Breaking the silence!

I have been silent for a few days now. There are a few reasons for this. Firstly, I feel that posting on dA is not giving the same kind of response it used to. Before my major silence a little while back, I felt like I was having a conversation. Now, I feel I'm mostly just doing show-and-tell. I know that is what dA is actually for, showing off your work, but I think I got more into the conversations than the mere posting. I miss that.

Second, and more positive, I am finally getting into the reboot of The Embassy! The game has shifted to a really high gear, with weird new methods to portray not just a universe, but a universe over time. 'Point clouds' and real scientific equations are slowly beginning to form the basis of it. Sadly, it doesn't look like much. I am considering a video series instead, so that people can at least see things move. I will make a note when and if that happens.

And third, I am writing stories again. I have no idea what will be brought from the old version of Ida's adventures (I have some ideas what won't, though), but the first new story is being written, essentially Ida's first adventure after having created / taken over The Embassy. It's an ecopunk horror novella, at 5000 words now and expected to tick in at about 15000 words in the end.

And finally, with the death of yet another kitten (Egon got run over in broad daylight by someone not watching the road), I have been taking a long hard look at some things. None of the two remaining cats (little Dylan and my cousin's old cat Big Charlie) are ever going to run outside freely again. I can loose no more. And I have decided to join the work of a local animal help group and set my house up as kind of a halfway home for abandoned animals, a place that they can live until hopefully adopted (and if not adopted, as long as they need to). It's a big step for me, and will take a lot of my attention, but I am still hard at work on the project, no worries...