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  1. Theme #2: Any interpretation is valid. Remember that this is an OTC theme, and your story must comply with the contest rules.Deadline: June 29th, 11:59 PM EST.
  2. Theme #1: A Dark Hunt Any interpretation is valid. Remember that this is an Bionicle theme, and your story must comply with the contest rules.Deadline: June 28th, 11:59PM EST.
  3. We should certainly have a contest here this Summer. It would be a blast to have a contest bridging creative fields, though RPGs would be hard to meld with art and stories. - 55555
  4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/48487023@N02/8974384338/ Quick painting, but the best I've ever done. Inspired by Bleach. - John
  5. Happy birthday Katie! - 55555
  6. 55555

    Echoes

    It's kind of a helpless feeling. The feeling that something is falling apart, and there's nothing to be done about it. Just another world ending. But it always gets me a little bit.And the darkness took it, as it takes them all. But not mine.The survey class ship Revelations fired up her engines and moved on, flitting back through dimensions. Home.It just seemed wrong somehow, even though it makes sense, and I know they aren't really real. Once we discovered inter-dimensional navigation it became obvious that the things we could learn from it were invaluable. With the push of a button and a few minutes of our time we could see the horrors that we've avoided. The best kind of evidence, gathered from a million apocalypses, could save us from our own. It already has, we believe. Several critical eco-system failures have been traced to the extinction of a particular micro-organism (ultimately dubbed the Apocapolyp), a finding which saved our world. But it does something to you, to see the world end, so many times. We could save some of these worlds, with what we have learned. But our department doesn't have the resources, and we may learn more be letting them burn. Plus, they aren't real anyway. They can't be, because we are. All of these others are mere reflections, projections, the imaginings of our universe. The screams from these worlds that I watch are not the screams of real people, they are just echoes. The Revelations blinked through dimension after dimension on its way to Terra Prima.That was when disaster struck.Something failed. I'm not an engineer, I don't know what it was. In an instant we had come to a halt, in a dimension far, far from home. I could tell from the life sign readings. This was a small earth. But as my ship approached, I realized that it could just as well have been my home. There were cities, satellites, even a moon colony. A quick scan of radio traffic indicated the correct frequency for emergency communications and indicated a language mutually intelligible with English. I swung into an emergency landing sequence and flipped on the radio. "Come in Terra Echo, this is the survey ship Revelations. Request emergency landing instructions, over.""Receiving you, Revelations. You have permission to land at Bogota Spaceport, coordinates following..." A string of numbers flowed through the comm unit, and were automatically plugged into the navigation systems. The ship blazed down through the atmosphere, and came to a smooth landing only minutes later. There was a small delegation to meet him, the local authorities seemed to have realized where he had come from. They looked so real. He lifted the cockpit and climbed out of his ship. As he walked toward them, the welcoming committee exchanged whispers. His headset detected it and amplified it in real time. "He looks almost real." - John
  7. Good color scheme, some good ideas in the limbs and torso. Always tough to do something new with arms and legs, but you seem to have done so, particularly with the shoulders. The white triangle type pieces on the thighs should be turned around. The thigh in this kind of MOC should be rounded and its own unit, the curve of the triangle piece here messes up the overall outline of the thigh. You have to be very careful how you put a head on shoulders, particularly in an animal-humanoid combiner MOC. It would probably be a lot more convincing if it was attached more Onua style, with the neck coming straight forward from the top of the shoulder. Look at how a real rhino and a real elk's shoulder-head arrangement is. That kind of tweak can help you tons, it's a silhouette thing. Some cool stuff going on with the feet here. Kind of a high-heel shoe thing though, which you'd probably like to avoid if possible. Trying to integrate the heel more with the rest of the foot would help, and possibly making the color of those two segments the same so that they don't seem so separate. Color blocking can be used to visually merge pieces. If you wanted to bring it more out of the classic Toa genre into a more unique animal-humanoid genre, you should heavily alter the anatomy. The neck-shoulder thing is part of that, but you can also do such things as gving him a second pair of knees, making the shoulders way wider than the hips, bending the torso into more of a semi-circle, and things like that. Good luck. - 55555
  8. 55555

    The Ambage

    I generally concur with Will on this. In the event that we could get a large variety of orignial art, we could do an Art to Story collection, reusing the concept used in Cover in the first Anthology. I am not opposed to the idea of encouraging short poems either embedded in or as headers to short stories. However, I think an entire Poetry Anthology would take more time and interest in poetry than we currently have. Other really wide overarching themes could be "Heroes & Heroines" or "Journeys." A post-apocalyptic collection might be fun, if confusing to the unitiated. - 55555
  9. 55555

    My Mood Tonight

    Woah is that a First Person Shooter? Where you feed enthusiastic cats? - 55555
  10. Most of these were completed in under an hour and based on a given theme. These are six or so months old.Freestyle Monkeys Unknown The Forest Scientific Experiments The Code Sequel Exchange Stuck Beacon PowerI hope to have more of these soon, and I will most likely post a new topic when that time comes.Enjoy! Feedback appreciated. - 55555
  11. Keep thinking bro, you're the best one to figure this out. - 55555
  12. 55555

    Radicalism

    I agree on the radicalism point. Extremes are not inherently bad. - 55555
  13. Snap man, this is impressive. - 55555
  14. Have Space Suit / Will Travel is a sci-fi book by Heinlein, he has other good books too, like Red Planet and Space Cadet. R A Lafferty is awesome, but all his stuff is out of print now. - 55555
  15. I DISAGREE WITH ALL OF THIS. SON. - 55555
  16. 55555

    Health And Things

    Too bad about school messing up your sleep. But overall, this is great news! - 55555
  17. I'm a bit miffed that I didn't get to write this story. I'm pretty well qualified when it comes to five digits numbers.- 55555
  18. I read it but don't have enough to say for an actual review. Twas legit! - 55555
  19. I might want your autograph. - 55555
  20. The Artist's Complete Guide To Facial Expression, Leonardo DaVinci's Notebooks, and Clan Building 2 A Gargoyle's Graphic Novel.Haven't been reading many real books straight through recently, been out of town and stuff.- 55555
  21. 55555

    Visiting Valve

    SON. I wish I could visit Valve. Must be a great place. - 55555
  22. Yeah, we used to do that in Mafia but... - 55555
  23. 55555

    What is wrong with me

    FEAR MY STINGER TAIL. - 55555
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