Some Character Work

In preparation for a full scale comic I've been doing many things. Firstly, I was trying to think of a title. And now I have a title, although I doubt you will understand the reference. "One Is Silver"
In Girl Scouts, back when I was small, we had a song we sang about making new friends but keeping the old: "One is Silver, and the other's Gold." Since friendship will be a theme in this comic/story and since the lyrics allude to the titles of the games themselves (Silver and Gold), I thought it was perfect. I hope you like it to.

The other thing I've been working on is my characters. Drawing isn't something I claim to be fantastic at so I've been practicing a lot. Like I promised last week, I have character sheets to show you! I hope this will help you, the reader, get to know the character a little better. At least visually. I'm only posting four because Eva the Skarmory and Jade the Tyranitar will not be joining us yet. Each sheet also has three adjectives to describe each of the characters I drew.

Enjoy!

Tabletop Spotlight: King of Tokyo

Welcome back, ladies and gents, to another edition of Tabletop Spotlight. Due to demands on my time in the real world and the busy holiday season, I will be transitioning my posts to a biweekly schedule, still on Tuesdays. I promise to make the wait worth it! :)

Today’s spotlight shines upon a newer game that’s out, and really causing a commotion! It was featured most recently on Wil Wheaton’s “Table Top” youtube series, and it was an instant favorite for me when it came out in 2011. Head for the hills, because today we’re talking about King of Tokyo.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Elephant.

To illustrate the way ideas travel through art from one mind to another, I drew an Elephant and sent it to Toonsem, for him to reflect on breifely, and then draw another elephant inspired by him. 
Look after the break and see what happened!!

My Perfect, Lovely Silicon Wife (NSFW?)

About a year ago, I bought my ex-wife for $8000. Most silicon dolls are $5000 ready-mades, but I wanted her to be perfect. I’ll humbly admit that I have high standards. So shelling out an extra $3000 for a custom-designed face, hair and torso was absolutely essential. Face #34 was close to what I desired, but I paid extra to personalize her features. Even the “premium” ready-mades such as Jessie (you have to pay an extra $500 for her “athletic body”) and Elena (her “sumptuous torso” makes her the most popular item on the site) couldn’t meet my expectations. True love is not a bargain, after all.

It took only a few clicks of the mouse to customize her appearance exactly to my liking. Ethnicity: Caucasian. Features: diamond shaped face, green eyes, small pointed nose, sharply defined lips, blonde hair. Measurements: 37/23/35 (a plentiful bosom). Height: 5’6”. Tattoos/piercings: none. And like that, she was ready to be built and shipped to my address.

A taste of things to come

My plan was to have some character sheets up today to help get you, the reader, a little more oriented with the characters. Life happens so I've made a lot of progress but they still aren't finished. That said, I didn't want to leave you guys empty handed this Thursday! So here's a sneak peek at the kind of stuff you'll be seeing from me soon. If I get them done this weekend I'll post them! Anyways, let me know what you think! More soon! (click the pictures to make them bigger!)

The Magic Forest: A question of factions and civil unrest.

Read it under the break!

SoulSilver Comic beginnings

I haven't been able to come up with a title for this comic yet. Let me know if you readers have any ideas!!!
This is basically an introduction to our first 4 characters. I hope you get a sense of their personality in this short, first comic. Enjoy!

(click image for a better view. Easier to read, too!)

<3Billie

Tabletop Spotlight: Bottle Imp

I had an idea for this week’s post: let’s do a little bit of a lighter game. Something substantial, but easy to play, and quick to learn. So I looked around, and figured why not an old favorite like Bottle Imp? I mean, it’s December, people. It’s the perfect time to damn your friends to hell via an ancient trapped demon! Talk about getting into the holiday spirit… LOL

Bottle Imp is a tidy little trick-taking card game for 3 or 4 players, most recently published by Z-Man Games in 1995. Like other trick-taking card games (e.g. Hearts or Spades), gameplay relies on clever deceits and cutthroat card passes to win the game. And the story of Bottle Imp really is as dubious as my opener suggests!

Tabletop Spotlight: Saint Malo

Reader side-note: Yes, I missed last week. It was super busy with work and other things IRL, as they say. I hope none of you missed Tabletop Spotlight too much.

Welcome to yet another edition of Tabletop Spotlight, where I review board games (and games of all kinds) for your internet reading pleasure! Tonight’s spotlight shines on a recent addition to my personal gaming library, Saint Malo by Ravensburger. We first played it with my old boss after he came back from Essen-fest last year and it was an instant hit in my book.

Saint Malo is a strategic dice game for 2-5 players that uses a combination of area control on dry erase boards and pure luck of the dice roll. Now, I got a chance to try this game out a week or two ago with some of our WCR contributors… In fact, I got to play a game with Toonsem (and very nearly beat him!), and he seemed to enjoy it.

Pokemon Meme Part 3 and the Last!

