#melliwyk personally designed and built Drex because she has artisanal pride and standards thank you very much.
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actually I'm also gonna go ahead and release these nearly four year old initial design sketches from the disney vault because I like em :3 I sketched these shortly after she hit the level to be able to make him, but about a year before she actually got a chance to do so (it took awhile to be able to afford the components). Inside his chest, the housing for his core is an arcane gyroscope with a gem at the center; when he's active, you can hear it very softly whirring. I've imagined she also gave him some means of stridulation so he can do little cricket chirps, mostly because he looks like he should (and I think it's cute hehe).
I can't remember whether I ever posted this guy? Drex 'Pooka' Berenockt is Melliwyk's homunculus servant, because she may already have two familiars and the tiny servant and unseen servant spells but none of those things have hands and an intelligence higher than 2. he has wings modeled after an earwig's origami'd into a back panel and he curls down into a sphere when he's deactivated. he is also A Leetol Guy and I love him 😌
#dnd#dungeons and dragons#artificer#homunculus servant#he's also got little teeth but they're too little to do any damage-- they're for aesthetic (and grip if he holds something in his mouth)#I THINK... he can chirp with his forewings exactly like a cricket I don't think those structures need to be moved elsewhere#did you know that technically by RAW an artificer's homunculus servant springs magically into being around the gem core?#uh anyway that's stupid lmao. artificer is full of weird disconnect between mechanics and flavor#if they're conjured from thin air by magic why do they always look like little robots??#melliwyk personally designed and built Drex because she has artisanal pride and standards thank you very much.#he chirps because she meticulously etched the physical mechanisms into his casing herself!!#if he's powered down he's still a little metal object that exists and if he drops to 0 she'd have to repair him before reactivating him#like aside from 'couldn't get a 100g gem for awhile' part of what took her so long to get him is that she had to design and build him first#starting well before she even GOT to 2nd level artificer tbh#my OCs#melliwyk#drex#vale walkers#dungeons and doodles
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