Ascalon's 3rd Anniversary

Ok, rather than sending a PM I'm going to post the last three paintings here.

Acerin, Aldeberan, Blackseagull, Imadd, Minaa, Puzzleblind:
https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/020.jpg

Acerin, Blackseagull, Imadd, Minaa, Puzzleblind, Yamel:
https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/021.jpg

Acerin, Blackseagull, Imadd, Minaa, Puzzleblind, Yamel:
https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/022.jpg

i know! i know! can i answer too? xD

moved the screens to the entry thread

Congratulations to our king Pishkirlin,
who once again managed to surpass himself in making
the most head-breaking, random trivia of "wtf" and "How am I supposed to know!?" questions.
After 4 hours of intensive research, I've had my dose of litterature and history for this year
I wish everyone who hasn't done it yet good luck, and thank you pish for this great challenge

ps: for some reason I feel that I took a wrong turn in my reasoning somewhere
and that all my answers have absolutely nothing to do ith the questions x)

I finished the trivia! Will have more that 2-3 correct answers? No way in hell! xD

Yamel wrote:Congratulations to our king Pishkirlin,
who once again managed to surpass himself in making
the most head-breaking, random trivia of "wtf" and "How am I supposed to know!?" questions.

Yay!
I have just taken a look at the answers... although no one answered correctly to all the questions, for each of them there is at least one who found the correct answer, so I believe it was possible to score 100%.

After 4 hours of intensive research, I've had my dose of litterature and history for this year
I wish everyone who hasn't done it yet good luck, and thank you pish for this great challenge

...and you had also your dose of art, with the paintings challenge! Wooot! The teacher in myself is rejoicing. So you are welcome.

I finished the trivia! Will have more that 2-3 correct answers? No way in hell! xD

Oh, you did much better than that.

So, I would like to repost the link to the Trivia and remind everyone that you have time until today at Midnight...
...because today is the great day!

Happy Ascalon's Day, everyone!

Do you think we can schedule a flag pillage at 4:00pm?
Dress code: maroon and white! Yarrr!

Happy Ascalon's Day, everyone!

Do you think we can schedule a flag pillage at 4:00pm?
Dress code: maroon and white! Yarrr!

It was a very fun pillage! We took a War Brig out, setting the booty division back to Jobber's Delight with 0% restock!
Before starting:

After we ported:


Thanks to: Acerin, Annirawrz*, Auburn, Beccaw, Defrass, Korte, Minaa, Puzzleblind, Sparkywolf and Yamel!

*recruited because she was wearing the national outfit when jobbed!

Thank you everyone for participating into the events of this fantastic anniversary.
Results will be posted as soon as possible and so will the details of The Aliyat's Challenge.

If you missed the Passage to Ascalon you can still try to recognize all the paintings before I post the solutions.

Is it possible to view these somewhere else or in something other than a (very small) widget? Some of them are just too small for the level of detail in the painting...

1 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/01GC.jpg
2 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/002RB.jpg
3 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/003RN.jpg
4 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/004LS.jpg
5 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/005IO.jpg
6 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/006RT.jpg
7 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/007FS.jpg
8 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/008PE.jpg
9 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/0009GC.jpg
10 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/010WS.jpg
11 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/011GD.jpg
12 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/012FB.jpg
13 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/013FM.jpg
14 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/014FG.jpg
15 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/015SM.jpg
16 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/016VK.jpg
17 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/017BF.jpg
18 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/018CD.jpg
19 https://2img.net/h/i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/pishkirlin/forum/019CL.jpg
...and the last three posted a couple of days ago.

Have fun!

Thank you!

Edited later to add:

Ah, finding all of those was great fun! A nice mix of artists and topics indeed.

Results of the events

Passage to Ascalon
The Gallery

Solutions:

1. Giorgione, Portrait of Warrior with his equerry or Portrait of Gattamelata
2. Peter Paul Rubens, Boreas abducting Orithyia
3. Rembrandt van Rijn, The Night watch
4. Edmund Blair Leighton, Stitching the Standard
5. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Ossian's Dream
6. Andrei Rublev, Trinity
7. Viktor Vasnetsov, The Flying Carpet
8. Nicolas Poussin, Et in Arcadia ego
9. Vittore Carpaccio, George fighting the dragon
10. John William Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott
11. Albrecht Dürer, Saint George
12. Pieter Bruegel the elder, The Fall of the Rebel Angels
13. Michelangelo, The Fall of Man and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
14. Francisco de Goya, The Forge
15. Caravaggio, The Inspiration of Saint Matthew
16. Jan Van Eyck, The Knights of Christ
17. Hieronymus Bosch, The Fall of Man
18. Eugène Delacroix, The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople
19. Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Good Government
20. Diego Velázquez, The Forge of Vulcan
21. Sandro Botticelli, Venus and Mars
22. Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates

20 azuls to the winner and 10 azuls to those who guessed 100% of their paintings.

Winner: Blackseagull, 18/18 (out of the contest)
Acerin, 15/17 20 azuls

Defrass, 8/8 10 azuls
Puzzleblind, 3/3 10 azuls

The Race

Winners: Acerin, Imadd, Minaa, Puzzleblind and Yamel get 20 azuls.
Captinthe, Enchantment, Foriyuho and Piratus get 10 azuls.

Lord Piratus' Quest
1st stage
Awaiting data from Piratus

2nd stage
Winner: Acerin, 10 azuls
Qualify for the Aliyat's Challenge: Acerin, Yamel, Blackseagull

Bonus points for participation
Awaiting data from Piratus

Secrets of Ascalon
Secrets should be kept secret, so no solution will be revealed.
It is only given to know that the winner is Acerin, who gets 20 azuls.

Update from the College of Arms:
Acerin went up one rank and he's now Viscount
Yamel became Lord and he's now Baron

One year has passed since Safebet went dormant for the first time. I believe it's time to accept the idea that she's no longer playing the game. I'm downgrading her to Baroness, which is the proper rank she should hold according to the rules of the College of Arms.

Pishkirlin wrote:Secrets of Ascalon
Secrets should be kept secret, so no solution will be revealed.
It is only given to know that the winner is Acerin, who gets 20 azuls.

For having so brilliantly answered the quiz, I'm offering Acerin 1 .

now I want to know what the puzzle pieces are about...
another quest/game? A new scoring system?

Yamel wrote:now I want to know what the puzzle pieces are about...
another quest/game? A new scoring system?

I'm afraid the time for you to know has not come yet.

Pishkirlin wrote:
Lord Piratus' Quest
1st stage
Awaiting data from Piratus

Aye, here is your bloody data!
The winner is.....

Acerin! Congrats!

a nice puzzle piece, I wonder what I can do with it

Acerin wrote: a nice puzzle piece, I wonder what I can do with it

Actually, I can tell you.

please tell me

Acerin wrote:please tell me

I have just whispered the answer in your ear.