Vigistry Gallery 1997
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Paws Off
For lack of a better title. She could be my slavemaster creativity demon who demands more twisted stuff from me! However, here she appears lost in thought, twiddling her pendant between her fingers— artist's block.
At Home with Good vs. Medieval
GvM's kitchen is the first room that visitors enter, and it's also where the team conducts most of their business while gathered around the table. Telltale items include the ale keg and milk pails on the shelf. Stumpy must have already finished dinner. (He actually finishes?) In this scene, an informant dropped by with some big news that Keno has his ear tuned to. Keeb must already think it's an impossible mission.
In the Dragon's Lair
A scene from What Goes Around. Caged and helpless, Bluette needed rescuing, so it was up to GvM and a couple of tagalongs named Arnie and Vanhorn to do the job. Their idea was to gather the gold into a big pile and climb it to reach the cage. A huge mound was already present, so Vanhorn traversed it, making note of a strange heaving within. That was when the sleeping dragon revealed itself, and Vanhorn was taken for a ride. A lair filled with riches, a beautiful hostage maiden, and a green dragon guarding it all: Keno summed it up as the most unoriginal thing he had ever seen!
Gregor had a special item called an amplifier disc that, when hit with magic, could bring down the mighty beast. The trick, however, was attaching it to the frenzied foe. Stumpy volunteered for (was tricked into) this task as Arnie ran a distraction, dodging jets of fiery breath.
Panicked, Stumpy flung the disc haphazardly, missed his target, but found another unwilling recipiant— Arnie! And to his chest the disc stuck. This was a setback indeed, but Gregor found the wits to deal with the snafu by ordering Arnie to quietly position himself at the dragon's rear. The wizard demanded its attention as he took cover under Bluette's cage and charged up his staff. Bluette cowered as the beast's yellow eyes briefly met hers. Suddenly a beam of holy light shot from Gregor's staff, directed at its target on the opposite side of the room but coarsed straight through the dragon's body on its path, melting flesh and scales, weakening just enough to have no effect on Arnie himself. The dragon's limp neck fell forward, fangs hooking onto the floor of Bluette's cell, and there its steaming carcass was propped. The team let out a boisterous hurray, for not only was the threat gone, they now had a makeshift staircase!
The Brats
A scene from What Goes Around. The Brats are humanoid bats who deceive their victims by wearing cheap toy glasses with eyes pictured on them. GvM found out the hard way the penalty of trespassing onto their territory: all four of them were tied to log stakes and set aside on a table as the main course. This catch was so grand, the Brats celebrated with music and games.
If only Keno had his sword, he could cut his rope binds, but the team's weapons had been confiscated and set aside in a faraway pile. Undaunted, Keno shifted his weight and tilted off the table to where his toes could touch the ground. From there, he saw it as a simple tiptoe to the weapons pile. As long as he kept very quiet, he knew the blind Brats would never be wise to his plan.
This proved more challenging than expected, though, for an impromptu ring-around-the-rosy dance swept him up, and Keno, trying to be as inconspicuous as possible, succumbed to prancing on his tiptoes tied to a eight-foot log. If that weren't bad enough, one more obstacle appeared between him and his sword: the limbo competition! The bar was only three feet off the ground, but Keno, like a true superhero, managed it with toes of steel!
Lumparsky
A scene from What Goes Around. GvM and world traders, Whack and Blight, intrude upon a Skullduggery stronghold powered by Lumparsky, a fiend made of electricity. Whack and Blight separated from the rest and discovered the control station, where they disabled alarms and activated doors, helping GvM's progress. But once the big boss was found, it was not a pretty standoff. One megavolt blast was all it took to drop all four heroes.
Witnessing this, Whack and Blight came to the rescue. World traders extraordinaire, these two had an extensive inventory. Lumparsky was so giddy by his victory, he was dumbfounded by Whack stepping up to him and asking him to hold a piece of wire. The electric demon glanced at the offering baffled, then noticed that the other end of the cord was attached to a pair of defibrillator paddles in Blight's fists. The same power that flatlined the heroes was used to jog their hearts, and up they sprang. Of course, GvM didn't want a repeat of round one, so their next strategy was to FIGHT 'EM LATER!
Heliux Island
A scene from What Goes Around. When the epiphany of the bad guys' ultimate plot hits, it puts an apple in a hero's throat. Here, Keno and Gregor watch Skullduggery hijack an entire island, its caverns filled with lighter-than-air gas. Once all the caves were sealed, this rock balloon was able to rise from the sea. Worse yet, the barnacle monsters attached to its underside had a nasty hunting mechanism of spitting steam jets at their prey, but in the air, these jets took the form of red hot lasers! Skullduggery had a makeshift warship at their disposal!
Fight 'em Later!
When GvM came upon their first insurmountable odds, the decision to "FIGHT 'EM LATER!" sounded like a valid promise. In keeping with the code of showing no fear, the members of GvM find themselves making this promise a lot. Never call it their cry of retreat!
Relaxing Dragon
A very detailed work that lost its effectiveness when I added more to the scene, including a barn, ostrich pen, and funky trees with Photoshop-crystal leaves. Prints of that sold well at art shows because they were so cheap, so the general public probably didn't care about the clash of styles.