HOMEBREW DEVIANTS NEWSLETTER
APRIL 2021

 

• Travel Diary: Undertow launched
  
• Prismic Sanctum updated seven times
  
• Arcade Session updated once
  
• Masa Con Papas updated once
  
• Dopple Effect updated once
  
• The Crankshaft Winter Special wrapped up with two updates
  
• Maybequest updated four times
  

• Hares
  

• Pitcher Plant Type
  
• Whalefall Type
  
• Lily Type
  
• Scrapstorm Type
  
• Vernal Pool Type
  
• Geode Type
  
• Bloodstone Type
  

• Solitaire Ruffneck Morph
  
• Terrarium Flexin Morph
  
• High Class Flexin Morph
  
• Lovestruck Flexin Morph
  
• Tea Party Flexin Variant
  
• Date Flexin Variant
  
• Orchid Mantis Neuroth Variant
  

• Platano
  
• Veronica
  
• Undertow
  

What’s our current situation?



Mortis has been updating Maybequest and working on Felid Factor, and was able to finish Fantasy Cascade (formerly known as the Wilson Project) Episode One: Spilling Over! We’re just waiting on Heike to finish up the OST, and then it’s all ready for publishing. Universal Constants writing is also still underway with Comorant, with Episode Four in the works. With a potential 26 episodes planned, there’s still a long way to go, but they’re chugging away at it and getting feedback when possible! The mystery project relating to the wiki has also been released- Travel Diary: Undertow is now available for reading, and should be updated on Mondays.

Due to therapy mandated treatment, Mortis will be working less in order to help their workaholic tendencies. This may lead to less frequent content updates over time, but hopefully lead to better quality of work and more consistent work- and just better health, which is the most important thing.



Another important thing is the beginning of a fun side venture- Mortis has started dipping into making Morbit-related Second Life avatars as a way to help promote the universe to a new audience, and encourage the community to hang out in a virtual space as TCPs! This is only available to 18+ members of the community due to the nature of SL, however, and you can find out more on our age gated Discord.

Projects of Mortis’ will resume as normal, though possibly with more breaks and more time spent on fun projects like Petz, Second Life, and 4dopt. Commissions may also be slower. Thank you for understanding!



Comorant wrapped up the Winter Crankshaft Special with several updates, as well as a one shot, a Masa con Papas update, a Dopple Effect update, contributing to Maybequest, and several small Worldbuilding additions. He plans to continue updating ongoing projects as well as push out significantly more One Shots in April.



Knux, meanwhile, has been busy with some concept work in addition to working on Arcade Session (look at Echo she’s so precious). Some commission work’s rounded out his schedule for the past month or so; he’s been hard at work gettin’ them pixels in just the right order!

Pear and Lucy have been spending time working together on various concepts in the background (they’re the type who like to pull the strings. Pretty much Morbit lore experts. We let them because their ideas are usually gold anyway.) Pear’s also been helping out with Maybequest sketches.



Ari’s been diligently expanding the Prismic Sanctum story, as well as writing characters and story assistance in Maybequest. This month PS has had a couple of exciting action sequences, as well as a couple new faces! They’ll continue to work on PS and their other projects in the future.

As for me, I’ve been doing this newsletter. You’re welcome!

While we’ve got some things in store for you for April, feel free to comment and discuss March’s updates in the thread if you like. We’re working hard to deliver that fresh new Morbit content to your very door, so watch this space over the next month or so if you want to see what we got cookin’!

discuss...travel diary!

remember to spoiler things using spoiler tags! (spoiler in square brackets, similar to bolding/italics!)

Yo We're making a April Fool's cryptid, lets go.

1st comment: Noun
2nd comment: Second Noun
3rd comment: Main Color
4th comment: Accent Color
5th comment: Associated Item
6th comment: Moral Compass
7th comment: Feature 1
8th comment: Feature 2
9th comment: Feature 3

Let's make the April Fool. 

Try not to make more than one comment unless there's a lull in posting.

• You can color or describe an egg decorated by you character of choice.
  
• Please at least tell me your characters name, species, and favorite flavor(s).
  
• Your character will receive 3-5 eggs filled with candy. Small toys are also a possibility, and anything else I want to add (likely one larger gift). I'm randomizing the amount so please don't complain if your character gets a piece or two less then someone else.
  
• I may be making a simple basket to recolor quickly but I'm not promising art.
  
• This is running for about two weeks. Expect it to end around the 15th.
  
• Have fun! Always open for questions!
  

