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My pirate ship would look like this, you know it would...

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Ok, trailer analysis. It's time to put my Castle in the Sky knowledge to use. 🌬

1. I genuinely believe that Skyloft is inspired by the City Laputa. Example A

In the movie, in order to get to Laputa, you first had to survive a thunderstorm and two contrary hurricane wind directions. That protects the city from the outside world.

2. There is no thunder in the trailer, but there is a snowstorm with an ice boss battle. Having to go throw a storm is staying in theme with the story.

3. Plus, an airship that looks like a sea vessel and behind it is another cloud tower.

4. Also, in general, the Laputa Islands fleet aesthetic. That is spread throughout Hyrule sky.

I can't wait to play this game. Castle in the Sky was one of my favorite childhood movies. Now I get roam around in it. 🌥 😁 🌬

What other comparisons to this or other fictional stories locations have you seen in TOTK?

Ok, trailer analysis. It's time to put my Castle in the Sky knowledge to use. 🌬

1. I genuinely believe that Skyloft is inspired by the City Laputa. Example A

In the movie, in order to get to Laputa, you first had to survive a thunderstorm and two contrary hurricane wind directions. That protects the city from the outside world.

2. There is no thunder in the trailer, but there is a snowstorm with an ice boss battle. Having to go throw a storm is staying in theme with the story.

3. Plus, an airship that looks like a sea vessel and behind it is another cloud tower.

4. Also, in general, the Laputa Islands fleet aesthetic. That is spread throughout Hyrule sky.

I can't wait to play this game. Castle in the Sky was one of my favorite childhood movies. Now I get roam around in it. 🌥 😁 🌬

What other comparisons to this or other fictional stories locations have you seen in TOTK?

IO Guard was ejected. IO Guard was not the imposter ❌😂

((I was glowing blue because my overshield had just recharged))

Some progress shots of the Christmas gift I made for my sister. A zeppelin purse. (It's not a blimp, it's a rigid airship.) I drew up the design and laid out the cutsheets in Rhino, then used a laser cutter to cut the leather. Then there was a lot of sewing to do. I also hadn't really been positive how everything would fit together before I started, so I had to undo a couple lines of stitching when I was unable to fit my hands in to sew the last couple of rows of stitching.

I'll post some photos of the finished bag, complete with sister, sometime in the next couple of days.

I did snag the idea from someone else on Etsy who makes figural bags out of felt. Here's the airship bag that gave me the idea. 

The completed zeppelin purse I made as a gift for my sister. The purse itself is made of laser-cut leather, stained red, sewn together, and wet-formed to shape. The strap is a chainmail weave in stainless steel.

I'm planning on making another as a late Christmas gift for a friend. I don't know if I'll make more at some point to sell. I got the idea from this other airship bag, so currently I'm not sure how I would feel about that.

Here are some progress shots of the piece being assembled.

The maiden flight of the yet-to-be-named steampunk airship. Zen proposed the name Daedalus (the father of icarus). It really has a nice ring to it!

The - yet unnamed - Air Pirate Zeppelin on its virgin flight over Blake Sea. It went perfectly smooth, including people who were afraid we would shoot them :-D

First impressions of the new Zeppelin DZ-1 "Zephyr". Coming soon!

Some first pictures of the Professor’s steampunky (needless to mention really) Sim Never Drift. A lovely scenic floating village with fort, airship dock, lighthouse, pub - and a lot else to discover!

Currently Never Drift isn’t open for public, but once the building is finished, access will be granted - stay tuned!

Drow Science - The Steam Awakens

Dieselpunk airplanes fantasy adventure is my favorite genre.

Why wouldn’t I be making Super Mario Maker levels with all my spare time?

A couple of these were already posted here, but I included them anyway just to keep everything in one place. If you want to catch these levels as they’re posted, check out my Twitter.

Iota (Part 1)

Pain greeted Ashiko from all sides as she rose into the world of the living. Freezing wind stung her face. Burning metal seared her back. Her bionic fingertips tingled despite having no built-in feeling. She pulled herself to her feet and steadied herself against the torn hull of a crashed airship. As her brain collected itself and registered what just happened, her duties returned to her mind.

