[E19] leg day (part 2) (Patreon)

it occurred to me since my last post that since i'm doing multiple things between each in progress screenshot it's technically not step-by-step and ergo technically not leg day... but i had already committed to the title and so now i'm just left with a despair wrought of my own mistakes.

[previous post here] 

when we last left our heroes, it was step four, which i will repost here for convenience of comparison: 

step 4: finish the cliff structure and walkable paths. make way more lava pools than you intended because that's the only way dragon gyms can exist i guess? 

step 5: 

• color the bottom area's walls and floor tiles properly. 
• fill in floor around the now fully structured cliffs.
• spontaneously decide that you actually really liked the place-holding purple tiles and scramble to make something that can replace it subtlely.
• try not to have to make a whole separate autotile for it 
• realize that it's more work not to have an autotile and resign yourself to despair.
• put a major country's government on shutdown for a month to build a 3px wall around the border of the map
• forget to remove the blue placeholders and accidentally indicate to your patrons that this isn't the full map after all

step 6:

• stop procrastinating making the other custom graphics 
• draw a small pile of gold
• draw a larger pile of gold
• draw a really large pile of gold
• wonder who's idea it was to make yourself draw three separate piles of gold piece by piece
• hint: it was yours
• make the pillars take a lava bath
• make some lava-bathing pillars play league of legends and thereby tilt themselves
• wonder who's idea it was to make yourself tilt the pillars and thereby necessitate you basically spriting the entire thing over again
• apply new graphics directly to the map. delete placeholders with prejudice.

step 7:

• stop procrastinating making the other other custom graphics
• draw a bunch more gold pieces, decide it's enough
• try to add them to map, release it's not enough and add more gold piece tiles
• repeat bullet points 2-3 more times than you would like to admit
•   

step 8:

• lava bubblies
• drop some loose rocks like they hot (they probably are)
• make the cliffs a multicolor gradient-esque yet again because gen 3 style and RMXP don't allow you to liberally use shadow and light fogs like you really desperately want to get back to doing in starlight and this is your fucking temper tantrum/consolation prize.

step 9 (final):

• stop procrastinating making the other other other custom graphics
• add the treasure chest that you posted earlier despite it only having been done just now
• lil lava pools coming from the cliffs
• finally fix the pillars in the back
• make yourself a liar by changing your mind yet again deciding to use a panorama after posting in your last post that you decided not to use one (made but not in screenshot because only shows up in-game)
• save over this file five additional times as you notice small details that need to be fixed between this post and the last
• try not to think about the small details you fixed since the last time you saved over this file as you post this

... anyway, that's the wrap.

have been writing a lot more dialogue for this gym than i intended to, but eventing is more or less done aside from the 'puzzle'.
unfortunately, that is the bulk of the eventing... so... balls.
you're welcome to guess what it is based on this map but i won't be confirming answers. 

sayonara, my silky smooth cinnabuns