#sligs

[ghostmoor]

WE WILL RISE: OddRPG is here.

Burn the world down in We Will Rise, a roleplaying game based on the Oddworld series of video games. WWR is about causing chaos, uplifting those in need, and destroying the industrial machine.

This is a free game, available for download here on itch.io. It's still a work in progress: missing content/planned updates are listed on the itch page.

I started writing WWR in the summer of 2022, intending it to be a very short PbtA reskin, and, well.......... you can see what happened lol. I'm very pleased with how it's finally come together. Most of the art and the entire task of putting the book together has been done in the last six-ish weeks, along with a small chunk of the writing.

Feedback is appreciated! If you have comments, or if you even manage to play a game (!?) and have some direct feedback about how it went, I would love to know.

EDIT 28/04/24: Character sheets are live! Also fixed some errors in the book that I didn't catch before publishing.

[vykker]

Oddworld Headcanon 2/?: Where do new Queens come from?

In Soulstorm we're introduced to the Keeper, a female mudokon who is a little old granny with an awesome and cute design. I was so delighted by her!! This got me thinking about 2 of my favorite things, Oddworld and Girls. We've known about the existence of queens for a long time, but where do they come from, and is/was the Keeper a queen?

When you start learning about irl animals and their queen systems you end up with a ton of interesting possibilities. For instance, you have queen bees, who are just regular female bees who were fed a special jelly [royal jelly] and put in a special, roomy honeycomb to turn into queen bees. However, hives may have more than one queen at a time, in which case the two young queens instinctively fight to the death.

Soulstorm leans heavily on the bee aesthetic for the keeper & the Sanctum where she resides. It could be that mudokon tribes produce multiple queens, but only the one with the strongest will/chosen by fate gets to become queen. Even though becoming queen doesn't seem so great to me as a human, to mudokons it's probably the highest honor one can earn. I imagine it would be crushing for a female to NOT become a queen, especially if it's something you've been hyped up about your entire life, have presented as being the highest possible achievement and so on.

But getting back to the bee thing- mudokons don't make honey, by which I mean, they probably don't have a chemical way of ensuring an individual is able to become a queen, in the way that bees can choose who gets to eat the royal jelly. [Though, if they could, you KNOW the industrialists would be selling it. I used to work at a store that sold royal jelly for like 50 bucks in a little jar. It was weird.] Thus, I feel it's probably random chance if a mudokon is born a "princess" or not.

Being born a princess does not ensure one will become a queen. The transformation into a queen is probably tied to ritual in mudokon culture regardless of whether it's pure biological randomness or not, and although it would be healthy for a tribe to have a few princesses as insurance rather than one, I also believe NOT being "picked" to be queen can be very depressing and alienating for them. This could be a possible backstory for the Keeper; either 1. she was not chosen to be queen, which she took as a personal failure for many years before devoting herself to becoming the Keeper; or 2. she fled from her tribe in order to NOT become a queen, and suffers from guilt now that her species' only surviving queen is being kept captive & she's way too old to become queen now.

Anyway, I believe you could apply similar logic to the other queen-centric races, HOWEVER, I think things are a little different depending on each queen's species and role in society. For instance, I imagine mudokon queens born of Sam would be highly sought after and prized. However, it would not surprise me if they all fail to become queens, just due to the industrialists failing at meeting their needs in captivity. Even if a princess were kept in relative luxury, being separated from the land and nature would prevent them from ever becoming queens.

I would imagine things as being similar for sligs- however, I personally imagine slig eggs being produced at a much higher rate, since it's mentioned that queen Skillya has 5 ovipositors, so maybe there's less stress around trying to find the next slig queen. Or maybe she can recognize what they are and keeps crushing them on purpose. I think Skillya would feel very threatened by another girl being called "cute" in her presence.

