#floaty sky dwarves

[ecclesiarch-tato]

Hey @ people who know things about Age of Sigmar, is it actually feasible to build an army out of the factions that’re just leftovers from fantasy like, say, Dispossessed? Or are they best left as allies for one of the new AoS factions.

Basically I want to play dwarves, but Fyreslayers are too naked and I don’t have a carry case big enough to bring shitloads of skyships to my store for Kharadrons.

[magiikwoven]

in the interest of being 100% self-indulgent still pls write abt revas and the deep roads

    meta as fuck │ always accepting. 

MMmmmm boy this is such a wild thing to think about. 

Okay so for the most part, everything Revas knows of the Deep Roads is from stories, memories, or books. For most of her life she didn’t know about the Deep Roads. Why would Dalish care about the Deep Roads? They have the land and sea, they don’t need the underground. Her knowledge about them is very generalized stuff, things you can find out by asking a dwarf in the Merchants Guild or a Warden she might have met. So her take on it is very basic; This is where Darkspawn come from. This is where death lives. They are the cause to the fall of an empire that spanned the world. 

They were— intimidating, in a way. She saw them as cursed, plagued tunnels where darkspawn lurked along every stone. There was no sky and there was no fresh air. It was far too dangerous to have good tactics. 

So she never wanted to be in them, or near them. Mostly because of darkspawn. The Blight left some marks on her life that haunt her, and darkspawn are certainly not her favorite thing. 

Granted this attitude changes a lot during The Descent because she’s never been this far down and she’s never been able to talk to a dwarf straight from Orzammar so she wants to know more about how they record memories when she learns of that. 

She very drastically goes from FUCK THIS SHIT to i need to know more. It also feels weird and floaty for her down that far and so close to lyrium. It’s a lot of humming that she’s not used to, a different sort of hum because its raw lyrium. not that processed shit. it’s an enjoyable experience. 

may a little bit more eerie and weird for everyone else but still. by the end of it, she sort of just wants to venture into more deep roads, find as much memories as she can and write it all down. sketch out markings she doesn’t know. crests or something. she wants to help them all remember some of the last dwarves that fell to darkspawn. maybe names that had been lost for centuries or pathways that they never got to.

It’s an odd change, but she thinks its a good change. 

[peach-precious]

shroomery

Edmonton Green and unemployment has still been surprisingly, so fucking boring. Harry O got a bag of shrooms for his birthday and hit me up- a bleach blonde angel getting me out of the house than just a devil on my shoulder. I went to Seven Sisters and we took em at the bus stop.

The stars aligned or got their shit together and it didn’t rain for once that week, monging out in various different parks and soaking up the humidity was the deal. We walked to Finsbury Park and something was kinda sorta there but wasn’t so we timed an hour after re-dosing then took a walk to pick up.

Walking felt floaty and I’m sure I was secretly on one of those flat airport escalators- like how am I manually walking this smoothly by myself? The street generally felt nice as fuck and a pleasure to walk down, not just a trek for weed. But we still didn’t feel anymore than just stoned so munched the rest of the bag whilst strolling and smoked a j in the park- turning me onto the weird dollhouse trips I started having. At this point it had been hours even after re-dosing and our wishes for visuals were being ignored until this fucking zoot delivered. My brain went mush but still capable of functioning minus the super short attention span. Clouds were kaleidoscope patterns, flies looked wack and I woulda bet money on the trees being paintings and not even real. Being mashed in a park in the daytime gazing at the sky is like being in a warm bubble and 10/10 beats the womb. Adult version of the womb?? 

If it were a video game the next level up was tackling munch and at some point we walked to Tesco, it being the most intensely tragic thing to be in public and have people looking at me. Would have sold my soul for some massive sunglasses. Para to the noid. Walking down the aisles in Tesco felt like we were in a dollhouse and looking down we all were dwarves- not a bad trip but like I want my fucking long legs back, please? Before or after Tesco we got lost down streets which never ended and all looked the same and being lost on shrooms felt like a life sentence. I already secretly thought we were gonna die on this road and kept my pranging-out on the DL but then Hazza mentioned we were probably dead and this was what hell is like- just walking and walking lost on the same road and I was like “Fuck! The boy is right!”. 

We got un-lost and sobered up, humans weren’t so scary anymore, the pranging out was gone and I was left daydreaming out the train window home with the best songs coming on shuffle, having a wicky time. I don’t remember going to Asda on the way back but I got some sick sweets, went home and hustled my way to my room ASAP. Then stared at Avatar in confusion for a bit before passing the fuck oot thanks to vallies.

[ecclesiarch-tato]

So, uh.

Yeah.

[ecclesiarch-tato]

I Am A Mindless Building Machine

 So I recently stumbled across something long lost to me: motivation (and also energy). Seizing advantage of this, I built every unbuilt model I could find, then went out, bought more models, and built them too. Pictures beneath a read more, on the assumption that most people don’t want to look at a very long post containing unpainted, unkitbashed models.

First up were some Crisis Suits I picked up last time I went and played at my LGS. I gave one a Cyclic Ion Blaster from the commander kit, because why not? I was also sure to include some flamers, because auto hits are good. The drones will probably be run as a separate unit, since stupidly large drone hordes are fun. This is also the first time I’ve built an entire Crisis Suit team without attaching at least one leg the wrong way, which I count as a victory.

Next up were some Sniper Drones I’ve had kicking around for a month or so. Let it be known that I despise resin. I left the Firesight partially unassembled, to make my life easier when I finally get around to painting him.

After that was this Fire Warrior team with pulse rifles. I used the bonding knife from a Crisis Suit kit instead of the one that came with these, because I like the way its little flag thing flaps in the wind. I also gave the Shas’ui a markerlight, and overall I think he looks pretty sweet. The whole squad have those little bullet-looking things that are technically only for Breachers but I don’t care because the look cool. Again, the drones will probably be added to the horde.

Next came the Tactical Squad from the Kill Team box, featuring Brother Klargus and his Armor of Many Purity Seals (front row, far left. He has 14 in total, with plans to add more). They were my first Space Marines and overall I enjoyed building them, though there was an incident involving mixed-up arms. A lore post for my homebrew chapter should be coming up soonish (at the moment it is slightly closer to completion than the lore post on my homebrew Sept, which has been sitting in my drafts for almost as long as this blog has existed).

Then there was this guy, a Space Marine Captain I found sitting on the shelf of my LGS and bought because he looked cool and I needed an HQ. Once again, I despise resin. I added a helmet from the Tactical Squad because I can’t paint faces a veteran of many conflicts such as this guy would know to wear a goddamn helmet. He also got the power sword from that kit, since his model didn’t actually come with enough weapons to kit out a Captain. He had a servo-skull buddy, the the support wasn’t very strong. I might try to paint it separately and then add it back on. A brief delve into SM lore told me that he’s apparently a 9th company captain (the box said “Captain Master of the Relics”), though he might end up as a 10th depending on how my lore shapes up.

Last was this Arkanaut Admiral I impulse-bought back when the Kharadrons Overlords were first announced. I really like this (and really all of their) models, but nobody at my LGS plays Age of Sigmar, so I probably won’t ever buy more of them.

(I apologize for the quality, the only camera I have is a phone and my setup is literally “put the models on my desk, bend the desk light over to shine towards their front)

Anyway, next up I’ll be test-painting a Tactical Marine, to make sure the color scheme I mocked up doesn’t look terrible once it’s been given physical form.

[ecclesiarch-tato]

So, uh.

Yeah.