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The small 'ahem' and the dimming lights brought the attention of the closing party back on the podium. On it was Janus, looking a great deal better than he was a few minutes ago (when he was practicing his closing speech on a statue when he thought nobody was looking.) On the stage, he took a deep breath and brightened as everyone turned in their formal evening attire.

"Thank you all for coming to the Closing Party. It's been a pretty busy week, and all of you have made such beautiful and wonderous pieces of art. I'm overjoyed that they're on display tonight, and I thought there wasn't any way to view all of them in the span of a couple hours. So this last night of the museum will be going on until the sun rises again. You don't have to stay the entire time, but--"

"Well, sure they do!"

The interjection startled the AI at the podium, and he jumped a few feet from his spot. The chipper voice started again as one of the other statues on the stage moved, revealing the form of a marble-sculpted woman covered in holographic stickers.

"After all, each and every one of you put in so much effort into bringing your imaginations and inspirations to life, haven't you? So we thought we might return the favor, that's all. And you're all invited!"

Punctuating her statement was the sound of the large wooden doors, now slamming shut inward with a reverberating BOOM that bounced off all the halls of the lobby, even from the auditorium.

"I hope you all put everything into your masterpieces! Because your masterpieces will put everything into annihilating all of you~"

With another delighted laugh, the lights in the auditorium shut off, leaving everyone with only the light of their phones and watches. And as the murmurs began and hands reached for other hands in the dark, there was another THUNK near the wall as a framed portrait fell off its anchor. From its canvas, it began to look at the crowd, eyes now glowing in the light of everyone's flashlights. One hand crawled out of the frame, then another. Nails sank into the floor with terrifying ease as the subject of the portrait pulled themselves from its frame, marble cracking at its fingertips.

The next sound was a scream, and the sound of a woman falling onto the floor as the portrait pulled at her ankles. And then another. And another still as the frames began to move off the walls en masse, attacking anyone unlucky enough to be in their sights. There was a panic in the auditorium as people tried to flee and fight, falling over each other to escape the room

But it seemed that no matter where anyone chose to run to, or where they thought to hide, there was always something in the shadows.

Waiting.

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Welcome to Part Two of the event!

As stated, the artwork in the Tempus Museum has come to life--literally, in this case. You've been challenged to survive until the next sunrise. To do so, you must evade, capture or destroy the horrific objects that have come to life.

Most of the artwork in the museum is hostile, and will attempt to un-alive your characters as best they can.

These generic museum monsters can be found everywhere wandering around, but are more common in areas they originated from:

Subjects and people in paintings will crawl out of their canvases to chase and eliminate anything they see moving. Their sharp nails can pierce through marble, so flesh and bone is probably nothing to them. Humanoids are not exclusive to this class of monster--painted animals, creatures and other things will also hop out of paintings to come after your muse. You can capture a painting monster by smacking it with a canvas, or destroy it with paint thinner (or water, if it's a watercolor)

Framed sketches will behave similarly to the painting monsters, and will leave lots of thin scratches as opposed to big ones. Capture them with paper, or destroy them by rubbing them with an eraser.

Statues of any material will chase your characters and attempt to injure them with their fists (or if they were holding a weapon, they'll use that weapon). Catch them by making them run back to their plaques, stands and pedestals, or destroy using a hammer and chisel.

The Parlor Dolls have now, unfortunately, all grown sharp teeth. They've all taken on ghastly appearances, and if they swarm around you, it might as well be the end of you. You can capture a doll by chasing it back into a display case, or destroy it by carefully ripping their seams.

Dancing Dresses in the painted ballroom will beckon people to dance with them, and will attempt to catch people in the folds of their fabric to immobilize them. They're not lethal on their own, but they'll hold your muse in place for something more dangerous to come along. Capture them by hitting them with a dress form, or destroy them by ripping their seams OR cutting them with scissors. - NOTE: Characters who bowed and danced with any of the ghostly gowns at the Gala XY will not harm the people who danced with them, and will instead, keep dancing.

Decorated Weapons made in the forge will take a life of their own and will seemingly float around, looking for battle. Sometimes they'll team up with Statues, making them especially deadly companions. Capture them by hitting them with a weapon rack, or destroy them with a hammer or any significant heat source.

Baked Goods and Pastries made in the culinary courtyard will not get up on their own, but a good many of them have become poisoned. The severity and potency of the poisons varies, with side effects ranging from an upset stomach to a sudden case of death. They don't move, so you don't have to capture them, but... maybe don't eat them, no matter how good they may smell and look.

