#morrug

[fooloftheunknownworld]

Goddam why must he be so fun to draw?

[radwolf76]

FLASHBack: Week 82 [Bisected-Month Brackenwood] - Littlefoot

It's the middle of July so FLASHBack is off on another visit to Brackenwood, the fantastical world created by former Disney animator Adam Phillips. This month's animation, Littlefoot (No, not that one), was released by Phillips on his Bitey Castle website on 5 November 2005, and then posted to Newgrounds three days later on November 8th, where it was Frontpaged, and won the Daily Feature and Weekly User's Choice awards. This chapter of the Brackenwood Saga focuses on the bigfoot-like Morrugs, in particular a pint-sized juvenile of the race, hence the title. The story opens with Littlefoot's parent frantically searching the forest and calling out for them, and Adam uses some shots in this sequence to demonstrate depth-of-field effect, where the "camera's" focus is narrowly limited to the subject of the shot at the particular moment. We then cut to a scene of some Brackenwood wildlife, a feathergnat being eaten by a petalfly, which then floats off, jellyfish-like. (The petalflies were originally called Umbrellaflies, but Philips changed the name, reasoning that Brackenwood doesn't have umbrellas.)

The petalfly attracts the attention of the missing Littlefoot, who goes bouncing down a hill after it and then follows it into a grassy field clearing. The scene then cuts to Bitey, who is being his usual horrid self, until he's confronted with a spider, which absolutely unnerves him. (The look on the spider's face when Bitey runs off is absolutely priceless.) Bitey's retreat brings him to the same field that Littlefoot is in, and he goes back into brat mode, stalking up on the young morrug just as it's about to make friends with a fatsack. Bitey torments Littlefoot, who flips into berserk mode, eyes going green as a signal for "this morrug's going feral on your ass". We get some more good depth-of-field as the parent, also in a green-eyed angry state, snatches Littlefoot from Bitey with a roar. The dashkin bully can't leave it at that though, and uses his speed to run up, throw a clod of dirt and grass at them and run off again. The morrugs then demonstrate why you don't get in a throwing-things fight with them, by throwing a pair of boulders at Bitey, braining the jerk senseless.

We're then treated to Phillips being an absolute show-off with his lighting work, giving us a gorgeous example of a sunset/moonrise portion of a day/night cycle. But as the moon comes up, an ominous chant begins to arise: "YUYu, YUYu, YUYu..." Out of the darkness, a score of shadowy and twisted humanoid figures with glowing eyes and fangy pointed teeth rise up, and begin speaking in an alien sounding tongue. They note that Bitey is injured, and then declare that they will steal him, ending the animation on that cliffhanger. This ending seems to come out of nowhere, but it was actually hinted at with some very well hidden easter eggs throughout the animation. Phillips had actually made a contest where he had hidden 20 things for the fans to find and screenshot, and the contest went unwon, because no one found them all (the prize was a copy of Macromedia Studio MX 2004 and a Bitey T-Shirt). A handful of the hidden easter eggs were early appearances by the creatures at the end.

Adam also included an homage to the controversial SFX/SEX dust scene from The Lion King, a face hidden in the thrown boulder, and a reflection of Bitey in Littlefoot's eyes. Most of the easter eggs hidden in this Flash however, were messages written in a constructed language that Phillips had invented for Brackenwood, called Sarus. Sarus is an evolution of an earlier 19th century real-world ConLang, Solresol. Both use the Do-Re-Me-Fa-So-La-Ti pitch nomenclature (known as Solfège). While Sarus is based on variants of those seven syllables, it could alternately be communicated with their corresponding musical notes, a color spectrum, or even hand gestures. (The same association of notes, colors, and hand gestures also applies to Solresol, which was used as the basis of Earth's attempts to communicate with the aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.)

For this animation's easter eggs however, he used a written form of Sarus called septaglphys in which the syllables of a Sarus word were represented by pen strokes made from corner to corner of a seven sided polygon. The first few septaglyph easter eggs were just instructions on where to look for further easter eggs, but then Phillips began foreshadowing the cliffhanger ending, with phrases such as "la miflyt mirek mimrum / the hills have eyes", "la lafyd laf la somid / the lady of the night", and "dorlyt laf la soruf / people of the shadow". (More or less -- the word "laf" translates to "of" in the earliest versions of Sarus, but this was later changed to be Sarus for "less". In the most recent versions of the language, "of" is translated as "remir".)

