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BACK AGAIN AT THE PEACEFUL POOLS
festival rumpus 2! festival rumpus 2. it was so long ago! but not really. this year (last year) we expanded the festival to include dioramas and rumpus boards and i am really happy with the board i made! so happy that i thought i had already written and published this blog post but no, twas all a dream.
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| CLAY THINGS | CAT HAIRS | FESTIVAL RUMPUS 2! | FESTIVAL RUMPUS 2. |
if you know me you know i love a d66 table so of course we had to have a few new ones for festival rumpus 2: FAIRIES, NAMES, and REALMS. i rolled a REALM first for the board: PEACEFUL POOLS! and then i rolled up a troupe and i was delighted to find two fairies from PEACEFUL POOLS (what are the odds! about .09%) and one from TWINKLING TOMBS, and max had said he wanted to make a TWINKLING TOMBS board!! so i was feeling like this was an auspicious beginning to my efforts and i did a drawing that i think reflects this.
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| REALMS | DRAWING |
the base for the board is a 3/4"x16"x16" plywood board with a 1"x12"x12" insulation foam square glued to it. my previous rumpus board was made by gluing 1" foam tiles to a plywood board but i decided to use foam this time so i could carve the grid in. i also wanted a big border around the play area for BIRCH. after i carved the grid i scraped out the pools, which was awful, which i then filled with wood glue, which i should not have done, and i should have known better, because i tried to do it with my abandoned-for-now waterfall diorama board, but i did it anyway. dellon sent me this nice ettin to stand on the board and confirm that all the squares were kind of 1" squares.
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| PLYWOOD AND FOAM | NICE ETTIN | AWFUL | GLUE | SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE |
i got a bunch of pebbles and twigs from carkeek park to use for the BOULDERS and DAMS. these are the obstacles for the PEACEFUL POOLS. the original obstacles for RUMPUS are TOADSTOOLS and LOGS but really they can be anything as long as they are the right size (1x1 spaces and 2x1 spaces). i glued the best pebbles to 25mm squares and sculpted faces on them with milliput to turn them into BOULDERS. i made DAMS with the bad pebbles to punish them, hot-glueing them into forbidding barriers, on 25x50mm cavalry bases. i put screamo next to a DAM and he wept to see the plight of the lesser pebbles.
at some point i gave up on most of the horrible wood glue, and filled the pools with watered down spackle. it is not as fun to pour but it did a much better job taking up space. don't laugh at me, i have a lot of unfounded faith in glue.
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| SALMON SLIDE | STICKS AND STONES | BOULDERS | SPACKLE | MUCH BETTER |
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| BOULDER | BOULDER | BOULDER | BOULDER, WITH SOME FORSAKEN MUSHROOMS VISIBLE | BOULDERS AND MUSHROOMS, I DID NOT FINISH THE MUSHROOMS, SHH |
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| DAM | SCREAMO WEPT | DAMS | ||
even though i wrote the rules for how many obstacles you need i still forgot and didn't make enough BOULDERS. i made 8, but you need 24. let that be a lesson to you.
the surface of PEACEFUL POOLS is POOLS but i wanted to have grass for a kind of howl's moving castle vibe, so to compensate i carved into the side of the foam and made little toilet paper and mod podge waterfalls, like it's a spring and water is just blasting out of the edges. i love how weird this looks with the grid, like a bomberman 64 stage.
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| TOILET PAPER | WATERFALLS |
at this point i remembered i needed to make a WISHING WELL which is the round tracker for RUMPUS. you obviously don't need to make more than one if you're just playing RUMPUS at home but i was planning to give this board to DARK FUTURE DUNGEON in portland so i wanted them to have a WISHING WELL. i cut the base from some...mdf? from the back of a dresser and used foam math manipulatives from my classroom to tile it. then i covered the tiles in milliput and smushed heart tokens into them which i had licked to make the indentations. it's definitely a more functional wishing well than my first one; much easier to get the hearts in and out.
