#shambler spawn

[randomdoodler]

My piece for the The Darkest Dungeon Fan Art Zine of 2023 Check it out here!

[septemberlikestea]

forgor to switch out my skills before fighting the new obsession (how many times have they changed this boss at this point LOL) but its ok because wyrd reconstruction is so so so good now. bless.

[fuzzy-set]

When the squad took the shambler's spawn as their pet

[bogleech]

Have you had a look at the new enemies in darkest dungeon 2? While there are some ones I love, I feel like this game has leaned into the more standard "eyes and tentacles" lovecraft stuff rather than the more unique pigs and mushrooms and mosquitoes.

(spoilers?)

The jellyfish people and the creepy angelic things, especially the one with the "vampire squid" tentacles, feel more original and ambitious to me than some of the first game's monsters! But it is a trade-off, since a lot of my favorites haven't returned. I'd have loved to see more from the insect vampires, though you can at least get a "tick" in their style as one of the pets for your caravan beby:

I've just been watching @revretch play now and then. I also have to say, I feel like there are people who disagree but the 3d models in motion are just phenomenal in how well they still retain the first game's art style. Like if not for a few obviously 3d parts I'd have thought this was still a puppet-rigged sprite:

I also love how now a bigger part of the gameplay is your chosen party members developing different opinions and relationships with one another. It's such a grimdark world and still a major part of it are cute shipping mechanics. Rev's plague doctor and highwayman hated each other at first but developed a mutual respect. Then they got mad at each other again. What will happen next!?!!? DISAGREE however with the fact that of all the pets, only the "orphan wolf pup" gives a boost to positive character relationships. I think all the pets should. A found family should absolutely be able to bond over their mutual love of their Shambler Spawn.

[kappatater]

How about: Wyrmaw and Ferriclaw from Cassette Beasts

Roclas from Nexomon Extinction

Orotchy from Coromon

Shambler Rescuer from Siralim Ultimate (check the unofficial codex, it doesnt have a proper wiki)

I prolly should've specified like one per person but it's all good. Heads up, this one's big, kinda clueless, and full of palette talk.

Wyrmaw (Cassette Beasts)

I love this thing, the jester-snake. Interesting earth-y palette of pale brown and gold, much like its element, and the ever-so-slightly bluish grey and white are good contrasts. I wonder if its head is harder than its body? Seems like it. This and it's previous stage are very medieval seeming. I'm not too familiar with Cassette Beasts (yet; I've seen gameplay, very Persona), but I can imagine this thing hanging around abandoned castles.

Anyways, it's very cute, I think.

Ferriclaw (Cassette Beasts)

Oh, this is a neat way to invoke the image of Arachne or some analogous spider-person. The mask's structure also makes the whole thing a super-ficial pelican spider in a way too. Again, blue and brown are a tight combination, but the blue is bolder than the brown. Adding brown to the hind legs is good balance too.

Roclas (Nexomon)

So I know even less about Nexomon than Cassette Beasts and the wiki gives me nothing much to go off of. That being said, this fella's palette is more and more intriguing the more I look at it. An optical illusion of slowly turning green. I like its eyes, giving it the false appearance of it struggling. Looking at the headshape though, I see it was MADE for lifting big orbs. I mean it's partially named after Atlas, after all.

I think that ball could use some moss! That'd spice up the design a bit! Do Nexomon have variants of sorts? I should look into this at some point.

Orotchy (Coromon)

Interesting; I really like the hands holding masks aspect, and while I like all the different horns on the masks, not too sure about them being there in conjunction with the creature's five eyes. I think it's the purple one's horn I'm distracted with? Or maybe it's the two topmost eyes? I feel bad saying this thing needs less eyes though... Are there palm eyes behind the masks? I think that'd be interesting... Though hard to show at this thing's resolution.

Shambler Rescuer (Siralim Ultimate)

Looks like an FF spawn... and yet it is a mon. LOVE a good snout-hoodie combo, and that hood being hauntingly tattered bear/otter flesh is so rad, and the way the flesh swirls into the tail and gets gradually greener (is that rot or algae?) is a very neat touch to what is an effectively simple design. Apparently they just come outta nowhere and help people outta shipwrecks, so that's sweet of them.

