Huh? Whazappinin.... oh right, it's June. 
Wait, it's June!

We got some stuff done in May (and the first week of June, oops). Introduced some new stuff, updated some old stuff, kept up with things that are important to us. Hopefully this easy list of updates makes referencing a breeze for y'all! As always, you can find the last month's newsletter over here.

 

Welcome to May! You still with us? Like a AAA game publisher, I'm here to drop a giant loot crate full of Morbit goodies right in the middle of your day. Unlike a AAA game publisher, though, these are free for everyone to peruse! No Morbitcoin required.
(I will take any Morbitcoin you send my way, though. I've got a stable full of Minion!Wax Gangster NFTs to sell, and my bank is telling me I can't put them up as collateral for a mortgage like I was planning to. Also I burned down a forest for no reason. Ah, the NFT life is a rough one.)
Anywho, if you missed last month's newsletter, you can find it here. You can also feel free to discuss anything about this month's in this thread if you like, go nuts.

CHANGELOG:

How have things been going?

Pretty much all of us got sick at some point this month. Between COVID shots and other medical issues, April sure did a number on our minds and bodies. Even with that said, though, we've been steadily working away at our passion projects, and doing work behind the scenes to plan things out.

Mortis has been working on their usual one-two punch of Maybequest and Morbit second life avatars, mixed with the other skinstealer members to work on Felid Factor, and Heike, Ari, and Como to shore up Fantasy Cascade. (It's kind of become a big experience for everyone.) They're hoping to wrap up part 1 of Maybequest soon, as well as prepare for the return of Void Session. Speaking of TCP, they've also started a new TCP project, The Maze Trials! With a lil' chocolate heart buddy. Lookit 'em.



Ari's been updating Prismic Sanctum, continuing the longstanding story it's been building up for some time now. It's got plans in the works for more stories involving these and other characters from its myriad Morbit projects, and it's been learning picoCAD to prepare for potential ideas in the future.

Speaking of learning, Zenthis has been learning Unity. Why? It's a secret. A secret project. Involving Unity. You can guess at the possibilities that presents.

Knux has been working on commissions and coordination for another Gauntlet RP project. He's also started the Glass Tweedler project, a kind of expedition log exploring the life of this mysterious Morbit creature! Looks sharp.


Como's been doing steady character work in the meantime, launching two new vignettes! He's also been working on other projects, like Arrhythmia, which saw a new update this month in which Arabis and the gang finally find some trail mix.

We've also had other team members doing backend stuff, like when Mraof set up a new spam filter for the site.

It was needed!

Anyway, that's the long and short of it for now. We'll still be here, making the things we love and helping the community prosper as much as we can. Thank you all so much for sticking with us, it means a lot to know you enjoy what we do here. Here's to more months of great work from all of us!

It’s April, and I (loddite) am doing these now! Hopefully you made it through last month alive. We’ve been busy cookin’ up some Morbit soup in the kitchen, just for you. So without further ado, here’s the April 2021 newsletter!
If you missed last month's, you can find it here!

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’!

Welcome to March, everybody- hope you’re all making it through this hell year! Here’s the March 2021 edition of our newsletter! Please feel free to use this thread as a discussion board- while we love having the nice, instant conversations of Discord, keeping things talked about here will allow outside people to participate and keep easier-to-read logs for us to reference for later!
 

If you missed last month's, you can find it here!

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!

 
What did we work on in January?

The overhaul and website project have been mostly halted for now due to internal structure issues- we need to rework our plans for how to handle and approach this before going any further, and it’s not likely that we’re going to make any headway on it soon. However, we are going to focus on enriching what we have now, and making our projects that exist on the forums and wiki (as well as the sites themselves) as best as we possibly can for the time being! 



Mortis worked on Felid Factor more in January, though less than they wanted to- a lot came up this month and December system-wise, and they’re still trying to get back into it. However, they have begun work on an official soundtrack with Heike as well as getting back into writing updates! Intro updates are currently 7/52 completed, with 2 other updates done as well writing wise. No images are made up yet though, with a lot still up in the air- patrons will be kept up to date on that. Commissions were completed at a steady clip, as was wiki work, though focus on the latter was changed to a new project meant to convey wiki information in a new and exciting way...more information on that in the next section! 
Maybequest also came back in January, and has updated consistently since. 

