Brickdoctor

Very nice work with the speeder! It's not overly complicated, sticking to an established design of landspeeder, but it looks just different enough, and you've smoothed it over and textured and detailed it nicely. The swamp, I really like the experimentation there. The greys seem like stone to me, and then you've got browns (mud?) and tans (sand?) in there, so with that in mind, I think it would be better if there was just — as odd as it sounds when doing something as organic as a swamp — a little more order and pattern to the flora. One type and color of plant over rock, another type and color over the mud, one type of plant sticking up through sandy cracks, another type growing on the edges between rock and mud...stuff like that. Still an organic 'pattern', but with some order to the types and colors of plant used. I can't describe it exactly; it just looks a little too chaotic to me. Maybe I'm just interpreting it the wrong way. The white flowers also stand out to the eye in a way that I'm not sure about. Do you want this scored, by the way?

I like the color scheme; I like how you worked the yellows and blues in there to brighten things up, and I like the greebling applied to the far ends of the walls. I also like the texture that's been added with the SNOTed cheese slopes down the middle of the floor, and I kind of wish that you'd continued adding subtle bits of texture like that along the walls. Compared to the floors and the end greebled walls, the other walls seem a little plain and basic.

I like it, Pyro. The style isn't true Cloud City as seen in Empire, it's more of a combination of that and the Death Star, but it looks plausible. I'd like to see more action with the minifigs, though; I'm not entirely sure what they're doing, especially with the Imperial just walking by.

QM Note:It's a Fellowship of the Ring quote. You asked her why she came to R'kilf; she's saying that even though she can turn people to stone and master magic, she doesn't want a life any more exciting than that of a magic shop keeper's. It's not approval or disapproval, just explanation. When this quest is over, I think part of the QM Commentary will have to be a tally of all the quotes I've decided to work into the quest.

QM Note: Ah, I see. I forget that other players have limitations like in-character knowledge. Nerwen, Throlar, you approach the keep. Ellaria, Arthur, and Ahvialyn are nowhere to be seen.

QM Note: Aw, missed opportunity to say, "Only a Mopag deals in absolutes." I'll wait for Sandy's response before moving you to the Marketplace.

QM Note:No problem; you're trying to find information, you decided to go to different places and do this as quickly as possible, you don't know anything other than what you gain from NPC's responses and behavior, so now you're confused because you don't know exactly what's going on. It's perfect! I love open-world quests. "...very well. Don't do anything too hasty, Lady Arbour." The elf walks away from you into the magic shop. "I've heard that your kind can talk to the trees and command supernatural powers, even if you are Blinded. No, I must ask that if you are to come with me, you come not just blindfolded, but with hands Bound and mouth Sealed as well. If you agree, then I will take you to my commander; he will know what to do about this." QM Note: Don't worry about the stats; I know that Ellaria is Immune to Sealed. But Benedict doesn't.

Someone posted a shot of the box art for all SW licensed products (As this is not limited to LEGO.) a little while ago. I'd find it, but I'm on mobile right now. It's a Sith-themed design with the yellow gradient SW logo similar to what we got in '05.Edit: Ah, nrg's got a picture.

"To be fair, Lady Arbour, he did mention that he was working with the resistance, and you said that you'd been hired by the Brobric Elves..." "You won't learn anything more of the resistance from me! Your elven rule will fail; my commander will see to that!" The man raises his fists, as if that would protect him.

"You underestimate my power! I am 'the Awesome' for many reasons, in this case because I am the one commanding an army of Mopag hoplites, and you are not! I do not need your assistance, nor do I have now any reason to give you mine. If you're not with me, then you're my enemy." The man's eyes widen. "The elves of Brobric?! My commander was right; you elves are planting spies among our ranks!" The man tries to push himself up, collapsing against the wall before rolling onto his side and scrambling to his feet, backing away from you.

On EB we usually require entries to be new MOCs, not previously seen by anyone else. Other sites' contests might not have that rule, but you would almost certainly be unable to enter two EB contests with the same entry.

Oops. Index updated.

You pick up the bottle, which proves to be empty. It smells like it probably once contained a cheap, weak ale, nowhere near the quality of anything in Scheherezade's Saloon and probably providing no beneficial effects in a battle. You can't find any cloth. Broken weapons seem common, though. Spear shafts snapped in two, swords shattered, bows warped and bent out of shape...if you had to, you figure that you might be able to use one of them for a short while if necessary.

"It is no small thing to celebrate a simple life, Master Regulus."

"Master Hybros, could you give me a Health Core and then attack from the Back Row this time? Miss Nyx can also attack from the Back Row this time while I repeat my attack."

It was a licensing issue; Hasbro has some sort of license to Star Wars board games.

I did successfully install LDD through Wine in an Ubuntu 10 (?) system that I'd installed to play around with in VMWare Fusion. I remember I had to log in with the administrator account to get it to run, though, and even then the graphics were completely messed up to the point of being nearly unusable. (Though in the case of the latter, it could just be an issue with the virtual machine.)

Clouds usually fall under two techniques: the use of lots of round, bulbous, domed parts connected together in various ways, or a cartoonish sculpt, flat or more three-dimensional, using plates and/or rounded plates. The sculpture approach you took isn't bad; you just need to use smaller bits so they look more fluffy or wispy (depending on the look you're going for) instead of blocky.

Well, there's lots of white on the inside, as we see in Empire, but outside it's mostly greys. (And I've seen tans used well there, too.)

I see. I still find it strange that you're all PMing each other only for one of you, not the originator of the rumor, to come out and post it in public, but, okay.

I don't get it. darth_tater is actively posting here already. Why would you get a list from him over PM only to post it yourself? Sounded to me like darth_tater didn't want to list everything in public; he could've done it himself if he did want it posted.

"If I am to be insulted and threatened by the dwarf who sought me out for help in my own camp, then there is little reason for me to work with it, Lady Elf, and I have enough men for my purposes. But you are not the dwarf -- impress me with why I should value your assistance."

Nah, it's okay.