Paintings on the street have come to life, making hazards of their own outside of the museum. Street-painted landscapes have become very tangibly real, as well as anything sprayed on the walls. If there was ever a time to regret the giant mural you painted on the side of a building as it crawls from its spot to squash you like a bug, now's the time. You can destroy these with water.

Landscapes will attempt to draw your muse into their world, sealing them in their frames. Your muse will be helpless to do much other than look through the painting like a window. The only means of escape is to have someone else drag you out of the landscape!

In addition to these generic museum hazards, there are a few specific hazards depending on how your muse behaved in Part 1 of the event:

If your muse created something with love, adoration, feelings of happiness, or any other intensely positive emotions, it may help them instead of hinder them. This can be anything from alerting them of danger to protecting them.

Your muse's own creations may attack them, too, aside from the generic monsters in the museum.

If your muse stole any artwork from the museum, it will hunt them down with special vitriol and hostility, and will stop at nothing to destroy your muse.

Similarly, if your muse attempted to destroy any of the artwork in the museum, it's going to target them specifically and attempt to return the favor.

Any art your muse made as a gift to others will either hurt OR help them, depending on individual mun preference.

Have fun! :)

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Frequently Asked Questions

"How long will Part 2 of the event last?"

The event will run until 00:00, June 18th

"Are the optimized tools still here?"

Shockingly, yes! And so are the regular tools, too. How you use them to survive is up to you, but building a door might be the fastest way. However, be warned that drawing a door on a wall has just as big of a chance of sending your muse to a different random room than it does outside the museum.

"Can we still do Part 1 threads?"

Yes! If you would like to keep your Canvas experience monster-free, you can continue making Part 1 starters until the end of the event.

"What about the art my muse took home?"

It has also come to life! So while the museum is certainly dangerous, there are random statues, paintings, dolls and other monsters roaming around OUTSIDE the museum, too.

"Can we destroy the paintings NOW?"

Unfortunately, they're just as invulnerable as they were before. Bummer, huh? Unless they're hit with their specific weakness, the monsters are invulnerable to attacks that damage them. (However, they can still be hindered by traps, and while strong attacks won't destroy them, they'll knock them out of the way!)

"Can we interact with Capella or Janus?"

Poor Janus is trying to put all the artwork back where it belongs by capturing them. He's in no danger for this, as the art in the museum will not attack their curator. Interacting with Capella the Statue might bring the wrath of her giant cat out to you, so. You've been warned!

"What if my muse saw something from their own world in a painting or a statue?"

That's incredibly unfortunate--those might be hostile too, and are subject to the rules that follow the other genuine painting monsters (meaning that the portrait of that character will not have any of their original powers or abilities.)

Whether the subject of the art your muse is familiar with will help or hinder them is up to mun discretion.

"Can't we just bust down the museum and escape?"

And destroy the biggest piece of art in the area?! (No, they won't budge. You'll have to draw your way out if you want to escape, either through a door or some kind of tunnel or something.)

"When will the sun rise?"

Not for 24 hours in-character (though the event will last until Jun 11th). Extended night time, woo!

"What happens if our muses get got by the museum?"

Muses that were defeated and failed to survive the challenge will have their portrait put up on the Wall of Shame, reflecting how they lost the challenge. They won't respawn until the sun rises, either!

"What if I have a question that's not listed here?"

Feel free to direct any questions you may have to the Masterlist!

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"I thought you said everything would be fine!" Came the panicked footsteps of Janus, running to grab the frame the portrait monster crawled out of, picking it up with surprising ease.

"In my defense, I assumed everything would be." The statue of Caelum replied, furrowing his eyebrows and scrolling through a wall of code. Other statues of a Goddess-like Pleiades and an Antiquated Attired Alathfar, joining as guests, seemed to realize the issue before their older companion did.

"...Yes, nothing in here changed. But I don't see anything about..."

From the other side of the stage, Capella's statue pranced forth, stickers still glittering in the dark, somehow.

"That's just the first page." "The first page?" Caelum and Janus echoed back in confusion. "First page!~"

The grin still stayed on her cheeks from sticker to sticker, while Janus' increasingly scrunched in accusation.

"...I'll be damned. There were two pages after all." "DAD!" "I didn't see it, honest!" "I can't BELIEVE you!" "Now now, it was an honest mistake, really--!"

