Saturday, February 15, 2014

Ch. 2, Page 18

And run away they did.  Some did not plan to stop until they returned to the City of Greyhawk.  Some only intended to run for cover in the woods, but lost their nerve as soon as they saw their comrades.  It was a complete rout.

Captain Drake was no fool and did not stand his ground within easy reach of those arrows either.  He fell back only as far as their long range and tried one last time to rally his men to him.
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  1. grodogFebruary 15, 2014 at 10:24 AM

    Very nice!---Now I wonder if this other entrance into the fort will tie back to one of the other entrances in the dungeons of the Castle? :D

    Oh, and interesting perspective on the last picture, Mike: I saw it at first as looking down from the ceiling toward the floor, where the floor was a grate (and presumably the hidden entrance) and the trapdoor as a regular door viewed from above, and the cask standing upright; then I looked again and saw the grate as a jail cell wall, with the trapdoor in the door and a wooden ceiling, and the cask being viewed horizontally laying on its side.

    Allan.

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  2. ScottFebruary 15, 2014 at 10:34 AM

    Your second interpretation is correct, Allan, though that's supposed to be an embedded wine rack in the back wall instead of a barred jail cell wall. My fault -- I gave Mike a horribly sparse description of the wine cellar.

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  3. Mike BridgesFebruary 15, 2014 at 12:23 PM

    Allan: Interesting comment. I see it now. Yeah I probably rushed the last frame but I do like how it turned out from any perspective. Those bandits were drinking well at one time.

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  4. Mystic ScholarFebruary 15, 2014 at 1:28 PM

    Yeah, the more you look at it, the more obvious those two bottles.

    Very nice indeed!

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  5. TracyFebruary 16, 2014 at 6:14 AM

    Take the 'e' off of 'route' so it becomes 'rout.

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  6. ScottFebruary 16, 2014 at 7:16 AM

    The rout is now officially complete.

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  7. grodogFebruary 16, 2014 at 8:17 AM

    Agreed, I just liked that the picture worked both ways, and I'm sure I only saw the jail cell because I was thinking floor grate initially---the wine cellar makes much more sense contextually from the dialogue as well as the casks: I was just thinking that the "wine cellar" might have been a converted jail cell, I suppose, rather than a real wine cellar ;)

    Allan.

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