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Konig Des Todes · Sep 22, 2011, 03:23 PM // 15:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by bonjela

@Konig: I'll comb through your story when I've more free time; maybe tomorrow, but probably over the weekend. If you can, try to post a summary of the plot so we can help you hunt for plot holes; you'll need them gone now if you don't plan on making major changes to finished chapters.

Plot that I have written out is in spoilers at the end of my post. The thing to remember is this: This is not solely a stand alone - it's the second part of a six "book" series, and is also acting as the prequel of my work from last year's Halloween workshop (The Death of Thorn).

So if there are plot holes here, they may be intentional for two reasons:

1) They're covered/going to be covered in other works - the prime things would be Thorn's fate being covered in The Death of Thorn, and Konig's past being covered in Fall of Gods.

2) Since this isn't "my" world, and I dislike contradicting canon lore without an explanation given, I will leave things open to make it feel like what I show isn't the entirety of the world. For instance, I may bring up Yomindhe but not go into his story.

Just wanted to point that out before you go all critical on it.

A word of caution before you open the spoiler or quote this - if you don't want to have an intended-to-be-big shock/surprise moment then don't look.

Honestly, I'm going against who I am by posting this outline (I love to see people's reactions to things, and this means that I'll be losing reaction when I write the chapters q.q). :x

Outline:

Chapter 2
- Konig resumes the purpose of his visit (to look into a powerful source of magic emanating from the city). It turns out the magical source is coming from the royal buildings and as such he attempts to befriend them. Janah becomes suspicious of his changed mentality (from wanting to be left alone to entertaining them).
Chapter 3
- Opens with a group of kids playing (“sticks and ball”) in the small town port of Kamadan and hitting the ball towards a “strange tall man”. Scene ends with him leaving towards Fahranur. (Notes: It’s not stated that’s Thorn and he is not insane; he’s very kind to the children; mentioning wanting to surprise “them”)
- (short!) From an unknown figure’s perspective: going into a secret chamber which holds a large tablet with purple-glowing inscriptions of an ancient language.
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
- Infuriated with the princess’ refusals, Thorn crafts a mask out of nearby mandragor shell and challenges Onrah for his daughter’s hand in marriage; though Onrah refuses, Thorn begins fighting anyways. The princess enters as Thorn’s sword is pressed against Onrah’s throat, to save Onrah’s life she agrees to marry but is interrupted by a woman’s scream.
Chapter 7
- Drawn by the scream, Konig heads to a courtyard where a woman is being devoured by bugs. After the bugs are quickly removed, he notices that they came from within the body and overhears others saying that there were other victems over the past couple weeks. Believing it is magical in origin, he rushes away searching through the palace but is quickly confronted by Janah.
Chapter 8
- (short!) The plague breaks out like wildfire suddenly; from the younger prince’s perspective, he watches as the people around in suffer and bugs burst from their skin and begin devouring them alive. He soon succumbs to pain and feels the bugs within him as he’s in extreme pain; as he dies, he wishes for Konig to save him.
- Konig and Janah begin to fight, her sword cuts through and dispels all his magic claiming that “his evil magic” cannot work on it. She pierces him through the chest, he grips the handle and knocks her back then places the sword next to her telling her to leave before its too late; she tells him that it already is too late as she feels her bones being warped by pressure in her body and asks Konig to promise to end whoever is causing it. He refuses to promise and says he was going to anyways.
Chapter 9
- Thorn rushes through the city with his “new fiancé” in an attempt to leave. Shortly before getting to the city gates (closed off to isolate the plague), she collapses in pain as she falls to the plague. Thorn leaves her behind in order to not get infected and rushes to the gate. When they refuse to open the gate, he strikes the gate and despite it being impossible for a single man manages to open it, causing only a handful of others to escape.
Chapter 10
- The dark figure looks at his new form, partially decayed look but with power flowing through him. Konig quickly arrives and the figure looks down on him (literally and figuratively), taunting him and his failure and how he has now surpassed the so called “Konig Des Todes.” He reveals that he was the elder brother and decides to take a new name: Palawa Joko (Joko comes from “I always did like my brother’s name more than mine”). He had placed a spell on Thorn that would take time to activate, twisting his mind and body with only a couple secrets that Palawa found from the Apocrypha and other scrolls and tomes, but in the end didn’t need him. His brother was a useful tool to keep Konig busy, however.
- The two have a quick fight, beginning on even terms but with Konig quickly overpowering Joko. However, Konig goes through sudden pains in his arm and realizes he was infected by the plague. Joko takes this time to escape.
Chapter 11
- Thorn had made it to where his ship was docked and finds a new Krytan ship docked. His wife comes out, shouting about Thorn being a disloyal husband leaving to hook up with young girls; Thorn reassures her that it was a ploy to gain the trust of the Elonians, but such a ploy is no longer needed and hugs her. Then with a loud popping sound her body becomes limp (“I was bored of you anyways.”) and he leaves on the ship for Kryta.
- Konig remains in the city as he watches the death around him. Though the insects are bursting out of him, his body quickly heals and he kills them instantly. He decides to isolate himself until the plague in him ends.