Now glukkons, I believe, actually have it worse out of all options. Lady Margaret is just one glukkon queen- there's implied to be more & its further implied that there are queen glukkons higher up the chain than her. However, I cannot imagine a glukkon queen choosing to share power with an incompetent daughter. Glukkons don't like to share power even in the best of times!

Thus, I believe that when glukkon princesses are born, the queen's in-house surgeons sterilize them temporarily, putting their reproductive organs on ice to completely eliminate the possibility of them starting their own lineages or hijacking the company. Competition between glukkon princesses is UNFATHOMABLY brutal. Whereas their brothers are just competing to become glockstars or whatever, the princesses are competing to become dynasty builders. Thus, a glukkon princess has to bust her ass from the day she's born to impress her mother & torpedo her sisters' efforts. Then, finally, when the current queen is too old to keep working, her favorite daughter is promoted to queen, uterus privilege no longer revoked, the vykkers thaw out her reproductive parts & put her back together again.

This would make Lady Margaret even scarier in my opinion- if her position as queen was not just pure happenstance, if she had to do absolutely atrocious things to her fellow princesses to get where she is today- you'd understand why she grasps on to power so tightly, why she refuses to forgive even the slightest weaknesses in her sons, considering all she has been through to get to where she is today. It would be rather boring if Lady Margaret became a queen just from a biological dice roll, right? Instead, imagine her as a vicious, power-hungry monster who FOUGHT to be queen, with a line of glukkon princesses below her, anxious for her to retire or die already so they can have the ultimate promotion- and she KNOWS it.

Anyway, these are just my thoughts. Since we met the Keeper in Soulstorm I am INCREDIBLY hopeful we will get to meet more girls in future games. I would especially like to meet a no-nonsense 80's style glukkon business woman with shoulder pads, I think I would die of happiness. What are your headcanons for Oddworld's queens? I really wanna hear them!!!

[8el1-slig-spy]

Tina... You really are a funny looking alien, but you're kind. I have no clue if that's the normal nature of your race but it's still great anyways.

And I'm amazed you've been in Oddworld for a year, considering the fauna, of course... Besides the um... Inconvenient and powerful society we're in right now.

Odd knows if that revolution for that Abe guy will work 'til the very end but it'll leave a serious mark.

Wherever you are in this moment, look after yourself.

@steelmoth-of-oddworld

[mable-stitchpunk]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31573469/chapters/158860402

Within Reach- Chapter 25: Off the Rails

"Vesper is in for his own wake-up call after an incident at Feeco Depot reminds him of how vulnerable he is... but thankfully, Abe's there."

Fanfiction Link: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13892650/25/Within-Reach

[xxduncandonutxx]

The oddworld experience according to my autistic brain

[8el1-sl1g-spy]

//This my dear slig. An underrated species for OCs. I still don't have an illustrative definition of him but I hope you like it ^^

Name: Belisario (actual & chosen name)/ 7362th (original 'name')

Age: 17 years old (old but still standing as a young one)

Species: Slig

Gender: He/Him

Sexuality: Aromantic

Job: Used to be one of the glukkon's bodyguard from Rupture Farms right before the conference (knows the deal of using the Mudokon employees as food since he was 15 thanks to eavesdropping) until he was moved the same day to Necrum as a flying/ground slig to watch over the blind Mudokons. Now he is a fugitive.

- ex-flying/slacker slig type

- Since his youth, he had to pull out the tough/@buser personality like the rest of his species so they wouldn't isolate nor k!ll him in the future. When nobody's looking, he used to go to a corner to rather let the tears come out quietly or take long naps to escape from the horrible reality, his 'slacking' moments. It wasn't until he started talking to some of the blind Mudokons of Necrum (out of boredom at first) when he started debating internally whether to become a traitor or stay loyal to the Glukkons.

- Due to the reprimands of him 'slacking' in the Rupture Farms and Necrum, he decided to do exercise with and without his Slig pants when he's in land, preparing himself in both situations 'just in case' as he starts talking to the blind Mudokons whenever he has the chance (he still cries but it becomes pretty rare).

