#Waxwort

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it’s been a long time since i stepped foot on tumblr. even with it being less popular i still stick around and see what’s going on XD

anyways. here’s a drawing of my fiery shapeshifting wax boi (i’m gonna try and draw more for this week cause seriously i’m pumped to be back on my feet)

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Letters From Friends, Heat 1149

Matriarch’s Diary; August 18th, 1149

Today I struck a name from our rolls. The decision has been weighing on me. Now it is made. Those who took up arms to turn our order inside out and rewrite our mission will have their names and punishments recorded as indelibly as ink can. But the one who was trusted to be the lynchpin, who brought ruin and deliverance in equal measure, has been given the gift of forgetting. I hope it is seen as such. I will never know.

Guardmouse Francesca: I have not yet killed the Tunnel Lord Lena. This is unfortunate. I have acquired several new weapons. I have journeyed to the western scent barrier and beyond. She has evaded me. If you or your order have any information on her specific whereabouts I would appreciate the assistance. A tactical survey of her close associates would be quite helpful as well. If it is prohibited to share such information I accept that. I simply wish to kill her very badly. You understand. -Harford

Hey Tander!

It’s Aiden, and have I got news for you (the answer is yes I have news)! So I kept sneaking around Tito Taylor’s place after he told us not to do that because I’m a better hider than he is a looker and if he said not to then there’s probably something cool to see like THE TRUTH. After we saw that fire and you had to leave and the fire went away I was still looking. I didn’t see anything. So then! I used my sneaking skills to follow Tito instead of look at his house and I followed him on one of his trips across that bridge we built (good job thank you) at least I tried to but whoops! He was halfway scross the bridge as I was figuring out how to get on it with him without being noticed but suddenly there were these big black shapes (it was at nighttime) and a noise that made my stomach queasy and he was gone. TITO GOT ABDUCTED!! He showed up a few days later like nothing and I didn’t tell anyone else and I definitely didn’t say anything to him because I think he might have special powers I don’t know.

Aiden, out!

For the eyes of Ivy Waxwort,

I thank you for your input in the Conclave. Recent events have calrified what advice was and was not valuable. I suppose it is commendable that you have remained so active in your retirement. And there is utility in experience, despite the clear facts that times change, and an office should be executed by the mouse that inhabits it. Your lucky find of that abandoned axe was perhaps the greatest success of the mission. One shudders to consider what may have happened if those turncoats and saboteurs had pulled off their “Plan A”. Now it falls to me to achieve our goals in these times of distress.

I hope this finds you well. Rosard, Guard Captain and Judge

To Isolde, my dear mentee This is an apology. You are owed one from many mice. I can only give you mine. I apologize that in my search I regarded you with suspicion, rather than attempt understanding. I apologize for seeing the Spear as a puzzle to be solved and not a group of mice with motives and fears. If I had maintained the relationship we had when you were young we may not have found ourselves in this state.

Over the past year I searched my menories of our time together for clues to a conspiracy. Now I find myself thinking of the same days in a different light. How many times were you need of a friend, only to have an instructor? We both have reputations in these halls for having cold dispositions, but the disappointment I have in myself is overwhelming. I you are just as capable of powerful feeling. I beg that you are also capable of forgiveness.

Yours, Bronwyn

[RETURN TO SENDER. NO SUCH MOUSE FOUND ON SEVENTH DELIVERY ATTEMPT]

Hello doll,

Stay safe out there! I know I should have said this when you were last home, but things were so nice, and there’s never enough time. This is hard. Probably not as hard as wildfires and whatever that civil war was about, which is why I don’t want to make it harder. I think we need to talk about what we want both out of this relationship.

And since I’m dumping this on you from afar I guess I’ll start. I really like you. And I like working in Lockhaven. I even like your kid, and I never liked kids before. But I don’t like waiting. And I don’t like stopping myself from other opportunities when I’m only assuming that I should just in case. I think we can make this work. I hope we do. I’ll always be in your debt, and you’ll always be in my heart.

Love, Maren

Ahoy there Zeke! Please don’t think I start my letters that way. It’s a branding thing. Anyway I know you haven’t been away from the (ugh) Silly Jolly Fun Barge for too long, but Waffle misses you. He just looks back at me and quacks whenever I feed him. He’s got this ‘Not you, I want the other one’ look all the time. So I tried to give him his brush without the nose and makeup but he could still tell it wasn’t you AND I got my pay docked for breaking character. There weren’t even any clients around to see! So if you ever wind up in the ports Waffles and I would appreciate it if you stopped by to say hello.

honk honk And THAT’S a buccaneer-ful! (I’m going back to actual piracy this isn’t worth it) -Leroy

Little Sprout, It has been too long since we saw one another, though I am frightened of the ways it may happen again. I met some past acquaintances of yours in the Spring. One was surprised to hear she was your grandmother. I hope their souls are peaceful. Surely some souls must be, somewhere. I have no way to know how many of my letters even reach you, or how long it takes them, but such uncertainty would never shake you, so I must not be shaken either. Know that I think of you all the same. My brother thinks I suffer under divided loyalties. I cannot explain to him that loyalty to peace is not at the expense of any people. I suppose that is another thing we share in common.