Hey folks! Sorry I'm late again. Had a guest staying over and I didn't want to ignore her for drawing Pokemon. I don't think she would have understood. Anyways, I'm here to post the 3rd and final part of the Pokemon type meme. I had to split these six up because they were so big there was no way they'd fit on one piece of paper! So here they are:

Favorite Poison: Drapion, Favorite Electric: Ampharos, Favorite Water: Jellicent

Favorite Dragon: Flygon, Favorite Ice: Lapras, Favorite Fairy: Togekiss

So what are your favorite types? I challenge you (yes, you! the reader!) to do this meme. Ideally you would find a template and draw them onto the template but I don't like being restricted by small squares. I hope you've enjoyed seeing mine!
I'm tempted to do another, similar, drawing meme I found on tumblr. The first half or so is by type but it would give me the freedom to draw that one Pokemon really well and time to draw backgrounds and a scene and such. Click here to find the December Pokeddex Meme! It doesn't include Fairy types since it's a year old...so maybe draw your favorite normal and fairy type on the first day :)

I won't be posting on Thanksgiving for obvious reasons. That said, the next time I post it'll be the start of my comic series revolving around my SoulSilver team I wrote about awhile ago. (See linked post for more information).

Have a wonderful holiday everyone! I'll be back after my trip to VEGAS! Woohoo!

<3Billie

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Elephant.

Take a good look at this elephant.

You'll see him again next week.

Magic Forest strips are on their way as well.

Until next week!

On Magical Forests

Hey, it's Mizzy again, and this time I have some news!

I'm gonna be bringing a comic series to Whales, and it will hopefully someday be the first of many.

Read more about it by clicking the little doodad that says Read More.

Pokemon Type Meme Part 2

Favorite Steel: Skarmory, Ghost: Gengar, Ground: Sandslash, Psychic: Meowstic, Dark: Honchkrow, Rock: Tyranitar

Meowstic is not very happy about Sandslash coming up out of the ground and scaring her....
Anyways! Sorry for the delay! It's been a busy week! Here's another six from the Favorite Pokemon Type Meme! I realize that most of my favorites have also been part dark....whoopsy heh heh heh
*Ahem* Honchkrow is my favorite Pokemon to draw, by far. Such a great shape! I'm much better at drawing birds than dogs, ohmygoodness.

Anyways, sorry for the short post! Next week will be Part 3 of the meme to finish this up and then it's time for more from our friends from my SoulSilver dream team! (See this post for explanation).

Billie, out!

Preview for a longer story

     Hey all, this is Moonlit, don't have a full story this week but what I do have is a sort of preview for a longer story I want to start doing.  Here's the concept, we've all had moments in our life where we look back and say 'man I wish I could have done X differently'.  For some of us there are pivotal events in our life that have impacted the entire course of our life from that point.  As they say, hindsight is 20/20.  It's something that you develop as you get older but you never have an opportunity to utilize it.  That's what this story is about, hindsight.  The story will be about a man who is utterly miserable, his life has gone nowhere and he constantly reflects back to a pivotal event in his life.  He wonders if his decision at that event would have impacted his life in a better way.  This is set in the near future and there is a company that sells a product, this product is an absolute commodity.  That product is hindsight.  The company will allow our main character to go back in time to that pivotal event and with the gift of hindsight, see how it effects that timeline of his life.  He can preview the different timelines for free and for an absurd amount of money, he can choose one to be his permanent timeline.  Will he choose another timeline?  What impact do his different decisions have on his life?  Would you alter your own timeline?  Give your thoughts below if you're so inclined.

Whales Can't Craft

Recently, Mizzy shot me a request to make a Minecraft server for you fellow Whales.

But that's not the real beauty. The real beauty was how we tried to communicate this.
It was extremely difficult to read his first request since he used some kind of weird squiggly symbols requiring me to *READ*.

Now as a Whale, I can do many things. My favorite is making large ships beach themselves and do hairpin turns to maintain the legal required distance of 1/4 mile between you and a whale.
I guess they didn't figure on a whale actually having FUN with this. Reading, on the other hand, is... not exactly my strong point.

So I trained my parrot to ask Mizzy to repeat his request, and a homing pigeon to lead the parrot to Mizzy's treehouse. Parrots poop a LOT, but apparently make great self-transporting tape recorders.

Pros of a Parrot:
    * Records short voice segments
    * Recalls the recorded segments on command
    * Fairly large bird, so can carry heavy objects
    * Is generally an awesome looking exotic bird
    * Can fly

Cons of a Parrot:
    * Can bite
    * One parrot produces more poop than an entire cattle yard combined
    * Also recalls the recorded segments whenever it feels like it (say, 3:17 AM)
    * Is difficult to record a different message

I waited a few hours before I heard the sound of a hacked off parrot landing on my balcony. It would seem that Mizzy was unable to reprogram My Autonomous Voice Recorder [MAVD], and instead attached a data disk to the MAVD's leg. I connected it to my computer only to find my screen turn black as my computer starts to speak:

    "Hello, my name is Microsoft Sam. I am here today to relay Mizzy's request: to make a Minecraft server for all Whales. You should ask everyone else what they want out of it.
    It will need to be up 27/8, 372 days a year.  I take that back, I seem to error I am. I will run a self test and reassure myself that 1 + 1 is.... 47.2341892 + 17.47i.
   
