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Loretober Day 1: Parasite

Over the years, a group of vampire bats adapted to the cold and lack of food brought by nuclear winters by feeding on the one food source which was rare, yet once found was hard to lose. The kaiju which roamed the earth after the first two catastrophes were an open food source, seeing as they don’t die easily, and are easy to spot.

One thing which does make this food source a bit iffy, is the fact kaiju are magical, and have the ability to shrink in size when needed. To combat this, the bats have adapted to detect magic, and when their host is no longer of a size they can latch onto, they will lurk about the area of the kaiju until it returns to its natural size. After a long enough duration of waiting however, they will fly off and look for a new host.

Since kaiju tend to have thick skin, they use their tounge in much the same way a mosquito would, but as they don’t use the blood to spawn, they stay in place more like a tic would.

Prompt list:

Btw you don’t necessarily have to draw for Loretober, you can just write stuff. :]

Went a bit overboard today.

Here’s some definitions aswell:

Nuketown: towns that started after a city got nuked, usually in the location of the crater. The explosive energy of the blasts created a lot of driah, and since the radiation doesn’t really hurt them (it definitely still has effects but they aren’t necessarily negative), many groups decided to set up shop in the same spot they lived before. Some of those who weren’t changed by the blast but still survived sometimes tried to live in these towns, but usually died to radiation poisoning, although groups that relocated from the crater may be hospitable for non driah.

Wastetown: towns that came about from those who managed to survive against all the horrors and challenges brought by both the nuclear wars and the sudden shift brought by the things that came out of a portal (will be covered in another prompt). People in these towns are extremely hardy, likely have a multitude of radiation related illnesses, and have varying methods of survival.

Bunkertown; usually underground, these towns originate from bunker colonies created by the us goverment and citizens alike during both the resource scare and the nuclear wars, in hopes of allowing people to survive. They tend to have the most physical and intact artefacts from the old world in them, most notably is the Red Disk, which is a sort of time capsule left for future humans, much like the gold disk sent out for aliens.

Not much lore building here, more just notes on my research on the potential aftereffects of nuclear warfare, but yea.

As you can tell I struggled a bit with this one by i decided to bring back my character Euphemia and change her a bit to fit the setting

The monster version is just what she looks like when she isn’t trying to look human so I mean, considering the way a driah exclusive culture like Nukton might form, would mean that’s probably what she looks like most of the time

Tell me what you thing the god I drew looks like (it’s like looking at shapes in the ceiling and going “oh yea that looks like a dog”)

I can and always will take any excuse to just make a very long and lanky creature.

I may or may not have gotten really attached to the silhouette of the guy in the first drawing and on the left in the second drawing, so he will be a major character in the world I decided.

Wasn’t sure what to do with this one so gambling it is then.