u/tx0p0

In Salzburg, Museum der Moderne

I love the Ron Spears Akroma vs. Phage iconic art. It might just be my single favorite piece of art in any fantasy game at all. I own the cards and would love to own a playmat with the iconic Ron Spears' work. I actually started playing during the Onslaught block, and also read the books which I sadly lent to someone who didn't return them. I am quite fond of these characters, this art and the whole story around them.

Learning about the sudden and recent passing of Ron Spears hit me like a truck. I would have loved to see him maybe in a Magic Con to have him sign my og 2003 copies, which are in pretty bad shape since I didn't know what sleeves were back in the day, but I love them to bits.

In any case. i just want the art in a good high quality playmat. I'd love a big big poster as well. As far as I'm aware it's not possible to buy something like that nowadays, but the art was distributed back in the day in some form. If there is an official way please point me to it, I'd love to take that route.

Does anyone have a high quality scan of the original art, somehow? If someone has a copy of the Sideboard Magazine from march 2003 in good condition maybe it could be scanned off the poster from there as well.

RIP Ron Spears, and thank you so much for giving us some of the best art this game has ever seen.

Servus everyone! Und enschuldigung meine Deutsch, ich lerne aber nicht zu schnell.

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I've been living in Salzburg for a little less than half a year now. We rent a beautiful but small apartment, and we were lucky enough to find one with a small balcony.

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A week ago we were moving furniture around the balcony and found out that some insectile neighbors decided to build their home in one of our furniture pieces, without paying any rent!

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They are chill up to this point, but since we discovered them we are not using the area just in case. It's also a liability since we occupy the space directly next to the balcony a lot of the time and need to open the windows every day. We're not super knowledgeable about wasps but we know they might be pollinators, and thus want to treat them fairly. We'd love to get them maybe relocated to a better spot where they can maybe thrive and help maintain the ecosystem, if that's an option.

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Our rent is high, though, so we can't invest a lot in profeesional services to do so. We emailed beekepers assotiations, the firefighters and also the renting agency to see our options, and so far it seems we have to figure it out by ourselves.

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I've researched for a bit and it seems possible that under ABGB wasps could be considered a hazard, implying that wasp removal is part of the landlord's responsibility. We'd like to maintain our relationship with the agency and landlord smooth, though, but it is an option we could explore.

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In the picture, the paper wasp hive through last week, for reference.

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Did any of you have any experiences with wasp nests? How did you deal with them?

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