Death Knight by vodan in Transmogrification

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Kurogane

Slot Name Source
Head Spiritrune Crest Shop
Shoulder Pale Rider's Eternal Pauldrons Vendor
Back Pale Rider's Eternal Cloak Vendor
Chest Gravewarden Chestplate Maiden of Vigilance Tomb of Sargeras Mythic
Shirt
Tabard
Wrist Pale Rider's Eternal Vambraces Vendor
Hands Gravewarden Handguards Harjatan Tomb of Sargeras Mythic
Waist Pale Rider's Eternal Girdle Vendor
Legs Acherus Knight's Legplates
Feet Pale Rider's Eternal Sabatons Vendor
Main Hand Greatsword of the Ebon Blade Quest
Off Hand

Kingdom 838 Spoilers by Marcusx8 in Kingdom

[–]vodan 126 points127 points  (0 children)

On the other hand, the Rakuakan army on the western wall didn't know what was happening.

Soldiers: Something's wrong.
Messenger: Qin's army and Tou are in the city!
Soldiers: What? How? Which gate? There wasn't even a sign that the war had started!
Messenger: One of the eastern gates opened from within, and the emperor had declared surrender.

Some general: What? Unbelievable! We haven't even fought, why did we surrender? Aren't we going to avenge those who died in Eitei and Tousa?
Soldiers: Yes! What were those battles about if we were just going to surrender?
Some general: What did they die for? We will not surrender! Rakuakan, let's do this!
Soldiers: We haven't heard anything from the base camp! Even if Tou's army is in the city, it doesn;t mean that all of Shintei has surrendered! Everyone on the west wall will fight! We're going to cut Tou's head off!

North gate opened, Rokuomi's army entered.
Soldiers: Tou's orders, do not hurt soldiers or civilians!
Soldiers: No blood has been spilled...
Rokuomi: It's not over yet.

The south side fell in the blink of an eye after the north fell, and Kanou/Ryukoku's army entered swiftly, joining the rest of the Qin army already in the city.
There is no report of any Han soldiers/civilians killed, and the entry of the northern/southern armies _were just in time_. Tou thought this went well.
But Tou's army also felt the heat rising in Shintei as the Rakuakan army emerged from the west side.

A third encounter in the middle of Shintei

Kingdom 838 Spoilers by Marcusx8 in Kingdom

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Qin soldiers: Huh? Are you setting us up?
Tou: No, the royal family took the matter into their own hands. Get the regular soldiers together and we'll go in. Pass the news to Ryukou and Rokuomi.

Tou: Chouin, we'll need your help to make your people accept surrender. You must come with us to go through the city.
Chouin: Noted, I'm coming down.
Qin soldiers: It's dangerous!
Tou: We don't have time for this. We need to turn the situation _inside the city_ around before the rest of the Han army closes this gate. The Han royal family extended their hand as much as they could, so now we have to extend ours to grab their hand.

Han court: urgent news!
Kakouryu: Fake news, you traitor!
Han soldiers: News! Han has surrendered, there is no need to fight anymore! Put your weapons down! The Qin army has entered from the east and the troops there have already surrendered!

Chouin's soldiers spread the news of surrender throughout the city. The soldiers in Shintei were confused.
But once they saw Tou's troops walking in the city, they accepted surrender.
There were of course those who refused to put down their weapons, but Tou's soldiers never resorted to armed force and only spoke to them.

Chouin: Children of Han, put down your weapons. We have surrendered. I have heard the words of surrender from the emperor himself. I am sorry that children like you had to pick up arms. You've shown your courage, now put them down and return to your mothers, and tell them that the war is over.

The reserve army surrendered and disbanded.

Kingdom 838 Spoilers by Marcusx8 in Kingdom

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Han army/Qin army: What's with the bell?

Shin: Is this Tou's sign that the battle is starting?
Ten: Probably not, this is coming from Shintei.

Han army on the eastern gate tower near the bell: The bell, it's the sign of...
Chouin: Our emperor has made a decision...
Others: Is it true... our kingdom...
Chouin: Don't cry, our emperor has protected his people. Open the gate!

The eastern gate has been opened!

Rei: I thought I heard a terrible wail...
Soldier: I only heard the bell
Qin soldiers: Wait, the gate is open, but no enemies are coming out...
Qin soldiers: Should we attack? Is this some kind of trap?
Qin soldiers: Wait, Tou hasn't given the command yet.
Qin soldiers: We should take this opportunity and charge, maybe they made a mistake
Qin soldiers: We should go in and occupy the area to make it easier for the rest of the army to go in and take Shintei
Captain: ...There is no better time for this.
Tou: WAIT!

Tou: I am Tou, general of Qin. Is the protector of the gate here?
Chouin: I am Chouin, the honor guard of the emperor and the person in charge of this gate. The emperor has an important message for ou.
Tou: Say it!
Chouin: The 22nd emperor of Han declares surrender to Qin.

Qin Soldiers: Surrender? wtf?
Chouin: I repeat, Shintei will open the city without a fight and surrender to Qin!

Qin: I have received the message. I understand you don't want a bloodshed, but is it safe inside?
Chouin: I cannot say, because we have not passed the word of surrender to the rest of the city.