    Well, f..."

   


My mission is clear: Build Minecraft before Mizzy sends Microsoft Anna to finish the job. And ask what kind of things you want out of your server.

I will be using Bukkit, a Minecraft server allowing plugins to be added. The main thing I like about Bukkit is the client does not need mods installed. They can just connect without having to know how to do that. It also makes maintenance easier since only the server admin has to update their plugins, as opposed to Forge-based ones requiring EVERYONE update at the same time.

These mods are usually either always on (eg, ToughBoat's indestructible boats), activated via a tool (like the universe altering WorldEdit), or via a command (eg, Essentials' laundry list of extremely useful commands)

The ones I like to use are:

• Essentials (mostly makes Op's life easier - monitoring chat, moving spawn, and giving starting kits are but a few things this can do)
• NoLagg (when you set off 4,000 blocks of TNT, this prevents my computer from going with it)
• MagicChest (automatically sorting chests - never do that manually ever again!)
• WorldEdit (think an absurdly powerful Photoshop that can change the landscape)
• WorldGuard (protect areas from griefing, block explosions in certain areas, invincibility in certain areas, etc)
• CoreProtect (records placing of blocks, removing of blocks, things that are spawned, things that are killed, basically the NSA - annnnd can recall this later at any time)
• ToughBoats (boats don't disintegrate if you so much as LOOK at them wrong)
• OldDays (can re-enable features found in older versions of Minecraft. I only use it to turn off Baby Zombies.)

I'd recommend the Whales staff mosey over to http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/ and see if anything else strikes your eyes. Some Google searches for Bukkit plugins can't hurt either.

Tabletop Spotlight: D&D Next

Break out that dusty d20 and order some pizza… That’s right, this week’s tabletop spotlight will have to be bright. We are going to talk about the dark and scary world of the greatest (and oldest) RPG out there: Dungeons & Dragons. To be specific, we will talk about the newest edition of the game, dubbed D&D Next.

Now, I have had the simultaneous pain and pleasure of being involved with a few different D&D campaigns, all with different folks at my side and running the show. I will soon be attempting to foray into the world of running a campaign myself. If that sort of thing interests you, hit me up with a comment down below and we can talk about it. Maybe I will even do a segment here on WCR about it, who knows?

Psychology

Vultey here, and I am happy to say that I've been experimenting with something called 'Psychology'. I hadn't really realized that this is what I wanted to study really until about 2 days ago. Psychology is something I've been sort of studying on my own without realizing it for quite some time. Some of my newest weekly-ish posts will be about some experiments I've conducted, so yeah. The difficulty is that when doing an experiment in psychology is that you could mistake an action or emotion with something else. So many variables to take into account! Wish me luck!

Elephants!

Miz here!

Over the course of the past week I've been working on an aminated-esque music video about an Elephant who goes to a ball and wins the hearts of everyone by twerkin' it and workin' it.

See some stills and concept illustrations below, I anticipate the final video taking a month or so to finish.

A different kind of story: PART 2!!

Surprise! Here is the other story I collaborated on with my roommate. This is the same process as the last story, using the same prompt where the two of us took turns writing this weird-ass story. The only difference is that one of us wrote the beginning of the first story while the other person wrote the beginning of the second story. See if you can tell which one of us wrote which parts. Hopefully it will be difficult for you. Have fun!

A different kind of story

Howdy everyone, Moonlit here and I bring you part one of two of a different kind of story.  My roommate Toonsem and I did an interesting writing activity last night and I'm going to share the results below.  It's something he did in one of his classes and I just had to give it a try.  The way it works is you have a writing prompt, all participants start writing a story based on the prompt and switch papers after ten minutes.  You then try to continue the other person's story, it's like a rotation comic.  So the story that will be posted below is a result of his words and mine, this is the one that he started.  Without further ado here it is.

Prompt: You wake up one morning to find that one of your arms has been replaced with a long blade, what do you do?

Favorite Pokemon by Type Meme!!!

Hey y'all! I've been wanting to do this meme for awhile now. You know, the one where you pick your favorite Pokemon of each type and draw them? Yeah that one. Since there are 18 types now, I decided to take it slow and start with 6 of them. The 6 types I drew for this week are: my favorite fire, grass, flying, normal, fighting, and bug type Pokemon! One from each category! It was hard to choose. Most of my pick are dual types that also happen to be dark. Whoops. Anyways, without further ado, here are my first six picks!