Evander! I have to find him!

As the prince’s bodyguard, she had a contractual obligation to keep track of him. But her sense of duty wasn’t what pulled her out of the knee-deep slush. She dragged her slippered feet through the snow, regaining control of her body with each step. Dark figures moved in the night, briefly silhouetted by flashes of blue and red. Crystals of refined Mistral Scoria that once held the airship aloft now flung snow high into the starless sky. She took her phone out of the pocket of her heavy winter cloak and tapped on the prince’s number. Through her swimming vision, she could make out two concerning words in the top corner of the screen: “No Signal.” That was weird. She had a signal until the moment before the crash. The popping in her joints was almost gone when someone lunged out of the darkness at her. Ashiko ducked down and, using the attacker’s weight against them, tossed them over her shoulder and pinned them to the ground.

“Woah, woah, woah!” choked the figure, their voice strangled and shallow beneath Ashiko’s literal iron grip. A rising plume of billowing, smoky flames illuminated the figure’s features. A strong jaw, amber skin, and pointed ears. She immediately recognized him. He was one of the flighthands on the ship.

“Sorry!” Ashiko said, immediately releasing her hold on the flighthand’s neck. He scrambled back, fearfully gazing up at her. “Sorry, sorry.” She looked down at her phone. The prince’s number illuminated on the screen re-ignited her memory. 

“The prince!” she said in a flurry of hushed whispers.

“Who?” asked the flighthand, massaging his neck.

Ashiko grabbed him about the shoulders and pulled him to his feet. “Evander Zausch! Prince of Kustestade!”

“-Shh! They could hear you!-”

“He’s in trouble!”

“How are you gonna help him? You cannae even stand up straight!” The flighthand grabbed Ashiko’s arms, steadying her. “Listen. There’s nothing you can do about the prince. Right now you need to worry about yourself.”

Ashiko froze in place. She was trapped in a whirlwind of thought, caught between her duties and the reality of the situation. Her common sense prevailed. She knew that without her wits about her and without a weapon to defend herself, she had no chance of rescuing her prince. “Scheisse! You’re right.” She looked down the mountain. Just below the snowdrift was a sprawling pine forest. On the edge of the horizon she could see lights. Civilization. “Do you think we can make it there?”

“Would you rather stay here with the sky-pirates?”

“You’re just full of good points today,” said Ashiko. She took the flighthand’s hand, and pulled him to his feet. “Follow me.” As the two survivors trudged through the fresh snow, the howling wind and roar of the broken thrusters muffled the sound of their footsteps.

Down in the dark forest, they finally had a moment to catch their breath. Unhindered by the lights of the estate, Ashiko could see the night sky in its completeness. Iota’s rings curled across the horizon like angelic fingers; the hand of a divine being keeping a close watch on the people below. Two large spots of color hung over them; Iota’s twin moons. It was unusual to see them in the sky at the same time. Ashiko forgot if it was supposed to be a good or bad omen. A carpet of stars above distracted her from her surroundings on the ground, sending her straight into a tree trunk.

“What’s your name?” asked the flighthand as they came to the tree line.

“Ashiko,” Ashiko answered on instinct, “Ashiko Kaida, personal bodyguard to His Highness, Prince Evander Zausch.”

“How ‘personal?’” the flighthand asked, throwing up a pair of air quotes.

Ashiko narrowed her yellow eyes and tugged at the edges of her cloak. Although wet and musty with melted snow and sweat, it still bore hints of his smell. “You don’t need to know what the prince and I do.”

“Shouldn’t the prince’s ‘personal bodyguard’ be a man?” the flighthand -very reasonably- asked.

“I asked him about that once,” Ashiko said, “He told me it was a stupid question and never gave me an answer.”

“This prince, he doesn’t sound like a nice fellow.”

“No, he’s a good guy. He’s just a little… demanding sometimes. That’s just how royalty is, you know?” She fell silent. “It’s too dark out here.” She pressed a button on her metal arm, and the Scoria batteries popped out, bathing their surroundings in a bright blue light. “That should help.” She turned to the flighthand. “But enough about me. Who are you?”

