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Arts, Crafts, Music & Drama - The Artisans' Guilds / Re: Mountain Leopards: An Adventuring Story

« on: February 23, 2019, 12:43:17 PM »

So that was why you were asking for prison break ideas! This is a cool episode, I'm one of the wierd people who love exposition. And I'm intrigued by the possibility that some kind of mythical creature might be showing up soon.

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: The Indigo room

« on: February 03, 2019, 03:47:15 PM »

epic, I look forward to it

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: The Indigo room

« on: February 03, 2019, 02:35:00 PM »

YAY! i NEVER get lateral thinking stuff right
i did consider using the lodestone, but the internet told me that it wouldn't be magnetic *enough* to attach to a key.

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: The Indigo room

« on: February 02, 2019, 02:12:57 PM »

Do we still have the electromagnet from room 1? How about throwing the electromagnet down, superglued to the polystyrene, so it grabs the key? And then filling the well as before.

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: The Indigo room

« on: February 02, 2019, 12:49:51 AM »

That *had*occurred to me, I was kinda counting in it being a particularly large key- but it still felt like a (entirely literal) long shot. 😏
however, I got nothing else, unless the guttering is long enough to reach the key, which, given your emphasis on the deepness of the well, I'm guessing it's not.

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: The Indigo room

« on: February 01, 2019, 11:41:46 PM »

Cover the polystyrene block in superglue and throw it in the well so it sticks to the key. Use the wooden tube and the guttering to conduct the liquid from the tap into the well. The polystyrene floats with the key attached.

Keep the lodestone because it sounds useful, and the pickled herrings to eat a last resort even though they are actually dire.

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Prove Up Is Down

« on: February 01, 2019, 03:46:43 PM »

as anyone who has watched the film National Treasure will be well aware, Thomas Jefferson was a Templar Knight. As anyone who has read Thomas Jefferson's wikipedia page is aware, Thomas Jefferson was not a Templar Knight.
Since the film National Treasure and wikipedia are both widely known to be unreliable sources of information, it is therefore impossible to casually observe whether or not Thomas Jefferson was a Templar Knight. Untill it becomes possible to casually observe this, Thomas Jefferson must be considered to be simultaneously both a Templar Knight and Not a Templar Knight. Therefore, Thomas Jefferson is by a process of logical deduction actually Schrodinger's cat. If a cat can be a Templar Knight, it stands to reason that a cow can also be a Templar Knight. Therefore, cows are Templar Knights.

Prove that Louis the Fourteenth of France was an early prop aircraft.

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Arts, Crafts, Music & Drama - The Artisans' Guilds / Re: Mountain Leopards: An Adventuring Story

« on: January 27, 2019, 10:16:21 PM »

This is great! I love the practicality of the magic in this comic. also, I need magical library searches to rescue me from the ridiculous and unusable system I am currently subject to /suffering under the tyranny of 😂

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Arts, Crafts, Music & Drama - The Artisans' Guilds / Re: Mountain Leopards: An Adventuring Story

« on: January 20, 2019, 10:48:46 PM »

THAT COW. that was such a perfect moment, brilliant 😂.
Let me also take this moment to express my appreciation for the fact that the girls in this story rescue themselves

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Arts, Crafts, Music & Drama - The Artisans' Guilds / Re: Mountain Leopards: An Adventuring Story

« on: January 19, 2019, 10:14:12 PM »

I feel like there's a lot we don't know yet about the story, which is fun
my prediction at this point: there is something *very dubious indeed* being planned by the temple of mushtar, and Rusudan, Botso, Varam and the Mysterious Vanishing Lady have to prevent it.

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Arts, Crafts, Music & Drama - The Artisans' Guilds / Re: Aviarium: fantasy art of dragons, time-travellers and winged people

« on: January 10, 2019, 08:16:18 PM »

You know so many obscure Tolkien characters I'm lost 😂 but I'm sure it would be brilliant bc how could Tolkien and Shakespeare as a writing colab not work? Also, what about elves ending up in the regular Shakespeare plays, say, or Macbeth with hobbits 🙂?

now have to experiment with giving dragons more bird-like tails I think, that's fun 😊 I love figuring this kind of thing out. I'll definitely end up keeping a range of dragon designs, anything I like the aesthetic of.

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Arts, Crafts, Music & Drama - The Artisans' Guilds / Re: Aviarium: fantasy art of dragons, time-travellers and winged people

« on: January 10, 2019, 05:44:32 PM »

I NOW ALSO WANT TO READ ARDAN SHAKESPEARE -it literally only just occurred to me how different that might be!
Ah. Didn't think about flying posture at all, actually. Hmm... The exploding dragon idea is truly beautiful, it sounds like something you might find  in a discworld novel but I don't think I want to go quite that whacky (things get a little serious later on in the novel and I don't think the risk of your dragon blowing up quite fits) - how about dragons having hollow bones like birds?

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Arts, Crafts, Music & Drama - The Artisans' Guilds / Re: Aviarium: fantasy art of dragons, time-travellers and winged people

« on: January 10, 2019, 02:01:23 AM »

I am so glad people are interested in this! and like the art! yay!

The world Winter comes from is physically nearly identical to ours, but has a different timeline and certain different properties, such as time travel being possible So she is frieds the Shakespeare that exists in *that* universe, not our Shakespeare.
(I'll admit that in my head, she comes from Arda, Tolkien's universe. and knows Makalaure)

I also really like the idea of someone who is used to time travel already finding that sort of normal but then being baffled by the idea of parallel universes, given I think we sit both things in the same sort of category of "total sci-fi".

I LOVE THIS TOO- the reason its a thing is because it kinda happened to me: I was writing time-travel fiction from the actual literal begining, but did not discover Narnia untill I was a bit older, and was absolutely captivated/blown away by the whole idea of a lost magical world.

I can take no credit for the dragon's tail-wings - that comes from the how to train your dragon movies. I love all the art used there, but especially the dragon designs.
I know the wings aren't muscular enough and it anoys me too, but I really wanted Mishka to look delicate, probably unusually so for a dragon, and accurate wing muscles just weren't working
There are a *lot* of dragon skeleton designs on the internet, and they all do place the wings lower on the body- but they also have the legs and wings attaching from a single set of shoulder blades. But (whilst not being brilliant at zoology), I feel you'd need two sets of shoulder blades, so the forelegs and wings could move fully independntly, and because the horse-type or dinosaur-type shoulder blades used for the forelegs are so different in shape and position to bird or bat shoulder blades that are used in flight.
But I love speculating about what dragons might actually look like, so I welcome disagreement

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Arts, Crafts, Music & Drama - The Artisans' Guilds / Re: Mountain Leopards: An Adventuring Story

« on: January 09, 2019, 06:52:27 PM »

I finally activated my account! so now I can comment on how utterly brilliant this comic is. this is just ridiculously creative

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Arts, Crafts, Music & Drama - The Artisans' Guilds / Aviarium: fantasy art of dragons, time-travellers and winged people

« on: January 09, 2019, 06:34:53 PM »

Done as part of the planning/worldbuilding for my (very much not complete) fantasy novel Aviarium, and because I like drawing.

Atana is a world inhabited by winged beings and dragons- and entirely cut off from other universes for years. In a more familiar world, Winter is a time-traveller, perpetual wanderer, and good friends with Shakespeare. And has no idea parallel universes are even real- untill a pathway across the void opens - just slightly unexpectedly - in her best friend's back garden.

The pic is of a small fireheart dragon called Mishka, and Aliya, an Adhar* fire mage.
(*Adhar can generate wings made of magical energy.)