Aeronwen · Sep 22, 2011, 03:45 PM // 15:45

I am not reading Konig's plot summary - if anyone comments on it can they do so in spoilers please.

@Kiya - I am hoping for lunatic court costume, I really want to see what you do with that.

*Gemini - looking good so far , I like the concept. I was a bit slow to recognise what the right skull was, thought it was the minions handbag at first ^^

GeminiJuSa · Sep 22, 2011, 05:11 PM // 17:11

@Aeronwen: Don't give me any silly ideas now XD

KiyaKoreena · Sep 22, 2011, 08:01 PM // 20:01

Ooh they announced the prizes.

http://www.guildwars.com/events/cont...11/default.php

stouda01 · Sep 22, 2011, 08:13 PM // 20:13

Name: stouda01
Art Form: digital painting
Idea: something Absinthe related
Progress Gallery: once i start it will be here: http://stoudaa.deviantart.com/
Real Life Prizes: [X]
Official Contest: [X]
Workshop Awards: [X]

Death By An Arrow · Sep 22, 2011, 09:01 PM // 21:01

Wow, they really upped the prizes this year o:
Guess thats what you get when youve got sponsors

Also; quesiton to see if someone could clear this up with me before I get too into my idea;

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Originally Posted by Halloween 2011 Entry Webpage

Originality: Entries must be the original creation of the contestant and cannot be taken from any other source. Your submission must not infringe on any patent, copyright, trademark or other intellectual property right, or any privacy, publicity or publishing rights of any third party, or be libelous, obscene or otherwise contrary to law. Please, no clip art, tracings, or art from other sources such as games, movies, or books.

So, would doing a star wars/destiny's edge-esque crossover breach this? I was waiting to post my little doodle before I figured this out, but i could post it none the less. The idea was to have one of each race be one of the characters (asura+yoda, chewie+charr, leia+sylvari, luke+human, han+norn), but it sounds like that would infringe on intellectual property? :S But at the same time, charlie crossed gwen with The Shining and won, and felt it was along the same lines.

just wanted to clear it up before i go and waste paint/boards D:

Edit: Heres the poorly drawn concept in question

Konig Des Todes · Sep 22, 2011, 09:47 PM // 21:47

By my understanding, your idea is one such method of what they're talking about.

Nothing added about no literature, and I still say its a form of art, so I'm still gonna submit this work, assuming I can complete it by Oct 13.

Death By An Arrow · Sep 22, 2011, 11:47 PM // 23:47

Bahh, then it sounds like more mad king thorn sketches :|

Ravenhawk · Sep 23, 2011, 01:02 PM // 13:02

Gem - love the composition of this piece. can't wait to see more progress.

Tommy - Good start. I like how your initial 'sketch' has those vibrant colors already. Looks like a poster of a halloween film.