A new project has been in the works since December focusing on Rin’s new character, Wilson, though it has gone unnamed so far- it will be a mature, psych horror project in the form of episodic twine games and focusing on sexuality and relationships, released on itch.io for a small fee. Aside from that, Mortis has been focusing on figuring out Morbit roleplay and character enrichment, along with the usual personal work on Petz and 4dopt on the side- now with Second Life being added to the pile of hobbies.



Knux brought back Arcade Session last month, and has been updating it since! He also brought a couple of barebones morphs to the table, expanding the species significantly!

Mraof has been very busy with moving, and is currently in an extended stay hotel while looking for apartments.

Pear started developing the crob fauna species, as well as an unnamed plankton species- more to come on those eventually! She’s still working on making a new Morbit commission price sheet, which will feature all of her options available for species and fauna designs. She also helped with Maybequest anatomy and composition redlines, assisting Rin significantly. 

Zenthis did 3 TCP designs, and worked more on their species, which they showed off in the patreon chat. 



Ari updated Prismic Sanctum four times in January, as well as getting the initial species design done for the volare, a new addition to the Morbit canon! They also got a few new character designs done up by Rin and Twinsharks, both of which have art posted in the Patron Chat on Discord. There were also a few character art pieces done by various folks for their projects, all of which are in the patron chat.



Comorant has Updated several projects including the main Masa con Papas comic, Crankshaft Rafflesian's seasonal arc, Dopple Effect, and has begun a project in fleshing out the visual aspect of various regions, starting with precipice. There were also a couple of Crankshaft related one-shots released.



The Winds updated Waterlogged and Hypnagogia a few times, and began internal development on a late future project. Unfortunately, they had a pain flare for two weeks, which is why they haven’t been able to update as frequently. Waterlogged is still open to suggestions, though!

As for Molasses...



What are we working on in February?

The bounty boards (both species and TCPdex) are still up and running, monthly raffles and sales are up. As mentioned, the overhaul plan has been mostly halted for now in terms of website work, but we will be working on fixing up the forums and wiki a bit here and there. It’s hard to say just how much will be done and in what ways as of right now, as everyone is dealing with life matters and their own individual project work, but we are doing our best to figure out what would be best for the community and are absolutely open to input on what you think our community needs for growth and making it the best it can be.



In February, Mortis plans on keeping up more of the same schedule- Felid Factor, commissions, Maybequest, wiki work, roleplay/character enrichment, the Wilson project, and personal work. Felid Factor will still get regular soundtrack and writing work, with a hopeful output of one track a week and two written updates a week. Commissions are still done on weekends when possible, and Maybequest will still update weekly provided delays don’t happen (which, as always, they might.) As for wiki work mentioned earlier, a new project will be coming out soon that will introduce wiki information in a new, in-universe way. Information on the project can’t be revealed too much yet, but we think you’ll really like it, and the new character here to show you information about the exciting world of Morbit. The Wilson project is in the middle of being written, and Mortis doesn’t have an estimate on when the first episode will be released, but they’re hoping for late March at latest- subject to change, of course. 

Knux is planning on doing more of the same, as well as work on the TCPdex. 

Pear is working on a color and height reference page for several characters, which Lucy has been helping her with design-wise. In addition, the two of them have been working heavily on character development for their projects!

Zenthis’s unreleased species should be completed this month, and they also intend on returning to Egress updates.



For February, Ari is going to continue with Prismic Sanctum, and is also hoping to get a major project update out as well (ideally PK or Tethered, but we’ll see). They are also working on a thing with Como, and hope to get that out this month. They have a potential new interactive project in the works, but it requires a lot of planning, so they might get something out for it in February, but We’ll See. They might see about giving volare their own species page on the forums, as well as some other fun surprises! They’re dealing with some real garbage in their personal life right now in the background, so they can’t really make any promises about consistency, but they’re really hoping to push through things to increase content output in February. 



