#learned mortality

Starting with episode 17, we saw the retrieval (or rather, discovery) of the care package requested in the early game, crashed into the Marine Lab.

The only new artwork in this episode is the red form of the Jellyfish frostbitten, as seen below.

These frostbitten are found leeching from electrical wires and machinery, their polyps containing a threateningly high level of stored energy. To quote the party; they suck.

Next up we have Night 10's artwork. The good doctor has come to negotiate, and the party engages in a tense but very revealing conversation. To ensure things go well, a new frostbitten appears alongside the good doctor.

This being, warped in coral and holding a bright white flag, appeared by the Doctor's side in the encounter. Nothing else is currently known about it.

Despite the Doctor's cease-fire, Elessar and Val found their way into the Garden of Chains, the Good Doctor's base of operations. Within the large chamber, they found two new sights... a massive frostbitten and the real form of the doctor himself.

Hundreds of rejected forms of the Good Doctor, either broken beyond repair or currently regenerating, all forced into infinite life by the Millenium AI. The Good Doctor has gathered them here in one place in the Garden of Chains.

Next up, day 11, the party goes to the 25th hour to get Bolt's opinion on the situation.

Since Bolt was never supposed to be a visual aspect of the campaign, I never finished his design. This update visually defines him a place in the world and fully realizes how his personality ties into his design. I'm quite happy with it.

And after another Duncan rolls a 1 moment, we rush right into the Mad as Hell ACT 3 encounter. Here are all of the artworks that showed up at the end of episode 19 and during episode 20.

Mad as Hell ACT 3, earth and lightning, the miasma of static electricity, and the one controlling the giant class to act out as a rogue frostbitten.

The hands were confirmed to be part of the giant, now known to be [In the Year 2525].

In its head stands a projector equipped with tragedy from all over time. One of those tragedies stays close.

Professor Black Ice, or "the virus", is a self replicating computer virus from the future. For some reason, it is attempting to look just like Milli...

And finally the party encountered the mental forms of the Good Doctor within the 25th hour. What appears to be Camilia's original personality, and a much more serious and humorless Bliss.

And finally some concept art.

Thanks for reading the post, hope you all enjoy the rest of Learned Mortality, see y'all in the next one ^-^

For starters, lets take a look at the biggest reveal in the episode - likely the biggest reveal in the entire series if we're talking just based on size. Here's the silhouette of the fifth class of Frostbitten, labeled currently as the Frost Giant:

I adore this thing, I've been waiting for an expedition south to encounter this monstrosity. Its eye scans over the area, all caught in it triggering a deadly villainous action which drained an entire day away from the party this episode. They'll have to be extremely careful in how they maneuver around it from here on out.

That being said; Duncan rolled a 1. I'm sure he's got the best luck in the world. Mad as Hell ACT 2 spawned in, and charged right for mass destruction.

Also some minor updates to stuff; we've got the convoy! Now with a coat of paint that makes it look less like I stapled shipping crates to a tank and stretched it in MS Paint...

What the goop doin'?

Head time

And that's all that appeared in this ep!

Thanks for stayin' tuned to Learned Mortality updates, this game means the world to me ^-^

For a new ally, the Good Doctor sure doesn't show good faith... Sending the party directly to the South Pole as his first action. That being said, he shares his ability with Milli through a data transfer, despite it being a bit soured by the tricks.

In the South Pole Ice Core Labs, the party meets Oblivious... who is not at all what they expected.

Alongside the lord regent, she has a trustworthy cast of "friends", showing where the frostbitten came from. They're all her plush creations, twisted by the hand that binds her.

Here are two cameo appearances, Meephen's Hank, and Parker's John Lennon. Both of which have been fun in-jokes for a while, glad to finally show the way I was able to integrate them into this otherwise quite serious game ^-^

Oblivious's friends, a bunch of plushies that she created for the devil to make "perfect" forms to house the frostbitten. All of them were rejected.

And the polar night is upon us... the last arc of Learned Mortality begins. Hope you're all ready.