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Please enjoy your visit to The Adamant Alembic

Made for #dam-challenge “Before and After”

Size: 40 X 20  20.9 MB

Special thanks for the assets by: Metaphor, Random Ladybird, SAC, Normandial, Centimar CeVarion, DangerWeasel, DallasRT, Arcadia, jagarr, ColbaltlGuess, Heronimo, Spyke, milfrice, Ice_xox, Greywind12.ab, soundphantom, Tree House Goblin, [DE] SunWatcher, Clandor, Yomgeon, GreenBriar, MACx3D, CLETECK, lic.edwin.bueno, and Vaako.    

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So many mistakes… I didn’t line two of the fountains up correctly and didn’t realize until hours, nay days into plumbing and decorating…so..  Sent in Pip (the Pipeman) in with some tools and supplies.

Outsourcing: decided not to do the work myself.

Artists trick: make mistakes look like they are “meant to be like that.”

The sign was wrong, so I ended up re-shooting the opening, (misspelled my title.)

Also, I had no idea about the adamantine gourd thing in that witcher game 

until I was looking “alembic” up again and again… 

>>because even now it’s trying to autocorrect the word into ambelic. 

Laugh and learn.

Exciting to experiment with the morph-cut. Loving the results!

I do hope you enjoy my little map and music video.

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Lyrics: The Adamant Alembic

When the winds tore the world asunder

We went under. 

Underground.

We rebuilt the ancient tower

Shaped a dome upon its crown

We caught the steam 

as it rose to cloud

And brought the rain back 

to the ground.

Back under ground.

Drop by drop, the pools were filled.

Seed by seed, our future builds.

Steam rises, falls as rain

All that’s lost returns again

With patient, gentle hands

We healed the soil, revived the land

We turned inward to restore

The ancient arts we held before

Inward

Toward 

The healing ground

Drop by drop, the pools were filled

Seed by seed, our future builds

Steam rises, falls as rain

All that’s lost returns again

When roots break through the soil tilled

To drink from pools below we’ve filled, 

When life remembered how to thrive

And we are grateful we survived,

We’ll take our seeds 

Out to the world

Returning home 

when we’ve healed the soil

Sowing

Growing

Returning—

Returning home.

Under

Underground

The tower stands, 

The door stays open

For those who leave 

And those returning

Drop by drop, the pools were filled

Seed by seed, our future builds

Steam rises, falls as rain

All that’s lost returns again

Returning home

Under

Underground

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