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I cleaned up the map for the subgate au base and did little doodles of the drop-off under the moon pool and a diagram of how the overhead observatories work. Since they're 16 meters down from the surface, i figured ladders would be impractical, and a friend pointed out a lift would work and they ARE surrounded by water. Basically i'm saying Tav jury rigged a hydraulic lift to connect multipurpose rooms and observatories. Yes, the pumps are huge and i have not drawn them to scale. Yes Tav has claim on the cat poster. Yes Gale is jealous.

They only have one window in their room, with a desk in front of it so they might stare out over the creepvines and ponder machines. They also have a wall planter and two plants on either side of the bulkhead leading out into the hall, as well as a locker for personal items.

The storage and ready room is dominated by labelled lockers and fabricators, as well as spaces for everyone's wetsuits. Shadowheart's medbay/lab has an operation bay [a bench next to a bed, for when stiffness is needed], an isolation tank for studying fish, work tables, med kit fabricators, and water filtration. Largely because she demanded access to the most clean water for cleaning things and no one wanted to argue. The Farm/Alien Containment room is just that-- a bunch of planters and a slew of Peepers being bred for food. The enzyme they're accidentally cultivating in there is about the only reason they stave off the kharaa as long as they do.

The comms room is literally just a radio, a desk, and scanner data of the planet [for mapping purposes] on screens. They always have at least one person in comms when there are people out on excursions. This is often Gale, just so he doesn't have to look down. Which is also why he's often the only one left when Astarion gets into his Shenanigans.

Bonus, updated map with terrain:

#subgate au

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I finished the sketches and labeled them. I'm posting them now instead of when they're 'done' because my wrist hurts and im letting myself take a break.

Ok now to break it down, from left to right:

Tav: 5'6", affiliated with Alterra only as a nonessential systems tech. Basically if it won't kill you from it breaking, it's their job to fix it before you notice it's broken on the Aurora. Took the 18+ month job as just another trip out into space because they like space travel. Always wanted to explore the stars but that's a science job and they couldn't afford the university sims for that. Highly efficient, but not great at taking care of themselves--though they excel at taking care of others. Occupant of pod 5. Beat the Warpers to the others expressly because they fabricated a scanner and repair tool within 24 hours of landing, accounting for their head injury.

Shadowheart: 5'3", affiliated with the Faerun Group, specifically Baldur's Gate Co. and contracted to Alterra as a spiritual consul for the Alterra mission. Her religious affiliation with the Sharran temple of her home planet is considered a protected fringe belief system, aka it's a cult that controls members via application of debt. Her parents were caught up in one of their expansions and she was part of the collateral the temple took in the debt settlement. She hasn't seen them since she was a teenager. The Mother Superior had her attend university sims for being a doctor to serve the cult, but had her focus on theology more when dealing with other groups. Her pod sank in one of the kelp fields.

Lae'zel: 5'10", subcontracted to Alterra by the Gith Group under the CEO Vlakiith. Meant to provide security for the Aurora while construction happens, and thus one of the few people with a bypass to print something vaguely like weapons from fabricators. This doesn't work in emergency mode, however. Just graduated from training academy consisting of extensive sims and physical education. Is both very confident in her skills and terrified of being alone in a crash scenario. Not because she's insecure, so much as the larger portion of her training was group work and flying solo feels very much like she's unprepared. Her pod is at the edge of the red grass plateau.

Karlach: 6'0", was formerly sold into the service of an outer systems mercenary group run by Zariel. Currently unaffiliated, technically. Zariel outfitted her with cybernetics that make her hit like a truck, trained her in the use of weaponized PRAWN suits... and wired her heart function to a black box that Zariel usually had her commanders keep on their person, tethering her very literally to the outfit. Upon stealing this black box during a raid on their asteroid base, she hijacked a ship and tried to slingshot around the planet-- getting shot down just as she was being boarded. Her pod landed around the near side of the dunes. She doesn't leave it for obvious reasons.

