The Howl (Commission)

Commission for Venseyness!! I know I recently started drawing a bunch of dragons but this actually was finished like a year ago for a tabletop game but now that it's become relevant I'm allowed to post it~ xD The Howl is a dragon from his MLP AU Cerben's Wail; he's taken up resident in the ruins of an ancient underground city filled with Sunstone, a material used to make mechanical things and prosthetics. I had a TON of fun with the framing of this one and all the little details; I made this right around the time I figured out good lighting and I went ham on him with it xD

If you like my work and want to support me, my commissions are open!! For prices and examples you can check out my website, or DM me for more specifics~

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Hey check it out: I did an interview! By the time you see it it's probably going to be up but it's premiering in mere minutes as i write this aaa

I’ve been… experimenting?

How would $15 dollars seem for something like this? It’s from a base, and this one is pretty confident it can draw these, it’s really good with armour.

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portrait art for @askthesunjackers. i do so love this comic

Patch Roundup: March 27th

I kinda left these to accumulate for a while aa this is a big disorganised list because it’s three months of patches so I’m sorry about that I’ve tried to bold the keywords to help you scan things faster

▶️ Fixed Meergrifs and Batponies using the old Sky's Reach description ▶️ New trait: Assimilated! A lot of Heritages have a perk that is more cultural than physiological in origin. This trait reflects assimilation into a host culture, where you give up one cultural perk for one belonging to a different heritage. ▶️ Tagged a bunch of perks as cultural to make this work ▶️ Armour Enchanting is back in its new form! Adding passive spells to items. This should open up the world of passive spells to non-spellcasters, which is good because there's stuff on there that would be super useful to like, tanks and brawlers and stuff! I had debated removing some of the arcane armours from the item list as effectively pre-enchanted items, but for now they're still there. ▶️ A bunch of new Passive Spells have been added, which are some of the more interesting effects of the arcane armours. I'll be listening out to see if any of these cause serious issues. (In particular I'm already concerned about stacking "when I get hit" effects.) These new spells are Nightkeeper's Flight, Coward's Haste, Daybreaker's Courage, Biotic Recharge, Essence Theft, Panic Blink, and Thermal Discharge. ▶️ Added Enchanting by hire. See, I can remember to include the crafting shortcut of paying someone else to do it at the time of adding the new crafting rules. ▶️ This is just a small QOL thing for drone users, you can now make Spare Parts ahead of time for field repairs of drones! Using them takes 15 minutes (so you repair your drone instead of taking a short rest). Spare Parts are now the default method of repairing Drones with Crafting Slots ▶️ Added a contents list near the top of the Downtime page listing all of the skill-unlockable Downtime slots you can get with a quick summary of what you can use them for. I can't believe I forgot to do this before! Slots unlocked by Backgrounds and Training aren't listed here since they usually just duplicate one of these. ▶️ Added a stipulation for Precision + Perception to be used for reflex save-like rolls where you just need to react to something quick ▶️ Added illustrations to the Infiltration page to demonstrate the differences between diplomacy tactics in action! ▶️ Added a new language: Spiritung! It's an in-universe conlang, intended as an auxiliary language for the world by some optimistic modernist, that didn't catch on. This is probably up there with the Swim skill and Phone Games in terms of things that are probably useless 99.5% of the time, but their presence says things about the world, so that's why they're still there. ▶️ Corrected some stuff in the index ▶️ Addressed an ambiguity over Flourishes with the Triumph spell ▶️ Fleshed out the conditions for holding Knight's Vow: it's now a Focus spell - you can leave range after it's cast, but Focus checks autofail when you're out of range. Also removed the ambiguous term “physical damage” ▶️ Specified that you can't cast two Focus spells at the same time ▶️ Added to the Instant Flourish that it removes the Focus property from a spell ▶️ Specified that the Shield MA halves your movement ▶️ Redefined the criteria for Hiding by expanding it into a new Hidden Movement subsection under the Movement rules. ▶️ Added Face Masks (under Passive Items). It turns out that under a healthcare system that leaves everyone to fend for themselves, some kind of mask is probably sufficiently essential that it can be assumed you already have something that covers your face - along with other things that do the same job like scarves, construction PPE, military helmets, Nightmare Night costumes, etc. So instead of an essential item being tucked away in the miscellaneous items, there's now a note in the Infiltration section about covering your face, which you can do for free - at least in terms of kB.

