[Fortuna]: Luck depends on no one....right? (4/3)

WE'RE COMING BACK BABY
LIVE UPDATE JULY 29 (FRIDAY) AT 7PM EST
(likely anyway)

Hey! It's been awhile but we're finally coming back! Friday July 29 7pm EST, we'll be having an update, and then a live update right afterwards! After that Fortuna will be back to updating as normal as my projects will be finished! After that it's all moving, and job finding and interviews but you get the jist of it, at least my home time will be semi free from work!

Right now I'm certain that July 29 will be a perfect day but please do check back here on the 28th to see if I have to change the date to the 30th! I want to say it's unlikely because I have almost all the assets done but we know how that goes.

What will we be doing at the stream?

- There's going to be a normal update. It's 35 pages long.

- Then we're going to have a live update. While it's likely not going to be as huge and long as our 115 page live update it'll likely take a few hours to do.

- There will be a short intermission in the middle of the live update for the COSMOSDEX RAFFLE! Please click the spoilers for ticket list/# and also to hear about the prizes! Winners will be drawn via fortuna style rolls. Everyone who submitted at least 2 apps will automatically win a very quick fortuna related doodle, unless they win a bigger prize.

- Then we'll get back to the live update and finish it off!

- I might do some of the doodles live and right there.


TICKET LIST AND PRIZES!

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We will be randomly drawing for 2 winners
(or 3 I'll see if I'll have time to take on 3 people as I have a trip a few days after this event)

The winners will be able to pick one of these 4 prizes!
1. Tiny animated sprite
2. Fortuna style talk sprite
3. 12 Fortuna character buttons shipped to them.
4. Pick 3 species and get art for them done, thus replacing their placeholder ? image in the cosmosdex.



The current ticket list is (Fellow not counted as Fellow automatically gets a prize)


1. Klannec [Hichico]
2. Malrus [Hichico]
3. Quelan [Hichico]
4. Eeemen [Hichico]
5. Helixian [Hichico]

6. Husse [awkwardcarapace]
7. Mite [awkwardcarapace]
8. Spiraji [awkwardcarapace]

9. Prunus [Wheat]
10. L-Tariok [Wheat]
11. Aoeyoi'ie [Wheat]

12. Scretsen [TangledAlmond]
13. The Fog [TangledAlmond]
14. Tockhau [TangledAlmond]



15. Weñar [a52]
16. Plague Doctor [a52]

17. Plantolk [CrimsonMage]
18. Skarv [CrimsonMage]


19. Oomn [SirBlizz98]
20. Vaeri [SirBlizz98]

21. Zektron [Kíeros]
22. Hyuran [Kíeros]


23. Kuppa [nonexistentPumpkin]
24. Delphik [nonexistentPumpkin]

25. Pagepoh [BB]
26. Geptad [Captain]
27. Mialcsem [Apo11o]
28. Isment [Ian]


Winners!
25. Angel [butterfliesDance]
16. Gondii [GreenMeanZombieQueen]
20. Vaeri [SirBlizz98]


Doodle winners!
nonexistentPumpkin, Kíeros, CrimsonMage, TangledAlmond, a52, Wheat, awkwardcarapace, and Hichico!

So make sure to check back here on the 28th for more info and a teaser!


For now take this very small and "totally serious" teaser.

Huzzah! My rechecking the thread paid off! Excited for more updates :)

14/10 would have the very handy Nikki and Nikki again.

Yay! News for an amazing adventure! Looking forward to more!

Updaaates! Is it really happening? Are all of the dead adventures of the Olden Times reviving, bringing back with them a crispy, cinnamon / strawberry new update smell?

I will always talk to Nikki and Nikki's son, nothing will stop me.

Live update confirmed for tomorrow at 7pm est!

I like Nikki on general principles and not just because I'm a robot.

