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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 9020636" data-attributes="member: 6750306">Added a personal easter egg to my area map...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />I went to the Avery Point campus of UCONN for a few semesters, which is located on the grounds of a 19th-century manor house called Branford Manor built out near the end of the small Point. (The house's back yard ends at Long Island Sound.) I used to sit out on the rocks writing poetry instead of going to class, and one of my favorite spots to sit was a small bit of shoreline (with an eight-foot drop to the water below) that when viewed from above sort of looked like the sweeping wings and shoulders of a dragon, with erosion having caused the center section that jutted out into the water to sag, looking like the lowered neck and head of the dragon - there was even a crumbled slab of pavement and a round rock stuck in the side of it that looked like the eye and mouth.It looked sort of like this:[ATTACH=full]284946[/ATTACH]I wrote a trilogy of poems about the place while I was there - in my mind, it had become a port town called Dragon Head, so-called because it sat in the lee of a high cliff that protected it from the harsher weather of the sea... A sea-eroded cliff that looked almost like someone had long ago intentionally chiseled it into the extremely rough shape of a dragon.In my mind, local lore held that it really was an ancient dragon asleep for centuries as it guarded the town. I've just added it to my area map, forty or fifty miles north of the city of Windward.So now I have, I think, something like four or five personal references added to my world (including a number of former characters), half a dozen npcs based on Reaper miniatures, a vague nod to Game of Thrones, at least one Princess Bride reference, a gender-and-race-swapped nod to a Celtic god, and a wildly different riff on a Disney princess...I am definitely keeping myself amused, lol.</blockquote>

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