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Post by Huntress on Nov 23, 2017 12:25:23 GMT -5
Wrighton - Illustrationsaka the bulk of the stuff I usually draw, with even more tags. Illustration of the first chapter's narratorpost, which does a pretty nice job showing Kathleen's relationship with the Boss. (also a wee bit smugly proud of the No Conspiracy Nutters! poster in the background, seeing the direction the plot later took.) Mr Fox materializes out of dumpsters when called (or not, it's a bit erratic with him): ( June Scarlet , Draco ) Kathleen's room: The poor clerk who got pushed out there to make a statement on behalf of the Wrighton city government. Never got the chance because Scip appeared and attention got immediately derailed. The statement was probably roughly to the effect of "probably weather balloons" anyway, so the townsfolk didn't miss anything. Beatrice and Kathleen share kettle corn and Kathleen's cat: ( June Scarlet again) Kathleen in a nightgown during a rare moment of downtime: She likes frilly things, but doesn't usually get enough free time to actually dress the way she likes. Scip gets ice cream: (somehow, because he's intangible. Possibly it's an emoji.) ( Fraze ) Scip's and Ayo's therapeutic conversation at the dome: ( Liou ) Audo encounters Mary, or possibly vice versa: ( Birdy , Twillie ) Scip, Kathleen, the Boss, ice cream, and more therapeutic conversations (lots of those in this story): ( Fraze again) Dat scene that I immediately said I'd draw long before it was actually written, because some things you just have to draw: ( Celestial , Draco , Killix ) And dat scene that I immediately knew I had to draw as soon as I'd read the post that spawned it: I feel... oddly compelled to specify for non-Wrighton-participants reading this thread that no, this wasn't a wacky AU idea born out of OOC chatter, this scene happened precisely this way in the story. Also involved some particularly sneaky foreshortening in order to show Maggie's hand holding the phone and convey her bird claws without actually showing said claws too blatantly. ( Liou , Celestial ) There was a prompt on the OOC thread regarding our characters meeting our Neopets. In my case, the scene wrote itself. Kathleen has a phone discussion with Caden, gets an incoming call from Ex-Boyfriend Jeff the Jerkface and doesn't take it well. aka the image that would inevitably be taken the wrong way if not for the above explanation. Originally I just drew Kathleen in a library sleepover Spongebob Roundpants shirt and then figured that hey, might as well throw in some extra expression goodness. ( Kyn ) Audo and the Coffee Maker of Ancient Lore that Would Not Cooperate: and that later also doubled as a sneaky sneaky hint at the final puzzle-o-doom because I'd established a good few months beforehand in this image that alien writing goes from right to left. ( Birdy ) Solving the alien puzzle with Dion's and Hannah's combined powers of awkwardness: ( Thorn , Lizica ) Born out of the OOC speculation that the Beast is in fact a Blarf: The non-Wrightoners-plus-Holly-for-plot-reasons have a shared moment of slight awkwardness while the town's natives are overcome by ancient alien memories. It probably took a while for people to process the memories. So the ones who didn't get a memory resurgence were left to just stand around. ( Fraze , Thorn , Tiger , Shinko ) Having successfully gone through the entire game without ever showing Jeff in person, other than a few lines over the phone in one post, I promptly went and drew him once the game was over. Specifically, a scene from the time Jeff and Kathleen were still together and happy. Really, I don't know why I do this to myself. Also some not-yet-posted stuffs to get all Wrighton-related ideas out of my system properly =D Liz and Mary get ice cream together: why yes I will ride the overarching ice