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Koryface — The Corpse Haggler
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Published: 2013-07-29 19:09:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 4767; Favourites: 173; Downloads: 89
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"Git yer carpssses and partsssies heeeere! Tew fer wan t'day ooonly, m'deeear!"This old harpy of an entity will charge you an arm and a leg if you're not careful, but she's got what you need. Max Gon had talked to me about his ideas and mentioned necro-beings that sold dead bodies to elementals and the like. I liked the idea of a travelling corpse/body part dealer.
Copyright 2013 Kory Lynn Hubbell
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Comments: 19
I have the Substrata book and saw this in there. Dope
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I must admit. I have never seen anything quite like this. Though it's pretty grim, I dig the vibes coming from the drawing. Man, that colour scheme's amazing. It really adds flavour to the drawing.
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I love this 
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Yeah, I think the gore isn't really worth the rating, but her gross boobs were out.
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That is the best response ever, HAHAH. Gross boobs. XD
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I assume you meant to give this the gore rating and not the nudity rating, funny though. I suppose the skeletons aren't wearing much... haha. Love this peice. ♥
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Gives me a Paul Richards vibe in the best way possible. Whether that's from your time at 343 or not, either way, really superb.
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That's good, since it's for his book, haha. Thanks!
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Saw it as a thumb from his most recent weekly round up a few days, doh!
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Funny thing; I was thinking about this the other day when I was reading The Shadow Isles lore of League of Legends by Riot.
I was wondering how you would have an undead society which isn't just a war machine for fighting, but actually exists like ours, to grow and prod the universe to find out how it operates. Obviously such a society would need trades people but the furthest I got with idle speculation was human farmers who breed people like cattle, or possibly pigs, so they can feed vampires or sapient zombies [like WoW's Forsaken], and breed more undead of course as undead are born of mortals but cannot procreate by sharing and incubating DNA inside one of them.
A Corpse Haggler would be a quite appropriate career, and perhaps a mirror parallel to a forager or sea comber.
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Interesting! I have no idea how she'd fit in really, but I'm guessing she just finds or buys them as she goes. I like the farming idea though.
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Thanks, it's what I do.
- kogwerksweb.co.uk/bestiary
- kogwerksweb.co.uk/lore
Well, there's grave robbing, more the occupation of Ghouls though, or battlefield looting, or as I said, forager or sea comber.
She just has to wander the places where adventurers die but which are of no threat to her. A kind of bait and lure arrangement could be set up [like crab farming] where some treasure [or apparent treasure] is placed somewhere, rumors are spread, but when the adventurer arrives they find a monster or trap waiting for them, and then in a business like way the Haggler collects the body or puts the pray out of it's misery [imagine being caught in a trap and then hearing someone coming only to see her with a silver knife and a backpack of corpses].
If you're into horror certainly farming is a good idea. One pen for stupid cattle, and a maisonette for those destined to ascend to the ranks of the eternal, taught in the ways of self-worth for the unliving, necromagic, and disdain for mortals. Prehaps one of the final trials for the applicants is to get close to a group of mortals and feed information back to the undead, or commit mass murder but take no joy in death or pleasure in suffering as the living are an abomination.
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