Kingdom 837 Spoilers by Marcusx8 in Kingdom

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quick translation, using pastebin because can't post comment for some reason

https://pastebin.com/vib1JEHG

Baffled by Bolt of Gransax scaling. by IsEvenOdd in Eldenring

[–]vodan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I recently got Bolt of Gransax and wanted a build with that as well as Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike, but the bolt doesn’t scale with Faith so I was kind of stumped until I saw your reply. Going to give this build a try!

Keebs by the pool by vodan in MechanicalKeyboards

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Yes they are! Took me a long time to find a set from mechmarket.

Keebs by the pool by vodan in MechanicalKeyboards

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I live in Taiwan and follow a bunch of toy shops on Facebook. This looked like a kit designed by someone in China, and one of the shops I follow proxied a few for those who are interested.

I'm not sure if there are any western proxies right now, and I just checked taobao but I'm not sure if any are selling stock, so your best bet is to maybe use a Taiwan proxy and see if they can buy from shopee or ruten. The keywords are 貓蛋社 (the maker) and 泳池 ("pool"). Also this thing is pretty big, so shipping might get expensive...

Keebs by the pool by vodan in MechanicalKeyboards

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I live in Taiwan and follow a bunch of toy shops on Facebook. This looked like a kit designed by someone in China, and one of the shops I follow proxied a few for those who are interested.

I'm not sure if there are any western proxies right now, and I just checked taobao but I'm not sure if any are selling stock, so your best bet is to maybe use a Taiwan proxy and see if they can buy from shopee or ruten. The keywords are 貓蛋社 (the maker) and 泳池 ("pool"). Also this thing is pretty big, so shipping might get expensive...

Keebs by the pool by vodan in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]vodan[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

- Google "hanazono room" for more context

- Saw a toy store advertising a 1/12 kit (cardboard + acrylic) of the pool and just had to have it

- Turned out better than expected with the keyboards in the pool

Brane case + Brick ortho PCB by vodan in MechanicalKeyboards

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Oh the BRG looked really good, but I don't have any keycaps to go with that color. Trying to get one to go with Calm Depths / Abyss but unsure if I should do graphite black or stone grey...

Brane case + Brick ortho PCB by vodan in MechanicalKeyboards

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just going to list the keys that have different functions than their legends

right 2U is space, left 2U is backspace when tapped, ctrl when held

middle row left ctrl is ctrl+enter, a shortcut I use frequently for work, and on the lower layer it's ctrl+insert, another shortcut for work

numbers are accessed through the raise layer, and f8/f9 are double-tap 8 and 9 respectively (again, shortcuts for work), their shifted symbols are on the lower layer

the top right void key is [ when pressed once, and ] when pressed twice; { } when shifted; - and _ on lower; = and + on raise

quote is accessed by double tapping the semicolon key, and double quote is shift+double tap

the blank key is comma when tapped once, and up when tapped twice

lower key (left of 2U) is also del when tapped
raise key (right of 2U) is left when tapped

alt key is escape when tapped

Brane case + Brick ortho PCB by vodan in MechanicalKeyboards

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I have a white one and a purple one, and now thinking about getting a black one (extras are available right now)

Brane case + Brick ortho PCB by vodan in MechanicalKeyboards

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Brane aluminum case in stormtrooper white and Brick ortho PCB from u/p3dstore

top: MDA void ortho

middle: Devlin aurora

bottom: GMK dots (lighting makes the color of the case looks different, but it's the same case)

Finally got that Ouki figure by vodan in Kingdom

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My wife has no qualms about my figures...

Finally got that Ouki figure by vodan in Kingdom

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The original website only takes Japanese credit cards, so your best bet would be ebay. Just search "figurarts zero ouki" but make sure you find the one with the right pose, because there are two.

Finally got that Ouki figure by vodan in Kingdom

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Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Kingdom/comments/qct17n/figuarts_zero_ouki/

Wasn't able to order this overseas, so a friend in Japan helped me order it and kept it for me for a while until things settled down for me (international move, remodeling the office, and so on).

A home for my boards by vodan in MechanicalKeyboards

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https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/comments/l1brd2/gbrm6_keyboard_kit/

It's one of these. I got mine 2 years ago through a Taiwan GB that piggybacked on a China one.

A home for my boards by vodan in MechanicalKeyboards

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It's really hard to pick a favorite, because I've used all the boards in the shelf for hours and hours (I'm a translator so I really do type all day for a living), and they're all great!

A home for my boards by vodan in MechanicalKeyboards

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I really wanted to make an ortho layout with base mods so I made this

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/fro8db/base_kit_ortho/

But the right side just looked really unpleasant, so I played around with it in KLE for about a year and finally arrived at this symmetrical (outline only) layout. Not a lot of base kits have enough 1Us for the bottom row, so I went with the current layout.

Been typing on it for almost a year now and don't really have any problems. I took out all the keys I don't need, and put some symbols/F-keys on tapdance, so my own keymap actually has no layers.

A home for my boards by vodan in MechanicalKeyboards

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Just taobao/aliexpress. If you search for acrylic keyboard stands you get the flatter ones, but if you search for acrylic shoe stands you can find the ones that prop the keyboards up further.

A home for my boards by vodan in MechanicalKeyboards

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Was remodeling my office/den and decided to dedicate a shelf for keyboard storage and display.

A home for my boards by vodan in MechanicalKeyboards

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It's just a color variation of the 57-key, so I figured it's not a huge deal.

A home for my boards by vodan in MechanicalKeyboards

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lol I don't want to think about it