Blackdove_EU

I'll join the band-wagon of doing nominations while pretending not to, and also avoid all mentions of voting.

I'd nominate Nightsparrow for her scrapbook (link posted a few times already on this thread, and hey, this isn't _really_ a nomination...no, wait, I guess it is.)

Like I posted on the thread earlier, the Scrapbook, as well as Paragon Inquirer especially are great enhancement to the gameworld immersion, as well as the effort and love put into making it is apparent. There's eye for small details in the graphical layout, use of colors and fonts, types of paper. She takes ingame screenies for photographs as well as uses other artwork to create more varied styles. Many of the Paragon Inquirer headlines are hilarious in their sleazy sensatiolist UFO-magazine style. In-game magazines have always held a special place in my heart, and so does this. I'll also mention the impact the scrapbook has had on others - it has inspired others to create more news articles, as well as create graphical presentations of their work. Even I have contemplated of getting back to writing one of these days...

For Nightsparrows dedication, effort and passion for this, a nomination, or dozen, are well deserved. So there.

Blackdove

I'm going to join the choir and say you're definetely improving. Not all characters need to be thin and slender (quiet Swissy ), although for that kind of boyish figure smaller breasts would be IMO more fitting. The hair is very nice.

Blackdove

Wonderful picture Augury and good luck with your game projects.

The pixel-arts are cool, and I really like the black-and-white pictures as well.

Blackdove

Lovely sketches Swissy, thanks for sharing

Love them

And pic of Pyr

Blackdove

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What is this "Final Stand"?

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Well ... Final Stand refers to a commie proverb ... it's refers to " Final Fight " or " Final Strike " whatever you want .
It's refers to the last fight against the enemies of the mother country ... the last confrontation.
Thx for you question, friend. I expect i answer you well.

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I thought it's reference to the The Internationale, yes? "This is the final struggle/Let us join together and tomorrow"

Blackdove

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About the rebound girl. Excerpt from Andre's diary:

"Melanie's pregnant, Xan confirmed it with a blood test."

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Mwa ha ha... Wait For Me

As for posting Andre's journal here... I suggest the Tempest thread like D, or the IC stories thread.

I should really write recaps too... maybe later.

Blackdove

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Sparrow being stuck in North Dakota, robot farm with her wounded lifemate

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Question... how can he be her lifemate if she's the rebound girl?*

*May be missinterprited

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You are not entirely wrong, although not particularly right either. The situation is complex to say the least.

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She probably can be his lifemate in the same way as Sword of Truth was the Only Love Of His Life, The Only Woman He'd Ever Have Eyes For and so on. /evil grin

... can anyone guess Andre is still almost teenager .

Blackdove

Of course I've seen it before but I'm not sure if I ever actually come out and said, excellent work, Nightsparrow! I really love how it adds to the gameworld and makes it more immersive roleplaying enviroment.

Well done and keep it up!

Blackdove

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Well, we've had 44 story posts so far, how are people finding it? Is it useful/interesting?

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I have to confess that when the IC stories were posted on GG thread, I read each and every one of them. From this IC thread, I don't read each, and read them slower than before. I'm not sure why, maybe on a story thread they don't feel so urgent to a plot/character development, even if they are just as much as before. But I hope this is more a problem for me than in general.

There has been lot more IC posts and it's felt like people are excited about it, which is really great. So in general, I'd say the thread is a success .

Blackdove

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How many RPers are going to fill all twelves character slots? Take the time to create minor characters to enhance RP with them!

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Count: Twelve character slots full, two alts created on Defiant because I didn't have room on Union, at least two character concepts I have been thinking of and haven't created yet. /shame

I think the idea is very good, makes the world a more living place. I sadly have my hands full with my own alt (/curse on altitis), but thumbs up for others ^^. I know one girl who might be needing a parole officer at some point :P

A question though, I thought Longbows are supposed to be normal humans (that was at least how it was in the SG, but some of the NPC Longbow's got blue skin etc.)?

Blackdove

Good work again Jakey!
She looks very cute (possibly even too cute and girly for Empress. But then, it looks cute and cuddly is your tarot theme so then it fits fine ) I love purple, and that soft dreamy coloring is ace.

I look forward to see the rest

Blackdove

Heya Cotton, nice work. I like to contrast in the costume. Mustard shades are more unusual colors for fire-based character, but not a bad one. Gives more smokey and gritty feeling to it. Often cutting the picture at ankles makes me shudder, but with this it is just his feet hidden in the smoke (although the transition could be smoother on his left leg.)

