#spacecrash

Gay as hell

2020 is the year that I finally explore an old idea I’ve been thinking about for years. I’ve written a story or a version of it for the last 15 years and I have decided to start visualising it with an initial round of very simple concept art to get the mood and tone of the setting down and pick out some key features to focus on in further more detailed concept art rounds. Here is the first of those pieces of art, I’ll talk about some of the story behind these initial concepts.

Let’s start with some of the story and introduce you to some of the concept art pieces so far:

“Centuries ago, a large space craft, now called the metal tomb or old god by others crashed onto a distance world; lush, beautiful and filled with mystery. Hundreds of years later, humans awoke from the ship, mature but without memories of any past lives. Society began to rebuild, with this crashed ship being their initial shelter but quickly they expanded to a small town… reminiscent of the medieval period on Earth, specifically England; the time of knights, swords, blacksmiths and King Arthur.”

I’ll try to keep my tumblr updated with these over time but it’s going to be a slow and very long project. Until next time - thanks everyone!

Contributor Highlight #17: spacecrash

Everyone’s favorite tree man monk has had some more fun adventures! Having absconded from Terra, Zief, Thaxa (our thrikeen ‘friend’), Rose, and the Terrans (Anka, Mark, and Luther) all headed for a space station to find Rose’s uncle, in the hope that he might have some clues about what exactly Rose’s mom planted in her body that the government and the evil human empire are after.

After getting to the space station, we saw a guy getting mugged in an alley. The Terrans just HAD to intervene, so Zief put an end to things real quick by blowing a hole in the guy’s chest and taking his credstick (money). So what if he was a member of one of the gang families...oops.

We headed for the casino after splitting up - Anka with one unlucky gambler, Luther and Rose with another, and Thaxa and Zief trying to be lowkey at the bar. Zief dropped his and the gangster’s credsticks discreetly into some poor sap’s pocket.

Turns out Rose’s uncle is a gambler, and a poor one at that. That’s right, he was the unlucky gambler Anka met.

What ensued was an all out bar brawl between three gang families and the party. There were some tentacles involved, some fire involved, and Ballroom Blitz played in the background. We stole a big ooze-man’s limo to get away.

Then it was off to Zief and Thaxa’s home planet, Fhloston-11.

The planet Zief hadn’t returned to since abandoning his post 30 years ago.

The planet that had been half burned to the ground by the Veerux when Zief was supposed to be on duty.

That planet.

Luckily, (or unluckily?) both the Veerux and the Coalition (government after Rose) were duking it out in the space around the planet. We crash landed and it was already pretty bad - Veerux obviously had come planetside.

We made it to Rose’s mother’s research lab and found two things:

1. a portal into the fey realms courtesy of a giant shark who was very nice.

2. a supercomputer that could either erase the data from Rose’s brain or bring it to the forefront.

Rose chose to bring it to the forefront, and hoo boy did she learn some big stuff. How to make a sage, for instance. And also we learned that since her mother had unraveled a sage and the universe works on a basis of energy exchange, we needed to create one - and that one wouldn’t be tethered to a planet like all other sages.

Of course the best planet to do that on is Terra.

Creating a person with feelings who is directly tapped into the magic stream and therefore has phenomenal cosmic powers?

Piece of cake.

When last we saw our giant leafy asshole monk from space, he had been threatened by a thrikeen space bounty hunter named Thaxa (who might also be his best friend besides AL). The party had encountered some robo murder children that the bard’s mother helped create.

So! After maybe convincing Thaxa that Rose, the bard, was dead, we kept on with the army, who thought we were just from a hi tech country and could therefore help against their enemy. The non-spacer members of the party, Luther, Mark, and Anka, all intelligence agents, now knew that Rose and Zief were from space.

On the battlefield, Zief and Rose did their best to counsel the soldiers on how to counter the tech the enemy had (which was taken from another crashed ship). Zief even went so far as to rebuild his robot arm into a rudimentary EMP gun.

Unfortunately, that was when Thaxa called. She offered the soldiers a deal: she would destroy the enemy laser cannon if they handed over Rose and Zief.

While the party went about their business trying to stop this from happening, Zief was teleported onto Thaxa’s ship - into her brig, to be exact, as he had declined her offer of taking him away from the planet with her and giving him one day’s head start on a civilized planet.

Thaxa did keep good with her promise to blow up the cannon. Then the Veerux (evil human empire who eat non-humanoids) showed up, claiming to be gods and generally chaos ensued. Zief and Thaxa called a temporary truce, and in the end, the whole party ended up on Thaxa’s ship, flying away from Terra with the Veerux on our trail.

We are currently headed to Zief and Thaxa’s homeworld. Zief hasn’t been there for nearly forty years. Hoorayyyyyyy.