August Announcements

Well, it’s official. I’ve utterly outgrown the old format. I’m definitely determined to not only start writing Decadent Angels in prose format instead of poetry, but to also convert the previous episodes from poetry to prose.

Me being me, I’m highly likely to create extended cuts for the earliest installments of the story as I write up the conversions.

Since I got me one of them Nook e-readers last week, I’ve had this fierce urge to start work on prepping Decadent Angels to release as e-books, as well as in print.

Also, today I updated the look of this blog. Yay, now it matches the main Bent Realm site much better. I also included my 1st whack at an illustrated header for it. About damn time on that.

Today I also started a Decadent Angels shop via Zazzle. Right now it’s just got one t-shirt in it but I’ve definitely got ideas for other items brewing in my noggin.

Hurdles Slaughtered & Hybrid Mix Assimilated

Well 2010 was more of bust for productivity than I would have liked. Still got cowloads of stuff done. This year will be even better. What with the training wheels getting to come off.

Had a major break through in my organization process in December, which drastically reduces the amount of time spent hunting down specific items needed for a project. This last week, better known as the 1st week of the year, I tried out a new version of my schedule & it is working so much better. Which of course means more time freed up to work on Decadent Angels!

Also, I got a pen & tablet for Christmas which came with a better copy of photoshop. Yes, yes  art supplies that tis, but they also have major implications for Decadent Angels too. In designing merch for it, in finishing the title font image for the top of this blog – pretty the place up, and it too saves time. Time that can be applied to projects like this one.

Just spent an hour working on DA up in my art studio. And I managed to

12. 1 – Threshold Avoidance

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..the flesh of the dead, fresh...
That thought,
Chilling me to my core
Echoing through my tenuous grip on consciousness
Eliciting bile to rise from the dregs of my hollow empty stomach
I began to dry heave,
Though as tremble-y as I'd been up to this point
I doubt any of those present noticed the difference
Sick dread throbbing and growing, I began to feel desperate
Violent thoughts and images filled my mind,
Urges to commit the foulest of atrocities
Darkened visions of cleaving all in my path into bloody puddles of carnage,
My perma-rage brewing just below the surface of my pale skin,
The diaphanous blue tint sparking like static electricity,
Fury simmering, swirling, rising,
Forming slick beaded rivulets of sweat,
All clinging to my fevered skin
Like the cold dead fingers of the newly deceased men I would soon have to eat

Arc 12

With Arc 12 Decadent Angels moves fully into a different approach to breaking down story segments. Most episodes from this point forward are to be set into arcs with each arc likely having more than one section or episode. I realize that may be confusing or sound like mere semantics, however it allows me more room to flesh out scenes of the series, to address important things that might otherwise be skipped if I continued doing the series as the first many parts had been done.

Arc 12- The Flesh of the Dead, Fresh
The title is taken from the last line in episode 11.

I wrote out a basic plot for 12, then sectioned it off into … sections. The plot for 12 was done in November 2008, very quickly. Then that December

11- Enter the Witch - Decadent Angels

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My eyes sealed shut, I inexorably came to,
Hunger burning through my system
Like a gasoline tanker in a 15 car pile up,
The poison echoing through my nerve endings,
An unnerving, fully weakened, bloated, floating, spine-tingling sensation;

Azrael had summoned a witch, "a wild card" he'd said,
That did not bode well at all,
My salvation in a gambling toss of the dice,

Preview, Brief: 11 – Enter the Witch

With the unexpected April delays, the posting of Decadent Angels parts 11- 12.2 got pushed back. 11 will be up very soon, but I thought I’d like to give a little taste of what’s to come in it. Also I hope to put little previews like this up with each installment of the series, including an update. Extra features and supplementary content is expected to fill out most months a bit more evenly from now on. Episodes 1- 12.1 are re-posts, so with 12.2 I expect to go a little more monthly with the episode releases, or roughly about every 5 weeks. My schedule and plans do not allow for it to be more frequent. Art is also expected to begin coming out for DA this year.

Preview
As Gillian's hunger approaches a dangerous threshold, Azrael summons a witch to diagnose her species of undead & to seek an antidote to the poison that's apparently also tweaking her system hard. So enters the beauteous witch Astromena (who will play a significant role in the series), is it just me or is she not playing with a full deck?

A brief Preview of upcoming titles

 

Upcoming pre-hiatus episodes are:

• 11 – Enter the Witch
• 12.1 (see below)

Part 12 is a five part arc called The Flesh of the Dead, Fresh. And the sections are as follows:

• 12. 1 – Threshold Avoidance
• 12. 2 – Akashic Daytrip
• 12. 3 – Dreamscape Excursion
• 12. 4 – The Siren Oracle’s Reading
• 12. 5 – Undead Muncherie
  
  
  
  11 – Enter the Witch
  
  A new character, the witch Astromena enters the series. She will be a regular.
  
  
  12 The Flesh of the Dead, Fresh
  arc
  
  I’ll reveal more about arc 12 after 11 posts. Gillian’s condition becomes critical, and the thing that she needs to avoid crossing a dark threshold may arrive too late. She is pulled on an unexpected excursion that reveals some interesting developments.
  
  12. 1 – Threshold Avoidance
  
  The prognosis grim, Gillian slips closer to a dark threshold.
  
  12. 2 – Akashic Daytrip
  
  Pulled away from Lake Pit 12, Gillian learns more than she expected to about the Akashic Realm, discovering the Akashic Records are more than real.
  
  12. 3 – Dreamscape Excursion
  
  Just like what the title sounds like it would be about. A bit more detail later.
  
  12. 4 – The Siren Oracle’s Reading
  
  Gillian gets read by a siren Oracle half breed, who will be a recurring character.
  
  12. 5 – Undead Muncherie
  
  The time has come for Gillian to feed. How bad could it be?
  
  And there you have what’s coming. I would have liked to say a bit more but could not see a good way to to do that before episode 11. Ah but that will come soon enough. Which part do you look forward to most? Do you have any questions about the series?