I got some news to break the radio silence! I've been hard at work on Sala's Battlers for Sala's Escape but also I've been trying to rip off the bandaid of doing the sprites for the Maid Levels. And I believe I've made good progress:

So we have the Head Maid, we have the mansion guards, we have the- [REDACTED] We have a dead pony floating in the pool (it's not applejack) we have ponyplay Mrs. Cake. We have a tied up head maid. and we have party guests before and after they get their asses kicked. Looks like the sprite work is done right? well... no...

There's still more work to do:

1. I need to put maid outfits on the princesses
2. I need to draw battlers for the maid outfit princesses
3. I need to draw up another character for the mansion (the Ponyplay overseer, the Horsemistress.)
4. I need to make sprites of ponyplay prisoners
5. I need to make sure the stealth level and main quest all works
6. I need to plan out CGS.
7. I need to code in Maid Outfits.
8. I need to draw enemy battlers for the Head Maid, the party guests, the guard, and the things under the mansion

You know what the biggest irony of spritework is for me? I've been working with pixels for nearly fourteen years, but pixel art is always the most annoying and strenuous! I think I need to find a sprite guy sometime. Take off some of the load and focus on other things.

But for now the devil rides alone.