infinite silly tabletop comics, “sorry.” My PC in @ourlightsinvain’s Blades in the Dark campaign, Nico Diamond, has an older brother who took anchoritic vows that translated(?) him(?) to a different(?) plane of existence; she’s never gotten over her resultant snit and has since taken to haranguing the city’s highest religious authority, Alastair Rowan, about his impending resignation + taking of the selfsame vows. Here, she tries a new angle of approach: baked goods.
Did a bunch of small analog illustrations this week for the Blades in the Dark campaign I’m in with @scribblingface,@catchaspark, and GM @ourlightsinvain (our collective campaign moodboard is viewable on @gatecrashed, which also has more info about the setting and PCs). The above is a stolen memory of two important historical figures in the world of the campaign: Phaedra, an opera singer and magician suspected of playing architect to the apocalypse that sealed off the afterlife and shattered the sun, and Orion Hipparchos, an actual architect with a tin ear (or so he sat accused of, 30 seconds before this image was captured by fate).
They were meant to get back to a party…? But the party’s forgotten them!
Aphra, you also notice that this is a fracture that radiates the faintest, narrowest hairline cracks to everything else in the city; to everything else in the world, maybe. This is the heart of all fractures that you are looking at. You don’t personally feel close to it, but when you stand close to it, in the right way, you can see that there is a fracture in you, that runs through the floor and back toward the colonnade.
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The other questions in her mind fly out of her head. She walks as close to the colonnade as she can, watching that thread of light. Are there two, across her body? Does it widen as she gets closer? Not two threads, but it branches. She is testing the limit of the air supply. She turns around and walks backward, as though along a tightrope, almost superstitiously, as though reeling out the line. Two strands tethering her, in opposite directions; the fracture, and the air.
– GM and player narration, Session 45, Arc 2 of the Unbroken Sun
Happy birthday, @catchaspark! Please enjoy this highly saturated illustration of one of my single favorite moments in our campaign.
(Context: The Unbroken Sun is a 4-person Blades in the Dark campaign run by @ourlightsinvain with players @scribblingface,@catchaspark, and myself since May 2020. If this image piques your interest, check out our aesthetic/inspiration blog at @gatecrashed and our GM’s post-mortem of the first arc of the game on Dreamwidth.)
SEVERAL MONTHS AGO ON TABLETOP: the “teleporting homicidal runaway” cult gave us all the gift of a very silly circular chase sequence. ONE AND A HALF WEEKS AGO: I realize that I can, technically, represent most of it in one composition. I have few memories subsequent.
This is my only true work of campaign art. I refuse to reiterate anything about the context, which lived the precious fragile life of a mayfly, but (1) I have decided to post it in honor of the arc 1 wrapup coming on Sunday and (2) I and Discord can attest it predates this entire fancy dress finale.
Out of the DUCK FACTORY we produced 4 (4!) specialists, helpfully labeled in captions UNLABELED DUE TO DARK FATE. There were also some dolls that came out of a “Bad Man Maker” but the GM is still working up to those.
Finally mustered the courage to fully listen to the Camilla line after all this time and like… I never realized what a gol’ dang anime protagonist kinda fool she was???
Anyway, as usual, listen to Ghosts on a Train, they do such a good job over there!
So I wanna be cringe. Like super cringe. Would anybody be interested im a super cringy animatic of “The World is Mine” but with Barnaby? And multiship cuz i see yall and your different ships.
My beloved women, off to choke you out and channel your spirits.
Apparently i can bust out a Zillah pretty fast, but Lilith’s coat took several years off my life, i hate drawing hoods. Since Im drawing in twos, next is Kasimir and maybe Hicks? Because I think she deserves it.
My beloved little men. Off to do some lovely crimes i bet.
So despite loving Oxventure’s Blades in the Dark with all of my heart, i never drew much because I find Barnaby extremely hard to draw for some reason. Well, Im changing that. Im back on my Oxventure bullshit and i actually have stuff to show for it.
[Image ID: Headshots of five performers are arranged on top of a chest full of gold. The headshots are labeled: “Izzy as Myka,” “Erica as Vee,” “Austin as Tano,” “GM Connie,” and “Revon as Vacío.” This event is labeled “Your Good Friend: A One-Shot Heist in the Kingdom of Qiulong, Wednesday, July 28th, 6-9 CT, Shoot Your One Shot.” End ID.]
Four scoundrels. One heavily guarded library. The heist of their lives.
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