My first AR sequence

[Klatuk4u]

Manga has that effect on comics. Its looking good. Is he an assasin, or like an agent, or is he just a monster?

[Saxon]

He's a prisoner. He was sentenced to death for 'crimes against sentient beings'. That ship was taking him to the planet where he would be executed - the atmosphere causes Shadow Human's internal organs to explode for some unknown reason. Useful for executing prisoners, though.

However, as you can see by the 3rd pic (which actually comes before the other two - something important happens between them) he's not about to go quietly.

[Klatuk4u]

A prisoner, what are his skills/strengths? What about Maria's story? After all she is the one that first caught my attention. Does she get regressed in the story? That is if you don't mind talking about it.

[Saxon]

Well, that hand of his - the robotic one, the claws can fold back 180 degrees to reveal a gun barrel that can fire multiple types of bullets - or genetics altering effects. The only problem with it is that it's kinda damaged, so he can't control what fires out of it. Also, due to the mutated dragon head, he is able to breathe fire (it's not really fire - it's a chemical mix of magnesium and phosphorus - the result being a huge ball of liquid fire.)

(This next part's kinda a spoiler, so if you don't want to ruin the comic, don't read it xp)
He and Maria were both caught in the middle of breaking into a really, really important government building. We're talking the white house of the planet here. He was sentenced to death (He'd had a chain of convictions) wheras Maria was simply sentenced to being re-birthed. Most punishments on their planet involve simply aging the criminal to the amount of time they would have spent in prison - however, in certain cases, they regress the criminal back to a baby, wipe their mind, and place them with a strict family to try to live their life again. Although this is heavily criticized by the public and most churches, the government do it anyway.

He doesn't know that they will be doing it to Maria (it takes about six months to go through the paperwork), but he does know she wasn't sentenced to death - and it's inevitable they are going to cross paths again. I haven't quite got round to how yet - there's a big problem between them crossing paths again, you see, but I won't spoil it.

[Klatuk4u]

Awesome! can't wait to see/read about it. I will work on the next two pictures tommorrow. Tonight I think I will log another few hours on Dawn of War. I will see how much I can get done.

[Saxon]

Ah, Dawn of War. I always meant to try that - but I heard it was more based around individual men in the units, rather than just ordering a whole group of soldiers to attack.

I'm currently playing Rome Total War (when I'm not playing FPSes) It's so good, I've even managed to get a friend of mine who hasn't played any games in years to try it!

[Klatuk4u]

Dawn of war is totally about commanding squads, so your armies get pretty big. Rome TW kicks butt by the way.

[Saxon]

Squads, eh? So, does it work like Rome TW then, in that you command the whole units? I played a LotR strategy game, once, but it was based around individual men. You'd have like, Aragorn, and then you'd get some generic men to help him - but you could select them one by one. Very clever, of course, but kind of hard to keep track of everything.

[Klatuk4u]

In Dawn of war you build squads, who can have extra men assigned to them, and have upgrades paid for on the spot. The best description I can give is that its like Starcraft meets Battle for Middle Earth. So yes it is closer to Rome than warcraft, but still fluid, and fast like Warcraft. You can have pretty big forces, with vehicles, artillery. Seven races to choose from, if you buy the first game, and both expansions(about sixty U.S. dollars for all three). The best part is there are still three more races on the way out. God I love Warhammer 40K.

[Saxon]

It's just typical of my luck that they haven't released the Tyranids out for it yet.

Then again, since you can 'mutate' some of the units to give them boosted stats in the real game, it'd probably be a bit difficult to pull off - especially if you gave wings to, say, a Hive Tyrant or something.

[Klatuk4u]

You would think it would be difficult, but the game is designed well enough to actually allow biomorphs. The possed Chaos Space Marines in the game are a perfect example. Feed the great devourer.

[Klatuk4u]

Ok I have the first picture of Weru Saxon. I have posted it in your request page. I will have the TG picture up there either later tonight, or tommorow. I also have a little bit of the Eliza picture started. I don't know when I will have it done though.