#necron 99

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NECRON 99 / PEACE Wizards (1977) dir. Ralph Bakshi

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Vicky Wyman (1953-2018) “Necron 99” from Wizards (1977)

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"Peace wants love... wants free... will help."

Day 24 of ShadowTober complete, with Necron 99, aka, Peace! Took me a while to watch Wizards, even though I knew of it, but loved the movie when I saw it, and thanks to him being the first introduction to the movie, Peace is my favorite character!

Necron 99/Peace © Ralph Bakshi ShadowTober and artwork © ZootyCutie (that's me!)

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Spoilers for The Infinite and the Divine

The Infinite and the Divine is probably one of my favorite books ever because it starts strong and never slows down in intensity. It starts with two ancient terminators fighting over a macguffin so viciously they kill a planet several times over, unintentionally start one of, if not the first, genestealer cult. Sabotage and fuck with eachother for the better part of 10,000 years, then end up fighting a god by summoning several armies like fucking pokemon because Orikan couldn't resist his e-girl. Which in turn causes Trazyn to give Orikan the mean to ALSO become a god, and then it all comes crashing down in a great big cacophany of glorius combat and explosions. 100/10 I would give up most of my remaining lifespan to have a 15 minute conversation with the both of them.

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Electric Avenue

Weirdly fixated on wizerds today. I've been seeing posts and videos about a map of wizerd island Oregon ( an island in a volcanic crater lake in a national park) that someone modified to have a bunch of fictitious wizerd towers and towns on but I can't find the modified map itself, so I started digging.

Ive now found several blogs and an entire subreddit of wizerds and wizerd related activities. Including but not limited to, the wizerd council's band spell list, a discussion of the comparative pros and cons of Wands versus Staffs with counterpoints made in favor of Spell books and the efficacy of making them fly, and a chronomancer giving the questions to any answer given.

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Okay I have shared my thoughts on every other necron guy with a name and a model, might as well finish the set.

Iluminor Szeras it is finally your turn!

I was honestly waiting to see if Pariah Nexus added anything new to his character for me to chew on. As I suspected, it added nothing and THANK GOD for that! This guy is pure, uncut, villain. He is not a character, he is a problem and I hate (love) him!

Look, 40k is a grimdark universe. Full of bad things happening to maybe okay people or bad people or a combination and sure a lot of stories and characters grapple with the existential dread of living in a universe where 99% of everything either wants you dead or wants you way worse than dead. That's all compelling.

But you need someone to be the terror, the thing that lurks in the darkness, the monster you never, ever want to run into. For my money, Szeras plays that role better than almost anyone in the setting. His design is the perfect combo of monstrous and intimidating (and he's just one of the best models in the necron range). He tortures every living being he can get his hands on for fun and "science." He can strip your soul away and make it hurt (probably more than necessary). And he's an immortal skeleton spider robot the size of a small tank with needles on command!

Szeras is literally the guy that made biotransference happen. He destroyed his own species! And did he learn anything from this? About hubris or toying with people's lives or thinking through the consequences of his works? Nope! In fact he wants to do it all over again but better this time probably maybe. He just wants to be a god! Is that too much to ask?

Don't get me wrong, he does have a personality. It is just every cliched villain trope imaginable. Arrogant, cruel, abuses his subordinates (pariah nexus did confirm that at least, never say it added nothing). Still brilliant, but he loves to let his evilness get in his own way just a little. Keep things interesting. He has that classic necron He is literally offended that people don't line up for the science torture, because he's just so much better than them. Classic, old school necron nonsense. He's ungodly petty (even though he insists he had moved past all that). Also he really hates Orikan?

(excerpt comes from one of the Psychic Awakening shorts for anyone curious)

And the thing is, this all totally works (for my money at least). Because every time Szeras shows up, the audience immediately tenses. Trust me, I am speaking from experience. You want to freak people out, just toss Szeras in at the end of a chapter or in a trailer or anywhere in close proximity of someone your audience doesn't want vivisected. Instant stakes!

Sometimes that's all a character has to be. A fun threat to throw at a situation to see how it gets worse. He is terrible, I love him, I grin and grimace every time I see him around.

That said, he is THE WORST MODEL I HAVE EVER HAD TO ASSEMBLE AND PAINT and for that I do curse his name forevermore.

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

I said this in another post but the Forerunners from Halo are legitimately written like how the Necrons should be, another thing the franchise does better

I… actually have to disagree. I think the Necrons are done well, honestly, particularly with the recent writing we’ve been getting about them. Their flaws make them engaging. Necrons are still the most technologically potent race within the setting, and making them as whacky strong as the Forerunners wouldn’t really work narratively when the Necrons are walking around and trying to reclaim planets.

If the Forerunners were active in 40k, or even their own setting in its current state, they’d obviously be able to clean sweep the whole thing and end the setting. Except 40k wouldn’t be allowed to end, for obvious reasons, so instead you’d have an insanely powerful, competent race that was arbitrarily stuck in the same stalemate as everyone else for painfully contrived reasons.

So yeah. If 40k was a different kind of narrative, then the Necrons being more Forerunner-like could have merit, but as it stands in the stagnant reality of the IP, being so undeniably potent would just cheapen and undermine them when it didn’t allow for anything to happen anyway.

40k is built on walking as slowly as possible so as to sell as many miniatures as possible with every step. You know how obviously strong Swarmlords/Bloodthirsters/Avatars are, and how in spite of that they do so little that they feel pointless 99% of the time? I wouldn’t wish that fate for an entire species.

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Sooo hi! This story idea came to be at literally 5:00 AM (I have insomnia help) and I thought I share it here to ask people what people think? Is it too fucked up?

