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Picking a post: 1d8 2
And we have our post. A note about Marie & The Adventurer's League. Real talk it takes me between 3 and 5 hours to make a very simple comic page, with no coloring, or with no backgrounds, and the more complex the page gets it can take up to 8 or 9 hours. Getting out a weeks worth of comics honestly ends up being close to a job, like last weeks update took me 37 hours, I recorded it. Marie should remain on the "2 week per post" schedule, and should actually even be a little faster, but the big difference here is is that I've found most people vote in the first day or three. So I'm going to pick a post much earlier, and start working on Marie earlier in the week. If I finish before the next Sunday or whenever, I will just post. This lets me spend more time working on the posts over a longer period of time, without making you wait even longer for the posts themselves. By getting started much earlier, it'll also give me time for breaks, because honestly, I can burn out really easy just drawing comics and eating granola for a week straight. This may mean a slight delay on this posting schedule as I pace myself, but the future ones should be faster.
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Also note, I'm going to post pages as they're done, and change the thread title when there's a vote in place, on the vote page I'll put a post, with everything up to that point. If people hate this let me know.
Boba Pearl fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Jun 21, 2021 |
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Jun 21, 2021 01:07
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Boba Pearl fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Jul 5, 2023 |
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Jun 22, 2021 08:26
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   I think this chapter is looking to be finished up by Tuesday, or Wednesday, but possibly Sunday depending on whether I have more sleepless nights or not. I also did some value studies that really paid off for the coloring! I'm getting better at form too, so I guess those anatomy studies are finally starting to pay off, I think my hand is getting better then my eye now, which is always the best part of art.
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  It's time to vote! Boba Pearl fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Jul 5, 2023 |
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Jun 29, 2021 16:07
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Hard to pick but I'mma go with B
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Jun 29, 2021 16:14
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B, being exhausted is better than being dead.
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Jun 29, 2021 16:34
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B, colors make a happy sorcerer.
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Jun 29, 2021 17:27
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I'm gonna say C, if all the cultivation CYOAs I've been reading recently have taught me anything it's that you gotta lift heavy weights to get fighting fit.
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Jun 29, 2021 20:29
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B
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Jun 29, 2021 21:41
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B is fine
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Jun 29, 2021 22:09
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Looks like mid armor is winning so far but I bet she could get more dodge iframes if she removed all armor and equipment
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Jun 29, 2021 22:20
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Looks like mid armor is winning so far but I bet she could get more dodge iframes if she removed all armor and equipment Skin tight stealth suit? Optical and infrared cloaking?
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Jun 29, 2021 22:29
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I say get her the trench coat too - enemies are more likely to be foiled by the metal if they don't know it's there.
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Jun 29, 2021 22:29
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B but get her to test her spells
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As you know, I like to do big rear end huge effort updates, and those take a lot of time! I won't have that time this week, on July 12th I have scheduled multiple certification tests for my career, I've been taking simultaneous classes for them, and the school schedules them, so I'm actually taking like 3 exams over like 3 days but if I get these certs I'm gonna be eligible for careers making over 80k a year (A+ 1/2 Net+ Sec+.) This is absolutely huge for me, and it's expensive to take the test. I'm gonna be putting my all to cramming for this. This means that this project will probably not see any updates in about two weeks or so, I'm going to leave it open, and pick a post mid-week but I probably won't start seriously working on it until after the 12th. Marie I might end up doing a bit of work on, because the webcomic isn't so much thinking of puzzles and clues and trying to carefully choose words to make the perfect hints, and instead just "Turn off brain, draw lines for 8 hours." That being said, that's also going to be very sporadically worked on. I have never let a project die on the vine, (Well on sufficient velocity, I had 2 projects never get past the first post, but that's because I didn't get anyone to actually read, but still my throughput to completion is almost batting 100.) I know I've got between the two forums like 20 - 30 people reading my content, and that's amazing, I wouldn't leave you guys in the lurch. (Though in Marie, I get about 300 - 500 views on my site per update, though only liek 5% of them come here to vote!) At the pace I’m telling Marie, it’s going to take yeeeears to finish. Even posting 3 - 5 pages a week, we’ve not even hit the surface of the story I want to tell. If you know anyone who you’d think would like this point them my way. I can see everyone who views my images, and every person fires a bit more passion into what I’m doing. =========================================================== =========================================================== I'm doing some extended universe stuff, so i thought I'd point out a few things that shows the connections between my stories, of which there are 3 so far. (With IMPS being in universe, but updated so sporadically that it boggles the mind,) In Marie, you find Chase Bechdel, of Bechdel's meat buns, you find this character in Kitty Quest as well, making meat buns later (He shows up for one piece of art and then he's gone,) Marie meets a young woman named Taylor, who is a Naiad who happens to also be a sorcerer. This is interesting because in the first story I wrote in this universe (Though honestly, it's a *very* hard read, I didn't have anyone editing my work, and I have slight brain damage so writing can be difficult without someone to clean it up.,) Kitty Quest, we find out that Emily is a sorcerer, and that her Mom is a mage of some sort that is ALSO a sorcerer, they are both Naiads but separated by about 500 - 600 years. The logo from Lab 619 is also on stuff signifying the Red Queen in