And as the old man's statue got quite the scolding from his son, Pleides and Alathfar stepped aside, meeting with Capella.

"Was there really a page two?" Pleiades asked, adjusting her comically large, rounded glasses. To that, Capella merely rocked on her heels, smile never fading.

"It's entirely possible Caelum got so wrapped up in helping Janus plan the museum that he overlooked it. Which is endearing, in a way. But..."

As Alathfar trailed off, the three of them looked back at the other statue trying to placate his agitated son, and grimaced in unison (except for Capella, who still seemed to be beaming with delight.)

None of them seemed keen on getting in the middle of the quarrel, and were only relieved when Janus stormed off with his empty frame.

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steliosagapitos · 7 years

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Irene Sheri Vishnevskaya

Irene Sheri was born in the city of Belgorod-Dnestrovsky, Ukraine, 1968, where, as a young child, her passion for art began. It all started when Irene's older brother Vasily, then 9 years old, was given a set of paints for his birthday. Irene was told that they belonged to Vasily and not to touch them! Those forbidden paints became an object of desire for her, almost an obsession, until finally she stole them from her older brother, mixed them and painted on paper, walls, on her dress, and on the bodies of her friends. She was 4 years old and had found her true love.

“I am in love with my canvases,” says Irene. “It is the beauty and passion of painting and the results that come from those feelings that drive me to fill the canvas every day.”

Like her obsession for art, Irene’s love for Disney began at an early age. As a little girl, she formed a bond with Mickey Mouse and like many children she thought of Mickey as another childhood friend. “It seems to me that we grew up together,” she says of Disney’s famous mouse, “I really believed that we were peers.”

Despite the strong connection she felt with Mickey, Disney items were hard to come by in Russia during that time and the relative scarcity of a Disney toy made them very special items. “When I was young, if you had a sticker with Mickey on it, that was considered something fantastic! It was impossible to find them in our stores,” Irene explains. “The only way to get them was as a gift from friends or relatives who were athletes or sailors, since they were able to travel around the world.”

Luckily for Irene, her friend’s father was a Sea Captain and he had brought her a Mickey Mouse sticker from his travels. The greatest gift! She loved it so much she would redraw the Mickey artwork she saw on her sticker. It was at that point that her love for art and Disney merged for the first time.

Irene would grow up to enjoy many successes and came to be recognised as one of Russia’s most gifted young artists. Instead of attending a traditional high school, Irene was accepted at Grecov College of Art in the city of Odessa, Ukraine. As a follow up to that, at age seventeen, she was accepted into the acclaimed Serov School of Fine Art in St Petersburg, Russia where she would later graduate as Valedictorian. After that success, her post graduation education continued at St. Petersburg Academy of Art, one of the most prestigious art schools in the world.

Today her award winning fine art is collected, exhibited and celebrated in a variety of museums and galleries around the world, and in a beautiful, poetic return to her own youth, she contributes to the Disney Fine Art collection with her whimsical portraits of children immersed in the joyful exploration of their own imaginations, the way young Irene Sheri, once did with her own childhood friend, Mickey Mouse.

Born in the Ukraine in 1968, Irene Sheri is one of the brightest examples of a new breed of inter-cultural artists emerging from Europe. An accomplished figurative and landscape artist, Irene is inspired by Botticelli, Chagall, Kandinsky, Picasso, and Goya. However Cezanne and Matisse have made the deepest impact. Inspired by the “Russian Expressionistic Movement”, Irene is a Master of contrasts of light and shadow. Like Cezanne, Matisse and Gauguin before her, she embraces the use of color. If her objective is not reached, she begins anew, until the desired result is achieved.

Her paintings express her love of life, a toast to its wonder and beauty. Sheri’s talent and style were recognized at a global level in 2001 when she was awarded Russia ’s highest artistic honour on it’s 50-Year Anniversary - the “State Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art”, naming her as the “Best and Brightest” young artist in Russia; awarded to one woman each year for excellence in the arts.

Her works are in many important collections in France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Russia, Mexico, South Africa, Canada and the U.S. Ms. Sheri’s works are in the private collections of prominent Russian collectors, including musician Mstislav Rastropovich, ex-St Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sobchak and oil tycoon Leo Vaisberg.

