, either... I would say it's a bit of both.

There was a glitch a few weeks back that caused a lot of dragons, hatchies, and eggs to disappear from people's scrolls. During this time, the Datamonster was blamed for eating all the lost dragons, because a computer glitch isn't really fun enough.

Thanks to TJ and his wonderful work though, the majority of dragons were restored to scrolls.

What they said! :3 It's the Lagmonster's cousin.

or Brother, or evil father (complete with respiratory problems ^^)

in any case, it's a mean soab, lucky we had TJ on our side

Like Darth Vader except...dragonish.

nah, the datamonster misses the cool helmet and the nazi-derived style

Just so you know, the entire line of Umbreonage links are broken. So is the link, Nakase

The datamonster didn't take any of mine... i'm lucky

you are lucky. :3

Nakase's isnt broken, just forbidden. She probably locked it but the sprite is available. Umbreonage's is fine.

I didn't lose any of my dragons to the datamonster.

Lucky you. :3

Im one of the lucky ones, I had a bunch of new eggs and I think at the time my old pink was growing up, but nothing happened, my sisters new pink changed genders though. I wonder if it had already mated would it say Father: and then a second father slot?

haha! Quite interesting.....

haha that was amusing to read I didn't even realize such a thing happened.. ._.

My two hatchies lived and i didn't know that the datamonster even exsisted!
I didn't name them survivor or anything but can i still help?
here they are


[CENTER]Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.[/CENTER]

I bet it would say father and mother and when the clicked mother the gender would say female.