Dicember Day 25: Dwarven Stones
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sorcyressDicember Day 25
Dwarven Stones Hematite Dice
(obtained in high school or earlier so like...2004? From Crystal Caste)
It is embarrassing writing this entry, because I discovered I actually had the entirely wrong company name here! Since corrected in my spreadsheet and above, but gosh I felt like a dweeb trying to search these up. Anyways.
These are the first high end luxury dice I ever bought. These are the dice that I coveted for years, that I thought about frequently, that I ultimately decided to drop a *huge* amount of my fourteen year old self's wallet on that one year at Origins.
Because I was _definitely_ a polished rocks kid. I am...still kindof a polished rocks adult (only now that I'm grown and witchy they're ~crystals~ instead), and so dice made of actual polished gemstones *blew my tiny mind*. I saw them in the pages of Knights of the Dinner Table and went "IT MUST BE MINE!"1
And now I am grown! I can blow my paycheck on fancy stone and glass and crystal dice any time I want! I can have so many ~exquisite~ high end dice! I can...but honestly, eh. It turns out that through careful study of different mediums, I'm a plastic girl at heart2. Which is not to say that I haven't spent...a lot of money on sets of fancy hand-made artisanal luxury dice. Just that they're fancy resin or acrylic these days, rather than hematite.
That being said, as part of writing this entry I did a wee bit of googling around and while I can't actually access the Crystal Caste site at work3 it looks like the ~vast price~ I paid was in the range of like...$25. Nowadays it'd be $30. If I actually wanted to grab a set of the Tiger's Eye (my canonical favourite stone) and make past!Kat insatiably jealous, it is much more in my reach than I thought. That's...that's dangerous and cool to know.
Also it turns out I can just search for a website in the Wayback machine and that's not blocked at school, so dumbass "hacking" wins again against the forces of evil (the school IT department, all of whom are quite nice and I like a lot except the dweebus in charge who somehow has a disproportionate amount of power over my work quality of life)!
((Also, it's not clear from the photo above, but they are TINY! They're your standard "small" size of dice, and very very pretty!))
~Sor
MOOP!
1: This mis-reference is intentional and imo, very funny.
2: This mis-gender is not intentional but my brain refuses to rewrite the sentence, so there we go, apparently one of the rare instances of me deciding to have a gender is right now as I talk about dice material types.
3: "games" sites are blocked, which means I used to be able to play any flash game in the world by googling it with the phrase "unblocked" and means that resources for the Game Theory unit I used to teach were often unavailable. Firewalls are great! (Dice sites are about 50-50 blocked or not)
Also, lest you side-eye me for doing dice related frivoloties on the clock, my kids are currently taking a test, I can't help them anyways, shuddup.
Dwarven Stones Hematite Dice
(obtained in high school or earlier so like...2004? From Crystal Caste)
It is embarrassing writing this entry, because I discovered I actually had the entirely wrong company name here! Since corrected in my spreadsheet and above, but gosh I felt like a dweeb trying to search these up. Anyways.
These are the first high end luxury dice I ever bought. These are the dice that I coveted for years, that I thought about frequently, that I ultimately decided to drop a *huge* amount of my fourteen year old self's wallet on that one year at Origins.
Because I was _definitely_ a polished rocks kid. I am...still kindof a polished rocks adult (only now that I'm grown and witchy they're ~crystals~ instead), and so dice made of actual polished gemstones *blew my tiny mind*. I saw them in the pages of Knights of the Dinner Table and went "IT MUST BE MINE!"1
And now I am grown! I can blow my paycheck on fancy stone and glass and crystal dice any time I want! I can have so many ~exquisite~ high end dice! I can...but honestly, eh. It turns out that through careful study of different mediums, I'm a plastic girl at heart2. Which is not to say that I haven't spent...a lot of money on sets of fancy hand-made artisanal luxury dice. Just that they're fancy resin or acrylic these days, rather than hematite.
That being said, as part of writing this entry I did a wee bit of googling around and while I can't actually access the Crystal Caste site at work3 it looks like the ~vast price~ I paid was in the range of like...$25. Nowadays it'd be $30. If I actually wanted to grab a set of the Tiger's Eye (my canonical favourite stone) and make past!Kat insatiably jealous, it is much more in my reach than I thought. That's...that's dangerous and cool to know.
Also it turns out I can just search for a website in the Wayback machine and that's not blocked at school, so dumbass "hacking" wins again against the forces of evil (the school IT department, all of whom are quite nice and I like a lot except the dweebus in charge who somehow has a disproportionate amount of power over my work quality of life)!
((Also, it's not clear from the photo above, but they are TINY! They're your standard "small" size of dice, and very very pretty!))
~Sor
MOOP!
1: This mis-reference is intentional and imo, very funny.
2: This mis-gender is not intentional but my brain refuses to rewrite the sentence, so there we go, apparently one of the rare instances of me deciding to have a gender is right now as I talk about dice material types.
3: "games" sites are blocked, which means I used to be able to play any flash game in the world by googling it with the phrase "unblocked" and means that resources for the Game Theory unit I used to teach were often unavailable. Firewalls are great! (Dice sites are about 50-50 blocked or not)
Also, lest you side-eye me for doing dice related frivoloties on the clock, my kids are currently taking a test, I can't help them anyways, shuddup.