音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

どんなに派手に宣言するのは、やらないと無意味。だから、この過ぎ去った6月に裏で少しずつ自分の軌跡を修正いていた。

By both analogue and digital writing, the last days of June were filled by a mixture of embarrassment and nostalgia and motivation. During the most recent CSS renovation, I was growing the idea to merge "liner notes" right into each art display page. Honestly, it's hard to tell by some "creative" titles what each journal post was about, especially after many years. The decision was finalised last week, and without further delay.

However, looking back at my past artworks, especially those done during the very beginning, was full of embarrassment. If not for writing past liner notes, I would not look at them so closely. Yet, surprisingly, I could still recall many of my thoughts while drawing them. -- If I made something with care, I can have a description of it. -- This is true when I have a presentation (that I just make a ppt file and never look at again but can have a good talk to the public), so this also applies to my drawing, and perhaps everything else in life, though through time many memories do fade.
That's why I shall make notes of them, when I can still recall!

Meanwhile, there were also so many pieces that triggered new motivations to remake them. A simple remaster would not be suitable here at all since I doubt I'd keep any of the to-be-updated work similar to the original version (斉藤先生のお陰ですね).
But the first priority is my CST. One may think it can be easily done since I've passed the 50% threshold, but it's not that easy -- and I do have tons to explain/complain regarding my recent card "sword 8", I'll not borrow more space here.

At least the xml reorganisation work has been done, and now I just need to fill up the missing notes, from paper to digital files.

Thanks to Sword 8, I could have a good fight with the Twinmoon Knight. There is no unnecessary lecture when you die, no enforced NPC summoning for a certain quest, and most importantly, her BGM is just too awesome to not loop for a while. That fight made me doing some loops for the entire ER DLC soundtrack file. Suddenly, "elder inquisitor" attracted my attention. This one could work, as long as I can write it out.

Then, somehow, I thought of Nioh2, for which I couldn't find the DLC soundtracks even now. It seems that the team has no intention to release them at all, and I had to rely on people who could extract them from the game. This surely resulted in low quality, just better than nothing.
Regardless, once Yoshitsune's theme came, I wanted to play Nioh2 again. Since the recent Nioh3 alpha demo, I've got a better understanding of some weapons I didn't use much in 2. Could it be the time to run it throughly before 3 (fun but I doubt I get the time)?

Also about soundtracks, Kingdom Come Deliverance II indeed has tons of good music, but I don't understand why the official soundtrack only contains a small portion. I had to dig more into their music.pak files.
The wedding series of pieces is so delightful that I may start a new loop!

I've never tried root beer before, and thus I got one without any pre-knowledge. I simply thought it was some kind of bubbling water with beer flavour. But I was wrong.
Totally wrong!

Believe it or not, that thing tastes like Medicated Oil.
This is NOT a compliment.
And no more of this thing in my life. ⚔️

Finally, some small trivia.
My work account is often named "kirsch", German, K-starting, and related to cherry (one of my fav fruits). It's just perfectly selected.
Plus, although I knew it refers to a kind of alcohol when I picked up the word as the account name, I couldn't feel more in this direction until some days ago:
If I were from the Black Syndicate in Detective Conan, this could be my code name!

Now I shall work on my new card while slowly transferring my art notes into the xml file!