In February for Comorant, there's a plan to release a couple of collaborative one shots, as well as continuing to update comics with a Dopple Effect and Masa con Papas update planned for the first week.

Community Involvement

This month, we’re discontinuing the team worldbuilding threads- they were a lot of fun, but gathering the team together was a bit stressful, and difficult to do! We’re going to try to have people run their own individual Q&As both on forums and on Discord as they want to, so keep an eye out!

We’re still sifting through the recent RP/character enrichment feedback thread, and working on results from that, so we’re not going to start up another topic on that either. Thanks for bearing with us on that front!

Thank you all for supporting us, and we hope you have a nice February!

 

 

 

What did we work on in November?



Mortis’ main work for November was finishing Ashtray with Comorant, and took a significant period of time off for Thanksgiving, landlord nonsense and housesitting/dogsitting adventures. Felid Factor is well on its way and has 6/52 intro updates completed. The rest of their time off was spent making content for the petsite 4dopt (whoops), and it’s a great hobby for them. Really, it is. Commissions have been completely cleared out for November aside from some system-based ones purposefully put aside for December, and everything regarding raffles and bounty boards is on schedule.



Comorant has wrapped up Ashtray alongside Mortis and all that's left for is public releases to catch up to the Patron chat. The final updates will be released in December. He also has launched two new Winter specials: One based on Crankshaft Rafflesian featuring a cryptid hunt and the value of found family through close friends, as well as one based on Masa con Papas featuring Charon and Geezer taking a roadtrip together to get to their grandmother's house. These two specials will continue updating until late December. In addition, Dopple Effect has updated twice and a Masa One Shot featuring Arabis' past has also gone up.



The Winds are back from their hiatus, and have started producing content again! The plot structures for both Hypnagogia and Waterlogged have been mapped, and they now have a work schedule- so they hopefully will get their content out regularly.

Pear has been up to more commission work, and revealed some characters from a future project last month!



Ari released a ton of Prismic Sanctum updates, and worked on the design for bonesaw chorosy with Rin- they’re incredibly spooky, but very cool! Roux was also designed with Rin for Prismic Sanctum, making them the second designed chorosy character to exist!

What are we working on in December?

The bounty boards (both species and TCPdex) are still up and running, monthly raffles and sales are up, and the overhaul will continue!

Mortis is mainly up to management work this month, and is running the TCP Advent Calendar for all of you to enjoy! They’re also up to their neck in holiday gifts for friends, so a lot of secret design work is happening behind the scenes...Felid Factor is going to be worked on still in between wiki work, which is the main focus for this month as part of the HD Overhaul. Adopt stock will also be worked on this month alongside the usual commission work, and ideally in January we can start releasing occasional stock drops for people to enjoy!

Comorant plans to continue updating Dopple Effect at least twice a month and continuing the run of the two Winter specials launched in late November. There are also plans for a few character one shots, and possibly character design art streams with Q and A in the chat.

The Winds are helping on the TCP Advent Calendar for a special day, and are getting all of the Modician species and gods up onto the wiki.

Knux is going to try and get Arcade Session back up and running, while also working more on the TCPdex update.

Pear is working on commission sheets, as well as some new fan species commissions.

Ari will continue to work on Prismic Sanctum, but wants to focus more on major projects such as Patchwork Kernel, Tethered and oneshots- there will be a lot of stressors for them this month, and delays/complications may happen.

Zenthis has been working on designing a new species this past month, they are expected to be completed by mid December.

Community Involvement

For this month’s worldbuilding topic, we’re looking at something festive, but not directly related to any one holiday- gifts! You can take a look at the thread here, and ask us questions about anything to do with gift giving and receiving, and anything else you can think of!