Astarion: 5'9", currently owned by the Szarr Family Corporation due to a massive amount of medical debt. Currently conducting a form of corporate espionage, in that he fully intends to legally 'discover' nearby resources and force Alterra to argue his claims in court--which Cazador fully intends on capitalizing on. Because if they lose, they still need to pay a finders fee and Cazador gets it in payments. If they win, Alterra has to cede any profit from those resources to Cazador as the owner of the discoverer. Astarion's cybernetics are proprietary Szarr tech and allow Cazador to influence his behavior directly through impulses, strengthening his body and mental processing power by converting a higher than average amount of body reserve iron into other tissues with micro-fabricators. This essentially means you can beat the shit out of him and he won't die, but he will be deeply iron deficient for the next few weeks if he doesn't have supplements or meat. Is one of the few people on the Aurora that bothers ordering the meat dishes because he's used to powering through the disgust of eating organic meat to deal with his tech. Sews as a hobby and did some embellishing to his emergency environment suit while on the Aurora because he didn't anticipate needing it. Promptly discovered that this fucks up the insulation. His pod is wedged upside down in the sand of the crash zone. He braved the outside enough to get a hold of a broken seaglide and get back before he got woozy and get bitten 1 time by a sand shark.

Gale: 5'8", Freelancer. AKA he's blacklisted for losing one of the bigger subcompanies in the Faerun Group about 45% of it's annual profits in the span of one week. In his defense, he'd made the investment that lost all the money because it was something his contractual partner [lover] Mystra was interested in at the time. Normally, this status would leave him destitute and unemployable due to liability--a fate worse than death in-universe. However, he's also one of the most educated men in the Milky Way--through both simulation and practical education. Basically Alterra hired him as a very, very, very cheap way to buff their scientific staff on the Aurora. And it got him off planet for over a year, which he was very grateful for, even if he does miss his cat. His pod is over the mushroom forest and he's deeply, deeply afraid of trying to swim when he cannot see the bottom.

Wyll: 5'7", Alterra... technically. More specifically he was manipulated into signing on as a bounty hunter for Alterra under Mizora, under the contractual agreement that Alterra then wouldn't buy out and dissolve his father's stake in Baldur's Gate co. Mostly he hunts down debtors and space pirates that raid Federation trade ships. Currently on assignment to hunt down Karlach specifically, because Mizora didn't like Zariel spending time on her. Told Wyll she was raiding and producing illegal weapons. He's been in deep space a while tracking her down and it was his raid on the base that let her escape--and why she was being boarded when they were shot down. His pod is about 200 meters further into the dunes. His cybernetics let him generate a small taser like shock, but that won't really help against a reaper. Or surrounded by water.

Halsin: 6'3", TECHNICALLY Alterra. Legally, Alterra. Legally he's a loyal xenobiologist looking to slap his name on the research rights on anything living on anything near the phasegate when it's being built. In reality he's a member of the Druids, an informal organization that protests the commodification of alien life and sues the Federation regularly for protections for newly discovered planets and lifeforms. He is also a xenobiologist, though. And has every intention of slapping research rights out of Alterra's hands-- well until the ship goes down. Then he's more concerned with surviving and also being delighted by the environment. His pod crashed into the side of the floating island and he got out just in time to haul it physically onto dry land because it WAS going to slip into the tide. Joins the gang when they show up to meet up with the Sunbeam and welp. His PDA often cuts his verbal notes short so he's often either typing frantically to get it all down or physically writing it with charcoal on the cave walls. His handwriting is terrible, but he knows what it means so it's fine.