cream theme out until the very end. This never happened in the story, but I liked the idea and so here it is. ( Twillie ) Oor'cha in wee snek form, or rather my rendition thereof: True story, I went to town yesterday to pick up my glasses from the repair shop, had some time to kill, so I went to this extremely fancy café, dim lighting, couples having a romantic evening and so forth, got myself a nice coffee with amaretto and ice cream, and sat there drawing a cute googly-eyed snek. *is an arteest* ( Liou ) And this was basically a runaway idea that went: yeah, so the Boss is, essentially, the Doctor. so let's say he does eventually take Kathleen for a spin around the universe. and let's say Jeff gets accidentally dragged along for the wacky antics. but then that idea crossed wires with the idea we had bouncing around with Celestial back when we wrote our Maggie-Boss collab, in which they agreed to go on a spacetime adventure together once the Boss gets his ship sorted out. Problem with having adventures with a Timelord is, of course, that he ends up in mortal peril more often than not and if you're along for the ride, you'll end up chased by evil space elves or somesuch before you even realize what's happening. Thus: If I was to caption it, it'd go something like this: Maggie: "...AND YOU SAID YOU'D COME BACK FOR ME!" Boss: "WELL I'VE BEEN A BIT BUSY WITH THESE THINGS!" Kathleen: *chose this exact moment to succumb to a curse/virus/injection to have her mind taken over/turn to stone/get reprogrammed into an evil sentient pepper pot, take your pick* Jeff: "WHAT IS GOING ON?" Maggie Chayka: The Birb who Waited. *brick'd*
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Post by Huntress on Dec 5, 2017 12:20:12 GMT -5
Shad and SauraCheck it out, I now have official merchandise =D  This was a project I got the idea for way the heck back, I know I got the porcelain pen needed for the lineart when we still lived in the previous flat, so maybe three years ago? And then it sat on my to-do list (and the Spring Cleaning list) for ever and ever and ever and ever, because that is how I roll. Yesterday I had a random moment of 'you know, I want to paint some mugs now' and turns out they took maybe two hours each. Shad was drawn first, when I was just sorting out technique on the go and didn't take any progress pics, but I did take progress shots with Saura.  The tools of the job: a whiteboard marker, a porcelain pen for lineart, a brush, glass paints which are even more ancient because how often does anyone really paint ceramics, base sketches, scissors, random white mug. And a small sharp plastic stick I fetched later (a toothpick would've done the same job but we didn't have any).  Step one: cut out the sketch and transfer the outline onto the mug with a whiteboard marker, fill in the outline. Feel slightly insecure filling in the outline because what if I get it all wonky. Remember that I've drawn Saura literally hundreds of times and at this point I should be able to make it look like my handiwork with my eyes closed. (It does look a bit wonky, but that's because of the curve of the mug.)  Step two: cover the lineart with the porcelain pen. It looks messy as all heck. No probs, because turns out that porcelain pen can be scratched off.  Step three: take a sharp stick and start thinning down the lines, correcting wonky bits and overall doing the exact same thing I do with lineart for my comics. On one hand, it does still end up looking a bit scratchy. On the other hand, due to pretty much the same technique with my comics (read: I don't fuss over my lineart very much or I'd never ever finish a comic), it ends up looking magnificently authentic this way. Step four: paint the mugs and hope that Murphy's law is merciful and the mugs won't break within the next week after serving this household in plain white mode for the past three years.
