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Rogue, one of Rumrusher’s OC’s.  Happy birthday!

well finally got that idea out of my system

yes, Effigies is DEAD and I killed it

I’m sorry the announcement occurred then but really I’m sure some people had already guessed I haven’t been working on it

It got to the point where, especially with the recent pages I’d been making, I realized how much of a corner I’d written myself into.

Effigies, as it was planned, was nowhere NEAR being finished. it was essentially just before the second half of a first act, of which there were three acts planned, each of which being longer and more involved with more prominent characters than the last.

and so much of it would depend on me basically asking the reader to ‘please put up with how stupid things and characters are being’.

it felt like I was betraying people’s expectations, talking about all this dwarfy stuff and adamantine and then turning around and like… no, it’s orichalcum, there are MULTIPLE god-like metals in the setting. oh and the blue sword? the one that Marcus picked up? It wasn’t adamantine either. it was something even stupider.

but back to the point, the most recent page I’d put out, where glowy reincarnated Josef crashes through the roof of his family’s house (WHICH I’M JUST INTRODUCING NOW instead of establishing where he lives and who his family is BEFOREHAND like a good writer). Josef had just recovered from touching a divine relic containing the power of a deity, and had undergone apotheosis - the elevation of someone to divine status.

now, that’s easy enough to explain to the reader right here. But explaining it within the comic, in a setting I’d created where gods are like, a forgotten ancient world thing that no one remembers in a meaningful capacity, would have been awkward as hell.

JOSEF doesn’t know he’s become a god, his parents don’t know what to make of what happened, so it’s a lot of people sitting around going DURR WHAT’S GOING ON and I have to draw a lot of confused faces.

this little interaction in Josef’s house is a microcosm of how difficult it was going to be to write THE ENTIRE SETTING’S reaction to the resurgence of a divine power.

well, mechanically, the idea is that the player character can stay at Inns and rest stops, and this saves the game, refreshes HP and MP, but also disbands all party members.

upon waking the player must then rebuild their party by recruiting any other adventurers also hanging around in the Inn before they set off on the next leg of the quest.

Different towns and Inns will have their own unique recruitable party members, but the five characters to the right of the protagonist seen above are mainstays, and are available at every Inn and rest-stop, as once you meet them and fulfill certain requirements, they begin traveling with you.

at some locations it would be possible to bring along Jorma, Isaac, and an armor-user who is unique to that area. but obviously not every area would have that available.