#runepunk

You’ve heard of cyberpunk, and steampunk, and, if you’re cool, Solarpunk. I am going to be making new -punk styles and describing them here.

Eldritchpunk

-So usually, these things are based on whatever power source they’re using, so in Eldritchpunk, they use some otherworldly energy to power their machines.

-Set in port towns or lovecraftian-esch cities. 19th to early 20th century.

-Boats. Fog. Ocean things.

-Machinery with pumping pistons and glowing tubes filled with otherworldly sludge. Some machines or vehicles built around creatures.

-Eldritch Horror and such are semi-commonplace. Possibly even otherworldly beings living within cities as civilians.

-Kinda steampunky but less steam and brass and more fog and wet wood

Podunkpunk

-Code Name: KND and Craig of the Creek energy. A bunch of kids in a small town making weapons and stuff that probably shouldn’t work and yet it does.

-Gumball guns and slingshots. Treehouse bases. Lots and lots of duct tape.

-Small towns with kids riding around on bicycles here and there protecting the town from whatever.

-Double A batteries, random lightbulbs, that stuff.

Runepunk

-Powered by rocks with runes on them or things of the sort.

-Could be taken in the direction of either Nordic Viking aesthetics with runic technology and semi-modern, or semi-modern people discovering runic technology and using it for floating structures and such.

Biopunk

-Think the game Scorn with all the technology being made of pulsing meat and intestinal tubes.

Rhythmpunk

-Machinery being controlled in some way shape or form from music.

I kinda lost steam (funny joke) after Podunkpunk.

Whenever working with dead parts in a medical capacity one must sterilize and dry all components first. From there we can draw the obvious pros and cons of using bones in a prosthetic via necromancy. For pros we have the natural feel of the bones, be they the original bones of the person in question or fitted bones picked and set to match the user. The obvious con here is the fragility of a bone by itself and would need much, much shoring up to satisfy the needs of the average person.

On those cons, first we need something that will facilitate movement while reinforcing the bone. Without pretense I admit to knowing nothing of how Calcium Metal is made other than by a molten salt electrolysis process and in theory this combined with the nature of the bone would create a more durable subject for the process so long as other trace elements needed in the necromancy arent destoryed and simply leave behind metal.

Barring the electrolysis the next step would be using masking to reinforce the elements, such as high durability rubber and leather to replace where the muscle and skin were. While this could create more resistance for the magic to operate it does fit the brief so long as a skilled enough artisan can mold the smaller rubber muscles and bind them to the bone where they would normally go. The leather skin can in turn be whatever quality one would prefer, though skin softer than yours may be just as unsettling as rougher skin to others.

Now the reason posited at the top, the mobility and connectivity quality of the magic, is why we use a necromantic core for the prosthetic and work around that. Artifice and arcane magic lack an intuitive flow of movement, durable and powerful but sometimes lack in balanced control unless the crafters are masters in their field, and while druidic magics can make up for this they almost always draw on external natural forces that bind themselves to the subject and those materials vary from wood to stone, leaving them more vulnerable to the elements while being more blunt and lump shaped at times.

Episode 13 of the Bradford Adventuring Guild's Runepunk campaign featured some fond reminiscences of flying Air Byakhee:

Steve: What are your instructions to [the summoned demon]?

Alec: [panicked mumbling] Mmmm-mmm!

Sophie: Go and see if any... Shut up! You're having Cthulhu flashbacks!