Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Worldboat: The Nodeans


Fluids and forces, translucent shells nested within translucent shells, the Nodeans shimmer, glisten and pulse like skeletal jellyfish afloat in the ever-cycling atmospheres of the Worldboat.

What is their purpose?

Why do they watch?

Whom do they serve?


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6 comments:

  1. PorkyApril 13, 2011 at 7:11 AM

    Cool picture, very pulp, and the phrase 'fluids and forces' adds a current feel too. More mystery. This is still a very open project.

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  2. GarrisonjamesApril 13, 2011 at 10:01 AM

    @Porky: Thanks. Definitely a 'Current' involved here. It's a theme that'll become more developed as this goes on. It's a big mystery, and a lot of fun to unravel it one step, one sentence, one image, one dream at a time. And yes, it is a very open project.

    Should we provide stats for these things like the Nodeans or Quorrin? What system? Perhaps this is a good test-bed for the revised Mutant Future stuff we've been cokking-up?

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  3. NeedlesApril 13, 2011 at 11:19 AM

    3 systems come to mind Human Space Empires, Terminal Space, & Labyrinth Lord. This way you cover most of your science fantasy basis. A version of the World Boats will be making an appearance in my blog soonish. The high cosmicness of this reminds me of the early Thor Kirby stuff of yester year.

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  4. GarrisonjamesApril 13, 2011 at 11:26 AM

    @Needles: There could easily be a Worldboat in all three of those settings/systems. We're looking at all the notes we've made over the last year or so for cobbling together something more along the lines of what we wer expecting from Mutant Future as a direct expansion to Labyrinth Lord--not to give the good people at Goblinoid games any grief by any means--we just see an opportunity to take things in a different direction and are going there with all due speed.

    Jack Kirby is one of our favorite artists of all time--very inspirational, extremely influential. He did it all, and he did it his way. The Sinatra-meets-Raphael-meets-Piranesi/Durer of Comics...in some ways...the guy could invent an entire cosmos in fifteen minutes or less at the drop of a hat. Guess who's featured in our next Artistic Inspirations?

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  5. NeedlesApril 13, 2011 at 12:07 PM

    All due speed well it sounds like full steam ahead to gents. May I humbly recommend Kirby's run on Marvel's 2001: A Space Odyssey http://www.scifidimensions.com/Dec00/2001comics.htm
    ;)

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  6. GarrisonjamesApril 13, 2011 at 12:10 PM

    @Needles: Those comics really deliver some classic Kirby art/storytelling. Very good call!

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