There was also a Sketchpad easter egg at the end, featuring lineart concept drawings. When Philips first released the animation, he billed it as Part 1 of 2, and hidden past the sketchpad was a note in Sarus septaglyphs that said that the story is not finished. As it turned out though, this particular story arc was big enough that it wouldn't get finished in part 2 either. Part 1 would be the last time that Adam would compose and record his own music; subsequent Brackenwood Flashes would feature outside music talent.

That wraps it up for now. Next week, we'll continue on seeing what kind of flash Flash animation could come from too much spare time.

[morphoric]

@morruge // continued from here

❛ wow, that’s so modest of you, rach.

        you should put that on a t-shirt. smart ass, great ass, annnnd... i don’t know, some third ass related thing. you could call it the rachel assber collection. get it? ❜

[lstrocket]

@morruge

“I love your outfit miss!” She beamed, “It’s so cute!”

[okusawatxt-blog]

     ❮ ♪ ❯ if her luck couldn’t get any worse for her when she finally noticed that there were no free seats available for her to sit & spend the day alone, the fact that the only spot open was with another stranger made her feel slightly iffy -- not that it was a bad thing to begin with. well, it’s not like there’s anything else that she could do now that she already bought her food & was carrying her food tray while surveying if anyone seemed like they wanted to leave but to no avail. then again, it wasn’t like she’s going to take a long time to eat -- it wouldn’t really pose a big problem. with light enough steps, she slowly approached the other, trying not to seem like she was too uncomfortable having to talk with someone she didn’t want to for as much as she could. ❛ would you mind i sit here ? the seats are full & well, none of them seem like they’re leaving soon. ‘  ❙ @morruge​  ♩ s c.

[finalkeeper]

[ @morruge | #knystarfestival ] 

Well-- here he is, without his partner in crime. Familiarity seems to have taken a hike somewhere up into the mountains -- maybe to find itself, Minho doesn’t know. Everything in this loud streets? A stranger to him -- the cheer, the laughter, the voices; it’s carefreeness that he’d never encountered, and he feels like a fish out of water, a runner without running shoes --

It’s exhilarating.

The lights are bright in the summer night, and yet the warm atmosphere feels rather artificial. He lets it wash over him, taking the surroundings in stride; so many people from a different place than he was -- or was this all WICKED’s ploy? But there was no way they could even get these people in the first place, when most of the population was, to be very frank, dead.

Look at him, being all skeptical -- Thomas would have been prou-

wait - was that - 

A slender figure, a flash of blonde hair. He catches it through throngs of people, and Minho’s not sure if he saw properly -- but if Newt was here, then maybe-? 

His paranoia tells him to slow down, that this could be a Trial; but when had he ever listened to it? Minho wasn’t one to let opportunities slip away, and he grabs it while he can, pushing through people to catch up to her -- 

“Never thought I’d see you here--”

... oh. Maybe this was a Trial after all. Words initially spill out in English, and he considers changing to the language Koi used -- but... the person in front of him didn’t remotely look Asian at all, and so Minho makes an assumption, continuing in English. ( It’s still a bit weird, being mostly surrounded by people who looked sorta similar to him compared to the Glade. )

“... You’re not Sonya. Who’re you?”

[timeflicked]

RULES: tag ten followers you want to know better!

TAGGED BY: lil eggo gal @promiisekept ! ♥ thank you

TAGGING: @cursedhorn @godmarked @convivicl @morruge @infiniitas @elusivos @youthaunted @amazcballs @sakuraari @reaperxfsin  @dahliafemmes

NAME: hosho

STAR SIGN: capricorn

HEIGHT: 5′3″

WHAT’S YOUR MIDDLE NAME? UHH

PUT YOUR ITUNES ON SHUFFLE. WHAT ARE THE FIRST 6 SONGS THAT POPPED UP?

-  helena beat -  foster the people

-  no angels - bastille feat ella

-  i like to listen to you talk -   the brahms

- neverland -  crywolf ft charity lane

- blessed with a curse -  BMTH

- homemade dynamite -  lorde

GRAB THE BOOK NEAREST YOU AND TURN TO PAGE 23. WHAT’S LINE 17? ‘i had never made such a big mistake before. ‘

EVER HAD A POEM OR SONG WRITTEN ABOUT YOU? a looong time ago, yes

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU PLAYED AIR GUITAR? when i listened to 80′s rock 1day

WHO IS YOUR CELEBRITY CRUSH? DACRE MONTGOMERY  ♥ !!

WHAT’S A SOUND YOU HATE; SOUND YOU LOVE?

