Innsmouth Set (2 Viewers)

[Felt_Lizard]

Waiting calmly for arrival.
With a primordial reptilian patience...

 

[Roslindale]

No poker play today.

 

[Tonysquander]

Texas winter. Poker is on today.

 

[Felt_Lizard]

No one likes a braggart, ANTHONY!

 

[Felt_Lizard]

GASLANDS today.

 

[EmptyPocs]

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Waiting calmly for arrival.
With a primordial reptilian patience...

huge

 

[Felt_Lizard]

Mebbeh change my forum name to GIN_RICKIE !?

 

[Felt_Lizard]

And then I was summoned by the gurl-frand to a party.

Notice the neglible balance of men in the photo.

Fashionable topics ~here in Portland~ center around gender empowerment and resisting "THE MAN."

Yes. That's right. I could be other places, doing other things...

 

[ekricket]

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GASLANDS today.

Is this a diorama of Portland?

 

[Felt_Lizard]

Is this a diorama of Portland?

Do you know what a ~fallen city~ is ?

Come visit. Throw your money away.

 

[Felt_Lizard]

Back to the topic at hand....we're waiting for these:

 

[mattross1313]

 

[Felt_Lizard]

 

[Felt_Lizard]

 

[Felt_Lizard]

 

[Felt_Lizard]

A long time ago I had a splendid T-Mold hot stamp set designed by the late, great @J5. And @AK Chip did the stamping on the chips.

And despite being a chipper for like 15 years (Blue Wall), I hadn't been to a meetup. I generally regarded you people as mal-adjusted closet dorks.

But last year, I saw that'd there'd be one in Boise; just an hour plane ride.

I arrive, and the folks are pretty great. There's a break in the action, so I wander over and talk to the host:

Joshetto O'Leary Smegson Magnus Diaperous Kifer ( @Josh Kifer )

So, you don't really want to have an extended chip discussion with this man. He grins and starts producing his special little hot stamp chips from his pockets, out of his hat, his ass, and straight from thin air. All kinds of designs, foil colors, overstamps, etc etc.

I specifically remember a discomforting little twinkle in his eyes, as he whispered to me, " Hey Will, I'm no longer really sure how many hot-stamp sets I have. Sometimes...sometimes
...I find them hidden in the walls."

So on top of busting my meetup cherry, he displays a psychotic interest in hot-stamps.

Right after the meetup, I ran into some more T-molds to add to the original set, but Pat had ~seemingly~ retired from stamping.

And so I had the ever jolly @ekricket to stamp out the rest of the set. His work came out great, and he hand delivered the chips at my second meetup hosted in Dallas by the very hydroponic @CraigT78 .

Little did I know that I needed another project.

And then, like a dumbass, I wandered into an auction...

 

[Josh Kifer]

A long time ago I had a splendid T-Mold hot stamp set designed by the late, great @J5. And @AK Chip did the stamping on the chips.

And despite being a chipper for like 15 years (Blue Wall), I hadn't been to a meetup. I generally regarded you people as mal-adjusted closet dorks.

But last year, I saw that'd there'd be one in Boise; just an hour plane ride.

I arrive, and the folks are pretty great. There's a break in the action, so I wander over and talk to the host:

Joshetto O'Leary Smegson Magnus Diaperous Kifer ( @Josh Kifer )

So, you don't really want to have an extended chip discussion with this man. He grins and starts producing his special little hot stamp chips from his pockets, out of his hat, his ass, and straight from thin air. All kinds of designs, foil colors, overstamps, etc etc.

I specifically remember a discomforting little twinkle in his eyes, as he whispered to me, " Hey Will, I'm no longer really sure how many hot-stamp sets I have. Sometimes...sometimes
...I find them hidden in the walls."

So on top of busting my meetup cherry, he displays a psychotic interest in hot-stamps.

Right after the meetup, I ran into some more T-molds to add to the original set, but Pat had ~seemingly~ retired from stamping.

And so I had the ever jolly @ekricket to stamp out the rest of the set. His work came out great, and he hand delivered the chips at my second meetup hosted in Dallas by the very hydroponic @CraigT78 .

Little did I know that I needed another project.

And then, like a dumbass, I wandered into an auction...

I do have way too many sets. It's stupid.

 

[Irish]

And despite being a chipper for like 15 years (Blue Wall), I hadn't been to a meetup. I generally regarded you people as mal-adjusted closet dorks

To be fair, you weren't wrong.....

 

[Felt_Lizard]

 

[EmptyPocs]

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[Felt_Lizard]

 

[EmptyPocs]

tease

 

[Felt_Lizard]

Oh FFS !

Readers Digest version, thanks to Tommy's forum BURP:

I bought the blanks at auction from AK Chip.

@mattross1313 did the excellent design layouts for the buttons and chips.

@ekricket stamped them beautifully.

DrJohn's sets #'s 41 and 44 were inspirational.

I wasn't as wild about the monsters in the first set, but liked the elegant design of the second. Lovecraft as a theme, in poker chips, had not occurred to me until I saw those.

I like Lovecraft's short story:

" The Shadow over Innsmouth."

It tells of a young man in the early 1900's on a sightseeing tour in New England. He visits an old seaport, makes a startling discovery, and must make a hasty escape.

I wanted a vintage looking set, so I designed antiquated advertisements like shop signs or telephone pole pamphlets that a visitor might have seen a century ago while walking around in that run-down seaport.

And luckily for me, there is certainly a historical looking poker font style for the denominations that matches the theme as well.

3 hour audiobook:

And Kifer in there, somewhere.

 

[Felt_Lizard]

 

[Felt_Lizard]

 

[Felt_Lizard]

Latin: Forever Darkness

 

[Felt_Lizard]

 

[Felt_Lizard]

 

[Felt_Lizard]

 

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