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The sanity break is going good, I'm getting some stuff done IRL, and HatG is on track to start up again on time on July 1. Since I'm at a cover I'm going to attach the "What even is this???" post again, both for the pinned post on my main and because I started sharing this a few new places like 2/3 of the way through issue one and people definitely missed it.

What is ‘A Host At The Gate?”

HatG is a Baldur's Gate 3 fan comic where I tossed a whole bunch of my Tavs together into a single huge party. Hilarity ensues. The title is a pun I came up with on the fly that ended up sticking; I can't decide if I regret it or not lol.

Who Are the Tavs?

A guy who was just trying to do crimes and is furious to realize he has just become a paladin accidentally

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The skrunkliest little rat boy of a drow you've ever seen

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Disney's first gnome princess, getting more use out of her doctorate on this quest than anywhere else tbh

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Halfling bard making heart eyes at Karlach from approximately knee height (gay)

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Knowledge cleric banned from the set of Mythbusters for safety violations that could have lost them a bunch of permits

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Good Eilistraean dad of Imberlur origin who will make you tea after your big, dramatic character moments

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Exactly one (1) competent project manager fighting all the gods at once to make sure we don't game-over because someone lost a Nether Stone in the bottom of the camp chest.

Do I need to have finished the whole game for this to make sense?

Not really. It helps if saw out the opening cinematic but it should otherwise speak for itself for the most part. Spoilers left and right though.

If I get my way about it, I will eventually go through the whole game with this cast. That is a years long project if I succeed, so life being what it is we'll see how far I get in reality.

How often do you update?

Whenever the next page gets done, so it depends on what my week has been like. I made myself a little sticker chart on google sheets to track my daily drawing goals, so you can usually get a pretty close idea of when to expect the next page.

Next regular page will be July 1; I’m taking some time off at the end of June so I don’t go fully insane looking at the same project constantly.

Content Warnings?

In the long run, about the same as the game its based on. Mature rating overall. Dead dove etc.

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1 million thanks to the handful of people who have been following HatG so far, it genuinely means the world to me.

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I always love it when there's a page like this at the end of stuff. These gags predate most of the comic so far lmao.

REGULAR PAGES RESUME JULY 1

The Issue 2 cover will be sometime either this week or next week, and then I'm taking a break for the rest of June. Happy Pride month, y'all!

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I did not expect to get these last couple of pages out so fast, but I've been laid up this week, so I've done pretty much nothing but this for the last three days. Might take a bit of time off once I post the Issue 2 cover just so I don't fully go insane lol.

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As you can tell from the third update in three days, I've had some time on my hands this week lmao.

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Man, this one went quick.

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This bluff probably would have worked better if he weren't himself holding the the dead guy's sword.

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Fun fact, this is based directly on my own playthrough. The only time I ever beat Zhalk without mods, Us got the kill shot.

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IDK if that panel 2 moment of Shadowheart offscreen helping Lae'zel get closer to the console reads as well as I hoped, but I really like that it happened this early.

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Breaking: sorcerer who wrongly believes he has stats for punching casts an actual spell for once. Party briefly startled: didn't realize he could do that.

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Laws has spotted a problem.

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You can tell we've reached the climactic scene for this chapter because it's busted out into tricolor instead of monochrome lol. I was getting bored of the purple tbh.

A better than average Lae'zel face! I either figured it out or this is the only good one there will ever be.

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I have yet to settle into how the hell to draw Lae'zel's face. Dangert.

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We're back babeeeeey! One whole day early too. Still got it.

First instance of Shadowheart stink face at Lae'zel existing.

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Shadowheart's indignant face in the last panel is my favorite thing. People hate it when you interrupt their cutscenes.

Laws is done with this detour, it seems.

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It's going to be a bit longer than usual! I've been able to crank these out at a pretty quick pace so far, but I am going to be away from home for about two weeks, and my laptop is too old and slow to work on these reliably. I am going to try to do at least one page in that time, but I don't promise anything prior to about May 17th-- two weeks gone, a couple days to recover, then about a week to get the next page done.

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Risk Taking Behavior (tm)

IDK how illithid rune slates work actually, but the size of it makes me feel like this thing must slot in like a floppy disk.

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Oops.

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