Instead, it's considered part of the infiltration puzzle - covering your face is sort of like the opposite of diplomacy: quite effective against machines, but live security finds it suspicious. You also don't need to worry about it if you're not doing anything actually illegal (to cover off paranoia), or you're doing something very obviously illegal (it's assumed that you're covering your face in some manner if you're doing combat in a space with cameras). It's more a case of matching your face covering to the setting - you're gonna look out of place if you're bundled up in a heavy scarf in a baking hot restaurant, or if you've been inside for an hour and you're still wearing a bike helmet. ▶️ You can now by a specific facemask, and it just gives airborne Disease Armour - but also you can choose to spend more on it for fashion purposes. ▶️ Changed the Cultural perk on Sphinxes to be Riddlespeak instead of Pride of the Guardian, because ?????? I don't know why it wasn't that way already ▶️ Tightened up the wording on Minotaur's "When They Think You're Down, Don't Mess Around!" (the spending stamina to negate statuses) ▶️ Did you want flavour text about the exotic senses (Leyfinding, Traffic Sense, etc)? Too bad I did it anyway, it's in Appendix D ▶️ Starter kits have had some price adjustment to reflect the big spell discounts from a few patches back! This means the kits containing spells now have room for a couple more toys, because they all came out at like, 5kb. ▶️ For some reason I'd left a Training for a Bonus Crafting Slot for shield repair and armour enchanting on my workshop document for months and forgot that it was there ▶️ New Background: Foreign Office! Get a free language for being a diplomat. ▶️ New Spell: Seismic Sense! I too have seen Avatar ▶️ Added alternate downside to Chronic Illness of a random injury each day ▶️ Replaced ambiguous wording in the Shield Wall spell that referred to being "stunned", a condition which does not exist. Now Dazing someone with this spell up incurs a Focus check ▶️ Replaced unclear wording on Spray and Pray trickshot regarding which Target number is used ▶️ Specified that the Get Down! trickshot does not protect allies being used as Shields or otherwise not free to move ▶️ Specified when the Staggered condition ends ▶️ Removed the Bruising effect from Hydraulic legs and added a +1 to Strength checks that use the leg ▶️ Added a minimum weight for Recall Item to knock people prone, because no, you're not going to knock someone over with a piece of paper no matter how you hit them ▶️ Clarified wording on the After-Image spell about when attackers make perception checks ▶️ Housekeeping: added note that you unlock Trickshots with Marksman ranks to the Combat & Appendix pages ▶️ Incremented version number ▶️ Oh, also Breezie language 🦋 ▶️ Added a new phone game: Brix! In case you uh, wanted to play a game made by a virtual sweatshop owned by children

Drugs Overhaul

▶️ Tryptachromane/Moth Dust - a psychedelic mushroom with some therapeutic benefits, available as the dried mushroom or processed into a brew or chewy candy (ignore Panicked) ▶️ Anatonin - a rejected combat stimulant that blitzes you with stamina but gives you some mighty shakes ▶️ Ruby Salts - fire rubies prepared like heliodryl that cold-proofs you ▶️ Contrazeine - a synthetic opiate painkiller that lets you ignore all Critical Effects, but makes actions cost initiative so pretty soon you're gonna be asleep ▶️ APM - a performance enhancing stimulant for esports that gives you a huge boost to one skill, with a huge mood crash afterwards. Two existing drugs have been reworked: ▶️ Medicalised Runelime Oil/Merlin - Kinda works the same way, just reworded to be a bit clearer, maybe? ▶️ Umbranol - promoted from the chronic illnesses section, umbranol gives you wack ass (and hypothetically communal) dreams. This is mainly a tool for Operators to introduce dreamwalking and inception antics into games without needing to design a whole ass subsystem for it ▶️ Several of these drugs have the Addictive property, which means that you roll against the number of times you've taken it in the last month to see if you get the Addiction trait. ▶️ The Addiction trait now specifies that you don't need to choose an Addictive drug, because you can have both physical and psychological dependences! ▶️ sigh It is now in the rules that Initiative cannot go below 0, and each edge case that can cause you to run up against this has separate handling. Being super old just bottoms out Initiative at 0, Confuse on 0 Initiative targets Dazes them, and Contrazeine prevents you from taking actions at 0 Initiative. I don't like this and may harmonise these at a later date. ▶️ Removed Wizard and Overclock because they’ve been superseded by APM and Anatonin

