Updating for the comic's birth day.

Goal moving forward after the holidays is to post updates on tuesdays for wednesday.

You, Olivier, and Cellog gather around the round table, as scintillating vectors whizz to life to generate an approximate map of the surrounding area, highlighting three locations with readouts. Revealing what appears to be biomes separated into long bands.

There is a choice of three missions.

CC_01.28|Operation: Toast Reservoir

Utilizing D.A. Device and combining Midsommer and Colony Corps mission data shows that on an area located towards a zone labeled “Daylight” is a point of interest with bountiful stores of the Tactical Resource codenamed [TOAST]. The colony has been experimenting with it and compiling research, with hopes to set up harvesting procedures. Further information is proprietary, unfortunately, but illumination is pending once you accept this mission. Suffice to say it doesn’t seem to be of much interest to Oyani inhabitants. According to Cellog, they steer clear of the area, so we can expect minimal to no conflict in its procurement.

CC_02.22: Operation: Boys Town

With short range communications back online, the colony has managed to receive S.O.S. and short range chatter (SRC) from other surviving troopers. Due to the “Containment Field” (or whatever we’re calling this thing that’s frying tech and crashing dropships ships) messages are mostly garbled but thanks to the computing power of 900MB do have a heading and a location. Environmental survey readouts point to a tundral area labeled "Nightside". So expect it to be chilly. Olivier hopes if we can collect as many troopers as we can perhaps try and get a message out to fleet command, or coordinate something to fix this mess.

T5:Mid_3.26: Stars Had Shouted As They Did Fall

The D.A.Device has finished analyzing the message from the courier [Dividi], and it seems the Oyani populace are wanting a meeting of sorts. No doubt it'd be about all the warships that have had a delightful terrible time smashing into the ground. The message had come marked with locations of crash sites and no-go zones. The meeting should be handled by a small team, likely escorted by Dividi. Cellog insists she is needed here, as she is the sole administrator. According to Cellog, they should have a human ambassador, but a metaphor/sentence that hasn't translated well refers to an ambiguous "them" as needing something called “eyes on to form a kennel”.

Olivier and Slim's opinions matter, naturally, but there is an entire quorum of thoughts in your head you gotta collate.

[SUBMIT COMMANDS]

[INVENTORY]

My "Impromptu Hiatus" is over; as I had to deal with a few "get life in order" sort of things recently. But yeah!

I should sort out a way for people to vote. And I wholly encourage people to submit questions about the missions, or even their vote preferences via commands in the meantime.

Ideal hope, is to come to a decision on 24 February 1988 2022. Colony Corps Anniversary.

Oh it is everything you ever imagined. You are Special! Aren't you? Yes you are! You must be! The voice message said so. Now, granted, it didn't seem to tell you anything particularly new. A run down of your starting inventory and equipment (you have all of that still right?) is all well and good. But honestly the idea that you, a mere human (and concussed one at that) were specially selected for your purpose fills you with that feeling most people would call "pride".

What was up with th-

Mission?

Mission!

You'll have a MISSION!?

[SUBMIT COMMANDS]

[INVENTORY]

Took me a sec to figure out a good way to embed this. Tumblr's audio upload was being a little weird. Seems like they changed it up. Anyways just got a soundcloud embed instead.

A little text heavy, but I was digging up some old MiniOM console stuff, and making up a few new ones. Finally got photoshop reinstalled as well to open some of this stuff back up.

Reblogging the update again. Small. But has a small critter. Trying to adjust to a new ... Non-Summer pandemic schedule. And may seek to post Colony Corps around more.

The canopy of the xenoflora still remains thick over the scene of this fallen ruin. Beside it is a deep scrape in the earth, filled with parts and cables, and likely whatever was inside this ruin. The ruin is overgrown more prominently in the forest, compared to the factory(?) on the mountain. Trees wind around some kind of archway, and a pipe is strewn across what looks to be a puddle of… that stuff. Some creatures scuttle about here rather freely, perhaps having a nest nearby.

Beyond this the trees seem to start thinning, chilled air is lightly glancing against you. Somewhere in the middle distance is the faint glow of habitation.

Update without a command. But an update none the less. Maybe a few things to investigate or mess with.

Had a bit of a reblog accident and reblogged this to Colony Corps account... and it doubled up a page... or two.

Deleted the reblogs and am reblogging it to the right account.

Sorry.

@vgbmichael : {Go: [Left]}

You make your way across the [Crash Field], nothing but grass and some trees in your path. The [Wooden Railing] continues along with you until it comes to a stop at a [Sheer Cliff]

As you come to the end of the field… you feel like you are being watched…

You are right, as a figure atop the cliff quickly makes a break into a shadowy cave.

You now know for a fact… You are not alone.

You stand at the face of the [Sheer Cliff] unsure of what to do next. At the very end of the railing is a [Docking Rung] with 2 screws holding prongs in place. There is a final few [Stone Markers] in the woods behind you, nestled atop a crumbling stone fence.

And high above you, far out of reach… is a [Cave Entrance]

You currently have no way to climb up the cliff or progress any further in this direction. The [Right Path] leads back to the [Crash Field] and the [Sunlit Cave Entrance]

What Should We Do Now?

Now this comic is so full of mystery wonder and stellar pixel art. And these little animated segments, are magnifique. Consider me hooked.

Took a little longer than intended. But I’ve got it going.

Been needing to get some better practice on vehicles, and trying out a few little things to speed up/stylize animation a little. Going outline-less for things further away/quicker bits of motion.

Kind of too good to put words to. But don’t worry I won’t be cheating you guys with just a single image no words update. Expect a part 2 later today after work. 

I like to think I got him decently bouncy. 

Double update! Part 1/2

Transcript:

“This is squad leader Olivier, Call sign Hector-4-Lima-Oscar. My primary communications are down after Midsommer Descent. Dropship navigation failed after breaching atmosphere. I am currently broadcasting by way of local antennae. If you receive this, I have probably moved on, and made my way towards the endangered colony at…”

<Thumbs through notes> 

71.09 n 12.94 w”

 “Don’t know what’s going on, but suspect some kind of weapon, or disabling device-

Eyes out.”

<Melodious then Malevolent noises>

 “Szere presence has been upgraded from suspected, to incredibly frikken’ likely. Stay breathing.”

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Colony Corps experimental update part 2!

Feel very special about some of the little things I did for this. And am infinitely thankful to one @virtuevillain for providing the audio. 

Had to split it up just to address this beautiful response an anon made. Plus gives me an opportunity to actually provide some background information in a somewhat concrete way. I’ll try and not make it too “tell-y” and more “showy”. 

Other people have raised some great ideas as to how to use the other equipment in the box. I’ll try and address those too once the time comes. 

A big theme for this year is picking up the pace.