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We can use the current one. I like the big trees and slightly smarter dorfs.

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I'll take .34.11 thanks. I want to know I'll get to kill things for sure.

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[Talvieno]

Earlier I started on a project that may end up being a bit much for me... It started when someone (I'm assuming you, Splint) added the wiki section about The Amber Barb... and I realized we didn't have a picture.

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[Splint]

Yes it was; I've been adding to the wiki where I could. If you need pictures I can slap something together depending on what you need.

[Talvieno]

Mr Frooooggggggg...

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I actually think I'm improving. lol

[Splint]

The only sad thing is that jade has to be applied retroactively. He used blue garnets, not jade.

[Lennoxite]

Well, the hammerers are quite capable!


AEGIS progress...

Alright, prologue done and feeling less than great about it.

Anyways...

BEHOLD MEDIOCRITY!

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JUST ANOTHER DAY…

PROLOUGE: Setting the Stage…

   A young human walks briskly through the tarnished hallways of an unassuming building. He was 6’ tall, had light skin, had brown, short hair, and wore a lab coat over his clothing. The building he was in was much like any other building in a town, about as unnoticeable as an ant in an entire colony. The little human stops at a small slim crack and goes through it, coat and all seamlessly slipping right through. As he does that he enters a small, hidden room; he produces a small, blue machine unlike anything the world has manufactured at that point in time.

The human presses a small button and a small voice reverberates from the room. “Identification.”  The man responds with a low, baritone voice, “Kalov Savice”, and the space in the room seemed to bend just slightly. The small voice echoed, “Kalov Savice, three year employee of Aegis Operations. Age 23. Password for Kalov Savice required.” Kalov uttered his password as fast as possible. “1652-9012-6578.” As the voice completed processing the information, a small wormhole opens up, and the man steps through to find himself in the headquarters, the transportation center to be more precise, of Aegis Operations.

   Kalov moved to his study room, taking in the white paneled walls in all of their generic glory, to explore a recent breakthrough in directed-energy weapons when he came across a recent addition to the organization. The recruit, a dwarf, walked up to Kalov and asked him a question that he seems to have to answer every day: “Hey, this place is kinda confusing and I got lost, where is the Research and Development branch?” Kalov sighed in annoyance, put up a small smile, and replied with his usual response. “Go to the central stairway and go north from there.”

Satisfied, the dwarf walks away, and Kalov continued to his every day journey to his study, passing by numerous scientists holding deadly and unstable weaponry. “Guess this is just another day, as usual.” He whispers boringly. However, right before he could step into the room he calls home he was called up by Operator “Heave”. “KALOV SAVICE IS TO REPORT TO OPERATOR HEAVE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.”

Kalov froze for a minute; Operator Operator Heave was in control of the defense against threats towards the organization, to prove his point he has a club with a serrated disk at the end of it, it even has the disk attached to a motor to wipe out any enemy unlucky enough to get in his way. Kalov shuddered in fear; he was just a scientist. “What can I possibly do for him?” The thought echoed through his head when he suddenly remembered the recent decision to begin associating with the recent fight with Ballpoint versus Parasol; they decided to try to get the attention of Ballpoint so that they could help them eliminate Parasol for a “small” fee.

Kalov realized that Heave might draft him to the Defense branch to help enforce our protection. The idea of a scientist helping defend against a mega corporation seemed absurd and relatively deadly to him. Assuming this, he sulked to the Operator’s branch. “…Guess it’s not going to be just another day after all.” He muttered silently.

...

[Talvieno]

Hrm. :\ So... this entire time, we've been calling it a jade spearhead when it actually wasn't jade at all? How did we screw that up?

edit: You're right... I was the one who screwed it up, it seems.

reedit: Typo.

[Splint]

Possibly a miscommunication, why else would I have a crippling fear of garnets?

Because the last time a dwarf touched those damned things ina mood he lost his shit and needed his head speared.

[Talvieno]

All right, well... hrm. The original composition doesn't seem to have been mentioned since Armok engraved the runes on Urist Okablokum's spearhead, which was supposed to be The Master's... So... in the interests of keeping myself, Hanslanda, and Lolfail from rewriting story bits... maybe Armok transformed it into a different material when he blessed it?

edit: Reading your story bit now, Lennoxite, sorry I missed it.

[Splint]

I just assumed something got misread and assumed material was applied retroactively to avoid problems after the first or second mess-up.

