KotZ

The excitement of a new game influenced my dreams last night as I was sleeping, and we were playing the game in VR, except you didn't give me a role Bob and said I had to help drag the VR dead bodies away.

You had me at "New game!"

Yeah at first glance it's a bit funky but then when you take a second it makes sense. LEGO math is so cool. Thank you! Who needs separation when we are Oleon and always right? Thanks for the suggestions, it is fairly grey, and I probably should do a bit more with it. I actually looked at the cathedral as inspiration but could have done much more. The next one should! I'll let you in on a secret, shhhh don't tell! I only made one and then grouped them in Stud.io and duplicated it like crazy!

Great work! I can absolutely see how the inspiration would lead to this.

Thanks! Setting it up took a good amount of time to line it up, but once that was done, I just grouped them into submodels. Honestly, now that it's done I'll probably just have a file ready to copy and paste into other builds since it was a pain. I think doing it physically might be worse because one wrong move and WHOOPS! there goes all the cheese slopes.

St. Axel's Cathedral | Medium art and culture build

It had taken time, but finally St. Axel's Cathedral had been built in Nouveau Oleandia. The cemetery had been completed earlier; people were always dying, but finally, the cathedral had been finished. But not all was well. There was some contention between the clerics. The clerics of Hades, having completed the cemetery had been making inroads with the more... accessible clerics. The lead priest of the town, unhappy with what was happening, decided to talk to an influential member in town, hoping that having a secular voice in town might be able to help talk to the mayor, Emile Perrault, about what was happening. The clerics of Hades discussing their next move. This cleric decided taking time to breathe and be calm might be best.

This looks like fun! Can't wait to hear all about it!

Thank you! I actually had the idea for the build after I found the shield spell piece in one of my unsorted bins and figured it could function as a magical shield/blast.

The party had ventured through the ruins for days, hoping to find the castle's chapel and the secrets it kept. Once the three arrived, they found only skeletal remains of previous adventurers. As the cleric called upon his deity to bless them and grand them mystical knowledge, a group of marauders found them and engaged in combat. And some moody shots with a little editing. Enjoy! Comments and criticism always welcome!

Thank you, and a brig it is! I feel like the capstan is probably so basic compared to what other people do. Ah yes "medicine!" Thank you! Now all I need to do is make some room... Thanks! I agree, the new BSB is really strong in that sense.

Long had he been gone, it was time to return home. Emile Perrault had gone quiet for awhile and having purchased a new ship, Le Retour, he reasoned it was time to return to Nouveau Oleandia and Oleon at large. Hopefully he still had coin in his coffers to pay for this frigate. He needed to check in with his close friends and crew, hopefully they would be back there, along with his wife, Elise. Cannons were to be loaded before setting sail, and the sails needed to be unfurled. Oh look, there are some cannons! The crew was efficient, even if Emile was not used to them and needed to learn their names. It was time to go home. So it's been a looooong time since I've built for BotBS and Oleon, and I want to get back in it. I had the base of this ship sitting around for awhile and the past week I just went in and built this to get it done. I'm definitely a little rusty when it comes to shipbuilding, but I think it's not too bad. It's essentially a longer, modified version of the Pirates of Barracuda Bay ship for the broadsides and stern, and then kind of... I have no clue. I think this would be classified as a frigate. And of course to make things harder for me, I decided to do string rigging, which I haven't attempted in maybe 10+ years. I guess my fingers are too large for the ratlines, so I didn't even attempt those ! Overall, I'm pretty happy with this one and it's given me some ideas for other ships or parts of ships I want to do for more BotBS MOCs, as well as diving into more builds for the game in general and the story of Emile and co. I still need to register this (I think we're still registering builds, right?) Side note, somehow I do not have single version of Emile's faceprint in my apartment I built this in, and the multiple copies I have are back at my parent's house, but this face was close enough. I'll do some digging to see if I do have one hidden somewhere in my unsorted bins, but for now this face will work. Hope you all enjoy, and of course comments and criticism are always welcome. Long live Oleon!

Congrats everyone! This was a great contest, and it was a lot of fun to see what people did. There was a lot of interesting sets used!

It is funny, going back and looking at just how hard it is/was to find things on the site. I remember back in 2004 and 2005 going on at school and knowing the exact word to type in to see a MOC I had seen before, remembering the tags. Now there are either too many or the creator pulled them offline.

Just a really stupid thought moving away from just Brickshelf, I know on this thread there was discussion of PayPal and similar to keep EB running without ads. I have no clue the cost it takes to run this site or something like Brickshelf, Bricksafe, etc., but if there's a certain amount of Patreon or donations to EB, would it ever be feasible for EB to become partially it's own photo hosting thing? I know there's already some limited amount for quick posts in threads, but I'm thinking at least for all the previous threads and topics that have been made that are going to have broken links due to BS going down. Obviously that would be a lot of work and probably not feasible but just throwing ideas out.