Posts by Kabong

*sniff*

In the days before guild Art Directors and Snippers, when Danse Macabre was the stuff of childhood trauma not reduced to background for Necro junks, [PhD] used to present its wares in a crude and no-nonsense way. Screenshots were poorly done and backgrounds were single colors, but of course the stamp was there. Maybe the artist bothered to change the font, maybe not. The point was the stuff and for some reason I felt like winding it back today, maybe to get a rise out of snippers and art directors who have already issued lifetime bans against me ever touching MS Paint again.

In any event, here is an updated compilation of my illu canes, presented in classic style. I hope you enjoy.

Caster 6 - Illu shadow staff

5a

omg this again

Inspired (HA) by Test, I realized it's also been a while since I posted anything.

So here's a perfect pair (with thanks to Purely for a swap to make the mod order match):

Edit: Where's yours with the fancy offhand, Purely ?

I'd just like to remind you and thank you very much.

so close to cute but the skin is a killer for me 🥲. good looking out, tho - one of my beloved guildies also brought this to my attention. Thanks!

5. 25a

I'm not sure how many earth plague foci the guy above is bidding on but I'll do 10a for the one earth plague focus I see there.

into the fyoooooooochurrrrrr

ka-chow

f12, f14 - 10e each

San approaches the peak of Mount Completion.

He is confronted by the Burning Bush of Totality.

A disembodied voice speaks to him:

Completion is hard and it isn't until it is. There is no claim to stake here but you are on the path.

Nice job, San. Great stuff....but like the bush said - don't go declaring it complete yet. Good luck finishing - it's not an easy task, but not one that you should excuse yourself from either - keep going!😁

Kabong

t1 5e

oops

6:10e

9:3e

hi

ohai

10a scroll

16a insp focus

Quote from Capitalist

What build is that?

Flourish Hammer. Good times.

Quote from Forty Second Rogue

Fabulatastic!

that's gotta be either Fabulotastic or Fabulantastic. I think the 1st is better. the other sounds like a high-grade malignancy to me.

sapmeacztiancgular

8a scroll

*Puts "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" on in the background*

(Google it if you're too young or otherwise emotionally barren. You can debate amongst yourselves if Kromp is Julio Iglesias and I am Willie Nelson, or vice versa. )

I've held many of these wondrous creations through the years, reaching back to the time before their damage-mitigating powers were limited to physical damage. There was always something...different...about them. I couldn't really put my finger on it but I knew they were special. This is best exemplified by my relationship with this particular shield:

I've held this guy since my days on storage hill in Ascalon. Since before I knew that a dual-reduction shield was called a dual-reduction shield. Those were the days before hammers. These were the days of Bonetti's Defense and Mending and Healing Breeze. Wammos were always in stances. The mods on this shield could help you anytime, so I called it "The Anytime Shield". With a nickname like that, an item is bound be close to my heart, and it is.

As a bonus, The Anytime Shield happens to be a beautiful example of the Ornate Buckler which, thanks to its Eternia-esque (Google that too if you need to), was my original favorite shield skin. I've been lucky enough, together with Kromp, to hold onto a couple other examples all this time:

How delightful!

When considering such old objects I can't help but think of old friends.

tooburns was collecting his warlords around the time Kromp and I were gathering funds for other things. I knew if I ran across a nice Warlord I could bring it to him for some financial aid, but somehow he never got this guy, probably one of the finest examples of dual reduction around:

I know I sold Toobs an equally-sweet "anytime" version and I hope he comes to let us all see it here.

Speaking of old friends, dual reduction shields cannot be mentioned without thoughts of MaxBorken dancing through my head. At times he has been called third brother or the triplet...and at other times he has been called other things. He is the undisputed king of dual reduction shields. His Magnum Opus will either be posted or linked in this thread by necessity. Without it, and without Max, the history of these items is completely incomplete.

Max was kind enough in the not-too-distant past to guide this masterpiece in my direction. That opportunity left me significantly depleted in bracelets but a price must be paid for such beauty

Finally, as many of you know, we are a guild of tradition and ritual. Of gentlemen and leisure. Baubles and doodads adorn Teh Hall. I present to you the PhD guild ashtray:

I've gone on long enough. I'll leave the rest to Julio or Willy or whoever that other guy is. Enjoy.

Joe Damagio wanna set some sort of minimum increment in bids to get rid of jokers like this?

6a

sure. 5a +21e.

5 scroll

25a cane

3a scroll

6 - 8a

it's been more than a week and no one else has posted here. so I have to do it for myself. again. but that's alright. I got it. all good. here it comes. there it goes.

TWO ECTOS

I've decided you people need reminding.

you people.

you.

5e each earth ornate and r13 echo

close

10e play wand 9illu 15-1/10

close.

hello.

5e on the jug.

I'd have to check the gv but I do have 2 r8 15 stance swamps so I bet one is that guy

Edit: Yup

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PSHH

THAT OLD THING

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