Radiocaster: Todd Howard can have it when he pries it from my cold dead hands, and even then good luck, because I will have already locked my cold dead hands away at a secure location, and there is no NPC who could possibly mark it on his map!

Radiocaster: @bluedraggy: If I recall correctly, my intention was "PREQUEL characters originally by Kaz & co." with the "characters" cut for page space. You are right though, the "originally" is not necessary either.

Radiocaster: @NewFace: Yeah, it's been pretty useful for my purposes anyway. I have access to the alpha version, and even with the limited number of bricks and tools, it's pretty versatile and easy to use.

Radiocaster: I actually re-created the entire guild interior in Brickadia to get reference photos. You may have never thought much about it, but the Kvatch mage's guild doesn't have any actual beds. Where does Sigrid sleep? The cave dungeon?? I also wondered where she made her food without any kitchen equipment, but then again, everything she made was probably made with a mortar and pestle, which was probably supposed to be a joke about how you can combine most food items into a "potion" in the game.

I think something important, but easy to forget, about working with a visual medium is knowing when the characters need to shut up. The writing style I find most annoying in comics or shows is when characters are constantly talking, re-iterating information the audience should already know, and leaving no visual spectacle without a maddening rant about what is being shown. I'd like to hope that you guys know Katia well enough to be comfortable outside of her headspace for a little while, and nothing was really coming together. I think it helps the moment speak for itself.

Radiocaster: Biblically accurate Katia

Radiocaster: @Lokicypher: Who can be sure

Radiocaster: "Yo, Angelo."

Radiocaster: You got those right. Kati- The yellow one has one of Dio's outfit from the JoJo Phantom Blood anime, and Atrantula is just a bee, their back-leaf-tail-thing just reminded me of the shape of a bee. Let's pretend Atra's thousand-yard spider-stare is not me being too lazy to shift their eyes a few pixels to the left and they're just trying to ignore the presence of el gato amarillo.

Radiocaster: We aren't sure what Aggy is supposed to be, but he keeps insisting on headbutting everyone, so maybe we don't want to know. We're like 99.9% sure the yellow one isn't wearing a costume and simply had a hex put on her by a witch; she also raved about vampires for a bit, I dunno. Quill refuses to travel through any means other than the rooftops, it's a shame flat-roof highrises haven't been invented yet because she keeps falling off. The normal human is clearly just wearing normal human clothes, though she keeps singing off-key and making references to horror moves we have not seen. Happy Halloween!

(Note: To see the image without the grey filter applied by the Ideal Master, right click on it and open the image in a new tab.

Radiocaster: @Jig_Bigga: She's actually 20, give or take

Radiocaster: Seems to be the case for hate nice update cute and K-a-t-i-a without the dashes gets changed to Slutty Meatsack. And here I was thinking everyone was just being really mean to the yellow cat for some reason.

Radiocaster: @Jig_Bigga: He only starts to tickle your heart after you stare at him for 5 hours, then you notice he's actually rather handsome.

Radiocaster: the duality of man

Radiocaster: By the way, if nobody has found it yet, you can find the spider hidden somewhere here

Radiocaster: Unlike most protagonists, Katia didn't do much to draw the spotlight, it just kinda happened. Not only is she not an attention whore in-universe, she probably isn't one metaphysically either.

Radiocaster: I presume it's also pretty burning how the spider not only stole her schtick, but used it to make fun of her entire genus

Radiocaster: Decided to go for a different comic structure for this little side-story. Let me know if you guys love it or hate it. It's nice because I don't have to make a full-size image for every little expression, and it's generally more compact. I might use a similar thing for future updates unless people really want me to keep steali- er I mean, doing it in PREQUEL's style. For what it's worth, I didn't really intend to "continue" PREQUEL, just tell a different kind of story in a deliberately alternate timeline. Also because it's kind of weird to fan-continue a story that still gets updates.

Be mindful of the little things always scurrying about... hiding around corners...

Radiocaster: @Yeltsa_Kcir: I'm from the future, it's been seven years, there has been three new updates in that time, the spider did a hula-hoop trick, lamented over the popularity of house cats, and then taught the audience how to play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, third movement. What a great time.

Radiocaster: We would have changed the definition, but "No updates that proceed or influence the plot or characters in a timely manner" wouldn't fit in the frame.