We didn’t get any responses on our suggestion request last month, so we’re going to pose it again: here’s the quote from the last post;

The feedback we’re looking for this month is regarding character enrichment and fan involvement. One of the main things we’ve gotten input on recently is a sense of character oversaturation- everybody’s got fan characters at this point and we need to find ways for people to use these characters and get a richer experience out of having them. We want to find ways to let people take all these characters that live in Morbit and help them start really fleshing them out in ways that make them feel more fulfilling to have, be that through roleplaying, forum games, anything that people can suggest. Along those lines, we need to start encouraging fans to be more involved in the community and providing resources for them to set up their own events and activities- what do you need to help get things rolling? What features would help you enrich this community? Let us know!

Thank you all for supporting us, and we hope to hear from you in this thread!

NOVEMBER 2020

Happy November, everyone! Here’s the November 2020 edition of our newsletter, with a bit of an update to how we do things- now you can see a really extensive changelog to what we’ve added to the world of Morbit, for all of you diehard fans looking to catch up on what we’ve been up to. Please feel free to use this thread as a discussion board- while we love having the nice, instant conversations of Discord, keeping things talked about here will allow outside people to participate and keep easier-to-read logs for us to reference for later!

If you missed last month's, you can find it here!

Overall, we’re still working on our massive overhaul project, and the website work we’re doing is going a little slower than anticipated- but we’re still shooting to get it done by the end of the year! A lot of personal life matters came up and derailed our work schedule, but we’re pushing through and making it happen as best we can. We also set up the Bounty Board system for commissions, gave a themed raffle a test run, and had great success with monthly sales, all of which are continuing into this next month as well. We have more community threads in the works as well, so look forward to that!



Mortis is still at work on their system project, and it now has a released name- Felid Factor! All of the base roster has been designed (all 52 of them!) and more in-depth work on their characters has been started. There’s a preview available of the first two characters in the form of a Darkest Night oneshot, available here! The overall story structure has been started for the project as well, which is no easy feat considering it involves chaining together over 50 character introductions in a way that makes sense and flows cohesively...but it’s been done! Aside from that, the TCP mirror’s been completed and is available for sharing, wiki pages are continued to be worked on, Ashtray has been updated every week successfully and is set to complete before the end of the year, and commissions have been going at a steady clip. Streaming is back to a fairly regular schedule, but there are some bumps in the road with system matters currently- please be patient with them as work may be on and off!



Comorant did a lot of fun festive design work for Halloween, and even did a Darkest Night Crankshaft special this month! He was also able to get back to Masa con Papas, updating it alongside keeping up with Ashtray updates with Ringor. Check out his new character designs in the special- they’re not only spooky, but incredibly gay and sweet.




Pear did a lot of species, flora, and fauna work this month, as well as started in on designing her first canon TCP type! Commissions have been going well, and lots of new morphs have been added to the canon. 


Zenthis updated Egress again this month, in addition to finishing uploading it to the mirror.

Molasses has been working on the website along with Mraof, and has some species and character development in the works! 



Ari mostly worked on Prismic Sanctum, with 5 updates total through the month. Along with that, they worked on some Darkest Night costumes with Rin for PK characters + Toluca for Knux's RP event, typed up a LOT of WIP species for the bounty board system (only a few get posted at a time), got a future Morbit character design fixed up with Twinsharks (posted in Patron chat) and beyond that, did a ton of planning for PK + Tethered.

Knux created the Darkest Night RP event and has been hard at work on the major TCPdex update!

The bounty boards (both species and TCPdex) are still up and running, monthly raffles and sales are up, and the overhaul will continue!

Mortis is continuing on with everything they’ve been doing in October, with a focus on finishing Ashtray, working on Felid Factor, and getting those wiki pages up while waiting on the website layout to get done. 

Comorant plans on updating Dopple Effect, Masa con Papas, Crankshaft, and keeping up on Ashtray updates if he can- we’ll see how it goes, but he wants to get back to as much as he can!

Pear is planning on starting a flora of the week thread, along with what she calls a “very drawn out shitpost”.

Zenthis is planning on getting another Egress update done, and maybe… more????

Molasses is going to continue work on their current projects, namely the website overhaul and their species/character development...all of which will remain under wraps for now!

