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Thanks! Thank you! And I didn't know that channel existed, so thanks for pointing me to that also!

Thanks ExeSandbox! Thanks Niku! Yeah, same here, though Ninjago gets a pass from me. Glad you like the angles! One of my goals for this build was to get non-orthogonal with the torii gate and the roof. Thanks!

This is great! Really like the low roof, and using dark bley provides some extra contrast than the usual light bley gives.

Part I by @W Navarre Part II by @KevinyWu Part III by @ZlatanXVIGustaf La Cospirazione: Part IV Alesio arrived late to the De Fiori castle in Tergiversa. He was weak, weary, and haggard, and as soon as he entered he felt in his heart that something was wrong. “Capri!” he cried loudly, and the echoes of his shout reverberated off all the walls, down the long halls, and throughout the castle. But there was no answer. Alesio dashed forward, slamming through all the doors of all the rooms, wildly calling Capri, and Cadgie, and the servants! Not a soul was there! The servants had all gone out deeply frightened, some of them searching with the royal guard for Capri and others burying Alesio’s brother. It took the wounded man only a few hours to learn all this, and in spite of his wounded side, with gritted teeth and burning eyes he leapt on his horse and rode madly back to Illaryian. Later that day the doors of the Palazzo of Illaryian burst wide open with a resounding clang. “Where is Capri!” roared Alesio with all of his might. “Luca di Carlo, son of an olive merchant, I demand your presence!” Alesio flung a heavy gauntlet onto the ground, and the tiled floor cracked. It was Cadgie De Fiori’s gauntlet. Footsteps then sounded in the corridor, and Luca appeared all out of breath, running up to Alesio and grasping his hand. “What is it man? Why, you are pale! Accidenti! Alesio, you frighten me!” Luca cried, startled. “Capri has been kidnapped,” Alesio flung out the words. “My brother is dead!” Luca gasped and gnashed his teeth. “Impossibile!” Luca dropped Alesio’s hand and spinning round paced the length of the room. Alesio sunk back against the wall. “The only clue left was this, sir,” he said, holding out a small slip of paper. Luca leapt up and grasped it eagerly. “Signore, Ercilia has given me the word. Capri is to be taken, and the Captain of the Guard sla–” The paper was torn, but Luca grasped at the ray of hope it offered. “Ercilia De Cioto!” he cried eagerly, marching to the edge of the hall and crying, “Man!” As a footman approached Luca looked briefly at Alesio, and then he spoke rapidly. “To the stables! Fit out the horses, order the Royal Guard to arms! We march for the De Cioto palace!” “The palace of the Amancios, signore?” the footman gasped. “The Amancios,” he warned, trembling, “still are very powerful, although the Rego is dead, and Ercilia is a popular and influential friend of the people.” “Go, man! Il demone take the Ciotos and their influence,” he cried excitedly, “if they dare go about murdering the Fioris in secret, besides the very throne! Come Alesio! Peste, man, you do not even mention your own wound,” Luca sprang to Alesio’s side to offer his hand. Alesio pushed himself off the wall and bowed, refusing the hand but saying, “It is a trifle, sir. Do you think there is hope, Luca?” he added with a slight tremor. Luca di Carlo’s eyes glinted. “They will pay,” he averred. “And we will find Capricia! Even if every Cioto has to be interrogated and each of their mansions ransacked! To horse!” And without another word they sped out of the room. .