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Rift Between Us

by Aymee on February 2, 2011 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Comic

When I sent this strip to Mits to see if he approved of the final result, his reply went along the lines of “Delicious.  Well done – and if you can make a cursory explanation in your blog post (since yours is top), to make sure people don’t have to start digging for info if they don’t get it, that’d be excellent too”.

I SEE HOW IT IS.

First I SLAVE over this strip and now I have to WRITE WORDS? I’m sorry, my t-shirt says ARTIST, not WRITER, I’m pretty sure!  Well, okay, my t-shirt proclaims that pickles are cucumbers soaked in evil, but it’s pretty much the same thing. And true. Pickles ARE gross.

Anyway, good little slave-girl that I am, I guess I have to do this. Mitsune promised to read through and remove my stupid grammar mistakes. (which’ll make me look like an idiot if I let one slip, I suppose -Mits) They always sneak in late at night, like unwanted visitors come to steal your socks. Shut up you know they do that it is the only explanation!

But yes: Rift is this new MMO that’s being released on march 1st, I believe. It looks pretty shiny. According to some people, it looks like alliance got drafted to their own game with shinier graphics. I’m down with that. No Sylvanas, for one thing. * And apparently they have a spell named Wild Growth, tho I haven’t played the beta myself. No time, etc.

I…I hope I don’t have to explain what a daily heroic is. Or a dungeon. I mean, if you need those two explained, I’m pretty sure you must have stumbled in here by mistake. Don’t worry, you’ll get it soon enough. It’s warm and cozy here, and we have cookies. Stay a while, and listen.

Maybe you’ll even know who said that, in a while. Gabba gabba, etc. I promise you’ll like it here.

*You can keep her, Rades. ALL yours, in her puppy-kicking glory!

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  1. Dann
    Dann
    February 2, 2011 at 2:21 am | # | Reply

    lalala!

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      February 2, 2011 at 9:07 pm | # | Reply

      I was going to write “tinky winky”, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to go there…

  2. Azarizotza
    Azarizotza
    February 2, 2011 at 8:27 am | # | Reply

    If R.I.F.T. stands for REALLY INVESTED on FORGOING TANK damage, I think you got the right idea…

    • Mitsune
      Mitsune
      February 3, 2011 at 4:18 am | # | Reply

      I never went so far as to do an instance in Rift, I must admit (OUR COMIC IS FULL OF LIEZ), but pray tell; Whuh?

      • Azarizotza
        Azarizotza
        February 4, 2011 at 12:15 pm | # | Reply

        It’s not a problem, so long as everyone who leaves makes you look like a rose co vered-beauty…which I know you are…

      • Azarizotza
        Azarizotza
        February 4, 2011 at 12:19 pm | # | Reply

        It’s not a problem, so long as everyone who leaves makes you look like a rose…

  3. Totten
    Totten
    February 2, 2011 at 10:29 am | # | Reply

    Well, if you got a right group, it’s actually not that hard healing these days:p
    \o/ (Did I mentioned Im grateful for good, imba pew-pew grps?)

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      February 2, 2011 at 6:14 pm | # | Reply

      Wait, what? We…never even commented on the difficulty/nondifficulty of healing heroics! What exactly are you answering here, Tott? :P

  4. Marius
    Marius
    February 2, 2011 at 12:24 pm | # | Reply

    To be honest, Rift hasn’t really caught me. It seems far too much like a re-skinned WoW for my personal tastes. To each his/her own though. :)

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      February 2, 2011 at 9:07 pm | # | Reply

      I’ve barely looked at it myself – i don’t need another time-sucking mmo, I’m afraid. But..I might buy it. Maybe. If the guys stick with it long enough.

  5. Totten
    Totten
    February 2, 2011 at 7:48 pm | # | Reply

    Erhm. In my defence it was early… :p

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      February 2, 2011 at 9:06 pm | # | Reply

      Your point, however, is valid! I don’t find healing guild-heroics very challenging. Except when Dann FAILS all over the place and aggros all the troggs. ;)

  6. Kittaw
    Kittaw
    February 3, 2011 at 2:47 am | # | Reply

    *puts on best Deckard Cain voice* Nobody wants to stay awhile and listen… =(

  7. Fluffy776
    Fluffy776
    February 3, 2011 at 4:31 am | # | Reply

    *looks around*
    I uh don’t see any cookies. It’s really the only reason I’m here after all. Not the awesome comic with gaming humor :P

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      February 4, 2011 at 7:26 pm | # | Reply

      Keep looking. You’ll find ‘em!

  8. Paster of Muppets
    Paster of Muppets
    February 3, 2011 at 10:23 pm | # | Reply

    I now have Cain’s voice in my head, and the guitar music from the original Diablo.
    Also, I can no longer left click due to mouse button fatigue.

    I think there is a Diablo install disc around here somewhere…

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      February 4, 2011 at 7:28 pm | # | Reply

      Haha! I kinda wanna play through Diablo 1 too. “The Butcher is a sadistic creature, who delights in the torture and paaaain of others!”

