Welcome to the Homes and Tomes House Rally #15 – Bristlebaney Miscellany!
We’ll start off in guild chat to let late-comers join up, and then switch to raid channel once everyone is on board!
I’m your host Huell Kuerden, and tonight we’ll be looking at places celebrating the old Bristlebaney Magic! This means houses celebrating chance, chapels to the God of Tricksters and washrooms with exploding toilets – you get the idea!
While not as heavily decorated as Frostfell and NotD, it could be – as there is tons of cool Bristlebane bric-a-brac to use. We’ll take a look at some of these items, and the fun uses they can be put to!
Remember – Bristlebane Day is inherently weird – so let your weird decorating instincts hang out in full view!
Lots of people on our tours have extensive decorating/design experience and are happy to help, so if you have any questions feel free to ask!!!
And now on to this week of Norrath’s Gold! As we take a look at these houses, don’t forget to reward the designers by liking creativity and/or style! Try to wait until everyone zones in to Like a house though – otherwise the house can shift in the list and make it hard to find!
DON’T FORGET THOUGH!!! A good rating means more people will visit and enjoy someone’s hard work!
For anyone new, we’ll be visiting houses via the Housing & Leaderboards selection of the main EQ2 menu. Sometimes the numbers have shifted a little, just ask if you can’t find it!
THIS WEEK WE’LL BE LOOKING AT MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF HOUSES, SO SELECT THE LEADERBOARD SETTINGS GIVEN FOR EACH HOUSE, OR YOU MAY HAVE TROUBLE LOCATIING THEM!
Each house will have a Category and an Attribute, just enter them in the Leaderboards screen and you’ll be fine! Yell if you can’t find it!!! We’ll now switch to Group (#) Chat and dig into this week of Norrath’s Gold! Our first stop is…
The Jester’s Rainbow Dome (#14 Hall of Fame/Creativity-Recent) by Degaahr: A Felwithe Mansion.
Here we have a use of the massive Felwithe Mansion as a shrine to the Jester and as a truly impressive ‘room of ways’ to many interesting houses!!! The numbers of portals alone make this an amazing place!
The striking visual feature here is the use of a wide range of stained glass tiles for a lovely multi-hued effect! Continue down the hall to the shrine, and note that you can see the ‘jester’ right from zone in! Very nice!
The chief ingredients here are the ever useful Black Marble dividers and tile along with their Sumac cousins! Paintings in the entryway are also nicely matched.
The main area is centered on the BBday Jester in the center of a nice custom planter. Above is a dome of multicolored glass tiles, edged with Black Marble with triangular Sumac inserts.
Continue on into the next room – a ‘room of ways’ to many different houses! Degaahr & friends have certainly been busy! In addition to the nicely done portals, there is also a fish tank.
This house does a great job of being both Dark (due to the black marble) and Colorful (due to the stained glass). An usual combination that I thought worked very well!
Now we’ll move on to:
Dragon’s Rest Casino and Saloon (#196 Hall of Fame/Creativity-Recent) by Agameman: A Uncanny Estate
We looked at this recently on our Saloon run, and I had to include it again! The entranceway is partially reskinned, which makes the usualy somewhat shabby look into something very sharp!
Go left to enter the main saloon area! Here we have a beautiful game/tavern area, complete with a stage and band that’s very nicely done (The Screaming Pink Tacos)! The best static band I’ve seen!
Clever use of mirrors and red dividers adds to the saloon effect, as do the red drapes! The large number of paintings also makes this visually a striking room!
Across the Entrance Room is a Gaming Room, again very plushly (ha) done! I liked the use of the massed ornamental lanterns!
Upstairs is a lovely large bedroom – and a bank to borrow money from!
Wander a bit – there is so much here we’ll tarry a few minutes before moving on.
Next, our final house is:
Sandimas Gaming Skiff (#233 Hall of Fame/Creativity-Recent) by Cheddarella: A Skyblade Skiff
Here is one of those rare homes you don’t see much! A gratuity received for going to Fanfaire 2010, there just aren’t that many of them around!
In addition to the usual games, there are some unique ones! Several custom roulette wheels are present, as are a grabber game and an extensive bar area. In addition a cashier, a central stage allows performances during gambling sessions!
There are several unique items as well, my favorite being the Hoard of the Scaleborn (a LON loot card).
Wander a few minutes and check out the games and items before we move onto the next house.
Next, lets go to:
Aprilis Playground (#239 Hall of Fame/Creativity-Recent) by Kaeylee AB: A Tenebrous Refuge
Here is another high-number HoF house that I thought was a nice effort, and I felt a child’s playground also fit into BBDay!
Take a look around at the assorted play areas: there’s a carousel, treehouse, climbing wall, playhouse, sandbox, mini-golf, moon-bounce, swimming pool with floats, jungle jim and a slide! I liked it, and I’d bet BB would too!
Take a few minutes and see how these were accomplished, and then we’ll move onto our last house.
Next, go to:
Men’s Room & Apocalypse Shelter (#66 Hall of Fame/Creativity-Recent) by Kehhi: A Personal Dojo
Here we have an attempt at a modern Men’s Room combined with a Guild Office. DISCLAIMER – this is one of mine! If you have sound on the whole place is quite gurgly!
Here the Dojo is reskinned in white tile, with white light provided by Icy Pedestal Tables from Frostfell. These cool little items give off a white, unwavering light that fakes fluorescents quite well. They are covered by blocks of ice to conceal them.
The fixtures are based on Titanium Pitchers, which have the benefit of having a water-effect in them. By the way, you can see in the ceiling a little error I made without noticing – the beams from the Shelter stick through – and I didn’t notice until now!
The large red button is on a sign that provides instruction. I’m not sure if the effect only catches the presser or if it is area effect! Volunteers?
Opening the cleaning closet door, you’ll see a second door. Open it as well. Go into the Shelter and check it out. There is an instruction manual on the control station.
Look left down the room and you’ll see a wall ventilator made with a gear and a rotated fan and round black tile.
Yes – this is where Kehhi thinks up his demented schemes. Here behind the washroom!
All the houses tonight are great examples of taking truly fanciful concepts and turning them into game-reality. Remember you really can do pretty much ANYTHING!!!
Well, that’s about it for tonight! In two weeks we’ll meet again on Saturday to view some of the beautiful homes of Qeynos and Freport! Be there or be square and have a great evening!
K-
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