“Sundara Darcy,” said the flighthand. In the light, Ashiko could see that he was sharply dressed. His pinstriped pants and button-down shirt didn’t seem well-suited to the weather, but next to Ashiko in her blue pajamas and winter cloak, he still looked significantly more prepared. “Personal bodyguard to that heap of twisted steel.”

Ashiko winced. “Sorry about that.”

“It’s not your fault,” Sundara said, “If anything, it’s your royal hosts who are to blame.”

Ashiko bristled at the accusation. “What makes you think that?”

“I can’t think of anyone else on that airship who’d have a hit squad after them,” Sundara said, “Handsome guy, though, that prince. I hope he’s alright.”

“If he isn’t,” Ashiko said as a strip of raveling asphalt came into view, “Then my entire country is in danger.”

“Right now that’s not important to us,” Sundara said.

“Right,” Ashiko said, “We need to find a place where we won’t freeze to death.” She took her phone out and checked her reception again. Still nothing. “And where I can get a decent signal.” Sundara, seeing this, followed suit, and flipped open his phone.

“No use,” he said, snapping it closed, “My company doesn’t cover Victon.”

“Perks of serving royalty, I guess.”

A short way down the road was a cozy-looking wooden lodge. Honey-colored light trickled out from the frosty windows into the snowy dawn. White smoke billowed out of the concrete chimney. “That looks like a good place to start.”

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Next Chapter

NPC Tales: While The Party Is Away

Inspired by this prompt.

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"Where are you going with all those guns?" Marina asked Knives as he walked out onto the deck carrying a firelock rifle, firelock carbine, hotshot firelock, firelock repeater, revolver, revolver carbine, mage revolver, big bore mage revolver, and a fancy-looking automatic pistol.

"Don't worry about it," said Knives. His little kobold body was dwarfed by the sheer amount of wood and steel on his back. It looked like he was carrying a bundle of sticks! "I'm going to do some business."

"No, no, no you are not!" Marina said, positioning herself between Knives and the gangplank, "The last time you 'did some business,' there were no survivors!"

💎 Volucite Cabin 💎

They were miners flying around the world in search of Volucite. Ahh, They digged underground in Glimmerbrook for more Volucites and never returned.

Here's the cabin left by that miners, the flying cabin powered by Volucite. "Really fly?" You would say. Yes, of course, It depends on your feelings.

Lot Size: 30×20

Lot Type: Tiny Home Residential (Tier 3) 1 bed 1 bath: Bets on top of a two-tiered bet cannot be used. Well, the voyage requires a lookout at night, so why not take turns sleeping?

Price: $67.538

It was built in Glimmerbrook.

No CC (CC free)

Please turn the cheats “bb.moveobjects” on before you place this Lot. If the crystal etc, disappears and you are worried about buoyancy, please enable "bb.showhiddenobjects" and "bb.showliveeditobjects" and try again. :)

Download via Origin: ID flyingman6th Or, Tray Files DOWNLOAD (SFS, no ads)

⛏The actual Volucite becomes just a stone when it touches the air. Special technology is required for crystallization. Volucite is a ore that appears in the Studio Ghibli movie "Laputa: Castle in the Sky". Also called 飛行石 or Levitation Stone.📚

Something a bit different to what I usually paint, but I saw this model and I just really wanted to paint it! Its just such a neat little model, especially that spherical cockpit.

The model is printed in resin on my Mars 2 Pro, and the stand was done on my Prusa in a copper silk filament. I love that copper silk for decorative things, it just looks so good.

It is a bit messy in some points, mostly because painting the cockpit wrecked me, it wasn't until I actually started painting it until I realised how fiddly it was to do. My metallic covers way better than my yellow does, so every little mistake took quite a few careful coats to fix.

That said, I really like how it turned out all the same! Most of my messy points fade away once its a on a shelf rather than right up in my face at painting distance.

The model is Red Stinger by Heriberto Valle Martínez.

More work done on this Fujiko fan art!