the theme is "Take a deep breath." it's actually a lot nicer than i expected considering how much of this event is evidently funded by Olympics related nonsense. it's still obviously strung out of swimming, but it's now vague enough that we have a lot of different directions that we can interpret things.

i also intend to post the satellite document tonight and see what kinds of responses it gets in the morning. might just start in the art discord for spiral knights and a few friends places.

added a bunch of images from old saved inspirations. sourced most of it, still need to add some others. also need to dig through a few other less-convenient places for other images. also also need to look through a few of the artists' works i just saw while sourcing things, since they've worked on a lot of other stuff since i found these images 4-5 years ago... and dang! impressive.

wrote the section on player inspiration. maybe adding images and sources first would be a good way to guide how i want to organize the rest of this document.

good vacation day, overall!

got a little work done on another side project. also, finding out about some quirks with my laptop, but they're all fixable. i feel pretty good, all things considered. like the flood warnings happening back at home, hm

jot down several helpful categories of story arcs. it made a lot more sense after i wrote it out that way, and it helped me come up with a few other ideas.

tomorrow is christmas of course, so we'll see just how much free time i actually get.

somehow it actually managed to get even hotter today, basically to the point of agonizing. the interview questions are officially tied up, and i'm actually glad i took so long to consider my answers because i ended up switching some stuff around and liking it a lot more.

my return to work is all lined up for me tomorrow and for the rest of the week, so i better be able to really pull it together.

busy day today, running around completing some much-needed errands. today was presumed to be the hottest day of the heat advisory period this week. it seems like the hill have protected us from the intense 100F+ heat, but we're still getting hit with upper 90 degree weather and it makes doing anything outside impossible. so i've mostly spent time relaxing and melting inside.

before describing the events that take place on the main planet, i also have a section describing what happened before any trouble even arrived in the first place. the further i go back the less specific i want to be about any of these details. i think telling the story through the lens of the game is probably more impactful and i don't want to leave too much to go off of.

needless to say, there is big trouble for the inhabitants of the planet in Satellite. i think my explanation of how this sets itself up is interesting in a sci-fi way, but of course i would think that. it's an idea i had many years ago and i think it makes the premise of a video game an interesting medium for telling it.

i didn't finish this section tonight, but i wrote the start of it in a more coherent way than i think i've ever written it before.