[Mr Frog]

Mr Frooooggggggg...
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I actually think I'm improving. lol

The shading on the edge-y part's pretty chaotic; try to keep a better idea of where the light's coming from and how it would interact with the object's surface. The shaft-y part has nice shading, though. Pretty good for what I'm guessing from a number of cues was a pretty hasty job (I typically spend upwards of 6 hours on each drawing, even the shitty ones). The engraving was pulled off really well.

I think your main problem with art is that you haven't really built up an intuitive idea of the shape of objects in physical space. Try picking up household objects (particularly simple shapes like cans or boxes) and examining them carefully from every angle to get an idea of their dimensions and such. A firm grasp of basic trigonometry (math is awesome!) helps as well when drawing things at an angle. It's the sort of thing that can only really be learned on an instinctive level, but it helps a lot to look at what you're already drawing and asking yourself what's wrong with it.

[Talvieno]

Random: West Everoc, a work in progress... in all its three-dimensional glory.

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Mr Frog: Yeah, the edge shading was a bit off... I was trying to use something as a reference, and there were multiple light sources in the room, and it kind of messed it up because of it. :\ But you're right. The "shape of objects in physical space" isn't something I've gotten to an instinctive level yet... I'll try to work on that. (And yes, I know I colored outside the lines. lol   I was working on the above at the same time, and between the two I missed a few things.) Thanks for the constructive criticism - very helpful.

[Mr Frog]

@Talvi:

So is that image from another program, or did you make a 3-D world map visualiser from scratch?

[Reudh]

Either way, it's bloody amazing.

the Four Counties is north east of the blood plains, iirc, and Gugiromon to the north.

[Talvieno]

Mr Frog: Lol, I wish. I'm nowhere near that level, unfortunately. Most of what I do programming-wise is two-dimensional. But no, it's the Crysis Sandbox 2 editor:

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It's useful when you're wanting to make a landscape, and I've put a lot of time into working with it, even though I haven't messed with it in a pretty long time. I'm surprised it would actually come in handy, but it reads heightmaps. All I have to do is add the textures, mess with the rivers a little bit, fix the mountain height, etc.

Reudh, thank you very much. (: I honestly never realized the blood plains were so extensive while I was writing. The place marked "desert" isn't actually a desert - that's just very, very hot grasslands. I colored it with a desert-ish color and a sandy texture by mistake and forgot about it when I was putting the text onto the image. It's not perfect, but I'm working on it. Right now it's at least good enough to see The Amber Barb, which is what I was going for (you can see the mountain range in the above pic, it's in the background).

[Splint]

22nd Felsite, 210

Well, clean-up's begun. Got some of the the skulkers outside scrubbing down the walls and roads while mitch and Talvi unclog the weapon traps. I really should consider putting more of those down for crowd control. Did a great job of thinning them out during the last attack.

I've begun a small scale renovation effort, and even decided to try and reinstate the wagon road in case we need it. I think a nice golden road will certainly be a good way to flaunt our wealth a bit, you know, really rile up the local greenskins.

23rd Felsite, 210

Some lost soul's pet caught a thief trying to make off with some greaves. We found the dog barely able to stay away and the greaves, so I assume a theft was prevented. I've asked that the dog be euthenized. Poor pooch. At least you'll be with your master now. Seems it managed to drag itself outside and passed out on a weapon trap. According to Talvi, the poor thing got brained by a maul.

I'm having several headstones relocated to the hall of heroes as well.

Oh, and evidently some traps I had laid have snagged a bugbat.

27th Felsite, 210

We must be quick cleaning up the bodies. We need to invade soon. Yes.... Quite soon...

1st Hematite, 210

It is summer now. By the middle of the season, no matter what, We begin the invasion. We have ammo aplenty, all my extant projects are complete... More or less anyway. Oh and Dicer evidently has taken to hammer usage. Dunno where that came from, but you know, whatever works for him.

7th Hematite, 210

Rose is working us all hard so we'll be able to fight come the next attack. We did well, but she says we still need work. Hmph, she's one to talk, at least I didn't get thrown at a tree. Though I gotta give her credit, she's pretty durable, since she only got a pretty nasty bruise from that and some splinters in the back of her neck. I have also had a new clothing and weavery station dug out; now we can have fresh silk!

Oh, and my dear journal we've done it! We've almost finished crating everything! I've decided to alievate future problems and keep bin and barrel production going in tandem with a massive deforestation order in the caverns. now that we have the resources, we're gonna use'em damn it!

Oh and the headstones have been shifted. Nearly filled a whole damned row.