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seaboards ([personal profile] seaboards) wrote in [community profile] shellphones2024-12-01 01:16 pm

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WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS



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AHOY! HELP WANTED. THINK YOU’VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES TO BE THE FACE OF ESCORDVI’S VERY FIRST ADVENT CALENDAR? POST YOUR GLAMOROUS PICTURES TODAY. POST THEM NOW!

A group of collaborators is looking to put together Escordvi’s very first annual advent calendar. For its inaugural year, they want to compile a collection of pictures of beautiful riftfarers to represent each month. These pictures can range anywhere from beauty shots, to thirsty body shots, to tasteful fashion poses. Anything goes!

Have your character post their own (or their friends, enemies, boyfriends, girlfriends, dogs) photos to this network post. NPCS can also be used to post photos. Then feel free to comment around on the photos with which month or season you think would suit them best. Or just comment about how much you like the photos. Who’s hot? Who’s not? Or about how horrified you are that someone posted yours! Any and all feedback is needed so they can create the best calendar ever!

At the end of the month, an advent calendar for 2025 will be created! If there are enough submissions, there will be multiple calendars so don't be shy or think you'll be left out! For ease of use, the calendar has been broken down into the four seasons so that multiple themed shots can be posted. Get posting!

PLEASE USE THE FORMATTING CODE PROVIDED IN EACH TOPLEVEL! Putting the character's name in the subject line is optional but helpful for quick reference. Any who don't follow instructions will have their comment screened so it can be edited. This is mostly to ensure images are not too large and stretching pages. Please try to crop images to best fit the code, especially long ones. The code will automatically resize images to a max width of 300px, so an image with a 3:4 or 3:5 ratio would be ideal.

QUICK LINKS: SPRING 🌻 SUMMER ☀️ AUTUMN 🍂 WINTER ❄️

forgeabettertomorrow: (this Lance guy sounds alright)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2024-12-02 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Look at that another great use for a small head! These comments just fly right over

Question though do you ever have trouble finding gloves that arent also garbage cans?
minorinpain: (Default)

[personal profile] minorinpain 2024-12-02 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Form over function, kid. They're a good, durable piece of gear.

[Nappa loathes Frieza, but he'll give the Emperor this...he does make good battle-armour.]

Would'a thought a fighter like you'd understand that, but...heh. Maybe spendin' all that time around royalty's makin' you go soft. My gloves not fancy enough for the little lordship?

[Oh he saw, Darin. He saw.]
forgeabettertomorrow: (Nani the fuck?!)

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[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2024-12-02 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
['Royalty?' Wait, Darin never told a soul that Zelda's a princess. He's positive. Did something happen? Ganondorf would know but...]

[Regardless, he's gotta try and play it off.]
forgeabettertomorrow: (Don't know how to quit)

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[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2024-12-02 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
All Im saying is that mitts like yours must make delicate work hard. I can tell you dont turn the pages on many books.

And man I dont know what royalty youre talking about. Youve seen me do I look like the type of guy to rub elbows with nobility? Im more the type to get thrown in a dungeon than anything else.
minorinpain: (nappaicon1)

[personal profile] minorinpain 2024-12-03 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Nope, I don't. Saiyans prefer a more hands on approach to education. We ain't ever been big on theory.

If I were to guess, I'd say the kind of royalty that's a real lightweight and gets real chatty when they've knocked back a few.

Like, I dunno, at some fancy party. The kind with masks, maybe.

SO black-out wasted they probably don't even remember how many people they gabbed about it to!

But heck, I'm just a dumb old Saiyan warrior, what do I know, eh? I'm probably just talkin' out my ass here.
Edited 2024-12-03 00:09 (UTC)
forgeabettertomorrow: (Adventure awaits)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2024-12-03 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Darin's been vaguely threatened enough in his life to recognize tone even through text. He's done his time in the backs of taverns. He's had enough veiled threats leveled his way that he can pick them out in his sleep. And this?]

[This sounds like blackmail.]

[And as loud and brash as Darin can be, he takes Zelda's trust in him seriously. If he reacts too strongly to this, it all but confirms his assertions.]


Oh the party where I chucked your giant ass out the window after you were so sure I couldnt? That party? The party where everyone saw me pack your ass up like a big beefy suitcase?

I mean look Im not gonna question what you heard but I dont know anything about any royalty.

Besides if this person was as drunk as you say what makes you think they werent making it all up? Hell what if I told you I was a demonic god of destruction! Would you believe me?
minorinpain: (nappaicon12)

[personal profile] minorinpain 2024-12-03 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
...Yeah. That'd be the one.

[Nappa's still bruising over that, even though he knows Darin is still in the dark about the extent of a Saiyan's powers. And if Nappa wants to keep it that way, at least for a little while longer, he's gonna have to eat some crow here.

Just think of the payday. This twerp's gotta be the guy Zelda mentioned, the blacksmith with "bed on demand money". Once Nappa's actually got her, Darin's tune'll change right quick. But maybe he can throw Darin off the scent. Make him seem below suspicion.]


Look kid, I may not be the smartest guy in the room, but I ain't that stupid and I sure don't got a death wish. If what I'm sayin' is right, and you're tryin' to play it cool, anything happens to them, you'd thrash the guy that did it, right? So maybe I'm bein' nice here now that I've put two and two together, because if I can do that, so can other people who were at that party while you were throwin' me through that window an' maybe I'd like to get in good with the top dog around here and I'm sharing some valuable information. Consider it a peace offerin' all right?

And if what you're sayin' is true, then I really am talking out my ass, and you got nothin' to worry about.


[Nappa's also not prepared to rule out you aren't a demonic god of destruction, Darin, because humans aren't supposed to be that strong.]
Edited 2024-12-03 00:55 (UTC)
forgeabettertomorrow: (I'm about to do something awesome)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2024-12-03 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay, so Nappa has at least one brain cell and is observant enough to start piecing things together. The big guy definitely seems like more brawn than brains but guys like him usually have someone smarter to direct those fists. Darin would be amazed if Nappa didn't pick up at least a thing or two.]

Peace offering from THE MIGHTY NAPPA huh? I appreciate the gesture.

[Okay, he's gotta seem non-committal here.]

If she really were royalty Id be pretty pissed. I actually hate nobles. All they care about are their own self interests and preserving their line. I find out shes a blue blood Id want nothing to do with her

[It's a bold lie and Darin hates it but at least with that he might stand a chance of diverting suspicion.]
minorinpain: (nappaicon10)

[personal profile] minorinpain 2024-12-03 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Excellent. Darin thinks Nappa's a weak suck-up now. Just according to cake.]

Ha! Preachin' to the choir, kid. I mention I used to work for the Saiyan prince? The stories I could tell ya. Four feet tall if he was an inch, if you don't count the hair. And an ego twice the size. Ever since he was a kid.

[Nappa can make fun of Vegeta now because Vegeta's not here to make him regret it.]
forgeabettertomorrow: (I don't really get it but...)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2024-12-03 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
A prince? Like a bodyguard or something?

That cant have been enjoyable.