This week: TRANQUIL
Do with it what you will! (I realise it's probably more skewed towards us fic writers than artists - sorry)
Anders: he didn't do it, but HE WILL! (DAO spoilers, may contain DAII spoiles)
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#6701
Posté 19 janvier 2011 - 08:58
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Righto!
This week: TRANQUIL
Do with it what you will! (I realise it's probably more skewed towards us fic writers than artists - sorry)
This week: TRANQUIL
Do with it what you will! (I realise it's probably more skewed towards us fic writers than artists - sorry)
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#6702
Posté 19 janvier 2011 - 09:01
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Spartan Anders!
@Miri, interesting prompt!
@Miri, interesting prompt!
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#6703
Posté 19 janvier 2011 - 09:08
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Miri: Nice!
And Gala...
*fans self*
*faints*
And Gala...
*fans self*
*faints*
#6704
Posté 19 janvier 2011 - 09:45
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Galagraphia wrote...
Spartan Anders!
Aieeeeeee! You are the most awesome!
@Miri You want to make us all cry, don't you? I'm on to you!
#6705
Posté 19 janvier 2011 - 10:07
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@Gala Anders Butler! Rawr
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#6706
Posté 19 janvier 2011 - 10:50
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@ Surelyforth That's my plan!
Oh, hang on. I don't want you to make ME cry though. Please?
Oh, hang on. I don't want you to make ME cry though. Please?
#6707
Posté 19 janvier 2011 - 11:28
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Oo! Love the prompt Miri!
Also Gala - you have made my day. Spartan Anders is fantastic!!
Also Gala - you have made my day. Spartan Anders is fantastic!!
#6708
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 02:01
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@Miri, That prompt is either going to lead me to write/draw horribly sad or horribly silly things.
@Gala, I am reconsidering my allegiance to Athens in all things Ancient Greek. ;D
Finally, finished this...
And it's still Wednesday here! It's only late in the future where Miri lives.
@Gala, I am reconsidering my allegiance to Athens in all things Ancient Greek. ;D
Finally, finished this...
And it's still Wednesday here! It's only late in the future where Miri lives.
#6709
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 02:05
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I just said this on DA but... wow. That is just utterly fantastic.
#6710
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 04:16
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@Cave, I love it! And I love the little comic in the lower part.
#6711
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 04:41
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*agrees with Gala and Lupus* Your little darkspawn are excellent.
#6713
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 05:23
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So I think every week come friday or so I'll be obsessively checking the DA2 site. They usually reveal new characters on fridays and Alistair was revealed about a month before the game came out...
#6714
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 06:46
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Cave that is beautiful! I love your ogre's face. Nice work!
#6715
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 07:58
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I'm pretty much obsessively checking that site every day any way 
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Magical Anders:
.Magical Anders:
#6716
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 09:59
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It's Friday here already! Why can't BioWare move to... Australia or the east coast of Russia to live in the future too? I'm waiting for the update. I hope they won't feed us another genlock. Though something is telling me they will announce Merrill this time.
#6717
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 10:05
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That's right, announce someone we already know! Bloody Bioware...
#6718
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 11:37
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When Anders was seven years old, his mother took him to Denerim with her after making sure that he understood that he was to stay with her at all times and to not go running off and get lost. He had spent most of his life in a quiet village and so the atmosphere was a little much for him. There was so much to see and the noises and sounds threatened to overwhelm him so his mother took him into the nearest shop.
“Welcome to the Wonders of Thedas,” the most monotonous voice Anders had ever heard greeted them.
Anders had never heard of this store but he knew what Thedas was and so he immediately looked around, trying to spot the wonders. He had just reached for a little golem doll when he saw a head preserved in what appeared to be honey and quickly turned away and came face-to-face with a pair of glass slippers resting against a large jade oval-thing. He saw chisels and carvings done on stone, wood, and metal. There was an entire table full of a tube coming out of a bowl along with some containers of some dried leaves.
He would have kept looking around if his mother hadn’t pulled him with her to the front to speak with the store proprietor.
“Welcome to the Wonders of Thedas,” the proprietor repeated in that same dead voice. “How may I assist you?” He was wearing mage robes and had some sort of marking on his forehead but though Anders had never actually seen a mage in person before, he had expected them to look a little bit more…real. Anders himself sometimes thought that it would be cool to be a mage and to be able to shoot lightning out of his hands and heal himself when he got hurt but since if he was a mage the evil templars would come by and take him away forever, he was perfectly fine not being one. He would be even gladder not to be a mage if all mages were like this one.