HATE: gritting, metal scratch noises

LOVE: clock & cicada clicks

DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? yES ??!

HOW ABOUT ALIENS? .. uh yes.. no... ?? im skeptic

DO YOU DRIVE? yep

IF SO, HAVE YOU EVER CRASHED? ... nO, just rammed my side view mirror to my mailbox when i reversed bc i was mAD.  ‘lil run-ins is all

WHAT WAS THE LAST BOOK YOU READ?  u mean fanfictions?? caulscott content

DO YOU LIKE THE SMELL OF GASOLINE? heck yea

WHAT WAS THE LAST MOVIE YOU SAW? The Boy on netflix

WHAT’S THE WORST INJURY YOU’VE EVER HAD? slamming my knee on cement after falling off a skateboard, sike, the shoulder blade/neck pain i get monthly is a bitch cant lift off my bed

DO YOU HAVE ANY OBSESSIONS RIGHT NOW? FUCKING AUTUMN ! 

DO YOU TEND TO HOLD GRUDGES AGAINST PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE YOU WRONG? an old habit i try to let go, but yeah, im bound to do it now and then 

IN A RELATIONSHIP? nope!

[radwolf76]

FLASHBack: Week 91 [Bisected-Month Brackenwood] - Waterlollies

It's the third Thursday in September so FLASHBack is off to Adam Philips' Brackenwood to see what's next for Bitey. When we last checked in, we had been on a bit of a cliff hanger, still awaiting closure for the multi-part story that had started with Littlefoot and been given a musical interlude with The YuYu. The overall theme of the trilogy is our dashkin anti-hero Bitey having to learn there are consequences to being a brat, and that continues into the next chapter, Waterlollies. Before I link to the animation though, which was first uploaded to Bitey Castle on 1 November 2007, then to Newgrounds on the fifth, some explanation is in order: just what is a "Waterlolly"? This was explained in the Flash's preloader, in the form of notes by Brackenwood's resident Viccan witch, Lemonee Wee, last seen in the animation Bitey of Brackenwood. The Waterlollies are a form of magical precipitation that fall during "musical storms". Droplets of compressed water measuring a few inches across encased in a clear skin. They are shock sensitive -- upon impact, they expand to nine times their volume.   So, now that the magical MacGuffin is explained, let's talk about the Waterlollies animation. First let's start with the list of awards: Frontpaged by Newgrounds on 5 November 2007, Newgrounds Daily Feature the day after that, two days later it took Newgrounds Weekly Users' Choice and Review Crew Pick, and then the First Newgrounds Tank Award for Movie of The Year for 2007; in 2008, Cold Hard Flash listed it as #4 in the category of "Best Animated" in their series of "Flash Animation 10" top ten lists. And right from the opening it's clear to see why, as Adam continues to show off the honing of his effects animation craft in the medium of Flash, from the refraction in the water droplets to the tendril like fins on the feathergnat that stops to take a drink from them. Unfortunately for the feathergnats, Bitey has decided to steal their hive to make a meal of the nectar within. When the chasing swarm of feathergnats catches up to him he throws the emptied hive away, disturbing one of the sasquatch-like Morrugs who had been in the middle of a morning whiz.   He immediately goes into green eyed rage mode, but Bitey, like always, takes advantage of his exemplary speed to escape to a safe distance and then rubs it in with a mocking taunt. Speaking of the Morrugs, we then get to see the hairless Morrug, Auld Sage, gathering unexpanded waterlollies from the lake, giving Philips more opportunity to show off his animation of clear droplet-like objects. Bitey rushes by, and the wake he kicks up carries the Sage's basket along to the opposite shore. Not realizing what they are, Bitey opens his big maw and downs the whole basket of waterlollies, eliciting a gasp from Auld Sage. The hairless Morrug scoops up another waterlolly and throws it across the lake at Bitey, to illustrate exactly what a colossal mistake the dashkin has made.  

