(I have finished updating the site images, and I am now re-reading the story to catch any errors I missed and prepare for the next arc. I'll continue with the graphic format soon, but here's a text entry for now.)
When Chax fed, he could often choose to enter the moment entirely and give his mind over to the pleasure of pure ingestion. But journeying with Aun gave him much to consider, and so he let his body do what was required as he considered what was to come.
Though this was not his fight, he found himself looking forward to the coming battle. If the fate of the Ancestors meant far less to him than to Aun, Chax still found himself curious about the unprecedented creatures that lay deep in the station, which could still strike at their foes even after they died.
He wished that the Craisht was with him still; it must surely have seen something like these creatures before and could advise him. But it might also instruct him to decline this battle. Chax knew that sometimes flight was the best strategy, but his instincts cried out for the trying of his skill against a worthy foe. Perhaps he had not been fighting enough Strasmins, and his natural call to combat was expressing itself however it could? Whatever the explanation, the Khirrik was sating his hunger but not his bloodlust.
And whatever the station was, friend in need of aid or foe luring travelers to their doom, Chax meant to stand by Aun.
4 comments:
Hamachisn't, in case you didn't see what I replied before: "I didn't mean the type of graphics, I just mean illustrations rather than full comics."
BiggerJ -- I'm not sure I understand how you mean "illustrations rather than full comics". J has a set of shapes that he sticks together, almost like Colorforms (if you remember that toy) but the shapes are allowed to shrink and grow, as long as they keep the same proportions, and they're not allowed to overlap by more than a tiny bit. Chax is that odd shape because that's one of the shapes that J ended up with when he cut apart one big shape into all these smaller ones. It's a rather big piece and, with that form, if he didn't make it a character there's probably not a whole lot else he could have done with it.
I'm rather surprised how well he's done, under such stringent rules he set for himself before starting.
--H
I wasn't referring to the art style at all. I meant single pictures (as opposed to multi-panel comics) to go with his text posts, instead of just daunting walls of text with no illustrations (because he was considering only doing text posts until the end of the comic).
BiggerJ -- Oh, gotcha! That's a good idea; breaking the text up like that would make it easier to read.
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