Marie, though we haven’t seen it yet, (Well I hid some in the graffiti, but it was so covered that I don’t think anyone can make it out,) it’s going to be a good thing to look out for! In Marie, I’m trying to on a macro sense give an idea of what the Queen’s society was like, both the good and the bad. You can see we’ve gone full fantasy magical space socialism, with free food, housing, some entertainment, and we also see that we’re seeing the cracks in a system stretched too far. Marie’s city is so far away from the capital that they have almost no-one protecting the people, and capitalists have found ways to amass capital without tipping off the queen. In all of my stories, having lots of resources, (in 619 humans don’t understand magic very well, while in Marie meta-humans have a very strong grasp of magic, but are fundamentally flawed in ways they comprehend it,) is akin to holding lots of power. You see people trying to manipulate, extract, and hold onto that power. The metaphor is much more apparent in Marie where food is money which is magic. Your life literally gets easier and more fulfilling with each additional penny that lines your pocket. Magic has become a mass produced commodity, and we’re seeing exactly what that would mean for a city forced to self regulate. The Protectors, or Imps, or Demons depending on which story you're reading show up in every story, and for good reason. I wanted to convey a sense of really menacing terror with them, while still having them be very care free and fun. I also just kind of like this idea of these ultra powerful beings who choose to just be the Animaniacs. They're actually based on a concept from a DND game, or maybe it was in my stories first and then I put it in my DND game. In my DND games, they're basically just DM inserts when I want to tell a joke, they show up say something funny, or kind, or threatening, then they poof, In Marie their purpose is now to be these like Protectors, and seem to be the same species as Chase is, but obviously very different. If you need more of my content, you can find the finished Kitty Quest story on my site below, but only if you want to read 70k words and see some of the first drawings I drew ever. https://bobapearlcomics.com/?page_id=161 =========================================================== =========================================================== Oh and finally, feel free to just chat, I know for both forums it’s probably a little weird to have off-site votes being pasted in, or hearing that I’m also hosting this on my website, or that I do random instead of popular vote, but all of those things, even the last one are up for discussion. I’ve never done a webcomic before, and it’s maybe one of the most fun interesting ways I’ve ever gone to tell a story, you can say a million things with a picture that you can’t with words, and with the Voting options having big chunks of text, I can also have the benefits books have into the internal minds of the characters as well. I love doing this, and I wouldn’t be motivated to create if you guys weren’t reading, watching, liking, and all voting and all that good poo poo that tells me you like my stories. Boba Pearl fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Jul 5, 2023 |
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Jul 5, 2021 09:42
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Good luck on your certification!
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And we have a winner, orokos picked 8, and I decided instead of randomly lumping posts together, I'd put everything in chronological order. From now as well vote posts will be posted in thread, but also on a spread sheet for this game. That keeps my head on straight, plus it ensures integrity that I'm not re-arranging things to get a specific option. 1d12: 1d12 8  Daily -> Semi-Daily updates will now resume!
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Boba Pearl fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Jul 5, 2023 |
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Jul 16, 2021 23:36
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Wow, that looks great
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You saying that Thunderbeast actually made me go back and see how far I went from my first drawing of my character concept (a character I had created for a different CYOA entirely,) all the way to now. I made myself really happy doing that, as I didn't realize how far I had come. (Link for full size: https://bobapearlessence.com/Webcomic/06/Never_Give_Up.png) 
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Boba Pearl fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Jul 5, 2023 |
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Boba Pearl fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Jul 5, 2023 |
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Boba Pearl fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Jul 5, 2023 |
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Jul 26, 2021 16:25
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AB. We need steadiness more than empathy right now. We won’t be able to sneak wearing two sets of heavy armor, and if we do a frontal assault they’re likely to flee with the loot.
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I don't know if this changes your answer, but it's more empathetic in general, not just in the next scene.
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Permanently, or does it just take a long time to wear off? As long as the effect wears off eventually then my answer is still AB.
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AA Even if she stays in control, don't expect the kid to be able to handle social interactions while on a potent drug for the first time.
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Jul 27, 2021 02:55
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1. AB: take a hit out of peer pressure but don’t inhale 2. C
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B C
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HBar posted:Permanently, or does it just take a long time to wear off? As long as the effect wears off eventually then my answer is still AB. Like as a person, the effects labelled for the next mission are for the next mission, the next effect is how this might effect her personality. Having her do drugs with Marie will make her Closer to Marie in a friendship / familial way and make her more confident as a person for reasons that are unclear right now. Having her not do drugs will make her be more Empathetic and Independent for reasons that are unclear right now.
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Current vote count between everywhere this is posted: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q9GVxjmMG1QocPsInIGq61o01jlzXNnmWSDrM031bZ0/edit?usp=sharing
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Roll them bones: 1d12 7 You can verify this vote, and every vote by checking the Orokos link, and cross referencing it with this spreadsheet.
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hell yeah let's loving goooooooooo
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 Just a heads up school starts this week, so we're gonna be on a more "When it's ready" kind of schedule.
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Boba Pearl fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Jul 5, 2023 |
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