Many of you know that one of my ultimate goals is to complete my short game series - the Ikusa: Lands of War series. Well, to help fuel my hopeless resolve, I made a third character theme for the primary enemy for it. You'll find it here. I still might go back to remaster it, and possibly commision StaticStigma to sexify the guitars, but it's complete otherwise. It's also my first battle loop, and I love it, so...yay!

Gah, but I've had this game on my mind for about seven years now. It's been started and stopped over three times since, and I've gone as far as trying to try to try to frakking try to restart it from scratch. Never could get over my pride enough to do that, though. :P I never really began devotion to the project until a year ago. Since then, I've made some music for it, sure, but it hasn't made much progress besides a massive junk-heap of maps, events, and bad lines.

Who knows, I might have it done and sexyfied in another year. Eight years seems like...it just seems too long, yeah?

Next hopeful Ikusa content: Kagai's theme, Ikusa series label, character art. :::Psh, good luck with that.:::

Yeargh, my roommate's brother annoys the frakk outta me. Few nights ago, I was remaking the []Minor Test song I've had up here for so long, and I was getting good headway. I leave for two minutes to use the restroom, and I find him using the computer, on his account, playing some game. Didn't bother to save my work or anything - and even then, some of the channels I were using were demo, and wouldn't have been kept. I didn't get the chance to replace them accordingly so this wouldn't happen. Agh.

In other news, I got a very small burst of inspiration recently, and it manifested itself into my latest bit of noise, [Unwanted News]. I intend to remake it and remaster it, so don't bleed too hard at it.

Oh yes. Dr. Pepper saves my life, too.

***This post will be made on fanfiction dot net, newgrounds dot com, gaiaonline dot com, and deviantart dot com, and involves the recent happenings of the user known as Leoshi (Author-of-the-sands on deviantart).***

Forgive me. My activity on several sites has been less than assuring. This is my official announcement of what is happening.

As some of you may know, and have no doubt noticed, my activity on sites I used to frequent has dwindled down to bleak inactivity. Despite the promises I have made to many of these sites, I find myself going down one road that prevents me from keeping these promises. In this regard, there are four specific activities: Writing, drawing, roleplaying, and composing.

My life is moving forward at a fast pace with music composition, and as such, I find that I cannot make time for gaia, fanfiction, or deviantart. Therefore, I hereby announce the reasons for this inactivity, and my apologies.

To all of my great friends, I beg your forgiveness. This is something that I can do well, unlike the other hobbies I have tried to perfect in the past several years. I am devoted to music production now, with video game design as a fallback and side hobby. The Ikusa game series is still planned, but does not have priority anymore.

This does not mean that I am abandoning any of the sites. For example, fanfiction dot net - once the Golden Sun DS game is released, I believe I will be active much more than normal these days, and if that's true, then I look forward to the days and nights I can discuss things with Natalie, Michael, Meg, and everyone else in my forums. Until that time, do not assume that I have simply disappeared. I'm still here - just pursuing a different path.

If you wish to follow me and my work, I submit nearly everything I create to newgrounds dot com. leoshi(.)newgrounds(.)com is my page, where you can view my latest work and news posts.

I have made a new email contact for my musical pursuits: leoshimusic(at)live(.)com . Feel free to contact me at either that listing, or the email linked to my account here - chroniclesword(at)hotmail(.)com .

Personalised for fanfiction: Guys, again, I'm sorry. Don't hesitate to post here with your opinions, because I won't hesitate to read them. I'm not leaving the Fellowship forever - I'll still be around to respond to your comments and questions. I do ask that we keep this topic focused, however. I've never minded general chatter, but this is kind of an important post. You understand.

Personalised for gaia: I'm sorry for all the promises I've failed to keep. For everyone - especially you, RosePhantom. I won't promise that I'll be online to check for PMs, but I will welcome every one I receive. Email is a better way to contact me. As for the guilds, while I would prefer to not be banned or demoted, I will not try to stop you if you feel it's necessary. I'm writing this to try to keep everyone as a part of my life.

Personalised for deviantart: With this, every artwork project promise I've made is forced to be abandoned and broken. I apologize. I do intend to continue to hone my skill at drawing, however. The lack of a scanner or quality camera will make uploading any work I have in the future difficult, but the will finds a way.

If any of you need anything, or if you wish to contact me for anything, I encourage you to do so at newgrounds or either email. I will make an effort to reply to each and every one I receive, and look forward to hearing from all of you. Even if you just want to talk to me, I'll be happy to.

To everyone...good luck to you all, in whatever path you choose to pursue. Never stop believing in another way, and never back down.

-Aaron Michael Hernandez "Leoshi"

Since the release of FruityLoops Studio 9, I've gotten really into it. The channels sound amazing, and a lot of the features are great. I promised myself that, when I got it, I would make real efforts with the best samples I could.

The result: [Fallen On Mist]

This is my first true ambient piece, with a small bit of classical entwined. It took me the better part of five days to complete it, include the latest update for remastering. This song has surpassed my goal of a full, four-minute piece, and I consider it even greater than my [Trials] series - something even I didn't see coming. It means that I've reached a new high, one that I cannot simply label within a series of gold.

Does this mean I'll focus more on ambience in my music? It might. It comes easy to me, somehow. I still intend to keep composing for my Ikusa game series - on that note, I still intend to make the damn games - and for a hobby.

Oi, zwizkids. Just letting the nobody who read my posts know that I'll be teaming up with StaticStigma in Gravey's contest. We're doing some villian's theme. Imagine that. :D

Hey, all. Bout time I update this thing, eh? *Blows off layer of dust, grime, and Dr. Pepper*

I've begun really establishing myself with music creation. So far, I have ten complete tracks for my Ikusa game, plus others that I've either began and forgotten, or taken from RMXP and re-sampled in FL. Of course, those ones from RMXP, I won't put into the Audio Portal, and - to my knowledge - only one other person in the world has these particular re-sampled versions. Still, it'll make for a damn good play experience - or at least a good eargasm. :D

On that note, I've finally been able to make designing my Ikusa game a priority in my spare time. If things continue to move forward they way they are now, I may see a completion date somewhere next spring. Almost certainly not, but it's nice to dream.

In the last too-many months, I've gotten a new job, worked one extra day at my old one, moved out of my parent's home, moved into a new place, and - as a whole - started to make it on my own. Been one hell of a ride, I'll tell ya. ;) But it's been good, through and through, despite all the drama and sudden issues I've had to contend with.

Here's hoping I get even more music up that's better than Conclusive Trials, and that Ikusa: Lands of War becomes a reality someday soon.

Hey, biscuits! Dropping in after too many months to get an update down.

I finally upgraded my copy of FL Studio, so now I'm able to use that elusive Piano Roll feature. This is awesome, because it means I'm able to make actual music, instead of just spamming POM songs to the portal.

On that note, I made my first little song thing![The First Step]

But alas, pom.net calls to me. See y'all around!

Wassup, cool newgrounds peoples? Haha...hey, how's it going, all? This is Author-of-the-Sands of DeviantArt, Leoshi of Gaiaonline, fanfiction.net, punk-o-matic.net, and...here. Sheesh, that's a lot of sites.

I have never been too good at keeping these posts/news/journals active, so bear with me while I post random stuffings now and again.

As a matter of fact, I do, actually, have a subject for this pilot entry...and it is about my latest and greatest creation for pure eargasm goodness: my [Legend] series of Punk-O-Matic songs.

I'm not sure what inspired me to do them, or how in the hell I managed to make them the four best POM songs I've put into my first POM series. The melody just came to me, as well as the story, the segments, and everything else needed to make a [Legend]...well, legendary. I feel that the way the songs go in - [A Shimmer], [Soul's Depths], [Create a Horizon], and [Ascension] - is just divine, especially since they follow the tones of wonder, trouble, salvation, and glory. There are most certainly more, but those four are focused on.

In all actuality, I think that all of the other songs I made before my [Legend] series - songs like The Hero's Tale, Beyond the Last Chance, and Stop the Fucking Fighting - were all just preparation for this series. Given I love almost all of my work ((I have disowned one or two in my day, haha)), there comes a time when I need to recycle certain combos, to make something new. Even better, just before I began work on [A Shimmer], I have participated in two collaborative works, with kimar and Kevin, respectively, of Punk-O-Matic.net. Doing the second one with Kevin really inspired me.

The four songs play out like a real story - one I may just post here as another news/journal/whatever/bangbanggooberbl at this this is.

Anyway, that's it for now. Later all, and look forward to more POM songs in the future!