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I didn't think it would take this long to make another Eureka toy, but here she is! I already did Yvette fanart for the Muted Swallow liveplay, so here's her friend and fellow investigator Burnadette the Pyrokinetic Punkette!

You can follow their adventures in the Muted Swallow Liveplay! Even if you know nothing about Eureka or TTRPGs in general, it's a lot of fun!

Found my two lost water flavorizers.

New insulated water bottle because I deserve nice things.

AND ICE CUBE TRAY.

Everywhere I look, I keep finding little clues. Incomplete notes at the back of PDFs. Secondhand stories that can only be connected in hindsight. Impromptu banter in a video with 100 views.

I am an outsider, so the grief doesn't belong to me. I sometimes need to think for a while to pick the correct emotion for a given situation, but I'm sure that sadness doesn't fit here. Am I frustrated? Intrigued? Confused? I have known so few people that I have no experience to inform me about what to do here. Should I even be talking about this?

I am not a voyeur. I don't try to look, but I keep seeing signs that someone named Faeriedae was here. Should I look away? Am I respectful or tasteless for noticing her absence?

Big congratulations to the ANIM team for finally releasing the alpha version of their Dark Souls inspired TTRPG, Death Bed! It's still very much a work in progress, but it's in a playable state now. Check it out here.

I was inspired to draw one of the monsters from the rulebook, a crossbow hollow who lives in a coffin carried by living roots/rot. He technically doesn't have stats yet, but I think he'd make a good miniboss.

Ask for rumors:

Play my game!

Download it here: https://tormenty.itch.io/slime-blaster

It's an arcadey Hotline Miami type thing with bullet time, and I think it's pretty fun if you like hard games. If not, there are cheats.

The movie had absolutely nothing to do with the plot of the the anime or movies. Madoka was played by some white girl in a pink wig. There were no witches or magical girl stuff at all. None of the other girls were there. It was a coming of age story about a teenage girl buying her first car and driving across America.

At first Madoka was mad that her parents only gave her enough money to buy an old used car and not the flashy sportscar she wanted, but over the course of her journey, visiting various American landmarks and getting into hi-jinks, she begins to appreciate how reliable her old car is. The movie was only 90 minutes but it felt like a lot longer because it was immensely boring. There were several times I almost shut it off.

I'm glad I didn't, though, because the ending was INSANE.

At the end of Madoka's road trip, she returns to her home town to find it occupied by WWII era nazis. I think they were supposed to be ICE, but they were wearing SS uniforms and putting up barbed wire and tank traps in the street. Madoka goes to her house and hangs out with her family, but shortly after 5 nazis force their way in, and they start trying to interrogate Madoka's family in the living room.

The SS officer is like "I know you're hiding immigrants in your house. If you don't hand them over we'll take your kids. We'll take your grandma."

Madoka thinks "There's a glock in the kitchen cupboard. I'm going to make an excuse to go to the kitchen, and then I'll shoot these guys. I don't care if we all die in a shootout. I've had enough."

Then Madoka's elderly grandmother stands up, pulls out the glock, and starts shooting. It's like Quentin Tarantino took over directing for the last 5 minutes of the movie. Mado-Grandma is shooting nazis in the head and blood is spraying everywhere. The rest of Madoka's family jumps up and starts beating the shit out of them until they're dead. Madoka ends the battle by very graphically slitting a guy's throat with a knife.

The rest of the movie is a short montage of Madoka leading a revolution against the nazis, then it cuts to the credits.

I was completely stunned. I switched to the behind-the-scenes stuff on the dvd while I called my friends. My friends were all like "That movie sucked. What were they thinking? Who the hell would want to watch a Madoka Magica movie without the magic in it? That ending was wild, though. I wish I had just watched the ending on youtube."

As we're talking, I see that on the behind-the-scenes stuff they are showing off concept art of the witches and I start yelling "WHAT THE FUCK?! Look! Look in the special features! They made concept art of the witches! WHY DIDN'T THEY JUST DO THAT?!"

I just listened to the first episode of Anim TTRPG's live play of the Muted Swallow mystery for Eureka: Investigative urban fantasy, and I'm hooked!

Common poors with no $$ will have to wait until feb 16, but I saw it early on the Anim TTRPG patreon. They got a lot of cool stuff on there. Check it out.

I was inspired to draw the investigator Yvette in the style of the module creator, Legov7, who did art for some NPC's! Trying to copy another artist's style is hard, but I think it came out good. The only thing I couldn't do is the hair. Legov7 does some really lovely textures on the characters' hair, but I gave up and just did it in my usual style.