Ayrlego

Sure am! These guys are all supposed to be Eslandolans, they are the crew of an Eslandolan treasure galleon Alejandro de Vargas.

A little something I'm working on that I thought you greenies may like!

It really is a very nice little interior. The bed and uniform hanger stand out as great details. Nice job and great story!

Hansella and the Epoch Falcon! Great build that I think really fits well in Stormhaven. I love the boardwalks, they are really well done! Great job!

Great job Bregir, love the textures on the beach and Montoya is true to character once again! Like I said elsewhere, I think the lighting on the night scene worked out quite well, great atmosphere! Hmmm..... actually you may not like the next part....!!!!

Thank you everyone for the comments! Using only 32x32 for the three did prove a bit of a challenge, especially for the jungle scene. I agree, the yellow came out much brighter than I had anticipated. Originally I had fewer patrons in the tavern but Bregir pointed out how bare and empty it looked so I was able to fill it a bit better. Shelves behind the bar would have been an excellent idea!

Hilarious build Captain B! and somehow quite believable! I especially like the facial expressions - great entry!

Great work! The colours and textures of the house are lovely (especially the medium blue). I also quite like the minifigs, especially the one in the green turban. Welcome to BoBS!

I really like the Dolfijn, especially her hull. She looks really sleek and elegant and I can well imagine Cooke's joy and Montoya's distress! The roundness of the tower looks good and the cannon on top looks enormous - Mooreton Bay is becoming quite well defended!

A very nice ship and great addition to our glorious navy - the largest vessel we have in the new world yet with equally impressive armament and crew! I like how you have made use of the Lego sails, especially the dragon one at the front. Great job!!

Lol, hilarious and very naughty - especially the title! Great story and somehow I feel it is quite realistic! Regarding the build that is a really nice design you've used for the bedside tables. Great entry!

CH4A | Pieces of a Puzzle | Corrington | Ayrlego CH4B | Plundering the treasure fleet | Corrington | Ayrlego

The slightly seedy "Yellow Mermaid' Tavern has been established in Mooreton Bay.

