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Thirty-Second Floor: Hidey or Nice, Trick or Treat

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Tuesday, November 7, 2006 10:44 PM

SERYN


they look very cool, but sadly require that you be slim petite and probably asian to cary them off. I think i'm going to go with the old standby f raiding the lined cupboard.

Or maybe slightly more fancy than that.

I found one reference book, though theres a lot of reading involved, but it did have a great version of yours Serenity. Basically, if you go to a site called The Costumers Manifesto, they have costume history all neatly sliced up for referencing. A lot of of the greek links are broken, but theres still enough there.

Still looking for the place that gives you the step by step though.

Of course you can be Eros SR, but does that mean you will be coming next year? *fingers crossed for good luck*

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Tuesday, November 7, 2006 11:22 PM

JADEHAND


If I'd brought my guide for Shin Megami Tensei:Nocturne with me, and had a scanner, I'd post a better pic of them. The fates are fun.

I still call Hades. If I'm around.

"But you sleep like a ghost with me
It's as simple as that
So tell me I'm mad
Roll me up and breathe me in
Come to my madness
My opium den
Come to my madness
Make sense of it again."
Goodbye to all that. III-The Opium Den (Brave)-Marillion
visit WWW.Marillion.com for a better way of life.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 3:43 AM

CALLMESERENITY


WOAH! That website is a bit overwhelming! Lots of pretty pictures, though.

It doesn't look like those outfits would be too hard to make. I like the chiton when it's buttoned up the arms to make sleeves. That's pretty.

SR: If you come as Eros, will you walk around in a loin cloth with a bow and arrows? *snerk*

Edit: OH, and I talked to my brother on the phone last night and completely FORGOT to mention the gods thing.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 4:30 AM

SCORPIONREGENT


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
Of course you can be Eros SR, but does that mean you will be coming next year? *fingers crossed for good luck*









Only in spirit I fear, unless I win the lottery.

Scorpion Regent

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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 4:32 AM

SCORPIONREGENT


Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
SR: If you come as Eros, will you walk around in a loin cloth with a bow and arrows? *snerk*









For you I would do it, but it wouldn't be pretty.

Scorpion Regent

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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 6:13 AM

SERYN


Quote:

Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:
Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
Of course you can be Eros SR, but does that mean you will be coming next year? *fingers crossed for good luck*



Only in spirit I fear, unless I win the lottery.

Scorpion Regent



oooooooow poot!

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 8:54 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
PLEASE! Stop with the self deprecation! She was the goddess of sex, it's her MO!

And have you ever SEEN Hephaestus? Not very good looking, and lame in one leg. No wonder Aphrodite had a wandering eye. (Not that I condone cheating!)

I think you'd stand a pretty good chance.

I imagine goddesses of sex even have standards.

Swaggering Bully boy and yobbo is something people can agree on though.



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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 10:07 AM

CALLMESERENITY


I'm having a crummy week. Any chance of huggles?

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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 10:49 AM

CITIZEN


Of course, what's been a happening?



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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 10:57 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Just general suckiness. Getting yelled at, things breaking, nothing working right, more yelling, tension headaches. Crappy stupid stuff, is all.

I need hot chocolate.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 11:05 AM

DAVESHAYNE


Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
I'm having a crummy week. Any chance of huggles?



*hugs* *hugs again* *repeats as needed*

David

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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 11:07 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
I need hot chocolate.

I find hot lead is better for throwing in peoples faces.

I would send you some, but really I learnt my lesson about that sort of thing that time I tried to IM someone a cup of Tea.



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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 11:23 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Oh! I finally found a box! I'm going to mail out your treats tomorrow. Yay!

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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 11:25 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Thanks Dave!

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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 11:26 AM

CITIZEN


Okay I made you a hot chocolate, how do you want me to send it too you?


I'm going to need your address and such to send you jammie wagon wheels and such too.



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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 11:33 AM

DAVESHAYNE


Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
Thanks Dave!



Your welcome. Hope things stop being annoying for you.

