Works in progress

A couple of previews of things/sketches I've been working on recently... (since this blog has been rather quiet of late).

The first is an early-stage sketch of wereduck s(w)ord sage of Lhankor Mhy. I'd had a few ideas on this subject and--if I didn't already have enough on my plate--decided to doodle them out by way of exploration. Strapped to his back is Shrumgiglorbb, the magic sword of the fungal Black Elves. It's made of rotting wood and its pommel is a large mushroom that glows in different colours. (I was mostly sober when I came up with that bit.)


The second is a quick scan of a work in progress, entitled: "The Upland Marsh is a great place for a picnic."

The Bill Snatcher

All exasperated ducks in Stone Nest tell the tale of the Bill Snatcher, a crookedly long-beaked durulz with a malevolent air, who creeps around the nests, searching for the noisiest and most ill-behaved ducklings. He is drawn to the sound of their quackings, and lures the little beggars with grubs to his ornately decorated boat, where he locks them up and whips off their bills.

The poor captives are taken to his master, Delecti. There the mute bill-less ducklings are made into zombie slaves, while their incessantly chattering bills are animated by foul magics, so that they continue snapping in horrid abandon in the mists of the Marsh, chasing after those who wander too far from the nest. All ducklings fear the Bill Snatcher, and its continuous use as a ploy to quieten little ones has lost none of its power over the generations.

[Oh heck, Gert Froebe as Delecti is an image that is proving hard to remove.]

(Originally posted on ImmoderateGloranthaQuest--or whatever it was then--, 17 May 2004.)