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Post by Huntress on Jun 21, 2018 11:37:40 GMT -5
WrightonHadn't drawn anything in ages; dang, last post on this thread was half a year ago. I had this nice NT comic renaissance in the interim, but I don't post those here and they sort of fill a separate space in the drawing corner of my brain. So having fished around for a nice casual subject, I realized that I only ever drew Loorea once, and never in fullsize, so I ended up also slapping some color on it in order to finally pinpoint her hair color. It semi-accidentally turned into a scene of her adding her own personal touch of graffiti to the intergalactic hippie van that was the RETON.  (The squiggles on the hovercraft probably read "please don't be an idiot while using this hovercraft at altitude" because the crew of that ship liked the efficient approach to boring mandatory instructions. Also because I'm writing this.) For those who weren't in Wrighton, Loorea was from an alien race called the Morrigan, who were basically every cookie-cutter alien warrior race ever (also see: the Saiyans, the Jaffa, the Klingons, and uh, about half of the species to show up on Doctor Who.) Basically human, except several times stronger by default, and their hair grows in the form of a mane that ends somewhere between the shoulderblades. Except Loorea isn't a very good example of a Morrigan, being more interested in "look at this stuff, isn't it neat" than conquering honor and glory, so she grows her mane much longer than the average reasonable warrior, who'd keep theirs trimmed and tamed to some degree or other. So while I was at it, I also sketched what would be a standard Morrigan warrior.  It inevitably looks mohawk-y because well, it's a mane. And by this point, I was already neck deep in Google Images, researching all the various ways that horses' manes get trimmed and groomed for equestrian contests, and by all accounts a warrior race would keep their manes trimmed and groomed for much the same practical reasons, and also build up its own specific set of hairstyle trends. And that is how my sketchbooks get weird. Braids!  (-jovial stronghold guard who has the air of being that one drink-loving guard who can be used to gain access to the stronghold - will then casually run you through with a sword once you actually try to implement your infiltration plan because whoever said that being nice equals being incompetent?) Button braids!  (- the boss fight - probably the crew cut of this world - secretly likes kittens) Norwegian fjord horses grow black and white manes that often get trimmed into cool patterns. Most famously probably seen in Frozen.  (- the best friend who acts as a foil and probably ends up having a completely unnecessary romantic subplot on the side) I should not have been at all surprised that mane macrame is a thing.  (- probably talks to spirits n stuff - cracks dirty jokes - will still punt you through a wall if you steal the last cookie from your siblings.)
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Post by Huntress on Jul 14, 2018 16:42:20 GMT -5
Shad and SauraWhen I draw comics, I sometimes do a sort of static setup where characters are interacting but the background stays the same. As such, I spent way too long drawing the backgrounds separately for all such panels before I got a lightbulb in my head telling me that there's a much easier way. So what I now do in such cases is draw a single background and replicate it in the panels as necessary. Then I also spent way too long never actually saving those backgrounds - my comicmaking process is overall pretty simplistic - until recently, because I get more and more detail-heavy as time passes and reaching the point where I can put a lot of detail in a background that then gets mostly obscured by characters and speech bubbles, so it's starting to feel like a waste when I don't save them. Then I thought I might as well post them here. From Housesitting in week 824, aka the one born out of the plot thread where Baelia takes over the Hidden Tower (and I was worried that they'd take her back out before the comic was published >__> Someone please tell the girl that Fyora is okay now?)  This one shifts ever-so-subtly towards the right in the second and third panels to show what Baelia is expanding her attention to, so I made the background much wider than actually needed. Welp.  The two panels in Fyora's room are a single long image made just long enough that it serves as a panning shot.  One I just finished, that serves as a sort of sneak peek for my next comic. The twilight setting made my life a lot more difficult in terms of lighting, but it needs to be a twilight setting for script reasons. Not that any lighting tweaks are likely to even be noticeable xP
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Post by Huntress on Sept 25, 2018 12:05:01 GMT -5
