“Same Place, Different Universe” #Webnovel Chapter 8
📄 https://synergyeclipse30.neocities.org/operating-superstars/stories/SPDU_chapter8
Title: Lay It on Us, Marcia. What Happened?
Contrasting with the previous chapter, this one starts off revealing a serious #Worldbuilding detail, but leads into a silly scene. Ruby appeared before in “System Time Reset...” offering to help Marcia, and here she appears again offering to help, but also being nosy. Kiah also joins in; she and Ruby have skills as detectives, and they wonder what happened with Marcia the last night:
"Oooh-- What's this?" Kiah asked eagerly. She approached more closely. "Did I miss something?"
"You know there's a fine line between being detectives and just being nosy." Marcia flatly said.
"Being nosy is sometimes part of a detective's job." Ruby said with a chuckle.
"Is there something going on that's a threat to your well-being, or the team?" Kiah asked, taking another step closer towards Marcia and sounding more serious.
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As I continued the #Illustration of Ruby, I made an #ArtNouveau inspired background for it since the gradient shading reminded me of Art Nouveau and it’s been a long time since I drew anything in that style that it called out to me again! The larger background is based on the fruit iMac colors and the smaller one is based on one of Mac OS 9's flower-themed wallpapers.
The illustration of Marcia and Regina was a tricky one though 3D modeling the references for their poses helped so much.
This chapter is a shorter one, and I finished updating the project wiki with information from it.
#MastoArt