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Workflow:
Last week, didn't drew much, but it's for a good reason, i took a break.
Recently was harder to work, loosed focus easy, i sometimes took 10h to do a work i would in 2 any other days.
And when i finaly told myself "take a day off" .. thenext morning i.. just couldn't draw. to be fair, i think i'm way closer to the burn out than i expected.. and, taking 4 days off was the minimum.
If i'm quite fair, i would say that my recnet lost came back to bite me. After the funeral i closed myself into work.. and just tried to not think of it.
But it was there, working on my nerves. Seeked some help already, i think i need to lay all of it and talk to a professional, so, it's planned, and I think it ll help a lot.
THAT SAID, i'm ok now, worked on secret santa, and monthly sketch 32.
Did the rough for the two started to ink the secret santa, if all goes well i'll finish both before i got to go to see my family. If i finish early, might do something else too, but don't want to promess stuff i'm not sure to finish.

New set up

Question is, minou, you said you gonna have a new setup, new big chonky pc, where is it?
Well dear reader, don't know. The company was supposed to send it Friday, but, no news no clues, and their phone seems out of the line. Sent a mail and a message on their official twitter, just in case.
But it's only one day after, and it was mostly to ask them, at this point, to delay more the delivery, to be sure the package don't come here when no one is home!
Hope they'll take notice and contact me. But at this point i don't expect anything till at least next year.
Why? Well black friday + christmas in a short period, they might be out of component, as they just prepare PC. I'm not mad at the delay, just i would prefer company peoples learned to grow a pair and keep contact with their clients. Even a pre written mail sending on auto mode when delay is passed sayin "we got problem, please wait longer" would be nice.
Anyway, waiting for now, and just hoping for an answer in close future.

Dwarf Fortress tales:

I closed my last fortress, it's ok, i built it at first to test some mechanics and grew fond of it and kept it a bit, when stuff happened.
It was in year 109 that the forgotten beast arrived in the land of the Frozen Beer clan. A giant brass golem, 15 ft tall, menacing monster, with a cold metal glaze. Many wood cutter and two child were out, close to the valley from where he came, he didn't gave them a chance and immedialty grabbed the first dwarf in his hard hand, throwing him like a puppet on a nearest three, broking his back, before kicking his limp body into the river to let him drown there.
The fortress guard quickly tried to reach for him.. it was a slaughter. Our Iron blades weren't enough to pierce the brass skin, at least not enough to harm the creature. But they were also quite well protected. So he acted in a fearsome way, one by one, grabbing the warriors and throwing them into the river, letting them sink in their heavy armor. We loosed many braves, but at least they covered the run of the kids and remaining wood cutter.
The leader, an old legendary warrior remained behind ordering the other to run back to the fortress. He gave his life to delay the beast... But at least the door were closed.
A full year passed under siege, but it was not an issue, we had many underground reserve, and fungus crop to feed and brew.
But in summer, new dwarves came, seeking a new home.. the creature charged them. Many died, but we could open a gate and let 5 of them come into safety... But it was our doom, the creature had noticed one of the hidden door of the fortress.. we're not sure of what happened, but the creature managed to smash it open, and ran into the corridors.
This night we loosed more than 1/3 of our dwarves under the Brass giant furry. In the end, one of our legendary marskman finally managed to plunge one of our newly forged steel hardened bolt directly into the beast eye, finally destroying it , turning the monster in a simple brass statue.... But the cave was now a tomb.
The survivors spent the next days cleaning the halls, and taking care of the wounded. Then digging new tombs and preparing stone coffins.
We layed 50 dwarves under the mountain this year. And the moral of the dwarves suffered greatly of all the horror they had witnessed. The word spread, our mountain was not a place of joy anymore...
Over years the moral started to went up, but the mood of our peoples remained dark. So much that a group of 7 dwarves started packing. They had earned the truth of a hill far south. A place were Flux stone and iron were present in vast quantity, enough to create a large amount of steel out of it... and so they went, creating a new mine in the name of the Frozen Beer clan.

Voila, was a bit long, but, it's actually the resume of what happened in the 4 last years of my previous fortress in the game. The whole game is really heavy on RP potential as you can see, and i'm really getting addicted to it.
if you liked it tell me, i would tell other stories of my little bearded druntard next time they happen!

That's about it!
Thanks for reading this far, and c ya soon!