It's not technically weird or wacky, but I just haveee to show this design that I saw in Serenwilde.
It's so cool!
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a scuffed mandolin bearing the stories of the road
This mandolin must once have been proud and shining, its cherrywood body
buffed and polished to a fine sheen, since in a few spots that gleam is
still seen. However, most of the mandolin's surface is now scuffed with
a variety of blemishes, each bump and bruise telling a tale to the
observant eye of the mandolin's many travels, the roads on which it was
carried and played, the weather it has endured and withstood, and the
trials it has survived. A smudged spatter of several colours of paint on
the top of the mandolin's bowl-shaped body clearly were picked up while
its owner was painting something; careful examination shows the
streaking resulting from an attempt to wipe the paint off before it
dried, not entirely successfully. Below this, a gouge running diagonally
across the instrument's back looks to have been carved by a blade of
some sort, suggesting a day of danger in mortal combat. A bruise on the
instrument's face reveals very fine grooves left by sand, perhaps a
sandstorm in a visit to the desert; below this, a progressive wearing of
grooves below the mandolin's sound-hole speaks of countless strums,
suggesting the instrument has shared its voice in a lifetime's music.
The fretboard is blotched and the neck slightly twisted by water damage,
and coated in a fine patina of the dust of the road, though it's clear
someone's made tiny adjustments to the frets to let the mandolin be
played despite the warping of the neck. A notch missing from one of the
tuning pegs is in the shape of an animal's tooth, though it's impossible
to tell what kind of animal it was. Through all this history of danger
and merriment, the instrument has been cared for, not to keep it from
showing its history in its lines and bruises, but to ensure its song is
just as sweet as ever it was in its youth, though perhaps deepened in
timbre by some of the changes, lending its merry tune a note of the
wisdom of time and travels.
This mandolin must once have been proud and shining, its cherrywood body
buffed and polished to a fine sheen, since in a few spots that gleam is
still seen. However, most of the mandolin's surface is now scuffed with
a variety of blemishes, each bump and bruise telling a tale to the
observant eye of the mandolin's many travels, the roads on which it was
carried and played, the weather it has endured and withstood, and the
trials it has survived. A smudged spatter of several colours of paint on
the top of the mandolin's bowl-shaped body clearly were picked up while
its owner was painting something; careful examination shows the
streaking resulting from an attempt to wipe the paint off before it
dried, not entirely successfully. Below this, a gouge running diagonally
across the instrument's back looks to have been carved by a blade of
some sort, suggesting a day of danger in mortal combat. A bruise on the
instrument's face reveals very fine grooves left by sand, perhaps a
sandstorm in a visit to the desert; below this, a progressive wearing of
grooves below the mandolin's sound-hole speaks of countless strums,
suggesting the instrument has shared its voice in a lifetime's music.
The fretboard is blotched and the neck slightly twisted by water damage,
and coated in a fine patina of the dust of the road, though it's clear
someone's made tiny adjustments to the frets to let the mandolin be
played despite the warping of the neck. A notch missing from one of the
tuning pegs is in the shape of an animal's tooth, though it's impossible
to tell what kind of animal it was. Through all this history of danger
and merriment, the instrument has been cared for, not to keep it from
showing its history in its lines and bruises, but to ensure its song is
just as sweet as ever it was in its youth, though perhaps deepened in
timbre by some of the changes, lending its merry tune a note of the
wisdom of time and travels.
It's so cool!
recipes gourmet 18080
You carefully study a cooking recipe.
Item: Platter Type: Gourmet Org: Public Designer: Arix
Ingredients: vegetables 16 spices 4 sugar 4 fruit 2
Mortal Reviews: Allowed
IMPORTANT: The main noun MUST use one of these: PLATTER
Appearance:
a peculiar platter of pungent pickles
Dropped:
A platter of pickled vegetables has been dropped here, and is starting to stink up the place.
Examined:
Smelling strongly of vinegar and pickling spices, this dish
consists of a large quantity of various pickled vegetables arranged in a
pleasing manner. Around the edge, thin slices of radish and carrot
create an alternating pattern, with tiny pearl onions set every few
spaces. A second row consists of miniature gherkins, of both the hot and
sweet variety, displayed in a spiral and interspersed with preserved
radish flowers and mint leaves. Finally, the centre of the platter
consists of several large cucumbers cut in half at various heights
surrounding one very large whole gherkin in the middle, creating a
tiered effect.
Consume:
Taking a deep breath, you take a nibble of one of the radishes,
and a burst of heat and tartness fills your mouth. Quickly, you reach
for one of the carrot slices, and are refreshed by its crisp, mild
taste. You make quick work of the rest of the radishes and carrots
before moving on to the second row. The tiny gherkins flood your
tastebuds with alternating bursts of sweet tanginess and sour heat.
Afterwards, you look with some trepidation towards the centrepiece
before boldy taking a bite of one of the cucumbers, and find it to have
a strong but not unpleasant taste of dill. Polishing off the smaller
pieces, you finally take a large bite of the whole pickle in the middle,
and find that for some reason, the cook has filled it with strawberry
preserves. Surprise!
Smell:
This platter reeks of pickling spices and a scent you can't quite make out.
Taste:
A tiny nibble of one of the radishes reveals a burst of heat on your tongue, mixed with a tart flavour.
Comments:
You carefully study a cooking recipe.
Item: Platter Type: Gourmet Org: Public Designer: Arix
Ingredients: vegetables 16 spices 4 sugar 4 fruit 2
Mortal Reviews: Allowed
IMPORTANT: The main noun MUST use one of these: PLATTER
Appearance:
a peculiar platter of pungent pickles
Dropped:
A platter of pickled vegetables has been dropped here, and is starting to stink up the place.
Examined:
Smelling strongly of vinegar and pickling spices, this dish
consists of a large quantity of various pickled vegetables arranged in a
pleasing manner. Around the edge, thin slices of radish and carrot
create an alternating pattern, with tiny pearl onions set every few
spaces. A second row consists of miniature gherkins, of both the hot and
sweet variety, displayed in a spiral and interspersed with preserved
radish flowers and mint leaves. Finally, the centre of the platter
consists of several large cucumbers cut in half at various heights
surrounding one very large whole gherkin in the middle, creating a
tiered effect.
Consume:
Taking a deep breath, you take a nibble of one of the radishes,
and a burst of heat and tartness fills your mouth. Quickly, you reach
for one of the carrot slices, and are refreshed by its crisp, mild
taste. You make quick work of the rest of the radishes and carrots
before moving on to the second row. The tiny gherkins flood your
tastebuds with alternating bursts of sweet tanginess and sour heat.
Afterwards, you look with some trepidation towards the centrepiece
before boldy taking a bite of one of the cucumbers, and find it to have
a strong but not unpleasant taste of dill. Polishing off the smaller
pieces, you finally take a large bite of the whole pickle in the middle,
and find that for some reason, the cook has filled it with strawberry
preserves. Surprise!
Smell:
This platter reeks of pickling spices and a scent you can't quite make out.
Taste:
A tiny nibble of one of the radishes reveals a burst of heat on your tongue, mixed with a tart flavour.
Comments:
