Dreams of the Quill

7.5 hours later it’s fixed. This is the old layout from before v2, before I went green. Of course, it’s quite a bit changed and altered, and much improved from back in the day, but it’s still quite a set back. I’ll make something new eventually, but for now this’ll work. To those that loved green, sorry. To those that wanted change, here you go.

Nah, it’s working fine and all. And the content’s all there. It’s just the layout I killed. The forums, as always, are unaffected by my idiocy. I apparently don’t have a backup of the main site layout, so expect something new.

EDIT: putting in a less broken (albeit still broken) old layout in the meantime.

(For the impatient, the link is at the top of the post. See it?)
HC: Book One, Crystals of Mana - Chapter Five

After being eleven days late on the last one, I present you with one right on schedule- in other words, two chapters within one week! This catches me up to the regular Sunday release schedule (though we seem to have lost a chapter along the way- Chapter Four was eleven days late, not four…) and presents you with a brand-spankin’ new chunk of reading.

Not much to say about this today’s release… not even any of my usual spoileriffic notes. This is all-new content (before, I just jumped from Mana Palace to antyliken) which I use to develop a little bit of the backstory, show how much the characters now, how they interact with eachother, etc. It’s a wee bit shorter, pixel-height-wise, but there’s less dialogue than previous chapters, so it should all balance out. Enjoy!

(For the impatient, the link is at the top of the post. See it?)
HC: Book One, Crystals of Mana - Chapter Four

Now, first I’ll apologize for how late this chapter is (roughly eleven days) because it really shouldn’t have taken me this long to get it up. As things are, I did not complete it before going to the convention on the 4th- a fine excuse for not having it up eleven days ago. Finishing it up during my vacation, however, as the backup plan went, did not pan out at all. I spent a good deal of my time down south with family, and the second largest part playing/creating data for Wesnoth and working on my Warcraft 3 map (Verga Dissonance).

I got some little bits of writing done here and there, but in the end, I only finished the bulk of Chapter Four on the second to last day of the vacation. I touched up dialogue and the ending of the chapter in the car coming home, and then spent my first day back in Berkeley doing a big art update, laundry, and writing about the convention. I finished up several other things yesterday (such as catching up on software/forums/etc.) but didn’t get around to polishing up the chapter. Finally, today, I’m posting the completed Chapter Four. Please leave any comments or suggestions on the piece, and I’m of course glad to answer questions any time.

My Notes (mild spoilers, click to view)

Well, the nature of the art I created over the last week sure shows you what my mind is occupied with. HC! Chapter 4 is actually complete now, I just need to proofread it a couple more times. It should be up some time tomorrow.

And now on to the art!

Gem and Julien - In a Bar
Mana II - Hill
Julien - In Command
Reconstructing Gem Hunter
Gem - Young on Rooftop
Gem - Batted Aside
Gem - Rough Awakening

Oh, and there’s one that isn’t related at all to HC. Another misc sketch.

I’m not going ask ‘who is this?’ again. It’s just ‘random person #4′, or something.

EDIT: I also got tired of people not knowing what dotq stood for, flipped out, and wrote it in at the top of the main site and the forums. There’s no consistency there and I LIKE that. Let it be glaringly hideous.