Subject: Wednesdayish Pluggage: Plort? Plort!
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Posted on: 2016-04-21 10:07:00 UTC
You may blame Delta Juliette for making this necessary. Or thank her, I suppose:
Sea Change
The Cyclopaedia will be updated in accordance, though the maps will probably take longer than the page names and such.
hS
I've been working on Inglish heraldry for my (as-yet-undeveloped) Plort self and could use some advice. I've been having a hard time figuring out the blazon. I'm trying to suggest piano keys (because I'm eschewing symbolism in favor of literally drawing my username), and I don't know how I'd go about describing the spacing. Maybe I should just forget about it and use a pattern of door keys and wooden planks.
--Key, maybe a merchant, maybe a wandering minstrel, who knows; I had an idea but didn't write it down in time
... just cheat and blazon it as five piano accidental keys sable. It's what I did for Kaitlyn's shield, which features a fess sable with staff bearing a three-note arpeggio in G argent. It would probably be massively frowned on in formal heraldry, but this is the internet. ;)
I'll repost this, possibly with a rendering of your shield (I like to do them all myself, for some reason; possibly I just hate free time) on my most recent Wednesday Pluggage thread, in case you miss it.
hS
Any ideas about turning Jay and Acacia's ecartled heraldries in something horrid (and fun) enough for Jaycacia? Come on, I'm sure you already thought about doing something like this.
And assumes it is as unprintable as C'l'br'n's one. I like that name for it, actually, it sounds faintly Lovecraftian in its use of strange apostrophes. =]
It's pretty clear their coat features a rose - hence Lady Iximaz nicking it after she defeated them - but the details aren't anything I've thought about. I was vaguely wondering if Ix had any ideas, but... well, y'know.
I do think the six members would use the same shield, but with those ribbons that get used to distinguish which son you're talking about. Assuming Marizu could ever follow rules so closely.
hS
You'd think I'd remember, considering I betaed bits of that mission and cooked up one of the jokes in it. =]
But yeah, one assumes there's kind of a basic design, but with the different cultists putting their own spin on it, each one uglier than the last. Also, the sixth cultist definitely only has a half-shield. =]
Think you can come up with Nova's?
Would Ix happen to have suggestions for LMM?
Additionnaly, would you, and Neshomeh, have any ideas for Subjugaton!glitterbags? Marizu who routed a full party of knights should have ther own horrifun heraldry.
I don't think I've read it, either.
It doesn't just have to be for legendary missions, either. Ooh, I should do one for Sairalinde...
hS
Stupid stuff on the shield because of malapropers — the original fic had quite a lot of those, including a "coup de tat"; something to maybe represent Shatner-levels of ellipsis abuse, too. Colours, well, the Sue had "heterochromia, one eye was a darker blue color, and the other was green blue". For devices, maybe something like a Sangheili head (the author had a positive boner for them if the writing's any indication) and a blue jewel for her Suedo-Device?
That sword in some of those pictures could work quite well. Does mean the whole affair will be very blue (blue sword, blue jewel, two blue colours for the background), but that would kind of fit with the malaprop thing.
How about an ellipse to be a malapropic ellipsis? >:D
hS
This is a fantastic weaving of a true tale into the Plort setting. Thank you for sharing it (and for finally putting Tumblr on the map outside Plort, I've been getting twitchy about that).
(I want a Mood Mirror now. ^_~)
hS
The twelve Barons of Plort, flagged over their baronial seats (including the one that's a burnt-out ruin). I imagine this model sits in the council chamber in Otik.
hS
You create it. You only have to follow the rules in the Heraldy section.
Give me a description and I'll draw it out.
hS
Field would be divided down the middle, a light Blue on the left, normal red on right. On the left, a white sickle charge, pointing downward. On the right, a black Blacksmith's Hammer charge, pointing upward.
Alternatively, a Blazon:
Per pale, Azure and Gules, between Sickle argent facing downward and a Blacksmith's hammer sable facing upward
~Mattman, hoping that makes sense
House Blackfyre uses the same type of colors for their blazon. And House Targaryen just inverse the colors.
(It still looks interesting though. You can be happy, Mattman)
An Alvish version of Ye Scape-Grace's arms would be handy. I only speak Inglish heraldry, so I apologise for the description.
Could the field be red, with the gold sickles forming a ring around the central boss, and the hammers growing from the handles please? I leave any further details at your discretion.
This does rather hinge on Baron hS actually deigning to do it, which may not be the likeliest outcome in human history. Oh well, worth a go. =]
However, with the new design there's an, er... untoward element in the design that I've just noticed. Turn it through 45 degrees and you'll see it. Would it be possible to reverse the direction of the hammer-sickles? If so, I much appreciate it.
As for whether or not to include roses as miri, I think I'll go with that. It'd be a cool nod to her status as vizier and to her beliefs that she is a servant of the people first, and multiple roses would imply that rather nicely. =]
With the little ones elsewhere and the image mirrored. =]
A conservative shield for Ye Scape-Grace? Perish the thought.
-BTA
It looks absolutely perfect. Thank you so much for doing this for me, it must have taken a lot of effort. =oD
Lessee if I get this right...
"Nis red, rena yellow; canta nastar alta cuna, golden sickles with hammers serving as their handles, crossed at the handle." Shapewise, his gives you something like this, which might/might not follow the rules, I'm not sure:
Also on a circle.
