MKJoshA

In my experience, if you remove the arms from the torso they won't loose their grip by doing so. I have noticed that sometimes when I put the removed arms in a new torso, they won't grip as well, but when I put them back on the original they hold their grip just fine. It seems to be a slight variation in the torso; often the difference between Denmark factories and Chinese. What really causes an arm to loose it's grip is lots of play moving the arm up and down. At least, that's what I've found.

After a small delay, the prizes should be on their way soon! Prizes from TLG usually take anywhere from 1-3 months to reach the US, just to give you a rough timeline. That's a combination of TLG pulling the sets of the shelves and the time it takes to ship from Denmark.

I just tried my hand at lighting my builds. I'd love to know what you think.

Location: B06 Sorn Tags: Engineering. Civil Building Last time, in Ender's story: A Space Saga Begins Is it Mine Mine? Okami Bike Kawashita Hummer Where Was I Supposed to Be? Spaceman Spiff Black Hair, the Pirate Merry Men Adventures (Where There's Lava There's Water) Car On A Plate Too Girly Underwater Junk Aggressive Wildlife The Truth Underwater Segway Filing System The Coffee Shop At the End of the Universe “Turk,” Ender said, “we need to talk. I’ve discovered some disturbing news.” Turk had agreed to meet Ender in a Kawashita water purification plant off Sorn. The information Kirk had dug up had shed some light on the Zoid’s sordid past. Turk, the Zard, had told Ender that the Merchant Confederation was over exaggerating the Zoid’s part in the slave trade and genetic experiments that had been the bane of the Confederation for so long. Since Kawashita had allied themselves with A.L.I.E.N., Ender wanted nothing more than to believe this version of the story. But what he heard from Kirk was that the Zoids were indeed a race well known for the advancement in genetic mutations of other races. Ender laid all this information before Turk and said, “Well? How do you explain this?” Turk looked very nervous and started fidgeting and mumbling. Just then, two strangers walked into the room. “How’d you get in here?” Ender demanded. “The room requires a Kawashita access code?” The first stranger flashed a badge that said “Kawashita Water Plant Inspector.” The stranger looked at the paper and then sighed. “Jamie, please read my badge to me.” “It says you’re a Ka… Kawa… Kawashita Water Plant Inspector” Jamie finally finished. “What’s that?” “Don’t ask too many questions Jamie” said the first stranger, “And stop swearing at me.” “But Doctor, I wasn’t swearing at you…” Jamie began but the Doctor waved him to be quiet. “Now that the pleasantries are over,” said the man known as the Doctor, “I believe I overheard you mention something about the Zoids and the Zards.” The Doctor paused for a moment and seemed to notice Turk for the first time. “Ah, yes, well you would be one of those now wouldn’t you?” Turk looked insulted, but was still too flustered from Ender’s accusations to respond. “Well since this is year…” The Doctor squinted at the corner of the room and then continued “3816 that means the Zoids have been out of test subjects for their genetic mutation experiments for a few dozen years now. And that also means humans have had a presence here long enough to become the new favorite subject for the Zoids to run tests on.” “That’s not true!” exclaimed Turk. “The Zoids are a respected member of A.L.I.E.N.” “Ah yes,” answered the Doctor, “The Zard habit of believing that the intended truth is the actual truth. You see, when the Zoids were invited to be a part of A.L.I.E.N., a stipulation was made that they couldn’t capture any more slaves. The ‘northern’ half wanted nothing to do with A.L.I.E.N. and so continued to practice and slavery of humans and thus the Merchant Confederation was born. But the ‘southern’ half worked hard to reform so that they could benefit from an alliance with the rest of A.L.I.E.N. Zard culture dictates that the intended truth is truth. As you have seen first-hand Ender, this can lead to some very confusion situations.” As the Doctor finished Ender pondered what he had just heard. If what the Doctor had said then it was safe for Kawashita to be allied with A.L.I.E.N. It also meant that Octan had not been actively smearing Kawashita’s allies, they had just been defending themselves against a very real threat in their part of the galaxy. Lastly, it meant that Ender would have to be very careful before taking anything a Zard said at face value. “Come along Jamie,” said the Doctor. “I think the Silurian we’ve been tracking is around here somewhere.” With that the Doctor and his companion left and so did the confusion about the Zoids. OoC: I wrote this story to end my Zoid story arc. When Kawashita's leader introduced the Zoids as part of A.L.I.E.N. they had been very little to no lore behind the Zoids. As Octan started to flesh them out as slavers I personally felt responsible to defend my corporations involvement with them. The resulting stories, to my shame, came across as ret-conning all that the Octan players had done so far. It was never my intention to discount what other players have done, all I wanted was to make it clear that Kawashita did not condone slavery. After talking with one Octan player in particular, I decided to come up with the solution you've read in the story above. I hope that clears up any confusion there has been about the Zoids and my take on them in particular.