Sura - Damn! Yeah that's all I can say. You definitely got the perspective nailed down and the more I see your progress, the more I adore your piece.

DBA- Love the Star Wars concept. I'd say go for it! Only suggestion is maybe put them in a Star War-esque poster movie arrangement to give more 'oomph' to the parody. At least that's what I'd do

As for my progress. Here's the latest one I uploaded. I haven't fixed the critiques yet because I want to get the composition down. Only got two left to sketch. Been procrastinating big time because of house hunting and stuff.

and yes that's Murke on the upper left corner. These are mine and my guildies' characters. Too many rangers! 4 in total for this piece lol

Also that bear is going to look more realistic later on. It's actually Waffle. I did not include his master Ran since I already got my mesmer in there...and yeah that would bring the ranger count to 5 if I did put him in there. lol

Then when I saw the announcement for the GW Official Contest, I felt that I bit more than I can chew when I saw the deadline (earlier than I thought lol) because of the enormity of this piece (never tried 8 characters in a drawing before..my max is 3 before this). Well I just decided to push on anyway...so I actually finished roughly sketching all the figures last night. I just didn't upload it. I'll post an update by the end of this weekend of a (hopefully) a LOT more polished version.

Odinius · Sep 23, 2011, 02:37 PM // 14:37

Oh dear, last years entry took me little over two weeks to complete and with all the stuff I have in mind for this year it's gonna be tight!
October 13th instead of 31th.

Count me in though I'm all excited whooooooo!

Name: Odinius
Art Form: Polymer clay
Idea: A bit like last year only bigger and with the new halloween stuff from last year.
Progress Gallery: TBA
Real Life Prizes: [X]
Official Contest: [X]
Workshop Awards: [X]

Sura · Sep 23, 2011, 05:43 PM // 17:43

@death by an arrow
i love the star wars/destiny's edge-esque idea! Such a fun and creative idea

. But judging from the official guidelines for the contest and the last winners of the halloween-contests i think it's too far away from what Arenanet expects. Too little Halloween and too little Guild Wars. But that's just my opinion, i obviously have no insight into what they would like.

@Tommy's
A great concept! The expression is really good and convincing

@GeminiJuSa
Very cool sketch, this is going to look very good! But i think the image looks compressed and sqashed at the bottom, as if you ran out of room. So composition-wise a bit more room at the bottom would be beneficial. Also i would put the figure in the dead center.

@Ravenhawk
Awesome group pic

. I am looking forward to your after-weekend process pic! I agree with you that the early deadline for the contest is a bit surprising. I was expecting more time as well. Lol at the bear: to be honest i was thinking: why is there a teddy bear (i know it's just a sketch

)

@Aeronwen
Thanks for the vote

! Much appreciated!

I did some work on my piece as well (after all the deadline is close). To add some more Halloween feel i changed the pose slightly. I tested a new color option i quite like and finally started on the armor.

Olle · Sep 23, 2011, 05:48 PM // 17:48

Things here are looking fantastic, cant wait for the final stuff to come about!

i wish i could bother sending in some stuff, a mini kings guard is cute

KiyaKoreena · Sep 23, 2011, 06:26 PM // 18:26

Name: Koreena
Art Form: costume
Idea: Lunatic Court Finery
Progress Gallery: http://www.kirins.net/hw2011/
Real Life Prizes: [X]
Official Contest: [X]
Workshop Awards: [X]

Final Workshop Entry:

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Last night I got my husband to help me make a duct tape dress form, today I have started gathering materials.

Death By An Arrow · Sep 23, 2011, 07:37 PM // 19:37

@Mina I think I'm going to put it off for the official contest, but its something I could try working on after I finish my entry. Might as well do something I know will have a chance than something more likely to be disqualified D: But this year (years spanning from october to october, for whatever reason) I'm planning on trying more digital work. Because I was going to this year, and then... didnt. I got swamped with school andthen once the routine broke I just stopped, and focused on photography. so I could try doing that afterwards.

sidenote: we have this movie poster up in the music room at our school. See it every day, so awesome.