Bitey watches as the watery globe swells upon impact with the ground, and the horrified realization sinks in. His tummy is already bloated from the basketful he just gulped down, and THEY'RE STILL UNEXPANDED. He has a vision of what might happen should they all expand, and decides immediately that is not his kink. So he SLOWLY begins to walk off, as Adam animates the convex lens effect that the expanded waterlolly has as it refracts the image showing through it.   At first, he tries to lay quietly under a tree to avoid jostling his stomach, but the sins of his past come back to haunt him: the clamber of Prowlies that he's tangled with in the past prowl by, and when he looks for a way to get away from them, he sees Littlefoot's parent, a Morrug who's been mad enough at him in the past to throw a car-sized boulder at him. He decides that maybe the forest is too open of a place to wait out his predicament, and he crawls off for a nearby cave.   Bitey gets to the cave just in time to avoid the swarm of feathergnats that's still been chasing him, only to find that it's home to one of his biggest fears: spiders. Far too many spiders. Cue a scream loud enough to catch the attention of all of Bitey's various nemeses. The feathergnats are the quickest to react, swarming him as soon as he jumps from the cave, guts gurgling dangerously. In the previous chapter, Bitey's shown he can deal with Swarms by using his speed head on to disperse them, but in his current condition, speed is absolutely not an option, so his only escape is the lake.   He finally finds a hollow branch to claim as a place to rest, displacing a chisel lizard mother and child who had been living there. They're caught by the black-furred Morrug who's been annoyed with Bitey since the morning, who pulls him roughly from the branch and sticks him up by the horns, intending to use him as a punching bag. This finally sets off the contents of Bitey's stomach. Not disastrously all at once, mind you, but in a chain reaction where the first one that goes off pushes the rest back out of his mouth, erupting as they go, a very humbling experience for the Dashkin.   Perhaps Bitey has finally learned his lesson. Next week, maybe we all can learn something.

[radwolf76]

FLASHBack: Week 95 [Bisected-Month Brackenwood] - The Last of the Dashkin

As is custom on FLASHBack, the third Thursday of the month brings us Back to Brackenwood. This time Adam Philips treats us to a bit of an origin story for Bitey, as well as adding a new facet to the animations in the series: narration. This time around, I’m linking to the Newgrounds page for this rather than Philips’ YouTube, as their video conversion is a higher resolution than the one on his channel. The Last of the Dashkin, posted to both Philips’ own website as well as Newgrounds on 9 December 2009, is actually Adam’s recommended entry point into the series, as the narration lays plain Bitey’s internal struggles and why he lashes out with his brattish behavior. The end of the animation also reveals the identity of the narrator: Lemonee Wee, the last of her race – the Viccans. She has gotten a major character re-design since her last appearance; gone is the cartoonish stereotype of a witch, given way to something that Adam felt better fit the mythology he was building for Brackenwood. Her fliquirish powers over water remain as strong as ever.   For as much as the narration gives insight into Bitey’s character, it goes quiet during the flashback to his youth. There was a passage written for these scenes that was ultimately cut:

His earliest memories are little more than brief, flickering images of calamity. Horned people. Flying people. Giant people and darkness. In a more vivid memory he wakes in a quiet, softly glowing chamber. Little creatures with wide, curious eyes regard him and he, them. His dreams are filled with recollections of lonely wanderings under sweeping skies, nights bright and deep. Musical breezes and whispering woods. For a brief time in his infancy he was adopted and cared for by a pair of morrugs. Cruelly, but naturally they abandoned him after producing offspring of their own. Confused, vulnerable and utterly alone, he discovered quite by accident his inherent gift for swiftness. As time passed, his talent for escaping trouble became a favourite means of causing it.

Those “flickering images of calamity” are from a dark incident in Brackenwood’s past when the YuYu attacked in great numbers, snatching away most all of Brackenwood’s sentient beings, namely Bitey’s race the Dashkin, the magic using Viccans, and a race of giants known as the Trogues. Somehow, Bitey, as an infant dashkin, evaded capture and awoke in the hollow dome of a phosphorescent dome tree. Presumably Lemonee Wee had been a little older when the calamity had happened; the notes she wrote on waterlollies in the previous chapter’s preloader felt like a primary schooler’s report paper, and read like they’d been written for other Viccan elders, and not say someone like Auld Sage.   The ending to this animation leaves the audience wanting more. These two beings, the last of their kind, face to face with each other as the one is trying to size up her counterpart, and determine if he’ll forever be a savage loner or if there’s a chance he might become a compassionate friend, cutting to “To Be Continued” before the question can be answered – it’s a classic cliffhanger. One that as of now has gone unresolved. Phillips still had dreams of something bigger than a series of Flash releases, but when no Hollywood studios ever took interest, he attempted to turn Brackenwood into a game franchise. Plans for a Last of the Dashkin game fell through as well, so as of 2018, he’s been working on a Last of the Dashkin 2 animation, with no firm release date. There were a few Brackenwood side project animations, and we’ll investigate those in the remaining months of the FLASHBack series.   So while there never was a Brackenwood video game, next week, we’ll touch upon a character synonymous with video games, in a video fitting for the month of October.

