What's up, RMers?

[Remi-chan]

I'm back with yet more updates!

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Remi-Chan
Despite getting quite some work done, it didn't feel like this week or fortnight now i guess- was particularly productive. But yet I did get some visible work done, so let's get into that!

The Eldritch Mortician gets some love and attention!
Let's start with the facesets I not only upgraded but extended. All of her faces and by extension, portraits- have been updated with more dynamic tendrils, her new cosmic space eyes and I've added eight new expressions!

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Xaela: The Eldritch Mortician


"Why merely kill the hopeful when I can destroy hope itself?"

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Some of the new portraits will help with my effort to make Xaela a bit more likeable, as a villain who you love to hate. She was too robotic and perfect before, as RiseDemos pointed out to me-- so I've been going to something of an effort to fix that. Thankfulyl even throughout all of Disk 2 she has very few appearances, a minor one on Zen Nekoma, a minor one on Zen Aneia and a major one on Planet Draik. Beyond that it's a few small scene in the narrative of Disk 2's main story.

Her eyes prior were also rather boring and generic, and I figured an Evil God with ominous associations with Plane V: Labyrinth due to her consumption of Xarathoth (what I used to call Xalatath but I've opted to change it to keep clear of using a Warcraft name. I chose the name back when Xal'atath was just a small priest only weapon, i had no way of knowing how relevant and centre-stage she would become in the warcraft lore. I've done similar in the past, for example, Yasondre was named after Ysondre- one of the four dragons of nightmare.) who was a Vth dimensional spec of a much greater being invading the Plane of Fiction. There's a very abridged explanation of this from Kcab'L Niro in the 165th Simian Speed Draw.

You might also notice her eyes look very similar to the left eye of Kcab'L Niro. That is intentional. We also see in this her scary looking teeth, something she shares with all of the other children of calamity.

It's very likely that the 3 other Children of Calamity who have portraits will get similar enhancements and extensions.

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The Man Behind Everything

This is actually a scene I made a while ago and I haven't really changed much of it. But a new recording seemed like fun and gave me a chance to test out how well I could voice act with my dentures in. I'd say it went pretty well!

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Red Dwarf

Seems my youtube is back from its murky downtime of being a place of me just posting Simian Speed Draws. Here's a new Flavortasia with a quirky little bit of banter between Pep and his coffee-colored grandmother.

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Xiie / Rune
Xiie has finished the sprite for the Cholepteroi Female, these are the followers of Agrat Bat Mahlat and only one presently exists in game. They'll get their domain and stories in Disk 3. For now, we have only Sadu who dwells idly on Desolation: the Asteroid Belt of Jupiter's inner cloister.

Batgirl is here!

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So, what did Pjcr accomplish?

Making me worry, is what he has accomplished! He has been entiely absent the last couple of weeks, and even missed his paycheck which is very unlike him. I've got my fingers crossed he's okay and he probably is. Likely storm season has made things difficult or he's just had a large power outage or internet disconnect.

So for now, that is all! As usual, I have dropped some screenshots over in the screenshots and maps thread to showcase those new portraits in-game.

[Remi-chan]

I was fairly unproductive last week, while i did have things to report, time got away from me and i forget, but here i am to set the record straight!

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Remi-Chan
For a bit of context, I've only recently gotten back online. it seems a power outage at the NBN grid cause a small portion of the suburban jungle I live in to have no internet access, and so for three days I had no internet on my PC, although mobile data still worked.

Lucky for me, I'd purchased a very immersive game a couple days before the outage, so it just gave me an excuse to have fun with that! I also sprained my ankle pretty badly on tuesday leading to basically the whole week me having less motivation to work as typical. Thankfully the week before had no such issues.

Redesigning the Blood Council!
You may recall I leaked a document about a month ago that went into my design ideas for the remastering of the Blood Council fight. When i say Remaster, I mean entirely redefining what it is and how it plays. Typically what i am doing with these fights is merely recoding them to work with the new tech, maybe make some vidual or sound adjustments, but the fight should still play fairly similarly to before.

A remaster is typically either an entire overhaul to a fight, or it adds an entire new phase yjst redefines the experience. Due to the magnamity of such events, only three of these kinds of fights are in the works. The first of which that has been completed already is White Apple, the fight with Eve at the end of Disk 2, a fight that felt solely underwhelming and anti-climactic for an end of disk boss, so the remaster addressed that and made it worthy of its position, and it gave me some ability to more accurately portrayt and characterize Eve.

I've yet to work on any of the mechanics, but I have prepared all of the assets, here's just some of those. Though the largest one can be found over in my cinematic suite.

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Only Fools Dare Confront The Daystar

"Curiosity shall be your greatest wound."

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You may recall last page I posted some screenshots of the recoded optional boss fights in Disk 0. The last of which was the fight with Wi Hellrider, complete with a new arena (from a slab of rock to a golden upside-down pyramid) and interface to boot? Weh-heh-heh-hell! I now have a video to showcase that calamitous showdown!

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Xiie / Rune
Surprising me yet again, in spite of a super-typhoon, Xiie being the absolute madlass she is, found ways to continue working even while at an evacuation center! She returned triumphantly with Mad E. Lin's sprite.
The Purple Potato has entered the building!

There is some lovely in game screenshot previews for Flight for her over in the Map and Screenshots thread.

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Pjcr
He's been confirmed alive as of 11/11. But beyond that there's yet again been complete radio silence. My guess is that the stormy season currently hitting the philippines is effecting him, too. Starmage alike Xiie and other of my filipino friends have all been effected.

Here's to hoping he's alright.