Haliyan Guard: Oh? Our guests are leaving so soon?
Blonde Haliyan: Yep. We'll guard them while they investigate something.
Isog: most of you look different!
Haliyan Guard: Before you leave, Visitors, please return the masks. Even if these masks only have Night's Vision, we can't carelessly have magic items out in mundane society.
Cruz: Can I at least keep mine?
Keith: We're responsible... enough.
Haliyan Guard: Oh what the heck! If you're friends with my Goddess, then you're my friends too!
Isog: Yes, take it as a sign of our friendship!
Me before drawing this: “A lil map’s a nice idea. No idea how to draw maps yet, but it doesn’t seem too hard to learn.”
Me after drawing this: cries in 32 hours of learning more about perspective and drawing a bajillion lines and boxes as guidelines just to draw ellipses and cylinders
It doesn’t seem much but this page killed me so… please appreciate the map. I wanted to draw the tables they were eating in earlier (they’re placed somewhere in that grassy area), but I was getting too fed up at this point so please forgive for that too.
While drawing this, I’ve settled on the Haliyan population is around 259 since it’s a multiple of 7, then plus 1 for Haliya herself for a total of 260.
Just relieved that I don’t have to draw Haliya’s tattoos for a while. Tip to amateur artists (and me), don’t use complex designs in your characters, at least if they’re going to show up frequently.
I’ve upgraded my Clip Studio from PRO to EX. Didn’t even get it with a discount, Clip Studio guys deserve all the money because it’s a worthy one-time purchase, unlike Adobe!
So I might be able to animate stuff in the future, after I gitgud first that is! And I bet some of you lewd dudes are looking forward to some animated stuff. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Hibi-Hibi (flashback): Yes. We need something tough and waterproof for Bakunawa's "collar".
Tammy: MERM--mmmf!
Cruz: Since we're in here, is there anything that we can use for what Hibi needs?
Tammy: Like... rope? Maybe? Seems like the obvious choice.
Keith: Oh! And maybe Haliya can lasso with it!
Haliya: It will be hard to lasso something that big, but I'll do it.
Blue Bunny Haliyan: Rope? Yep, we do have some spools here.
Hibi-Hibi: I can use these, but it could be thicker...
So… those two sweaty girls from the previous page are taking a bath (thanks Haliya). I wonder if I should draw that hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
These strips are small but since there’s a story now there’s a lot of thinking involved. I’m still bad and slow at writing, but there’s really only one way to get better!
Now, Page 199 mentions that her worshipers banned fireworks to not distract from “the glory that is the Moon”. Continuing from that idea, they’ll need people to do said prohibiting, so… forest rangers!
Are these Haliyan forest rangers real or fake? They’re real and working with, not for, the local municipal government. Both groups will benefit from protecting the forest from fire/works, illegal logging, etc., and helping hikers/campers. As for each group benefitting, the municipal won’t have to manage the forest or staff, while the Haliyans can keep people away from their village with some legal backing. The municipal don’t know where their village is though, and they’re wise enough to not piss-off them of a group that hunts monsters and have a warrior goddess leading them.
Being unmasked is tantamount to being naked, if not plain uncomfortable to Haliyans, so these forest rangers wear masks enchanted to look invisible to others. I’m not even sure when they’ll appear again after this Episode, but I imagine most Haliyans that leave their village will wear invisible masks like these. The tawlis also help them out in the forest rangers by spooking people with some scawy wind, or else just blowing them away with stronger gusts.
