Night had fallen over Strangerville, and in the desert crater, Grian and Pearl had snuck through the fence surrounding the laboratory, creeping their way to one of the back doors.
As Grian began picking at the lock, Pearl watched with an amused expression. "Since when did you make a habit of breaking into top secret government buildings?"
"Ah, well." Grian rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. "In my defense, I was with Martyn last time, and he did the breaking in, thank you."
"And you guys didn't think to invite me?"
"In my defense, you were sort of... not acting like yourself?"
Pearl snorted. "I mean, that could happen any time. You never know, it could happen right... now!"
There was a pause as Grian glanced back at his sister. A second passed. And then another.
Of course, nothing happened.
Seeing the half-nervous, expectant look on Grian's face, Pearl burst into giggles. "Come on, I said it could happen. I didn't say it was gonna!"
"Who says I was expecting anything to happen?" he retorted, unconvincingly.
"Excuse me, mister!" Pearl jabbed a finger at him. "You were looking at me like you thought I was gonna go all weird and plant-y again!"
"I don't know what you're talking about," Grian lied. "And oh, would you look at that, the door's open!"
Inside, Pearl wrinkled her nose seeing the papers and files strewn across the floor. "Yeesh... I know these guys were probably in a hurry, but would it have killed them to have tidied things up before they left?"
"I think cleaning was the last thing on their minds," Grian commented. "Why, do you wanna clean up after them?"
"Hah! Fat chance, cleaning up after you's bad enough!" She rolled her eyes.
"Oh come on, I'm not that bad!" Grian complained. Pearl just raised her eyebrow at him, as if to say really?
The argument over the cleanliness of the lab versus Grian's room didn't last long as they reached the sealed door.
"Looks like we're gonna need a keycard for this one," Pearl noted.
"Well, luckily for us, I happen to have one." He slipped a hand into his pocket, pulling out the card that Myla had slipped him the other day.
Pearl gaped in surprise. "Now, how'd you get ahold of something like that?"
"Oh, you know," Grian hummed as he approached the scanner. "I made some friends who let me borrow it."
"I see." Pearl crossed her arms. "And are you gonna introduce me to these 'friends' of yours?"
"Uh, well, I dunno." He shrugged noncommittally. "Maybe? Maybe not?"
"Seriously?" Pearl frowned at her brother. "And here I thought we said we were done with secrets-"
The scanner chirped, and Grian interrupted her with a gasp. "We're in!" The grin on his face faded, however, as the doors opened with a hiss of air, and pinkish-violet particles flew out into the air. "Uh... That's fine, right?"
Pearl opened her mouth to answer, when a crash and a pained hiss echoed from the corridor opposite to the one she and Grian had entered through. "No time to worry about that, let's get out of here before we get caught!"
She tugged on Grian's arm, but he resisted "Wait, we don't even know what's down there yet!"
"Fine, we'll hide, but we can't stay here or we're gonna get caught!"
With how much I was enjoying working on the aninmations I wannted to create a bigger piece this time and challenge myself to see what I could do. This time depicting the mule tied to the cart.
Probably could do without accidently kicking the camera out of focus for nearly 30 minutes but I'm happy enough with how it turned out, even if I was a bit constrained by time.
i was given a pen and it was too much power(i drew little guys and autism creatures all over my arm and hand as well as the little guy & trampoline thing
I got Eula really early yippee now I can finally have a good physical character heehoo
Ik she isn't particularly like good with the state of the game rn (ie, dendro reactions) but she was one of the first characters I really really liked so it's more sentimental than anything jdjsksl