Archive for November, 2007
4 items.
The rest of the monologue by Winds Come Darkly and introduces Saber’s iconic anima banner. For those who don’t play Exalted, when a Solar uses a large amount of energy (magic, Essence, motes), they light up in a glow. At a certain point, they have a huge iconic display which kind of gives their personality or Exalted nature away.
Death of Obsidian Butterflies is a spell in Exalted that affects a 30 yard by 100 yard area with a ton of sharp, killing butterflies made of obsidian. It is room-clearing spell, but takes a bit to get off, hence Saber telling Glorious to guard. The little speech isn’t canon, but a nod toward the Dragon Slave from Slayers.
The sorcery font was Blambot’s and, not that you probably notice, it is rotating from frame to frame. 
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A two-parter told from the point of view of Winds Come Darkly. I had to add a bit of detail to Glorious’ iconic banner so it looked like a cat licking itself. Yeah, it is. Don’t worry, next week will show Saber’s iconic anima banner. It… isn’t much better. I’m pretty happy how the glows turned out for Glorious and Saber, but not sure about the fire dragon-blooded (that’s the red guy).
Glorious has no concept of Limit Break. He does have his Kittah Breaks which are basically the same thing, except he encourages them instead of dreading them. It didn’t come out as well, but the little black bar over Glorious says “CENSORED”. You can imagine what’s underneath.
I added this strip to help explain the previously one. Apparently, I’m having a bit of trouble telling a clear story and explaining my plots. Or at least the reasons for the names. Most of the questions I had were “there is Glorious Saber” and the woman is also named “Saber?” when they only called each other “Glorious” and “Saber” since the beginning. Bah, one silly joke ruined by unclear descriptions.
And I assure the reader, this is probably the last explanation strip. The next one is actually filled with plot-like goodness, or at least I hope it is. And the beginning of the plot starts with three words: “I gotta pee.”