The TownLook, if you took part in the Town, the risk of getting randomly tagged in my art thread never goes away.So today, when I was putting the kid to sleep, I got this random outta-nowhere push to reread the Town a bit, three years after its conclusion. Since kid-to-sleep-putting can easily take two hours or so, I got a lot of reading done in that time. And I remembered all over again why I loved it so much - it was just such a good, well-rounded story that had so many different plotlines come together and round up to a satisfying ending. And it was loads of fun. And it gave me a gazillion drawing ideas that are still persistently buzzing around in my head three years later (blah blah should do something about it blah blah). But it also reminded me that I drew a handful of stuff over those years that I never actually posted, largely because I also have a handful of unfinished sketches I meant to finish to complete a full batch for posting and oh whoops how'd it get to 2018? Since finishing and posting those sketches has also been on my stupid to-do list for the past year (remember Spring Cleaning? yep, since then), I reckoned I'd make use of that sudden push to get my actual completed stuff posted; if I actually get anything else completed after this then hey, the thread isn't running out of space. In no real chronological order, there was the little tie-in sketch for my current sketchbook cover:  This one was born out of lengthy convos with Thorn - the sign is in fact canonically on the wall behind the bar of the Ghost Town pub, I also used it in the Sheridans comic.  Also the tiny critter from that same comic:  And the comic also resulted in discussing its aftermath with Liou . Aftermath was likely to include Lots Of Feelings and probably reassuring hugs. So I used the opportunity to draw reassuring hugs.  (Two people interacting in any sort of close manner is always a tricky thing to draw, so those are the sort of ideas I like to act on whenever possible. Was also sorely tempted to add Cori and Ivan to this picture as a grouphug pileup, with Vicky's expression going from >n> to C: to 8I in each image, but since it's handdrawn, it'd mean scanning each iteration and then only have the very final version as a physical copy, which'd bug me on some very deep level.) This one was born out of a Thornconvo again; namely, we were talking about the background of the Resistance and Ene's ghost-husband who was the hitman for the first Resistance of fifteen years ago. Theo was always this amiable laid-back big dude in-story, but since he was also in the group of dangerous vigilantes, it ended up having some pretty dark implications. Having dug up my quote from that convo: ^mostly it was good impromptu practice at foreshortening. Shortly after the kid was born and I started angsting about never having the time to draw (hasn't stopped yet >>), I sat down one evening and set a timer for 15 minutes to do a quick sketch. Turned out pretty well, although I ended up cheating and did another 15 minutes for the arm holding the cigar. It's the still-alive version of Ene at her proper age, probably having gotten back from yet another Resistance meeting unscathed and having a rare contemplative moment about what the heck she's actually doing and will it get her killed (spoiler: yep). She usually showed her cheery side in-story, but she had her dark moments with ragged nerves when nobody was watching.  A fairly old sketch of Joan and Sylvester being out and about while chained together because it's not overkill probationary practices when she shot like seven people over the course of a week. ( Lizica )  Also a fine example of why I've since upgraded my sketchbook's paper >> Printer paper really doesn't hold the test of time very well. This was largely an expression practice, with Joan being her usual oblivious Pinkie-Pie-esque self and Sylvester maybe having a soft spot for this crazy lady who keeps dragging him (rather literally) into trouble ( look, I'm not saying that I ship it, but I ship it.) Then there's this thing that was born out of me thinking that Melville having been this secluded potentially-postapocalyptic town, there can't have been very much in the way of entertainment there; I'm guessing most people listened to the radio, except then Sampson got shot. So aside from that, people would largely read books. Which made me wonder what the Ghost Town pub crew's reading preferences would be in their downtime. And a handful of interesting pose studies occurred. (Tags will also need to occur: Liou , Celestial , Gelquie , Fraze ) (Ranumgen changed shape a lot but I once mentioned to Celestial that for whatever reason I can only see him as the penguins from Madagascar. This is how my sketchbooks stay weird.) And then a couple quick-n-stupid comics that I originally had more ideas for but never finished very many. After the game concluded, the idea of a ghost pub sitcom was thrown around, because the whole setup pretty much was a sitcom by the end of the story (obviously a likely outcome of a grim mafia game where everything is shades of grey and nearly everyone dies, amirite.) The story itself was already troperrific enough and sitcoms are pretty much entirely tropes, so HEY, prime comic material. The mandatory Very Special Episode ( Liou , Gelquie , Celestial ):  (Turns out upon rereading that I actually did allude to it in one of my early posts, but it stands to reason that coffee would be heavily rationed in a place like Melville; it was a walled-off mostly-independent town that didn't look to be in a coffee-plant-friendly climate. So coffee would only be available to the rich people and probably either imported or grown in some separate greenhouse on the Island, and Ene, being a lowly commoner, would be told in no uncertain terms what would happen to her if she tried to produce coffee in her greenhouse.) The curse of being a dude in a sitcom ( Lizica , Celestial ): (which probably goes to show what kind of sitcoms I tend to watch. Honestly you should just be glad that I never did anything with the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Fun fact, this was the first time I ever drew Joan, and what started out as a quick comic gag immediately grew into "hey, I actually like how she turned out, let's draw her some more".)
