#ooky-spooky

[dicodwell]

“ i’d offer you a lollipop but i feel like that’s like, child abduction tactics 101.  plus i don’t wanna share. ”  he’s kidding. mostly.  “ you know there are like, a solid fifteen ghosts around here?  ooky-spooky right? ”

@hrtbrkrs​ liked the underused muse sc.

[revretch]

At last, my half of the trade with @titleknown! I really like Ooky-Spooky, who has her own public domain wiki entry here: http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Ooky-Spooky

[titleknown]

Welp, THE RESULTS ARE IN, AND THEY ARE... pure apathy.

Sure... Yeah... I’ll go with it. I don’t feel like I’m an unwanted nuisance with an audience that sees me as a distraction at best from more interesting people’s stories. Just like home...

...But hey, THAT’S JUST ANOTHER FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE GRILL, AM I RIGHT LADIES?!LADIES?!

Anyhoo, I found some stuff that I might as well show off, starting with this Guild's Lilly! Because trade unions speaking in the Victorian language of flowers to manipulate the multiverse like terrible puns too!

I’m pretty sure this means something in that whatchamacallit language of theirs, but it’s all Greek to me! Even though I speak Greek fluently!

But I do know it’s an accessory that makes clothes beautiful! But only already nice clothes. Kinda defeating the point. Huh. Maybe it wasn’t so punny after all...

Next up, we got the Decadent DeVasement! I got this one when I was learning Greek! Boy those Dionysus cults knew how to party ha ha...

But don’t drink from this. You will fucking die. Well, for a day or so anyhoo. Then you come back! With only moderate screaming terror at having gazed at your fate beyond! And only an extremely tiny chance of leading to suicide pacts!  Dammit I never shoulda let that monestary borrow it...

One time I used it on a convention of corporate lobbyists! And Quentin was only sorta mad once I explained it! Thus the day was saved, by the power of tempadeath!

Huh. I don’t remember getting that key. Did Iga lose it here again? Well, might as well save it for ‘em.

Around here, I just call this thing “Hate,” cause that’s what it’s made out of apparently! Somebody just got a big ol chunk o hate, plunked a leather thingy around it, and started stabbing people!

It’s powered by its name! Boy isn’t that convenient for explainations! I’m pretty sure this thing can kill a whole country if you hate it enough. Like, as a political institution. You just gotta know where to stab!

But, I don’t use it. I’m a good person-skeleton-bug-mechanism-thingie! And the GUFF asks me to keep a hold on it tight, and I gotta tell ya, better to help them than those other jerks! What was their name again? Spaghetti Christmas Polkas? Ah well!

And, that’s all I got, for now. Merry christmas ya filthy animals, and maybe ask for some more if you wanna see ‘em! Because, I think I may be kinda lost...

[titleknown]

Well, I’m right at the door and I got two folks suggestions! Tooth is better than none at least! But, this Toothsome Crown’s got nothing to do with the actual suggestions, so I got no idea why I made that pun! But imma show you anyway!

I got no idea where I got it, I think it has something to do with tooth fairies and how they’re dicks and Fairy Lords don’t even like ‘em, I dunno, but I do know it makes your teeth grow real good! Incredibly good! Dangerouously good! Fangoriously good! And sometimes you have to take the crown off they’re so good!

But, if you’re gonna wear it for a time, for the lovva the Space Gods In Funny Hats make sure to brush it and keep it clean! Bad things happen when you don't brush it! Necrotic things! And also NEVER wear it if you have Tate-Fairchild syndrome which I MUST REMIND YOU does not disable the Westermark Effect, some people just like to pretend it does because they’re horrible!

That last fact had nothing at all to do with the crown, I just thought Tate-Fairchild awareness was important, MOVING ONWARDS!

@nausicaaharris said:

Ooky, ya got any artefacts from underwater cultures, and/or artefacts related to the King in Yellow?

BOY DO I!

Got this one from Carki as a freebie, I’m pretty sure this Hand Operated Clammup was either a religious effigy or some kinda Muppet, tho a lot of places have a lot of overlap! And now it’s a glitchy nightmare come from delving too deep!

Too deep into what? I dunno! Probably not Cthulhu, thing’s the manatee of cosmic horrors I tell you that! It’s contagious tho with that glitchy nonsensemabobbery, and probably useful to sorcerors trying to break reality by altering their bodies to putz with the geometry! For cosmic bumfights or whatever!

I got big into this one in my Moderately-More-A-King-In-Yellow-Fan days! Bought it in bulk from a Little Shop That Wasn’t There Yesterday Opening Day/Going Out Of Business Sale!

I’m pretty sure it’s some sort of really bootleg-y Noh mask, with face-y bits made of what Google Translate tells me are the Japanese characters for No! So you too can wear a Noh Mask that is No Mask! No mask? God I love these puns!

Ain’t worn it though! Thing’s probably evil as hell! And, speaking of hell,

These Faust Masks are kinda a multiversal constant, no matter if you got your music stole or just want a big fancy kingdom at the cost of doing everything wrong! And it gives you the fancy powers of Hell! Sorta!

Well, it’s less than the original dudes, but hey, you get it without selling your soul/the world, so you get what you pay for! Or don’t pay for! I’m not a talksmith!