Anders tugged at his mother’s sleeve. “What’s wrong with him?” he whispered.
Unfortunately, the mage appeared to hear him. “Nothing is the matter with me.” No change in inflection whatsoever. That was just not right.
“Then why don’t you talk like a normal person?” Anders challenged.
His mother looked horrified. “Anders! Don’t be rude!”
“I am not offended,” the mage assured his mother, his words coming out at the same slow pace as they had before. “I am one of the Tranquil.”
“What’s a Tranquil?” Anders pressed.
The Tranquil decided to answer Anders’ question with one of his own. “Do you know why mages are feared?”
Promptly, Anders responded with, “Because the Chantry doesn’t want to lose the power they have by being the ones to control the mages and so they take the dangers an untrained mage poses and lock them in a tower forever. It also lets them keep an army.”
His mother gave him a look that suggested that she would dearly like to throttle him but said nothing. Apparently that was one of those things they talked about at home that he wasn’t supposed to tell other people about.
“Magic is dangerous,” the Tranquil said as flatly as he said anything. “Aside from the tyranny that mages have displayed in the past, magical power attracts demons and spirits who seek to possess us and turn us into horrible creatures called abominations. Even those without much magical talent can be possessed and any mage can learn blood magic from these demons even should they escape possession. There is only one way to cease being dangerous and that is to become a Tranquil. I give up my magic and my emotions and I am content to no longer be such a risk to myself and others.”
While his mother bought a cheap trinket since they had stopped by here anyway and she always felt guilty if she wasted the proprietor’s time, Anders continued to stare at the Tranquil in horror. He thought it was kind of weird that you couldn’t get rid of magic without emotions. He thought that if he were a mage then maybe he might be willing to get rid of his magic to avoid being kidnapped by the evil templars but he could never give up his emotions as well. Did this man give up his voluntarily or did they ever force people to do that?
The Tranquil proprietor didn’t seem to care but then he didn’t have emotions so how could he have a problem with it? Fear and anger were emotions, after all, as was longing for the way that it used to be. Somehow the thought that someone could hate the idea of being Tranquil more than anything and had to be tied down to have the process down and then once it was over was perfectly content was one of the creepiest things about it. Anders almost wanted to ask the proprietor what had happened to him but decided against it. Either he was the kind of person who had no problem giving away his emotions forever or he was a victim who didn’t even understand why he should be pitied.
Anders did know one thing, though: should he ever turn out to be a mage becoming a Tranquil was the very last thing he’d be willing to do.
“Welcome to the Wonders of Thedas,” the most monotonous voice Anders had ever heard greeted them.
Anders had never heard of this store but he knew what Thedas was and so he immediately looked around, trying to spot the wonders. He had just reached for a little golem doll when he saw a head preserved in what appeared to be honey and quickly turned away and came face-to-face with a pair of glass slippers resting against a large jade oval-thing. He saw chisels and carvings done on stone, wood, and metal. There was an entire table full of a tube coming out of a bowl along with some containers of some dried leaves.
He would have kept looking around if his mother hadn’t pulled him with her to the front to speak with the store proprietor.
“Welcome to the Wonders of Thedas,” the proprietor repeated in that same dead voice. “How may I assist you?” He was wearing mage robes and had some sort of marking on his forehead but though Anders had never actually seen a mage in person before, he had expected them to look a little bit more…real. Anders himself sometimes thought that it would be cool to be a mage and to be able to shoot lightning out of his hands and heal himself when he got hurt but since if he was a mage the evil templars would come by and take him away forever, he was perfectly fine not being one. He would be even gladder not to be a mage if all mages were like this one.
Anders tugged at his mother’s sleeve. “What’s wrong with him?” he whispered.
Unfortunately, the mage appeared to hear him. “Nothing is the matter with me.” No change in inflection whatsoever. That was just not right.
“Then why don’t you talk like a normal person?” Anders challenged.
His mother looked horrified. “Anders! Don’t be rude!”
“I am not offended,” the mage assured his mother, his words coming out at the same slow pace as they had before. “I am one of the Tranquil.”