Fire: Houndoom, Grass: Chikorita family, Flying: Noctowl, Normal: Teddiursa, Fighting: Scrafty, and Bug: Vivillon!

So, readers, if you had to pick one Pokemon from each of this week's six types, which Pokemon would you choose? Feel free to comment below! I'll be getting a bunch of stuff ready for my comics that have an actual plot but in the meantime, I thought you'd enjoy this meme! Stay tuned next week for part 2!

<3Billie

Tabletop Spotlight: Sunrise City

Taking a look back at the games I’ve reviewed so far, I realized that I haven’t had much in the way of actual physical BOARD games. So today, our spotlight shines upon the dynamic and beautiful landscape of Clever Mojo Games’ Sunrise City.

Sunrise City is a nifty tile placement board game for 2-4 players with card drafting and auction elements tossed in for good measure. Before I get too far into the actual gameplay and everything, I have to stress how cool this game looks. This thing is freaking gorgeous. Isaias Vallejo started the game via Kickstarter early last year, and meeting their goals made it so the fans really see the quality in the materials of the game itself.

Mizzy says: What's Whales?

I promised earlier I would make a post to talk about what this blog is about, and the purpose it serves.

Find a bunch of text under the break!

Crossroads (Happy Halloween!)

This is a story that was kicking around my head for months and I actually finished it quite a while ago.  I figured I would wait until Halloween to post it, it seemed only appropriate.  This concludes my month of strictly horror stories and starting next month I'll be doing different stories and comics with my roommate Toonsem.  Enjoy!

Happy Halloween!

I was lucky enough to have my day land right on my favorite holiday! Perhaps I planned that. Maybe not. Either way, I'm excited to bring you a Halloween themed post! Featuring our ghost pal from last week, Blair, but this time she's a Haunter and she' got some work to do! It the most important day of the year for her, of course! Time to scare some people and Pokemon alike! (Comic after the cut!)

Tabletop Spotlight: DC Deckbuilding Game

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's.... another board game review!

Our spotlight shines tonight on a game more recently put out by Cryptozoic Entertainment, the DC Comics Deck-building Game. (Yes, that's the title. No, it isn't very creative) This is a well-polished deck building card game for 2-5 players using the Cerberus engine- we'll get to that, don't worry- set in the DC comics universe. Have I piqued your interest yet?

I have to admit, I was a little taken aback by the New 52 art style, but they've really pulled it off in few ways that even the DC comics themselves haven't been able to do. The same DC heroes and villains we've all come to love over the years are in action, and let me tell you, this game is beautiful. The art on the box and the cards is gorgeous, and overall, it's very sleek. But aesthetics aren't everything; Dominion is the best deck builder out there and the art for that game looks like crap. How's it play?

The Regulars

 “So, where the hell is this place man?” Charles asked sticking his head into the front seat.
“It's just up ahead, now sit the fuck down.” Mike said sternly from behind the steering wheel. Charles complied.

“Uhm, what was this place called again?” Ken asked trying to compete with the loud rock and roll music that boomed in the car.

“It's called the Happy Happy Tavern.” Samuel said from the passenger seat.

“Happy Happy Tavern?” Mike asked. “What the fuck kind of name is that?” He asked raising his voice.

“Mike...” Samuel started.
“I'm serious man.” Mike said. “I've been to a lot of bars, and none of them have had such a stupid name as Happy Happy Tavern. Why the fuck are we going out into the middle of nowhere for this place?” He shouted.

“Mike! Calm the fuck down and keep your eyes on the road!” Samuel protested. “Now Charles, how did you hear about this place?” Samuel asked.

“Friend of a friend. Apparently if you're first time customers you get free beer for the night. They really want you to be regulars.” Charles said.

“Sounds like a poor business model.” Ken said.

“I'll say, hey is that it up there?” Samuel asked.

The car pulled off of the dark highway they'd been driving on for the last half-hour. The four college students piled out of the car into chilly fall night. Samuel was a math major and the leader of the group, after hearing about this bar from Charles, it seemed like a good idea to come out. Mike was majoring in biology and had anger management issues. The only reason he came along was because he loved beer and would get pissed off if he wasn't invited. Charles loved to party and was an art major, it was his half-baked idea to come out to this bar in the middle of nowhere. Makes sense since Charles was always smoking marijuana. Ken was a business major and he usually liked to keep to himself, he was only here to avoid being alone on another Friday night.

The Conquest of a God

"Isn't this world enough for you?  Will your thirst ever end, and settle in contentment?"
"We could live in perfect harmony if we just accepted the beauty of what IS."
"Isn't love enough?"

He felt the fight in his body loosen.
His journey had taken him across worlds, across realms.
He had been ejected an open airlock in a spacecraft once, and survived by the tips his fingertips.

Now he was mortal, and his belly vulnerable, and his voice plain.
He crumbled inside, at the simple wisdom of her words.