Manifesto (There's a text version in a few panels)

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Text Version of the manifesto

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Piss-take on Timelessness

1. To be protected from the onslaught of time, one must realize that time innt real. It is an invention, a fib, a fallacious panacea created to sell tonic water and launch ships in circles. To be protected from the Dali Blight, one must take into their whole sense of being the idea and superreality which is timelessness. Cut off the hands of the watch without making a motion. If forced to walk, do so not forwards or backwards, but in a new synthesis of forwards and backwards. If not that, then sideways like a crab—let your cancer spread from one's spot in the sand. Speak out of turn. Turn out of speak. Confound and befuddle the on-watching Time and it will give up the ghost that it is, accepting the non-existence which gives truth to its lie.

2. Preheat hotbox to 1500°Ll. Grease your pan.

8. Disband all need for order. A line goes thisaway and thataway and it is still a line, no? Perhaps cut it up a bit? You will still get the sense of linitude, but now without being diminished by the obligation of continuum. You are not defined by your order, by your rank, by your place. You are defined by you, an inextinguishable essence which cannot be seen or felt by the great movers and shakers and organizers and bunko gamers and generals and savants and presidents and middle managers and bottom managers and mercenary lizards and directors and critics and movie ushers and control freaks and stubborn writhing masses of ooze plus tentacle plus gray matter and garbage pickers and inventory takers and trash compactors of these worlds.

10. Take down any calendars you have. Tackle them ruthlessly. Wrestle them to the ground, smother them in the mud, and tear their composite squares bit from bit. Reassemble the pieces into a time-cube, a time-pentahedron, a time-dodecahedron, a time-centahedron, a time-megahedron, or what have you. Now roll the die. This is your new way of reckoning events.

2. Put head in hotbox. Let bake for seven parts of non-time.

5. Cancel all appointments. If someone wishes to see you, simply be in their presence. One doesn't need to be reminded to coincide with others; there are many others. If others won't make time for you, you are dispensable to time. If you make yourself indispensible through the practicing of timelessness, you can be as boisterous and demanding as you like. No one will have the courage to refuse you, much less criticize you to your face. They may moan behind your back, but how does that affect you? I know you are reading this.

3. Yeu. A'eaeoé Eieuouaÿe.

12. Cancel the appointment with death. One cannot die if there is no final breath. Idiots who die only do so because they forget this vital fact, and their vitals cease because they consciously decide at some point to make a final breath. Following the stream of time, they stop by the creekbed at some point, and think to themselves, "Hmm, fancy time to not breathe." But not me. I am forever. I will live forever

21. U aí ee Öea'olla. Ío aieo, ío aie'a ello, ee ío eieueOue. Ío ell'ai-o aíe ee aiuelle— y. O e o üo'o. O'oe eaeoU'i aí eo—elláo, ía ellüe'e... ío eaoïo ee Oeieuoí'e—e eyo'o oe ué y.

A. ⫗ ⤏ ⫘ ⤏ ⫖⩐⫕

$$. Ooue baby yeah

14. Interrupt all and sundry. Especially, interrupt the timekeepers, overseers, and anyone else whose function is to make things more efficient. Stick your third grabber in their gaping, useless food hole. Slide it in and out a few times and scramble all over their u'uioy-o for good unmeasure. Be as messy and profane as possible as you truly waste their time. And as you finish their coronation, tell them they have fallen out of sync. You will not be lying.

22. Remove head from hotbox. Garnish self with cream. Spread with soil. Serve on platter of flattened aspirations as you grow a tree from your navel.

0. Forget everything you have read up to this point. Memory depends on the concept of thought ordered in time. Do not think. Act. Act and act and continue to act, and you will continue in action like the young do, unimpeded by chromata and splegmata and one with nothing.




document printed with mark 7 laze-oh printer! "Now that's what I call a document."




