And that’s a wrap for the first night at the Stranded Inn Time hotel, and the start of the second day! This update was also in time for the end of the year!
This is a silly episode that sets up the next day, but reveals some more character details! Aurora re-appears after a long absence; she was last seen in episode 7.5, and she knows Catherine!
This episode adapts pages 163-167 of the previous comic version with extra panels to space out scenes and recap events from episodes 20-23; most of the 3D backgrounds were modeled with Blender, but the last 2 at the end of the episode were modeled with Infini-D 3.0. I haven't used it in a while!
Episode 23 was from around the start of this year. I couldn't finish 10 episodes this year but I'm happy that I learned so much about using Blender during this year that helped me with modeling and designing backgrounds. Designing rooms takes time upfront but being able to render backgrounds at different angles depending on what is needed has saved time later on!
I reposted this because there was a blooper with the original that I forgot about until I posted the episode! Catherine didn't appear behind the screen when she was supposed to in two of the panels. I was in a rush to finish and post this by the end of the year that I missed that, but they've been corrected now! 😅
Renegade Midnight Conductor is a recruiter for the Magical Renegades, a faction of eccentric mages who are opponents to "the Magestablishment" for using a newer, experimental style of magical weaponry that bypasses the Magestablishment's bureaucracy!
She was a time traveler who left the Academy for Time Travel before she graduated, and is now a fugitive. She believed their rules were too limiting, and time travel can be used to set things right.
She went back to 1884 to meet Susana, a human who would become a great historical figure in the events that were to follow. Susana joined the Magical Renegades as Renegade Liberty, and stopped a takeover, but the magic that they promoted fell into the hands of Renegade Midnight Conductor's rival, another rogue time traveler who used power to begin taking over space-time! With one of the four superweapons under her control, this rival would be formidable to any opposition!
The rival caused an incident that left a group of people stranded in 1887, under her rule, in a bizarre anachronistic timeline just as "The Great Power Struggle" is about to happen again! Some of the stranded people are just trying to survive while they wait for space-time to be restored, but others have their eyes on joining one of these factions and see opportunities for heroism, fame, wealth or power ahead!
Follow the tale of the Magical Renegades as they seek more recruits, and try to work together! However, raw power isn't everything. Sometimes, they must think outside of the box even if it means going against commonsense!
Genres: Action/Comedy/Drama/Fantasy/Magical girl
Check out the blog and site for extra drawings, stories and commentary! When I can't publish episodes weekly, there are still weekly updates such as WIPs and more supplementary material!
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