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

> Xorithe and East should stay behind. East is in critical condition and needs the doc to take care of her (and Xorithe doesn't strike me as the beast wrangling type anyway)
> Actually can we see Xorithe's character sheet? It would help to know what his strengths and weaknesses are

> "We heard this was the place to go to get in touch with one's wild side, and we're here to do just that. That and we were stranded in space by a pair of escaped criminals who threatened to kill us and we need a break from all that."

> Hey Helios, since we're kinda knee-deep in Radical stuff at this point, could you explain more about how this card game works? What happens if some hot-blooded hooligan challenges us to a duel?

let's send clay, easty, and xorithe! also i guess we should declare the cards, we do have the papers for them right? so we may as well cause it'd prob cause problems if they find them and think "hm why didn't they declare this"

EDIT: bananas too

Seconding this!

Before we send Easty out, let's use the Axolotl Juice on her. If she doesn't recover in time though, let's just not send her out.

Also play the Pyramid Scheme card now. I dont see how this could possibly have any downsides.

The tailmic is the one that got hurt, it's safe to send out East. East has 0 luck, but a tailmic has 4. The way the luck rolls behaved was for a 4 luck character, and east has been silent this whole time.

>East: Ask what happened to your tailmic.

Let's send out Clay(is the captain), East(Cause they're a notail), and Glirny(is a beast tamer). Let's take the pesticides, some weapons and the capture creature cage.

i guess we should declare the cards, we do have the papers for them right? so we may as well cause it'd prob cause problems if they find them and think "hm why didn't they declare this"

EDIT: bananas too

Seconding this!

Before we send Easty out, let's use the Axolotl Juice on her. If she doesn't recover in time though, let's just not send her out.

EDIT: I know this is probably Easty's tailmic, but it doesn't hurt to cover our bases in case it isn't.

The tailmic is the one that got hurt, it's safe to send out East. East has 0 luck, but a tailmic has 4. The way the luck rolls behaved was for a 4 luck character, and east has been silent this whole time.

>East: Ask what happened to your tailmic.

Let's send out Clay(is the captain), East(Cause they're a notail), and Glirny(is a beast tamer). Let's take the pesticides, some weapons and the capture creature cage.

> Xorithe and East should stay behind. East is in critical condition and needs the doc to take care of her (and Xorithe doesn't strike me as the beast wrangling type anyway)
> Actually can we see Xorithe's character sheet? It would help to know what his strengths and weaknesses are

> Give the deck of cards to Clay
> "We heard this was the place to go to get in touch with one's wild side, and we're here to do just that. That and we were stranded in space by a pair of escaped criminals who threatened to kill us and we need a break from all that."

> Hey Helios, since we're kinda knee-deep in Radical stuff at this point, could you explain more about how this card game works? What happens if some hot-blooded hooligan challenges us to a duel?

>Pesticide is for bugs!
>Get all your documentation in order and MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE VALENTINE
>Purpose: Get supplies and do anything else necessary for the crew's safe passage to Fortuna

>Don't use the Infectious Shadow yet, but include in the documentation under the list of things that would be illegal if we didn't have papers for them.

Clay/Valentine, Sbat, and Belladonna

also write "bananas"

Oh, if anyone would like to know, Sbat has a cosmodex, might be helpful with the animals!

Also does anyone wanna use Axolotl Juice on E-457 or whoever is injured?

Hey guys! Gimeurcookie's internet is currently personally banning them from accessing Eagle-Time, so I volunteered to come here in their stead. We just need a vote to see whether everyone wants to use the Axolotl Juice on E-457 or not.

use it!

>Drink. The. Juice. Drink. The. Juice.

>drink!

>DRINK SOME J U I C E BABEY!!!

>Soups on baby.

> We shall use our healing liquid.

>down the hatch

>I vote we let E-457 decide whether to use it. On Songiprovo. Not themselves. Because they're not the injured one. Easty should not drink any juice.

Oh, if anyone would like to know, Sbat has a cosmodex, might be helpful with the animals!

Also does anyone wanna use Axolotl Juice on E-457 or whoever is injured?

I'm voting to use the juice, and have Sbat give the cosmosdex to Clay if possible

slurp

use it on songi

Happy birthday Fortuna

Every year we are greeted with something truly special.

