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MORE ABPOLIS CONTENT!
But first exhibition update (these things are going to be in an exhibition remember?)
There's a kickstarter selling a zine in order to get FUNDS to pay for travel for some of the artists. Specifically Zedeck, Amanda , and YOURS TRUELY
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davidblandy/a-perfect-wife-ttrpg-adventure-fundraiser
Zedeck wrote it , me and Amanda (and Zedeck!) drew art for it , and David Blandy very very kindly got the whole thing rolling and not going off a cliff on fire.
MORE ABPOLIS BEINGS:
SCRUNGERS:
Scrungers start life out as weird protean ooze slorping inside the thermal core of a vast landfill. The next stage of their life cycle is migrating to the outside of it. They then assemble a crude endo/exoskeleton for protection and mobility .
This the "Viscous" stage.
At this stage they will travel the furtherest from the dump-home , seeking locations with a wealth of materials and few other scrungers to compete with.
Festooned-Scrunger:
The next stage of life is the "Festooned" stage. This is where they've covered most of their body in repurposed material , and little of their original form is showing. They have grown in size and experience and have refined and developed their forms and abilities with it.
This is the time they are mostly likely to enter into other scrunger territories and try and wrest position of both the location and other parts directly from the rival.
The most successful scrungers become ELDERSCRUNGE They are the largest and have an nigh unassailable grip on their territories
Design Notes:
Scrunges satisfy an urge in me to have trash animals exist and just be romping around being trash animals but as a dynamic game piece I think they miss something.
Having them be like wild animals that are motivated by obtaining objects rather than food, and that are easily baited into conflict with each other is somewhat interesting as an encounter.
But they lack any coherent long term goals or intelligence.
I think I will come back to them , and create an order of knights making cosmonaut like armour of trash , who tame them and ride them against the other horrors of Abpolis.
But for now, The Scrunges As They Are.
There's also more photos and examples of them on the instagram, https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs5QOkOvFKw/ click the # to see more them, though instagram is increasingly fucked to do anything with so good luck I guess
Next post : The Nu_Wolves