He walked to her with confidence.  His sword fell in two steps, the helmet of his armor by the fifth.
And when he reached her, he lay his lips against her own, and with his tounge, explored the teeth and tongue and softness of her mouth.
She fell passion, her being and his love completing her.

"At last."

The castle walls began to crumble around them.
She conjured a blue sphere to protect them from the destruction.

"At last!"

The reader put the book down.

It was such a great story, and who could doubt the moral?

A slight delay

  Hello all, Moonlit here and just wanted to inform you all of a slight delay regarding this week's story.  It's been a busy week in my world and it's taken me a full week to grapple with the concept of this week's story.  This lead me to only produce an outline today (a convoluted outline that makes no sense to anybody but me, but an outline nonetheless).  This means that the story will be out by the end of the day tomorrow (about 6 PM or before).  Stay frosty everyone.
Moonlit

SoulSilver Dream Team (comic at end!)

I've been drawing Pokemon for as long as I've been into doodling. I didn't have any reoccurring characters until Pokemon SoulSilver (and HeartGold) came out, though. For the first time, my Pokemon each had their own distinct personalities and it became part of my Pokemon playing experience. I started drawing comic strips of my adventures and they're back stories and incorporating they're personalities. I loved it. I even created a tumblr for my male Flaafy (he's obviously an Ampharos, now).
Who are they, you ask?

WesleyWednsday 02: Other Stuff Too

Well I'm back. How's that for an introduction?

Tabletop Spotlight: 7 Wonders

Today's spotlight features a game near and dear to my heart: 7 Wonders. I've always had somewhat of a soft spot for historical games, and this one caught my eye immediately when it came out in 2010. At the time, I was pretty new to deckbuilder type games; I had tried playing through Dominion and Ascension, and was starting to see the similarities between the TCG games I knew already and a streamlined card game. I was hooked right away and have since purchased multiple expansions, too!

7 Wonders (by Repos Productions) is a drafting style board game for up to seven players, incorporating a fast-paced game economy into a strategic deck builder with a diverse number of ways to score points. What that translates to is the fact that 7 Wonders is a difficult game to master. A deceptively simple gameplay mechanic- drafting cards (buildings) around the table and creating your own wonder of the world- cleverly hides a game with a ton of ways to score victory points and backstab your neighbors.

Isaac Says: Forsee a comic!

It's time for another episode of Isaac Says.
You know what's a weird pokemon attack animation? Foresight.
I wouldn't like it if I were peered at through a magnifying glass.
See why below.

Fever Dreams [Disturbing Content]

Chris lay in his bed with a mountain of blankets on top of him. He had pneumonia and felt like he could die. His eyes fluttered open as consciousness gradually returned to him. He felt terrible and he could barely move, on his bed-side table was an unfinished glass of orange juice. He picked it up and sipped it, the cold liquid went down his throat and he shivered violently. He set the glass down and knocked on the wall behind his headboard. 

This was how he signaled his neighbor Mrs. Johnson. She was an extremely kind old woman and Chris regularly went over to her apartment to help her out with chores. Her husband had passed away five years ago and Chris figured that he was making her happy by keeping her company. The two had a simple system where they would just knock twice on the wall if they needed something. The second part of their system was to knock rapidly if there was an emergency. Three months ago, she had a stroke and wasn't able to reach the phone, she knocked on the wall rapidly and Chris called 911 for her. He'd saved her life once and now, in a way she's saving his. The past couple of days she'd been coming over and giving him soup to try to revitalize him. She was almost like a second grandmother to Chris, he liked her very much. That moment, Mrs. Johnson came in through Chris' unlocked door and entered the small apartment.

“Oh, Chris!” She exclaimed. “You don't look like you're getting better, would you like some more soup?” She asked.

“That would be wonderful.” Chris said. “Thank you for doing this” He added.

“Oh, anytime.” She said. “Thank you, for being a kind, considerate neighbor. It'll take about an hour to make a fresh batch of soup. Why don't you get some sleep, I'll bring it over when its done.” She said.

“Okay, I'll do that.” Chris said already beginning to nod off as Mrs. Johnson left.

He immediately began to slip into a disorienting dream. In the dream Chris was getting ready to eat a carrot. That's all the dream was, he wasn't quite asleep, he wasn't quite awake either, yet it wasn't a lucid dream. Chris was very aware of the carrot and the fact that he wanted to eat it. Yet, why couldn't he eat it? He kept waking up part way through and he could think of nothing but the carrot. His brain became obsessed with the carrot. He would close his eyes and he would be holding the carrot, he'd be lifting it to his mouth and then he'd wake up. Why couldn't he eat the carrot? His brain screamed. He closed his eyes once more and saw the carrot, orange, cone shaped, and delicious, taunting him. He wouldn't eat it, he woke up again. Eat the fucking carrot! His brain screamed as Chris finally fell asleep descending into the world of unobtainable carrots.