Crazy cabal of crypteks wanting new blood in necron ranks (also experience parenthood again) create biofurnaces (only much MUCH slower acting to NOT get necron attention but also makes the process that much more slow and extruciating) so they kidnap children from intelligent humanoid species (Human and Tau basically but %99 human) from a young age specifically (oldest is 9) and look after them , teach them , children (those who remember their parents or worse... remember them KILLING their parents will be 'treated' by a psycomancer for a few memory adjustments) when teenanger (14-19) said crypteks will chain them in the furnaces.

As their flesh burns away and soul striped from their bodies kids , said crypteks will make preparations to recieve , comfort and help their new desiples , new member of their 'species' and child.

Not all survive. Some driven insane through the process irrevocably and had to be put down. Those who survive the ordeal are horrificly traumatized and need constant attention for sometimes YEARS at a time until their minds stabilize or their suicidal tendencies...lessons for lack of a better term (this happens more commonly with more artistic and creative children when they were flesh since they cannot create anymore) what's worse the crypteks genuinely mourn for each of their 'child' lost and create bloody tombs for them.

Eventually named Crons like Imotekh, Trazyn , Zhandrekh , Obyron Imotekh and Maybe Anrakyr will appear. Also Phillias!! When inevitably discovered of their MONSTUROUS deeds it WILL cause quite an uproar in necron society. Oh and Orikan will absolutely appear!! He will have so many young child to trauma bond 😂😭

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Who's up next for a refresh?

Now that the Nids got their ancient kits modernized, I decided to check on all the factions over at the Lexicanum that had no relevant releases over the last years.

Of course 99% of Space Marines disqualifies by default. Their minis might be the aesthetical equivalent of drywall, but that doesn't change the fact that they at least got something. Unlike, ya know, Grey Knights, who since 2011 have gotten TWO CHARACTERS and that's it. If anyone would be due for a makeover on the imperial side it would be them, but given how for over a decade GW has tried their best to pretend the faction does not exist I doubt they will get anything. So onwards to the other factions:

Adeptas Sororitas: Got re-released as a faction in 8th, and got a whole bunch of stuff in 9th. Not likely to get a refresh anywhere.

Adeptus Custodes: Also released in 8th with an miniscule model range. How these guys qualify as an army faction and not a variant of Agents is beyond me. Might get some stuff, but no refreshes.

Astra Militarum: Literally just got an update towards the end of 9th, but there's probably a lot of older stuff that need redoing. Likely to get a bone when their codex drops but nothing massive.

Heretic Astartes: Got a whole bunch in 8th and 9th, also not very likely to get a massive refresh.

Death Guard: Became a faction in their own right models-wise in 8th, and got some more in 9th. Too new to get some refreshes.

Thousand Sons: Released with Magnus in 7th, got a bit of stuff during 8th, and only a single token character in 9th. Nothing up there needed a refresh but rather new stuff really.

World Eaters: Released literally last year - we might get a new Kharn tho.

Chaos Demons: shares the range with AoS so no shortage of new releases on big characters and monsters, but a lot of their rank-and-file units are getting somewhat dated. Wouldn't be surprised if we got an upgrade to 2008's Bloodletters and Daemonettes.

Craftworld Eldar: Got a bit of a refesh in 9th, but I wouldn't be surprised if we also get some upgrades to their 6th edition stuff. Despite all memes not a very high priority from what I can see.

Dark Eldar: These guys are NOT having a good time. Most of their stuff is from 5th edition, and since then we have gotten a bunch of characters, two units, and a flyer - all over the course of 4 whole-ass editions. In dire need of a refresh.

Harlequins: lol. lmao even.

Genestealer Cults: fairly new, given how they only got a single character in 9th they will most likely get new stuff, but no refreshes

Leagues of Votann: Literally came out last year, same situation as World Eaters, currently waiting for their second wave.

Necrons: Got a refresh in 9th, most likely getting their 2012 and earlier characters redone this edition (Trayzin, Stormlord, Orrikan) when their codex comes out, although Camoptek-stuff and the Ghost Ark sure be showing their age.

Orks: gigantic model range. Despite solid releases every edition there's always stuff that needs to be updated.

T'au Empire: Got a bunch of stuff 8 years ago, and not much since then. 2 Killteam boxes and 3 named characters sounds like something, but when armies field models from 2001 that definetly does not help.

Overall in that list there's only three that stand out: Demons, Dark Eldar and T'au. If we look at the severety of outdated stuff, the DE should be totally up next, but my guess is that GW will tie their refresh to when the story focus jumps back to where Arks of Omen left off in the Webway. If that happens still this year, they get it first, otherwise T'au gets their Codex early 2024 which is the most likely time they will get anything.

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Rorschach and Necron-99 watching tv

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Some Wizards fanart that I finally got around to coloring. It’s a weird but enjoyable movie from Ralph Bakshi with a cool premise that falls a little flat in its delivery. Nonetheless, there are some cool characters, the coolest being Necron-99 (Peace), pictured above.

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Hey, where did Halloween Night go?

The cast of characters in costumes includes

Homestar Runner as Teen Wolf.

Strong Bad as Father Guido Sarducci

The Cheat as Gizmo the Mogwai from Gremlins

Strong Mad as The Maxx

Strong Sad as a Tony Clifton

Pom Pom as the Mario Batalia

Marzipan as Frida Kahlo

Coach Z as Queen Latifah

Bubs as Coach McGuirk from Home Movies.

The King of Town as the Gorton's fisherman

The Poopsmith as a Necron 99 from Wizards.

Homsar as Ed Grimley

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Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards ☮️

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