Xenomorph PC1: Security Operative
Our Alien module for Phenomenon 2012 – now called Xenomorph – is steadily taking shape. The elements of the game include the Sulacco, RSV Shackleton and csiro-billington megacorp. The player characters are revealling themselves – here is Iriaka, a troubled station security operative and one of the ‘Drop Bears’.
The cover has been created using DAZ Studio and Photoshop.
Full size version here: https://myth-o-logic.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/iriaka-cover.jpg
The Ambush: A Tribute
The final version, with added detailing and more functional armour.
Full size version here: https://myth-o-logic.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/the-ambush-final.jpg
Draft here (Different armour): https://myth-o-logic.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ambush.jpg
North of the Cholanti the hills rise wild, and ancient forests stand inviolate in isolation; nest and shelter to brutal powers older than time.
The Uz call it Dagori Inkarth. It is a deadly land, beyond understanding, filled with secret trails known only to the Wind and the unseeing eye of Darkness. Darkspore and whipvine fester there, no tula stone claims boundary with the wilderness, no herd or crop contends against the tyranny of branch and rock and water. Shadows fester that are servant to neither sun nor chaos moon, and the air itself whispers chill and turgid, battered by the unceasing torrent of the Sky Vent.
The Lady walks there, and the Old Bear, that one, but of the human tribe only the odaylans dare its sunless weald, and they seldom, in solitary secrecy and fear.
Braggi flat refused to lead the Lunars north, even after threats against his kin. He had earned his honour name in that shadow-haunted wild, and mead and poets’ praise in plenty, but even he refused to walk there after the season of harvest and falling leaf.
The Lunars, wrapped in silver and false confidence, headed north without a guide. A mere file, some twenty spears, and only six on horseback. Four weeks they said, to journey to the lake beneath Skyfall and to return. Four weeks.
Three seasons on, and neither word nor tale. Like so many before them, they have been swallowed by the wild.
And white-faced, Braggi returns from the Ring. By flickering flame, soft-spoke and fearful, he whispers that we must go and find them.
– Ironspike, Fire Season, 1618.
‘The Ambush’ depicts a Lunar hoplite ambushed by a troll in the wilds north of the Cholanti River. It is offered in part as a tribute to the work of Luise Perrin, who gave us a certain classic book cover, and to a splendid cover yet to come. And yes, the Lunar is left handed.
By coincidence, as I was writing this post, a friend returned my original print copy of Cults of Prax, now home after many a year. Ah, RQ2, Greg, Steve, Luise, Lisa, Ray… salut!
XENOMORPH: Thinking in Images
Here is the final version of my Xenomorph teaser, created in DAZ Studio.
It helped enormously in deciding what Pip and I wanted for the the module, and in setting a tone and theme.
We have a vaguely Australian corporation – csiro-billington environments – and a research station called RSV Shacketon. We have a security team called the Drop Bears. The render depicts a security terminal, and without going into details, close evamination will reveal suggestions of a number of character subplots.
Shackleton Security Log Station - Be Nice to M.O.T.H.E.R.
You can view a full size image at
https://myth-o-logic.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/shackleton-station-1-web.jpg
Ontolosna: Maps of Tlon and Regions
I know of a world with three rainbow suns that shine unmoving ‘neath a pearling sky.
I know of a world set upon the back of a giant bird, journeying to an unknown destination.
I know of a world at peace, a world that has forgotten the terrors of war.
I know of a world where Time is ending.
This world is Ontolosna, and we are part of its weaving.
Several updated maps of Tlon and its surrounding regions are now available from the Ontolosnan downloads page: a new 3D depiction of the major regions and an updated ‘mud pilgrim’ master map, in which the strange case of the river that crossed a mountain is no more.
Sadly. 🙂
Helden: A novella of the Hero Wars
The order comes: gash flesh, gore shield, make iron ring. Glut the wolves and birds of prey with fat and flesh of foe.
I am pleased to note that Helden is again available for download in PDF format. As the clans of Sartar and the Far Place rise in rebellion, a life-sick Humakti and his Vingan companion journey to a hill of swords, where the fate of the Kingdom depends on a desperate and ill-matched few.
Helden is a tale of death and laughter from the Hero Wars. 79 pages. Grab it now.
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