Monday, April 29, 2019

Grog-Sothoth Awakens

Smitty Cystongue twisted and turned and cried out in his sleep.  His dreams were haunted by visions of something horrible lurking at the edges of reality, clawing at his sanity.  It bore likeness to his old Captain Grog, but he knew it was something new.  It called itself the dread pirate Captain Grog-Sothoth.  Returned from the realm of the dark gods of chaos, it called to Smitty.  He awoke feverish and sweating, his boils pulsing and irritated, with one last lingering image burned into his mind.

The next night, he had the same horrible dream, that his once great Cap'n had been transformed by the chaos realm into some gnarled horror.  He saw the Cap'n at the edge of his vision, twisted and scuttling.  He followed the fleeting glimpses deep into the night, stumbling in bare feet.



When he awoke, he was lying in a tidepool caked in mud.  He pushed himself up on his hands and knees and choked up foetid seawater.  When he was finally able to take in his surroundings, he found that he was in a coastal cave filled with gnawed bones and piles of corroded coins and valuables.  As he scanned the mold spattered cave walls, his eyes settled upon a miserable creature huddled into a hole in the wall.


"What have they done to ye' Cap'n?" Smitty murmured, half to himself.  It said nothing in reply, but rose squirming from its hole, tentacles outstretched.  It raised a cutlass in one arm, and pistols in its other three.  A tentacle squirmed from underneath the its tattered greatcoat and, while Smitty stood transfixed, pressed itself into Smitty's forehead.  Suddenly, he could feel the creature's will.  It was no horror, it was the same noble Cap'n that he knew afore; the same Ca'n Grog that he would've followed to the realm's edge!  Smitty's heart swelled and his soul was lifted.  He had found his Cap'n and was ready to adventure once again!


The Model

Captain Grog-Sothoth is constructed from a Chaos Spawn.  His left arm is from a Crypt Horror, and his cutlass is made from an ogor sword combined with an orruk shoulderpad.  Basically everything else is stock spawn bitz.with minor modifications (like pistol hands).


The hat I made by creating a disc of green stuff and putting it on his head, then I turned up the edges to make it into a tricorn.  The most involved part of this whole production was the greatcoat.  I actually built the flared out greatcoat from the foil wrapper of a toothpaste tube.  I then built up the top of the greatcoat just with green stuff.  I haven't yet learned to make everything super smooth, so despite my best smoothing efforts, parts of it the greatcoat are pretty choppy, but overall I'm very happy with how it came out.


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