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[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

[lair-of-the-white-worm]

why wont ao3 links embed. im going to kill you. anyways oneshot fic dropped if anyone gives a fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[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

[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!

[marshmalleaux-queen]

decided to make a couple of non-self-insert OCs mostly for funsies and I...kinda love them already fjdhfj. I actually had vague ideas for them a few years ago but I wanted to flesh them out a little more 👀 also I think I wanted to write more in the images but I got too excited and wanted to post them right away 👉🏻👈🏻

[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

[phantomtoff]

Her name is Renée.

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

[reactionimagearchive]

[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

[glenglam324]

Cw: A bit of blood

This is why Ms Maggie doesn’t visit Skillya anymore

[wiredalienvampire]

Becoming a self/yume shipper was objectively the best life choice i had ever made