Iron Company Ramblepost #2 - hey look, visuals in the novel

i've finally started work on putting some visuals into my alleged visual novel. for now, everything you see here is placeholders, not anywhere near final art-- i'm trying to work fast, just slap down sketches, and suppress the urge to refine things, because i'm going to have to redraw it all anyway. my personal goal is to not spend more than 20 minutes on any one placeholder image. i'm basically like. storyboarding or thumbnailing here. i dunno what they call it for VNs.

please note none of these are actually in the available demo yet-- i want to get some more stuff done and squash some bugs before i pack it all up for another update. gimme a couple of weeks.

here's the first minute-ish, where we meet our protagonists:

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and here's something from farther toward the end of the chapter. kinda spoilery i guess but out of context, it shouldn't matter much. content warning though, this one's got the Horror Themes in it (but they are nerfed by the fact that this is Scribbly Hasty Placeholder Sketch Art)

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i'm so excited to be making this. i've had all this rolling around in my head for so long