#oddword

[thecreaturecodex]

Slig

Concept art by Steven Olds, © Oddworld Inhabitants. Accessed at the Oddworld Wiki here

[Sponsored by @martyslittleusedblog. They're been trying to get me interested in monsters from platforming games for a while, and this is what hooked me. Partially because I remember Oddworld and Abe's Odyssee for the PS1. My cousin was the one with the Playstation, and he didn't like the game, but I remember poring over the manual and delighting in the concepts and the art. A dystopian game where a low level employee at a meat packing plant fights a corporate empire and becomes a reluctant Chosen One? Yes please!

The sligs are the main grunt force of said corporate empire, the Magog Cartel. Imagine if koopas carried shotguns. Apparently a slig slave revolt is a plot point in one of the later games. Good for them. If you're super worried about game balance, this is another monster, like the watchuka, that has a lot of treasure for its CR because guns and other ranged weapons are very expensive in Pathfinder 1e.]

Slig CR 4 NE Aberration This green skinned creature has a squid-like head with five finger-like feelers surrounding its mouth. It has large muscular arms and metal legs. It wears a set of red-tinted goggles and carries a large gun.

Sligs are eusocial mollusk-like creatures native to the swamps of the planet Mudos. They are most commonly found elsewhere as grunts, soldiers and assassins, as their queens have gladly sold the entire species to the Magog Cartel, a massive industrial empire. In exchange for unquestioning service, the Cartel provides sligs with greater mobility. A slig is born with strong forelimbs and stunted hind limbs, perfectly serviceable for pulling themselves between bodies of water, but good for little else. A slig in slig pants, however, can walk, jump and use its arms for carrying weapons; typically guns. Sligs love guns. Most sligs also wear goggles on a regular basis, both to protect their eyes (they are naturally nocturnal and live in foggy swamps) and because higher ups in the Magog Cartel find their beady eyes aesthetically displeasing.

Few sligs are very bright, but most of them are very cruel. Unlike many other eusocial sapient species but more similar to bumblebees and paper wasps, there is frequent infighting among sligs as they jockey for rank. The Cartel has managed to channel that into organized contests like kill counts, employee of the month bonuses and frequent games. Another privilege is the use of names—all sligs have a name, but using it publicly instead of a number and rank has to be earned by service to the Cartel. Sligs off duty are often found playing card games or sports, and those not playing are usually betting their spare income on such matches.

A slig stands about five feet tall. They are short lived, and considered adults by 2 years and ancient by 20.

Variant Sligs Sligs are naturally morphologically plastic, as they respond quickly to changes in hormone levels. In addition, different sligs may have different abilities due to different equipment and cybernetics bestowed on them by the Magog Cartel.  For example, Big Bro sligs are Large sligs who have to be equipped with special four-legged slig pants to support their weight, and are often given automatic weapons. Some sligs are given flying harnesses instead of pants—they have a fly speed of 40 feet (perfect), but no land speed. Other sligs, especially with class levels, may be equipped with heavier armor, flamethrowers, or rocket launchers.  

Slig          CR 4 XP 1,200 NE Medium aberration (aquatic) Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft., Perception +6 Defense AC 17, touch 12, flat-footed 15(+2 Dex, +3 natural, +2 armor) hp 47 (5d8+25) Fort +5, Ref +3, Will +4 Weakness light blindness Offense Speed 30 ft., swim 20 ft. Melee 2 slams +4 (1d6+1) or heavy mace +4 (1d8+1) Ranged masterwork shotgun +6 (1d8) Statistics Str 13, Dex 15, Con 18, Int 8, Wis 10, Cha 11 Base Atk +3; CMB +5; CMD 16 Feats Deadly Aim, Exotic Weapon Proficiency (firearms) (B), Gunsmithing (B), Point Blank Shot, Toughness Skills Acrobatics +8 (+12 when jumping), Craft (firearms) +2, Knowledge (engineering) +5, Perception +6, Survival +6 Languages Common, Slig SQ amphibious, slig pants, uplifted Ecology Environment any land Organization solitary, pair, squad (3-8), troop (9-24) or army (25-100) Treasure standard (veemod goggles with brown veemod, 2 batteries, masterwork shotgun with 10 pellet cartridges and 10 slug cartridges, heavy mace, other treasure) Special Abilities Slig Pants (Ex) Most sligs encountered wear slig pants, a set of robotic lower legs designed for a slig to sit in and control. These pants grant the slig a 30 foot land speed, a +2 armor bonus to AC (that doesn’t stack with worn armor) and a +4 racial bonus to Acrobatics checks. A slig without its pants on has a land speed of only 5 feet, and cannot use manufactured weapons as it needs its hands to move. A slig without pants is a CR 3 creature. A slig’s pants are destroyed when the creature is slain (and cannot be worn by anything besides a slig regardless). Uplifted (Ex) A slig gains Exotic Weapon Proficiency (firearms) and Gunsmithing as bonus feats.