Ari is ideally going to continue with Prismic Sanctum with even more regular updates; and is going to aim for at least twice a week (so 8 this month). They want to continue with Tethered, and hopefully get episode 4 out. They had a PK oneshot they were hoping to get out for Halloween, but got too busy with stuff, so hopefully that’ll come out soon- but more oneshots in general would be good, and that’s the plan. The absolute ideal would be to get out episode 3 of PK out this month, but that’s kind of a long shot; we’ll see! More characters and species stuff are likely, so look forward to that!

Knux is going to continue his work on the major TCPdex update in the next month, and is planning to open up personal commissions again as well!

Community Involvement

For this month’s worldbuilding topic, we’re taking note of something just about every morbitian needs. Food! It’s around the time of year for feasting, so what better topic than that? You can take a look here for our thread where you can ask all sorts of food related questions for us to answer. No question is too silly and this is your chance to help flesh out morbit canon.

We didn’t get any responses on our suggestion request last month, so we’re going to pose it again: here’s the quote from the last post;

The feedback we’re looking for this month is regarding character enrichment and fan involvement. One of the main things we’ve gotten input on recently is a sense of character oversaturation- everybody’s got fan characters at this point and we need to find ways for people to use these characters and get a richer experience out of having them. We want to find ways to let people take all these characters that live in Morbit and help them start really fleshing them out in ways that make them feel more fulfilling to have, be that through roleplaying, forum games, anything that people can suggest. Along those lines, we need to start encouraging fans to be more involved in the community and providing resources for them to set up their own events and activities- what do you need to help get things rolling? What features would help you enrich this community? Let us know!

Thank you all for supporting us, and we hope to hear from you in this thread!

Happy October, everybody! Welcome to the first revival of our old newsletter system- now with monthly updates instead of weekly, because god knows we don’t have time for that. Here you’ll find updates on everything we’ve done in the past month, plans for the upcoming month, topics we want to encourage discussion on, and things we’re looking to get feedback on. Please feel free to use this thread as a discussion board- while we love having the nice, instant conversations of Discord, keeping things talked about here will allow outside people to participate and keep easier-to-read logs for us to reference for later!

What did we do in September?

The entire team has been putting efforts into a massive overhaul of both how our internal structure and the outward facing community works for 2021, something most people here are probably aware of by now. One of our main focuses so far has been making a formal website that serves as a hub for our projects and resources- something we’ve needed for a long time. Molasses and Mraof have been working especially hard on the website management end of things, and Molasses has been chipping away at branding and layout work- check out some concepts for our new mascot!



Mortis has been working hard on the Void Session edit (and its mirror), and is almost finished- progress is expected to be complete by next week, but a public release may take extra time based on how long it takes to get promotional material done up. Uploading backlog to Furry Life Online is still happening slowly, but the goal is to get a fully populated gallery of all of the Skinstealers’ work- the first of its kind! As part of the overhaul effort, Mortis has also been adding piles of pages to the wiki, namely for characters. These aren’t particularly detailed yet, but should serve as good bases for the community to add onto as more information is released in projects.  There’s also a playlist and fandev section added to the forum now- enjoy some new ways to interact with Morbit and the community!

Lastly from the Skinstealers- a new major project is in the works, set for 2021 release! They can’t release much information for now outside of the Patreon chat, but it started development in this past September and has a lot to do with the relationship the system has with art and the internet. Look forward to it!

Ashtray has also been in full swing, taking up most of Mortis and Comorant’s week’s work time...but we’re in the home stretch now, and it’s looking to be finished by the end of the year. 



Comorant’s solo work has mainly involved relaunching Dopple Effect and updating it twice- check it out if you haven’t already! It serves as an interesting prequel of sorts to Crankshaft Rafflesian, and the environments and designs are incredibly surreal…



Pear and Lucy have been working on the return of Pre-Alpha Session, and while we can’t show anything of it yet outside of the Patreon chat, the panels are looking sleek as hell. In addition, Pear’s opened up species commissions- two new species morphs have been added to the canon!


