[OOC] Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

[Dinh AaronMk]

@Byrd Man

Damn that's impressive.

[Vilageidiotx]

For me the personal best for a game was eight years. That game reminded me a lot of PoW in that we were all high school kids when we started and stayed with it through school and college and we ended up drifting apart because of actual real life and the fact that we did almost anything we could do inside the confines of the medium.

@Byrd Man

Looks like we have a record to beat.

[Byrd Man]

Get to it, bitches!

[Pepperm1nts]

Seeing '2 Yrs Ago' as the date this thread was posted makes me feel old as fuck. It's not even when I first joined PoW, it's just when it was posted in RPGuild. Vilage, Aaron and Googer must feel ancient.

[Vilageidiotx]

Vilage, Aaron and Googer must feel ancient.

@Pepperm1nts

I do, but not because of Precipice.

[Chapatrap]

Do people just start feeling really old and cynical when they turn 20? I'm 17 and feel young as a spring chicken.

[Byrd Man]

Do people just start feeling really old and cynical when they turn 20? I'm 17 and feel young as a spring chicken.

@Chapatrap

Well I'm 27 and I see the darkness encroaching!

[Dinh AaronMk]

Do people just start feeling really old and cynical when they turn 20? I'm 17 and feel young as a spring chicken.

@Chapatrap

No, it's when you start working in the public eye and dealing directly with people and you realize humanity is stupid as fuck. Even the self-professed smart ones.

[Vilageidiotx]

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Well I'm 27 and I see the darkness encroaching!

@Byrd Man

Woo! I'm not the oldest anymore!

Do people just start feeling really old and cynical when they turn 20? I'm 17 and feel young as a spring chicken.

@Chapatrap

You just need to get far enough to know that you know you're fucked no matter what you do, then you'll feel old.

[Pepperm1nts]

Do people just start feeling really old and cynical when they turn 20? I'm 17 and feel young as a spring chicken.

@Chapatrap

You don't start to feel old until you're twenty and you realize that in another ten years you'll be thirty and be halfway through your whole life.

Well I'm 27 and I see the darkness encroaching!

Would you like help crossing to the other side of the thread, sir?

[Vilageidiotx]

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You don't start to feel old until you're twenty and you realize that in another ten years you'll be thirty and be halfway through your whole life.

@Pepperm1nts

Once I get too old, imma have my mind uploaded onto the internet so I can just shitpost for all eternity.

[Pepperm1nts]

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Once I get too old, imma have my mind uploaded onto the internet so I can just shitpost for all eternity.

@Vilageidiotx

Imagine in the future you have to deal with people that have uploaded themselves onto the internet, so they're like viruses and pop-ups.

[Chapatrap]

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Imagine in the future you have to deal with people that have uploaded themselves onto the internet, so they're like viruses and pop-ups.

@Pepperm1nts

Or Youtube comments.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Alright m80s, I did some fishing and I finally got an artist who will charge a more reasonable price of roughly 100 dollars. I'm also waiting on another guy tho.

The guy I got a return on is Parkurtommo. Here's some samples:




Another guy is someone I new from another forum, I shot him a message but he hasn't responded yet. But he runs by the name of Smoox and here's some samples:




Of course to get quotes I offered an idea of what some of the simpler-sounding, and more readily explainable ones were. So before we start pooling dosh we need to decide on a final prompt of the list Vilage provided of stuff he wants to see, or if there's anything else worth having done.

The basic idea of when I want to get back to them is after Christmas and when that all cools down. Which I hope is more than a generous enough time to try and be a coherent committee.

[Byrd Man]

I prefer the Parkurtommo guy a bit more.

[Chapatrap]

Parkurtommo has some truly cool, precipice-y art. I'd vote him too.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Well it looks like two for the guy I could reach so far. The base quote he gave me was about 100-110 dollars.

But what does he draw? Depending on what we tell him the price may rise so keep that in mind, the more complex the more expensive it's going to be. I did tell him I would pay half up-front and half-later so when we make the final decision a starting pool of a hundred between us wage-earners will get most of the first half, but we'll need to make it up later.

[Vilageidiotx]

Suggestion list from a few pages back so we can work from it.

1: The Battle of Djibouti, as suggested by Byrd. Googer and I are flattered as fuck.
2: Viktor and Juhani anything. Seriously, the importance of that story line in the development of what PoW became should not be understated.
3: Canadian beach landing in Cali. Not a serious scene, but still fucking iconic.
4: Assassination of Tejero. Big scene, fairly momentous.
5: Battle of Milan. Probably the most enjoyable pre-Spanish-Ethiopian War battle in the entire RP. Tanks circling the palacia or whatever that building was called and tearing it all to shit.
6: Though the big China scenes are pretty well covered by Aaron's art, the general ambience of the Chinese Opera captures a lot of China in one swath, in terms of setting and important characters.
7: To me, Spain's iconic image is wealthy people and politicians partying on zeppelins above Madrid.
8: Sevan. I might be partial to Sevan because I spent so much time writing there, but I think it deserves a little art.
9: I don't even know if this is canon anymore, but as it strange as it sounds, the Spanish and American battle during the blockade of Boston is iconic to PoW for me. An African agent watching from a telephone booth as Spanish and American ships duke it out in the distance, and a New English freighter chugs forward full of near-privateers... I dunno, I think that is a great symbol of early MCF precipice really.

Or, I guess alternatively some mix, though that might be ambitious.

[Pepperm1nts]

Another cool scene would be when Googer had a FUCKING PLANE LIFT A TRAIN OFF THE TRACKS AND FLEW AWAY WITH IT

[Dinh AaronMk]

Another cool scene would be when Googer had a FUCKING PLANE LIFT A TRAIN OFF THE TRACKS AND FLEW AWAY WITH IT

@Pepperm1nts

Helicopter*