I didn’t go anywhere today. I worked on my novel for about an hour and then I drew a sketch of Cleopatra from an image I found on the internet. After a little bit of searching I found that the original illustration was by an artist named Henry Clive. Anyway here’s my attempt at a Cleopatra sketch and a sketch of a camel as a bonus:

It’s been awhile since I posted on here, but I’ve been busy. I beat Midnight Suns, great game. I highly recommend it. I got the furthest I’ve ever been in Elden Ring. I finally made it inside the capital city. I know it’s not even past the halfway mark, but I think I’m near the starting point for the DLC which should be ready sometime this year, I heard June 21st.

More recently, I started playing Tunic. A game about an anthropomorphic fox that is on a quest to save his mother/God, I’m not quite sure because I’ve only beaten the first big boss. The lore of the game is hidden away in the digital instruction booklet. You recover pages of the booklet on your quest and as you use items and progress in the quest. The Fox language that booklet is written in is decrypted a little at a time. I’m sure there is a way to decrypt it through comparative linguistics, but for the life of me I can’t decipher it. I tried writing down the phrases, but it got too tedious for me so I just went ahead and played the game and relied on the game to decode the booklet as I progressed. Tunic feels like Dark Souls and Zelda: Link’s Awakening combined. Like Dark Souls it has campfires and shortcuts to unlock. The overall aesthetic reminds me of a Zelda game. Also, it made me rage quit after I tried to get to the underground well for the twelfth time only to be shot dead by an automated sentry. If you haven’t played Tunic, go play it.

What games are you playing these days?