So... For anyone who wants to give it a go. Riot recently made their own Avatar Creator alongisde Arcane. You don't need an account, or to download their client to use it (but some more things unlock if you do)...
Click here to check it out. I got pretty close to what I imagine Saonji to look like now. AFAIK it's still kinda new, but there's still a lot of features to it.
Grey season painting. Stages of Ryssa's growth from a baby faced newbie to now.
How much is specifically for Ryssa? Idk, maybe most of these
Frequented in playlist for this drawing:
(#1) lullaby - Against The Current
Every Time You Leave - I Prevail
Better Tomorrow - PrinceWhatever
I Found - Amber Run
Never Ending Nightmare - Citizen Soldier
Bad Habits - Nerv
To Tell You the Truth - Written By Wolves
Wake Up - Smash Into Pieces
Edit: ...I realized I forgot to shade the ribbon
Just go into business of writing custom weapon descriptions instead. Trey’s weapon designs 35cr, named blades cost double and come with a free session of open mocking and a link to a scene from Game of Thrones.
Murad polishes the steel with a fine cloth, inspecting the blade for any imperfections. Finding
none, he turns and reverently presents the sword to you with both hands.
Murad exclaims, "I give you Infernal Crescent!"
Weapon-based classes used to do great without artefacts. I saw to that! And then they changed forging to standardized stats and a cookie-cutter descriptor list and life was no longer worth living.
I JUST finished my certification, passing all tests. This has been 26 weeks of reading hex/ascii and working on it with every bit of my spare time (which wasn't much) and pushing things off, except for 2 festivals - so I had 2 weekends off where I wasn't working on it (average time for most people start-to-finish is 6-7 months). If you score less than 100% on any ONE test of the 6 you have to wait a year to try again.
Along the way, I managed to get 4 other certifications and need to renew another. That will be 6 certifications in 6 months, all while pursuing this ONE. Goddamn, and now I have an extra day - Sunday - this weekend. I may have to drink. And I will finally have time to actually do other stuff, like Achaea again.
I will freely admit I was a partner in crime with @Van for this particular drunken escapade. Dragonknight completed our trio, and it was so worth being executed and chewed out by pretty much every city leader we had. What's a little death and severe disappointment from your peers when you get to drink something extremely rare!
So after the Cyrene/Mhaldor symposium thing around 843ish or so, I managed to get my hands on a flask of Vertani whiskey or some such. A Vertani showed up to watch some of the performances and was swigging it, assuring others through a translator (I think Imyrr?) that it wasn't something typical Achaeans would be able to drink. At like 540 years old I wanted some mischief in my Mhaldorian tenure. I and a few others took the flask into a hidden library, and, for science, partook in the drinking of this Vertani degreasing agent. Instant near-death blood alcohol content, and like divine providence, Reyson and Stheno walked in together within 90 seconds. It goes about how you expect. They found 3 of us, like experimenting teens, drunk off our asses in the middle of Mhaldor. I RP a moment of weakness, try to get something out of it, trying to imply a lifetime of personal repression culminated in a moment of weakness. They burned me at the stake and got to play disappointed administrator. It all felt like a good ole' City of Evil after school special.
I like to think that the two of them were laughing their asses off behind their monitors, as they are two of the more serious figures in Mhaldor these days. They don't make OOC slips or anything like that, and if they do they're extremely well hidden.
The only way it could've been topped is if Sartan had been around to punt me off the face of the planet.
I've omitted the names of my accomplices for the sake of their IC image, but I know at least one of them would readily admit it. I can't honestly remember the third!