#slig #oddword #abe's oddysee #video games #sponsored post

[nightwere-mojo]

Thanks @go-go-devil for tagging!

Last song: Glamorous by Fergie

Last show: A little of the anime Uncle from Another World

Currently watching: Well, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is on in the living room RN

Currently reading: The Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson

No pressure but I’ll tag @thedreamtraveller, @electronic-old-men, @gnotknormal, and anyone who wants

#tag game #prev answers are making me consider brushing up on oddword lore actually..

[salubri-outcast]

venomous mushrooms

#oddwords #just a thought #my thoughts #scary though #two word horror

[asameera]

Abe and his Slig friend (?) Reg are facing the ghosts Priests worshipers of Meeches.

Drawing I did for Oddword Element (a story I'm taking part in) for the one who's actually creating it (Happy birthday again!)

#oddworld #abe #slig #Reg #ghost slig #ghost mudokon #happy birthday! #oddworld element

[nunezs-stuff]

Yuutsu:

She has a soft and gentle smile

She's kind of a cinnamon roll at heart since she truly wants to see the good in other people but she knows it's not always there

She's often referred as an Angel since she's very kind and doesn't like to hold on to anger she sees it as a chore and exhausts her brain and motivation she also have's piercings in one of her ears

She doesn't like to cry because lots of tears come out and she doesn't want to bother people

And

She likes sweet but yet calm and compassionate people

She only smokes when she's extremely stressed she doesn't like smoking but it does help as a stress reliever when she needs something to calm her down quick

And because of the scar around her neck she sometimes wears Band-Aids around her neck

and prefers to surround herself with people that both care about her and respect her she doesn't like being around toxic people she prefers healthy

The things and accessory she owns and her pet's/babies

#yui komori aesthetic #youtube #spotify #storytelling #where did my memories go #yandere oc #is this the start of a new friendship #soundcloud #kanato sakamaki x reader #sato matsuzaka #demon slayer oc #happy sugar life aesthetic #cute things #SoundCloud #makeup #lipstick #lesbian #twisted wonderland #Twisted Wonderland OC

[sindar1]

Vendo Oddword Abe's Exodus PS1 gioco raro su Wallapop

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[rollercoaster59]

Oddword dessert floor 1

[choclawastaken]

Did I already upload this?

#oddword #abe #oddworld abe #jojo reference #chocla #choclatv #myart

[tigitigi]

Popof - Oddword

#melancholic #piano #chill #music #instrumental #popof #oddword

[kainissoable]

*adjusts tinfoil hat*

Some time ago I mentioned that there is very technically at least one transfem Mudokon according to word of god.

Sadly the original Dear Alf bits have mostly vanished from the OWI website, but wonderful people have kept archives, so I found the question and answer in question from “Dear Alf 63 - Kitchens, conversations & Chroniclers”

Question: How do you make time between reading fan mail and making tea?

Alf: It’s a gruelling regime that often has me up aaaall night trying to cram it all in. Sometimes I resort to reading fan mail while making tea. Sometimes that gets messy. Like this one time I poured teabags all over myself! But I was lucky, I know Muds who’ve been through worse. One of my assistants (hey, I gotta sleep too) wasn’t paying attenion one time when she was juggling tea-making with organizing the weekly hackey-sack tournament, and she poured sugar all over her feet! Let this be a warning: pay attention to what you’re doing in the kitchen! I don’t ever want my ingredients wasted again.

It’s always been made very clear that the only Mudokons we’ve seen in the games so far have been sexless workers and there aren’t any native Mudokon queens known to Abe’s circle. Therefore, the assistant Alf mentions in this post must be a worker Mudokon who uses she/her pronouns.

Another game series (presumably) accidentally created trans rep and I love it. Checkmate queerphobic fanboys.

#Oddworld #canonically nonbinary and asexual protagonists and now this #oddword inc keep winning

[trixiedjinn]

Something I thought about, walking in the cold last night.

Capitalism isn't just a machine for producing profit, but a tool for punishing dissent.

But this is not profound.

White (racial) supremacy, queerphobia, patriarchy, and the like, can be thought of as all offshoots of Eugenics; if you take the hierarchy that our society demands, the pecking order of who is deserving of mockery -barring wrongdoing/defining our concepts of social missteps- and recognize it as a tool for defining who is undesirable. For defining what persons, what traits, are to be eliminated from culture and society.