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Post by Celestial on Sept 25, 2018 12:46:55 GMT -5
There are so many excellent sketches in here (though I wonder about that sheep) but my favourite has to be Ranumgen reading NatGeo. It just...works. Perfectly. As does him being Skipper from Madagascar.
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Post by Twillie on Sept 25, 2018 21:18:36 GMT -5
I have never heard of penguin!Ranumgen before, but now that I have, this changes things xD Not that I had a solid mental image before, but I think my mind always leaned towards some huge, conceptual-beyond-normal-perception design. It's really funny then that others haven't looked at him so, ah, highly shall we say x3 Fits quite nicely into his chaotic theme, as who would truly trust a Dreamworks penguin to decide their fate for them?
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Post by Huntress on Sept 26, 2018 4:26:45 GMT -5
I have never heard of penguin!Ranumgen before, but now that I have, this changes things xD Not that I had a solid mental image before, but I think my mind always leaned towards some huge, conceptual-beyond-normal-perception design. It's really funny then that others haven't looked at him so, ah, highly shall we say x3 Fits quite nicely into his chaotic theme, as who would truly trust a Dreamworks penguin to decide their fate for them? I always had trouble getting a proper visual of Ranumgen; I think he was a bit too rooted in Medieval throughout a large part of the Town for me to get a good handle on him. Plus the shapeshifting, of course, but a lot of the time there are characters in roleplays that I just can't see, which is when I frequently sit down to try and get them on paper and see how it turns out. Sometimes, penguins occur. Curiously, Ranumgen took the form of a young hot piano player at the end of the story and that right there is a form I have a very clear image of in my mind - except it's turned out to be completely impossible to draw. I kid you not, I have three or four abandoned sketches of him and that was in fact the main reason I never finished the neat little batch of sketches I originally wanted to finish. I think I'll need to sit down and do a bunch of quick concept sketches and see if I can finally get this shifty sonuvagun pinned down >___> freckin' gods, I tell you. |
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Post by Twillie on Sept 26, 2018 17:48:32 GMT -5
I have never heard of penguin!Ranumgen before, but now that I have, this changes things xD Not that I had a solid mental image before, but I think my mind always leaned towards some huge, conceptual-beyond-normal-perception design. It's really funny then that others haven't looked at him so, ah, highly shall we say x3 Fits quite nicely into his chaotic theme, as who would truly trust a Dreamworks penguin to decide their fate for them? Curiously, Ranumgen took the form of a young hot piano player at the end of the story and that right there is a form I have a very clear image of in my mind - except it's turned out to be completely impossible to draw. I kid you not, I have three or four abandoned sketches of him and that was in fact the main reason I never finished the neat little batch of sketches I originally wanted to finish. I think I'll need to sit down and do a bunch of quick concept sketches and see if I can finally get this shifty sonuvagun pinned down >___> freckin' gods, I tell you. Oh my, young hot piano player is another image I would not have guessed xD But ooh yeah, best of luck with that, that sounds like an amazing visual! x3 Strange he'd be so uncooperative with that of all forms, sounds like it'd be one of his most flattering ones! |
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Post by Huntress on Sept 27, 2018 13:41:59 GMT -5
Hoy, so it looks like posting my old drawings is actually making me draw new stuff as well. Let's see how long that lasts. Ever since Lizica posted her RP character lineup back in... uh, February, I've been meaning to draw one of my own as well. Goes to show that my to-do lists always get done eventually. Problem here was that I've only ever been in two forum roleplays; could scrape up three when including Cap'n Huntress from the guildverse (which I did, because she's bloody well been in more roleplays than the other two put together). But it turned out to be nice lineup material this way, because the three all have different body types (the pear, the hourglass and the string bean) and are pretty much the same height when adjusted to heels, so it made for good comparison and was just enough drawing volume that I could reasonably focus on the details. Dragging to a new tab might be useful.  And while I was at it, I also drew their primary side characters, aka Theo (the Town), the Boss (Wrighton) and a big ol' gang of meepits (all over the place really).  Odds are good that the Boss would find meepits pretty fascinating on the whole (they have a lot of weird natural multiverse-hopping skills going on) but most people will be initially a bit put out by a bunch of talking blue rodents suddenly taking interest in their whiskey. |