[mouldy-gremlin]

I mentioned this gang in a previous post I and figured it was time to show them off. They're a Cawdor gang turned to the worship of Slaanesh.

Formerly devout followers of the emperor and proud members of the Redemptionist cult, now screeching the praises of a new master.

Seeking atonement for their sins through purifying fire, their prayers were answered but not by the emperor. Something in the flames spoke to them, it spoke of the lies told to them by preachers and propagandists.

Maddened by their experience and turned from the imperial creed, they set out into the underhive to spread their faith. They believe that pain will liberate them from the limits of their mortal bodies and souls and are only happy to share the suffering that others may see the truth.

Members of the cult leave their old identities behind by burning themselves beyond recognition, donning heavy iron masks to be their new faces and adopting new names.

This gang has been in the works on and off for a while now. most of the models are just Cawdor and Redemptionists with a head swap and sometimes a little bit of sculpting. the heads are from Reptilian Overlords Miniatures.

I find that Necromunda's relatively low model count means that you can put quite a bit more time in every model while still keeping it manageable.

It's already a sizeable gang but i do have plans to expand it further. plans include The Unmade from warcry as well as another Cawdor kit to make some of the more deranged members of the cult. I’m also working on a stig shambler I’m building from some spare bits as well as two more spawns made from accursed cultists in the works to represent the higher tiers of chaos spawn

[sheppi-isometrics]

I wanted to show the sketches in their full glory! These creature tokens are part of the Gothic Project that we've been working on, together with a map and isometric assets. Hopefully, it will be done before spooky season.

The Witch and Scarecrow are done. Plus we have a Skeleton Horse, Specter, Bats, Zombie Shambler, Vampire Spawn, Zombie Hulk, Wight, Ghoul, Skeleton Warrior, Nightmare, and a few others, but these are not spooky enough tough.

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[cyazurai]

Alright, even though some of the features of Vein haven't been implemented yet, this is already a pretty great game, especially for being free right now. Thought I'd post some pictures of my adventures so far, specifically for @simblrd and @landgraabbed who I wanted to keep updated!

The first house shown is the one I spawned in, and originally I was going to stay there because it has a greenhouse and four garden plots, but I might be staying somewhere else because some of these houses are super nice.

The zombies are pretty varied, too. Some are sprinters, some are shamblers, some are extra slow, some are crawlers. The sprinters take me by surprise and make me yelp IRL. But the frying pan is a pretty good weapon so far, haha.

You have to maintain the systems yourself. The electricity and water? You have to keep everything maintained or it will go out and you won't be able to bring it back. So that's pretty cool, but I also have 0 skill in electrical.

Also, I tried to bite through a tuna can because apparently intelligence is not one of my strong suits.

And I survived that infection. I think it was normal infection rather than zombie infection. Not sure yet though, because the status just barely faded.

[starmancergame]

A (new) rift in the space-time continuum that spawns Shamblers

Their attacks are highly radioactive and damaging to colonist organs

What enemies do you want to see in Starmancer? 🤖Murder Bot? 🏴‍☠️Cannibal Pirates? 🪱👑Worm Queen?

[randomdoodler]

To celebrate DD2

[bracketsoffear]

I should've submitted Spy from TF2 for Stranger bracket because of his disguises, dang it. Also Agent 47, because in order to assisinate targets he disguises himself as any man regardless of age, race, appearance, or mannerisms, and practically nobody can see through it until it's too late. Anyway, here's some of my submissions that didn't make the cut: Dark

Shambler (Darkest Dungeon): From TV Tropes: “A primeval nightmare summoned from the darkest recesses of the unknown, a star-spawned horror, an infinite malignity of the stars that inhabits the Void between Worlds that was never meant to be seen […] lurks in the shadows, waiting until all forms of light are extinguished so that it can enter the world to hunt its prey and feed its spawn […] The creature itself is bathed in shadow, and coloured like the night itself […] The implication is that it's been hunting the party the entire time but can only come out when there's no light […] constantly delivers endless stress damage on the heroes by simply existing […] Much of the Flavor Text surrounding it talks about how humanity has always feared the dark and offers the suggestion that this thing is the reason for that fear”.