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| FOAM | MILLIPUT |
i hot-glued a bunch of sticks to the border for the BIRCH. i thought i had enough to do the whole thing but i really only had enough to make a copse at each corner. this was for the best, because it would be very hard to play on the board without breaking sticks off if they went all the way around. i set up all the obstacles and walked the ettin and tufty around the board, then i went to montana.
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| STICKS | OBSTACLE TEST | TUFTY AT PEACEFUL POOLS |
while i was in montana i looked at a POOL, a BOULDER, and a BIRCH, and confirmed they are real. i did not look at any dams because my dams stand up very tall on the board and i did not want to be proved wrong. when i returned to washington, i painted the whole board brown, and then sponged on white paint to the sticks to make them BIRCH. i painted the POOLS bright bright blue. i started to feel hope again. i flocked a few rows of the board and screamed in delight. sometimes you don't know if something is going to work until you make it. i added many false foliages to the dams and wrapped the bases of all the obstacles in toilet paper and mod podge to turn them into springs, too. it's fun to think of water pouring out of everything on the board. like playing in the midst of a garden statuary supply.
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| POOL | BOULDER | BIRCH | BROWN | WHITE |
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| BLUE | POOLS AT LAST | GRASS | HOORAY | HOORAY FOR FLOCK |
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| MORE TOILET PAPER | TOILET PAPER FOREVER | |||
i am currently sold out of tufty fairy, which meant that i was one fairy short of two troupes, and i wanted to include two troupes with the board. i decided to finish up this Shaggy Fairy (based on the artwork of Brett Manning and also available as an infinite number of downloadable print and play standees!) and just paint them, so that is what i did. i painted a whole set of guys just one color, it is so fun, it feels like making 3D spectrum zx sprites, i have always wanted to do it and i recommend it. i put a coat of gloss varnish on the wishing well water and painted all the rocks and BOULDERS grey and that was that! it was time to go to portland!
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| SHAGGY FAIRY | I BRIEFLY RUINED THE BOARD WITH DARK GREEN BUSHES BUT I SCRAPED THEM OFF | WISHING WELL | PEACEFUL POOLS | OBSTACLE GANG |
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| RED AND BLUE | LET'S GO TO PORTLAND | |||
it was a wonderful time at DARK FUTURE DUNGEON. chuck is very very nice and the shop is so cool! we played a game of RUMPUS immediately and then i played two more games. the last was TAKE THE BABE, which was absolutely wild! I TOOK NOTES:
- a fairy was killed in the first turn with a walnut, and they dissolved into a bog
- another fairy was split in two while fighting over the baby
- both copies were immediately killed by a burp
- but! one copy rolled a 6 on the death table, which demands the killer speak their victim's true name or sacrifice one of their own fairies
- they FAILED and sacrificed the changeling while another fairy ran away with the baby
- under the influence of AFFECTION, a fairy pick-a-pocketed the baby
- they dropped the baby when they were killed by a SPEAR in a COSMIC CLINCH (both fairies rolled the same number in a fight and both died)
- a desperate fairy ate two items and used the magic of REVERT, hoping to receive a POTENT EFFECT and give every ITEM on the board an ODDITY
- they succeeded, but lo, WILD MAGIC: a RANDOM MAGIC GLUED the baby-carrying fairy to the ground
- the SPEAR gained the ODDITY "BROKEN", making it useless
- the baby gained the ODDITY "FORGOTTEN", which moved it to a random space on the board
- a DART gained the ODDITY "FOLKSY" which turned it into a fairy
- it grabbed the baby and ran off the board to win!
JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE PEACEFUL POOLS.
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| RUMPUS AT DARK FUTURE | IT'S LIKE A BIRTHDAY CAKE | SHAGGY FAIRY SETS A TRAP | SCREAMO'S GHOST | NOSY TAKES THE BABE |
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| CHUCK IS THE BEST | ||||
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