"Professor" Oak

(click on the image to make it easier to read!!)
This comic was drawn because Michael and I now have an inside joke about Prof. Oak only having an Associates degree. Don't ask, I just had to do it.
But  really, have you ever seen a college in a Pokemon game? Pokemon University?
Sure, there's the Trainer School in Sinnoh and onward but...they talk about the basic crud that every Pokemon trainer knows.

Besides, most of Oak's research is thanks to a 10 year old running around catching Pokemon for him. I'm just messin' with ya, Oak. You know we love you <3

Oh! And as a follow up to my last entry (Don't Make Me Hitmonchan You), I drew Hitmonchan's buddies waiting for him to bring over the drinks. Enjoy!

<3 Billie

Wesley Wednesday 01: Things to Expect

My name is Wesley, I do stuff sometimes.

I'm a crappy Programmer who makes crappy games in his spare time as a feeble attempt to remove the word 'crappy' from his title. My name is Wesley, and I will post here on Wednesdays. Though you will probably read this on Thursday.

I write primarily in python, and I am learning Java.

Over the last week, I gave an attempt at writing a programming language interpreter.
I gave my language the most creative title, WesleysProgrammingLanguage or WPL.
I will share, once I eventually have a github working.

The language is very simple. You can do awesome things like display words or integers, and sometimes (if your feeling extra spontaneous), words and integers. Technology these days sure is marvelous.

I will go into depth after the break.

Tabletop Spotlight: Sentinels of the Multiverse

Today’s spotlight shines on a game that is up-and-coming amongst board gamers and is one that I must admit I am totally hooked on: Sentinels of the Multiverse. This is a deeply thematic, fully cooperative card game for 2-5 players from Greater Than Games. Debuted in 2011, this game has already warranted three full expansions (with another in the works!) and was one of the top 10 board/card games funded on Kickstarter. The most recent expansion, Infernal Relics, boasts contributions from Richard Launius of Arkham Horror fame. Needless to say, it’s getting big.

What really attracted me to this game at first was the theme. I am an enormous comic book nerd, and I have already had a lot of personal success with other cooperative board games (e.g.Pandemic, Castle Panic, and Forbidden Island… even Shadows over Camelot and Battlestar Galactica if I had to). When I saw this box, the art and theme immediately jumped out at me. The gorgeous aesthetics conceal an incredible easy game mechanic system. It’s accessible to the point of learning how to play in five minutes!

New Adventure & Gimp

Hello! Vultey here, I recently acquired Pokemon Y and have begun my new pokemon adventure! At the same time I have been practicing Gimp too.

I chose Chespin as my starter thanks to my #1 rule; always choose the grass type. So far the pokemon have been pretty unique. I don't wanna give too much away but I will say this; Rollout it probably one of my favorite attacks so far, just putting that out there. Rollout is a continuous attack that'll go on and do more damage every time it hits, making it great for gym leaders, not so great when you wanna capture a pokemon since you cant stop Rollout once you started it, so beware. I also really like all the new features added to the game in general. My favorite so far is being able to choose what you look like, now you can actually look like yourself (or not?)

As for Gimp... I'm gonna put this out there that right now, it is HARD and CONFUSING. I would recommend just playing around with it and trying out different stuff... Or you can just read the insanely long guide. I've sort of gotten a feel to Gimp after playing with it for around 2 days but I still have a lot more to learn. I would definitely NOT suggest this as your first drawing program. You would be better off playing around with something like Inkscape or (insert drawing program). The dreaded MS-paint is also there too. Anyway, Vultey signing out, see you next week!

Dragon Exoskeleton

(by Lion Kimbro)

I'm imagining a character, that I'd like to put to use.

age: 15? 17?

Super-genius kid.  (Magical universe;  Something like Little Wizards.)

Super-sexual, but no ability to form sexual relationships with girls/women.  (Difficulties for boys and men in forming sexual relationship is something that I strongly desire to make a theme of my creative works.)

He creates a dragon exoskeletal suit made of metal.  It's black, silvery, metalic, and sharp;  It's also cybernetic.  Think of knives, teeth, and sharpness.  The electrical components have a chips & rectangular LED's aesthetic.  Characterized by tons of joints, sockets, and slithering cabling.  It has technology for reading and amplifying slight muscular intentions expressed in the body.  It's a *lightweight* design -- It is definitely not a tank.  His body should be held, rather than encased, in the design.  That is, his physical body is always distinctly visible when the dragon is seen.  It's more of a Chinese style dragon than a European style dragon.  He can also enter a virtual world by way of the dragon suit, and he appears in the virtual world as a dragon when he is wearing this suit.  Physical reality, mixed reality, augmented reality, and virtual reality are all accessible.

I don't know how to make a story for him, and I don't know how his story goes, but I'd like to.  I think I need to figure out his motivation next.

Isaac says: Late night edition.