A tool for eradicating anyone who refuses to fit into it's social structures.

And the word "refuses" is important, because in order for such apathetic cruelty to be considered common, it must be considered just. There must be an amount of bad, hapless, unavoidable, bad luck or lack of knowledge, that can be considered your fault.

In order to suffer and not arouse sympathy, to ensure "they" -dirty currs- are too alien to be empathized with, they must deserve it. Must be an example to be learned from. But not so present they might be heard and their commentary scrutinize the world too harshly.

Their testimony might poke holes in the lie we keep for comfort, our religion, our spiritual practice, that claim their pain is deserved. Lay it bare as the cruel and random thing it is, how close to the street you are yourself, reading my words from the comfort of your warm bed; how thin the green paper holding up your walls is, and how quickly the mind scraping labour it demands evaporates your time.

Ensuring you keep reading my words, in your warm fluffy bed, procrastinating the start of your day.

Capitalism is a tool, designed to grind out the lowest rung of people as efficiently as possible, while burning them as fuel. Not just generating as much profit as the whole structure can. Honestly, as the skies burn, and the sea boils, and money becomes more and more meaningless from inflation, generating profit might even be just an afterthought.

The real goal is keeping you working and scared, of the street, of strangers, of experience different from you, of the reality of uncertainty that we all exist in, long enough that the machine can finish its job.

Buy me [gummy worms] please🌺 So I can keep making you uncomfortable.

#and it's working I guess. #egirl #egirl philosopher #lgbtqia #racism #white supremacy #abuse #disability rights #disability #eugenics #leftism #politics #social issues #capitalism #anticapitalism #anarhism #oddwords #poetry #free verse #odd words

[ohfugecannada]

The owner of Oddwords.hu shared some memes they’ve made over the years. Here are a couple of my favourites

#Oddworld #oddwords #memes #gif warning #gifs #oddmemes #dank maymayz

[mudokon78]

drawing oddworld abe

#oddword abe #oddworld slig #drawing

[clamsontheside]

Episode 182 - In Other Words

#clamsontheside #comedy #comics #webcomics #parenting #schoolwork #schoolclub #comicstrip #thesaurus #oddwords

[odeventures-blog]

"So uh... you're new, yea?" Krimp called out, holding his large hand out to the Mudokon. "Name's Krimp! Nice ta meet ya!"

He stared wide-eyed for a moment and looked pale…

He then looked around to see if there was anything else around him… This was the first friendly Slig he’s ever meet.“o-oh… H..”He cleared his throat and shook his hand“Hall’o! Nice to meet you too! My name is Ode.”He then looked around again, he looked a little paranoid, as if he was Expecting something to come after him. He was looking for Slogs. Every slig he saw, there was always a slog nearby…

#Ode #Oddtumblr #Oddword #[[He does not mean to be rude He does not know sligs can be nice too! Your his first btw!]] #ask-the-faceless-slig #[[oops *you're ]]

[a-table-of-fics]

Oddworld: Conar’s Ambition, Chapter 2, Draft 1, Part 7

Conar couldn’t believe it; he was expecting a tense escape, maybe an amazing shootout. But no; he was walking through the front door, with a Mudokon openly in tow. He even waved at a couple of the guards on his way out. He looked up at Slim, who kept himself hunched and shivering in a clearly practiced manner. The two of them marched in silence for a while, with Conar occasionally tapping the muzzle of his gun against Slim’s back for effect.

“You’re welcome,” Slim finally said, once they were closer to the Slog Huts again, and well out of earshot.

“What, you expectin’ thanks?” Conar asked, laughing at the audacity. “I was the one bustin’ ya out, y’know!”

Slim gave a smug grin, leaning against the wall as he did so.

“Oh, really? You go out the back with a Mudokon like you wanted, they’d be throwing your lead-filled ass into the recycler faster than you can say—”

He tried making that noise he heard many Sligs shout, but it sounded more like his lungs were playing tug-of-war.

“Yeah, well, you seemed pretty comfy in that filthy closet.”

“Ha, yeah, thanks,” Slim laughed, looking around for a moment. “So uh, why didja get me out of there anyway?”

“Right, yeah,” Conar said, clearing his throat. “So, you’re gonna help me take Zeb down a peg. If that Abe guy can take down RuptureFarms, I figure you can help me get his Moolah and ruin ‘im!”

Slim’s smile faded, and he looked at Conar like the Slig grew legs on the spot.

#oddworld #oddword fic #oddword conar's ambition #chapter 2 #draft 1