AAAAnd we’re back with a new page – FINALLY.
In addition to everything else, apparently my barbarianprincess.com email does not work any more. Godaddy support tells me that the data got mangled – but it’s not their fault and they sent me to my registrar, Tucows. Tucows does not HAVE any support that I can determine yet, so I intend to beg or threaten Godaddy for some kind of workaround. In the meantime, use my address from my (largely dormant) sister site, classicalfantasie.com: JEDRAFT@CLASSICALFANTASIE.COM, and it will get to me.
Welcome back.
I’ve been using pairDomains (https://www.pairdomains.com/ ) to host my blog for several years. I use my ISP’s email with Thunderbird as the front end, so I can’t address your email problem. pairDomains, however, has given me virtually trouble-free service for all that time, and on the very few occasions when there has been a problem, its support has been outstanding–prompt, responsive, and problem-solving. They’ve even helped me with a problem that wasn’t on their end but about which their support personnel happened to know something about. They’re quite proactive, too, in keeping their hosting service up to speed with updates and security updates.
The notices I get from them suggest they’re just as active, and proactive, with their email service.
It’ll be hard for you to find better than them.
Eric Hines
Uggh. Twocows has had a really bad rep for more than a decade, GoDaddy almost from when it came out. I don’t know who is good, but the above recommendation is certainly something!
Glad to see a new page! I hope things are better for you, know how rough it’s been on me.
Yep, I fully expected that was the case. Now they both have a long range option with their attacks.
Things are about to get.. ummm… messy? And loud!
Welcome back, JED! Happy for a new page. Condolences to you.
That can’t be the end of our favorite high priest, Gorshash, right? He wasn’t listed by name in the previous pages cast of characters. Projected image?
Jed, welcome to continuing. I lleft the below on the preceding page thinking it was this one…
Jed and others…
Besides time, the best thing that has helped me grieve has been doing something we.enjoyed doing together. At first I did them alone, but later I found sharing those things with others helped re-ground me. As an example we had one friend who is the life of the party. Every year we host a party on his birthday – Dave’s Memorial Birthday Bash, its held at a venue the frequented. Any extra money raised goes to the hospital they volunteered at. That both keeps them alive in our hearts, and helps others in their name.
I just got some interesting spam with this websites’ name on it. It was not germane to the topic, unless you’re now doing Ethiopian porn.
I didn’t think so. Did your comments section data leak?
I look on directly to the home page and found Android helpfully suggested a translation from the Russian that was found there. Turned out to be pushing a casino app.
It’s worse than that!
Looks like the first instance of infiltration is a post dated “January 23, 2022” about some Ethiopian sex channel.
The next is dated “January 23, 2024” and is about Microsoft Toolkit Activator for Windows 8.1!
Then, there’s 150+ pages filled with Russian casino adverts with various datestamps from 2024 to the present.
And today, I can see what are most likely the same advertisments, but this time in what looks like Finnish, with today’s datestamp.
Also, I noticed that the site was unreachable yesterday (at the times I tried to access it, 1400~1600 UTC) due to security certificate issues.
I’m pretty sure the ‘earlier’ posts have fake datestamps, as I remember reading some of the legitimate posts, and the suspicious ones weren’t there than.
Be VERY careful kids, I think his site been severely compromised. There is a Recaptcha that is trying to convince users to cut and paste blind code into your command prompts. I hope JED can get this straightened out soon.
My antivirus caught it and blocked it, I think it’s been resolved however. No new alerts have came up so far. This is the 4th site that has fallen under hack-attacks I know of, one I follow was completely shut down and the dev had to open a temp one just to keep posting. I suspect it’s either China or Iran trying to do us damage…
I can’t help but wonder if there’s a limit to the number of times they can throw their weapons and have them return. It’s be great if there wasn’t one, Keltan or Liri could target the leaders in the back and take them out! Knowing the Urrt’s, the grunts would panic and flee pretty fast.
Frigging finally, after hours and hours of solitary toil to make a visual novel/game of Zona (including an abortive attempt to export it which meant I had to practically recreate it from scratch) I have a 0.01 beta version as a demo. It is short and a bit rough around the edges, but I hope you all have fun with it.