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Very early the next morning, just after dawn, the doors of Amancio Palace were crashed through with a deafening noise. Luca leapt off his horse and shouted with a powerful voice, “Smash every piece of furniture, search every wall, and do not let a man escape! Find the girl!” “Capri De Fiori!” cried Alesio. “Where is she?” He sprinted up the stairs as the soldiers marched through the archways and doors, crushing and searching everything, everywhere, and seizing the weapons from the startled guards. Meanwhile Arama De Cioto, a thin girl with a long flowing black cape around her neck, snatched a narrow rapier from the wall and leapt down the stairs at the head of a group of retainers. Alesio met her midway and dashed aside one of her men. “De Cioto!” he snapped, adjusting the sword in his hand. “Do not cross swords with me, girl: tell me, where is Capri, my daughter?!” “Signore De Fiori!” she cried astonished in response. “I see there is blood on your mail,” she breathed sharply, dashing up with her sword and trapping Alesio against a corner of the balustrade. She raised her hand and her retainers passed them both quickly. Descending the stairs they threw themselves upon the Royal Guard with fury and loud cries and shouting broke out. Luca watched nervously, pacing up and down and shouting commands to his men. Then he saw Alesio with Arama De Cioto on the parapet of the staircase and with a start he rushed towards them. As there were soldiers on the ground floor, blocking off the stairs, Luca jumped up and grasped the top of the balustrades. As he pulled himself up he saw Alesio fling the slim girl back and heard him say, “What do you have against us Fiori, you Ciotos? Hand me back my girl and we will leave you in all the peace your mind can achieve!” The girl shook her head and laughed. “Capri is dead, signore!” Before Luca could leap down and grab Alesio’s hand he sprang forward and struck Arama a fierce blow at her side. Her thin rapier shattered in two and she shrank back as the sword cut through her leather coat and blood seeped through it, turning it from blue to red. “How dare you,” breathed Alesio with fury. Luca put his hand on De Fiori’s shoulder. But just then a shout rang out. “Capri! Capri è vivo!” cried the soldiers of the Royal Guard. “Out, now out of here!” Luca exclaimed, grasping Alesio’s cape and dragging him towards the lower stairs. Luca let him go, looking back as he sprang down the stairs. The sound of shouting and approaching men could be heard from the floor above. Alesio waited no longer and muttered, “You will pay dearly, De Ciotos.” Arama clinched her firsts and watched them leave as her men rushed past her. Then she leapt vivaciously up the stairs holding her side tightly. Just as she reached the window the troops had forced their way out, with Capri De Fiori, and were hurrying to their gondolas and horses. “Goodbye, Luca,” she murmured with laughing eyes and a quick smile. “Ci vediamo domani!” .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. The palazzo grounds of Illaryian once more: “It is quite difficult, girl,” Luca said with a sigh. “You can’t imagine it. If only you were Rego.” “I don’t want to be Rego, capretto.” “Well what happened. Don’t leave out a single detail.” “Very well, signore. The assassin failed to kill Alesio.” “I noticed,” Luca remarked dryly. “And my guard took Capri as your men dueled the Captain of the Guard. The paper slipped out of my hand. Touché, you know that, signore, it was your suggestion. When Alesio came to the De Fiori castle in Tergiversa he found it empty, and he came here. You managed it all nicely from there. Il fastidio, my side hurts. Well, what would he have said had he known that Luca Di Carlo had hired the assassin who slipped my name to him, and the men who killed Cadgie? And them all?” She laughed merrily. “They are certainly unsuspecting.” “Accidenti! It is over at least,” Luca rejoined, flinging a gold coin into a pool in the courtyard. “Over?” laughed the girl. She blinked her eyes. “I doubt that! It will be over when you find a knife in your back,” she added. “That is so, Arama di Athena De Cioto,” Luca wryly frowned, with a cheerful look at the girl by his side. “Thank you for pointing it out, De Cioto. That is just so.” .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.

