Well, this is inconvenient, isn’t it? These canid outposts are always in the most out-of-the-way places. Or, at least, that’s what I’m led to believe. That canid soldier in the lead seems awfully helpful too, doesn’t he? So nice!

No new news on the Kickstarter front this week, but we’re in the ‘looking at contracts and passing things back and forth’ phase, in addition to beginning some tweaks to art material that we’ll be using for the final items, as well as researching the final shape and form of the pledge rewards. It’s been a long process, and of course Rachel is working on the pages AND the rewards stuff simultaneously now, but we’re chipping away at it! The moment we have something new and exciting to share, we will let you know.

Personal plug: this past week, we launched Episode 3 of Guild Wars 2: Living World‘s fourth season of story content. This is the first episode I’ve contributed to in a major way, handling the story development and script for the Deepstone Fractal. You can watch somebody give it a full playthrough here:

The voice of Torin is Jon DiMaggio, known for his work as the voice of Bender on Futurama and Marcus Fenix in the Gears of War series. The “Voice” is Steve Blum, who plays Rytlock Brimstone in Guild Wars 2 proper, but you might also recognize from literally everythingI’ll be contributing more to the Guild Wars 2 universe going forward, and am very excited about what’s next!

For guest art this week, a great piece featuring Dakkan from Blhly!

Thanks so much for the wonderful artwork!!

And remember, if you want to share your own artwork with us and the rest of the Western Deep community, you can email it over to us at thewesterndeep (at) gmail.com!