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Post by Lizica on Sept 30, 2018 23:26:44 GMT -5
Yayyy, more lineups! \ o / I love seeing these because you get to see different characters together, and it's always fascinating to compare and contrast and also enjoy some good nostalgia. Huntress, Ene, and Kathleen look so good! =DD
I also wanted to belatedly comment on the Town drawings, too, because they really brightened my day when I first saw them. x3 They're all wonderfully done, and my favorite bits are the Lots of Feelings hug, the reading choices, and the two sitcom comics at the end. xDD I especially love Cori's sitting-up-straight expression of realization that "waitaminute, I am an adult." And I love the jail one just for its sheer ridiculousness and the great characterizations. xDDD That made me laugh out loud.
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Post by Huntress on Oct 1, 2018 14:25:08 GMT -5
Yayyy, more lineups! \ o / I love seeing these because you get to see different characters together, and it's always fascinating to compare and contrast and also enjoy some good nostalgia. Huntress, Ene, and Kathleen look so good! =DD I also wanted to belatedly comment on the Town drawings, too, because they really brightened my day when I first saw them. x3 They're all wonderfully done, and my favorite bits are the Lots of Feelings hug, the reading choices, and the two sitcom comics at the end. xDD I especially love Cori's sitting-up-straight expression of realization that "waitaminute, I am an adult." And I love the jail one just for its sheer ridiculousness and the great characterizations. xDDD That made me laugh out loud. Now that we have the RETON in our lore, past characters meeting up is technically entirely possible. In my case, it might result in a lot of property damage (and very excited-sounding print media, possibly). Ahh, good times xD I should honestly draw more stupid comics; I keep somehow forgetting that I'm really a comic artist first and foremost, it just tends to get channeled into Neopets stuff a lot. But thank you, that comment made my day in turn! ^^ |
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Post by Huntress on Jun 22, 2019 3:41:45 GMT -5
Boy howdy, I really haven't drawn anything for this long? ...well, I've mostly been focusing on NT comics, which I don't post here. Whenever it gets too quiet on this thread, odds are good I have something going on with Shad and Saura. I haven't drawn anything new recently either, but in light of this fresh forum overhaul in which the Guilds were finally archived, this is a good time to repost all images I had cycling through the description of its subboard, Center of Civilization, as an easter egg of sorts that I'm guessing most people never noticed. When the Guilds were originally created, they had a subboard for each guild, with an image with the guild logo added to the board description to make them stand out better. When the subboards were merged into a single board for keeping guild information in 2009, I drew a new board image to incorporate all guild headquarters. Then, because I'm ambitious like that, I drew four more, and started updating them according to seasons. Because making a small update every three months isn't that much trouble and a forum's got to have some lingering secrets, right? Up until the very last solstice (yesterday xP), if you happened across the Guilds board, you'd see one of these images depending on which time of the year it currently was. The original image was the summer image, displayed from the summer solstice (around June 21st) until the autumn equinox (around September 23rd)  Followed by the autumn image, displayed from the autumn equinox until December 1st.  Followed by the Christmas image, which had a shorter display period, from December 1st until Epiphany on January 6th (so chosen because I wanted a slightly longer display period than a mere month, and Epiphany is when we consider Christmas to be officially over in this fine country, and since I was doing this easteregging on my own, I could call those shots xP)  Followed by the winter image, displayed from January 6th until the spring equinox (around March 20th)  Followed by the spring image, displayed from the spring equinox until the summer solstice, and has the prettiest sky by far because I drew that one last and my technique had improved by then. Still proud of those clouds goshdangit.  