This is the second part of a multi-part collaborative with Bregir which will consist of our Challenge 4 entries as well as a free build or two. Hope you enjoy and please feel free to make C&C as usual! Also I plan on licensing the tavern as a small artisan in Mooreton Bay. Prior builds: In The Captain's Cabin Following builds: Arriving at Mooreton Bay _________________________________________________________________________ “Major Allcock, you asked me to notify you if our agents heard significant news from Leopoldis, well this morning I have received some troubling correspondence from my contact there” opened ETTC Agent for Alicentia, Colin Jenkins. “Do go ahead my dear Sir, what are our neighbours up to?” asked an instantly interested Dirk. “It appears a large warship has recently arrived in the harbour there, my man claims it is a sixth-rate frigate….” Dirk instantly sat up, that size vessel was larger than any Corrington naval vessel currently in the new world. “A sixth-rate? Is he sure?” he asked. “He is ex-navy, so I assume he would know.” “The vessel is from the Garvian Navy?” asked Dirk. “Well this is where it gets interesting,” said Jenkins, “apparently she was, although her status is now unclear. The crew are rumoured to be serving under letters of marque and it has reported to have been seen flying the black – so I assess it is currently serving as a privateer.” Dirk by now was quite visibly worried. This was indeed major news. The presence of such a large privateer so close to the Corlander possessions of Alicentia and Cocovia was very concerning. The fact it was a Garvian privateer, apparently using the the Garvian settlement of Leopoldis on Alicentia as a base was equally worrying to Dirk, who had a latent fear of conflict between Corrington and Garvey for possession of Alicentia. “This is indeed troubling, is there any other information?” asked Dirk “No, that is all he had to report, that and the name of the vessel, The Black Oak.” Replied Jenkins. “We must find out more. I will need to alert Commander Cooke and Sir Thomas Smaugton on Cocovia, but without more information on the vessels intentions the news is of little value.” Dirk paused, Commander Jonathan Cooke was the Military Governor of Cocovia and Mayor of King's Harbour. Sir Thomas was the mayor of Quinsville, the other Corlander settlement on Cocovia. “Actually Cooke is due to visit here on his way back to Cocovia within the next fortnight. I must have more information to present to him then.” With that the two men exchanged salutations, and Dirk rushed off to plan how to obtain more information. A couple of days later….. Davy Russell, former Captain of the pirate vessel Bonne Voyage, now convict in Mooreton Bay, entered 'The Yellow Mermaid', a seedy tavern, with a suitably disguised Major Allcock. Davy enjoyed a privileged position for a convict – while some of his more roguish former comrades laboured away in penal work parties around the island, the charismatic and educated former pirate had integrated his way into the Major’s inner circle. Using knowledge accumulated over his years of experience as a mariner and his contacts throughout the Sea of Storms and beyond, he provided advice and information to Dirk to assist in the running of the settlement. It was such information that led the two men to this tavern. Yesterday a sailor had appeared in the settlement claiming to be from Leopoldis and bragging about a privateer crew poised to take a prize so big, they would never have to sail again. Davy, knowing the Major was actively looking for information on the rumoured privateer in Leopoldis, had dutifully reported his presence. Dirk, desperate for more information before Commander Cooke arrived, had donned a disguise and had accompanied Davy to the tavern to find out more. On entering the tavern, the barman, an associate of Davy, silently nodded towards a drunken and dishevelled sailor in the corner of the room, who appeared to be mumbling into an empty cup of rum. “Hello matey!” exclaimed Davy. Dirk waited back in the shadows. “Looks like you be needing a refill of that there cup! – Barman, two more of your finest if you please” “We only be having rotgut and you well know it Davy” rejoined the Barman, slamming two cups of sickly smelling rum on the bench. “Aye well, it’s all grog ain’t it!” then Davy turned back to the drunken sailor, who was looking around blankly, startled at this sudden intrusion into his misery and yet not believing his luck in a full cup. “What brings you here friend?” asked Davy. “They kicked me off” explained the indignant drunk. “Who kicked you off what?” “The Captain kicked me off the Oak” explained the drunk as if that made perfect sense to all. “Just kicked me off…. Told me if I ever showed my face around the settlement again they’d keelhaul me…. Me Rotgut Roger. Keelhaul me….. “ As Dirk observed silently, the conversation continued back and forth at a rather painful pace. Davy draw out that the drunk, whose name apparently was Roger, had been run off the Garvian privateer accused of breaking into the rum supply – an accusation Dirk had no problems believing. What was interesting is that the drunk constantly mentioned the huge amount of treasure the ship was expecting to plunder. Could this treasure be from plundering Mooreton Bay? Dirk didn’t think so, surely there wasn’t enough in his small settlement to attract such rumours. However try as he might, Davy couldn’t extract any more from the sailor, who had now lapsed into a drunken stupor, and was incoherently babbling in the corner. The two men turned and left, Dirk generously tipping the barman on the way out. Now he had confirmed the frigate in Leopoldis was a privateer, and one intent on some large scale plunder… but where and or who???? The next day…. Dirk was awoken early in the morning when Xochitl unexpectedly arrived in his quarters bearing news. A Halosian man had been found by her father’s warriors wandering deep in the jungle. The tribesmen believed he was fleeing from Leopoldis, and knowing Dirk’s interest in that place had sent for him immediately. Later in the day, guided by Xochitl and her attendants, Dirk arrived at the scene where a tattered man lay. Several warriors stood around, although none ventured to close to the man, who was clearly not in a good way – pale, with a visible fever and several seeping wounds. Dirk approached and indicated for Xochitl to bring water. “Ho friend, help is here.” Said Dirk in a soothing voice. The man looked up, his cloudy eyes not really seeing. “dying” he croaked. “must warn the fleet…” he gasped. “We’ll have you back in civilisation soon” replied Dirk, although he realised the sad truth, it was too late, the man was clearly dying. Xochitl passed him a piece of paper she had found in the man's pocket. It was a personal letter and quickly scanning it Dirk learned the man was named Juan deLuna and was a treasury clerk from the Eslandolian settlement of Nellisa. “Who are you?” asked Dirk, “kidnapped… taken from Nellisa…. you must warn them….” “Warn who friend, who kidnapped you?” “Pirates, Garvians…… warn the treasure fleet….. the secret is known…. You must warn them….” With that the man made a final effort to clear his vision, unfortunately he must have recognised the red uniform coat Dirk was wearing as he gave a startled gasp. “You’re not Eslandolian!!” he exclaimed. With that what remaining colour was left in his face drained, his eyes rolled back into his head and he died. Dirk stood up, shook his head at the watching Sergeant Gowen, who now approached. “Most interesting Sergeant,” commented Dirk, “It would seem the pieces of our puzzle are coming together” “If you say so Sir,” replied Sergeant Gowan. Dirk stared into the jungle pensively and reviewed what he had discovered. A large Garvian Privateer had arrived in Leopoldis. The crew of the privateer were boasting of a potentially huge prize. Now an Eslandolan man turns up, claiming to have been abducted from Nellisa and who died fleeing his capturers – capturers who were almost certainly those same Garvian privateers. And the dying man clearly concerned with warning the ‘treasure fleet’. Yes the pieces to this puzzle were starting to make sense. Another fusilier approached through the undergrowth. “Sir, our lookouts are reporting the approach of Commander Cooke’s ship” reported the private. “Excellent, let us go and greet him and Don Montoya.” replied Dirk, confident he now had enough to make a report and informed assessment. _______________________________________________________________________ And a final image to prove it's all in the 32x32 footprint!