Set in the master bedroom of the Hollywood mansion right after their engagement party, it’s where Zona confesses to her new silver-bonded Mentl the one thing that she has been keeping to herself forever.
In a way, this returns Zona to her origins in the adult find-your-path books she was created for, as the visual novel medium is just a higher tech version of that. Also, it’s very dirty. Definitely NOT safe for work.
I think of this as a “proof of concept” for one more product and direction we can take the characters and reward my wonderful Zonaphiles. Frankly, I think she lends herself to this medium pretty handily.
A one dollar patronage at patreon.com/JEDraft gets you access to this and much more!
This year we are once again participating in a sexy web comics promotion. We have a nice little pinup most of you would enjoy, and links there for a lot of other folks’ comics and sexy art:
My people, this is a global ecological emergency. *All* of us need to pitch in as best we can.
So if it helps you get motivated, then Zona, Mentl and all their friends are willing to bare it all for you to get the resources where they’re needed. Send me an email with a forwarded receipt or screen grab of an Australian 10 dollar (or above) donation and we’ll send you a nice sexy pic of the “Challenges of Zona” character of your choice.
I chose these two organizations as being the ones that will help the wildlife and the people, but I am willing to accept any proof of (recent) donation to any accredited relief organization dedicated to assisting with the fight against these horrific bush fires Down Under.
I’m a Californian, and I have seen my share of nasty wildfires, even more and worse in recent years. The Australian fires make anything I had to be evacuated from seem like a grease fire in my kitchen. If you think you are safe from the effects of this disaster because you live on the other side of the world, think again. This is worse than any fantasy world-beater my imagination could come up with. I have given and will give again.
For those of you who just like to click:
WWF:
https://www.wwf.org.au/#gs.razbkt
Red Cross:
https://fundraise.redcross.org.au/drr
I’ve given and will give again next paycheck. How about you?
Just at the moment, we’re temporarily stalled on the animation project. So we’ve taken advantage of the lull to revisit the Gen 8 model of Zona, and I think this time, even more than last, we’ve hit it on the head. So Brian came up with a couple of pinups of her of which this is a closeup. If you want to see more (much more) become a Patreon patron at https://www.patreon.com/JEDraft
That’s right – from now through August 14th, all new rewards will be unlocked for all Patreon patrons of The Challenges Of Zona! This will give our one dollar Erogenians a taste of what they’ve been missing, and hopefully encourage others to become patrons and sample our best stuff!
And as for you others who have already given above and beyond, have no fear. August and September we will have a Double Rewards promotion with biweekly Sexy Stuff, Throwbacks and other goodies to reward you for your patience and generosity.
My heart is heavy tonight. We had to say goodbye to my dear constant companion and the inspiration for all the black cats in “Challenges Of Zona”, my beloved friend, P-Chan. He was very old and finally was very confused and in great pain. So we eased him into Summerland Thursday evening. Nonetheless, he’s still there in the past and in my memories, and in Inky and in Incus and in the one-eyed winged cat from the Otherwhen. (Yes, long-time readers will remember when he lost his eye to an abcess, years ago.)
Over the past year, my Patreon patrons have been generously giving me money to pursue my vision of an animated web series based on The Challenges Of Zona. In return they get early updates, desktops and other fun stuff. But all of it has had one goal. And we have just passed the first milestone on the way to that goal.
I have just made the first payment to a talented young animator who is contracted to produce a 61-second fully animated trailer for The Challenges Of Zona.
We’re both really enthusiastic and I have high confidence that, within the next month or two we will have something to show folks that we’re serious about bringing a new fantasy phenomenon to the web.
I needed all of you, patrons and fans alike to support me in this and you have not disappointed. Eventually everyone will see the end product, but Zona’s patrons will be in on all the latest updates, new character models, tests, renders and everything as it happens, plus any other extras we can give in humble gratitude.
So be not shy. And, if you can, buy into the future of fantasy entertainment. one dollar, five dollars -ten or whatever you can afford. You won’t be sorry! This is happening!