Thanks for sharing!

Edit: Coston, Cotton >.< To my defense I just woke up and haven't had coffee yet T.T

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Coile gets into so much trouble from things he says.

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You'd think that one of the days he'd learn to not say the first thing that pops into his head.

Now I'm just waiting for headlines "A Famous Hero Defeated By Cunning Ramp In Arachnos Base" XD

Blackdove

When a lover aches, that's when a lover breaks - 3.12.06

During the weekend Pyranha checked up on some of the people who were left disgruntled after Ghost Tiger Investigations involvement. She and Sam Blayne went around to ask a few questions, unfortunately none of the suspects seemed to have anything to do with Winter Heart's mom's dissappearance. Before roughing up the thugs, Pyranha had some nachos with Doctor Temporis, and letting him on the latest 'no clue, not one, no idea what happened' version of her investigations. The two of them managed to have their meal and drinks without any teenagery outbursts or uncomfortability, even when Winter was discussed briefly.

On Sunday, Sam called Pyranha to help him with finding some Circle of Thorns since they liked to perch at rooftops and Sam was sadly earth-bound unlike Pyr who can fly. She helped, and afterwards they were heading to Icon to look for new glasses for Pyranha. Racing to the Icon door, Pyranha almost collided with odd purple lizardy creature. After a lot of apologies and communications problems they established that the creature wasn't injured and it didn't really want to be taken to the leader. It did however need some help finding a lost escape pod, and Pyranha offered her private detective services. Inago showed up then to cuddle Pyranha and offered help with the alien. Negotiating the payment wasn't easy, since Pyranha figured neither radioactive materials nor psychotrips would be quite legal. In the end she was promised *squish* of substance 144, whatever that might be. After getting description of the missing pod, Pyranha came to realize her task was much harder than she first thought... small glowing objects are in abundance in the city currently.

After the alien left, Pyranha, Inago and Sam talked, and the subject of where Pyranha and Winter are staying until they find a new place came up. Sam had offered that the girls could stay in his quest room (and get access to his cable tv, home theatre, jacuzzi, bar and fridge, or at least so the girls hoped). For some reason Inago was less than happy, in fact, he was quite furious. He wanted her to come live with him in the Cirque Lair and her objections of creepy clowns and shadow demons were completely ignored. The quickly heated discussion between him and Pyranha ended up in them both shouting curses in japanese and Inago taking off. Then Pyranha said quick and just a little teary goodbye to Sam and took off herself.

After a beer or five Pyranha called her best friend Winter Heart, and together the girls headed for a crazy night out with too much to drink, trashing evil boyfriends and other girly stuff. A few secrets were revealed, luckily neither could blame the other as they had kept something back as well. Sometime during the morning the girls crawled back to their shelter and slept late in the afternoon.

Can't forget the things you never said - 1.12.06

In the past weeks Pyranha has kept busy. Winter Heart's missing mother case is continuing to stay unresolved with no solid leads. Fairbanks checked the place for magical teleportations as well as tried magical tracking of her, both with equal success (or lack of it.) Winter was trying to suggest that maybe her mother is just on vacation but that was quickly refuted. Later in the discussion the possibility of someone trying to get back to Ghost Tiger Investigations was brought up and Pyranha has been now checking old case files. There is few cases where some threats were received, but each was considered to be just empty talk back then. Pyranha will find the people making threads and find out if they had anything to do with this. Fairbanks was going to do additional round of interviews and tests, but that plan ran into unforeseen obstacle.

The apartment building where Pyranha, Winter and Kyo had been living for the past six months has been torn down, and new business center was build there instead. Probably due Pyranha being out of town for weeks, or the girls just being sloppy, they had missed all notifications of that until few days prior to having move. Currently they are staying in city-provided emergancy housing and looking for new place to rent.

Winter Heart's magic studies are going well, Pyranha even took her with her on a mission (helping out MAGI, for free) and was quite impressed by Winter's skills and ability to function at the field. Later on, Pyranha will help her friend to get more practice and get her to apply for hero lisense once the trial is done.

One day Pyranha ran into Samuel Blayne again and had no choice but to work together on one case. Fighting against nasty zombies and even nastier wooden dolls managed to dissolve most of her resentment and they got back in the old easy-going banter and coziness. All of the matters were resolved later over a milk-shake and some secrets were shared as well.