*hug I was saving for just now*

David

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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 11:52 AM

CALLMESERENITY


That hot chocolate looks like someone was drinking out of it!

I'll send you my address tomorrow. I'm off work in a few minutes.


You guys are great! Really know how to cheer a girl up!

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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 11:54 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
That hot chocolate looks like someone was drinking out of it!

I had to try some to make sure it was optimal sweetness and temperature. Like a food taster but for hot chocolate.



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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 11:57 AM

CALLMESERENITY


And how was it?

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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 11:59 AM

CITIZEN


Sweetness just right, not quite hot enough, the milk could have been warmed for longer.

I'd give it a 7.5 out of 10.



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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 6:33 PM

JADEHAND


Nice Serenity ornament you've got there Sean. Glad you won that auction!
I picked up one myself, ordered another.


"But you sleep like a ghost with me
It's as simple as that
So tell me I'm mad
Roll me up and breathe me in
Come to my madness
My opium den
Come to my madness
Make sense of it again."
Goodbye to all that. III-The Opium Den (Brave)-Marillion
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Thursday, November 9, 2006 10:23 AM

CALLMESERENITY


I expect the cup of hot chocolate you send me to be better than a 7.5!

I'm going to email you an addy now.




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Friday, November 10, 2006 4:25 AM

SERYN


of course it will be better than 7.5, but you know, clinical trials, stats anlysis, it looks like it could take a while.

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Friday, November 10, 2006 8:42 AM

CALLMESERENITY


That's okay. It's too warm for hot chocolate here right now anyway.

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Friday, November 10, 2006 4:45 PM

JADEHAND


This hot chocolate thing is soundong good, I think I'll make some with the imported chocolate with all the funky flavours. Dark chocolate with cinnamon hot chocolate...yummy.


"But you sleep like a ghost with me
It's as simple as that
So tell me I'm mad
Roll me up and breathe me in
Come to my madness
My opium den
Come to my madness
Make sense of it again."
Goodbye to all that. III-The Opium Den (Brave)-Marillion
visit WWW.Marillion.com for a better way of life.

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Friday, November 10, 2006 5:14 PM

SAFEAT2ND


All we need now is a little Baileys/Kaluha/Mint Liquer to go in it. And Baileys just came out with Caramel and mint flavours too...

HEEELLLOOOO weekend!! *Runs off to the local LCBO (liquor store)* Here in Canada we can't buy liquor at the corner store sadly.



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And a heart full of rain
And I know that I said
I'd never do it again
Oh and I love you sweet baby but I always take the long way home."

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Friday, November 10, 2006 5:22 PM

JADEHAND


Bailey's mint sounds yummy. We have ABC here in NC, state run. no corner stores. Things vary by state here in the US, and often things vary with states by counties. we still have some "Dry" counties, where you can not purchase alcohol, ever.


"But you sleep like a ghost with me
It's as simple as that
So tell me I'm mad
Roll me up and breathe me in
Come to my madness
My opium den
Come to my madness
Make sense of it again."
Goodbye to all that. III-The Opium Den (Brave)-Marillion
visit WWW.Marillion.com for a better way of life.

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Friday, November 10, 2006 10:17 PM

SERYN


Gawd. In this country you could probably buy your alchohol in mothercare now. And they wonder why we have a binge drinking epidemic.

Did anyone in England see Dom Joly's Happy Hour? With that guy in South Carolina (possibly) making moonshine? and they couldn't understand a single word he was saying, and sometimes even the subtitiles they gave him just read '?????????????... something about possums?'

that was amusing.

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
http://www.myspace.com/seryndippyt

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Saturday, November 11, 2006 1:33 AM

MAI


I'm back!

Or am I front? I can never quite remember.

Quote:

Everybody could pick a different deity. The costumes aren't that terribly hard. Toga, sandals. We could be our own Pantheon.


You know what I like most about this idea? Flip Flops. Greek Gods wore sandals! Or maybe not, but flip flops/sandals look better with togas than running shoes!