The six guilds were originally never this close together, of course; the image is a general representation of what their headquarters look like. Sort-of-clockwise from the top, we have the Spacefleet (their HQ is on the moon, so I had to get creative), Mage Manor, The White Weewoo of the Pirates' Guild (the docking site under the cliff is canon, it's how we kept out of sight), the Ninja Dojo, the Mercenary Headquarters (no longer exists, because they blew it up, but I wasn't about to redraw all of the above, even for the sake of adding a big ol' smoldering pillar of smoke) and Castle Kestrel of Dunburrow, technically the land of the Knights' Guild but usually the land in which we all mucked about in close proximity, otherwise there would never have been any interaction. Welp, end of an era. It was a good era, though. (Although as far as easter eggs go, the Pirate Puzzle, hiding somewhere in the depths of the Guilds, should still be 100% operational and only one person ever solved it.) |
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Post by Huntress on Oct 8, 2019 12:47:56 GMT -5
Ghost Town: Part 1(out of I'm not actually sure how many parts; my current best guess is about seven? Comic series usually sort of happen organically for me.) This is what I'm doing for Inktober this year - even though it's got maybe 5% actual ink for practical reasons. This story has been knocking about in my brain ever since the Town roleplay ended and none of my ideas ever die, they just sit around patiently until I finally give in and do something with them, so Inktober felt like a good semi-arbitrary deadline to buckle down and get this out of the way fast spend countless hours drawing about a million houses =D Dragging to a new tab should make it a bit easier to view.  I swear this isn't actually going to be very drab, much like you couldn't tell at the start of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 that it was going to be a wacky supernatural romp with exploration of the afterlife, crafty witches, and copious amounts of rum. If you didn't take part in the Town, it was a standard mafia game with a potentially-postapocalyptic walled-off dystopian society thrown in, so of course the character of the executioner was a pivotal and central- NOPE, I kid. The entire cast died, honorable-mention-of-Joan-notwithstanding, and the executioner was never even mentioned enough to reach broom status. Which is a shame I'm about to rectify, because the setup of the game paired with some fascinating trivia about historical executioners that I'll roll out in the second exposition-y comic mean that our boi here is kind of a hot mess.
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Post by Huntress on Oct 13, 2019 12:38:24 GMT -5
Ghost Town: Part 2(aka presumably the last one with all the ambitious scenery. Presumably. Ahahaha.)  Normally I'm not one for lengthy panels of soulful introspective narrative but even aside from a quick necessary setup of how things were run during and post-roleplay, there's just so much exposition to be given about the general concept of executioners as they functioned in the mid-to-late medieval Hanseatic world (which is, obviously, the rough system I'm going with because you write what you know. The setting of Melville was always a vague anachronism stew but a walled-off society with capital punishment needs some sort of a framework to operate on and the Town was never too clearly established in that regard onnacounta said anachronism stew, so the long and short of it is that I'm writing this for funsies.) But yes, the concept of an executioner's job was fascinating - they were, as said, equal parts a pariah and an absolutely crucial part of a town's judicial system. They were given lifetime upkeep by the city officials but they almost never got married or had a family - not because of any laws, but because nobody would ever marry an executioner. They also had some serious veto powers so that no disgruntled relatives of the executed would try anything funny against them or their (occasional) families - if anyone did, the executioner could officially refuse to do any more work on the city's behalf, which would completely collapse the entire judicial system in place. Overall they were calm, serious, pious men generally not prone to making rash decisions like this fella here maaaay be about to do.
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