Grover Posted January 26 Posted January 26 Book IV - Prelude 2: Royal Visit to the University of Petrea Previously: Prelude 1: Queen Ylspeth's Tower Study With her council behind her, the Queen had travelled to Petrea, Kaliphlin, to offer her proposal to the University directly. The Professors of the University of Petrea had gathered in the main hall of the University to receive the Queen. They were used to being the invited guests and not hosting others, but it was hard to see that a visit from the royal palace was anything other than special, so they all put on their best robes and manners. Before she arrived, there was some worry amongst the professors that the Queen was going to try and interfere with the academic freedom of their studies at the University (a point of contention in the past with rulers such as Raavage), but the Queen had been very receptive to continuing exactly as they had been, only expanding the reach of the University to each guild. This was exciting, but new, and there was much discussion. “Your Majesty,” one old wizened professor began, “to be sure, we are happy to hear we will retain our will to teach, and expanding our campuses is an exciting prospect, but how will we find enough academics to teach? We are only so many at the University, and our vetting process is not particularly fast.” The Queen listened carefully. “I agree, tenured academic positions cannot be hurried or quality may suffer, and there may be too great a gap between students and professors if this happened immediately. We propose to begin the search for more professors immediately, and while this is ongoing, begin building new campuses. Building will take time, but there will still be a gap before professors can be fully vetted, so to cover this time, a royal grant has been approved to bring in guest lecturers, academics, and experts from all of the Guilds and beyond, each giving keynote lectures on various subjects at the opening of each new campus.” The professors quietly discussed amongst themselves, and then the head addressed the Queen. “Your Majesty,” he said with a slight bow, “we find this proposal acceptable, and we welcome expansion of our University.” Prelude 3: Unjust Deserts Spoiler Credit to @Kai NRG for the bulk of the build here with the outstanding mosaic floors, tiling in the walls, and the columns. Due to some weather, family events and other things, Kai was unable to finish and photograph the build, so I threw together the minis and redid a palm tree quickly for the pics, but I think the overall product is nice and the collab was fun! Thank you @Kai NRG! Quote
SimWies Posted January 26 Posted January 26 I'm loving the preludes and I'm already excited about where this is heading! Really nice scene @Grover and @Kai NRG Quote
TalusMoonbreaker Posted January 27 Posted January 27 I really like the turquoise and navy blue cheese slope design in the floor. The minifigs also look quite nice. Cool that it was a collab. I'm interested to see how the new Uni Petraea satellite campuses turn out. I guess all of the bards from the previous challenge will have new homes. Quote
LordDan Posted January 27 Posted January 27 Very nice work @Kai NRG on the floor and wall patterning! The Viking shields work surprisingly well for this context. @Grover Great work on the figs and story! Quote
Kai NRG Posted January 27 Posted January 27 Thanks guys! It was pretty fun to reverse engineer Gabe's floor from back in the day and add my own flair to it. Shield were Grover's idea and they turned out great, though apparently I did not get them all lined up properly. Feels good to be building for the guilds again! Quote
Yperio_Bricks Posted January 27 Posted January 27 I admired the build already on flickr. It's such a nice little scene. Love the minifigs! And the tea cart! Quote
funemlefox Posted January 27 Posted January 27 Lovely scene and excellent minifig parts choice. And some nice teamwork to get it done. And a nice use of the lion head from the old harry potter sets. Great to see the story moving along. Quote
Elysiumfountain Posted January 30 Posted January 30 Beautiful! And I love the arches in the background, very well done :) Quote
Ben S Posted January 31 Posted January 31 Great build and figs! It's a really cool collab. I love the arches and the mosaic floor, I might need to reverse engineer it myself Quote
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