Subplot

[Lieutenant Fish]

Mechanical hisses and clicks fade in, though you are reasonably sure that they never actually stopped. (This is good, they shouldn't have stopped yet.) You are strongly aware of a dull, painful throbbing feeling, and you doubt that it is being caused by the unusual blue lighting. (The color blue is very important.) It doesn't take a genius to figure out what has happened (This will be easy, perhaps too easy.); you must have hit your head on one of the nearby bunks.

You seem to have forgotten who you are and what you are supposed to be doing, but you take it in stride and refuse the notion of panic. Perhaps there are some clues to be found nearby?

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Hello. I like Legos and I want to figure out how best to use them in visual storytelling so HERE GOES.

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[Dalmationer]

>Inspect that thing you are holding!

[EnigmaticD]

>Inspect nearby hamper/chest.

[Red Seraphim]

Check that valve above the bed behind you.

[Lieutenant Fish]

>Inspect that thing you are holding!

Odds are, you brought this backpack thing with you. (Standard issue, nothing out of the ordinary.) It almost certainly contains the most potential clues, but you suppose it couldn't hurt to look elsewhere. You might find something useful. Not in the valve, though, that's silly. You can't hide anything in a valve, except pressure.

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One of the things I want to clear up as soon as possible is should I spend time making animations like this? What do you guys think, does it look okay?

[EnigmaticD]

>Go and check the-- wait, did you just make that backpack float?

[OrangeAipom]

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Well, unanimated pictures shouldn't be indexed because they look funny.

But it's pretty neat when you do animate. Stop motion is cool. But what are you using to compress them?

Why is your head bleeding.

[Dalmationer]

>Examine rest of room.

[Lieutenant Fish]

>Go and check the-- wait, did you just make that backpack float?

The backpack is sitting quite comfortably on the soft part of your bunk, you don't have the power to make things float. (If only, though! The possibilities are astronomical!) There appear to be some STREET CLOTHES rolled up and attached to the top, and what feels like a FOLDER full of papers in the main compartment. Which should you investigate first?

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Well, unanimated pictures shouldn't be indexed because they look funny.

But it's pretty neat when you do animate. Stop motion is cool. But what are you using to compress them?

See, I think that having the image jump from indexed to non-indexed for moving panels only would look funny, which is why I resolved to save every single file as a .gif from the beginning. I play around with which palettes overlap/take precedence during editing to find the most natural-looking setup, bearing in mind that all the walls and uniforms are blue. (If anyone has a better idea, please speak up.) As far as software goes, everything is done in Gimp.

EDIT: I've changed this image to be indexed to the same palette as panels one and two, which makes it stand out less.

[EnigmaticD]

>the folder. You're not going out of the ship just yet.

[OrangeAipom]

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nice.

[Lieutenant Fish]

>the folder.

This folder is definitely more important. (Nothing incriminating, as long as you follow instructions.) Of obvious note are the PHOTOGRAPHS and the ENVELOPE. You decide that you like the guy on the right more, and you probably have a good reason for doing so. (We cannot stress this enough.) The seal on the envelope is broken, but for some reason you hesitate to look inside. There are also a few mundane documents; labour contracts and a couple ticket stubs, but no identification papers. You disregard them automatically.

[Dalmationer]

>Read classified document!

[MrEdwardNigma]

>Read it!

[Mibbs]

no don't read it!

[EnigmaticD]

"Top Secret" obviously means "Read this as soon as possible".

So what are you waiting for?

[Lieutenant Fish]

>Read it anyway!

(As usual, you need only re-open the envelope to dispose of it.)

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Animations like this take time, but I have the procedure down pretty well and keep finding small shortcuts. The overall worktime will also decrease as I build up a library of assets; I foresee using that flame quite a lot in the future, as well as the hero's surprised reaction.

[EnigmaticD]

>Is your bed fireproof? If not, you should probably deal with that.

[Dalmationer]

>Put the fire out with the other envelopes!!

[Xander]

Put it out!

[Doopliss]

>Turn the valves! One of them must let water in!

[BoisseauMR]

>Ignore fire. Instead, go find some food.

[Mibbs]

notice your blood is brown. This means you are in fact a Lowblood Bunkdweller. Use your amazing psychic powers to put out the fire.

[Dalmationer]

notice your blood is brown. This means you are in fact a Lowblood Bunkdweller. Use your amazing psychic powers to put out the fire.

actually he has such a low blood that he has the largest EXPLOSION RADIUS of any lego guy. Sadly, this places him at the bottom of the MEANINGLESS CASTE SYSTEM, but if he does use it,his large-scale destruction of inanimate cubes will surely grant him the most honorable death possible.

hence why the package combusted. It couldn't take proximity to his amazingly low blood.

[EnigmaticD]

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notice your blood is brown. This means you are in fact a Lowblood Bunkdweller. Use your amazing psychic powers to put out the fire.

actually he has such a low blood that he has the largest EXPLOSION RADIUS of any lego guy. Sadly, this places him at the bottom of the MEANINGLESS CASTE SYSTEM, but if he does use it,his large-scale destruction of inanimate cubes will surely grant him the most honorable death possible.

hence why the package combusted. It couldn't take proximity to his amazingly low blood.

Obviously, he's a gasoline blood.