Yep, great story indeed and the action is very well done! I don't think I've mentioned it before but I especially like Sinbad - great choice of head!

A very unique ship and certainly different from anything else we've seen so far! My favourite part is the green roof technique, along with the bow and stern details - very cool! So are the armoured crew, although I'm not sure about the spear tipped cannons!

For some reason I picture the pirates dancing, not practising deadly marshal arts! So graceful! Lovely smooth building, the dark bley pattern and curved stairs are especially nice!

Apologies Silentwolf, it has been remiss of me not to comment on this great build until now! Firstly congratulations on the win! The concept here is a novel one for BoBS, and one I have not seen before. I really like it, each scene is really well presented and the book binds them together well (pun intended! ) A well done log cabin is always impressive and this one doesn't disappoint. I also like the corn in this build and how you have used the two different colours to represent it. NPU on the fence as well. For the second scene all that cotton looks impressive and the plough is great - I will be fav'ing that on flickr for future reference! The wedges for the freshly ploughed ground are also very effective! Lastly that sure is a lot of cows - but the thing that immediately drew my eye when I first saw the whole MOC is the cowboy with the giant hat - that is an awesome figure!! I'm assuming the hat is the one from the new CMFs? Unfortunately we have yet to see them arrive down here! Anyway an over all fantastic job, keep up the great work!

I saw on flickr and had to head over here to congratulate you! This is absolutely magnificent! Truly you are a master of this genre and congratulations on the well deserved tag! The fort itself is great, but what really makes this for me is the greenery alongside. As others have commented those trees are fantastic and like Dannylonglegs I'd love to see how they are constructed! Great job and I look forward to seeing more!!

Thank you!

Montoya's dialogue cracks me up! I'm really looking forward to where this is going! Hope to have my corresponding first part of this story posted by Wednesday!

Great story! I'm really enjoying this series!

Another settlement question! Mooreton Bay has 10 properties listed in the summary but I calculate 12 (working shown here). Has something been registered wrong or don't forts count towards settlement size? Thanks in advance!

Thank you everyone for the comments! Thanks Garmadon, yeah I noticed the missing tile after I'd taken the pictures. In my defence it occurs below the shelf and is really highlighted by the angle of the photo, but is not that prominent in real life! Always happens after you take the photos right! It was nice to have a soldier not wearing a red coat for a change! Thanks Capt Wolf, I look forward to seeing the MCTC arrive in Mooreton Bay! Thanks Bregir, I did deliberate around the level of the tower roof for a while, the original I based this on had the level one higher. In the end I decided on a shorter version to try and better tie the two roofs together (but also so it fits on the shelf! )

A very impressive array of cavalry and a very nice monument as well SilentWolf!