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Well, vacation!
Forced leave - to be more precise. A few days ago my fortune in hunting left me. Not enough money to repair my swords and armours, and 12 days to go for the payment from planet Earth. I put some old clothes onto the auction, as an emergency measure. No idea if someone would buy them …
I sat at home and dithered about any chances to make some extra money. But hey, I am a skill-machine! I have learnt here exactly ONE thing: to swing my swords, and they were broken. I stared out of the window and an old song from Janis Joplin crossed my mind: “O Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porsches …” … at least the missing and very expensive parts of the new armour instead of the Benz! Did you hear my prayer, Lootius?
Finally I got up and checked my storage boxes. And guess what! I found my old sketchbooks. I had to laugh about it. I bought them a short time before disembarking from Earth. They should be filled with sketches and paintings of my new homeland Calypso. That was more than one year ago. But all the pages were empty. Of course I took shiploads of photos. But what are photos compared to handmade pictures?!
What about going out there, through all these beautiful landscapes of Calypso and bringing them to paper? There are so many special places … worth to picture them! But a pencil is way thinner than a Tsuka (for the laser-snipers of you: Tsuka is the hilt of a Japanese sword. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katana). I decided to make a small test. Here it is:
An empty place. A steppe with an unnecessary container and a rotten hovel. A picture of loneliness and decline.
Far in the north of Amethera I noticed one of the impressive buildings of Calypso. A significant symbol of what happens here. With its bigness lost in the wide landscape it shows the megalomania as well as the power of colonisation.
Forced leave - to be more precise. A few days ago my fortune in hunting left me. Not enough money to repair my swords and armours, and 12 days to go for the payment from planet Earth. I put some old clothes onto the auction, as an emergency measure. No idea if someone would buy them …
I sat at home and dithered about any chances to make some extra money. But hey, I am a skill-machine! I have learnt here exactly ONE thing: to swing my swords, and they were broken. I stared out of the window and an old song from Janis Joplin crossed my mind: “O Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porsches …” … at least the missing and very expensive parts of the new armour instead of the Benz! Did you hear my prayer, Lootius?
Finally I got up and checked my storage boxes. And guess what! I found my old sketchbooks. I had to laugh about it. I bought them a short time before disembarking from Earth. They should be filled with sketches and paintings of my new homeland Calypso. That was more than one year ago. But all the pages were empty. Of course I took shiploads of photos. But what are photos compared to handmade pictures?!
What about going out there, through all these beautiful landscapes of Calypso and bringing them to paper? There are so many special places … worth to picture them! But a pencil is way thinner than a Tsuka (for the laser-snipers of you: Tsuka is the hilt of a Japanese sword. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katana). I decided to make a small test. Here it is:
Hmmmm … not really what I expected to earn …
My fingers were tattering and I had problems switching from huge movements like swinging a sword or axe to drawing tiny lines. But, it was worth it to do some training and several more attempts.
My fingers were tattering and I had problems switching from huge movements like swinging a sword or axe to drawing tiny lines. But, it was worth it to do some training and several more attempts.
And then pling plong! My old Beach Shorts were sold and I got enough money to complete the repairs on one sword and one axe. So let’s start a new profession: Painter! Go out there (protected by nice armour and serious weapons, equipped with a comfortable number of LB-skills – bwuaha!) and paint or draw a portrait of this wonderful planet.
After that decision I went out and made a couple of trials. Some of them were sorted immediately (SWUSH! To the trash can!!). But a small number prompted me to continue.
I came to Camp Phoenix. In my memories it was a place filled with lots of people in OJ sweating mobs, and other people buying and trading. And now? Look what I found:
An empty place. A steppe with an unnecessary container and a rotten hovel. A picture of loneliness and decline.
Far in the north of Amethera I noticed one of the impressive buildings of Calypso. A significant symbol of what happens here. With its bigness lost in the wide landscape it shows the megalomania as well as the power of colonisation.
Okay, that’s the story behind my sketchbook, and here is the woman behind it:
(Does anyone else notice that we have no mirrors here on Calypso? LOL!)