In that case, here's my attempt at the lightning pic:

Generations of sacrifice and prayer to the storm spirits of the northern continent has anthropomorphized them to an astonishing degree.  Untrained (read non-magical) individuals, if their piety is sufficient, can ask them for aid, even call them from storm clouds.

There are recorded legends of tragic romances between the storm spirits and their human worshippers.  To the last, they end with the fatal kiss of a lightning bolt.

Quote from: fonkaygarryGood one, JamesV

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35352644/?qo=16&q=by%3A343guiltyspark+sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps

When did DeviantArt get good, anyway?  Back in the day it was nothing but furries...

In planet Gizmet, the artificial intelligence has evolved past the point of sentience, achieving after a few centuries the level of moral decadence it shows nowadays. Showbiz is almost an obsession for those machines, and the cult of personality enjoyed by this guy, Roberto Menendez, is without peer.

Now try this:


PS: Hey, JW, my first post, and it's a reply to you!! Yay!! -Now to the pipe thread...

Hey there, SunBoy!

Here's a new pic:

The katoy of Mszptlk City in Abalarabia are illusionist male mages who use their spells to appear as stunningly buxom streetwalkers. While they like to pose for portraits with curved knives, their martial skills tend to be less developed than their illusionary bosoms.

Oh yeah...

Jaime Kozlowski: Space Cowgirl

Yes I'm being serious!

LOL

Ok, here's a new one:

*bump*

Driven from their ancestral homes by the expansionism of the Twin Kingdoms, the Ocean People (no idea for a name), in desperation, built their cities on great stone bridges in narrow ocean passes.

They seized all the power of the Continent without even trying.  No armies can breach their barrier mountain ranges; no navies can break their blockades.  Fifteen city-states, a population of less than half a million, control the fates of two empires and ten million souls.

No picture tonight, maybe one tomorrow.  orz

Quote from: fonkaygarryNo picture tonight, maybe one tomorrow.  orz

:pics:

Quote from: JamesV

Damnit!  Where's my distributor cap!

Quote from: VellorianDamnit!  Where's my distributor cap!

Okay, I did laugh, but c'mon, there has to be something really cool to say bubbling in that wit of yours.

Give it a try.

Quote from: JamesV

I'll play it straight for once.

In the abandoned city, starving ownerless robots are a major hazard.  They roam through neighborhoods looking for any electrical source they can find - live wires passing through, generators that have fuel, undrained capacitors, everything is checked for a few more hours of life.  

Once elegant machines capable of both heavy labor and sophisticated calculations have been reduced to metal monsters looking for their next fix.  If you travel into the city, come prepared with either batteries to throw as bribes or high caliber guns with metal piercing rounds.  If you want to survive long treks into the city, you might want to strike a deal with a robot; once fully charged, they can communicate virtually anything about the city when desperation isn't overwriting their thoughts.  Plus it helps to have one as a bodyguard against other robots.

The robots rarely travel in groups (probably because most of the sources are too small to share) but some internal code keeps them from atacking each other.  Unless one of them loses all charge, then all bets are off.

Here's a pic.