Too much rain here.. I'm almost missing the droughts from a year ago.

On the good side, I'm actually getting shit done.

Been busy working on the blueprints of a Mazworks III site. It's something I didn't think I would end up doing again, but I've been given some reliable netspace from a local friend of mine a couple months back.. so I figured it was time to start putting it to some use. It's likely that this will be the last art/fiction site I'll actually bother with anyways.

I'm going to be focusing mostly on side stories to the overall story of Saxxony, the first being Sondre and the Southpaw. This takes place right after the fall of Teeka Academy and has the dramatic changing of Toka Academy for boys, which loses it's Toshima Empire standards and becomes independent.. all the while Nori rages war against humanity on mainland Toshima. It will focus on Donovan (Southpaw) and his unwillingness to participate in the troubles aftering being "poisoned" by his former lovers Maki and Nori. The newish, gothy, half-banshee Sondre will be the main fem who takes an interest in Donovan (after she tries to kill him). It will also have Krikket before her bar-brawling years, as well as Meere the naga (who was eventually released from her captivity). Cleo will be there too, although as a banshee (she was killed allegedly by Nori the night Teeka academy fell).

There will be plenty of new characters as well, like Hector, Donovan's distant cousin who "hires" Southpaw to help his train the students at Toka. He's loosely based off of Walter from the Big Lebowski, and involuntarily gave Krikket her exceptional cussing ability.

A new villianess, Puzzele, a possessed puppetwoman who uses the live, severed head of a man (Garmador) as a weapon. Their history is still being created, but most likely Garmador will be a wacked scientist/sorceror who lost his marbles, has visions of conquering the world, and created Puzzele as a guardian for his.. head. heh

There are other additions to come as I continue to write the fiction. It will be mostly in writing, with the occasional art pic entwined with the story.. so it will be like an illustrated book style.. and will be comedy mixed with the occasional seriousness and weirdness.

So here's hoping for a mid to late summer release.

There will be fully detailed bios of the charcters as well, something I always liked having somewhere on the site. Plus other semi-interesting stuff.