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[Outside the Grand Griffon, at the back service entrance, a caravan wagon pulled by four ostriches comes to a stop. A man in loud colored robes and a black turban hops down, waving over two young porters.] Colored Robes: "Get to helping unload, boys. I have a full load of good drinks and dried teas from the Nestlands for your master." [A second smaller wagon pulls near, and out hop four well armed folks with fair skin. Ehfrik Daffys, Wahl Zuuree, Lohp Zuuree and their lady captain Shay Liih begin helping the boys unload the cargo.] [A serving girl having recognized the caravan master, rushes in to inform Master Gabbold that his order has arrived.] ----------------------------------- [After the unload, Master Gabbold addresses the helpful warriors.] Master Gabbold: You four, come on in and enjoy our hospitality. Shay Liih: Aye, that we will. Our Min'stry 'as sent us to bolster Cedrica's d'pleted def'ns's. [she pats her very full purse.] Shay Liih: We will need rooms fer an ext'nded stay. One for meeself, an' one for da three lads. Pref'r'bleh near one 'nother, an' wit a good view of da main road. Master Gabbold: That can be arranged. Would the lady like a bath prepared as well. Shay Liih: Aye, that would be wund'rfl. An' when the sour red tea gets brewed, I'd like a chilled decanter and a tall glass of ice. [shay Liih takes from her purse (just the visible one) four large rubies and a walnut-sized pearl, and hands them to Master Gabbold.] Master Gabbold: Right away. Mora! Heb! [The earlier serving girl (Mora), and one of the young porters (Heb) rush up at the master's call.] Master Gabbold: Mora, take the lady to the guestbook, and get a key for room six and three keys for room seven. Heb, see to it these good lads are well served. Make sure that all the servers know their food and drink are on account. [The foursome of Nestlands warriors follow Mora and Heb down a hallway, past the kitchen and into the main tavern room.] Mora: This way misselle. [shay Liih follows Mora to sign in, and then to see to their rooms.] [Ehfrik, Wahl and Lohp look about the room for a suitable place to stettle. Ehfrik points to an empty table on their left along the wall. The others nod, and they head towards it. Wahl stops for a moment, spying someone he recognizes from Mpya Stedor. He waves the others off and heads towards Sir Wiscon.] Wahl Zuuree: Sir Alleenridder, ya left da wund'rfl wedd'n party too soon. [Wahl pulls out a small, well tooled purse from behind his back, and drops it on the table.] Wahl Zuuree: Yer share of da winnins. Squire Redbird sez iffn' ya don' show ta col'ct nex'time, he's keepin' eht all. Ah'll tell yah 'bout da rest of da stuff later. [Wahl walks off without waiting for a reply, heading to his party's table.] Wahl Zuuree: Whatcha order? Ehfrik Daffys: Lamb stew. Lohp Zuuree: Blue mead from da caravan. Wahl Zuuree: Bottle number three, right? Lohp Zuuree: Yup. Wahl Zuuree: Good. [The three lads settle in to eat and drink, telling the occasional outlandish story in a mix of the modern and clan tongues.] ---------------------------------------- [Later upstairs, Shay Liih is luxuriating in her warm bath when a knock comes at the door.] Shay Liih: Who is it? Heb's voice: Your tea, ma'am. [she pulls a fluffy robe close, and turns in the tub to face away from the door.] Shay Liih: Enter. [As the door opens with a creak, Shay Liih stands facing away from the door. After a few seconds of silence, Shay Liih slips on the robe as she steps out of the tub, securing it firmly before turning around.] Shay Liih: Come on, boy, an' set me tea on de nightstand. [blushing furiously, Heb complies.] Shay Liih: What's da cook got fer us tonight? An' be min'ful, we Nestlands folk don' eat birds. Heb: Cook has lamb stew. Shay Liih: I'll have that then. Go on, now. An' make sure a lass brings ma food an' drink from now on. [Heb rushes out the door and down the stairs, face still beet red. Shay Liih laughs at the boy's embarrassment as she goes to close the door.]

Brazil. . . oof! Now I feel okay about having to work through Mexico vs Cameroon. Hopefully I will get to see most of Spain vs Netherlands. And I'll have to contain my enthusiasm for the Aussies when they face Chile. I don't really have any favorites over the weekend, but have mixed feelings about Germany vs Portugal. I usually support Germany as long as they aren't playing the US, but I will be hoping for the improbable; a 0-0 tie. Yes, I think the US will do well against Ghana this time.

