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Was originally in the magick section..but then I said aw screw it.

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Saint Keggers

13:54 / 09.02.03

Originally I had the first 11 cartoons from Danger! Mages In Trainning. But I've moved them and they can now be seen at This amazing place
Enjoy.

Bill Posters

14:14 / 09.02.03

Lol! Kewl stuff.

My only small concern being that, doesn't 'polymorph' mean 'multi-shaped'? Isn't that kindof a 'monster-shaped' beastie? If so Haus is going to tell us the G(r)eek for 'monster' 'cos I dunno. There's 'theriomorph', but that means 'beast-shaped'... which might do, on second thought...

Mazarine

14:33 / 09.02.03

Those monkeys are ungodly cute!

Saint Keggers

14:56 / 09.02.03

Bill: No concern needed... Polymorph means to change shape. Poly, meaning many and Morph meaning change as in metamorphic rock. Therefore it means manychanges. Unless im completly wrong..in which case im suing my grade 7 physical sciences teacher.

Mazarine: Thanks.

Persephone

16:58 / 09.02.03

I LOVE "For the last time, Venger is not after your stupid hat." Great scott, the mages are *incredibly* expressive, just the way their heads turn... I love that guy eating the banana, too.

ONLY NICE THINGS

20:04 / 09.02.03

Your teacher is wrong, kegboy. Polys, from which we derive the prefix "poly", means much or many. "Morphe", from which yadda yadda yadda "morph", means "shape, form". There is a verb "morphan", meaning to shape or mould, but that doesn't quite have the meaning "change".

Of course, nobody expects anyone to speak Ancient Greek anymore, but a vague conversancy with modern English can be useful. "Polymorph" is a noun derived from the adjective "polymorphous", defined as "having, assuming or occuring in many different forms". Since I can't see the image, for some reason, I have no idea whether this remains applicable, but nonetheless, you should start consulting your lawyer.

Saint Keggers

21:23 / 09.02.03

The Haus Peter Duncan, male bride, keeps nice and tidy:

The reason you can't see the pic is that I have them stored at photovillage.com which gives you a 5 meg transfer limit per day. If you want more you have to pay. Which I do, but I wont.
All will most definitly be viewvable when I get some webspace.

The pic was of 2 mages looking at a monster and one mage is saying to the other "You just had to know what polymorph meant". The fact that the monster is wearing a mage hat is indicative that it was once the third mage.
After consultation with my local game guru I can refer to two spells in D&D : Polymorph Self and Polymorph Others. Both let you change the shape of things.

I've decided not to sue the teacher...He is however currently hanging by his feet over a vat of acid. The bastard keeps on screaming "There are four lights!"

ONLY NICE THINGS

21:41 / 09.02.03

Yes..."polymorph" as a verb exists, as far as I know, only in Dungeons and Dragons.

Saint Keggers

21:44 / 09.02.03

Well im reclaimming it as such and bringing it to the people!

I've got 14 done so far....
Anyone know of good free reliabel webspace?

Saint Keggers

21:52 / 09.02.03

you may be able to see them here:

http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse.asp?selected=79671

illmatic

10:05 / 10.02.03

The little mage dudes rock Kegboy. LOL!

Mourne Kransky

18:47 / 11.02.03

Excellent! You clever man.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

21:01 / 11.02.03

Sadly, "polymorph" is purely a D&D thing.
Happily, in D&D it means, like, turn some dude into some shape that could be one of many shapes, thus satisfying the whole many shape thing.
Sadly, D&D can seem a bit, well, sad.
Happily, many people stop playing it when they get more freinds and learn some proper magick.
Sadly, in Balder's Gate II: Throne of Baal, you only get to turn people into squirrel with the Polymorph Other spell. which bites.

adamswish

14:49 / 12.02.03

Kegboy there are gorgeous my friend. And seem perfect as card illustrations for the (chaos) magician in your life. Put me down for a gross of each design my friend.

Also premision to link to your page from my site, the world needs to see these (who am I kidding don't even know if anyone but me reads the damn site).

Quantum

15:07 / 12.02.03

D&D is sad, no argument, but other roleplaying games do not suck in the say Gammy way.
'Mage: the Ascension' for example. If you like those 'toons (I did!) you'll likely like Mage. It is an RPG in which you play magicians in the modern world, members of secret societies out to protect the world from other, nastier secret societies, monsters etc. It is very well researched, and... oh fuck it, I might just as well start a thread about it- I'm an obsessive and will only ramble on. Sorry.
Is it alright to put one of those toons on a teeshirt? I'll credit you underneath of course, and direct anyone who compliments it here

pretty please?

Persephone

15:54 / 12.02.03

What's weird is that I think I was there, so to speak, when morph took on this meaning of change shape... wasn't it when Apple came out with its Morph program? Would have been around 1992 or so? I was in advertising at the time, and all of a sudden it seemed like everything coming out of the creative department up until the time I left was morph this and morph that. Never anything interesting though, it was always stuff like "It's a bleach! It's a cleaner! It's a bleach *and* a cleaner! Look... they're morphing!"