Radiocaster: @Jig_Bigga You ever fall crotch-first onto a bicycle seat?

Radiocaster: I love those mods that screw up your controls when you drink too much alcohol. It truly is the ultimate Katia Managan roleplay experience. Now all we need now is a blackout function that teleports you to a random location

Radiocaster: this is why Oblivion didn't have cooking

Radiocaster: A one Katia Managan was last seen arguing with an Imperial soldier over whether or not pilfering coins from the Take A Penny, Leave A Penny tray is actually considered stealing.

Radiocaster: Smells like tree spirit

Radiocaster: @FOXY_BONNIE: In the original comic it was 24, so let's just compromise and say that it was a 24-pack at one point previous to this moment in time being captured.

Radiocaster: In the PREQUEL universe, a 24 pack of sweetrolls counts as a meal, chocolate cake is dryer than the sands of Elsweyr, and alcoholism is more unavoidable than it was in pre-prohibition America. No wonder why they haven't invented steam engines yet.

Radiocaster: no don't worry guys it's a malt beer that's like drinking a loaf of bread

Radiocaster: The sky is falling and she's just begun...
To salvage pieces cause they'll be worth a ton!

Radiocaster: @NewFace: Remember to use your manners. Kazerad you bastard where's my updates please

Radiocaster: Math tells us that "One" is actually a range of decimal values from anywhere between 0 and 1. Therefore, Katia did indeed touch exactly one, it's just that "one" represented one pile.

Radiocaster: Sometimes the nightmare doesn't wait to stare back, for it has already seen everything worth seeing. It might also be because you woke it up while it was trying to sleep, weird how that works.

Don't ask me why Aggy keeps changing shades of blue... Okay, it's because I keep accidentally saving over my project files and I don't know what his official colors are, he just be like that.

Radiocaster: her back hurts from carrying all this unavailable content

Radiocaster: That rock has no back support after all. Couldn't Kaz at least have had her spend the rest of eternity on a chair?

Radiocaster: @NewFace: is it possible to learn this power

Radiocaster: @Jig_Bigga: that would make a good one-liner if she misses the first time

Radiocaster: Adventurers need plenty of rest! Or more than half a cup of cold coffee...

Dragonbreak Protocol brought to you by coffee beans; the only beans in PREQUEL that are socially acceptable to lick!

Radiocaster: Yea, you can just report your own image and include a link to the new one and ask for it to be replaced

Radiocaster: The fateful reunion. Just kidding, I don't believe in fate. It's mostly due to strange luck-based gravitation and the mythical phenomeon known as "plot convenience".

Radiocaster: Nothing wrong with it if you ask me. Obviously there's a time and a place for it though.

Radiocaster: Rule 1 of breakdancing: Breakdancing does not mean try to break your legs

Radiocaster: @LewEase: She entered the dance competition after all

Radiocaster: I really hate that rock

Radiocaster: I swear I'm going to draw that rock getting struck by lightning or destroyed by an industrial digger or ticketed for bouldering in a no-rock zone

Radiocaster: Yeah lads, Kaz is just really busy getting the boulder to look just right.

Radiocaster: It's gotten so bad that people keep telling me there's a new update out while they're actually referring to the one from June

Radiocaster: Coming soon to a PREQUEL Booru near you... probably...

Radiocaster: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/draw/ad8eb8a98fd97bd8a4283b8a93970d51
https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/draw/2d8aa9c1ce15247d3887350186130497
https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/draw/8d4af52c7083c5a5829eb8fe1042602a
https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/draw/75d85ce9ef4b9b98b3bb7b06b15d7deb

Feel free to delete the other one that I screwed up on, to whoever can

Radiocaster: Well I ballsed every step of that one up

Radiocaster: Ah well, no more fire stick. Just when I started getting good at drawing it too!

The animations were very ambitious this time around, except for the last two which were honestly very low priority. I think the hardest (and most satisfying) one was the bottle spinning, though the control panel was the most time-consuming. The next page will probably be less complicated just to spare my poor hands.
I've been listening to a lot of music from Hexen II recently. It's the kind of music I would usually listen to while reading webcomics, so it's kinda funny to listen to it while drawing webcomics.
As always, feel free to leave commands in the comments.

Radiocaster: I see you have joined the dark side, welcome, retrieve your Krita-branded cloak and scythe by the door