Oh 
hello! My name is Fiz! And today is a big day for me! I start my job at the HAAS TCP center. That’s the hearth air and space/science tcp center. It’s under ground which is a little weird for a space and air center but who am I to complain. Anyways, I don’t know why they clarified that it’s just for tcps, we are the only ones I’ve seen down here. But I mostly keep to myself. 
but I can’t leave until I find my ID and Keys! I’m not sure where they are! 

looking to starting seeing if people are interested in putting characters in established morbit towns and creating mini RP groups that way, instead of having things be scattered all over the place! just starting with getaway for now, considering thats the only commissioned town so far, but there is another one in the works

info on getaway can be found here, i figure we can talk over what characters would be good for this and what would be fun to work with for roleplays (an officially run sunchaser aquarium roleplay thread for sure, considering thats an established canon location)

canon character im throwing into the ring as an establishing one is stormcloud, a TCP gifted conceptually to me by marxz and someone who i figure either works for sunchaser or at the very least, Goes There A Hell of A Lot



Show Me What You Got

Hello! I made this account a few months ago and then forgot it existed and uni became busy for a bit. So, hey there! I remembered it existed. I figured I should probably, actually do things on it. I also figured that, it would be a good idea to do an introduction post first, given that there's a whole section for the stuff. As for me. I sometimes try to write things. Other than that? I’m studying to become an engineer. I also have interests in various sciences. I have an old collection of rocks for instance.
 
I think that’s fairly relevant content for an introduction, anyhow. Despite not actually having used this account much yet, I've read a few of the stories here as a guest! Morbit is a pretty cool setting. Those tiny cat people sure are tiny and cats and people. And, I think that covers everything of note I could say in this post that I could think of. Hello!

• Masa con Papas updated once
  
• Arcade Session updated once
  
• Crankshaft Special updated once
  
• Arrhythmia launched
  
• Prismic Sanctum updated 9 times
  
• Maybequest updated twice
  

• Truce
  

• Sword Type (Zenthis)
  
• Band Type
  
• Vulnerability Type
  
• Secret Handshake Type
  
• Rose Type
  
• Date Type
  
• Communication Type
  

• Lucky Beatfox Morph
  
• C4H00T5 Botley
  

• Manzana
  
• Tuberosa
  
• Heath
  
• Lavender
  
• Pitcher
  
• As of Yet Unnamed Candy Concept
  
• Fursuit Hedd Car
  
• Other Unnamed Exquisite Corpse Character
  
• Cerulean
  
• Styx
  
• Some Patron only designs!
  

What did we work on in February?


Mortis was able to update Maybequest twice when it comes to public facing projects, with the majority of their work being behind the scenes progress on things still in the works. Felid Factor is still being worked on, and had four more updates written out by the system- still a lot to go before all of the intros are caught up to, and they’re still figuring out logistics for assets, but it’s happening. The Wilson project is almost finally named, and Episode 1 is likely to be completed art asset-wise by late March. The soundtrack has begun production as well, which means that ideally, we’re looking at a release some time in April- but no promises! Universal Constants is being worked on with Comorant, and later episodes of the Wilson project are also being written with Ari and Comorant. The project relating to the wiki is still being worked on as well, though it’s definitely the lower priority project and has often had to be shelved in order to deal with life shit, of which there has been a lot of. Next month should be more of the same, and hopefully things will be more on track. 

In terms of business on the Mortis end of things, adopt bases have now been made fundable, and the Courier base was completed- expect slugsnails available for purchase soon!



Comorant has updated Masa con Papas, the Crankshaft Winter Special, and launched a new project, Arrhythmia, as well as worked on many character concepts over the month. He plans to continue to update these projects as well as Dopple Effect during the month of March!

Mraof upgraded the forums and the Minecraft server- you can find information about the latter on our Discord server!

Pear finished her and Lucy’s lineup of characters, and started developing the sea monkey species...more info on Patreon!



Knux updated Arcade Session, in which things got pretty dicey for Echo. 

Ari updated Prismic Sanctum nine times, did character and species design work, and worked on Maybequest with Mortis this month. 

The bounty boards have been updated in the past month, and the raffle and sale threads have been put up for March. The overhaul plan has changed from last month- it is back on track, with Mortis primarily taking up the website (with copious amounts of help from Molasses) on a much simpler scale in between project work. It won’t get done very soon due to the amount of projects Mortis is already taking on, but it is being worked on, along with some other quality of life features for the community. 

Stay tough everyone- 2021 is already looking like a hard year, but we can get through it together! Thank you for your support!

• follow the theme as best you can- feel free to get weird with interpreting it, but the themes are there to help guide things and in some cases, limit things to what the artists Want To Do for this month
  
• no NSFW/harmful suggestions
  
• you Can second/upvote suggestions to weight them higher in the raffle if you like them! this also means you can suggest the same TCP type multiple times if you like.
  
• 5 votes for TCP type additions, 1 vote for species morph additions
  
• keep your TCP type additions to one noun per vote, and your species morph additions to a word/phrase plus reference images AT MOST. please do not draw or write out a full concept or anything like that! it's meant to be a suggestion!!
  
• while we are often too busy to work on extending canon like this in our free time/for fun, any suggestions presented here are considered relinquished to us for potential use down the line, and have a nonzero chance of being added to canon. the only guaranteed way of getting these suggestions in is through commissioning, however, and please do not heckle us about making your suggestions happen on our own time- we do not owe anyone that, and this clause is mainly here in the case of something really resonating with us. 
  
• feel free to make multiple posts if you can't come up with all of your votes in one go!