Your faraway friend

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@manzokushizumen/ rogelis - Flan.Bo yogelis - Draku DrMatthew178 - Dr. Creation @bichcarito - Pit @magma-paint - Lucius Tordici @red-is-red / @nikki-kchhun - Ink Craftmen @craftyjellyfishcat - Artagia @miss-twila - Whitney Sinnett @sherlocktheravencat - Louie Torres @ahjones94 - Flint Martinez @annamatics - Diz and Ophelia

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been busy with college stuff so i had less time drawing. this is what i have finished so far. enjoy

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For rogelis, yogelis and drmatthew178 just so you know it was just a fun idea i thought about. it's not really canon. i saw each of my friend's hero characters. and i wanted to draw how'd they look like if they met and formed a team to fight evil doers. so here they are :3 Leaf tornado - rogelis and by yojama Rady - yogelis Army Joe - drmatthew178 P.S: i was gonna draw Waxwort in the form of a dinosaur with rady riding him but that was a bit too complicated XD

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so today is my birthday where i now became 20 years old. and to celebrate it i decided to draw me along with four of my ocs with it ^^

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a very late easter drawing i was working on few days ago. but it was worth it  anyways

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Sorry i took too long again but i will try and get more drawing motivation for my next drawings. in the meantime. enjoy couple of doodles of my boi Waxwort! ^^

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waxwort in among us cause why not XD

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another oc i adopted from @youronlydrpepper. his name is Waxwort. an intelligent monster created by a scientist known as Angus Hugo. Waxwort known as a friendly smart candle monster with high level of knowledge in many things along with many abillities which made him a well born hero. he assisted his hugo in his lab many years as well as getting along like if he was his son. few months ago during one of the researches they working on. hugo confirmed he had cancer. before his death his only wish that his son would use these powers for the good of the world. as waxwort went to bury his father he decided to prepare his journey. no matter how many obstacles are in the way he will make sure to fulfill his father's wish and make him proud

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My boi waxwort in the whitewall meme

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Another drawing of waxwort featuring one of his abilities. he can be able to build up a lot of heat on his wax parts causing it to take a molten state like lava. in this form, parts of his body and his projectiles can be able to dissolve certain objects or projectiles shooting at him. like bullets, explosive or anything else

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i couldn't think of anything to draw yesterday so i though of making a silly waxwort drawing

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finished drawing new characters i adopted from @kama-ta/ @kama-toons

i don’t have a name for them yet so i’m open for suggestions, as for their stories they are already planned. for the ice bot his story will be involved with my boi waxwort. that’s right. he will be his brother. although he has some big rivalry towards waxwort. in other words. a little classic Fire and Ice concept kinda like Sub-zero and scorpion (waxwort actually doesn’t feel the same way. his brother however is all rivarly build on hatred and jealousy in the past) as for the double headed fire skulls they will be a hazbin oc (probably friends of dimitri and part of szabo’s gang). their story is that they are twins who both their bodies and minds merged together into one singular demon after they died. they share many things. however during their death process it made a huge impact causing both to have opposite emotions and personalities.

i will tell more stories about my new characters in future days ^^ in the meantime. i hope you like it

Edit: the names have been confirmed credit to DrMatthew178 and my other friend. The ice bot is now named Frigidroid and the skulls are named Burn and Shiver

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sorry for not posting anything these last few days. i couldn’t really think of anything to draw. so few of my friends suggested that i should do some doodles. and it was a good idea considering i never done doodles for sometime. so here’s my doodles

two doodles of boi Waxwort being himself XD. a little sayu from nsr. my snake boi carson being pissed at one of his men. my mafia boi william and a little doodle of sonic

Connie entertaining his audience with his “pop a person from the magic box” trick. although walter didn’t expect that would happen now he’s confused a bit XD. a funny doodle of manny calavera from grim fandango of one of his funny dialogues in the game. a cup of coffee for the hooded hood to fix his bad mood. a doodle of Erica (brush girl). cuphead and liam doing some rap (yes it’s a hotel translvania reference XD)

Flan.bo and Dr. Creation enjoying their villainous vaction. cuphead and mugman doing some cooking that gone wrong and wrecked gilbert’s house XD. a doodle of Mr. Red (wine glass man) a doodle of daniel’s dirty dan persona as an animal (based on a question i asked on his friend’s twitch stream) doodle of wesley taylor plankton from the broadway musical and a doodle of Café in a reference from one of the scenes from the second novel of blacksad XD. and last but not least. ophelia not standing jay (cloud girl and magnetic man)

and not forgetting to mention the people who some of those beloved ocs ^^

Connie by @mayadile

Walter and Liam Wicke by @rustybirdcage

Erica from @mabelcococups

Flan.bo by @manzokushizumen /Rogelis (DA)

