The rain pours fiercely
I should take up my pen, Yet
Sleep and moisture aches.
Da Dump
Cesspool
I’m gonna dump some random scribbles here pretty soon, though my medium of choice lately seems to be ‘Sharpie Markers on Copy Paper.’ I attempted a ‘normally’ lined drawing the other day and I dare say, my inking felt a little smoother after all of this paint-glob style stuff I’ve been working on. I’ve also been poking at some sprite sheets again. Whoopee, right?
Disgaea PSP’s new “Etna Mode” is pretty amusing, as to be expected. I sort of wish they had retroactively applied some of the tweaks they’d come up with in their later games to it, for example, it’d be really nice if my healer could gain experience by healing, and not a complicated series of lucky hits to build mana followed by Extra Gaining the crap out of disciples’ spellbooks. I probably put more effort into making a survivable medic character than I do into any other unit in the game.
It’d be super if they could re-introduce Makai Kingdom’s vehicles some day.
Comic in the morning. Probably. I’ll probably end the chapter with a long break to regroup. Possibly even just posting entire issues as they’re completed instead of this daily instant-gratification thing. We’ll see.
By way of explanation:
For the people following RK: Yeah, this is a ‘heavy’ chapter, though it does lighten up toward the end. But more controversial are all the seemingly out-of-left-field revelations coming out this chapter. It probably looks like I’m pulling all of this stuff out of my (utility belt), and it is true, the ‘switcheroo’ of Kenji and Kami’s ages is a relatively new development. Last-minute, even. And it directly contradicts the established profiles (not to mention years of non-canon sources like the MSTings, though those are chock full of outdated information already.)
Ugh, I said ‘canon.’
It isn’t necessarily for a lack of planning; I just keep a hell of a broad plan in place. And in this case, how the white dragon’s crystal got inside his body originally was that he would somehow get his little-kid hands on the revolver and the crystal magically leapt from the grip right into his chest. Something about that explanation always felt a little flimsy, and I could never really think of a decent execution for the scene. The new version: His mother stashed the crystal inside his eggshell before he hatched. (Yes, hatched, the kids are half dragons. Check off another cliche if you’re cynical.) I suppose I could go back and change it so they both hadn’t been born-born yet, other than the fact that older or younger, Kamikaze was helping Ryo keep the past out of his head.
I can conveniently storyboard around the alteration if I need to make the change, so, let’s hear your input; Keep her the screwy little sister, or make her an even more screwed up big sister?
The Dark Side
Since it’s been out for three years, I figured it was about time to get a PSP. It has NOTHING to do with the release of Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness and the Etna chapters therein. Seriously.
I’d somehow convinced myself that the PSP was some kind of awkward brickish thing that promised to do ‘more’ but fail miserably, like the Game Gear (remember the TV Antenna attachment?), but this thing really feels more like a mini-computer than a game system. I’ve probably spent about as much time poking around with the settings and internet browser as I have playing Disgaea so far.
Whoops. Cat’s out of the bag.
I thought about posting this FROM the PSP, but I could only screw with the convoluted text entry setup for so long before I wanted to make the brick a boomerang.