[radwolf76]

FLASHBack: Week 69 [Bisected-Month Brackenwood] - Bingbong of Brackenwood

Third Thursday of the month here on FLASHBack, and we’re in need of an new recurring monthly series to fill the void left by the end of Madness Combat. So allow me to introduce Bisected-Month Brackenwood. Brackenwood has been a long term project of former Disney Animator and Australian, Adam Philips. Starting as an inbetweener on A Goofy Movie, he then proceeded to work on several Disney animated television shows and direct-to-video sequels in the late 1990s, specializing in effects animation.   In 2000, Philips began teaching himself Macromedia Flash on his own time. His skills as a professional animator translated quickly to Flash, and by 2003 he had produced an official music video for Ween’s song Transdermal Celebration, and had a winning entry at the Film Festival for the Flashforward Professional Flash Developers’ Conference in NYC. At the previous year’s Flashforward Film Festival in March of 2002, while he didn’t win, he was a finalist in the cartoon category, and a few months later on 02 July 2002, he posted that finalist animation, Bingbong of Brackenwood on his personal website.

  Brackenwood was a fantasy world conceived by Adam filled with a wide bestiary of mystical creatures and a host of colorful characters. His intent was to shop the concept around to television and movie studios it hopes that it would be picked up for production. This goal predated the Bingbong animation, as in 2001, Philips had made a prior Flash animation, featuring another Brackenwood character, Auld Sage, shown singing the Coldplay song Life is for Living as placeholder music. Auld Sage is a hairless example of the bigfoot race, or as they are known in Brackenwood Lore, Morrugs. Adam’s years as an effects animator really shine through in this piece, as he was doing things with lighting, shadow, and god rays that few other Flash animators had even thought of in 2001.   No Morrugs make appearances in Bingbong of Brackenwood, but we do get introduced to Bingbong. The Brackenwood lore was never quite clear on exactly what Bingbong was other than a child of his race, whether it be some type of goblin, elf, or dryad. Adam intended for Bingbong to be the primary protagonist of the series. However, similar to what we saw with Homestar Runner, creator intent is one thing, but sometimes characters have minds of their own, and of course, fan response is seldom predictable.   The other characters shown in this first official Brackenwood episode are the Feidh (pronounced fey), tiny elemental spirits that can appear as either firefly-like sparks or tiny humanoid flames. Inspired by the fairies of Celtic myth, the opening narration text highlights a sinister side to their nature, but when Bingbong encounters them he ends up being just too dumb to be ensnared by their magic.   Next week on FLASHBack, some more stupidity. You might even say I’m just phoning it in at this point.

[radwolf76]

FLASHBack: Week 100 [Bisected-Month Brackenwood] - BWDS: Fatsack

It's the third Thursday of the month again, which means FLASHBack is going back to Brackenwood. As I mentioned last month, former Disney animator Adam Phillips had put the main series on hiatus while trying to get a video game off the ground, and has only recently returned to work on animating the next chapter. However, in parallel to his attempts to get his video game off the ground, he came up with a spin-off series, meant to expand the lore of Brackenwood, without having to advance the plot of Bitey's story. The Brackenwood Wildlife Documentary Series is in the pattern of your typical nature documentaries, with voiceover narration shown over footage of a particular example of fauna, explaining a bit about the creature. Phillips had laid out a long list of the members of Brackenwood's bestiary that he wanted to cover in the series: Fatsacks, Prowlies, Morrugs, Blood-Coats, Chisel-Lizards, Giribus, Mood Birds, Dandeants, Feathergnats, Umbrellaflies (Petalflies), and Salmogs. So far, however, he's only covered the first two from that list, and announced that the next episode would cover the third.   The first chapter of BWDS, Fatsack was posted to Newgrounds on 22 June 2016. As is typical of a Brackenwood animation, it raked in the usual slate of Newgrounds awards (Frontpaged, Daily Feature, Weekly Users' Choice, and Review Crew Pick). Notably, this was not animated in Flash at all, but instead in Toon Boom Harmony; however as the bulk of the Brackenwood series was done in Flash, I'm including it in FLASHBack for the sake of completion. The short clip explains the simple anatomy of the Fatsacks, why they slosh when they move, and the source of their impolite noises. The narration is provided by A.K. Alfadel, a voice actor who offered up his services while watching Phillips work on the animation on Twitch. The musical score is the world map music from the canceled Last of the Dashkin video game.   That wraps it up for this week. Next week, we'll talk turkey.

