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If you're following this series in order, click here next . For more information on the entire series, read the "'Demon's Due' Defined" journal entry here [link] or the "'Demon's Due' Plus" journal entry here [link] .***********************************************
Elina's mind races, her mouth murmuring aloud the last few thoughts, "... some kind of line to-..." She immediately snatches up the mis-enchanted length of rope, still undulating about her form like a dying serpent. Raising its end before her, the Scholar stills her mind and carefully speaks aloud another minor enchantment.
"Imalgo Fostador Arrigistyl, Lanquidirictis."
The effect on the cord is immediate, causing the spells woven within it to glow brightly and tighten, stretching the line out before her satisfied gaze.
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Elina's stock model is Emily at ~Feathered-pics . If you like what you see, please let her know. Thanks, Emily!
Note: Before anyone accuses me of sexual innuendo here, I'm going to fess up. Yes, the Scholar is using magic to make the flexible rope go stiff and straight. Yes, the thought occurred to me to put "Viagrum" or "Cialix" in the arcane wording of the narrative. Yes, I have a "dirty" mind. However, I must also admit that none of that occurred to me until after I had drawn and posted the image AND the description written above. See, this possible Freudian Slip didn't occur to me until I considered how the DA crowd would view it. So, I'm not sure what that means, but whatever it means...
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Jeff,
In a serious note, I've been meaning to mention this, but was always too busy (meaning lazy.) I won't sugarcoat it. Your "straw" always looks like grass clippings.
I know the gremlin gardners have to do something with the stuff, but they should make a compost pile behind the tavern, not throw it in the damsel kennels. 
Ciao, Van (the guy who can't draw a frakkin' stick figure.)
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Oh, hell. Another suggestion?! 
Okay, now seriously, having grown up on a farm, and having dealt with hay, grain, and straw for years, I grant you that it does look like grass clippings here. But technically, that's what straw is. A combine or similar instrument comes along and takes the top/head of grain off the stalk, while the mower clips the stalk near the ground and leaves it or funnels it for later use. Longer stalk lengths are generally bailed, which is what I think you're expecting to see here, and that would make sense. However, when it's used for ticks, mattresses, and the like, I think it often gets chopped up into smaller lengths first. (Check out the second paragraph on this page: [link] ). That's what I had in mind, originally--that this straw here was taken out of one of the mattresses in the Fair Harvest Inn. Either that, or there was a real mattress in here at one time, or perhaps there were animals stored in here (no idea about that, really).
That doesn't mean, though, that the drawing couldn't improve in the straw arena.
Don't mind these suggestions at all, though I do wish you'd make them the first time the questionable element shows up, so I could make any necessary changes I'm wont to make before I draw 40 pages of it... 
Ciao!
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Q: Where would the straw come from?
A: Used packing material (padding for shipments of booze bottles and wheels of oliphant cheese, griffin eggs, glass jars of pickled unicorn knuckles, and other bar food/snacks.)
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O'course, Albert was a lush... 
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I was talking about Albert. Most beer, ale, mead, etc. would come in barrels or casks, and the same for wine; but champagne, Romulan Ale, Elven Liquers, etc. would come in bottles. And even Albert would have a few bottles under the bar. Granted, you or I would probably get beat up if an ordered an Elven cocktail in Albert's place, but I hear Lady Drea has a fondness for the stuff. He'd stock it.
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I think we'd be okay depending upon which day of the week we showed up. If we could swing a respectable, high-cultured evening, like Tuesday, we'd probably enjoy our poison and get through unscathed. If we foolishly go ordering bottles on the weekend, however, we deserve every bruise we get...
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This looks like Elina is setting the fuse to something trifle. I hope its not the secret gun powder stash, Jervil has dumped somewhere around the corner.
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Sparkley... and sometimes a cigar is just a cigar (or something).
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NO! You just got out of that! When will they learn?
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the detail work on these latest pics is ASTOUNDING..!!
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And somehow, I find myself humming the opening string motif from Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice. We all know how well that turned out for Mickey, don't we...
Is this two in a day? On a roll here! Nicely done!
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Oh yes, this is such a good idea... well maybe for us
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I like that she is so secure with the rope that she has spooled it, around herself hah.
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Elina.... your desperation to get out of that cell is showing. You already were dismayed over how much power you felt enchanting that rope when Garret Gremlin was tying you up and now you're strengthening it? Worse, you've got it flitting about in the air near your mouth.... which you need to be able to speak to cast spells.
Alas, someone should have told her it's never a good idea to try co-opting another's work for anything but its intended purpose.
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Oh, so this is the part where her energizing of the magic backfires on her... I love stuff like that. ^_^
- Polecat
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okay so maybe my idea of "use the rope as a lasso" wasn't such a genius idea
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Ah... so she's essentially turning the magical rope into the fantasy equivalent of a straightened coat-hanger? Interesting if that works....
It appears that even a villainous tool like Cocooning Cord can be corrupted to be used by the good side....
As for the innuendo, true it's there, but what I find interesting in my own observation is that it's the *girl* who is taking some control and manipulating said object here instead of it being manipulated "upon" her, which seems to be the more "usual" so far. I'm curious to see what becomes of that....
Again here I like the hair and the little sparklies of magical energy floating around her hand to the rope's end.
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Ahhh, thank you for that insightful and intuitive remark. 
Thanks for the compliment--the hair and sparklies were fun.
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And you're welcome.
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An excellent observation. It's just a family with a bad streak, I guess...
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Oh, what, you mean this plan will backfire? Who would have ever thought that might happen?
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You drip when you're trying to be witty and subtle. You let the tide rush in as a polite way of saying "No shit!"
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