[Crap, hang on just a sec, I need to search out the other stuff in the box...]

AHA! And, here’s the other stuff by our other asker, who has a very good show on hiatus to produce a very good horror novel trapped in not-very-good development hell, @thehungryreader!

What can you tell us about that thing that looks like a jar of dried cat noses?

I'm also curious about that small medical vial with "♃ " on the label

Well my dear parson... I’d hadn’t the foggiest what you were referring to on the first one until I turned ‘em around. And also, how do you know the contents of this place? ARE YOU READING MY THOUGHTS?! IS THE DAILY TINFOIL I’VE BEEN FEEDING THE HAT NOT WORKING?!

Anyhoo, this is the Kitnose Kit Jar! Yanno how those super-special-awesome-prepared crocodile tongues make living things bigger? These kitty noses make nonliving things smarter! Instant tsukumogami! Even though a depressing amount of magicians don’t get theirs ethically, which is how I got this one. By punching a kitty murdering magician in the face. FOR THE GREATER GOOD!

Of course, if you leave ‘em in the jar long enough the jar itself comes to life. Which, I can’t take ‘em all out, just lookit that vague simulacra of a face? How can you say no? They do regenerate, since living and all, so if I just take a bit out o there I can use ‘em with no harm done! Except when Quentin gets mad I just brought that thrift-shop DVD pile to life. OH WELL!

This one’s called Stan’s Oil! I think it uses nanomachines to make your skin metal and tin-y, IDK, I got it off an infomercial. It said it came right from Oz, but I don’t buy it, and as Royal Oz Historian and Bad Opinion-Haver Regarding King K Rool, you probably don’t either! They used way too much form the movies man, you’d think they’d at least be sellin the meat glue, or gettin a Chopfyt endorsement or something!

Well, that’s why I went to Oz, but anyway, it’s a good body-re-enforcement oil, that you should NEVER EVER let get in the hands of a presidental candidate. Trust me, I played that game of whackamole a couple of years ago, it ain’t fun!

Welp, I gotta go, but if you find any of the stuff from this or the last one in your worlds dear readers, feel free to try and show off them as long as you credit this blog’s host, Thomas F. Johnson, under a CC-BY Vanilla License!

Cause, I gotta have somewhere to hang my heck, and he needs a place to shill his Patreon to stave off existential dread!

Gnight everybody!

[titleknown]

Ooky-Spooky?

Comically irresponsible, overly glib including on a lot of social issues, tax evasion despite not even legally having to pay taxes, throwing rocks at Theodor Adorno during one of her earlier manifestations on this material plane, improper sacrifices to the Condor Goddess, multiple incidences of public expansion and nudity, driving a burger without a license (Spongebob lied), chasing Theodor Adorno’s ghost with a Photon Pak to “finish the job” and finally loudly rambling about Attak-Pack and Robo Force action figures to the point of drowning out all conversation at a Washington lobbyists’ conference

There’s also the issue of her association with her aunt, which isn’t actually problematic since she hates the Wishing Skull SO MUCH, but it’d get brought up on a lot of callout posts because GUILT BY ASSOCIATION, AMIRITE?!

[titleknown]

Yaldabaoth

While only some worlds in the multiverse fit the gnostic mold, it’s the same fucker running all of them, the literal Yaldaboth.

And he has a massive grudge against Ooky-Spooky even though she’s quite casual and even flippant when they encounter. Turns out even unholy demiurges are kinda shit at dealing with stuff on a ground level as opposed to oppressive grinding celestial bureacracy and physical...

Yaldaboth is kind of a loser. Ooky finds him a bit sad.

[titleknown]

Welp, after all these years, here’s the art for Quentin Quigley, Ooky-Spooky’s reluctant companion, as decided by the good folks on Patreon! Which I wish more people’d join mine, but I digress!

While I added how he met her in the PDSHWiki version of Ooky’s bio, long story short he was using a ritual to prove that magic didn’t exist, only to summon Ooky, who drags him on adventures whether he likes it or not!

He’s very tired. Also, he’s kinda persnickety due to being relatively straight-laced, almost to a fault, partially stemming from his laser-focus when working; particularly on stagecraft. But, that does give him an advantage in learning when Ooky tries to teach him magic, though it’s been an... uneven process.

He’s also relatively quiet about his past, though most likely he’s of Puerto Rican descent and came from a very poor but supportive family, raised in New York where all the folks were being pushed out bit by bit.

He’s also not straight, most likely either bi or pan, though if you ask him about it he gets reeeeeeally defensive.

And, like his dragger-onner, he is free to use as you see fit; even for profit; as long as I, Thomas F. Johnson, am credited as his creator when you do so. Hope ya dig the art!

[titleknown]

Well, I colored in a sketch my good buddy @pettamapossum did of my Open Source OC* Ooky-Spooky, and I thought it looked nice enough that I might as well show it off!

If you aren’t already following ‘em BTW, I’d highly recommend you follow Poss. They’re not only one of the best cartoonists I’ve known, but a total sweetheart to boot!

*Basically, as long as you credit me wherever you use her, you can use her however you wish in whatever you wish, even for profit.