Sounds like a great costume idea, though I admit to knowing very little about the goddesses. Any ideas for me?



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Saturday, November 11, 2006 4:36 AM

JADEHAND


Hey you, welcome back.
You know the hardest part of such a costume for me will be the sandals. I'm guessing togas and Combat boots don't mesh well?
So Ideas for you? Hecate http://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Hekate.html


"But you sleep like a ghost with me
It's as simple as that
So tell me I'm mad
Roll me up and breathe me in
Come to my madness
My opium den
Come to my madness
Make sense of it again."
Goodbye to all that. III-The Opium Den (Brave)-Marillion
visit WWW.Marillion.com for a better way of life.

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Saturday, November 11, 2006 8:05 AM

JADEHAND


Not my best day ever.

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Saturday, November 11, 2006 8:33 AM

SERYN


*hugs*

Well, i got a list of the major, most recoognisable player, their symbols and any specific things they wore (kiddies books a bout greece in the fts when its not busy are so useful!)

I was going to post them here, but, shall we resurrect the costumy thread? then we can keep updating the list when theres a new snippet of information, and keep track of who's going as who, and share photo's and ideas and interesting pictures we've come accross (like i've seen loads of statues of Anthena, but don't want to fill up this thread)

Shall we do that?

Mai! How about Hebe? Goddess of Youth, who i think married Heracles, or Hestia, goddess of the hearth and home (not very glamorous sounding, but she was the most worshipped - every single greek houshold had a shrine to her)

I'm wavering, was thinking about Hera (i like peacock feathers)

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Saturday, November 11, 2006 9:24 AM

JADEHAND


So what's the garb and symboly stuff for Hades?


"But you sleep like a ghost with me
It's as simple as that
So tell me I'm mad
Roll me up and breathe me in
Come to my madness
My opium den
Come to my madness
Make sense of it again."
Goodbye to all that. III-The Opium Den (Brave)-Marillion
visit WWW.Marillion.com for a better way of life.

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Saturday, November 11, 2006 9:57 AM

COZEN


I'm a Greek/Roman mythology cretin. Did they have court jester gods?

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Saturday, November 11, 2006 10:52 AM

SERYN


God of the underworld, Hades also know as pluto, is usually associated with a sceptre, the three headed dog Cerberus, a cap of invisibility, the key to the underworld, and a two pronged staff. Trees/plants sacred to him are the cypress and narcissus.

I've no idea of their actual validity, it was a kiddies book - but i thought information like that would be good for choosing colours and patterns etc.

It all helps.

Ok, i'm going to start the new thread, but maybe not tonight, i'm tired. But sometime this weekend.



Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
http://www.myspace.com/seryndippyt

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Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:47 AM

LIGHTMEDARK


I think Jade's suggestion of Hecate for mai is a good one.

Does everyone else concur on the Morpheus thing o_O? Odd that I'd be the god of something I never really do (or remember i do, rather), lol.

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Saturday, November 11, 2006 1:09 PM

JADEHAND


I thought it fit, 'specialy with the ghosts stuff. I love that stuff.

"But you sleep like a ghost with me
It's as simple as that
So tell me I'm mad
Roll me up and breathe me in
Come to my madness
My opium den
Come to my madness
Make sense of it again."
Goodbye to all that. III-The Opium Den (Brave)-Marillion
visit WWW.Marillion.com for a better way of life.

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Saturday, November 11, 2006 1:24 PM

LIGHTMEDARK


Yeah, it's cool, and the ghost stuff was my reasoning, too. Were you going to go as Hades? I thought it'd be cool to go as a brother but don't particularly care for Zeus and don't know much about Poseidon.

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Saturday, November 11, 2006 1:58 PM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
Gawd. In this country you could probably buy your alchohol in mothercare now. And they wonder why we have a binge drinking epidemic.






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Saturday, November 11, 2006 2:41 PM

JADEHAND


Poseidon is the god of the sea, get a trident and hang kelp in your hair.
Quote:

I thought it'd be cool to go as a brother
Me too! I was thinking of going as Shepard Book... Oh not that kinda brother.
Really, growing out the hair to do the pulled back look, and hopefully finding some product that will make it poof when I let it out. Just need a "River" to run away every time I do it.