Nightwielder (The Reckoners Trilogy): controls black “mist” with enough strength that he can keep the entire city of Newcago (post-apocalypse Chicago) shrouded in permanent darkness. Weak to sunlight.

The Pony of Shadows (MLP:FIM): primordial darkness incarnate who wants to consumer the whole world in eternal dark--not night so much as pitch black void. Tempted Stygian into offering himself up as a host to the darkness. Manus (Dark Souls): corrupted all of Oolacile and Artorias, created the Abyss—the unchecked form of Humanity (Darkness), uses Abyss magic. Darkstalker Kaathe (Dark Souls): tries to tempt the Chosen Undead into bringing about the Age of Dark.

Stranger I already detailed in another post. Spiral

Pinkie Pie (MLP:FIM): regularly breaks the laws of physics, biology, and reality by operating on cartoon logic in a way that is fundamentally alien to the rest of her world. Feeling Pinkie Keen is an entire episode of Twilight being driven to madness because there is no logical explanation for how Pinkie Sense works, and yet it clearly DOES work, so there MUST be an explanation, but there ISN’T, and it makes no SENSE. Alternate form called Chaos Princess Pinkie Pie, who is only 20% more chaotic than Pinkie Pie usually is (https://antifandom.com/mlp-gameloft/wiki/Chaos_Princess_Pinkie_Pie). The only being besides Discord who can control Discord’s Chaos magic, but only for a few seconds before it drives her crazy. Has magic similar in nature to that of unicorns, as shown in School Raze Part 2, even though she is an Earth Pony. Her sheer batshit weirdness allows her to play ten instruments at once (including a harmonica) WITHOUT HER MOUTH. What the fresh fuck is up with this pony.

Lucretia (The Adventure Zone): Uses the Voidfish to erase the memories of her friends and gives them fake ones; this accidentally results in her massively fucking up their personalities by erasing critical parts of themselves, especially especially Davenport--his entire life was wrapped up in the mission she wiped his memories of, so his identity was practically annihilated and he was only able to say his own name. She also uses the Voidfish to wipe the memories of the entire world so they'll forget the Relic Wars; consequently, people can't even perceive words related to what she's erased as anything more than static. She does even more deception by creating a fake second moon that acts as her base of operations. Tinky (Hatchetfield): His shtick seems specifically to be driving people into incoherent madness by tangling them up in a Timey-Wimey Ball until their perception of reality no longer makes sense. His whole goal is to screw with people’s minds and trap them in The Bastard's Box: a permanent, neverending mindfuck ("a twisting, endless maze") for those trapped inside it, where the souls of those whose lives he’s turned into unresolvable Time Paradoxes are trapped forever. A single glimpse inside the Bastard's Box — or a moment of hearing the screams of those lost inside — is enough to completely break a human being's mind, as shown when he breaks Ted’s mind and turns him into the Homeless Man. He then haunts the Homeless Man for fifteen years to keep him from regaining his sanity.

Micolash (Bloodborne): Leader of the School of Mensis, who sought to make contact with the Great Old Ones through unethical science; they technically succeeded, but their efforts caused the "stillbirth" of their brains. The item description of the Mensis Cage he and his followers wear says that "The cage is a device that restrains the will of the self, allowing one to see the profane world for what it is. It also serves as an antenna that facilitates contact with the Great Ones of the dream. But to an observer, the iron cage appears to be precisely what delivered them to their harrowing nightmare." He now resides in the Nightmare of Mensis, a twisted dream realm full of "countless statues that resemble human bodies melded together, and eyes that are sticking to every surface inside the buildings." He is the "Host of the Nightmare," implying he is master of this realm, and it shows in the twisting corridors he leads the player running through on a circular goose chase during his boss fight. He revels in his madness, as shown by his voice lines, and doesn’t want to wake up from the nightmare he created. He and his followers also summoned and chained up the Brain of Mensis, which induces Frenzy (a status condition that causes damage apparently from causing physically harmful levels of madness) just by looking at the player.