We’re doing it. We’re moving forward. We’re bringing Zona to life.
In the word of the great Stan Lee:
EXCELSIOR!!
Watch this space!
Warmest regards,
JED
https://www.patreon.com/JEDraft
20 thoughts on “Page 1335 – Kick Ass!”
jedraft
AAAAnd we’re back with a new page – FINALLY.
In addition to everything else, apparently my barbarianprincess.com email does not work any more. Godaddy support tells me that the data got mangled – but it’s not their fault and they sent me to my registrar, Tucows. Tucows does not HAVE any support that I can determine yet, so I intend to beg or threaten Godaddy for some kind of workaround. In the meantime, use my address from my (largely dormant) sister site, classicalfantasie.com: JEDRAFT@CLASSICALFANTASIE.COM, and it will get to me.
Warmest regards and gratitude to all of you.
JED
E Hines
Welcome back.
I’ve been using pairDomains (https://www.pairdomains.com/ ) to host my blog for several years. I use my ISP’s email with Thunderbird as the front end, so I can’t address your email problem. pairDomains, however, has given me virtually trouble-free service for all that time, and on the very few occasions when there has been a problem, its support has been outstanding–prompt, responsive, and problem-solving. They’ve even helped me with a problem that wasn’t on their end but about which their support personnel happened to know something about. They’re quite proactive, too, in keeping their hosting service up to speed with updates and security updates.
The notices I get from them suggest they’re just as active, and proactive, with their email service.
It’ll be hard for you to find better than them.
Eric Hines
Lurker314
Uggh. Twocows has had a really bad rep for more than a decade, GoDaddy almost from when it came out. I don’t know who is good, but the above recommendation is certainly something!
Scarsdale
Glad to see a new page! I hope things are better for you, know how rough it’s been on me.
Yep, I fully expected that was the case. Now they both have a long range option with their attacks.
Things are about to get.. ummm… messy? And loud!
Descartes
Welcome back, JED! Happy for a new page. Condolences to you.
That can’t be the end of our favorite high priest, Gorshash, right? He wasn’t listed by name in the previous pages cast of characters. Projected image?
RBZ
It was a different Urrt priest.
Lora
Welcome back and lovely page, too. 🙂
I honestly didn’t expect a page yet, I was just checking in.
Just_IDD
Jed, welcome to continuing. I lleft the below on the preceding page thinking it was this one…
Jed and others…
Besides time, the best thing that has helped me grieve has been doing something we.enjoyed doing together. At first I did them alone, but later I found sharing those things with others helped re-ground me. As an example we had one friend who is the life of the party. Every year we host a party on his birthday – Dave’s Memorial Birthday Bash, its held at a venue the frequented. Any extra money raised goes to the hospital they volunteered at. That both keeps them alive in our hearts, and helps others in their name.
Still continuing…
Joe Fonebone
Great page. Congrats on the comeback.
SFCGator
A very welcome back, JED. My heartiest wish for your well being going forward.
SeanR
I just got some interesting spam with this websites’ name on it. It was not germane to the topic, unless you’re now doing Ethiopian porn.
I didn’t think so. Did your comments section data leak?
Tom
Something has gone very wrong with the RSS feed. It redirects to here: https://follow.it/the-challenges-of-zona-a-sexy-violent-romantic-fantasy-soap-opera/rss and that’s full of junk (in armenian apparently).
Tom
Would it be possible to have an RSS feed for just the comic, not the blog? thanks
Jeff Smith
I think your RSS has been hacked. I’m getting posts with Arabic and Cyrillic writing instead of ‘merican
Descartes
I look on directly to the home page and found Android helpfully suggested a translation from the Russian that was found there. Turned out to be pushing a casino app.
RBZ
It’s worse than that!
Looks like the first instance of infiltration is a post dated “January 23, 2022” about some Ethiopian sex channel.
The next is dated “January 23, 2024” and is about Microsoft Toolkit Activator for Windows 8.1!
Then, there’s 150+ pages filled with Russian casino adverts with various datestamps from 2024 to the present.
And today, I can see what are most likely the same advertisments, but this time in what looks like Finnish, with today’s datestamp.
Also, I noticed that the site was unreachable yesterday (at the times I tried to access it, 1400~1600 UTC) due to security certificate issues.
I’m pretty sure the ‘earlier’ posts have fake datestamps, as I remember reading some of the legitimate posts, and the suspicious ones weren’t there than.
SanBernInATL
JED,
Gonna Keep this simple.
Glad to see you back in action, my friend. We’ve missed you (not to mention your beautiful storytelling).
SanBernInATL
Be VERY careful kids, I think his site been severely compromised. There is a Recaptcha that is trying to convince users to cut and paste blind code into your command prompts. I hope JED can get this straightened out soon.
Scarsdale
My antivirus caught it and blocked it, I think it’s been resolved however. No new alerts have came up so far. This is the 4th site that has fallen under hack-attacks I know of, one I follow was completely shut down and the dev had to open a temp one just to keep posting. I suspect it’s either China or Iran trying to do us damage…
Scarsdale
I can’t help but wonder if there’s a limit to the number of times they can throw their weapons and have them return. It’s be great if there wasn’t one, Keltan or Liri could target the leaders in the back and take them out! Knowing the Urrt’s, the grunts would panic and flee pretty fast.
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Happy Holidays – 2020
Best wishes to all of you! Be safe!
We will soon have really exciting news for you, so watch this space!
Warmest regards,
-JED
At Last! “Challenges Of Zona – Confessions” Visual Novel
Frigging finally, after hours and hours of solitary toil to make a visual novel/game of Zona (including an abortive attempt to export it which meant I had to practically recreate it from scratch) I have a 0.01 beta version as a demo. It is short and a bit rough around the edges, but I hope you all have fun with it.
Set in the master bedroom of the Hollywood mansion right after their engagement party, it’s where Zona confesses to her new silver-bonded Mentl the one thing that she has been keeping to herself forever.
In a way, this returns Zona to her origins in the adult find-your-path books she was created for, as the visual novel medium is just a higher tech version of that. Also, it’s very dirty. Definitely NOT safe for work.
I think of this as a “proof of concept” for one more product and direction we can take the characters and reward my wonderful Zonaphiles. Frankly, I think she lends herself to this medium pretty handily.
A one dollar patronage at patreon.com/JEDraft gets you access to this and much more!
Warm regards,
JED
Public Service Announcement
Stay safe, my friends – be smart!
Warm regards,
JED
Valentine’s Day Sex Drive 2020!
This year we are once again participating in a sexy web comics promotion. We have a nice little pinup most of you would enjoy, and links there for a lot of other folks’ comics and sexy art:
Valentine’s Day Sex Drive 2020
MST3KFan – POW! Right in the Nostalgia | Lou Graziani – Cy-Boar | Bumblebee – Drive On | Darksh1ne – Monstroniverse Adventures | The Letter M – The Restless Dead | Jay042 – Kaza’s Mate Gwenna | The D-Wrek – Twenty Four Seven | Blue Dragon – Dark Horse | Montis Echo Boeher – Glitch | Gojiramon – CKarrus | Lightfoot – Pulse | Team Lady Valiant – Lady Valiant | Midnight – Danger Zone One | utzsar – Rocks | Ebenezer Splooge – Hentai Poster Company | Ebenezer Splooge – Portcall Uranus | Ebenezer Splooge – PronQuest | Ebenezer Splooge – SFW Hentai | Ebenezer Splooge – Hentai High School | Ebenezer Splooge – Mammazon | Stilldown – Ariane Eldar’s Personal Place | Stilldown – Theater Of The Bloody Tongue | Barry Linck – Phineus: Magician for Hire | Barry Linck – Phineus | Amy Letts – Epic Fail | Sheryl Schopfer – Sharpclaw | Sheryl Schopfer – Deer Me | Julie Devin – Monster Soup | J.E. Draft – The Challenges of Zona | Jaycee Knight – Bloomin’ Faeries | Peter Anckorn – By The Book | The Blood Teller – Alvery Nerveaux’s Secret Case Files | Microraptor – Cryptida | rulerbrain – Selling Smiles | Caley Tibbittz Collopy – SwordCat Knights | Andrew Hunter – Delve | Mark Egan – Bata Neart | Mark Egan – Back Office | Alli Perry – My Hero! | Marshall Reeves – Yesterday Bound | Dizzaster Juice – WhiteOut | Dizzaster Juice – Offworld: The Crease | Zach Vanzile – West Tree Academy of Heroes | Ben Bourbon – Devilbear: The Grimoires of Bearalzebub | MonicaNG – MoonSlayer | John Harrington – Super Rivals | Lirvilas – Grinder$ | Lirvilas – Flyover Country | Arne Cooper – The Androssian Prophecy | Sean Harrington – Spying With Lana | yellowgerbil – Zoe the Vampire | Nick Greaves – The Great Isle of Prentil | Jacob Jones – Ayuri | Scott T. Hicken – Dark Reflections – Zen | Scott T. Hicken – Dark Reflections – Chaos | Scott T. Hicken – Exiern: Dark Reflections | Scott T. Hicken – Exiern | Stef Marcinkowski – Sarah Zerohttps://barbarianprincess.com/VDSD2020/
HELP AUSTRALIA NOW
My people, this is a global ecological emergency. *All* of us need to pitch in as best we can.
So if it helps you get motivated, then Zona, Mentl and all their friends are willing to bare it all for you to get the resources where they’re needed. Send me an email with a forwarded receipt or screen grab of an Australian 10 dollar (or above) donation and we’ll send you a nice sexy pic of the “Challenges of Zona” character of your choice.
I chose these two organizations as being the ones that will help the wildlife and the people, but I am willing to accept any proof of (recent) donation to any accredited relief organization dedicated to assisting with the fight against these horrific bush fires Down Under.
I’m a Californian, and I have seen my share of nasty wildfires, even more and worse in recent years. The Australian fires make anything I had to be evacuated from seem like a grease fire in my kitchen. If you think you are safe from the effects of this disaster because you live on the other side of the world, think again. This is worse than any fantasy world-beater my imagination could come up with. I have given and will give again.
For those of you who just like to click:
WWF:
Red Cross:
I’ve given and will give again next paycheck. How about you?
Warmest regards,
JED
Zona G8 Mk2
Just at the moment, we’re temporarily stalled on the animation project. So we’ve taken advantage of the lull to revisit the Gen 8 model of Zona, and I think this time, even more than last, we’ve hit it on the head. So Brian came up with a couple of pinups of her of which this is a closeup. If you want to see more (much more) become a Patreon patron at https://www.patreon.com/JEDraft
Warm regards, all!
JED
JULY PATREON PROMOTION! $1 UNLOCKS EVERYTHING!
That’s right – from now through August 14th, all new rewards will be unlocked for all Patreon patrons of The Challenges Of Zona! This will give our one dollar Erogenians a taste of what they’ve been missing, and hopefully encourage others to become patrons and sample our best stuff!
And as for you others who have already given above and beyond, have no fear. August and September we will have a Double Rewards promotion with biweekly Sexy Stuff, Throwbacks and other goodies to reward you for your patience and generosity.
Just sign up for one thin US Dollar at:
https://www.patreon.com/JEDraft
Warmest Regards,
JED
Zona Wants You!!
Warm regards,
JED
R.I.P – P-Chan
My heart is heavy tonight. We had to say goodbye to my dear constant companion and the inspiration for all the black cats in “Challenges Of Zona”, my beloved friend, P-Chan.
He was very old and finally was very confused and in great pain. So we eased him into Summerland Thursday evening.
Nonetheless, he’s still there in the past and in my memories, and in Inky and in Incus and in the one-eyed winged cat from the Otherwhen. (Yes, long-time readers will remember when he lost his eye to an abcess, years ago.)
He was a very very very good boy.
Warm regards,
JED
GRAND ANNOUNCEMENT- ZONA ANIMATED
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