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happy valentines day :3
I love the fact that otters are aggressive lil bastards in nature, despite being the cutest little things to a lot people
Hint hint
The pursuit
My take on a tulpa leo
chase would listen to weezer right. right 😭 ??? im not insane ive been trying to figure out if he would or woulldnt for MONTHS
Omg, dude
You are so right how did I never see it before. He even looks the he could be on the blue album cover.
[you are a genius]
My love and life ❤️❤️
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I got so sad last night i visualized myself being with my otter so vividly that i forgot everything bc i thought i was still in a relationship
Draw request from @runawaygel! Based on this post.
Jenna and flynn can be so cruel sometimes
"Well, gotta refuel before I make my way to Prescott Valley. I didn't see this town on my map, but gas is gas." He doesn't realize he's about to enter just as the hysteria hits.
Decided to make a fun little art piece about Echo, my current reading material. However, I kinda have a lot of thoughts about it so far.
I'll keep my dialogue here spoiler-light, and will avoid giving anything important away.
Echo is one of those stories that, as much as I typically detest horror, has completely enthralled me. Not to get to philosophical, but its use of foreshadowing reminds me of a few strong mystery and sci-fi points:
The overall foreshadowing reminds me of solid Arthur Conan Doyle-style. ACD was known for his novels having given you everything you need to solve the mystery long before the characters can. While the mystery isn't solved in each ending, there is a heavy amount of this foreshadowing that is just like ACD. Things mentioned early on that feel like minor statements become important later. For example, swimming is heavily mentioned by Chase early on in TJ's route, and to those who have done the route, they realize why. With Leo, its the trainyard. These are the only routes I've completed so far, but I will be watching for these now when I do the rest.
Another neat note is how each story gives a bit of foreshadowing to each other. In Flynn's route, its mentioned that the railing by Lake Emma wouldn't stop a car from going in. Though I haven't finished Flynn's route yet to see if this is direct foreshadowing, I do remember the car doing exactly this in Leo's route, and it's never mentioned there.
Second is the push for "Man is the Monster", akin to Frankenstein. So far, TJ's route was heavily this (Chase you heathen), and Leo's was from Leo. The use of the monster physically in Leo's is almost unnecessary, as the monster's been with them the whole time. It's a great dive into man is the monster that reminds me of the common scifi tropes that aim to point that out instead of just putting a monster in the way (See Alien and how though the monster is a very real threat, the true monster is the company that keeps sacrificing people to study the alien).
This story is so well written and uses a lot of very-strong scifi writing traits, and I'm excited to continue and analyze these more. Props to The Echo Project for really having some great writers so far!
It feels really weird (and even moreso enthralling!) because I don't live that far from the approximate location Echo should be, not to far away from Prescott. I've even located Lake Alamo, which has a lot of similarities to Lake Emma, though there isn't a nearby settlement that matches Echo's description. I'm tempted to do a quick study of the area, take a weekend and hike around after doing like a week of local research to see what I could find that matches the descriptions of Echo. Maybe make some kind of literary analysis out of the photos and the story itself once I complete all the routes.
Note: I noticed a render error and re-uploaded the fixed version.
Also here's another angle of the Echo Sign piece that I wasn't really happy with as much, but I spent way too much time messing with geometry nodes to make this look at least somewhat passable to not post it.
Note: I realized that there was a render error and the rocks were missing, so I've updated it to fix it.
No new renders today, though I thought I'd let yall know about an update. In those last two Echo render pieces, there was a render error and the larger shot didn't render the rocks. They've both been updated to fix those issues. Enjoy!
The Railroad Tracks
"I heard there was an accident here where a guy got his legs cut off by a train here. And apparently it happened like a hundred years ago, too!" said Civil
"The only accident I'm about to see is you accidentally getting tetanus. Get down from there." replied Lye.
Character-less render and minor spoilers below.
Well, this week I was sick with something like the flu so I had the time to make this render. A couldn't find the image from Echo that inspired me, but I remember it being there.