Shabriri (Elden Ring): "The most reviled man in all history" of the Lands Between, who has been serving the Frenzied Flame by preaching chaos and retribution long enough that "It is said that the sickness of the flame of frenzy began with [him]." The Frenzied Flame is a god associated with madness that apparently wants to return the world to primordial chaos by killing everyone; its associated Incantations induce the Madness status effect, it drives those who fall victim to its influence insane, and it is associated with Body Surfing--Shabriri hops between corpses, and there's a questline about an apparently dead character coming back and seeking to become its servant, apparently to lead the player to its prison. Shabriri himself encourages the player to become Lord of the Frenzied Flame and engulf the world in chaos.

And Slaughter is also another not!character propaganda post. Looking forward to the Hunt bracket!

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[boxofteethrpg-blog]

Just Another Mimic Monday

Another week, another encounter with the shambling dead. No one ever said being an adventurer was clean nor glamorous- but it pays well. Clearing out a zombie infestation came with a good payday, but damn it proved harder than expected. The blame lay on one particular zombie carrying a rusty, old scythe. Every time it cut down a hero, the shamblers around got stronger. So, you decided to take it out. Killing the lead zombie wasn't easy, they were as tough as they come, but when it fell another zombie shambled from the scythe. You snatched the weapon up only to find it sticking to your hands. Its blade sprouted teeth, its shaft eyes. Roll for initiative.

A true terror, the reaping mimic is driven by the same instincts as the zombies it controls - hunger. The first of its ilk developed in a region plagued with undeath and thus bereft of the living. It grew sick of rotting food and shifted its focus on locomotion instead of ambush tactics. The mimic fostered a connection with the abundant zombies through shared hunger. It found a way to control one, direct many, and bolster this shambling fodder. While it got locked into a scythe, the mimic is happy where it's at now as its necromantic powers continue to grow and its spawn have started their zombie hordes of their very own.

[thesugarhole]

a positive of me ignoring other stuff in favorite of sitting/lying down as much as possible, bar funeral exception: unlocked 3 dd2 achievements. would have started on a fourth, memory related one, but youll never guess what i forgot to do (apply memories)

achievos were defeat a shambler with shamblers spawn: at long last, i finally got an academics study with the beast. my team didnt make it out alive 3/4, but the shambler was defeated with only one casualty so yay

defeat 3 lair bosses in one run: i went leviathan, general and librarian. it was tricky with the librarian bc of my team but rearranging them and stalling a bit worked

enter the mountain with all positive relationships: more of a coincidence than anything, but since i was already there i gave it a go.

the last two were on the same run on obssession, and i also fought it, beat it, no one died. the current nerf to it made it very easy me thinks, like if you get distracted during it you will likely still get bodied. so i guess my hardest boss is ambition now? also some shrine stuff, finished grave robber and started runaway. after her is plague doc and its done with

update on my ankle: i think the painkillers and compression combo helped swelling go down by a lot today, even with me having to walk short distances (borrowing my late grandma's crutches). i thought at first one of my aunts suggested she would make me a splinter but i gravely misunderstood and it was catholic witchcraft. like sorry but i got no better way to describe it (she didnt like me pointing out that it WAS witchcraft adjacent just cosigned by jesus) it was a hands off ritual involving prayer and objects and i entertained them but i dont think it will help physically aoaodjdeikwak

well anyways im doing better 👍 thank you to those who cared. i have hopes of walking normally by monday so i dont have to take the crutch with me. in the short amount of time i had it out i already got a hand blister <3 tis the life of cursed by god

[wjbs-aus]

Reblog for a lifetime supply of freshly-splattered Shambler gibs or something, I dont care, whatever.

[beeapocalypse]

those posts that are like “i love you [thing] i love you [thing] etc etc” and follow a connecting theme w the items are a little cheesy soemtimes but that is the best way to express mine emotuon right now. i love you collector i love you shambler i love you thing from the stars i love you fanatic i love you crocodilian

^ look at these animals. absolutely incredible design

[capnsdraw]

Drew Quake friends as well

Shambler is fluffy i swear