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  • The Littlest Prison, by waldronate

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Thread: October 2022 Challenge: Map an Underworld - Voting

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    Default October 2022 Challenge: Map an Underworld - Voting

    This October's challenge was to map an underworld. Unfortunately the challenge didn't prove that popular, as we only had two entries. The two maps submitted can be viewed here.

    You know the drill - vote your favourite, and the winner shall have a golden compass bestowed upon them.
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    Woohoo! Second place! This may be my best showing ever!

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    LOL
    A two person contest is more like my venue to make second place than yours Waldronate.

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    As is so often the case with these contests, there is lovely art and then there is that thing I perpetrated.
    This contest is also like quite a few others over the years in the sense that there was an amazing early entry and I think that it put a bit of a damper on some other potential entrants. A low-res squid flipping you off that turns into a wonderfully-detailed underworld as you get closer is really, really hard to go up against.

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    Quote Originally Posted by waldronate View Post
    As is so often the case with these contests, there is lovely art and then there is that thing I perpetrated.
    This contest is also like quite a few others over the years in the sense that there was an amazing early entry and I think that it put a bit of a damper on some other potential entrants. A low-res squid flipping you off that turns into a wonderfully-detailed underworld as you get closer is really, really hard to go up against.
    Your map is absolutely useful for a TTRPG session though.

    And yeah, that is literally why I didn't enter. I knew I didn't have time to do anything that remotely competed with one of the best map ideas of an underworld execution I've ever seen, something that does the angle change I failed to do in one of my earlier maps and gave up and did an inset map for instead. I am inspired but I have to finish some commissions before I can do a personal art of that tier of quality!

    But a spooky pentagram prison absolutely has its uses.

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    Missed it by that much!

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    I was going to vote for both but it wouldnt let me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by waldronate View Post
    ...A low-res squid flipping you off...
    Oh god I can see it now XD

    Thanks for all the comments. It was a shame we didn't see more entries but hopefully there'll be more for the next challenge
    I did really want to add text to my entry and add perspective as it faded to the distance but I really couldn't think of any labels that weren't super generic

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ifrix View Post
    I really couldn't think of any labels that weren't super generic
    I think that super-generic labels would have worked well here because the unfamiliar and dramatically arresting landscape would be anchored by the touch of familiarity. Something like "the journey starts at Death between the points of Love and Knowledge and ends at The Vortex", with Adventurer's Gate and a couple of others along the way would probably be enough.

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    So no mapping challenge for November?

    I would swear I saw one but then it turned out it was a suggestion for a future one and not the actual challenge.

    Sure, I'm probably not going to participate due to having commissions + Nanowrimo but it's always nice to keep the tradition going!

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