Tav rescues all but Halsin through sheer power of hearing a fucked up noise and deciding they could outswim it. Also bc repairing the radio meant their cybernetic HUD is just SWAMPED with pings and its annoying.

im drawing the gang in their wetsuits for the subgate au and Astarion is about to be fucking bald if his hair doesn't cooperate

#subgate au

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I only have Wyll and Halsin left to draw. do you know how many spoons i spent on just astarion's hair

also its v weird to have them all be human but also that's the only thing they can be in subnautica universe, sadly. And yes Astarion's a special little boy that sewed things to his suit for Aesthetic bc he got bored. Yes it fucks up the insulation so he's cold a lot. No he has not learned from this.

im drawing the gang in their wetsuits for the subgate au and Astarion is about to be fucking bald if his hair doesn't cooperate

#subgate au #art wip

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The oc from HS i talked about the other day. Her name is Bianca and her husband is a gnc blacksmith that is also a cat man. Its a great story.

The shading assist tool is a lot better when the lightsource is in frame, lol. Still iffy on it but including it just bc.

I really like how she came out though, I think i'm better at doing shoes now.

#ocs #mok art #digital art

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colorss

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More April because i love them and me trying the new shading assist tool. I don't think it worked well, but i had fun doing skele-bingo and pissed off April so it's ok.

i did too much detail on bones for the color job i then did on it but its fine.

#eldritch bingo au #mok art #digital art #ocs

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Watching

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Way my phone is ringing Paint a tunnel on the wall, escape before the anvil falls Gotta keep them moving Gotta pick up the groove and let go

Everyone I know Is running from the afterlife

#mok art #digital art #abstract #abstract art

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If anyone is curious this ^ is why I have a headache, aside the storm.

#art wip

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make a wip that doesn't look like a bookmark challenge: impossible

#art wip #posting so i am motivated to finish it at some point

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Tumblr is a bitch and once again won't upload the original so please open this in another tab and zoom in so my detail work isn't lost

#mok art #digital art #abstract art

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And I'm so tired that I might Quit my job, start a new life And they'd all be so disappointed 'Cause who am I, if not exploited?

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[places wip down and walks away, only to catch fire bc its 105F outside]

#art wip #mok art

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so im doodling my m!ik oc, and i decided they're going to be the teacher also working in the Imaginary Creatures division with Balam, and teaches the Incubus course as well as Seduction Theory aka "why devidols work and how cuteness relates to sexiness". Its basically the more academic take on the succubus classes, and the practical classes are very similar-- the only difference being the specifics of HOW seduction is applied. So on. Every year someone signs up expecting something akin to a pick up artist class and gets handed five history books and a planner with the assignment to write down what interactions they have with other students and what ones make them feel the most confident. Because the practical classes are very much 'how to seduce' but like. how to do it with the confidence that even if the target notices they're being seduced, it's accepted by sheer willpower of charisma. which is great but like, she looks like this so far

I cannot overstate how much this :] looking nerd is not what people would expect.

not pictured is their outfit because i fought it for two hours and i still dont like it. aaaa

#ignore the wrong blog oops

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so im doodling my m!ik oc, and i decided they're going to be the teacher also working in the Imaginary Creatures division with Balam, and teaches the Incubus course as well as Seduction Theory aka "why devidols work and how cuteness relates to sexiness". Its basically the more academic take on the succubus classes, and the practical classes are very similar-- the only difference being the specifics of HOW seduction is applied. So on. Every year someone signs up expecting something akin to a pick up artist class and gets handed five history books and a planner with the assignment to write down what interactions they have with other students and what ones make them feel the most confident. Because the practical classes are very much 'how to seduce' but like. how to do it with the confidence that even if the target notices they're being seduced, it's accepted by sheer willpower of charisma. which is great but like, she looks like this so far

I cannot overstate how much this :] looking nerd is not what people would expect.

not pictured is their outfit because i fought it for two hours and i still dont like it. aaaa

#art wip #ocs

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Please look at my art i love it

I draw lines

If you're an artist and are having trouble building followers, especially if you're new on tumblr or back after leaving, reblog this with some of your art. It will be visible to everyone checking the notes. Everyone keep checking the notes and follow whoever puts their cool art in them. People keep telling me I'm Tumblr famous so maybe this helps!

#promo