Thor's Hammer Pendant

From a slab I found among the scraps, I made this crude pendant. I cheated a little by cutting away some of the excess before I started shaping in the fire. It turned out alright.

Willow Pipe

With a couple branches of willow, I made this pipe mostly to see if it was possible. Most of the work was drilling carefully through both parts.

It's light and smokes fine. I keep it by the forge for idle moments.

Sandman Watercolor to Oil

In my copy of Absolute Sandman II, I found this watercolor painting by Mark Chiarello (on the left). I loved it. Enough so to try making one to hang on my wall, after adapting it to an oil painting (on the right).

Tale of Three Knights

A couple of weeks ago, a friend asked me if I could contribute to a fantasy setting he was creating by writing a short story to fit into it. I was explicitly told very little about the setting so far in the hopes that whatever I came up with might diversify his world. After he read it, though, it turned out what I had written fit in a little too well in his setting, enough so to have eerie implications. For those interested, this was the story I gave him:

Tale of Three Knights

Chicago Unmasqued

For those familiar with Vampire: the Masquerade, this text may be worth sharing. It's called Chicago Unmasqued and it's a book intended for the players in a chronicle I ran for over a year. It was set in Chicago, running through the stories set in that city in the World of Darkness from 1991 to 1993.

I printed six of these and bound them for myself and every one of my players. It contains the logs I had kept up with for every night in the story, annotated with footnotes and sidebars containing secrets of which the players were as of yet unaware. Also, it's illustrated with sketches, some of which courtesy of the players themselves, and a few oil paintings.

So, for those interested, here is a pdf of the book itself:

Chicago Unmasqued

Vampire: the Masquerade is a tabletop role-playing game developed by White Wolf Publishing. In case it needs to be said, they own all the rights. They created all the cool stuff. I just made this book about our chronicle of their game, intended for my players as something to remember it by.

USB-stick Meets Nature

The plastic casing of my usb-stick was broken...
That needs to be fixed!

Using a drill I have hollowed a branch of the right size.

The usb-stick has been fastened with a few drops of superglue.
The cap is made of the same branch, so it has the same measurement. I placed two small magnets in both components to hold the cap in place.

The result! A surprising mix of technology and nature!

Elder Scrolls Books

Anyone who has played the Elder Scrolls games with as much joy as we have might appreciate this one. A while back, I compiled all the in-game books into a format I could print and bind to keep in my own bookcase. The texts are all available on a brilliant website: http://www.imperial-library.info/; the rest of the work was organizing and formatting.

So, to share the .pdfs, here they are:

Tamrielic Codex I (being all the books from Daggerfall)

Tamrielic Codex II (being all the books from Morrowind)

Tamrielic Codex III (being all the books from Oblivion)

At the time I did these, Skyrim had been released, but not all its DLCs. I have yet to do a complete book for that game.

If anyone is interested in binding them as well, these pdfs print to A5 paper nicely. I did each spread to an A4, then folded those into a complete book in 16-page signatures. The result can be seen below: