Well I haven't made much progress this last week because Flash has been running REALLY slowly. I couldn't figure out why. But excitingly enough, I just found out why! As it turns out, the blood I made was just too RAM-heavy. the swf played fine, but it was intolerably slow when working with, so I think I'll just have to add the blood last. That, or find a more RAM efficient way of doing it, maybe using duplicateMovieClip. We'll see how it turns out. For now, enjoy this still-bloody screenshot.