I've submitted this to Grey but I'd like to see what other artists can come up with. I think it's an interesting idea. If it's something you feel you can't do in a portrait/bust kind ofpicture, I'll understand.
The story:
Commander William Riker of the starship Enterprise, was worn out and frustrated with attempts at mediating a dispute with the planets Naterra and Bajoran. It hadn’t gone well and neither side was budging. Because of the stalled negotiations, no one was allowed to go down to either planet. So needing an escape, he grabbed his Rago’s Flame staff and went to the holodeck, totally forgetting that he was still in his Starfleet uniform. He programmed his favorite game, Guild Wars into the computer and entered, where he was transformed to Commander Ryker, nuker extraordinaire.
There he spent the next several hours as a carefree young Elementalist from Ascalon, with no one to answer to but himself. He roamed Tyria, nuking grawl, charr and other beastly foes, while doing quests and missions, thoroughly immersing himself in this fantasy world.
While he was in the southern Shiverpeaks, helping King Jalis Ironhammer reclaim Thunderhead Keep, he remembered the trade negotiations that had gone on between the Deldrimor Dwarves and the Tyrians. He had time to think about this because in his haste to get to the holodeck, he had forgotten to put on his elementalist armor and so because the uniform hadn’t been infused, the mursaat had got him with spectral agony. While he was lying there “dead”, waiting for the henchman monk, Alesia to rez him, he remembered what had been done to make trading and political relations possible between these two groups. He then realized what had to be done with the Naterrians and Bajorans. Seeing that the stupid hench Alesia was just standing there, wanding a Summit Giant Herder while he was still lying there, “dead”. So he rage quit, left the holodeck and went to talk with Captain Picard about his idea.
Both sides were called back and mediations resumed. Riker presented them with his ideas and both sides agreed. The Enterprise officers once had once again, helped to avoid a war between planets.
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