This scene from Leo's ending was absolutely just heart-stopping for a multitude of reasons. Can't imagine that specific variety of pain and agony, from the event to the next several hours of suffering.
However, I do have to say that the foreshadowing was on point. The novel almost made me think they were about to escape after all the trial and tribulation they had gone through, and then...yikes.
Anyways, I've neglected continuing through Flynn's path, so hopefully I'll soon figure out what horrible thing happens in that one!
Here's the render without Lye and Civ. It makes an okay screensaver.
So how is echo, is it scorching? did you know there a lake? Did you also know that the town had a hysteric past? did you? did you know that?! Did you?!?!
What, next you're gonna tell me that hysteria caused drownings in this lake?
Also as a desert rat (figuratively) that lives only a couple hours from here, the scorching is quite enjoyable! Anyways, imma go take a swim if you want to join.
In hindsight, you probably could have just told me to drive here instead of shipping me, it's like 2 hours from where I live.
Listen closely, I have something to tell you:
I didn't know Echo had good and bad endings for some characters and just thought they each had 1 ending. I thought Leo's bad ending was just the Leo ending.
L: CIV! You've been making fanart of it for months now and haven't even gotten the rest of the way through Flynn's ending! You've literally only completed 2 endings! You can't just talk like you're not still missing most of the other stories!
Don't listen to her. I totally didn't do TJ's route first and thought I had it all figured out from then on.
L: Well maybe if you took a pause off fanart and actually read more of the stories YOU'D ACTUALLY GET MORE MATERIAL TO MAKE FANART OF!
Honestly though, I need more free time to actually do the other routes and see them. I've been so busy I've just been living off my bad Leo and TJ ending knowledge for the last few months.
Don't even get me started on Arches and Smoke Room either.
Civ pleaaase dont go into the mines you dont know who died down there... youll get covered by maggots civ!!! its not safe!!! yeah sure there might be like... Gold, on the second floor, Pass three, left, pass two, left, right, pass one, right, left, left, right, straight. But you really dont want to go there, there are spiders and small children in there, horrific and horrifying.
Caving is fun and totally not dangerous and full of possible encounters with ghastly entities! Why don't you join me and Lye!
Wait, did you say spiders and small children? I'll take the spiders.
L: Please, spiders are the least of your worries. There's only one thing worse than spiders.
A child!
L: No.
hows the mine otter? Did you find what you were looking for? Are you lost? hopelessly so? You can always scream... someonething will eventually find you! If i recall correctly cell service does not work that well underground... and the camera's pick of very strange stuff! like g- gh- Ghooosts!
Yeah, we decided it was a bit dangerous to go too far and get lost so we turned around after a while. But we did find some old mining equipment which was cool!
Lye got really jumpy though at one point after looking in a hole. She refused to let me look at it, but she was acting like she saw a ghost! Which for a necromancer I thought would be rather mundane but whatever it was seemed to spook her!
She's probably playing a prank on me! Yeah, probably a prank!
btw it was good that you got out of the mine when you did, because i heard that there's been a fire in those mines for over like... 5 years or something, dunno if its true but i dont think you wish to be grilled under like... 3 tons of rock. so good job on you and your friend... Also Necro WHAT!?
Huh, getting grilled underground sounds like a bad time. Though we didn't see any fires down there so not sure what you're talking about. Probably a good thing we didn't see what your talking about.
All this talk of getting grilled tho has me hungry now. I wonder if you can grill a burger under rocks...
Also yeah, Lye's a necromancer. I thought bringing her to this haunted place would be a great idea but so far we've seen like nothing spooky!
Lye here. Civ's just blind as a bat. I've spotted several ghastly entities way stronger than I'm willing to deal with and have simply kept us protected on this little 'haunted tour' of his.
To whoever sent him here, I'm taking away your ability to ship otters (which I wonder how you got him past the postal service unless you used illusion magic). He's nearly gotten killed like 5 times since we've been here.
ok so we cant ship you anymore... Teehee... But a necromancer... can they like... revive people... and can those necrorevived people remember their old life and or even have sentience? If so and yes... On the route 65 i need to to dig up a mount of dirt with like... if i recall correctly a stone ontop, and... well... you'll know what to do with it when you find him...