Keg, you want to put these up on QG? I could do a little slideshow thingy, I should practice my Javascript some...

Saint Keggers

18:40 / 12.02.03

Morph has been around since the eighties... I think I can recall using it in a first edt. D&D campaign back in elementary schoool...then came the shame of the mighty morphing power lamers.

I've got 18 of these things completed. (yay me!) In truth I have 19 but the last is soo horrid that it shall only be released well after I've died in order to ensure it doesnt totally fuck up my place in heaven.

Persephone If you want to put them up on your site thats great. (they were hunting for squatting space). I can email them to you and send you a image to use for linking or whatever.

Adamswish Once everything is settle as to a permanent home for them I'll send anyone who want it the damn link button image. A gross of each, eh? I wonder if I can sell these?..hmmm....(start dream of chaos mage empire that rivals Harry Putters.)

Persephone

19:00 / 12.02.03

On second thoughts, I'll bet that whoever programmed Morph in the 90s played D&D in the 80s...

At this rate I'm going to have to change the name of the site to Queer Granny and Kegboy. Go ahead and email me the images... what's the resolution on these ones?

Saint Keggers

20:06 / 12.02.03

Queer Granny and Kegboy..lol.
They're 72dpi. Good for the net, Im not sure about printing. The actual Photoshop files are 72dpi but twice as large.but I wont be sending those.

Persephone

10:50 / 13.02.03

True, 72 dpi isn't great for print. How about I put these in the comics & zines section? That way people can see them, they just won't be available as downloadable images. Although they would make great t-shirts!

Saint Keggers

12:57 / 13.02.03

T-shirts? I was thinking beer coasters and mousepads then lunch boxes and binders, cartoons and acid tabs...Danger: Mages In Training: The home game! Danger:Mages in Training:The Movie staring Don Knotts as The Evil.
I'm building an Empire, baby! An Empire!

Smoothly

13:05 / 13.02.03

Morph has had a shape-changer usage for ages. Like, you know, Tony Hart's little brown friend, wotsisname.

adamswish

14:14 / 13.02.03

Morph has had a shape-changer usage for ages. Like, you know, Tony Hart's little brown friend, wotsisname

And just to up the geek-anty wasn't the monster in Red Drawf who feed on emotions and changes shape called a polymorph too?

Saint Keggers

05:10 / 15.02.03

blah,blah,blah,fishcakes..I added s'more.
(The firedemon of # 19 is a personal favorite.)

Quantum

15:02 / 19.02.03

where are the more? want more, grrr.

Goodness Gracious Meme

15:05 / 19.02.03

These are fab. Me likey likey.

Especially like the first one. That would be where I'm going wrong then?

Saint Keggers

04:35 / 11.04.03

Just wondering..would anyone be interested in me putting up a cafee press shop or something like that for the mages? Mages mouse pads, mages mugs, mages shirts and greeting cards...ect... In other words Do you think there would be enough people wanting to buy D!MIT paraphenalia for me to start putting them out to the public? (I say buy because im currently bringing in 0$ and until I find a job this could be a good way to use my talents.)

Let me know

bump.

Me, if it's the squid one!

Persephone

21:25 / 11.04.03

I would buy something, Keg. But I gotta tell you, selling stuff like this is a hard gig. On the one hand, Cafe Press is good because there's no upfront cost... but on the other hand, it's CP that makes the money in the end. Their base price is pretty high, and you have to mark it up from there to get money yourself. You really have to hustle to make anything.

You might contact moriarty... his friend has an online store & other online stores sell her stuff too. He says that she makes a living doing this. She might be a good person to talk to.

Aimes

13:36 / 12.04.03

Man, they're fantastic! You wouldn't be interested in having a few of them reprinted in a small press mag would you?

Saint Keggers

15:25 / 12.04.03

Tell me more...

Shrug

15:35 / 12.04.03

Wow, brilliant. I especially like the first scene.

Saint Keggers

16:12 / 03.10.03

I've just come across this:
This should not be happening

Now even the least observant of you will notice my comic is nowhere to be found on that list. So here's the plan. Its simple.

1. Tell a friend
2. Tell an enemy
3. Tell a stranger
4. Tell someone with contacts in the tv industries until he/she screams "Enough! I'll make a damn Danger! Mages In Training show, just get off my foot!"
5. Repeat until it obtains a Cult Cartoon Status!"

adamswish

16:42 / 03.10.03

Fantastic my dear kegboy, and I shall re-establish the link to their new home as quickly as possible.

Okay now for the real question, who do we know good at modelling and how soon can we have the three little chaps in 3-D for use on our altars?

Seriously I would pay good money for them, and would be interested in any goods you produce.

More power to you Keg, I'm off to picket the BBC right now

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