Operator's Manual

▶️ There's now a Downtime page! ▶️ Added a section about Alternate Uses for Downtime Slots to the Downtime tab. The examples discussed are spending downtime slots on base-building, faction leading, doing favours for NPCs, and investigating plot gubbins, but really, the limit is your imagination. ▶️ The long awaited Wild Magic Table! This isn't meant to be a replacement for whatever you think is most interesting at the time, but I sure as hell can't come up with that stuff on the spot, so I came up with 20 side effects to pick from at random. ▶️ I've also started on a Hostile Encounter Table - this isn't combat encounters, this is just random events you can run into that are... unwanted situations. Attempts at petty theft against the players, confrontations with weird or misguided people, or just other people having a bad day and getting it in your way. These are meant to be relatively rare occurrences, especially since they actively distract from whatever the player happens to be doing in a way that the main table of urban random encounters generally doesn't. ▶️ Added a few notes in Infiltration about some approaches to encounter setup on a more tangible level

Wenches and Mead Yes I took inspo from CaptHors aka the dude who does sunjackers im obsessed okay? yes its flightless spitfire but bwoops i gave her both wings cuz the wrong wing is missing oh well this is just for fun anyways.

can pretend its before the accident. even tho she dont drink.. so its non alcoholic mead :P @askthesunjackers credit to you for the original idea XD I was bored. sue me

Commission for Issac on Discord

More digital paintings of mine some being heavily changed screencap redraws

“You ready for Nightmare Night, sib?” “You know it sis!” Gren holds up his talons!

Even the cyborgs are getting ready!

Art by @captainhoers / @askfirestarterspitfire / @askthesunjackers

Color by Stormwing

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Stars | THE END

So, quick aside!

This story arc is over - Sunjackers Volumes 1-3 - but I'm not finished with this world, or these characters. I love these doofy little babies too much to abandon them. They just need something new to tackle, rather than the scrambled together story I improvised out of whatever bits and pieces I had lying around after a year of just throwing stuff at the wall. Nighthaze is also not going anywhere. However, that will be at some point in the future - in the short term I need a break from this world, and I'm going to spend some time focussing on other projects. You'll be hearing more about those very soon, at most I'll need like, a month to six weeks to get that prepared.

Also, I can't let it be unsaid: the internet is kinda undergoing some... instability right now? Tumblr included. Know that I have not rushed the ending here to move on with dealing with that - I've had this ending in mind for years now, it's just fortuitous timing that's let me stop this particular ride just as it's getting rough. That said, the break will give me the time I need to assess the situation patiently, without also trying to keep a comic updated at the same time.

One of the things I will be trying to jump on during the intermission will be the print edition so keep your eyes peeled for that - but also brace for a roughly 70 page book, so it's going to be more expensive than the other two. I also need to reform my shipping pricing on Etsy because shipping has gotten so much more expensive in the last two years. Given the up-front expense of printing I'm considering running an Indiegogo for it instead of doing Etsy pre-orders, what do people think about that?

Anyway. Boy howdy. This is kind of surreal. Finishing my second comic, and the first one I've managed to make a living off of. Being a full-time webcomic artist was like, one of my childhood dream jobs and here I am. I'm gonna sit down with a nice cup of tea and uh... try to have a normal one.

See you soon!

Stream Sketches!

Miranda (and Lark), Frostjackers, a mom-shaped thing, Sunjackers by Balenciaga, Planet of the Tim, chomp, and a soft fuzzy snug.

Thanks for coming!

people who give sunjackers and nighthaze shit for having very little neon and too much politics give me life. no i will not make you a marvel movie with slightly better graphic design

it’s cyberpunk in grandma’s house too, y’know