[radwolf76]

FLASHBack: Week 74 [Bisected-Month Brackenwood] - Bitey of Brackenwood

FLASHBack time once more, and since it's the third Thursday of the month, that means another visit to the forest covered fantasy world of Brackenwood, as envisioned by former Disney animator Adam Philips. Last month we met Bingbong, a kind hearted simpleton who was meant to be the lead character. As I hinted at last time, the Brackenwood series shares a commonality with Homestar Runner in that there was an idiot main character, and a jerkish asshole of a character meant to be the nemesis, and fans nearly unanimously pointed to the latter and said "THIS ONE. Him I like." On 27 March 2004 Adam would post a Flash to his personal site that would introduce a new character, Bitey of Brackenwood; two days later he would upload it to Newgrounds, where it took the trifecta of Daily Feature, Weekly Users' Choice, and Review Crew Pick awards. Later, Bitey of Brackenwood would win runner up in the 2004 TGSNT (The Greatest Story Never Told) Awards, a Flash Animation Professional Industry contest.   Bitey is the last of the Dashkin, a satyr-like race with supernatural speed and agility. Having grown up without parental guidance and the power to outrun the consequences of his actions, he's a bit of a brat and a bully. He was originally to have been named Mortis, but as Philips developed the character, he decided he wanted something simpler while still retaining a touch of the sinister. He settled on "Bitey" a word that he'd used to describe nasty critters since he was a child. (Being from Australia, it was probably a word he had many occasions to use.) Settling on a face was even harder than picking a name — one day he scribbled out a sketch of a face design he didn't like, which gave him the inspiration to just cover Bitey's whole head and face in a layer of fur. Fun fact: Bitey's standing vertical jump is as high as 20 meters — someone sign him up for the NBA.

  When we first meet Bitey, he's hunting down a yellow Easter Marshmallow Peep-looking creature called a fatsack. This particular one was named "Jiblet" by fans on the BiteyCastle forums. At first it looks like poor Jiblet is going to meet a gruesome and toothy end at the jaws of Bitey, but it turns out the dashkin had other plans for it, bouncing it on his head like a soccer ball before smacking it far in the distance with a stick. There are worse fates that can befall a peep to be honest.   It's then that Bitey notices that he's stumbled upon a clearing with a treehouse cottage. A sign near by has the word "Wee" and a drawing of a witch, with an arrow pointng to her cottage. This witch's full name is Lemonee Wee, and like Bitey, she too is the last of her race. The Vicans were humanoids imbued with innate magic such as flight and control of the elements. Her design in this Flash is by Adam's friend and co-worker from when he worked at Disney, David Wilkinson.   Bitey approaches the cottage, the expression on his face a mix of curiosity and annoyance despite Philips only having the outlines of eyes to work with unless the dashkin opens his mouth. However, it works for Spiderman and Deadpool, and so it works for Bitey as well. As he peeks inside, he sees that Lemonee is taking tea with the hairless Mourrg, Auld Sage. In addition to that, a picture on the wall shows him giving the Vican a piggyback ride. Bitey, who has no such close friends, decides to take out his frustrations on one of Lemonee's flowerpots.   As Bitey jumps down and walks away, Wee bursts out, intending to let the Dashkin know that under no circumstances do you mess with her plants. She strafes him with her broom a few times, but he's too fast for her, dodging out of the way each time. She changes tactics, distracting him with her broom and then hitting him with her fliquirish magic, summoning up a wave of water to carry him off.   Bitey's speed is of no use to him as he's bounced and tossed at the top of animated water, and he might still be stuck there, had he not been yanked out by another member of the bigfoot-like Mourrg race, this one having a full pelt unlike Auld Sage. Bitey probably wishes he hadn't been rescued though, as this particular Mourrg is friends with Jiblet, and decides to return the favor for the treatment that the dashkin had given the little yellow fatsack earlier with a running dropkick.   That's all for Brackenwood for now, but the Mid-Month Slot on FLASHBack used to belong to Madness Combat, and there's been a recent development on that front. While there hasn't been a release of any animations to advance the main canon storyline, on 15 May 2020, Krinkels indulged us in a bit of non-canon (and headphone destroying) silliness titled PSA: Piracy, in which Hank and two grunts act out the audio from this student project. Next week, we'll kick it old school with a throwback to the 4-Bit video gaming era.