The sand-green and dark-red go surprisingly well together. Great work!

I bid: 4A Catfish Supreme 155 4A Cold Heart 170

Pirate Lagoon | MKJoshA | Sea Rats

Nice build, and I love that lamp post! NPU! I have to say though, it doesn't look very slummy.

Added!

See the previous tales: Wyndor's Saga: Chapter 1 -What Has Past- Chapter 2 -What Has Past- Chapter 3 The Green Dragon Inn Bustle at Treacleheim At the Gates of Budd-apest Dragon-Forged Blade in Treacleheim Charlemagne's Residence Dragon Taming Stuck in a sack, Charlemagne, Hildegard, Morpheus and Balthazar found it difficult to breath let alone move. They felt themselves being carried over a great distance, but they didn’t know where they were headed. They had been snatched one-by-one by a giant and unceremoniously stuffed into the giant’s bag. Certainly not the smartest creature around, what the giant lacked in brains it made up for in size.

See the previous tales: Wyndor's Saga: Chapter 1 -What Has Past- Chapter 2 -What Has Past- Chapter 3 The Green Dragon Inn Bustle at Treacleheim At the Gates of Budd-apest Dragon-Forged Blade in Treacleheim Charlemagne's Residence Wyndor, Charlemagne, and the rest of their party made their way up a trail in the Rakath Mountains. After Charlemagne had come back from Ulandus, he had kept some of their dragons around. He hoped one of them would be willing to help Wyndor. These particular dragons were trained to be comfortable around humans and other humanoids. But they were still dragons and as such could not be made to do anything they didn’t want to do. Thankfully these dragons were pretty clear about whether they liked a person or not and after showing their approval became very loyal. Charlemagne was explaining all of this to Wyndor and Valenice as they came to the dragon grounds. Wyndor spied one particular dragon that just seemed to call to him. He started to approach the beast and immediately the dragon came up to him. There was obviously a connection and Wyndor knew this was just the answer he needed to take on the Algus threat and allow him to return to Mitgardia. He and Valanice climbed onto the dragon’s back. “I imagine we’ll be able to get back home faster than the horse rides it took to get us here” said Valanice. “Yes, hopefully we won’t be too late!” responded Wyndor. Looking down at Charlemagne he asked, “How can we ever repay you?” “Just be ready to return the favor if ever we need it” answered Charlemagne. And with that the dragon began beating his wings and took off to carry his passengers back to Dalig Ulv. As Charlemagne, Hildegard, Morpheus and Balthazar watched them fade into the distance, a huge shadowed loomed up behind them… OoC: Please note that this build was simply put together to help act as pictures for the transition in the story. It's a lot of recycled parts and is very plain. Sometimes I find I need to do that to get over a mental block so I can keep building and telling the parts of the story that come more naturally to me. The dragon was built for the next part of the story that will be coming soon.

Your sigfig has been updated. And pilots don't always have to be flying you know. Just read the Rogue Squadron books to get some great ideas!

Great statue! I love how you were able to balance the whole thing!

Technically your freebuilds still need to include your character in some way or another, but this build could be explained as Monty's sigfig collecting info for his bounty hunter.

Winners have been announced! Please PM me with your name, address, and phone number so we can have TLG ship you your prize!

Winners have been announced! Please PM me with your name, address, and phone number so we can have TLG ship you your prize!

Good! I'll add it to the judging list.

I do agree that if you want to avoid spoilers you should stay away from this discussion page, but let's be polite about it please.

Since there's only a week left in the month, are we taking next month off for MRCA?

You can see some pictures I took here:

Since there's no "deadline" for BH builds, this gets a little tricky. But we haven't started judging your most recent BH post so go ahead.

Wow! This was extremely close! We have a 3 way tie for 2nd place for the Small Category that we are deciding how to resolve, so please be patient!

Previously: Recruiting at Marco's This Is Not the Wealthy Housing of Rassilon Falling Out with Foxx Cantu's Fort in Rassilon Freddy's Trained Chickens The Viper Jail Break! Cantu's House Even a Pirate Has a Sweet Tooth La Oleon Captain's Cabin Tropical Fruit Decision Lumber Camp Freddy's Big Haul The Golden Dragon The Capture of "El Polla" Swamp Raid Continuing to believe that he would gain more riches by striking fear into the hearts of all around him, Captain Fang planned a raid against a group of Corries and Oleonders who were bickering over the ownership of a particular lagoon. Captain Fang and his band of miscreants attacked the soldiers and slaughtered them all.

Voting is over! Expect the results sometime early next week. Right now, I'm super busy with Brickworld!

Antonio, I found you!