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How Do You Get A Picture Onto the Internet
Okay, strictly speaking I just have. Even I know that.
But the point is, I want to share this picture with my fellow Dungeon and Dragon enthusiasts (not tragics, don’t I get enough abuse from my eldest, I don’t need it from you guys).
Wait a second, I haven’t even told you what this is a photo of. Of what this is a photo? I don’t know! My 6th grade teacher felt learning grammar with the other students would damage my natural style. No, I was not teacher’s pet, he liked athletic boys (get your mind out of the gutter) he was one of those Aussie sport obsessed yobs who couldn’t relate to sheilas especially brainy ones. Actually thinking back he may have just been trying to mess me up. Maybe he hated me as much as I hated him
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Wait another second, this is not a post about bad teachers and/or my childhood. This is a post about Dungeons and Dragons and sharing photos with a community.
That’s right I want to share this photo so people like me (okay I agree this time, crazy people) can have a photo of a piece of Dungeons and Dragons equipment that I scoured the internet for years for. For which I have searched for years? Let’s not return to that particular rabbit hole.
First things, well not first, I’ve missed that particular boat. First things eventually, this is a photo of…
It just occurred to me that this would be the point where I would have built up some tension. You know, if anyone cared. I’ve been talking about something since the beginning and just when I am about to tell you what it is… Bam I go off in another direction. What’s more, a completely useless (as we’d call it in the D&D community, actually I don’t know I can’t get in) side quest (get it).
Wait, that’s right…
This photo is supposed to be a… A Tocken
‘A tocken was a set of wooden carved oval open-ended bells that could be played either with hammers or open handed.’
Forgotten Realms Wiki
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com › wiki › Tocken
So I haven’t been able to find a picture of a tocken on the internet to add to my visual equipment list to show my fellow players what my stuff (oops, I mean My character’s stuff) looks like. Shut up, I am completely aware few people do this, but I find it important. Even if I can’t get my fellow players to bother to look at my book of family ties, costumes, belongings etcetera that I create for my characters.
What? What do you mean this has not explained exactly what a tocken is. That is a quote from the Forgotten Realms Wiki. How very dare you… Oh.
Oh, yeah, I get you. A tocken in an Underworld instrument often associated with the Drow.
Drow? Good grief, I thought everyone knew… Oh well! A drow is a dark elf, a group of elves that followed an evil elf goddess Llolth into the underground where they live in an evil matriarchy and are only prevented from world annihilation by the chaotic spirit of their goddess and extreme infighting.
If you know about drow and think that was a bad explanation, I can only say…
If you knew what a drow was why are you reading my pathetic attempt at an explanation? Huh, huh, are you reading it just to see me fail? And what does that say about you?
Sorry. I’m playing a fangborn drow, elf dhamphir, for the unitiated, actually I am not going to go back down that path. There are a few types of dhampir. My character is the deliberately bred offspring of a great vampire and a drow (both had reasons to create a dhampir as a potential tool/weapon). Look it’s a complicated game.
My entire point is I spent months creating this instrument. Buying plastic skeleton hands, painting them, finding the dogs had eaten them while they were drying, buying new hands, waiting for the delivery, hand priming so they didn’t need to dry outside, painting them, gilding the finger tips, cutting the wood to size, drilling, screwing the pieces together, selecting/buying the bells and copper replica tortoise shell, stringing the bells and copper replica tortoise shell, making sure that the instrument could be played by hand or hammer and make different distinctive sounds, varnishing, protecting the drying instrument from marauding hordes of autistic kidults, vicious dogs and a husband who could do it better.
Yes, I actually wasted considerable physical time creating a fictious fantasy instrument so I could take a photo and add it to a pretend equipment list for a character I play in a game.
That’s why it’s so important that I share this photo. Perhaps if others also use this photo this ridiculous waste of effort and yes, blood (don’t use a screwdriver with excessive haste, folks) actually worth it.
So, if anyone knows how I can get this photo onto somewhere that D&D enthusiasts can find, it please let me know in the comments.
With the complete lack of competition my project will look good. At least until someone else gives it a go.
BTW the photo is free to use. Absolutely free. Please use my photo.
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