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Timotheus wrote:Strangely enough, from some background work done back in college, I can say that skulls and bones are extremely difficult to make walls out of. They do not stack vertically well at all. We had to run guide posts up through them all to keep the wall even remotely flat and vertical and let the mortar dry for each course before setting the next one. We also had to fill the skull's interiors with cement to keep them from crushing under the weight (plastic skulls, but bone would have had the same problem as it would have been actually weaker.

Essentially, you're embedding the skulls and bones in the wall, not building the wall with them.

Mark N wrote: In this case we may be looking at either filling with concrete or another form of petrification (maybe some of Medusa's work).

MerchManDan wrote:

Timotheus wrote:Strangely enough, from some background work done back in college, I can say that skulls and bones are extremely difficult to make walls out of. They do not stack vertically well at all. We had to run guide posts up through them all to keep the wall even remotely flat and vertical and let the mortar dry for each course before setting the next one. We also had to fill the skull's interiors with cement to keep them from crushing under the weight (plastic skulls, but bone would have had the same problem as it would have been actually weaker.

Essentially, you're embedding the skulls and bones in the wall, not building the wall with them.

....I, uh. I don't know what to say about that. This was for a specific course, or just academic curiosity?

ActionKermit wrote:Was that Medea? I got the impression that it was just some random demon who picked the wrong moment to get on Phix's bad side, and Nudge asked whether it was Medea half-sarcastically because there wasn't enough left of the corpse to be identifiable.

Dave wrote:

Wdot wrote:Still, she's at that age where "Happily ever after" should be allowed and if anything threatens that, they will have to deal with Katherine who fits the "mama bear" trope to a "T"

Yup. The world can be grim (no pun intended), and the "lighter" versions of childhood tales are often far removed from reality...

... but they should be. Children deserve at least some happy, care-free time to imagine, wonder, fly kites and dragons, and have tea with frogs. That's how the world should be, damnit!

There's plenty of time for Castela to learn the less-wonderful truths about the world, and realize that many princesses end up being married off to flatulent second sons of minor march-kings down by the bay, there to spend their lives officiating over the annual Fermented Herring festival.

Timotheus wrote:Performance area/lounge wall - Named the Catacombs, The student union wanted to cover- up the new walls that had been put in for the wash rooms and such to fit in with the field stone walls and arches in the basement under the old chapel in the former monastery wing of the college. So they called in the creatively demented people and we decided to keep with the catacomb theme and cover the plaster board walls with fake walls of skulls and bone. Looked real neat when we were done but it turned out to be a real pain to do.

bmonk wrote:A thought I keep having when reading the page today--and then promptly forget when it comes to the comments:

Pickle was right when she said she would be "cognito" if she goes out like that. It's a word one rarely has an opportunity to use.
I think I first saw it in Jack Winter's 1994 article, "How I Met My Wife".

I hope Pickle's love will be requited, and those around her committal.

Aleister Crow wrote:I have a bad feeling about this...

Catawampus wrote:[Castela plants]'re also rather uncomfortable to parachute into, though that property of theirs is not too likely to figure into this storyline unless the plot takes a very odd turn.

Fairportfan wrote:

Catawampus wrote:[Castela plants]'re also rather uncomfortable to parachute into, though that property of theirs is not too likely to figure into this storyline unless the plot takes a very odd turn.

But when she gets old enough to be thinking about a boyfriend...