Hey folks~

Obviously it's late and I have yet to post any drawings.
This is mostly due to the fact that Pokemon X and Y came out and my priorites clearly have no influence on my behavior.

Expect some neat arts tomorrow, I have badges to earn. In the meantime, have a couple of bats wearing Soviet attire below the break.

player bio: regal

name: regal
age: 26
occupation:
   by day- teacher
   by night- table top reviewer

that's right, the latest addition to the WCR team is none other than a d20 throwing, deck-splitting, wild card table top player. a self-professed geek since 1996, regal has been recruited to write reviews and commentary on the multiverse of table top gaming. D&D, Pathfinder, board games, you name it, he's probably played it.

with a humble history as an English major in college, regal was fortunate enough to be hired at a small board game store in the Seattle area. there, his knowledge of all things acrylic and arcane came alive as he learned every game he could get his hands on. his appetite for new games is as voracious as Galactus' hunger for planets... so, a lot.

while not blessed with any skill of the pen (art was never his strong suit), regal will amaze and delight the WCR crowd with play reviews, game tests, and news about newsy news things... yeah. he also dabbles in some poetry and short story stuff, so you might see some of that, as well. oh, and maybe some stuff about comic books. like we said, he's a wild card!

The Lady in the Woods

      The man pulled into the state park off of the highway he'd been driving on for the last several hours. He drove down the narrow one-way road that lead into the park. Eventually he passed a sign confirming that he was in the right place, Lostwynd State Park. His car bumped along the road for a few miles until he came across the ranger station where visitors checked in. He fumbled around the papers and folders that occupied the passenger seat until he came across his pass. He took out the pass and showed it to the ranger, the ranger glanced it over.

     “Kenneth Bradley?” The ranger asked.

     “That's right.” Kenneth replied.
     “Your campsite is number 42.” The ranger said handing back Kenneth's pass.

     “Thanks.” Kenneth mumbled.

     He proceeded through some more winding roads until he found his campsite. He unloaded his car, set up his tent, and collapsed in a folding chair. Kenneth was in his late twenties, he wore a long sleeved flannel shirt, a pair of blue jeans, and a heavy pair of hiking boots. He had short hair from a bad haircut that he liked to cover with a Yellowstone baseball cap, and he had a stubbly beard that covered most of his face. He looked around the wilderness and let out a sigh of disdain.

Don't Make Me Hitmonchan You

That was a terrible joke. I'm very sorry.
Hello folks! Hope your week has been great! Mine has been okay. I may or may not have lost my job due to my credit load at school. But that's not important now. Today I'm here to post! Yay!
Lately, I've been running into a particular issue over and over again on the interwebs and in real life. Maybe you've seen it, too.
I'm a nerd. And, brace yourself, I'm a girl.

Holy Heracross in a hand basket! No freaking way, right?

....

Buy Some Apples!

My name shall be nameless for the time being. I got into a legal... dispute with the Bureau of Making Your Life Miserable [affectionately pronounced "BOMa-YoLiM"]

But completely ignore that fact (and the black van parked outside) for a few minutes, as I tell a long winded tale about myself that may or may not be true...

I am one of the Whales' technical engineers. My tasks: program weird random shit, make computers bow down to my will (unless made by Apple - then it works the other way round), and make cases of Dr. K soda spontaneously combust and/or randomly appear on people's doorsteps.

Unlike the rest of us, I have very crappy storytelling skills, and DEFINITELY can't draw shit to save my life. I CAN wield a computer. I can also play Pokemon (TCG and VG kinda-ish), Minecraft (often abusing op-powers to spam lightning, "accidentally" make 4,000 blocks of live TNT appear, and other horrifically horrible pranks), and watch Ponies.

I had an aspiration for SFM and other rendering before finding out my Mac won't do more than 3 FPS unless running OSX. My dream laptop costs $1,700 and I have no job - yet.

Tune in next Nameless Tuesday for some hopefully less shitty shit!

Vultey says:

This post comes from the youngest Whale here, who attends middle school and is persueing a degree in Kickassology. Because her schedule is therefore constricting, she was only able to draw Steven the Pirate, a bold and noble swashbuckler who sunk many a ship, drained many a tankard, and slew many a rabblerousing lubber with a Chainsaw flavored Lollipop.
Find her bio and drawing under the break!

The Story of the People

My name is Lion Kimbro. I am 36, live in Seattle, and a friend of the Whales. I love creative adventures, and I love the whales, and so I am participating in this fun creative adventure.

The Story of the People and the Imaginaries

Once upon a time... ...the imaginaries, the humans, the animals, and the plans all lived together in perfect harmony.

However, there was one imaginary, a dark imaginary, that wanted to control all things.  But how to do it?

Isaac's adventures in Photoshop

Good Morrow, Fellows!

I've been teaching myself Photoshop lately, and I'm practicing using it on a couple charecters of mine I've waited forever to use.

Because I've only been using photoshop for a week or so, it has a bit of a Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff feel to it, so bear with me. Find it under the Break!