Jeez, it's been a year? How time flies! Is your intent for this to be a total Mitgardian compendium of plant life, including flora created by others?

The speed at which Mophet grows is fairly astounding, I don't know where you find the time to build. This is not the first time I've liked your usage of the tooth pieces! Tiling the 2nd story porch would have been a good idea though.

Love that well on the wall in the back! I think it's cool how with the low angle shot makes the garden look sort of overgrown but in the overhead there's clearly a path.

This is just lovely. No complaints, only praise. Well composed, nice shaping, sweet techniques, color choices and usage, etc.

The minifig hands for thatched roofs never fails! Really nice MOC here, love the stone building and how you incorporated those 3-leaf pieces into the vines.

The difference the "short sleeves" arms make is surprising. Love the variety you've come up with for each position. Can't wait to see more!

Nice entry! I like the trees and I'm not sure I've ever seen those bird pieces in white before.

Cheese wedges at the top create a nice effect. Working in those teacup plates as decorative elements on the wall echos the wallpaper bricks used above them. Nice MOC.

Interesting color choice to combine white with dark tan here. I can't decide if I think it's successful or not honestly. As others have mentioned above, the window with the cheese slopes and wand assembly is pretty neat though.

Thanks Grover! W Navarre and I were basically trading studs (with me mostly stealing them away) to keep our team to the average stud count requirement, so the angled approach was really the only way to do it with the depth I was looking for in the MOC. Glad you liked our builds!

Y'all noticed this Summer Joust category, right?

Nice interior! The big beams at the top are pleasantly beefy and the mosaic/inlay in the desk with the busts and statue really scream "Varlyrio" to me.

This guy is cool. I like that you chose a radically different scale than minifig scale but maintained a lot of the minifig proportions. NPU for what I think is that weird angled bar on a stud from the superhero CMFs to help get the hands to close.

Thanks! KevinyWu and I both lifted the water plants from Zlatan's build for this and his previous MOCs for Varlyrio; I thought they gave us a common thread among our team's exterior builds. Yeah, that one is my favorite too.

Even the rough drafts of this were amazing! The arch in the dark green section came out of nowhere though and the light bley & white play so well next to the green. Making it a bit of a balcony was a great way to force some depth into what could have been a large flat building facade near the center of the picture. This is going to be an inspirational MOC for me for a while.

I really like the nougat building in the back. Those lion head columns pop. Stained glass window is a lovely accent with good color choices and the little bit of angle to the left wall serves to open the build up nicely.

Disagree with you Kai. This blows my mind, but my favorite part of this MOC is actually the sparkly bricks! The columns and brick-built curtains are cool, but the fact that the sparkly bricks actually somehow work is pretty darn amazing.

Thanks for compiling! Good call on the music too.

Aurore: You are sooooooo good at creating new plants for Historica! We should all be at least a little jealous of your skill in this regard. Color choices here pop like crazy obviously too. LJ: Love all the twisting vines/trees and the airiness overall. Very LotR inspired I think, and I like it. Basiliscus: Quite the build! The tower grabs attention and the little farmhouse is perfectly quaint. I think you really nailed the opposing troops though. Colors and weapons of each make the sides obvious and the fig posing for the battle scenes is well executed. Grover: Wow dude. Amazing interior on a small footprint. The staircases are awesome but my favorite part is the burning vine, great detail that. Oh, and a rock monster! You guys worked in a rock monster! Inspired bit of the story, reaching all the way back to the beginning of GoH and bringing an elemental back!

Ok, first off, kudos to this team for figuring out how to post in the same topic in succession without letting anyone else get between them. Forum wizardry I assume. Puvel: I love that floor technique with that camera angle; perfect for a hardwood floor effect especially with the square footage you've got here. (One of these days, I'm going to use it...) I wish the (great) attention to detail you showed on the outside also moved into the interior especially since the 2 stud thick walls would have let you use clips and SNOT bricks to hang all sorts of stuff to the walls. Ayrlego: Standouts for me here are the overstuffed window flower boxes and especially that low and wide profile arch. Is the structure of the arch just one of the 12 stud long arches? kahir88: I really like the black and read boat! Color blocking is really nicely done and of course the monster at the bow is cool--reminds me of the Dragon Masters sets of the mid-1990s, which is a very good thing. Garm: Like I said on Flickr already, the walls are fantastic with them being a single color and giving the impression of carved details. Floor is special too!

I really like this. The beast is massive and black LEGO's legendary difficult relationship with photography probably actually helps in this MOC rather than hinders. The minifig is quite the nice mashup too.