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Damaximus, I'll go ahead and give you a +1 for all your claims here, except the Hydrology Sill Water for MAESTRO Shop. You already claimed that for Lake of the Trapped Warriors, and it is a better example.

UoP DoH +1 on both claims.

UoP DoH +1 for your claim.

To understand why Batman is there, you have to look at some of his early Allenridders(sp?) threads. I invented the character Squire Rikhard "Redbird" Greisun from Mpya Stedor because of this. It is always good to see more of Damaximus' builds, even if they are just improvements on existing builds.

Practice. Practice. Practice.

I have decided I will have to abandon the current rebuild of the Nestlands Market. I will still build it, scaled back, some time in the future. I know I've promised this scene for so long, but it will happen. I have come up with a better storyline that tracks Sdair's and Minister Prndrn's travel from Petraea to the (LDD) Lost Vega Casino being built with Nestlands and Mountain Mummy capital. Part of the storyline includes Kaïn Revolword, and a golem still guarding the long empty treasury vault of the ancient Kaliphlin rulers. I also want to get something done for the remainder of the Sultan's Gate community build. And launch Quest for the Egg.

UoP DoH +1.

This reminds me of one of my favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. Just turn the snow to sand and replace the wolves with Conan.

Snow? We get that maybe once every twenty years. It's already bathing suit weather here. Anyone care to join me down by the water's edge?

UoP DoH +1 for both claims.

Here is the original post that tells the "need to know" about the Nestlands Clans. It is a bit of a long read, but can be an engaging story. Please excuse the lousy images, the MOC was very rough and I was working with a bad camera. Egg is a good nickname, coming from the Nestlands Clans of the Armored Eagle Goddess. They are a light flesh people, so he has the look. Since his father is a trader, he doesn't need to have the hillbilly accent, but throw in some vaguely celtic language to some of his chatter.

Kashifa ibn Mu'adh & Illarix Valoren, welcome to Kaliphlin. Illarix, is your tower located north or south of Qarkyr? The trader's son sounds as if he may be from the Nestlands. Here's the Nestlands Clans location for reference. Map of Nestlands by gedren_y, on Flickr

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Archers - Wat Tambor Infantry - Gunman Cavalry - Garmadon Good job all.

I'm with Gideon, UoP DoH +1 for Waves and Minifig Posing. The other is for rivers, waterfalls, springs and irrigation.

I use all tones. I use light flesh for my Nestlands characters because initially I wanted to set them apart from the surrounding desert peoples. Some of my more prominent characters have rare/expensive heads and/or torsos. I have used flesh and medium dark flesh for some of the more traditional middle-eastern Kaliphlin characters, but have used yellow here and there as just another skin-tone.

I'm loving the look. It has the feel of some real menace. The bat symbol gets to look as if it is made from vein lines. This Batman really looks like he will leave criminals broken with near deadly force. This batmobile also treads the line between comic design and practical efficiency. In other news, Channing Tatum has been chosen as Gambit for an upcoming X-Men movie, possibly X-Men: Apocalypse. Gambit featured pretty prominently in that story, as well as Wolverine (as the Horseman Death). Looking at the IMDb page, though, it doesn't list Channing or Hugh. That movie is slated for 2016, just like 'Superman vs. Batman'.

In Kaliphlin the southern Rakath Mountains are very much a subtropical rainforest. The Nestlands Clans of the Armored Eagle Goddess have many family heraldries.

I was in my local Target today, and the first bag I picked up was my number one want, Apu. It took all of three seconds to recognize the "Squishie" part. Target has the cardboard stand rather than the box, which are probably filled from multiple boxes. The display looked to have been picked over, with some laying on the shelf next to it, and the woman at the register confirmed that someone had been going through them.

I didn't see it happen. I was casually told that our oldest cat, Panda, knocked it over. I don't have a dedicated Lego space at the moment, and an excited cat can hop onto where I have to store my WIPs. I haven't had the time to build for the past week, and apparently it happened a couple days ago. Good thing it was a nearly symmetrical build. That will help when trying to remember how I built the support structure. That was quite complicated.

Bad news. One of my cats knocked over Nestlands Market. The nature of the build makes it difficult to reconstruct, but I will try. One other build was damaged, but it went back together without trouble.