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A new page: Additional notes on link below: https://www.deviantart.com/thebritwriter/art/Xcom-Legacy-C3-pg-24-821554887

Bit of a delay due to amount of detail going into the current pages so far but here is the latest page so far:

New page This was more tricky to do in some ways, one was envisioning the layout of the train, given as this is a long story there have been other moments in time period, chapter 2 for example shown a glimpse of 2033 (Qaint's perspective) here is a echo of the past that in time will paint a larger picture. It was one of the reasons kelly was picked as a character in this. The first frame also shows the intended layout heriarchy of the 'vip' (or value in partnership) structure. Red bing regional lead, guy behind is head of science and while the one at back is effectively a similar position to Tygen. Only they have universal uniforms, the other two have a colour pattern suited to their own region. (In this case western europe)

Commander's Fried Chryssalid, a franchise to rival the Colonel's.

Here's something I was commissioned to, a blend of old and 2012 xcom Source link: https://www.devianta...-Bust-814368624

C3 19-21 That took a long time but it is now upto date. There is a lot I setup, though while was able to leave enough gap to have 'Mox' Take up the advent captain post (I suspected theey may include a faction of former advent loyalists or have the perspective of the foot soliders possibly) I didn't think they would open on Kelly's origin from the TLE pack. This was planned long before that and have Kelly origin tied as a activist with the Human Values Coalition (as opposed to children of the earth) In short there is only so much I can adapt to changes, working slow has it's ups but at some point you have to stand by you're story and idea.

C3 Page 13 - 18 Final batch left which (time of this post will be 19-21. I would combine it all but a lot is going on in this.

C3 Pages 6 - 12 Nearly upto date with uploads, updating all this has given me a lot to look back on, besides some personal matters it's been tough trying to get two pages a month done with colour, it's getting more challenging given more interior and characters. Also to mention with last page it's been a combinatuion between my own sketch and amanda's. https://www.deviantart.com/thebritwriter/art/Xcom-Legacy-ADVENT-Interview-stage-version-1-712831060 https://www.deviantart.com/thebritwriter/art/Xcom-Legacy-Interview-stage-version-2-by-Amanda-733176091 Also in relation to Amanda she helped work on a 'ADVENT memorial' desiign, created by the aliens to remember those who were killed by xcom. All true of course. https://www.deviantart.com/thebritwriter/art/Xcom-legacy-ADVENT-memorial-791741992 Another batch coming shortly.

Chapter 3 Pages 1-5

C2: Pg17 to Last page of chapter. I'll have chapter 3 brought up at some point today, have to say postimage is far far better than photobucket, I also changed the images to be PNG so the quality improves. A lot of this is setup, and try to broaden the scope as much as i can.

C2: Page 5-16 (Note: More advent writing, the person questioning the couple is a character design from Amanda Burn who has been helping me out. And is introduction of a civilian support group to advent peacekeepers (another self creation) dubbed 'Advent champions' I admit this was inspired by some very patronizing job titles at my job.) The design for advent champions comes from a rough draft of inital advent concept designs except colour scheme was changed from red to blue (reason being is myself and Amanda both agreed that red in advent is a likely symbol of highest authority) https://www.deviantart.com/thebritwriter/art/Xcom-legacy-ADVENT-Champions-by-Manda-of-the-6-701221149 (I may one day revise this page given the sheer amount of dialogue, out of all the pages done 9including chapter 3) this one was not my best and feels like a self lesson in improving narration)

This wasn't dropped, it's absense was more to that I lost my password for this and that the site wouldn't allow me to reset a new password. Thankfully I found it after all this time recently so it's been resolved now. I need to tidy the thread up anyway because photobucket is no longer a trusted hosted site, besides spam has watermarked my images with it's logo so I'll be swapping images with a new host that i been using. It does look bad on me to give the impression I seemingly discarded a project on a thread, so will be bringing this upto speed. Edit: Chapter 2 page 4 With previous images corrected. I'll be posting the following mostly under a few posts but this does deserve it's own mention. This was a challenge, google may do a better job on translating roman based alphabet (something modern english and western European languages mostly based on) but Urdu was tough and MS word didn't do a good job on it either. Thankfully deviantartist https://www.deviantart.com/sasu-sakuu was helpful enough to give me the appropriate translation so I could re-draw the writing.) I could have used google translate, but honestly I feel I be ignorant instead of trying to reach out to a world wide community like deviantart as well as the translation wouldn't had been accurate. As for Advent writing which is more occurring as this goes on, I'll bring up my earlier notes: setting up a rule for it, their language is far more simpler than ours. Their word only consist of basic form, such as "home", "learn", "count" etc.. Every addition to the word, such as "-ing" to verb, are loss to them. Here I use the word "eo" for home, "are" for learn and "u" for count (the last one was because it looks like +) I don't think I can go in depth with it but to clarify Advent writing has no structure anyway what you see on the screen is simply scrambled gibberish just scaled to very small text. Breaking immersion a little by stating that but unfortunately there is no rule for advent writing, on the flip side it means you can make your own rules for it.

Strange as it sounds, sometimes before i start work I need a bit of feel good music, so put 'gravity falls' intro theme on loop for a few minutes with headphones prior. I do listen to other music in mornings like crazy by seal or dream by cranberries. Sometimes enthusiasm just needs that bit of a kickstart.

Quite interested in seeing Jojo rabbit, quite a daring satitre, and to be honest i nearly choked on my drink when watching the trailer and seeing kid's imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler! I'll say that Taika Waititi is fearless when taking risks, directing a ww2 satire and playing as well as the facist leader himself that one would think this was a scheme conducted by the producers film. It could easily had been a career killer but is already on expected list to be nominated for Oscars. Besides the Joker movie, there hasn't been much else that interested me this year. Come to think of it the only film I bothered to see in cinema was endgame and saw it on midnight release.

Just to update i finally completed the mini comic and will be carrying on the second chapter shortly in the new year but this would had been what Amir would had seen if it weren't paused. Even though it's a mini comic it's more aimed for my friend faleg and his youtube channel of said name as i'm telling a propganda short whilst useing his customized xcom 2 characters (save the overwatch character i just wanted to throw a reference) The last page isn't part of the comic and is tailor made at faleg's current LP where my character is reborn as a traitor. (yes dan texan is me +20 years and exaggeration of beard!) Edit 2019: Labelled under subcomic 'Adventgers 2' the Advent cartoon inshow. Despite being the first mini comic it's not the first within it's own continuity. (Final page was removed as it was tailor suited for faleg's 'Let's play xcom' series at the time. Here is link below if you wish to see. https://www.deviantart.com/thebritwriter/art/Faleg-LP-The-Adventgers-2-Final-page-651004722