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Welcome to the Amazing Digital Circus..! ...It's not that amazing right now, but don't worry, we're working on that. Please don't mind the viruses. Or the abstractions. Or the broken collision physics... Oh and keep away from the Ringmaster for the time being, okay?

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Codeborne is a Dark Souls/Bloodborne-inspired AU taking place after the Amazing Digital Circus finale. Long after achieving their happy ending and finding meaning in the stagnant eternity of the Circus, the main cast inexplicably begin to abstract, leaving Caine completely alone and unable to cope with his grief. The only thing between himself and oblivion is the promises he made to his friends to keep the circus alive despite their absence, but even then his despair begins fo affect the world. Night dominates the digital realm, viruses and corrupt NPCs run rampant, he has become a lonely god lost in his own head.

And then the abstracted start to come back. Except years of fighting viruses wearing the avatars of his human companions has made Caine hostile and disbelieving that de-abstraction is even possible. He's hostile and a constant threat to those who return.

Our story starts with Queenie's return. With very little memory of her time before abstraction but an indomitable thirst for answers, perhaps she can help her fellow humans make a difference...

Codeborne is a comic with a loose choose-your-own-adventure style story. While certain major story beats are already planned out, polls will be posted with certain pages to allow YOU to decide how characters will reach those story beats.

Credits & Content Warnings Below the Cut

Have some work break doodles of the Codeborne dev team! Queenie's not the only one who got a fancy new look in this comic, the whole original gang has gotten a visual upgrade!

I also realised after drawing these that half the team has some sort of snoot and as a Professional Snoot Booper that delights me immensely.

He's got the patches on his suit. They're coloured/patterned to represent his friends. His main outfit ref with the capelet just covers them a little so it's hard to spot.

Oop- I may need to check the wording in the pinned post summary: but Queenie isn't the first to come back. The story just starts properly when she does. There's a few survivors already out and about by the time she returns.

Codeborne - Prologue, Page 1

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It's here! Whoo, first page of Codeborne is done! What an eclectic assortment of characters we have here :3

Have one of Codeborne's first-ever shitposts, drawn in June before I realised how much this idea would actually snowball.