AWD: A Look at (Some) Pre-Order Sketches! [PART.1] (Patreon)

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A generous handful of our pre-order fiends have received their copies along with these goodies: on one side, a Duski original sketch--on the other, a snippet of lore written by myself.

By their powers combined--super duper cool exclusives!

Aged eight, Stytch began dabbling in technomancy, unaware of the implications of such a wondrous skill. She was the daughter of an unemployed shipwright who lived off scavenging dead-sea-junkyards, so she was exposed to colossal yet intricate machinery from a young age. She was nine when she killed a rival scav by blowing up her hearing aid.

Stytch was ostracized from her scav tribe and family before she was a teen, which meant that Stytch learned to live with isolation, and sadly, enjoy it. Her connections with others were tenuous or superficial, and consequently, her views of sex and kink became quite liberal and detached from a romantic spectrum.

Aching to learn more about technomancy, Stytch willingly isolated herself for years at a time, experimenting on analog machinery, new-age junk and her own creations. Any sense or source of magic, in a yellow-cake coated world seemed illogical, yet Stytch found that mutations were likely in fauna and flora, so why not the very fabric of reality? When she decided to accept the improbable, she was able to do the impossible.

A decade ago, at the height of his bleak-boredom era, Buzzard started up a garage industrial band called Blowback Broth. They played a total of seven shows, each worse than the last. Buzz had a feeling, deep down his stomach, that he was meant for greatness, and for him, you couldn’t get any greater than a rockstar. He’ll never tell RIXA that.

When a Sector 4 Robot Interceptor and Retrieval unit rebelled against Its programming, It was seen as a glitch in the system. It was an Android meant to hunt other robotic entities; It was sentient but shackled, and it had the ability to dream… yet forced to sleep through nightmares. Upon the shattering of Its chains, It picked an Entity. A name. A sense of purpose. An R was crossed out and the sector-designation turned from 4 to A. RIR-4 became RIXA, and RIXA finally became Herself.

RIXA’s venture into music was short-lived: she never fancied herself a musician but knew she needed a state to instill a rebellion into the thumping-synthetic hearts of her fellow ‘droids and their sympathizers. It’s not that RIXA dislikes music or even performing music: it’s that she was shot, hacked-and-quartered and unceremoniously dumped in a junkyard within a year of launching her demo tape with RR: Rotten Resistance.

Stytch’s yearning for power has often come at a cost of relationships, intimate or otherwise. As a result, there are more enemies than friends she could rely on; consequently, her compound grew in complexity and its security measures tripled, as her hoards of tech-goods became highly-sought after.

Hope you enjoyed these little glimpses at what sketches we sent out and what lore people got to read first. More is coming! :3

- Miguel