This is a game a little over 7 years in the making. In the summer of 2015, I dreamed up the following adventure. Back then I was highly inspired by and jealous of the person I still consider the GOAT of the b12 lower boards: freeformschooler. The Level Up Club was supposed to be my answer to
The Warrens of Oric the Awesome. I spent several hours a day for the better part of a month improving my digital art/image editing skills and building up a library of assets, ambitiously intent upon launching my own ISG epic that would span thousands of pages.
Eventually, however, I called the project off. My art abilities did not progress to the point where I could work fast enough to update such a project with any consistent speed. I was also rather insure and afraid that the project would be shunned as a cheap ripoff of FFS's work.
The better part of a decade has passed since then. The concept of The Level Up club never left my head, but I never dreamed I'd get the opportunity to do a properly epic ISG justice at my skill level. It is now, however, the year 2022. With the launch of DALL-E, AI might have knocked artistic skill out of the ISG equation, and I am more mature. I now don't dream or even intend to match the greatness that was mid 2010's freeformschooler, but I dedicate what follows to him nonetheless; This is merely a story that begs to be told, and a test to see if our AI overlords can effectively draw an (ISG) from an (SG) guy.