#nolybab

Finn lived in very small secluded group of Cave Mudokons that lived in deep caverns, but were eventually found and captured by the Glukkons. While the others were sent away to work in the factories, Finn, blind since birth, was seen as worthless by the Glukks and abandoned on the streets of Nolybab.

With nowhere to go, Finn learned to survive and adapt by memorizing the streets of Nolybab, recognizing different places by their sounds and even discovering hidden shortcuts throughout the city. Although he adapted remarkably well, making enough moolah to survive was always a constant struggle. During this time, he befriended another Mudokon named Lenny, who often shared his small apartment whenever Finn had nowhere else to sleep.

Finn was determined to escape Nolybab and starting a better life somewhere else. Desperate for enough moolah to leave, he attempted to steal a valuable artifact from a Glukkon historian known as the Archivist. Unfortunately... Finn's plan had failed. But, rather than having him killed, the Archivist spared Finn's life on the condition that he would repay the value of the stolen artifact. Because of this, Finn took whatever honest work he could find, and eventually became a newspaper vendor within the lower class of Nolybab, slowly paying off his debt little by little.

Stock Selection - part 1

 So, on Earth we live on a water planet. Oddworld is not a water planet, it’s a mostly dry planet. And there’s another layer to that… Have you ever read the theories of the Hollow Earth? It’s really far out stuff and I’m not in to it, but I’ve read it and it’s interesting as a theory. What I wanted to do is that I wanted to have cities that were underground. I wanted a world where such turmoil had taken place naturally that it had formed in to huge volcanic outside crusts and then shrunk again, so that shell stayed there but collapsed into big holes. So, the ‘leech’ creatures, the bad-guys, the Magog Cartel, those who came out of the swamps, the parasites, fleas in suits and ties, tape-worms with lapels; these guys needed to live in damp, warm places. Damp, with no sunlight, like slugs, but in suits. So we have these craters, and then out of these huge shells of collapsed earth that go down thousands of feet, they’ve built cities. When you’re looking across the landscape, you can see just the tips of cities coming out of these craters. But they’re not craters so much as large pockets.

The planet has three layers. So there’d be different ones that live here, different ones that live here and different ones that live here. And it would be different climates, different temperatures, different gravity. So the idea was that it was that much bigger, but it allows the planet to be smaller. And it wasn’t a water planet. Not perfect, you know, but fun idea.