Ms. Sheri studied art at the Belgorod Art School for gifted children and at 15 became the valedictorian of both her junior high and art schools. From there she entered Grecov College of Art in Odessa, and in her first year, won a citywide juried exhibition and was honored as “Young Artist of the Year.” Irene would win 14 juried exhibitions in the next two years and receive a special “Excellence in Art” award from the Mayor. At age 17, Ms. Sheri entered the Serov School of Fine Art in St. Petersburg, Russia. All of the paintings and sketches she created during her three years of study are now used by the faculty as samples of brilliant academic achievement.

In 1990, Irene entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Art, one of the most prestigious art schools in the world. In 2000, her graduation artwork, “Early Snow,” was accepted into the permanent collection of the Museum of Academy Art when she was named valedictorian. The oil painting also received the “Russian State Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art or Entertainment,” the highest honor an artist can receive in Russia. This renowned school, created in the eighteenth century, has influenced many masters in its years of existence; all ambassadors of Russia’s art worldwide.

Her motto is: “Create a world that is totally yours that comes from within your own soul.”

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Hateful Threats Towards a Jewish Blogger

This Week in Hate highlights hates crimes and harassment across the united states since the election of President Trump.

Marc Yellin had gotten a few political grievance throughout his six years of running a blog about Jewish lifestyles in Albuquerque, however not anything just like the messages he received a closing month.

The 66-year-vintage retired technical creator checked his electronic mail on the morning of Jan. thirteen, to locate that a person had used the touch shape on his website to publish two threatening messages containing anti-Semitic slurs.

“In case you try to get the united states involved in another warfare for Israel there are heaps of sleepers within the US who will shoot up your synagogues,” one of the messages stated.

in the contact form, the sender had entered the call William Pierce, the founding father of a white nationalist corporation who died in 2002.

Mr. Yellin turned into incredibly afraid When he examine the messages, but primarily disgusted and disillusioned. He questioned, “Have we come to this?”

After he recovered from the initial surprise, Mr. Yellin contacted the Anti-Defamation League, which said the threat to the F.B.I. And the Albuquerque police. Authorities are investigating the incident.

Mr. Yellin turned into no longer the best one in Albuquerque to obtain an anti-Semitic danger in January. The Jewish Network Center of Greater Albuquerque turned into one in all dozens of Jewish Network facilities around the united states of America to receive bomb threats remaining month. The facility becomes evacuated and police showed there has been no bomb. The F.B.I. Is investigating the bomb threats.

Anti-Semitic threats are unusual in Albuquerque, in line with Suki Halevi, the new Mexico nearby director of the Anti-Defamation League. “We’ve been listening to about it and analyzing it occurring in other places,” she says, “and now these incidents have reached our Network.”

The A.D.L. Is worried approximately a boom in reported hate crimes and on-line harassment because of the start of the presidential marketing campaign. In New Mexico, the group has been running with Muslim and immigrants’ rights corporations to respond to and prepare for incidents of hate. The A.D.L. additionally gives schooling and on-line assets to help Jewish groups recognize suspicious interest and maintain facilities safe.

“one of the dreams of cyberharassment and threats of violence is to disrupt a Community and motive Worry,” says Ms. Halevi. “Whilst the Community is prepared, it helps to stop that from taking place.”

For Mr. Yellin, one manner to fight hate is to talk approximately it. Some weeks after he were given the threatening messages, he wrote approximately them on his blog: “This blatant, open anti-Semitism ought to no longer be allowed to Emerge as the new regular.”

He encourages others who have been threatened to make the incidents public if they feel secure doing so. “not anything goes to exchange if human beings don’t recognize,” he says.

Right here are some reports of hate crimes and harassment that have drawn public interest in recent days.

• On Jan. 30, individuals of a family in Orlando, Fla., discovered racist notes along with swastikas at the windshields of 3 of their automobiles. One tire on each automobile was slashed. own family participants agree with they’ll have been focused due to the fact certainly one of them is an organizer for Black Lives Count.

• Anti-Muslim graffiti was located at a mosque in Roseville, Calif., on Jan. 31. In advance within the month, a mosque in close by Davis, Calif., become also vandalized.

• A swastika changed into finding carved into a bench in the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Training Center in Skokie, Sick., on Feb. 1. Police are investigating the vandalism as a hate crime.

• closing weekend, a swastika and the phrase “Trump” were scrawled with chalk on a statue at Rice College in Houston. It turned into the 0.33 incident of vandalism at the campus in a month. Previously, vandals had written “Trump 2016” on a part of the Berlin wall on the University, and located white supremacist recruitment posters on campus.

• On Saturday, a window at a synagogue in Chicago, changed into broken and swastika stickers had been placed at the front door. A man becomes arrested and charged with a hate crime in connection with the incident.

