#oddposting

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more stuff on queen development based on my redesign

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From the desk of Damascus Prood, manager of chattel conscription for SlaveAid:

Skillya has taken to her role as sole producer of slig stock about as well as you would expect. Of course, none of us could have forseen the tragic demise of our other queens in our stable, though it seems our own prima glokka isn't adverse to the extra attention their absence affords. Her temper is still a troubling issue as we increase her production capabilities - the larger brood sizes only exacerbate her periods of violence and subsequent filial cannibalism from the stress of the mass birth. With no mature females to replace her and the pressing demands of General Dripik, we can only perform damage control during her outbursts. Regardless, she has always been exceedingly easy to please, if not expensive to pamper. She has a fascination with Nolybab culture, but thankfully has no desire to leave her enclosure so long as we provide entertainment. Her televisions - one for each channel available on cable, to be left to run continuously for her enrichment - seems to be sufficient in occupying her. a much different stimulus response compared to our attempts to similarly enrich our mudokon queen stock. Her tastes reflect that of the glukkon socialites she sees on tv, and we have taken to gifting her with new, appropriately sized fake 'jewels' and beauty products as a reward for good behavior between brooding periods. Though I miss the mellow nature of the late Ekidna, the simple materialism of her sister has been easier to indulge than the poor girl's sentimental blubbering about her swamp.

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mulletokon design, because thats My People being represented here (rednecks).

they use brilliant orange markings to differentiate each other while camouflaged in their native forests. its believed that the modern slog is derived from slegs that were first domesticated by this tribe, but there's more evidence that domestication developed organically throughout the tribes in the western-southern quadrants of mudos, with the mulletokons being credited due to their interactions with other civilizations.

nowadays, their slogs are bred for defense against encroaching industrial colonization, turning them from loyal and loving companions into hardened, violent warhounds. curiously, this variant was bred separately from the nearly identical variant of guardslog used by sligs and other enforcers of the cartel. the difference therein is the mullogs' fierce protectiveness of mudokons of any stripe, while the sligs have bred their animals to be quite the opposite.

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messing with the design for native queens as they were intended to develop without the stress of industrialism

2nd image is howler/lora if she was made to settle for her tribe

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oddworldtober day 2 - 'shaman'

in times of prosperity within a tribe, a queen may lay multiple queen eggs within her lifetime, though with the natural hormonal balance of the community, only one or two will actually be fertile 'princesses'. the rest are naturally infertile and do not develop much differently than their worker kin, though depending on the culture of the tribe they may be eligible to take on special shamanic roles that involve the natural spiritual attunement of a queen.

post-industrialism, the practice of a young queen taking on shamanic vows becomes a survival tactic, as their reproductive capabilities put them at high risk for capture and enslavement. by sterilizing themselves, they ensure the continued existence of their tribes not by providing children, but by retaining and passing on their people's knowledge in a time of threatened extinction.

raised with the expectation that they would follow in their mother's footsteps, the vows are not considered an easy decision for some.

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The first-ever pension granted to a mudokon scrub was done so at gunpoint, in the office of the late CEO of Rusty Acrez Plantations. Lucky, a senior janitor of the facility, used his access to the executive suites to infiltrate the panic rooms reserved for his glukkon superiors during the violent mutiny sparked by the arrival of a small band of revolutionaries. Prezident Lokjaw was then forcibly dragged into his office, given a piece of printer paper, and made to sign a mock contract that, in spirit, granted Lucky the benefits of a free mud's retirement. Lokjaw was immediately killed afterwards.

In the aftermath of the bloody rash of worker uprising in the Central Mudos Industrial Park, Rusty Acerz has remained in the hands of its liberated workers, and is reportedly still functioning under freemud control.

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oddworldtober day 5 - "spirit"

rarely, a mudokon may find themself host to a weirdo - an ancestral spirit that the host may hold a connection to as a descendant or a successor. the host is usually required to do whatever is needed to put the spirit's soul to rest, and it is considered a significant moment of finding one's calling or purpose.

weirdtalkers are specially attuned mystics that are often called in to aid the possessed mud, as they trained themselves to speak with the dead on command. this is pulled off through inhaling dangerous levels of toxic fumes from their specially prepared buzzshrub incense, which very briefly gives them a timeframe to ask a weirdo a question.

in the age of industrialism and the endangerment of tribal ways, it seems that there are more weirdos with their needs left unmet more than ever, but vanishingly few mudokons are spiritually equipped to listen to them.

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native mudokon art with accompanying notes