"But you sleep like a ghost with me
It's as simple as that
So tell me I'm mad
Roll me up and breathe me in
Come to my madness
My opium den
Come to my madness
Make sense of it again."
Goodbye to all that. III-The Opium Den (Brave)-Marillion
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Saturday, November 11, 2006 2:46 PM

KAREL

Flying on duct tape and a damaged registry.


maisign! Yay yay!

--Karel.


P.S.: I have ghillies that lace up the calf...

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Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:32 PM

DAVESHAYNE


Quote:

Originally posted by cozen:
I'm a Greek/Roman mythology cretin. Did they have court jester gods?



Well there is Pan; not so much a jester more a sort of comic relief god though.

David

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Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:37 PM

LIGHTMEDARK


Quote:

Originally posted by Jadehand:
Poseidon is the god of the sea, get a trident and hang kelp in your hair.



Yeah, I just don't know much about him besides that and what I remember from the Odyssey. I've always been somewhat partial to Hephaestus and Apollo, among others.

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Saturday, November 11, 2006 4:20 PM

JADEHAND


http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Poseidon.html

"But you sleep like a ghost with me
It's as simple as that
So tell me I'm mad
Roll me up and breathe me in
Come to my madness
My opium den
Come to my madness
Make sense of it again."
Goodbye to all that. III-The Opium Den (Brave)-Marillion
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Saturday, November 11, 2006 9:54 PM

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Sunday, November 12, 2006 2:38 AM

CALLMESERENITY


cozen: Hermes-he was the trickster god of the greek pantheon. http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Hermes.html

LMD: if you don't like Morpheus (I like him for some reason) there's always Hephaestus: http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Hephaistos.html

or Dionysus: http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Dionysos.html

or Helios:

http://www.theoi.com/Titan/Helios.html

or Kronos, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, Hyperion.

There are ever so many!

And, for Mai, I don't like Hecate, personally. She was very tricky and mean and spiteful. Maybe Leto or Rhea or Selene-goddess of the moon!



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Sunday, November 12, 2006 3:46 AM

COZEN


God of animal husbandry, eh, on Hermes' resume.

Sigh. Guess I gotta find my galoshes (wellies, or so I understand, for the Britfolk). A god's gotta do what a god's gotta do, and so what if the sheep get nervous.

Though I kinda don't mind being noted for the seduction of Khione on the same night as Apollon.

Um, Khione & Apollon: got female parts, right?


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Sunday, November 12, 2006 5:15 AM

CALLMESERENITY


No cozen, both Hermes and Apollo slept with the same woman, Khione, on the same night. Apollon (Apollo) is a man-type god. And, because Greek mythology is full of this kind of stuff, she gave birth to two different babies, one by each guy. Though, how they could tell whose baby was whose is beyond me!

It also may be interesting to note that she was killed by Artemis (Apollo's sister), whom she pissed off by claiming to be prettier or something.

By the way, just because I'm a big Greek nerd, I would just like to inform all and sundry that "theoi" is simply the plural form of the word "theos" which means, "god".

Also, I knew the answer to final Jeopardy last night: "The word "toxic" comes from the ancient greek word for this weapon." The answer? "arrow". The word in greek is "atoxos". I felt all smart-like!

Okay, gonna go be nerdy somewhere else now!



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Monday, November 13, 2006 7:21 AM

SERYN


greeks gods are weird.

And particularly big on the sharing thing.

Oh, and the incest.

But you know, they wore fun clothes (barely) so i'm not going to think about the other bits.

Selective ignorance, its a joy.

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Monday, November 13, 2006 8:21 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Mythology is fun! It's not so much about what they DID, it was about the symbolism behind it, about the lessons the stories were teaching the ancient greeks, about how they were trying to explain and make sense of their world. It's fascinating!

Serenity,
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