A Good Cause

Low: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ujxx16mbvqmu80dqy68ul/AFe38WO_E0J2pEUaKH65arU?rlkey=ksydy4rb84f6wolozg4sxyu95&st=kaoom2gk&dl=0
High: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dropbox-link-res-113405347

(Edit: Sorry, there was a mixup in the original post! The high res DB link in the email copy of this post won't work, please see above to get the new link)

It's time for another round of "bully the pretty teacher from my childhood favourite videogame"! This time, Ms Mari from Megaman Battle Network ( https://megaman.fandom.com/wiki/Ms._Mari ) is sporting a bunnysuit fashioned after her normal outfit, and the folks at home are gonna get a real good, extended look at it! ;)

...Uhh, they're gonna need to add an extra figure to that Zenny counter ASAP.

I had a lot of fun with the fake game UI elements and stuff, as usual. This nifty website ( https://deathgenerator.com/#gallery ) made writing the text super easy rather than needing to go trawling for a similar fontset, and then I felt it'd be weird to have Ms Mari's portraits not match her predicaments, so tinkered with the sprites there!
Meanwhile, the host is https://megaman.fandom.com/wiki/Mami , a Netbattle announcer - I figure she'd have the crowd-wrangling energy to host a charity drive too! (There's actually a tv host character in the franchise too https://megaman.fandom.com/wiki/Ribitta , but I flipped a coin and went with Mami this time around)

In the "Extras and Alts" folder of the October Dropboxes you'll find the four separate images, with and without text/bg, a vertical version for scrolling on your mobile device, and standalone exports of the sprite portraits too.

At its core, I guess this concept is just a re-hash of the unfair scenario Mel recently got stuck with, i.e. "every (action) adds (unit of time) to the predicament"... but what can I say, it's fun! The viewers at home certainly don't seem to mind, so hopefully you don't either. ;p

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Golly, October already!? I'm gonna get to work on the obligatory Halloween stuff, then! Once I've come up with some ideas, that'll determine if I go with a single high-concept/high-polish piece, or if I instead go with a handful of smaller-scale, slightly rougher pics.