#zombies of pythonel

[zop-story-archive]

Upon leaving the dingy washroom's quiet respite, Sylvain was quickly reminded of his grim present. Faded, worn band posters covered the holes and tears in the smoker beige wallpaper. The ancient wooden floor loudly protested at the smallest step on its planks. None of the light fixtures, plumbing, or appliances had been updated in at least three and a half decades, so it was a coin flip if anything in the home functioned properly, if at all.

"Hey, took ya long enough!" Aldin lightheartedly teased. The lizard man laid on their worn, tacky couch, his clawed fingers tapping away at his phone. Even in the apartment's drab lighting, his multicolored scales and long, yellowed horns noticeably glimmered. Unfortunately, Aldin’s choice not to wear a shirt meant his teal tendoned innards shone prominently out of the gaping hole in his gut. Of all the repugnant traits and behaviors that made up his Dagon-spawn companion, Sylvain found this part of him most vile.

The vampire ignored his roommate and entered the unwholesome kitchen. He nervously paused at their bright orange fridge, a noticeably newer item compared to the apartment's other accommodations. In one foul swoop, he opened the door, grabbed his breakfast, a single beer, then shut the fridge with a loud slam. Thank the cosmos, it was inactive for the day. Sylvain made his way to their stripped sofa as he popped the bottle cap off his drink. Aldin immediately shifted up against the couch's arm while hanging his scaly right leg and tail off the side. The pale ghoul sat in his typical spot, smashed into a crude cast of his frame due to repeated use, and took a swig. "So, what the hell did you feel the need to bother me about?" he inquired.

"Ah, right, one sec!" After a bit of rapid poking and clicking, Aldin showed off the screen of his phone. The multiple small cracks and large bandage plastered on the front heavily obscured its display. Sylvain never understood how the lizard managed to use that piece of junk for anything. "Kent texted me this mornin' about another lead he found in his paper stash. Said he needs more time to look into it, but it seemed promisin'," Aldin explained.

Sylvain scowled with doubt at the news. Kent was a burglar whom Aldin paid to garner the city of Pythonel's long forgotten secrets. While the maggot sack had access to good resources, the bloodsucker was still dubious of his intentions. "You honestly think that worm can still help? He's been feeding you that same line for months, and he hasn't dug up much of shit."

"Now c'mon that ain't fair! He's helped us plenty to get cozy with the holders, hasn't he?" Aldin countered vehemently. "Kent's a bit slow, I'll admit that, but he gets results. I wouldn't be botherin' with him if he didn't."

"Fine, maybe he's not totally useless, but I still think relying so heavily on one guy could come back to bite us in the ass," Sylvain argued.

"Well we ain't got much choice mate. Most blokes in town think what you wanna do is gonna get you killed," Aldin replied with a shrug.

"What really pisses me off is that I know the brainlets in this shithole want it as much as I do." The vampire's words dripped with condescending vitriol, like the noxious saliva of a rabid dog. "They're just too scared to actually get up and help themselves."

"Maybe you're right, but you ain't gonna win many more buddies with that attitude," the lizard offered. He sat himself up, got on his filthy, taloned feet, then grabbed a slightly musty Grunts and Hoses shirt off the floor. "I'm gonna head out and try muggin' the mongrels at the park," Aldin explained as he dressed himself.

"Alright. Just don't get caught, we don't have money to piss away on bailing you out," Sylvain warned.

"Yeah yeah I'll be careful. Stay safe, cunt!" The miasmic gatorman gave his roommate a wave goodbye before exiting. Left alone with silence and his cheap pork chop, the vampire took his time finishing his drink. He looked around the poorly maintained abode, often left a mess due to him and Aldin being absent most days. Sylvain thanked the horrid thing which brought him into this world that his brothers were not here. If they saw the pitiful conditions he was forced to live in, they would brutally kick him while he was down. Well, those degenerates frequently battered him no matter the situation, seeing as he was the runt, but that was besides the point.

Sylvain eventually rose with a stretch, and tossed the empty bottle into a trash across the room. He then made his way to his own quarters, eager to plan out his day of calculated bloodshed.

[frostcorpsclub]

I'm most curious: how do you think the holders would taste to the winterbeings? With the exception of Charles cause he's just made of ash

This is a fun one, normally all members of the same species would taste the same but considering the nature of the undead in your universe they would of course be an exception!

Jeagar

Immediately my brain was like, pimento loaf, I’m throwing up just thinking about it and not in a good way

The average winterbeing would probably enjoy it though.

John

Styrofoam, baby mouse wine, and Surströmming

Again probably a flavor the wintebeings enjoy, probably even moreso than tasting Jeagar. The wine is said to taste of gasoline and the Swedish dish mentioned last is fermented fish that is described as one of the worst smelling foods in the world.

You know I’m a fish fan I’d try some Sur!