- Found out the Soulstorm ingredients and its side effects when he eavesdropped in a conference with the Soulstorm CEO by accident. With all the information accidentally acquired, he finally decided to betray them in a way he started thinking about: as a spy, 'shapeshifter' type.

- He remembers all the comics of a slig (Andrias the Impeccable), his inspiration since his youth.

- The moment he stepped out of Necrum, he stopped using his original name '7362th', since it's a constant reminder of his old job, as a puppet of this monster called corrupted society.

- He escaped thanks to a temporal blackout in the whole mine system. He saw the chance and gladly took it. He grabbed his helicopter attachment, attached his slig-pants to it along with a pocket knife and fled.

LIFESTYLE

- Thanks to the helicopter attachment, he was able to fly directly to his current little hideout.

- At the beginning, he stole food from the packages that were traded in Phat Station, taking the place of one slig at a time, killing them before he replaced them. One day, he found a Survival book (which started his book collection, specifically about practical stuff such as the use of arms, technology, first aids and self-defense) which helped him with hunting and orientation.

- Thanks to that knowledge, he was able to build a basic circuit once he stole a package of a compwriter (which cost him the helicopter attachment, impossible to fix).

- While time passed by, he started making rudimentary adaptation mechanisms whenever he isn't using the slig-pants. It's still in proccess but he has one to reach the highest shelves for books.

- He partially regrets leaving the blind mudokons behind. If he ever had the chance and time to rescue them, he would do it.

- Determined to destroy all glukkon's sweatshops but he will not do it... Yet.

PERSONALITY

- Reserved with most people at first until he gets to know them.

- Doesn't matter if you're a slig, a mudokon or any other creature, he will not fully trust you due to two mudokons who stole his food when Belisario offered them a place to hide fromq the sligs who @bu5ed the employees.

- He's formally kind to the visitors that need a place to hide/rest. Still saves the distance between the visitor and him.

- A bookworm. Total sucker for 'practical activity' type books. He rarely picks a literature book but only to k¡ll time.

- Once he warms up with people who he trusts, he will be a little bit more joyful.

- In his 'job' as a spy, he has no emotions to show. He used to hesitate a little when he killed sligs, but he got used to it. It's flipping the switch and he goes killer mode.

APPEARENCE

He has the common slig skin colour which (helps a lot in blending in) with a couple of scars hidden under the mask.

He has slig-pants with detachable suspenders, engine silencer and a sheath for the dagger he uses to finish his victims (the pocket knife nowadays is used for daily hunting and crafting) whenever he needs to replace the worn down mechanical legs (and the mask along) to new ones. The engine silencer is used for stealth while the suspenders are for reassurance with running and parkour.

When he's in his hideout, however, he doesn't wear them and walks with his arms. He 'walks' faster due to the training he did in the past (he always catches his visitors off guard when he does that xD). He wears a couple of leather bracelets and gloves for walking time.

[violetaquadelight]

"The Manipulated becomes the Manipulator"

1/10

[wallowsenthusiast]

I miss them sm (◞ ‸ ◟ㆀ)

[clobertina]

It is now finally done

I give you, Abe’s Oddysee in the Ultimate Recap Cartoon style!

It’s not 100% perfect style wise imo, but I think I did good for an attempt!

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[ghostmoor]

more oddRPG art. filling out pages. i could keep going indefinitely w/ drawings and do a bunch of item art too but if i keep adding to the pile of stuff i have to do it'll never get released lol

[huntressao3]

More cute drawings of Molluck and his slig in winter clothes since it’s getting colder ft. Molluck who has the flu and hates freezing his ass off

[phantomtoff]

Her name is Renée.

She's classy, she's sassy and she will stab thee.

[ask-alf-oddworld]

[elkkiel]

do you have time to talk about the standard paradiddle?

did somebody say standard paradiddle

[glenglam324]

It fits the scene so well