A new year of life.

In our youth, we are congratulated for surviving another year in this world, as if everyone were expecting our death to steal us early from this life.

It is then that one year something strange shall happen. You will wake up and find it utterly normal despite an expectation of excitement.

You don't mention it to anyone.

They must have something in store, and you don't want to ruin it.

You go about your day, waiting for the moment to come, but as the light leeches out of the sky, nothing happens.

Did you get the date wrong? No, you checked it all throughout the day, you know that today is it! The special day, the one that only happens once a year.

You reach out to someone and make a remark, a little nudge to remind the person of what you expected today to be like. They perk up, pat you on the back, and congratulate you on another day of living before heading back to what they were doing.

Last year you had a cake and candles. Everyone came over last year.

The year before that the same.

And even before that.

But now your birthday is nothing more than a footnote. There is no cake.

No party.

Nothing but a simple "Happy birthday" from those who remember.

The first time this happens to you, it's not just a disappointment.

It's a tragedy.

Happy birthday, Fortuna.

Unfortunately, I'm in the middle of moving around, so Fortuna's birthday was pretty low on my list of things to plan for. As such all I could have the time to do was write a poem and this.

Don't worry Fortuna loves tragic poems.

Still, a congratulation for surviving five years on the internet is in order for this non physical comic, definitely with all the troubles that smashed their way into this year. Let's hope next year goes better so that Fortuna (And the Cosmosdex) can afford to plan their own birthday party next year!

So we're five years in, what can we expect next?

In Comics
The redux: The redux is basically done, and I am only awaiting a few assets before I post up the pages. Once that's done the TWO new intermissions being added to the comic can be finished up and shown to the world!

Fortuna: I don't know what to put here other than "It will definitely keep updating." If there's one thing Fortuna can do it is update.

Speedtuna: Now that work is starting to clear up it's very likely that soon Patreon will be able to vote for streams once again, and thus a chance for Speedtuna to come back! Speedtuna will also be hopefully mirrored to the site this year.

Notail Simulator: As we approach adulthood in notail quest we come to the point where we will be able to move it to its own section in the Cosmosdex website, just like with speedtuna.


In the dex
Clockworks: Yes, hopefully, this year we'll have a clockwork invasion kick into the scene. By far one of the most requested sections, and it's going to come soon!

New species, New application sections: As you might have already seen the application sections have been considerably upgraded, allowing for applications to pass by smoothly through the system, and more importantly, allow editing of apps after they have been submitted! Also, species applications will be opening for everyone on Halloween day so get excited!

Cosmosdex patrons and a tutorial for the Cosmosdex: Did you ever want to pick a patron for the Cosmosdex and then go through a tutorial of it to teach you the essential species, concepts, and lore for the Cosmosdex?

N-No? Really? No, you've really never considered or wanted something like that? Well shit. You're getting it anyway sometime this year.

History section: I will continue to pretend it doesn't exist due to its enormous workload!


I thank you all for following and supporting both Fortuna and the Cosmosdex, here's to a new year to do great things! (And sorry about not having the time to plan something for both of their birthdays!)

Also, don't consider the list above a comprehensive list of things that will happen this year. There's always a chance some things may end up dropped in favor of other things and still a chance we might get something else not on this list.

Happy arbitrary time interval!

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> Xorithe: Ask the Lobster notail for information about everything around you before choosing what to do.

>easty: charisma check the cashier for a free ration! don't ask for anything too big, i doubt we'll get away with that much, but like 1-2 free rations is better than 0 free rations. maybe plant since we keep using those up?

> Those posters look interesting, let's have a look see. Seems there's a lot of money to be made here.
> Clay Valentine: Start by introducing yourself to the nearest person (the two-eyed drakon), what brings them here? They must tell us everything they know about this planet.
> Glirny: Get all up in everyone's private business
> Also ask about knives. We could really use one of those.

Edit:
> Dats a cute caborhund
> Valentine: DEMAND information from the receptionist
> East: What's the deal with all these so-called "anomalies?"
> Glirny: Run ahead and greet that dapper fellow in the chameleon mask. That sure is an interesting capture creature, maybe they can give us some creature advice.
> Clay: WE NEED MEAT. WE'RE STARVING. GOSH DANG IT.