Daniel

This is something I’ve actually tasted so I can describe my experience to you in depth! Frog legs do taste like chicken as everyone says. They have very little meat on them and can be stringy, the plump bits are not of much substance but an experience to savor nonetheless. Almost like cotton candy, in metaphor not taste. When I’ve had it there was an earthy broth component used as a kind of sauce.

I would love to eat Daniel, January would love to eat Daniel, your average winterbeing would love to eat Daniel!

Damn we’re three for three here…

Ferris

Finally one they wouldn’t enjoy! Ferris tastes of Nattō

I’ll let this snippet from the disgusting food museum website describe it best!

[prettyputrified]

For @lenorethequietbookkeeper

[lenorethequietbookkeeper]

"Nearly a century ago, a horrid blizzard tumbled down the alps and flattened a small village.

Alongside the mighty gales, a resurrected corpse returned home, a thief who often hid his ill-gained riches in the mountain.

His eyes were mercifully stolen by the cold, sparing him the grim sight of his wife and daughter.

The thief dug his family a grave, but before he could join them in the sepulchre, the undertaker arrived to claim the storm's heart."

[magpie-masterpieces]

Updated ref sheet of my OC for ZoP, a universe created by my friend @lenorethequietbookkeeper.

Sonya is a thief, general nuisance to everyone, and lover of shiny shit.

Her old ref sheet is on toyhouse.

[lenorethequietbookkeeper]

AWWW I'm so flattered!! Tysm fam!!

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favorite colors: Purple, pink, and blue! The shit I shade my art with most lmao

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favorite music: Rock, electronic, and brain scratch-ey stuff ig??? I like a bunch of shit honestly

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favorite flavors: sweet and savory!

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favorite movies: Cat Soup (2001), Death Race 2000 (1975), Skinamarink (2022), My Little Pony: Equestria Girls-Rainbow Rocks (mostly for nostalgia, 2014), Tusk (2014), Trouble Every Day (2001), VHS 94 (2021), Amsterdam (2022), From a Whisper to a Scream (1987), What We Do in the Shadows (2014), The Devil's Carnival (2012)

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favorite series: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Adventure Time, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, What We Do in the Shadows (both the movie and show are fucking great), Letterkenny, Invader Zim, Steven Universe, Daisy/Robert Helpmann, Vita Carnis, Gemini Home Entertainment

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last song: No Problems by ONICKS

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last series: Last one I finished was either Steven Universe Future or Adventure Time, currently rewatching Letterkenny for the final season

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last movie: Lawnmower Man (don't recommend it sucks lol)

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currently reading: Uhhh I don't read as much as I should oof

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currently watching: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, planning to start part 3 soon!

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currently working on: A lot!! The main story for Zombies of Pythonel, a comic with my girlfriend called Gacha Rewritten: R-P-Gacha, my own My Little Pony next gen, the Absurdverse, this year is gonna be productive!! :3

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Tagging: @musing-magpie @dahliarauxt @rainbowdelicgalore

𝐓𝐀𝐆 𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐏𝐄𝐎𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔'𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑!

(Wasn't sure what to put for an image so... 🐭)

𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑(𝐒): 💜💜PURPLE!!!!💜💜 (and lime green...)

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𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑(𝐒): sweets! Yours truly can be quite a big sweet tooth hehe.

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𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂: mostly Classic Rock and Heavy Metal! :0 although we do enjoy quite a bit of Swing and Pop too.

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𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐈��(𝐒): Wreck-It Ralph, Phantom of The Paradise, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Black Christmas 1974, Malignant, Cast a Deadly Spell, V/H/S 94, Skinamarink, Van Helsing 2004, Ghostbusters 2, Aliens, Ghostbusters 2016, Leprechaun 4: In Space (LISTEN I LIKE GOOFY HORROR TOO OKAY-)

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𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒: The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy; The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack; Chop Socky Chooks; Adventure time/AT: Fionna and Cake; What We Do in The Shadows; Castlevania; Shameless (the american series not the british one ejdnsn); Breaking Bad.

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𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆: I Heard (Eddie de Clown)- Madame Macabre

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𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒: The Adventures of Professor Egghead (creepypasta series on yt)

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𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves!

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𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆: iHomu: the Von Henheim Project by Mélani Garzón Sousa; The Occult Book by John Michael Greer; Hyde by Craig Russel.

(For context yes we're reading all three books at the same time because I have a short attention span that needs to shift into another piece of reading after a while <\3)

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𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆: Adventure time.

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𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐍: tons of art stuff we either owe to people (commissions, art trade...) or gifts; ref sheets of my characters/updating their toyhouse page; setting up two-three other different RP blogs. One for a group of insectoid/fly-based OCs of mine- the other for the creepypasta series villain Professor Egghead.

