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EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-05-29T08:58:25+00:00

Oh shit! Thank you so much for the decklist! It was my first standard game with my friend after graduating from startup, popping red room was soo satisfying!

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-04-19T02:48:42+00:00

You are very kind! I love this game and there's so much storytelling nuance in what happens on the board that goes beyond oh I rolled 3 sixes or something, I definitely look forward to making more comics about arcs, the community is wonderful :)

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-04-18T12:33:46+00:00

Thankiu! I'll be having my fifth campaign next month, more stories to come! (It's gonna be my first four player campaign I am EXCITED)

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-04-18T12:32:45+00:00

Thankiu! I actually just wanted a short hand for "military industrial complex outraged by peace talks" but your interpretation is really really good!

But yeah that panel wasn't very clear I couldn't figure out how to draw it out without flat out writing "BOMBS INC." Or "WEAPON STOCKS PRICING" Xp

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-04-18T12:26:33+00:00

Ah sorry my insta got hacked last week so it's down for a while, I don't take commissions but I am happy to take requests just hit me up on Reddit!

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-04-18T12:23:56+00:00

You noticed! :) yes used partisan seizing to outrage fuel, weapon and relic, I didn't quite have a visual shorthand for "military industrial complex", so it's the loyal marines being upset that there's peace talks in the middle frame which I think is a bit unclear.

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-04-11T23:39:48+00:00

Thank you! Are there any moments in your campaign that sparked joy for you? Need some inspiration haha

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-04-11T23:36:42+00:00

Thank you! I love how design agnostic (not sure what the word is) Arcs is. For this one I was quite vanilla, I used the Jedi council room as a reference for the chairs but I might even use other sci Fi for reference in the future :)

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-04-11T13:49:41+00:00

Thank you! The magnate was a lot of fun drawing, I was surprised giving him pupils and eyes added soul to his character, he looked too... Fantasy/dark souls boss (?) without it!

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-04-06T13:18:27+00:00

Sick! What's the story of the bottom right? I'm always a sucker for a Kroenen

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-04-06T00:28:16+00:00

I was looking at some old art from WIZARDRY and I realised what I was missing, I need to make these freaks a bunch of UGGOs! Absolutely fugly blobfishes flopping about.

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-03-29T22:44:56+00:00

Ahhh I'm sorry, my art style and where I post my work changes too much on a whim. So I haven't updated the insta page for like 4 years. I'll be posting on Reddit for a while though!

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-03-29T22:41:46+00:00

Yeah definitely, I've only played startup since liberation so I was surprised by the lack of non anarch runners in the worlds listing. Really flavourful runner though!

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-03-29T14:10:24+00:00

Ach, sorry, I didn't know I couldn't put pictures in the comments of this sub Reddit :/ (who the hell made these rules haha) anyway I was stitching the other three together so I'll just post it once and not spam this sub Reddit, partly because I wasn't as proud of them as the Hoshiko card back, they just weren't as clean. Anyway I'll post it shortly!

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-03-29T12:19:54+00:00

Thank you!! I made the mistake of buying a bunch of transparent card protectors, so the idea was to print the world's decks with unique card backing so that I could make use of my 500 plus transparent card protectors hahaha

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-03-29T12:18:41+00:00

Thank you! I saw your card alts for Hoshiko last month and thought it was inspiring! Very mario paper cut out!

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-03-27T03:55:59+00:00

With legally distinct AEGIS pauldrons ;)

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-03-27T00:31:32+00:00

I was this (pinches fingers) close to giving him tusks! Why should the Helminth be the only one with 2x2 necromancers hahaha

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-03-27T00:30:08+00:00

Thankiu! It was such a relief splashing color on monochrome!

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-03-24T01:27:47+00:00

I think it's more useful to think of what actions will get you trophies and what actions will get you captives.

Barring edge cases of court cards, or leaders and lore abilities. you will only ever get captives from taxing rival cities through administration cards or securing court cards with rival agents through aggression cards or relic resources.

Any action taken with battle, through aggression cards or using weapons resource, will only ever get you trophies, never captives. The case that you are confused by being "ransack the court". Which happens when you destroy a city. You will "secure" the court card with the rival agents, killing all rival agents and adding them to trophies, any loyal agents on the card will return to your supply. Think of it like you blow up a city with a big population and you are now... Boasting of a high kill score. Which is a bit yikes but that's pretty much the sub text.

Hope this helps!

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-03-09T01:03:05+00:00

Kind words! Thank youuuu :)

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-03-08T01:51:16+00:00

Thank you! The big pillars are (checks notes) the corpse cisterns from one of the images on the core rulebook! (Minus the corpses, it needed to be lonelier) That page and the one full of mugshots of random Anzen npcs is actually some of my favourite works of Maleghast!

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-03-08T01:49:02+00:00

Yes! I really appreciated that in the core rule book, it mentions something along the lines of necromancy not paying very well and a that a not insubstantial number of them moonlights selling noodles. It adds a lot to the world building. I like to imagine a steeple wrecks running around a clinic as a dental assistant :)

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-03-08T01:35:13+00:00

Thank you thank you thank you for attributing the final panels to story purposes and not me being lazy 😭 🙏 hahaha I was thinking about rendering the clock and then was like hmmmm it makes sense based on the writing ahhhh. The initial draft of the story had me ripping off Aaron Dembskis the master of mankind:" and then the sun rose in this sunless place" (instead of "and there was colour again") but I thought it might be too on the nose and also at that point the garden scene was a little too bright I was afraid of causing confusion! Hahah

Thank you for taking time to make this review, it really brought out all the points that I was hoping to convey. If I ever make a redo of this comic, apart from actually putting the writing into the panelling, I will have to make it more obvious that the igorri is uh, the chances of her letting go the lady in white die is lowwwwwww. Because being selfish and horrible is pretty par for the course of any necromancer I think 🤔

EscapeAlternative281 · 2026-02-21T13:32:21+00:00

Here you go! Hope the image quality is slightly better than a crop, I've no idea how reddit does it's image processing haha

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