Pieces of the past... (Patreon)

Hello lovely, patrons, I hope these wacky times are not treating you too poorly. Go ahead and drop your guard - this is not anything to do with April Fool's. Rather, I thought I would share with you some cut content from Unsounded's first year. 

Initially, I had planned to complement the comic with entries from Duane's journal. In this way, we would get to see first-hand what was happening in reality, and then have it filtered to us through Duane's perspective. I thought this would not only be fun and amusing, but it would also connect with the theme introduced later, of how reality plays out one way and our memories of that reality turns it into quite something else.

These journal entries took the form of pop-up windows that were hidden in plain sight beneath a few of the comic pages. They were also presented as "translations" written by a mysterious and unnamed character who had discovered Duane's journal at some time in the future. I had a storyline planned for this person that would be told in epistolary fashion as they tried to get people to read Duane's journal and realise the ramifications of it, and were constantly dismissed, threatened, and even eventually imprisoned.

I got about six entries into this side project before it started feeling increasingly burdensome and unnecessary. What's more, some story tweaks began to make its very premise difficult to wrangle. I think it was towards the end of the second chapter that I took them all down. However, on the suggestion of Tumblr, I'm posting them here as novelties. Duane's journal entries are still fun to read, though purple be his prose. Find them attached.

I've also included a very, very outdated tourism pamphlet I created when I first started putting the world of Kasslyne together. I was still trying to connect it with the world of my roleplaying game back then, and it's full of references to that, and lots of wildly outdated mechanics and concepts. If you're into the world-building of this comic, you might get a chuckle out of it. I enjoy the PR tone it's written in.

Otherwise - all of this is outdated! It's not advised to use it as a canon for the purpose of figuring out what's going on these days :)