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Congrats on your mayorship, I do like the corner setup and especially the painting, I like the level of detail you've got onto the canvas.

Yep that's what I remember my nineties classrooms looking like (mind you I don't suppose my classrooms had changed that much from how they'd looked in the eighties either), you've captured the look perfectly, especially the tv trolley... thinking about it I don't think I've ever seen one like that outside a classroom.

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Sir James made his way along one of the jetties of Arlinsport, accompanied by Billy, one of the youngest members of his crew. With trade among the islands flourishing and growth booming, the docks were full of fishmongers peddling their latest catches and in places there was hardly enough room to pass without fear of falling into the harbor. But amongst the hustle of the street Sir James spied out Gibson and hailed to him. "Come immediately to Arlinsport", Sir James thought, was easier said than done, seeing as he had built his fort in the easternmost island of the Corrington empire. Perhaps Gibson, acting Captain of the Jezebel was unaware of the distances involved when he sent the message, but I can't keep criss-crossing across the seas every month. TradeInThePort, on Flickr Sir James had been anxious for news from his ships after the recent hurricane. He had not been able to Captain Jezebel himself, for the last trade run, owing to need to oversee the construction of the fort. But now the ships had finished the business, unharmed by both the hurricane and pirates, although it seemed that Jezebel had narrowly escaped two pirate ships. Gibson led Sir James into one of the harbor-side buildings to conduct their business. “We’ve had a good innings with the trade this month” Gibson gestured to the coffer in the corner. “We had a stroke of luck in Terelli with Jezebel, the money we’ve made there should fund the investments you’ve planned for the new world for many months to come” They settled down to go through the monthly accounts. “Perhaps” replied Sir James, as he glanced over the ship’s log, “but a man’s fortune can change in an instant on the seas, it mightn’t be wise to spend it all at once”. The business of checking the books took some time, a tedious but necessary business and the conversation was not much more riveting so I’ll not bore you with more of the details. After they were done Sir James rose, took a couple of doubloons from the recently counted pile and made for the door, “perhaps you’ll accompany me for a drink in the Crossed Swords before I depart? Billy can take care this lot gets back to the ship. We’ll sail again in the morning, we must get going if we are to progress with our plans.” AMeetingInside, on Flickr

Nice Bakery! (As others have said the SNOT floor is cool, I really like it too). But what caught my eye to begin with was the dough in the bowl, for some reason that just really works for me. I also like the use of the 90's chefs head, makes me smile. And I am with you on the scrounging tile pieces.

67 blue baseplates is impressive!! But the three ships are cool too, very sleek little micro builds.

Thanks for the comments :-) Bregir, in the photos one of the boys is playing with the cat in the entrance to the main fort, its bad lighting inside, but you can just make him out. I suspect the same boy was responsible for luring the cat into the bell tower.

Cool scene I like the underground part of the build and the roof looks impressive with the height of the wall, works well for a factory. I look forward to finding out what this spy is up too.

And here was me thinking the natives were a friendly bunch. I will beware. Gruesome little story, I like all the expressions of your guys, even if the situation they've found themselves in is not so nice. Let us hope at least one Corrie gets out alive.

I like it, especially the fort layout with the courtyard. I guess you are right sand isn't really bright yellow, but I like the nostaglia. You can get green sand (like on Hawaii) so maybe Eslandola needs an island with green sands.

Great story, even if I am sure parts of it are grossly exaggerated. But the Semaphore station is cool, really well proportioned and well executed. It is good to see the Oleonders embracing technology rather than trusting to the Gods to save them.

Looks like your soldiers have plenty of supplies, I don't blame them for chilling out!

Can I recast a vote for Rosetta, wait I am not sure I ever actually voted for number 2?

Nice, I like the characters by the water's edge, especially the guy with the cross, very Oleon. The dark water gives the build an interesting feel and I like the mix of colours you've used :-) But what's going on above the bakery?

A couple of pics to satisfy our insatiable minifigure appetite are definitely not worth somebodies career. That's a shame. I mean, pics are good, but we'll see and even hold the figures eventually.

The baby has a blue elephant on the front, anyone else think there will be a series 17 elephant guy?

Too much meat, we need broccoli guy, tomato girl, pizza slice guy, milk carton girl, Swiss cheese suit guy, and cupcake girls to even the good groups out. Oh and I missed the images before but just found them, banana suit guy is cool and the devil kid is cute, I wonder if a Halloween costume will become a bit of a theme now?

Awesome, a formiddible looking ship. I really like the all black look with so many details in the design. And these guys won't be going hungry, I like the crabs. Stairs in black look good in the ship, wish I had some in that colour to use (I somehow doubt my pink, red or yellow ones would cut it).

Or if you want a variation on red, we could always have Skarletta...

Nice house, great foliage on the outside and I love the interior, very cosy. Your gf is pretty fine too. Also a pet penguin!

Jezebel would like to join the merry lyric. And Tigerlily would like to join Quick Wing. Thank you :-)

Funny story, I like how they used the clothes for sails, ingenious, I hope your crew find some land or a passing friendly soon!

I've bought stuff from the UK and the boxes were purple, ( I have no recolection of what my original sets came in). But the boxed set I bought recently was an islanders set, so made later on. But there are differences between the USA and European sets, in the US they didn't allow cannons that could be fired, whereas Europe was fine with that.

Turns out I did okay in the last trade run too, I was thinking of founding a settlement or something with the proceeds... A nice stable income... I feel like the seas can be brutal. But I guess really should be building another ship to send out into the mix.. Decisions decisions... Does anyone want to go into part ownership on two medium sized ship/boats, to split the risk of the trade runs? I mean what's the odds of two ships failing...??

If the task were to get passed around a few people, it could be good to get the event live streamed each time, or maybe just filmed. It could assure consistency and act as a demonstration for the next people... Plus 10 hours of dice rolls and and calculations could make for compelling entertainment :-) (well it might beat pressing the refresh button on the BOBS homepage. But seriously, thanks for all the hard work Ska!