Evil Tock. Evil! Evil!

[Niami DenMother]

I just have to drop a link in here to this thread over in the SOE forums, as I can't seem to manage to pick my jaw off the ground.

If this is Tock's "first major evil project", just ... wow.

The Ossuary, by Tock (http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=419182)

[Ladywing]

Wow...... that is really nice Tock!

[LadyGalasya]

I will be blatently ste....err borrowing some of your ideas Tock....now that I have figured out how you did those darned stools.

[NappyOne]

Impressive. Makes me want to give up designing and maintaining systems for the Space Station and take up full time EQ2 interior decorating.

The NappyOne

[Lillyanna_Windmane]

Wow.

That has to be one of the best houses I have seen. So dark yet amazing.
It makes me wish I had an empty slot to visit the server and see in person!

[Neyai]

That is just insane! One of your guildmates pointed me to TheSpider and I peeked too. You have freakin aquarium!

I couldn't manage to do this stuff even if I had the money/skill to buy this stuff!

How'd you get the incense to pop out like a cig on the ashtray plate??

Your item placement is nothing short of sickening! (in a good way ;)

Can I wash your feet? Clip your toenails? *swoons*

[Lordebon]

Tock makes another beautiful one, and once again does the AB decorating community proud =)

[Neyai]

Ok I made of list of items I'd never seen before, and I finished going thru them to find origins. I have a list of 13 items I've not only never seen before, but cannot find any info on here or Allakahzam.

a Stabbed Skull
a Heretic's Chanting podium
a Human Skeleton Display
an Outrider's Cauldron
an Ornate Chessboard (there's the BB chessboard I've been working on for a while, but I'd still like to know where this one comes from)
a Small Figurehead
Ulteran Spires Replica
Navigation Wheel Stand
Painting: The War Scout (though I'm assuming /claim or city merchant)
a Visitor's Token
Ice Crystal Egg
Statuette of Sir Valius Bayle

Would you please enlighten us (me!)?

Neyai

[Tock]

Thanks very much for the kind words, folks. Much appreciated! I had no idea this thread was here, since I've been super preoccupied with Festival of Unity stuff.

I've answered Neyai's questions in person already, but if anyone has any other questions, I'd be happy to answer them for you.

[Neyai]

Ok I accosted you on your server, but you missed a couple! And now I have a new one to add. Steaming Jumjum Pie. Alla mentions it but doesn't say where it's from.

[Domino]

Ok I accosted you on your server, but you missed a couple! And now I have a new one to add. Steaming Jumjum Pie. Alla mentions it but doesn't say where it's from.

That is a unique house item that guides and Community Team type folks can give out. It's not acquirable in game by any other means at present.

[KTriol]

Ok I made of list of items I'd never seen before, and I finished going thru them to find origins. I have a list of 13 items I've not only never seen before, but cannot find any info on here or Allakahzam.

a Stabbed Skull
a Heretic's Chanting podium
a Human Skeleton Display
an Outrider's Cauldron
an Ornate Chessboard (there's the BB chessboard I've been working on for a while, but I'd still like to know where this one comes from)
a Small Figurehead
Ulteran Spires Replica
Navigation Wheel Stand
Painting: The War Scout (though I'm assuming /claim or city merchant)
a Visitor's Token
Ice Crystal Egg
Statuette of Sir Valius Bayle

Would you please enlighten us (me!)?

Neyai

Most of them are items purchased from various City Factions. Such as the Ice Crystal Egg, that's from the Mage Faction in Qeynos. The an Ornate Chessboard is from the Figher Faction in Qeynos. Navigation Wheel Stand is (iirc) from the Scout Faction in Freeport. Outrider's Cauldren from the Scout faction in Qeynos.

The Vistor's Token is from the Community Lodge, which a regular player may never acquire. I hear Grimwell is going around a few servers and inviting people over for some pillow fights (very fun, I got to play in it on the Test Server) so there is a slighty more of a chance. (insert picture of a Larger Ice cube in Hell)

The War Scout is from the Pre-Order of the 2nd Equinox Magazine. I've been waiting on my Pre-Order to be processed since March. I'm not holding my breath.