• at some stage in services at a synagogue in Las Vegas, on Saturday, a swastika was carved into an outside wall.

• On Sunday, an own family in Peyton, Colo., located that their home had been vandalized with canine feces, eggs and about 50 portions of paper bearing hate messages and racial slurs. The F.B.I. Is investigating the incident as a hate crime.

Bloggers: Because the Spirit Actions You

My wife and I belong to a Liberal, Revolutionary Reform Jewish Congregation invaluable New Jersey – Congregation Kol Am of Freehold. Our prayer books (siddurim) have been authored with the aid of our distinguished and discovered, Rabbi Brooks Susman.

In excellent weather, our Friday night services (Shabbat) are held outdoors most of the multihued and candy-smelling flowers of a lush Garden of Eden. The distinct fragrances of spring and summer season are regularly observed through the angelic voices of the choir and the soft guitar instrumental, which upload to the heavenly atmosphere of our setting.

Our bucolic and sensorial worship revel in is significantly more suitable through the poetic phrasing of inspiring and melodious stanzas and prayers written and recited through Rabbi Susman (see one such example, covered here) throughout services. Oh, how lovely it is while the coronary heart is recommended to sing a soulful track.

Inside the pages of our prayer books are many passages that call for congregant participation. Each person is advocated to actively participate in our services and to end up a single voice united in reverence for God. There are numerous italicized stanzas distinct to examine aloud via individuals. These spiritual and secular phrases follow the ones spoken by means of Rabbi Susman in a call and reaction way.

Passion Resides in All people: Let it Out

“Within the triangle of coronary heart, soul and mind are found a properly tended, often walked in, Lawn of love. An area for memory stands earlier than a bench, on which we sit down, lost in reverie for the ones we loved. Although a few plant life may be lifeless, the heady scent of their being lingers, joining with the aromas of those plants blooming nevertheless. They have left their mark length once they have left our presence. And we, tenders of that Lawn, deliver thank you for all that become, for all that we held treasured. We recognize that just as seasons bypass, so additionally cherished ones are born after which die. We, the dwelling, inhabit the oasis among those certainties of beginning and demise. We reminisce; and as did the gardeners earlier than us, we stop at the location wherein as soon as bloomed the vegetation we loved and smile tenderly at their remembered beauty

– Rabbi Brooks R. Susman, Congregation Kol Am – Freehold, NJ

The Rabbi requests participation “Because the spirit Moves you.” Congregants reply beneath their personal free will; regularly moved by some personal connection with words and their meanings. it’s miles an incendiary flame that ignites a Ardour inside most folks to study Those phrases aloud with true conviction. it’s miles like that afterwords encourage us. Is it now not?

the ones we discuss with As the “Masters” are revered for his or her masterpiece works, which have endured throughout the ages. it’s miles possibly that they produced their best contributions to the arts and sciences, Because the spirits moved them.

Encouraged by his Passion, Michelangelo spent 4 years growing his picture of heaven above the altar of the Sistine Chapel. He did so with the maximum appreciate for art and Christianity and with a painstaking attention to detail and near perfection. Michelangelo’s each and each brushstroke was guided through his loving hand – reputedly – below the watchful eye of the God he so wanted to please. He painted heaven on plaster and moved people to believe it become God’s “sky” on the eve of creation.

It took Seaside Boy Brian Wilson 40 uncompromising and Ardour-filled years to – in the end – complete and launch his “unfinished album”, better regarded to the maximum as SMILE. In 2004, the critics acclaimed it as his lengthy-awaited masterpiece – the watermark of his brilliant career. We applaud Wilson’s capability to conquer his many non-public demons – moved by way of spirit – to create this fantastic music for his many enthusiasts to revel in.

Rabbi Susman’s personal standards have been similarly uncompromising, as he magnificently wordsmithed every stanza of his inspirational prayer book. The completed product serves as inspirational paintings, designed to transport the spirit and to reward God; celebrating his mastery in developing the universe and populating the earth with a variety of existence forms. We’re humbled and moved with the aid of every written word and stanza of this prayer e-book. We’re inspired with the aid of the Rabbi’s very own passionate words, as well as the Torah excerpts and Talmudic verses he chose to encompass in reward of God. Rabbi Brooks Susman’s paintings might also just be an undiscovered masterpiece within the mainstream, Even though it is already acknowledged as such among the Kol Am small and developing congregation.

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