They both look so pretty 😍
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Town Hall (1964-72) in Terneuzen, the Netherlands, by Van den Broek & Bakema
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its funny how menzoberranzan is seen as like Drow New York City when the populations 20,000
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Cute capsule machines I've found so far:
They're on slices of cake!🍰
Sleepy babies
Cuties
And then there's these guys 😆
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i feel like pre-reveal lime was very much the "man i cant wait to get out of this little town" kind of person. that guy that feels like the place he grew up is small and wanted the good life big city big dreams kind of thing. originally this manifested as "get good grades, do really well in baseball and eventually try to go pro" kind of dreams, just as a way to make something of himself beyond taking over his familys deli. he wanted more excitement and always felt like he was supposed to be doing something more with his talents than just owning a good business in a medium-small city on the coast
(and obviously this takes on a whole new meaning once he finds out about mochi)
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I had a dream about a sprawling "Door Maze". It started as an attraction at a faire or something similar - a few bucks to enter the ~Hall Of Doorways~, cheesy stuff. Just a bunch of normal, if slightly weirdly laid out rooms connected by doors. But as you kept going through doors, the subsequent rooms kept getting weirder. A carpeted hotel-like bedroom with a small exposed toilet facing the bed. A combination walk-in closet and kitchen. A really long and empty hallway with an occasional mismatched wooden cabinet on the wall; at that point it was becoming increasingly obvious that there was no way all of this could possibly fit in a faire attraction. Every time there were only two doors - the one you entered from, and the next one.
And then eventually a door opened up into a whole town.
The layout of the town was relatively normal. However, the townspeople were obviously on edge. They were split into several factions, and notably the majority of them lived in encampments outside of all the clearly functional buildings around them. Very few people ever approached most of the buildings. Rations seemed scarce, even though there was a whole supermarket sitting unguarded in town.
We realized that the only buildings people ever went inside of were unfinished or derelict ones with no doors in the doorways. I started opening the doors of random buildings. None of them led to where they logically should; the front door of a house opened to a view of a grassy plain, the supermarket opened into a dark hotel hallway, a toolshed opened into an industrial kitchen. I eventually realized that, although a thick fog obscured a clear view, the town was surrounded by walls. Presumably, there were doors on those walls. The town was another room in the Hall Of Doorways, and the townspeople were lost and stuck.
There was another reason the townspeople were on edge; there was a slowly increasing number of otherworldly creatures roaming the town. The accepted theory was that someone had been opening doors, like me, but had forgotten to close one that happened to lead into some kind of hell dimension, and the residents were slowly wandering through the door into town. Although the creatures weren't hostile - yet - they were increasingly choking out the available space in town.
The rest of the dream had the POV hopping between different people stuck in the town trying to find a solution; one regular guy trying to find the door that the creatures were coming out of, someone else studying the creatures to determine their nature, and a... stray kamen rider who wanted to fight the creatures (but couldn't, because his transformation sequence involved a Little Guy Mascot flying in and lending him the actual Transformation Juice, and said Little Guy was not in the town room). I think one of the town factions were gearing up to fight back the horde of creatures anyway, and it was implied that this was going to end in disaster, but then I thankfully woke up. That's one way to escape the Hall Of Doorways.
I haven't tried opening my bedroom door yet, though.
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Town Hall (1964-72) in Terneuzen, the Netherlands, by Van den Broek & Bakema
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Eight hundred years ago, a powerful martial god— the god of wealth, luck and gambling— ascended.
After he was mortally wounded because of a selfless act in an intense battle to save his people, he ascended and his healing was personally seen to by the Heavenly Emperor himself.
This god, Hua Cheng, is as mysterious as he is powerful. Nobody knows where he came from, or what battle he was in that caused him to ascend.
Only a couple of centuries after he first ascended, Hua Cheng destroyed the lair of one of the four Heavenly Calamities, causing it to rain blood. He earned the title Crimson Rain Sought Flower when he used an umbrella to shield a lone flower from the bloodbath.
Now, he is as feared as he is revered. In some locations, he is respected and prayed to as an all powerful being. In others, he is a story to keep children in line. No matter where you fall on the spectrum, one thing is for certain:
You don't want to make Crimson Rain Sought Flower angry.
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HC's part of the prologue is here! it's a lot shorter than XL's, but that's because there's meant to be a lot more mystery surrounding him and his origins
also a clarifying note for if I do post the first few chapters of this fic in full: XL's calamity story is very well known, but I very deliberately didn't put his actual name in his story (and mentioned that it had been forgotten over time). this is why HC is confused and thought he hadn't heard of XL before (this is implied in the chapter 1 excerpt I posted)
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