Ulteran Spires Replica is from a Live Event for KoS. Everyone who helped to build the Wizard Spires got one. If you don't have one, more than likely you never will.

[Neyai]

Thank you, Domino, Ktriol and of course Tock! :)

[Elyana]

WOW..all I can say is wow.. you do the carpentry community proud Tock! You are truely gifted! I LOVE the elite bar in the back!

[Enna]

*agrees*

He does a fabulous job. *nods*

[Arabella]

I had the EXTREME pleasure and fortune to be in person at the very early stages of the 'hidden' bar area, as Tock was putting together those stools, and a bit of the bar. You think just his finished work is amazing.. you should see him WHILE he works!! :eek:

I hadn't been back since, alas, and just found this post today.

Breathtaking!

Tock is truly a decorator's hero!!

[Lordebon]

Hehe. Tock is indeed a decorator beyond compare.

I've always been interested in the freeport large homes (since they just have so many interesting options / places to put rooms). I need to get a alt for a freeport house, hehe. The qeynos home is just so... linear.

[Neyai]

At first Neriak 5-rooms are pretty neat. But you get into doing stuff and realize the rooms are long and relatively narrow. There's no room large enough to put, for example, the bird bath except the basement. There's doors on opposite sides, so you've got only 1 or 2 corners per room to built out from. The entry area is the only thing with high enough ceiling for a loft, but due to doorways in walls you're forced to put any stairs smack in the center (altho I did cheat and built a turn-around w/landing in a corner to go up over a doorway on the side, but it's awkward).

Having whined about all that, however, I just don't care for FP even tho the houses are so much better laid out.

[Enna]

Returning to the subject of Mr. Tock's amazing decorating prowess, are there any screen-shots anywhere of the "new and improved" Spider?

On Antonia Bayle server, we can go see it at 4 Bayle Court in S Qeynos, by visiting Thespider (arachnophobes beware: it does contain some rather largish spider pets!) ... but anyone who has the misfortune to lack Antonia Bayle server access would need screen-shots to "visit" the place.

It's not evil-themed, but it *is* at least equally well-done.

His furniture warehouses are also great - not to mention, tremendously helpful! ;) Something about seeing the various options "in person" can *really* help both the Carpenter / Decorator and even the customer to envision possibilities...

Just curious. :)

[Ladywing]

I was wondering if anyone knows what he used for those big rocks outside by where he diety shrine is?

[Enna]

Didn't he say something about "several altars" being used?

I'd imagine those must be their back-sides...

[Mynervia Warsmith]

I was wondering if anyone knows what he used for those big rocks outside by where he diety shrine is?

Do you mean the rocks visible in the thread's pictures, or something you can only see in person?

Based on the pictures, it looks to me like mostly altars with two "Oggokian Torch" (the purple rock with a torch), one near the top on each side, and two "Oggokian Chair" (right below the inny skull & candles).

For the altars, I'm guessing it's largely BrellSerilis and/or Tribunal ones, as they have the large, unobstructed rock back. The SolRo altar has an awful lot of the "hut" showing (it matchs the /front/ style of the Brell and Trib altars, but not the back), and the Bristlebane altar, while similar texture, has a distinctly sculpted look (flat back, curved top) as opposed to the natural rock.

The middle "altar" looks rather curious. I would hazard that it is one of the three "hut" altars (Brell, Trib, or SolRo) facing forward (providing the red "hut" outline, the shelf, and the forward-jutting rock), with a Bristlebane altar facing backward (blocking the view of most of the "hut" and obscuring the base altar's diety emblems; the give-away that this is a BB altar is the smoothly curved top edge of the grey stone, visible above the red hut's roof).

[Ladywing]

Wonderful! Thank you so much for the info. Now I need to go start on mine. :)