Halloween Workshop [>2000k prize pot]

Cleaned up and photoed!

I think it would be a good idea if on everyones finished entry post they state again what they want to be considered for.

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Raven , Xandra & Minami - Thank youuu ^___^~! YAYAYA I love my new title !

Kiya - O__O!!!!! Wow. I'm curious to know what you used to make the little gem thingies on the arm... things D| and the center of the chest peice. PLUSH IS SO CUTE : OOOOO!!

OMG Kiya the pic where the MKT is cradling the plushie is just SO awesome!
I think it TOTALLY fits Mad King Thorn's personality

They are made out of Scupley III (polymer clay) with a glossy glaze over it. Same material I used for the eye on the belt.

Sooo..... anything that stands out as needing attention?

@Kiya: Hard to tell in your pics if the outfit has the fabric on the side of the waist and coming out of the boots. Other than that, I see nothing wrong.

For myself: In Tyrian terms, where would Halloween fall? There's 360 days, but our year starts mid-winter - whereas the Tyrian year begins with Spring (Season of the Zephyr). I tried to just say that there's 30 days a month and just go to the end of month 10, but that puts Halloween on the 30th day of the Season of the Colossus (winter), so I doubt it is that.

Perhaps it would fall on the end of the Season of the Scion (autumn)? Or should it be more of mid-autumn?

Typically, winter ends with the spring equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere and September 21 in the Southern Hemisphere), so that would, more or less, be Day 360/Day 1 of the Tyrian calendar. I would assume at least Tyria follows the northern hemisphere, but where would that leave Halloween to be placed? :/

Edit:
I suppose an easier way would be to take the northern hemisphere's winter solstice (around December 21) as Day 1 for the Season of the Colossus/Winter, and work backwards. But with 5 fewer days... Hmmm.... This requires a lot of math and I've lost my mathematical skills due to disuse (I seem to lose a lot of skills like that).

Edit2:
I need someone to doublecheck my calculations (please): If every month is turned to be 30 (as per the Canthan calendar, which has 12 months), that means 4 days are "cut" before December 21st - making the Solstice closer to the 17th when using the months of reality rather than Tyrian dates. This should mean that day 271 (day 1 of Winter in Tyria) of the calendar is equivalent to December 17th.

With that, it should just be a matter of moving days. Since December would be 30 days, not 31, that would mean that there are 76 days to move (forward) in order to have the calendars synced up. This would mean what would be day 300 (Oct 30th - the new Halloween date) would be instead day 224 - Day 44 of the Season of the Scion (Autumn). Feels off, though given there's basically a month and a half between Halloween and the end of Autumn (47 days after reducing the number of days in the calendar by 5), I suppose it is reasonable.

Then again, Halloween could easily be on the Tyrian autumn equinox - or the day before the winter solstice.

I must say Oh_Frustration, that's really good looking. I really love the detail and color on the spirit.

A little update for my writing, the morning after burning and skinning a village, Thorn wakes up with a revelation...
The next morning came with a jolt to Thorn’s awakening. “BRUCE!” Thorn shouted as he dashed out of his room and down the hall. “Bruce! Where are you!”

Thorn ran around the halls, shouting for his herald, for several minutes until the timid man appeared behind Thorn as he passed by. “What is it King Thorn?”

“What day is it?”

“Today is the 44th of the Season of the Scion. Why do you ask?” The timid man said, towered by the tall king.

“But what day is it?” Thorn said, grabbing his herald’s sholders.

“Pardon? It’s the 44th of the Season of the Scion, nothing more.”

“Exactly!” Thorn said, shaking the timid man.

“I’m afraid I don’t follow, my king.”

“Almost every day is nothing special, with only a couple days in the entire year! Why shouldn’t we celebrate today? Let’s make a celebration today and every year from here on!” The king began to shout, facing the ceiling. “We can, no will have the perfect autumn festival, designed for… Me!”

“My king, don’t you think it is a bit… drastic?”

“Drastic? I’m the king! The people love me, and I love me, so why shouldn’t we celebrate our love for me?” The king glared down the herald, making the already timid man shake.

“But, my king… If people love you then why are your people rebelling? Why do you have to ride out almost every day in order to quell revolts?” Bruce said, regretting what he said.

King Thorn stared at the herald silently for what felt like several minutes, then turned away. Without warning, the king swung around, grabbed Bruce by the collar, and hurled him through a nearby window. The screams from the herald filled the king with joy.

A woman’s scream came through the window as Thorn searched for Bruce’s body, seeing it pierced by a flag pole. Bruce weakly lifted his arm towards the king before dropping it as his blood dripped onto the street below.

<Excited clapping for Oh_Frustration> Congratulations!!! It looks stunning!

Konig, I seriously think you made my head explode from that calendar analysis! Although, that may be because my brain is fried from grading hw for the past 2.5 hours @_@ Anyway, I did enjoy your story update (poor woman who had to see Bruce!) I wouldn't worry about getting an exact date, because fan fiction and there's wiggle room (if there's not, don't tell me, because I did aloooot of wiggling). I'll grab a pen and check the math with you tomorrow after I get some sleep and my brain stops hating me.

How I view my fan-fiction is that I want to have as minimal contradictions to canon lore as possible, which means that if something isn't known, I put the most likeliest case down (unless I'd rather have a less likely case). For this, for instance, we don't know when Thorn lived, so I'm putting him around the time of the Scarab Plague - which given by the information found by the Horsemen in Elona during Halloween, is a possible time for him to have lived (He went after a princess of Elona, who seems to have died a gruesome death, and the Scarab Plague killed out the Primeval royalty - after the Scarab Plague there were the "Great Dynasty" and the Shattered Dynasty Era which could be candidates, but not afterwards or during the Scarab Plague (for his visit to Elona, excluding the early years of the Scarab Plague). Gonna have to edit the ending I had written up, as I made a blatant error...