Blundermore

He had a wife and kids that he was picking up from Chicken school in Seahelm just as Oren attacked.

-CHICKEN SHOT-

*A note seems to be posted on the wall of the local towns written in high italics*

-In Need of Instruction-

Hello traveler! Whomever you may be.

I am in need of knowledge and perhaps teaching on the subject of "voidal shifting".

I know these notes often do not go answered but I've gone round all the places I know and have not been able to find an inkling on the subject myself.

Thus I appeal to those out there to perhaps answer my note. I am very interested in learning how it works, where it came from, where I could possibly find a means to learn of its power.

I'd be very happy to reward whoever does this in a means I am capable of doing so. 

With Regards

-Blundermore P. WindRaker-

*The note ends here*

The Grotesque Update

The Airship, Sci-fi

Test bed for getting MassFX to work properly without ruining textures. It's only 2 seconds long because it took 38 minutes to calculate the destruction and render it out. 

I have to agree. This is a pretty wishywashy way of going about things, there are a million and one answers to the questions of life but you can't deal in trying to make sense of all of those questions. You need to be more defined in your answers. If people don't have a strong enough opinion they can stay neutral. Otherwise they can pick a definite answer. 

When asked if you want to order from a waiter at a restaurant you don't give them a drawn out opinion on whether or not you're ready to order, you just say yes, or no. The same could be said here.

These surveys are meant to determine if there is a problem, not how to solve it as well. That comes after you worked out you have a problem to begin with. 

I concur. Ban Leowarrior. 

I dunno what that will solve but the people have spoken!

Perhaps maybe the Dev's might incorporate the idea into their plugins. 

Some things need to have more RP connotations than they do right now. 

30 minutes ago, Ballnazor said:

Berserkers never ate mushrooms to go into a frenzy, no proof of this just a well spread myth

There's always some truth in myth... 

In a PVP way yes, but at the moment there's not much linking the potion to actual RP. It's just merely "there" and it happens when it happens. This serves to outline a more RP explanation and reason for why you wouldn't want to use it often. 

Akmens Syndrome

At the turning of the new age the discovery of new alchemy recipies led to the development of many interesting and strange potions granting the user abilities unheard of. One such potion, the potion of Stoneskin gave its' users the power to shrug off blows that would fell lesser men. But little did they know that there are risks with all things in large quantities. The long term affects were not apparent at first but continued consumption of the Stoneskin potion led to its' relative junkies and addicts developing a new and strange symptom. 

Akmens Syndrome.

What is it?

Akmens Syndrome is caused by continued and large consumption of the Potion of stoneskin product. It is a debilitating malady that targets the joints and nervous system of those afflicted, slowly wearing away at the tissue in their joints and killing off nerves found within the skin. Causing loss of feeling, sense of smell etc eventually leading to necrotising of the various affected areas and eventually death of the victim. Turning a once great warrior into a junkie that is slowly killing themselves, much akin to the real life Swedish berserkers of old who would consume mushrooms prior to battling to become more fierce fighters capable of shrugging off pain that would otherwise kill them, but at the cost of possibly overdosing or causing damage to their nervous system in the future.

What does it do?

The effects begin once the subject has consumed a certain amount of stoneskin potions within a certain time span of perhaps a couple years. (The time can be determined at a later date by staff if they wish). The effects are as follows:

-Loss of feeling in skin. Perpetual loss of other senses follow including touch, smell, taste.

Followed by:

-Destruction of tissue within the joints causing severe hampering of movement

Followed by:

-Continued degradation of the body, leading to lesions developing

Followed by:

-Catastrophic breakdown of tissue all over the body, joints begin to fuse solid, skin becoming more stonelike by the day

Finally ending:

-The death of the subject as the body breaks down, killing the subject rather spectacularly as they merely degrade into a pile of rocks and rubble.

"Well that sounds horrible, can't it be cured?"

Perhaps an ingame cure could be found, though depending how far down the line someone is with their syndrome the affects of the cure could take years to fully manifest and heal the subject. Such is the price of abusing substances. Magical healing magic can slow the effects of the spread of this syndrome but it cannot truly heal it entirely. 

"Couldn't the monks heal this when I die normally?"

It is a well known fact that the Monks do not save people who choose their own death, such as via suicide. Or accept injury upon themselves, such as a loss of a limb. Hence why these things are possible in our world. 

The willing consumption of a substance deemed harmful to the user would be treated much the same. So dying and re-spawning at the monks will not fix this syndrome. A cure must be sought out. 

"Can I get this and spread it to my Friends?"

Truly this is not a disease persay, it is caused by continued use of the stoneskin potion. So you cannot spread it by merely being in contact with another person. Unless that person is also consuming stoneskin potions at the same rate you are.

Final Thoughts:

I wrote this lore after hearing a lot of commotion about the apparent use/abuse of the potion of stoneskin and thought "the ability to merely shrug off wounds that would kill lesser men would surely have some sort of downside if you kept using it..."
So I thought about it for a bit and came up with a somewhat fantasied version of Leprosy, though without the ability of it being spread by touch of course.

Cinema 4D is alright but 3DSmax grants far more control and options than Cinema 4D does. 

The Grotesque W.I.P:

Wizard's Office (W.I.P)

3D Modelling Dump

My Dump for 3D modelling I'm currently working on. Will expand as time goes on (as this stuff takes time to do really). Lot of it is going to be work in progress or "W.I.P" and generally will be more focused on "progression" than finished images. All Images are created on 3DSmax Autodesk software.

Disclaimer:

I know I shouldn't have to say this but all pictures are my work and require my consent prior to using. 

Thankyou for your co-operation.

Personally... I don't see the point of them. From an OOC perspective. 

See the way I see it character's ICly wouldn't gain access to the information in your journal unless you went out of your way to write it into the game in a book people can find and read. 

It's in my opinion that the journal system doesn't seem to make much sense. I mean it's nice and all reading about characters but I've always made it a point not to read stuff my character by rights shouldn't know. Just so I can keep what is known IC, IC, and not meta and stuff like that. 

I just feel like if people want to write journals for people to read they should do so ICly and then drop them into the world. It's what I've been doing sometimes. Giving incite into a character but in a way that is actually has meaningful consequences within the RP world, not just in the "other world" that the forums sit in where they cannot be touched, tampered or read by any actual character IC. 

Still going strong...

I'm surprised I found it on the roof of a building in Sanctuary...

Also it's still here.

Tried that, tried logging, tried soulstoning away and coming back. Nope, NecroChicken gives no clucks. 

So after reading the Necronomicon I found in Sanctuary that told me to go kill myself I started to experience weird occurrences of an occult nature...

I was breeding my chickens for book quills when suddenly one of the chickens I just killed with my magic staff started to move again.

I didn't think much of it first... but now it won't go away, even when logging out. 

The worst part is no one can see it apart from me. 

Blundermore, crazy chicken necromancer.

DAMN YOU MAGIC BLUE CUSTARD!

8/10 spooky.

Dancing calculators are nice I guess

8/10

seems about right.