Knux400 has been neck deep in working on a major TCPdex update, the majority of which we’re keeping our mouths shut about...and if you figure it out, don’t spoil it! We want the big reveal to be a surprise! In addition, he’s also launched a Darkest Night RP event on Discord- you can check it out here. It’s low investment roleplay lasting 3 days, but sign ups and prep are open now!

Ari and Seth have been very busy with moving, but Ari has been working on Prismic Sanctum and Tethered, and got updates out for both. If you haven’t checked these projects out yet, now is a great time.

Zenthis has been at work on Egress, both on the forums and for the mirror. Egress had an update on the last day of this month, just barely in time to be covered by this newsletter. The mirror is currently readable but not yet done. 


What are we working on in October?

Overall, we plan on continuing with more of our overhaul plans, and getting a significant amount of it done by the end of October. Our biggest goal is to have the majority of the website done by then and have something presentable, though our hard deadline is by the end of the year. The majority of our website’s written content is done already, but there’s a lot to do with layout, backend, visual assets, and getting everything pulled together as a cohesive piece. Still, once we get it all together, we think it’ll be something we can be really proud of! 

Comorant is planning on doing some Halloween themed shenanigans, mainly in the form of Crankshaft updates. Dopple Effect will also continue to get updates (at least two planned this month, ideally), and a Masa con Papas update would also be ideal to try and start it up again. A oneshot would also be nice, but isn’t guaranteed- we’ll see how it shakes out!

Mortis is planning on finishing up the Void Session edit next week and getting promo material for that in order ASAP, and starting to promote that. Wiki work will continue at a steady clip with the goal of getting everything filled out on a basic level by the end of the year- definitely not a “done by the end of October” goal, but progress will be made for sure this month! Aside from that, expect work on the new major project to be talked about heavily in the Patreon chat, and probably some updates to an Explicit rated project we won’t talk about here.

Both Mortis and Comorant will continue updating Ashtray, and have no plans of stopping that until it’s done. Not getting done this month, but next month...next month it just might...

Knux will keep going at that TCPdex update until it’s blasted to bits, while Mortis sprays him with a squirt bottle for every meme-related ability name. 

Zenthis is planning on at least one Egress update as per usual this month, in addition to finishing the mirror.The Egress mirror should be fully completed by the end of the month. Other than that, Zenthis will be helping with other minor website work.

Community Involvement

Let’s get some discussion going- we want to promote specific worldbuilding topics each month to help us develop Morbit on a deeper level, and also get feedback on specific areas where we think we could use improvement. Once again, please use the forums to discuss things if you can- this leaves a better record for us and reference for the future! We absolutely will lose your Discord messages and we want to be able to take everything into account here and involve all potential participants.

So: worldbuilding topics for this month! This month’s prompts involve witches, wizards, and Darkest Night! Being October, it’s time to get spooky- while Morbit witches and wizards aren’t as inherently spooky as they are in our world, there’s still a lot of potential for weird shenanigans, and we figure there’s probably a lot of questions to be asked! You can ask us questions in this thread here, make your own threads in Fandev, add pages to the wiki, start up roleplays, you name it! No matter how new you are to these concepts, no question is too silly and the more we’re asked, the more we can publicly develop and reveal the concepts and slap that shit on the wiki for future readers. Everybody wins!

The feedback we’re looking for this month is regarding character enrichment and fan involvement. One of the main things we’ve gotten input on recently is a sense of character oversaturation- everybody’s got fan characters at this point and we need to find ways for people to use these characters and get a richer experience out of having them. We want to find ways to let people take all these characters that live in Morbit and help them start really fleshing them out in ways that make them feel more fulfilling to have, be that through roleplaying, forum games, anything that people can suggest. Along those lines, we need to start encouraging fans to be more involved in the community and providing resources for them to set up their own events and activities- what do you need to help get things rolling? What features would help you enrich this community? Let us know!

As a final note- big thanks to Vic for helping us out with the TCPdex update and community outreach in general this month! Welcome to the mod team, and thank you so much for helping this community!

Thank you all for supporting us, and we hope to hear from you in this thread!