Toonsem

Greetings, Internet!

I am Toonsem. I never anticipated using that weird nickname for something like this, but I guess I'll stick with it. Like most contributors to this site, I waste much of my time playing video games and browsing pointless content on the Internet. I am capable of being productive, though, particularly when the creative zone of my brain is chugging along merrily and I have a pencil in hand. WCR provides the perfect canvas for me to paint my abnormal conscience. I will be posting comics, short stories and occasional articles pertaining to whatever is on my mind at the moment (I will attempt to make it at least vaguely intriguing to the average reader). Most of my posts in the near future will be in collaboration with my roommate Moonlitumbreon, which will probably be even weirder than our individual projects (see "The Horse Loiterers"). You have been warned.

If all this biography stuff is boring you, relax. I have said enough about myself. Now I will humor you with this comic (I apologize to our viewers whom I do not know personally; I promise to be less inside-jokey from this point onward):

Pokemon Crossing, bitches

I've been playing a lot of two things: Pokemon Black 2 and Animal Crossing: New Leaf. This was bound to happen at some point and I regret nothing (except that the scanner can't recognize color, arrrggh). I originally drew my Ampharos (Agnes), Emboar (Orwell), and Jellicent (Henry) in Animal Crossing form but I decided their basic versions made more sense.
In Pokemon, Agnes is a Quiet nature (but "mischevious") and Orwell is a Modest nature (but "likes to fight.) I have many OCs that I'd like to start putting into comic form but it's hard to decide. Maybe I'll play around with this idea (and ink them instead, since pencil doesn't seem to work very well).

In other news, I found my Crystal Version that I'm doing a nuzlocke challenge on. I'm doing pretty well, I think. I also found a drawing of what I'd like to call "The Days of Innocence", hidden away in my sketchbook.

All of those Pokemon are still alive but I put Meatball in the box. He'd never be a Golem so I didn't see the use in carrying him around. Also, Fennel the Butterfree has been EXTREMELY helpful. If you'd like to see more details about my nuzlocke you can find them here: http://middle-earthbender.tumblr.com/post/62080421198/finding-her-forte-beginning-of-nuzlocke-intro

I'll be trying to post updates as much as possible.

Billie, out!

Mizzy Says:

Good Morrow, Company.

I am Miztahfrawg, and have been and shall be Miztahfrawg for a very long time.
Right now you're looking at a blog which will someday be a very large and prosperous website full of merry-making and thought provoking stuff.

For now though, it exists as a shared blog belonging to a community of likeminded creators and intellectuals, Artists, Thinkers, and Makers. It doesn't look like a lot now, but like most things, I'm sure it will grow with time, effort, sunlight, and a well-balenced diet.

I suppose you could sort of call me the "Chairman" or "Head Honcho" of the project, but to do so would make me kind of uncomfortable, seeing as the project would still be a daydream if not for all the people over there, listed under "Contributors". They are some of my greatest freinds and I love them all dearly.

Seeing as this is a Bio, it seems far to talk a little about myself. My name is Miztahfrawg, (Or Mizzy, Miz, Or That jerk with the blog he keeps talking about.)
Like any self respecting man, I play competitive Pokemon, Watch My Little Pony, and draw comics. I'm a college student in Olympia, Washington, Hoping to learn how to turn Comics into a career, and eventually hoping to learn how to animate.

My eventual goal with this blog, and the eventual website that will go with it, is pretty vast and hard to explain. Expect a full explanaton on Saturday, which is the day I'll be updating and putting up drawings and thoughts and things.

I leave you all with this.

A Wild Bio Appeared!

Hey everyone! Billie, here! (Or so I shall be known to the interwebs) It's the name I've used in a lot of my Pokemon saved games (a la Billie Holiday) so why not? I'll be updating every Thursday with a comic or two and some words here and there. It's nice to finally have an outlet for my random drawings! It will mostly be Pokemon related but there may be some other fanart in between. I think once this gets going I will try and do some more text heavy posts that are opinions/reviews/nerdy updates. We'll see.
I'm still a student at the moment but soon I will be student teaching middle school orchestra. I am a musician, I am a writer, a poet, a nerd, and a sometimes-when-I-feel-like-it artist. Doodles here and there. I nerd out over many things from Pokemon, Animal Crossing, super heroes, comics, cartoons, Avatar the Last Airbender, Legend of Korra, Star Wars, etc. I'm getting into cosplay recently so maybe I'll talk a little about that every once in awhile. I'm also very adamant about women's roles in nerd culture and gender equality in general.

Can't wait to start sharing what I have to offer!

<3Billie

About Moonlitumbreon

     I am known as Moonlitumbreon on the internet.  I like write short stories, particularly horror or surreal stories.  I also want to try my hand at video game and film reviews (text only for now).  I intend to update every Friday with a new story or piece of content.

The Horse Loiterers