Tagged by: @kingdom-of-mxginica

Tagging (y'all don't gotta feel forced to do this, just if you want to otherwise it's really no issue!! /gen) : @rxdhairxdsirxns ; @bambino-muses ; @paleobird ; @strebcr ; @lenorethequietbookkeeper ; @sins-of-the-sea ; @chiromutt ; @galaxyinfinitum ; @raktanag

[prettyputrified]

AF attack for @lenorethequietbookkeeper

[zop-story-archive]

Smoke, dust, death, and bleach permeated the stagnant air of the grimey bathroom. The blood staining the mold-ridden, carpeted floor was a result of its secondary use. Alongside being a space for hygienic needs, it also functioned as a kind of butchery. Many sorts of corpses and roadkill were harvested here for all their worth, with worth having different meanings to each of the two monsterous tenants.

Sylvain sat alone in the bath, a cigarette perched between his blood covered lips as he stared off into nothing. The washed out pink tub was stained dark green inside and out by his roommate's yearly 'egg scraping'. He always found himself so perturbed by the mess left behind, he never asked the lizard what exactly said process entailed. On the floor laid the vampire's latest meal, a five-foot ginger jigalow that wore no shirt and parachute pants. It was facedown on the questionably sanitary floor with a massive, open gash in its neck. The skin had become nearly as white as cotton due to the massive amount of blood drained from the body. Sylvain had no qualms leaving the corpse there, he knew Aldin would find a colorful use for it later.

At some point, the killer plucked the coffin nail from his mouth and expelled the smoke from his lungs. He found respite in the taste of tobacco coupled with the faint buzzing of the room's singular, exposed lightbulb. More than likely, this would be the most relaxed part of his day. A part of him wanted to light up another nail before hosing himself down, although Sylvain quickly disposed of this idea. It would only delay facing the gory entropy slowly swallowing the city up.

The ashes of his cigarette fell to the bottom of the tub before the vampire flicked the stub onto the floor. He picked himself up and turned the shower on, upon which a stream of opaque, emerald water sprayed down his bloodied body. A faint smell of sulfur came from the liquid, causing his nose to twinge slightly. The vampire's pale face further cringed and grimaced when a loud, persistent knocking on the door clamored throughout the small room.

"Hey! Hey Sylvain, ya in there!?" Aldin, his roommate, yelled loudly enough for half of the city to hear.

Sylvain hissed to himself as he turned the nozzle to the right. "Not now, numbnuts, you can take a piss outside," he replied harshly as the water slowed to a periodic drip.

"Nah nah, it ain't that. I got something to show ya, get your ass outta there!" the lizard urged in his coarse voice.

"Fine. I need ten minutes, you better not bother me again," the pale thing warned forebodingly.

"Okie doke, take yer time!" Aldin chirped, as if oblivious to the threat made, before walking away from the wooden door. Sylvain rubbed his face with a groan as he restarted the shower. The killer was still for a moment as the lukewarm water flowed down the length of his body. He could already tell today was going to be greatly annoying.

[lenorethequietbookkeeper]

And now, some more totally legit ZoP lore for the day;

-Skittles are still a thing but they're colored with lead paint.

-Everything in Pythonel's world history is the same as ours, except that Ronald Reagan had a third term as President.

-Wendigoon is Jesus.

-Jeagar's first act as holder was having every recorder (the instrument) in existence gathered up and burnt.

-But Ferris' bitch ass still managed to get a hold of one solely to annoy him.

-The Unknown is a real character in ZoP's Willy Wonka story.

-There was a Hollywood Undead, but the holders had them murdered for "copyright infringement".

-Aldin had killed the most people out of the entire main cast, all of said deaths being caused by vehicular manslaughter.

-Why does this man still have a license? He keeps accidently running over the DMV employees that come to confiscate it.

[zop-story-archive]

"Now, let's start from the beginning."

Book 1: The Zombies of Pythonel

Chapter 1, Part 1

Chapter 1, Part 2

Book 2: A Blight in Ivorystel

TBA

Book 3: Fuschia Invasion

TBA

Book 4: ???

[prettyputrified]

Happy Birthday @lenorethequietbookkeeper it's been an honor to call you my friend for so long. You push creative boundaries with your art that make people stare on in awe just as much as it brings people together and inspires them to try new things. You're an infinite source of maturity and it's like you have this talent of always telling someone what they need to hear not necessarily what they might want to, which is a good thing. Never stop being yourself. I love you <3

[prettyputrified]

Custom character commission for @lenorethequietbookkeeper

Get your own! Commission Sheet OPEN

[prettyputrified]

Traits: Creative, Erratic, and Overachiever

@lenorethequietbookkeeper

[prettyputrified]

Traits: Self Absorbed, Gloomy, Genius

Went with one of his groovier modern rp outfits

@lenorethequietbookkeeper

[lenorethequietbookkeeper]

"John and Jeagar type shit" please more "not gay" content of them

Ok (credit to @picsthatmakeyougohmm )

[prettyputrified]

Traits: Good (I said I had to stretch them lmao), Gloomy, Family Oriented

@lenorethequietbookkeeper