Thanks to both of you for offering up designs! I really appreciate it. =]
And that's the thing I had in head, more or less. More than less. Now what is the issue with the colors?
hS
The main glitch was that you split the colours for the field into two separate places, rather than listing them together. I fixed it.
hS
I thought I needed to tell what was in the field immediately after defining them. Thanks for the fix.
I think I understood the general rules of it, and like the idea, but I don't have interesting ideas for it at the moment, although I think about using the colors of the Inglish heraldry for it. Would you have suggestions?
If you've got other ideas you're playing with, I'll be happy to see them too, but this one seems perfect to me. No obviousature theme feels weird for an elvish design I guess, but this one is excellent. Thanks again.
The only other idea I really had was enlarging the tails to make them more the centrepiece, but if you like this one, then I won't muck about. ^_~
hS
Why is Kaitlyn the only one to have her Elvish heraldry (as opposed to English-style)?
Can I change mine?
... I mean, sure. ;)
What to?
hS
The Inglish one to "Argent, a raven volant sable". The Alvish one to "Ner silver, rena blue; canta nastar alta tera, raven feather with grey highlights; canta nastar nica, curled olive branch; indil woven with stems of feathers, circular olivine braid".
TL;DR: the greying, and switching flails for olive branches.
I mean, whatever works best.
Over on the Cyclopaedia. How does that look?
(The Raven Volant has also been changed, but blue > black was pretty easy, so.)
hS
Are RPGs, the game systems, included in the art of Arpying? And would a Plort version of Gygax exist?
Is creating new things for the world of Plort OK? Like new (small) nations on the continent of Weab and maybe going slightly more deeply into the practices held within certain members of the Are-Pea Alliance. I've got a post I'd like to do, but I want to check I'm allowed to do certain things within it first.
And as I said to Ekyl, I'd rather people put them on the Board, not straight onto the Cyclopaedia.
Also, like it says somewhere: only if you've got a connection to it.
hS
The biggest library of Arpying in Plort is in Keep De'endee. It includes with the complete works of masters such as Gaigacks and Arrenson.
I think that answers both your questions. ^_^
hS
Now I have to think about names for the Fate system and Persona.
I've been wanting to get involved with Plort. Should I just set up a profile and go? Or is there a process? I'd be a civilian, of course, but since I'm hoping to become a knight someday, would that make me a page? If so, should I attach myself to a knight? Sir Ekyl seems to be putting together a militia; should I ask them? Or would it go by Big Sib/Little Sib pairs? I don't have a Big Sib, but I could join House Skull Goblet, Kind Words and a Two-by-Four, or Darjeeling.
--Key is excited
Poke poke.
I do have stuff I'm working on, to be fair, and as for co-writes, it's not like anybody's really invited me to work with them or anything. Though I'll grant I basically only just popped in after months of being busy elsewhere.
As for the character, he's just ambitious, maybe a bit of a jerk, and takes what opportunities he sees to build his power base. :P
You see, for a small fee of 700 gold, I can give you suitable documents that will make you a proper knight. :)
(I'm kiddin', btw. All I remember doing was writing my introductory post, with a short backstory of this guy and that was it.)
Are we allowed to add new stuff to the wiki if we have ideas and it doesn't contradict anything already available, or does it have to wait to come up in threads and such?
With her departure, shouldn't we find a replacement for her?
Give hell to the Marizu, lady Iximaz. You can return any mment you want.
(Farilan as a horse... Am I the only one finding this funny as hell. XD)
That there was a requirement for a fixed number of barons. Need I remind you that the last election added three barons to the total?
Signed, Thanasius Ampelius
I am merely concerned about the prospect of leaving her lands ungoverned. Should they simply be absorbed into Phobos' barony?
I will gladly take stewardship of Baron Iximaz's lands until her eventual return to our shores.
-Baron Phobos
"Tha mayst have ya'sen all the gold an' deeds of all o' the Baronies, but th'art never my Master. Nor art tha master o' Critta-Kalthin, nor the river as runs through it, nor the sea as lies about it. The lady Iximaz is not lost to us, and the Venturesome Companies'll not recognise another until she be kilt. Steward away if tha must, sir Baron, but tha has no power here."
((Ye Scape-Grace is, er, a little... protective.))
... Ye Scape-Grace dressed in an ultra-tattered version of Sarah's costume from Labyrinth, what with that 'no power' line.
Also this means I'm required to imagine Phobos dressed as Jareth.
My mental image is quite deliberately cut off at the waist.
hS
Replacing her like this is pretty cold.
Hardric, who need to begin working on his Plort profile too.
Does Tumblar not have its own peacekeepers? I can send some of my men to help disperse the crowd if need be, unless there is anything else you need? Don't worry, order will be restored swiftly enough.
Tumblar's current peacekeeping system is loose at best, and while it's vigilante forces are numerous and powerful, all they have been doing are stoking the figurative flame, political views and stuff. While I do have my weapons on hand, I do not find it worth while to take arms alone.
So yes, a good amount of your own men should be of use.
~Sir Matthias Snow, who's going through on hand records for fellow Knights in his immediate area.
And would like to know: how would you like the records updated? I shall set my best scribes to the task, once I know what it is.
~Baron Neshomeh
I meant the main wiki, and co-writes and stories on my site and the Lost Tales. *hides face in shame* Not that I WOULDN'T help out on the Plort wiki if asked. I'm thinking of more PPC-wide author attributions and such, though. Sorry. {= (
~Neshomeh
The Plorting confused me, I guess. I see it now.
hS