@Sura That lighting looks very nice. I like how you added the lightsource in, even though you didnt originally want to. I would just say either move it around a little bit, or flatten out her hand; the reason being that it looks like shes digging into it with her fingernails (to me, anyways) and is just a little awkward. But the idea is very nice! Might I suggest some eerie flames/smoke coming out of it? (Unless thats what those lines are, then continue with that).

Also, thanks for reminding me that I have a weekless than last year to do this O_____O

@Kiya look forward to seeing where this costume goes! If its anything like last years, you'll be a finalist for certain

Ravenhawk · Sep 23, 2011, 07:43 PM // 19:43

@Sura - I love that pumpkin and how it reflects light on all the surface. I felt that it should reflect a yellowish hue on her right thigh as well though (though I know it's just a rough sketch so you might know that already)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sura

@death by an arrow
i love the star wars/destiny's edge-esque idea! Such a fun and creative idea

. But judging from the official guidelines for the contest and the last winners of the halloween-contests i think it's too far away from what Arenanet expects. Too little Halloween and too little Guild Wars. But that's just my opinion, i obviously have no insight into what they would like.

Put in Mad King as Darth Vader and it's all Halloween from there

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sura

@Ravenhawk
Awesome group pic

. I am looking forward to your after-weekend process pic! I agree with you that the early deadline for the contest is a bit surprising. I was expecting more time as well. Lol at the bear: to be honest i was thinking: why is there a teddy bear (i know it's just a sketch

)

Thanks. lol actually I got lazy with the bear. I figured I'd spend too much time sketching a real bear so just used a teddy bear reference as a filler for now lol /fail So yeah..you're not too far off >_> Thought I'd convert to realistic bear once I am doing the rendering.

EDIT- @DBA - so you're having two entries? One for official and one non-official? (Sorry if you said that already. I skimmed real quick through the entries to catch up with this thread). And I totally hear you about schedule and stuff. So much going on IRL in these days it's hard to focus on art. I miss my 'almost every week I get to produce a drawing' routine last year.

Death By An Arrow · Sep 23, 2011, 08:52 PM // 20:52

We shall see. Once I finish the official entry I want to do, then I'll work on the star wars one. Itll be just for the workshop if I do finish it, but if it turns out I'm rushing to finish it or what have you, I won't enter it and just finish it as I can.

Inshort: all in the timing. Wanna do a good job, rather than speed through and quit later

UnOrthOdOx · Sep 24, 2011, 07:52 PM // 19:52

whoa, 10/13.

That's gonna rule out the bridge idea. Guess we'll run with concept 2. Time to get crackin'.

` Marshmallow · Sep 24, 2011, 08:01 PM // 20:01

WORKSHOP -cheer-

HALLOWEEN -DOUBLECHEER-

MARSHMALLOOOOOOOOW -parade-

Kidding. yayaya I really really reallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreally wanna enter D: I wanna see if I can dig up some stuff for prizes <3!!

UnOrthOdOx · Sep 24, 2011, 08:50 PM // 20:50

Ok, officially going with 'option 2'.

Name": UnOrthOdOx
Art Form: Building Structures/home decoration
Idea: "Halloween in the Black Curtain" (working title.)
Progress Gallery (includes concept pics):
https://picasaweb.google.com/SirUlia...eat=directlink
Real life prizes X
Official contest X
Workshop X

Managed to find the place again and snap more pics of the idea. Got a better understanding of how to make it a scene/display.

Title might get changed, the Tengu 'made' the thing. Might change it to include them.

Thinking I might replace the skulls with pumpkins to better tie in Halloween...but the pumpkins I want to make take a minimum of a week to fully come into their own. Around here we don't even have pumpkins in the stores yet.

Will get some actual work done this week.

Death By An Arrow · Sep 24, 2011, 10:28 PM // 22:28

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAMARSH

please make something as awesome as usual.

Im sure whatever you can whip up will be awesome UnOrthOdOx

I agree the deadline is quite soon :x