IC Inbox

[thedifferencebetween]

Handsome Jack here! I'm way too busy being awesome to answer the phone, but tell me why you're calling and if you're important enough, your people will hear from my people.

Comments

[fingersandteeth]

Steven returns with a... something, covered in a Hyperion yellow cloth. It seems to have a flat base, which he'll set down on Jack's lap, before deftly whisking the cloth away.

It's a town.

Well, a medieval fantasy village, really, which suggests a lot about where Steven probably got all the little painted plastic buildings from--and in fact, these little plastic buildings have some very specific paint jobs. All of them are covered in little murals and frescoes depicting scenes of outright badassery, centering on one familiar face in particular.

"It's the town attached the the Handsome Sorcerer's stronghold," Steven explains, as if he really needed to. "I used to make things like these, before, as a hobby. Just-- elaborate dioramas made out of minis that I painted. I'd photograph them too. I'm pretty decent when it comes to taking still life kinds of pictures--just don't ask me to photograph anything alive. I got most of them from Dwebblen Forge before I painted them, except for these."

He taps the top of one of the many statues--painted bronze and gold and marble--of Jack in his Handsome Sorcerer guise.

"Those are from Fearow Forge. You can order customized minis from them. So I got a few poses, because it wouldn't do to have all the statues be the same. I tried not to do any repeats on anything, if I could?"

And there isn't really. Oh, there's certainly repeated elements in there--angels that look like Taylor Swift, a knight that kind of looks like Steven providing back-up or protection, a lovely princess who looks like Angel, and vicious, evil-looking Vault Hunters being triumphed over--but no mural or fresco is exactly the same as any of the others.

There's even a pub, with a sign showing a Jack's face on it--and also, for some reason, Pansear, Panpour, and Pansage. (Actually, that is easily enough explained by the words painted in an arch over the pub door: THE JACK AND APES.)

"I hope you like it," Steven adds. "I've been working on it for... well. Over a month, really."