[124x70] Menen the First - Go read Time Force and support my sister

[Alteration]

The noise is literally the only way I know how to illustrate that something is supposed to be made of stone.

You could try cracks or visual damage. I'm not against noise itself, but it throws way too many shades of gray into something that requires ~4.

Like this, maybe:


3 shades of grey, but conveys an old stone feel.

but sometimes things like fire and light beams just sort of feel more natural with that going on.

I understand, that's cool. Sorry if I sounded offensive, I just find it personally offsetting. :s
I think they would be fine in their own setting (your fire is delicious), but it feels weird to my eyes in pixel art. I digress.

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[Swholli]

Oh, yeah, no. I get what you're saying completly.

I guess it's just, I sort of treaded away from the traditions of pixel art and sort of went mixed medium because there were things I just wanted to render but couldn't given the certain limitations.

Take for example:

This was from Menen's adventure way back in the beginning, it's an underwater scene.



And I mean that's fine, but other than the tint overlay, there's not much letting us really know he's underwater (maybe the floating, but then we know Menen is in a fantasy world, so that's entirely possible), maybe it's just blue because it's night time.

So to get around that when I did it



I used transparencies and anti-aliasing and blurring and glow filters to really convey: "this is underwater."

I'm not saying either style is fundamentally better or worse than the other, just sometimes cheating the pixel art to make some more dynamic stuff fits with my personal style.

But like you said, it's all a matter of what's offsetting to you personally, not really the art as a whole. I don't disagree with you at all, I'm just saying why it is I'm doing it this way, is all.

[Swholli]

==>

You make your way into the intrepid corridors of the Hall of Man. The dimly lit walls echo with the bounce of your voices.

That statue is totally Menen

: I need to ask, I know that us lycanthropes were deemed unworthy to be allowed into the human city long ago, but why does your entrance boast a statue of both a man and a wolf?

: Well, the elders long ago thought you fur-balls were tainted blood; human but not really human, you know? I don't like it myself, I think you're alright, especially you Geoff, you're my main man. But you know, after the Die of Courage was brought back to the city by The Psychomancer and The Blazing Warrior, politically speaking things started going way downhill...

: The Psychomancer? Blazing Warrior?

: Woah, really? They don't tell you those stories when you're just little pups? Dude, humans know those stories like they happened yesterday. I thought it was the one thing we shared in cultures or something.

: The tribe elders keep the old stories to themselves, you have to be worthy of the knowledge to gain it.

 : Ah, well my main fuzzy man, you have just graduated to the school of Virgil, it is time to tell you a story as old as time itself, it's time to tell you the story of...

Your name is Menen, the Psychomancer. You are starring at the gaping mouth of a giant cave system on the outskirts of town, the precipice of an ungodly amount of treasure hidden deep within the realms of its belly. Next to your is your trusty sidekick and best friend all the known universe, Marc (Marcius is his full name) the werewolf. You and him have been through so much together, being a part just feels wrong.

On your person is a sword made from Imagination Ingots, a set of armor and the Tome of Imagination, your field guide to all things psycomancy.

[Cool Boi]

>Menen: Erect a giant statue of you and your friend and make a temple

[Menen]

Draw swords and enter cavern

[Master Shadow Phoenix]

Lick Marc.

[blazerblock2]

Lick Marc.

[Yosher]

this is really cool

but yeah, enter cave

[Menen]

i wonder where this will go i am genuinely interested

[SWAT One]

Lick Marc.

Guys no stay away!  :(

[Swholli]

Lick Marc.

: Hey, Menen? Bud?

: Eh-eah?

: Let's, uh, let's not lick me.

: Uoh, thawwy.

Draw swords and enter cavern

You make your way through the entrance of the cave. Being that it's in the dead of winter (retconning the original scene because it's just snowed in the North East and I want to be current with the season cause I love snow), you notice the ice and snow build up around you as the temperatures drop exponentially in the heart of the cave.

The icy depths of the cavern opens up suddenly to reveal a giant inner cathedral. The far wall has the next series of tunnels to travel to, but that's nearly three hundred to four hundred feet away; first you must traverse this rocky expanse.

Marc bustles his own fur to his clothes and warms himself. Menen shivers and wishes he had fur. Or at least, he thinks to himself, a very manly beard.

[Cool Boi]

intimidate the snow

[Menen]

Go over your current psychic powers

[masterockets]

Turn sword into a beard

[Menen]

cant you guys post like serious suggestions or something scott is trying to tell a story