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1 as well. (scrawled in margin) I have numerous different enumerations on the way one transitions from time-dependence to the incorporation of timelessness into one's being, but I will not list it in this space, as there is no time for that here. Consult "Piss-take for a Redshift" for specifics. All one needs to know here is that one does not make the personal transition from time to untime instantaneously (despite the transition seeming instantaneous to an outside observer). Instead, one undergoes a graduated severing from time which pronounces itself in various experienced states of increasingly "darkening" time phases.
The enduring self is propelled at a perceptive escape velocity away from its native white time at such a trajectory that it can ride the "redshifts" of other perceived states of time, and use gravity assists to wind its way around red time, to blueviolet Time, to either brown or grey time, to the unstable black time all in succession; and finally to the murky, actively-collapsing clear time, which is the final time one undergoes before lasping into untime.
Without the assistance of these intermediate states to slingshot around, one may propel themselves into void timespace, which probably just a fancy way to self-annihilate your matter (I say probably because it's not like there's any way to tell where one goes). Anyway this whole aside is simply a formalized, stilted and probably useless heuretic for the idea that essentially, you must annihilate the past and find a way to do so without destroying your current self. I am simply imitating the blathering, self-aggrandizing style of our time's philosophers and anyone else who would label a bunch of words as "Meditation on ___". Look, I told you there was no time for this here but you continued anyway, you mega-shithead!!!




12.2. Die a couple times, recreationally, just to awareify yourself to the feeling of encroaching death so you know what to avoid. I've made myself die <or something> three times, so you can trust me on this shit :)

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Credit to writing the manifesto goes to Wheat!

LIVE UPDATE AT 7:15PM TODAY
That's in 1 hour and 15 minutes from this post!

Go to this link when it's time.

"Text Version of the manifesto"
*Twists neck back on straight* Well, that's convenient.

> Sure. If he says anything absolutely outrageous, you could probably just partially block him out.

Hey there! We had a good stream, I believe we made about 50 panels of text which is great! I will be posting the update sometime tomorrow, in the evening or night!

Right now I would like to congratulate our main winners

25. Angel [butterfliesDance]
16. Gondii [GreenMeanZombieQueen]
20. Vaeri [SirBlizz98]

Main winners win one of 4 prizes!

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The winners will be able to pick one of these 4 prizes!
1. Tiny animated sprite
2. Fortuna style talk sprite
3. 12 Fortuna character buttons shipped to them.
4. Pick 3 species and get art for them done, thus replacing their placeholder ? image in the cosmosdex.

And our doodle winners
nonexistentPumpkin, Kíeros, CrimsonMage, TangledAlmond, a52, Wheat, awkwardcarapace, and Hichico!

Doodle winners win one fortuna related quick doodle! I will be hosting a live stream likely in a few days to do all the doodle rewards. All the main rewards will likely be done anytime after Aug 10th!

Please post what you want as a reward on this topic!

Also next month I will be reopening the patron if I feel we're safe on the time situation so that we can go back to having monthly live update / creation / request streams! I'll have more detail about that soon.

For my doodle I would like Nikki totally alive after being swallowed by the Sun God and flirting with Screens!Apollo.

Hope everyone had a good time at the stream! ^^b

For my doodle, how about a Crew 1 (Kelda & Co.) reunion 5 or 10 years after the events of Game 1?

For my doodle... if downtime counts as fortuna related how about good old captain G.Cookie doing something worth of the title [Florida Man]

if not, Eris being adorable much to athenas chagrin.

>Be Edel.

(By the way, Suggestions are open now!)

>Be Edel.

Edel is doing the same thing he was doing 30 minutes ago. (No need to panel this as it's just a repeat of this.)

Playing around before the party starts.

> Marble: Converse with your crew about anything that still needs to be said, then split up and hit the hay (haha).

"EDIT: Whoops, forgot we don't have control over Latta, changed to Marble."

Perhaps we should >Check Nikki's stats
He could have some new trait because of him dying.

As for transportation, the huge ship near the deco settlement could be an option.
>Cea: ask Sonny to look inside the nearby ship.

> Latta: Trade some of your blood for art lessons as a way of getting back at that Mors for insulting your race's artistic skills.

EDIT: You guys think Athena would break from trying to do "perfect" art?

EDIT: You guys think Athena would break from trying to do "perfect" art?

Athena would just have to tell Latta to make art. But she might not like spending time and blood on just getting back on an NPC.

> Just head on over to see the Horse Bro's house.

>Marble: Ask Nico why there would be a rule like that for them.

EDIT: Whoops, forgot we don't have control over Latta, changed to Marble.