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Halloween 05 Update, Part 2

So, I can see it's been a few weeks since I last updated. Shame on me, I know. Not to say that I haven't been drawing at all, but it's been extremely sparse lately.

The last time I did game-related stuff was when Wellstar ran a one shot for the Bantam's character. Me and Ralph played Bantam's NPCs Murray Ford and Bently Royce. I played Murray and got to have oodles of fun doing my best impersonation of Murray's voice from Sly Cooper.

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Lots of stuff happened to the Bantam, including getting to meet the ghost of her uncle, who was a thief not unlike herself.

The Bantam is actually a newer name for Tacit, a name she held a good 8 or so years before she joined the Century Sentinels. However, both she and her uncle made enemies with the wrong people. Her uncle was murdered, and Tacit faked her death, changed her name, and moved to Century City with her two friends Murray and Bently. So anyhoo ....

She got to see her uncle again, who was surprisingly lucid and upbeat for a ghost. Bantam was hardly unnerved since she had caught a glimpse of him when Dozer had spoken to his dead friend some time before. Bently was fascinated by the voodoo ritual that was being done to make the contact possible. Murray ... being much more of a dude ... was highly unnerved by talking to the elder, less corporeal Cooper.

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But most of the game for Murray was spent driving

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And eating when he should have been helping others.

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The whole one-shot was a blast. I'd gladly play him again sometime.

In the game I run, the PCs took care of the telepath who had previously tried to collect them for the second time. Apparently he had stuck little bits of his personality into others, so when the PCs killed him they thought they were done with dear Dr. Koffman. Hardly so. Instead the young man they rescued from him became him. And before getting forced out of him, Koffman's imprint warned the PCs that if they're so desperate to kill him they've got a lot of imprints left to track down.

Wellstar hates Koffman more than any villian I've ever made. So for him I drew a picture of Koffman while he was in his original body (he was a short man). The two in collars are Jackie, the young man he imprinted himself in (left), and Zev, a werewolf the PCs met briefly.

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November 1, 2005 - Acquana Wrote a Story!

So hey. The main reason I haven't been drawing very much is that I spent most of that time trying to write. I haven't done it in years, but I'm very proud of how it came out.

I'm going to post the drawings I'm doing for it here, and the story itself on Livejournal, since I totally have one now. Craziness. I do ask everyone to check it out and read it. I wrote up the backstory for Virgil Ambrose, and I'll be posting it in bits.

Be sure to post, it'll make me really, really, really, really happy. In that kind of way that I might post more if you encourage me. ;)

These are the illustrations that go with the story.

Inquisitor Reginheraht

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Father Addis, in his late 50's.

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Virgil Ambrose, age 8, Francis Alexander, age 27.

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November 7th, 2005

So hey. Not seeing even any of the regulars posting. ;_; I know I was gone for a while ... but surely that doesn't mean you can all run away!

Ah well. Part two of the story is up on my Livejournal.

And for this one, only one illustration.

Virgil alone in the chapel.

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Well, news on the game front, kinda. I'll go into more detail once all the parts of the story have been posted, but the party in the game I run returned to Virgil's world to help him clean up a few things. I'm really excited about what happened this last session, and Wellstar and I played a little prank on the group: Wellstar and I discussed the possibility of the party helping out Virgil, and Wellstar was saddened at the thought of not being able to finish what he had started years ago. So he ran the castle! I played Gaiavein and Virgil as PCs, Wellstar ran the castle and played Sylas as an NPC.

More details shall follow in a few weeks. But it was awesome.
 

I'm still watching the thread! I think all of your work is just amazing--I guess you want to hear it each time? ;)

The Virgil seems kind of moody--I like it. That and the priests will come in very handy for me, I think (I get some inspirations for PCs and NPCs from you work).
 


November 9, 2005

Jdvn1 said:
I'm still watching the thread! I think all of your work is just amazing--I guess you want to hear it each time? ;)

Good heavens, no. Just view counts tend not to matter to most people as much as a reply. I don't need people to say "Hey, you rock!" I'm not really wanting praise. I mean, it's nice ... But it's not the reason why I do this. I'd rather just have some kind of comment. A "So is there more behind this?" or perhaps "Why did you decide on that particular design choice?" or a "Hey, you just gave me an idea, lemme tell you about it ..." Seriously. I won't mind.

Also, about this specifically ... I was actually referring to the lack of post count on my livejournal ... ^_^;; A story isn't as readily devoured as an image, I know. But so I hear, the story came out really well.

Jdvn1 said:
The Virgil seems kind of moody--I like it. That and the priests will come in very handy for me, I think (I get some inspirations for PCs and NPCs from you work).

I liked drawing Virgil in the chapel. Were I better at drawing backgrounds and lighting effects it'd be better, but for a quick mood piece I like it. It's far moodier than he actually is.

I'm gonna be heading out to Walt Disney World this Friday to see my family at least once this year. We're all going to meet there and have a blast, and my parents even invited Wellstar! I'm so happy!

So in the meantime I've got prolly a couple more pieces to stick up before the buttcrack of dawn on Friday (flight at seven in the morning means I have to be there at like 5-something. Fabulous.); This one first!

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The first major storyarc ended in the campaign I run. The PCs used their readily available teleporter (Ammut can cast a spell that makes doors between worlds) for some of them to visit their homes and get a few things done before they go back to adventuring. Time works weirdly between worlds. Most of them found they had been gone differing amounts of time. And Sylas let Gaiavein (who doesn't really have a home to return to) visit his universe while some of the others went to help Pojo make sure his rent was paid. When Pojo, Ammut, Virgil, and Hiro returned (a day later) to pick up Sylas and Gaiavein, they were surprised when Sylas told them he and Gaia had gotten really worried: for them it had been nearly three months.

In that time, Sylas drove his starship around the galaxy to show Gaia. They went to a lot of major places in the Star Wars universe. Even better, Gaia has started to pick up on the Force. She is now Sylas' student, and has a training lightsaber. And went up an age catagory in the dragon class. <_< >_>

A dragon is holding a lightsaber. Respect. Respect.
 

Acquana said:
Good heavens, no.
Hey, I was kidding anyway. I'm more than happy to watch this thread and keep saying that I like your work. I like reading the little explanations of each scene, too, so maybe I always figure the "is there more behind this?" is implied, since it's irregularly taken care of. I'm not too into livejournals (eventhough I've had mine for years) since I know too many of them. I'll probably post to yours sporadically, though.

I also don't play superhero games or futuristic games much anymore, so I have less to say on those. The tribal people give me ideas for in-game encounters, but my game goes too slowly to plan it out too much. As far as design or style, if I were the artist, my answer to most of the questions would be, "Because it looks cool." So, um, that's why I dont' ask about that, although knowing an inspiration could be interesting.

Acquana said:
I liked drawing Virgil in the chapel. Were I better at drawing backgrounds and lighting effects it'd be better, but for a quick mood piece I like it. It's far moodier than he actually is.
How often do you attempt backgrounds? I'd like to see the process you go through, or those sketches.

Enjoy Disney World! :)
 


It's the 21st, and this is a sign that I am not dead.

Cuz I'm not. Seriously.

Just got back from Disney World late last night, and tonight I'll be putting up part three of the story. To the ones who commented, thank you!
 

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