Yes, I'm a necromancer, and yes I can revive people...sometimes.
Technically, the soul is not back, just the body's moving in most of my practice. Lights are on but nobody's home, so to speak. It takes a special ritual to bring a person back to full life with their soul, and it's quite unaffordable (blame the healthcare system).
However, I find that there is a more powerful entity in the area known as 'Echo'. Attempts at reviving anyone here would likely be, not only terribly difficult, but also would probably piss off whatever lives here, and I have no intent to do that.
fun fact echo's spirit has a radius! bad news, the town of echo is at the dead center and its like 100 times bigger than the town in its bloom. btw... do you think you can.... well---- To be perfectly honest it think it would be perfectly good civilEngineering and necromancer experience to fight a extremely powerful---- GODLIKE even---- being!!!! You would learn... So many. Practical Skills ::)))) and Think about it!!!! You would free so many trapped tortured souls!!!! I think!!!! Maybe even... resurrect people if you trap their souls and transfer them to their old bodies???? unless.... Unless you are too scared to get your hands bloody and broken and fractured and and and and? then in that case: coward.
C: Oh uh.....that sounds....like fun....
L: Yeah, fighting a...powerful...godlike entity...sure...for the experience and skills...
L: Oh you know, I think I have to go attend some city meeting or something. Sorry looks like I'm out of time for such shenanigans. Apologies.
C: Yeah, and I think my snake needs to...go on a walk. I have to go...uh...do that.
Being honest though, I'm pretty sure if I was to play Lye's character again in a DND campaign (she was originally my favorite character of a stealthy, wizard, necromancer bureaucrat), the Echo entity/entities would probably be like CR 15 + creatures, which I would not want to fight. Echo's DM seems quite murdery so I don't like my chances.
Think about it:
Mind Control a la Crown of Madness like every turn, possibly controlling other characters or tons of NPCs to fight
Movement speed around 120ft per round or more
Frightening Presence
Long Term Madness-inducing
Not to mention I doubt Echo would give up its dead easily, something akin to Acererak's Death Curse from Tomb of Annihilation. Either that, or its possible to raise the dead, but since the entity gets pretty pissy about secrets being kept, I doubt reviving the souls of Sam Ayers or Syd would result in chill consequences.
L: Civ, we're leaving this place immediately.
C: Right, uh we can do that...as soon as we figure out why my truck won't start.
L: Oh gods.
Oh come on!! Are you going to bail now??? By the by, Echo wont allow people to leave during a HYSTERIA EVENT which is built up over decades with SUF- Suffering? yeah no SUFFERING (like guilt and stuff) and is quickly released within the span of a week or month. So unless its 2015 for whatever reason, it should be well past the HYSTERIA EVENT's build up phase, should still be on cooldown... unless theres a dead gila in the waters!!!! Then the HYSTERIA EVENT never went off and is still primed and ready!!!! Tha'd be really bad! thank god a certain otter decided to come out as bi right? Right? Oh and... incase of the HYSTERIA EVENT going off... Good luck!!!! Nobody will come to help you!!!! Not even your closest allies!!!! yknow now that i think about it if you defeat whatever godthing that resides in echo.... you can probs enslave it to produce free energy! I mean you can teleport with it!!!! Oooh.... cut it up into bits and turn the hysteria into better vr specs.... but it isnt even physical (I think, unless its a large mound of flesh at the very bottom of those caverns) so my dreams are dashed, No national flesh pits for us lowly folk.... what was i talking about again????
Hey Lye, is it just me, or does this Echo place kinda have a bad vibe? Like, I feel like we're always just a few steps away from some kinda horrible fate or going insane.
*Lye: actively restraining herself from strangling the blind otter*
Also surprise! Some of the improvements are visible now! New outfits and the updated pads are just the start, and now Lye looks less ... crinkly.