Pyranha had been at the Galaxy Girl statue a few times, the most notable event being Minako coming over to talk and to apologise. The girls talked, Pyranha almost apologising as well and then they talked about school, trying to be casually friendly. Pyranha passed message to Winter that Minako was looking to talk to her. Later Winter and Minako met as well, and to Pyranha's great joy kind of made up. And then Winter even said hello to Doctor Temporis. Pyranha couldn't be happier now that her dear friends aren't mortal enemies any longer.

Pyranha's relationship with Kyo has been a little bumpy lately, mostly because he had been very busy lately and she as well, and there hasn't been enough cuddles. She is doing her best to remedy that, at least.

Blackdove

WOOOOO!

Yay! Great Catz and I love the last pic Catz does look cute ^^

Well done

Blackdove

WOOOOO!

Well done Really great! And the pics were great too. I am too tired to name the favorites, but several humans and the tattoos were great

Blackdove

Thank you all! Still happy ^^

I know the link isn't working, I self-cencored myself. Although she is clothed in that picture .

Blackdove

I finished drawing the last ones yesterday, today got them scanned and cleaned up a little in photoshop. First some that were drawn earlier last week.

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More photoshop finished pictures. Actually, the stick-figure one is drawn completely on photoshop, it was easier than cleaning the original pencil sketch. The Harlequin picture is completely drawn on photoshop with wacom as well.

November Picture #33 - Artsy Subaiku
November Picture #34 - Relationship Diagram for Paragon City
November Picture #35 - Shadowplay Sketch
November Picture #36 - Harlequin Hits 50
November Picture #37 - Girl On the Internet

And here's the last pictures, mostly drawn yesterday.

November Picture #38 - Pyranha Expressions
November Picture #39 - Subaiku Golfing
November Picture #40 - Subaiku Behind
November Picture #41 - Sketch of Lem (Swissy's character)
November Picture #42 - Pyranha Don't Need Wings To Fly
November Picture #43 - Kittens
November Picture #44 - Cookie Cat
November Picture #45 - Cat Girl

I followed the popular theme of facial expressions on the first one. Then a picture that was drawn a while ago, but which I couldn't get a proper text written (Subaiku golfing).
Swissy drew some great sketches of Pyranha (and Inny) and I'm returning the favor with that Lem picture. Coile's been going on about that cookie cat picture, so I drew catgirl version of it. And then just normal catgirl. (I was running a bit low on ideas at that point )

And the last last ones:

November Picture #46 - Degree Absolute
November Picture #47 - Post Mortem
November Picture #48 - Elisa Dressed Up
November Picture #49 - Elisa Dressed Down
November Picture #50 - Wooo! I did it!



There it is, 50 pics done. YAY! I'm very happy and will try to write some thoughts about it later.

/dance
/celebrate

Blackdove

Big congarats coming your way, Jester!

Woooo!

And you can share the cake with Moon.

Blackdove

/cheer
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/cake

Congarats, Moon. And don't even think of WoW! >

Just think, now you'll have MORE time for RP

Blackdove

YAY!

/dance
/cheer

I love the Pyr pictures
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I'm speechless.

The Lem pictures are cool too. ^^

Blackdove

Oooh /claps

Very nice, Catz!

And only about 15 to go for you too ^^

Blackdove

Welcome back Jakey

Great drawings, as usual. The tarot card is excellent and I really like the background. Nail polish, you say? /ponder about experimenting.
The only thing that came to me was the absence of borders on the card, some simple / ornamental / fancy / whatever to frame the picture might work nice, and if you're doing series, would identify them more as same deck. Just a thought .

I look forward to see more of your art

Blackdove

New pictures:

November Picture #17 - Akkarin Pounce
November Picture #18 - Sanguimary
November Picture #19 - Coverboy Coile (filtered screenshot)

Two more of Fuchsia

November Picture #20 - Pencil Sketch of Fuchsia
November Picture #21 - Fuchsia in a Dream

Some sketches this time (I resisted playing with them on photoshop besides adjusting levels. Go me.) Two comissions, Coile and RC. At first I drew the Coile pic with Sword in the middle and Coile cuddling to her, but that didn't really work. And then he suggested using Sword/Nadia, which worked much better.

November Picture #22 - Elisa in Landing
November Picture #23 - Coile and Clones
November Picture #24 - Mad Bad Pyranha
November Picture #25 - Red Commissar, Dino And Hana

Then there's some anime pictures I'm not posting here of five french maids (don't ask), pictures #26 - #30.

November Picture #31 - Bishonen Mage Algernon
November Picture #32 - Gardener Brad (Secretly A Demon)

These are done over the last week or so, just haven't gotten around posting here. Only 18 to post now!

Blackdove