  9. Beejay - aka Bjørnar
    Beejay - aka Bjørnar
    February 6, 2011 at 3:28 am | # | Reply

    I’ve got to admit I don’t check in THAT often but I do read both blogs as they each contain their unique entertaining script and etc etc etc ^^

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      February 6, 2011 at 6:38 pm | # | Reply

      What! “Not THAT often”?! What is this, are you saying you have BETTER things to do with your time? Tssk tssk.
      (Haha, thank you ;) )

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Cheating

by Mitsune on March 8, 2012 at 11:15 pm
Posted In: Blog

So I come home from work, and Aymee says something that amounts to “we need to talk”.

Once I located my heart again, she explains that she has an idea. Wait, hang on, it’s a sketch. No, wait, it’s a finished comic.

At some point in there somewhere, I had the opportunity to say that I really really liked it, thought the idea was funny (well, it is, to us!) and that I love the kick-ass style. I’ve always had a thing for things that remind me of crayons in any way. Still, it’s 95% awesome and 5% humbling. Today, I am reduced to a blogging-addendum-creature.

On topic of the comic itself? I’d probably be a little bit insulted, hurt, or at least miffed if it were the full truth. Today at “work” I listened to three dozen pony trance remixes and surfed all the interwebs. Calling it a job is a stretch. Half the time, I get paid to surf the interwebs.

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Conversation Interruptus

by Mitsune on January 18, 2012 at 2:34 am
Posted In: Blog

The party dialogue system in SWTOR was the first thing that actually made my jaw drop. The degree to which companions are a part of your game experience is amazing, sure, but that was something I was eased into. Seeing how the game handled multi-person dialogue, however, was big and it was sudden.

Maybe it’s because I still see this as multiplayer Mass Effect, but there is nothing I look forward to quite as much as having party conversations inside a new flashpoint. Now, you could argue that the roll system is entirely arbitrary and perhaps even “silly”, but as this comic shows, we violently disagree.

Or not. Silly is good. I wish we’d get little fight scenes when I want to say something cool and Ayms tries to be all nice and stuff.

Serious boring note: “Elective democracy.” Apparently this is taken by some to mean something rather specific (a contradiction, even), but google hits were sparse. Perhaps it’s even redundant in that democracies are elective by nature where they aren’t direct? I don’t even know, but it looks better this way. A literalist, I ain’t.

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Ee-wooly-wompah.

by Mitsune on January 10, 2012 at 10:30 pm
Posted In: Blog

Me boonawa tutetotabah wonga wonga, nakanoyachoisky bushudah-

Er, that is to say, hi. This here is what happens when your artist gets to make a comic with whatever expressions she likes, leaving the writer to fill the gaps.

If I felt superfluous before, at times, I now almost feel like a detractor. Expressions are amazing! I mean, come on. Panel 3, anyone?

Now, this is of course a minor exaggeration – and a half-truth; the strip was planned – but I am tempted to suggest to Aymee that she draws a strip before I script it, once. I have no idea if that would work. I also have no idea whether or not you guys found this here strip today even remotely funny.

Before you ask: Yes, this blog exists solely for me to toy around with semicolons and various dashes. I never get to place a semicolon inside a set of dashes anywhere else. One of these days, I may even try using emdashes and those-other-dashes in the same paragraph just to annoy people.

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On Crude Jokes

by Mitsune on January 2, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Posted In: Blog

After a year of comics, and a long break, we’re now in our “second season” – whatever the hay that means – and now we decide to break out the “rogues do it from behind” jokes. Sometimes, I wonder what we’re even doing.

If nothing else, we are certainly keeping our promise of not having a set update schedule! Add to this the fact that I technically have a “job” now (quotation marks mandatory) and practically everything I have ever known is turned on its head. I am not thrilled about the job part, but I’m certain this is only temporary.

Unrelated fact-spam because Aymee’s crude humor is, as ever, unforgivable. In other news: sugar.

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Confound these miniature equines, they drive me to write.

by Mitsune on November 12, 2011 at 7:40 pm
Posted In: Blog

Howdy y’all! Back in the saddle, yee-haw! Well – sort of. As Ayms is sure to be tellin’ you up there in the big chair, we ain’t about to commit to no fancy-schmancy “schedule” again just yet. It don’t matter none. Compared to our little nap, we’re fit as pair of fiddles at a barn dance!

Well, as for Mits in the strip, y’can draw your conclusions, yeah? What I will say is this: anything that gets me writing is right proper okay in my book. Acourse there’s more to it’n that, but I ain’t about to preach. If you’re in the know and find yourself over in the right places – such as EqD – it might be that the name Cloudy Skies isn’t unfamiliar to me. Just, well. With all due respect, don’t come crying ‘ter me if it ain’t your speed, is all.

I’m not gonna bore you with much more talk, but I just made something wonderful and awesome sound like a dreary and terrible thing, and that just ain’t right.

Fact is, I feel I’ve learned more ’bout writing in the past four months than I have in all the years that came ‘afore. I’ve met some wonderful people, and I like to think I’ve changed for the better as a person. I’m bloody happy, and I am rearing to write again. Rather, let’s make that “again and still”. Writing’s been all I’ve been doing lately, and now? Season 2 of 4th Wall is here!

And no, I’ve no idea why I wrote that in a horribly mangled not-quite-Southern accent.

Well okay, maybe I do.

In other news: The new house-place-area is awesome, and Delta is the cutest dog ever. She continues to try to get me past my hygiene-related OCDs by washing my face every now and then. Yay dog spittle! Thank you, Delta.

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