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[Murder's Last Crow]

Hi. My name's Jack. I'm the premiere game developer at Murder's Last Crow, and we're developing a new online game with skinnable characters, stages, level editors, etc. And you get paid to play, etc.

However, even as the main project developer, the money only comes after I'm done unless I have sponsors, and I've been sponsored to create a 3d comic and t-shirt designs for a new magazine.\

So I wanted to dig up this idea I had a while back for a 3d webcomic I discontinued, but now I have an incentive to begin again.

PLOT: Basically, a little girl's father is depressed and disturbed by the way his life has gone, disappointed in what he's done. He goes driving one night in a reckless stupor and ends up in the hospital with a coma. The girl has a complicated life, and often uses dreams to escape the tremors of sadness that surround her real world.

Most of the comic takes place in the dream world, where the girl meets a lot of colorful characters and tries to blend into their world. So I guess you could call them Maren, but it's a very different circumstance than what exists in the NiGHTS series.

The girl ends up finding a Greek Mythology book and starts reading up on Death, anticipating that her father may never come out of his coma, and her Mother never felt very cared for besides, so her heart takes a partial turn away.

This is where it gets good and complicated, and I fear I may give too much away, but it's a really neat idea. Basically, the girl discovers that in Greek Mythology dreams were thought of as a pact between Death and the Gods, where death would back off as long as the Gods allowed him to take the spiritual energy from people as they sleep.

Also, she eventually discovers that all of the people in the dream world are either sleeping, or dead, and that the creatures (Maren) are reincarnations of those who have passed on from this life.

The girls Mother ends up siding with the evil side of the dream world. Basically Death trying to break the pact and unleash his new forces on the real world, etc. The girl meets a creature in this world that many people never see, who hides up in the most treacherous mountains, who no one knows very much about.

The girl eventually breaks through the creature's shell and gets him to talk, and the creature comes down to visit the other good "Maren." With increasing frequency, the creature finds himself caught in memories of a broken past, where he was abusive with a woman, lied and cheated in business, and left a little girl in need alone in her sadness.

If you can't guess who the creature is yet, you're stupid.

So basically they find out more about who he really is, and try to fight back against the realm of death to get him back to the real world, starting over again, finding his heart.

So, I know I gave much too much away, but hopefully this is the only place where I'll reveal this much. The comic is under development, and 3d modelling will begin very soon. However, here's where YOU GUYS come in.

I need more character designs and ideas for the charming characters that greet the girl in the dream world, other than the fearsome demon in the mountains. Please note that I'm willing to take Maren designs from you and give you proper credit, but I won't be able to pay you much compensation for their use. This is merely an offer that, if you have a good character design with a strong personality, and don't mind that I adopt him/her into this comic, I'm entirely willing to do so.

I apologize that, so far, I can't give you much in financial compensation for this, but you will be given credit for your ideas. Please note that the story is pretty solid, and that all I really want are a few good designs to give it more substance.

If you think my request is unreasonable, you don't have to help. I know it's not really part of the NiGHTS universe, but it bears similarities, so I wouldn't mind letting this be a big part of the NiGHTS community. It's just that we have to draw a line between originality and copyright infringement, so be careful. I guess two pronged Jester Caps could be allowed for one or two of the characters, but I don't want any NiGHTS copycats in this.

Sorry if I spoiled anything with the plot summary, but I want to make this an exciting and fun production, and I would like some help breathing life into it if you guys have ideas.

[Murder's Last Crow]

Here's a simple concept sketch for the demon in the treacherous mountains. I drew it and colored in just a few minutes, so it's not very high quality- just giving myself an idea of how I want things to look.



Just a note, this comic isn't exactly, "Happy Go Lucky," but it can include happy-go-lucky characters for the good side. Just be warned that it's still gonna' be pretty crazy and dark, at least half the time. XD

[Murder's Last Crow]

Discontinued until further notice.