Q’s Workshop

Looks like it's that time again! As promised, I have returned, and I've brought some goodies with me!

Nothing crazy this time, just a new creature and land for you all, being of course Leng (whose art I got from an absolutely amazing artist by the name of u/RingBuilder732, go check his stuff out!!!) and one of the best NPCs in the game, Beo.

I went through a lot of trial and error with Beo specifically, I couldn't really find a design I liked that also stayed true to the character we meet down in the mines. What we have to go on from that interaction is sparse as well, but damn it makes you feel, you know? Here's the dialogue in case you forgot:

"Ah hello. You're not a Protektor are you? What brings you here?"

"I'm Beo. If you're down here you are probably looking for something… I'd help you, but one of my Hydraulics failed and I can't move. I'm pretty much done for so you can just leave me here."

"There's no point repairing an old unit like me, so don't worry about it, okay? It'd be a waste of resources."

"I'd offer you my mining laser, but I don't think your frame could supply the power output. You're probably better off using a gun. There should be some useful equipment in the mining office. It's just south of here."

"Don't worry about me. There are many replacements. We're just Replikas after all, right? In the end, what's one drop to an ocean? When I die they'll just make another."

"Thank you for talking to me. I hope you find what you are looking for."

(Little side note, she goes from just being MNHR in the dialogue to being "Beo" after you learn her name. It's a small detail, but I think it does wonders for making us really feel for her)

Speaking of, whose your favorite NPC from Signalis? I am a big fan of the library KLBR, something about her story (both shown and implied), just really speaks to me in a way I can't describe. I'd love to know yours!

Oh and, almost forgot:

Looks are fun to design, but personality is where SweetDream really shines. You decide whether she's playful or calm, teasing or tender, talkative or thoughtful, and then the chat actually behaves that way.

Here are the next six entries into the QCS set! (Surprise!)

Truth be told, made these suckers a little while ago, but I gave 'em a once over and polished them a bit, then figured I'd share them with you all here!

Halo: Reach was not my first halo game (shoutout to Halo 3), but it did leave the greatest impact on me. I'll never forget Jorge taking his helmet off, picking up my character, and tossing me back to the planet with a line that will forever stick in my head.

It's not a complex story, hell they spoil how the game ends from the intro cutscene, but I'd never really had a game series that made me feel for the deaths of my comrades like Reach did. It had some fantastic character work for a game that, in truth, wasn't very long. In Reach, every victory is half-hearted, every defeat is crushing, and every death is something you carry with you until the end of the game. Not to mention the score, either, I am haunted by tracks like "Epilogue", "Ashes" and "Ghosts and Glass", if you listen carefully, you can hear their leitmotifs just about everywhere in the soundtrack itself.

Unfortunately, if you've played the game, you know that there's nothing we can do to save Reach, save it's people, save our people. There is something we can do, however;

Watched "The Backrooms" recently, and I prepped to watch the movie by reading (most of) the House of Leaves. Inspiration struck, and I figured I'd make a quick and dirty card to commemorate the movie and also find a thinly veiled excuse to make yet another book! This set of cards is going to just be filled with the oddities and random things I like to make that wont fit in either the Signalis set or the many more upcoming sets I've yet to make!

As a direct consequence of this, I've gone ahead and given it the set name of QCS (qcardsmith, or whatever other abbreviation you'd like to come up with!)

Also, I'll have a poll up in a bit for all my fellow enthusiasts who are here to see more Signalis cards to ask for what you think I should try and capture from Signalis in card form!

Here's another highlight post for cards from the set, Ariane edition! Easily one of my favorite characters to design effects for from the game. Bioresonance is such a fun ability to try and capture in magic, and Ariane is such a wonderful and tragic character in the story itself, I had a hell of a time trying to figure out what parts I wanted to capture of her. All in all, these are likely to be the only cards of Ariane I will make for the set as a whole, as I feel it captures just about every facet of what we see in game (except for painter Ariane, I struggled for so long trying to figure out what I wanted to do for that, I've thrown in the towel for now.) As for which is my favorite? How could I choose? It's for sure Ariane, Scout Officer