the ramble dump

Once every six months or so, something amazing happens. A new Starcustard chapter is published.

Yep, there are now five chapters for your eating, and the fifth is completely new. There's a lot of new stuff in this chapter. A lot of stage-setting, so new locations and new characters.

There's also a little something extra in, strangely enough, the Starcustard Extras section.

Starcustard is...a bit weird. It's a tongue-in-cheek Universe with skateboarding slugs and talking fish and random nouns prefixed with 'space' (spacesheep, spacelounge, etc), but at times it can be incredibly dark and brutal. I won't spoil it for those who haven't yet read it, but there are quite a few rather unpleasant things that happen. And somehow, this fairytale-in-the-future idea we had over a year and a half ago has become something where even decisions on minor things have a massive impact on everything else, and even the more comical characters have depth.

Well, or so we hope.

Also this update: the Sketchbook is up, although there's nothing new in it, and so is the second chapter of The Aberration. The TV show and subsequent geriatric brawl are gone, and the narrative eye now focuses on smaller things. The plot plays out in pretty much the same way as it did in the old version, but there's still a lot that has changed.

And now I have to get back to work. Day 3 promises the best update yet, but only if I can get it done on time.

Labels: the aberration, the launch

# posted by Chris @ 9:56 PM