Dr. Creation by Drmatthew178 (DA)

Café by @bichcarito

Mr. Red from @miss-twila

Jay and Ophelia by @annamatics

Dirty Dan (Sona) by @daniel-boonethatsme

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Guide to the Territories pt10: Guard Captains

The rest of the posts in this series are about how our game’s background is built from the series canon. This time, we’re starting semi-canonical, and then going full homebrew, to talk about the Guard’s hierarchy as we determined it for our campaign.

 Two characters from our latest episode first appeared as prints in David Petersen’s store, and then process posts on his blog. They may appear as background extras in the upcoming volume covering the Weasel War of 1149, so let’s wait and see.

Rosard’s character in our story is based entirely on his look (since that’s all I had to go on), but it’s a look that says a lot. He’s severe and direct, without much interest in nuance. After seeing this picture on Petersen’s blog I felt I had to find a place for him in our campaign, and a brainstorming session with Gnome helped find what that place was. More on the title of “Judge” and the other Guard Captain roles below.

This is the face I mention distracting me at the beginning of the upcoming second episode of Dark Patrol. Rosard was made in tribute to Ross Ritchie, head of Boom! Studios, the comics publisher that handles the Mouse Guard titles among others, and his working relationship with Petersen goes back even before Boom! acquired Archaia, the series’ original home.

Stjepan’s characterization in our story is also based on his look. He’s sharp, poised, and maybe a little too cunning. His tabbard/cloak combo suggested a high rank, so while I knew he would be a double act with Rosard, it meant the both of them would be senior mice in the Guard. As Castellan his core duties include maintaining Lockhaven itself and her defenses, but more on that later.

Stjepan the mouse was created for Stephen Christy the man. He is an important part of Archaia, and he and Ritchie were the ones to give Peterson the good news about the Mouse Guard movie’s green light at Fox, and were both serving as producers. Ironically, the blog posts about these mouse designs were published just days before production was canceled. Director Wes Ball is keeping hope alive though. Maybe someday.

Those two NPCs are semi-canonical, and this is where we go completely separate from the source material. These titles and jobs are as original to our game as the PCs we play, as are most of the characters that fill them. I’m not sure how all this began, because we started talking about it on call after recording the end of Bridge Patrol, so just give the credit for the good stuff to Gnome.

This setup is inspired by the description of Lockhaven’s government on page 175 of the rulebook:

The Matriarch operates as strategist, ambassador and administrator. She has several captains and administrators beneath her, including a scribe, a castellan and a quartermaster.

Page 162 adds “There are only about a half-dozen captain positions at any one time”, so that gave us a target number of six. It also implies captaincies are created and dismissed on an as-needed basis, but we think our version suits our dramatic needs better.

Here is a list of the six titles, their current holders, and what their duties entail.

Quartermaster: Genrui In charge of monitoring the material supplies and stores of Lockhaven, and assigning prospective recruits to their senior artisans. Quartermaster is the only role whose duties are almost entirely suggested by the name, because that alone takes 10 hours a day when he’s lucky.

Scribe: Roibin The Scribe is charged with recording the history of the Guard, maintaining Lockhaven’s libraries, managing the mail routes, and promoting the Arts across the territories. Roibin is a poet himself, and both the comics and RPG start many chapters with quotes from his work. Roibin is assisted by a black beetle he rescued and trained named Connal.

Judge: Rosard(current), Granny(former) The Judge is charged with maintaining the law of Lockhaven and their jurisdiction over the wilderness within the scent border. They must maintain peace, and, when that fails, wage war. In her time as Judge, Ivy Waxwort wrote the current Banishment Vigil ritual, served as general in the battles against weasels in Sable’s childhood, and secured the peace that has followed since. Rosard’s time as her successor has seen that peace become a cold war, now on the brink of battle.

Castellan: Stjepan the Castellan is in charge of the building, maintenance, and defense of Lockhaven. Road building and trail maintenance are in his portfolio, as well as consulting on all sorts of large building and engineering projects.

Stargazer: TBD The Stargazer’s duties include weather watching, advising Gwendolyn and the guard on scientific matters, assisting he territories with planting and harvesting, and settling any disputes over the shipping lanes.

Hunter: TBD The Hunter deals with Wild Country and anything to do with it. They arrange for the laying of the Scent Barrier, keep a journal of beast sightings, manage the apiary (in practice, Granny took this one off their hands for a few decades), and any mouse that has been banished is treated under the Hunter’s traditions instead of the Judge’s laws.