Week 47 (1 June - 7 June 2003)
Sea urchin
"So," said the grizzled bard, "you lost your arm and leg to a giant starfish and your eye to a flying jellyfish."
The grim-faced sea captain nodded once. The two men looked out over the wine-dark sea.
"How about your pegleg? Why does it have so many holes in it?"
The captain's eye grew distant.
"'Twas another innocent looking but fierce sea creature, a scourge of shallow waters: the giant spiny sea urchin."
The scans are really, really rotten here, but the piece itself is kind of neat. The first shot probably gives the best impression -- it's a round flat beastie with raised studs pressed onto the surface and defined by light lines all around them. I was hard at work on this, planning to use it as an exotic base, when Deane Goodwin mentioned that it looked like a sea urchin. Aha. . . .
I drilled out the center of each stud and fitted all of them with straight pins that I'd cut off to varying lengths: quite long for the center pin, a little shorter for the next ring, and a little shorter than that for the outside ring. It looks pretty imposing, and ought to be a lot of fun to break out if I ever run a game of anything ever again.
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