“What’s a Tranquil?” Anders pressed.
The Tranquil decided to answer Anders’ question with one of his own. “Do you know why mages are feared?”
Promptly, Anders responded with, “Because the Chantry doesn’t want to lose the power they have by being the ones to control the mages and so they take the dangers an untrained mage poses and lock them in a tower forever. It also lets them keep an army.”
His mother gave him a look that suggested that she would dearly like to throttle him but said nothing. Apparently that was one of those things they talked about at home that he wasn’t supposed to tell other people about.
“Magic is dangerous,” the Tranquil said as flatly as he said anything. “Aside from the tyranny that mages have displayed in the past, magical power attracts demons and spirits who seek to possess us and turn us into horrible creatures called abominations. Even those without much magical talent can be possessed and any mage can learn blood magic from these demons even should they escape possession. There is only one way to cease being dangerous and that is to become a Tranquil. I give up my magic and my emotions and I am content to no longer be such a risk to myself and others.”
While his mother bought a cheap trinket since they had stopped by here anyway and she always felt guilty if she wasted the proprietor’s time, Anders continued to stare at the Tranquil in horror. He thought it was kind of weird that you couldn’t get rid of magic without emotions. He thought that if he were a mage then maybe he might be willing to get rid of his magic to avoid being kidnapped by the evil templars but he could never give up his emotions as well. Did this man give up his voluntarily or did they ever force people to do that?
The Tranquil proprietor didn’t seem to care but then he didn’t have emotions so how could he have a problem with it? Fear and anger were emotions, after all, as was longing for the way that it used to be. Somehow the thought that someone could hate the idea of being Tranquil more than anything and had to be tied down to have the process down and then once it was over was perfectly content was one of the creepiest things about it. Anders almost wanted to ask the proprietor what had happened to him but decided against it. Either he was the kind of person who had no problem giving away his emotions forever or he was a victim who didn’t even understand why he should be pitied.
Anders did know one thing, though: should he ever turn out to be a mage becoming a Tranquil was the very last thing he’d be willing to do.
#6719
Posté 20 janvier 2011 - 11:50
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Lupus, that was fantastic! Thanks so much! 
Lupus' wonderful birthday present:
Lupus' wonderful birthday present:
#6720
Posté 21 janvier 2011 - 01:39
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@Sarah LOVED the prompt - Anders' mother was hilarious, and there can never be enough little Anderses in my view. And the picture is glorious! She is one talented lady!
#6721
Posté 21 janvier 2011 - 01:52
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@Sarah: Glad you liked it.
And I like how you set the prompt in his childhood. The tranquil would have to be really disturbing to a child. I'm kind of surprised more people in Thedas don't question what's wrong with them. (maybe wonders of thedas is just so expensive most people never go in?)
And I like how you set the prompt in his childhood. The tranquil would have to be really disturbing to a child. I'm kind of surprised more people in Thedas don't question what's wrong with them. (maybe wonders of thedas is just so expensive most people never go in?)
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Posté 21 janvier 2011 - 02:07
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Thanks everyone! -blush- I'm ridiculously proud of that at the moment. XD
@Sarah, Out of the mouths of babes, no? Loved it.
@Sarah, Out of the mouths of babes, no? Loved it.
#6723
Posté 21 janvier 2011 - 05:13
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*feels bad for neglecting the thread*
I've been naughty. Really. There are only 31 pages until our 300 as well. *drums up the love*.
I've been naughty. Really. There are only 31 pages until our 300 as well. *drums up the love*.
#6724
Posté 21 janvier 2011 - 05:24
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It's icy and gross here, so I've been sleepy and neglectful myself.
Hmmm... What should we do for three hundred?
Hmmm... What should we do for three hundred?
#6725
Posté 21 janvier 2011 - 05:27
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I propose a drunken all night posting party.
Oh wait, I do that every day
Another prompt? I think Gala's pre-empted what I was thinking regarding that. But by the time we get to 300 we'll know for certain whether Anders is in DA2 or not, so maybe we could have something surrounding that? Be it our crushing disappointment or our giddy joy.
Oh wait, I do that every day
Another prompt? I think Gala's pre-empted what I was thinking regarding that. But by the time we get to 300 we'll know for certain whether Anders is in DA2 or not, so maybe we could have something surrounding that? Be it our crushing disappointment or our giddy joy.
