I FORGOT TO CONSIDER WHAT GORRIK SAYS IF YOU TALK TO HIM ABOUT THE DS LINK FOR THE FIRST TIME, WHILE YOU'VE GOT JEENA WITH YOU! OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN, IT'S TIME TO UPDATE THE DIALOGUE & MENTIONS PAGE :DDD
Y'know, with all the ruins raised in the Great Desert, Dyrus would totally take full advantage of that and turn it into a tourist spot. Assuming he can somehow transform (at least) his work camp into a less unappealing place...
Rallen, Jeena, Neal and the gatekeeper stand by the gate.
JEENA: Oh, but first, make sure you shut the gate really tight. Hurry! Run! Faster!!!
GATEKEEPER: Yikes! Okay okay! I'm going, already!
The gatekeeper pulls a lever, and the giant gate closes.
2, GREAT DESERET - DAY
A dug-up hole in the desert. From inside of it, Gorrik throws his shovel out, then leans on the hole's wall. Beht and Zig sit on the mouth of the hole with their shovels, too. They look at an impressive pile of assorted treasure.
GORRIK: I dunno, Beht! It still counts as treasure, right? It sure looks valuable! A rare find! I think the boss will really like it!
BEHT: True, but what's the point? He'd only get more mad at us because this isn't his main objective. I'd say we leave it, or keep it for ourselves.
GORRIK: K-keep it?! But--
ZIG: Y'know what? I acutally agree with ya, Beht! C'mon guys, let's put 'em in the sack!
BEHT: (To Gorrik) Heh heh... Told ya so.
Heard from afar are deep, mechanical noises...
SFX: BAAHM...! CLRRK...!
GORRIK: What in the world was that noise?!
BEHT: Well, obviously the camp gate's just closed.
GORRIK: I wonder why?
ZIG: You morons! Now we're stu--
SFX: SSSSHHHHHFFFFF...!
Alerted by the distant noise in the sand, Zig, Beht and Gorrik look to its direction. From afar, a giant zombie fish krawl swims through the desert.
ZIG/BEHT/GORRIK: AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!
3, OUTSIDE DYRUS'S CAMP - DAY
Zig knocks violently on the gate. Beht tries to pry it open with his shovel. Gorrik runs to the gate, slamming the side of his body into it. He bounces off its wall and falls to the ground.
ZIG: LET US IN! LET US IN!
BEHT: Help! Help us!
GORRIK: AAAH! IT WON'T BUDGE! NOTHING'S WORKING! THIS IS TERRIBLE!
ZIG: TRY AGAIN! HARDER!
Gorrik jogs a few metres back from the gate and starts running toward it again.
4, DYRUS'S CAMP - DAY
Neal talks to one of Dyrus's workers by the crates. In the background, Rallen and Jeena argue with Dyrus.
WORKER: A ginormous fish Krawl is on the loose? But that three-man team is still out there. I feel sorry for them.
Honestly, the fact that Zig, Beht and Gorrik - of all the characters I've liked ever - are my absolute favourites is so amusing to me. They're three forgotten randos from Spectrobes Origins. They're characters whose designs have been ripped from NPCs from the previous games. They're likely the only fictional men I've ever obsessed over and will ever obsess over, and yet I'm a lesbian. It's kinda crazy! xD
These guys are three of my most favourite characters ever, but it's not because I find them attractive, precious, wholly relatable to my real life bonds or myself, or super in-depth and analysis-worthy. Instead, it's because they're just funny to me, I enjoy trying to make them interesting, and they fall under a bunch of my favourite character tropes. (If anything, I'll admit the only times I ever felt a little "carried away" was when I would sometimes draw female Beht, but I digress xd)
Those three wouldn't die for me. I probably wouldn't die for any of them, either. I don't even think we'd make good friends. (Except with Gorrik though, maybe xD)
So, I guess you could say the biggest reason I like them so much is because of this kind of pure joy.
I'm no geology expert, but if any ordinary person got told to look for a huge boulder in the middle of a desert, they would probably not try to find this formation.
I've seen in the Japanese release of Origins that the book Beht references actually mentions that the next ruins entrance is at "a place covered by the hands of a giant rock", which would be a lot easier to get xD
This is actually the background I drew for the illustration I'm making of Zig, Beht & Gorrik running away from one of the giant desert krawls (and maybe feat. Rallen & Jeena). This background might be a little too "nice" for something more on the comedic side, so I might change it.
This is kind of for Halloween, but whatever. The goons are dressed up as Menahat's three main enemies: Savonek (Zig), Zabatar (Beht), and Zabacraw (Gorrik).
Rallen and Jeena taking touristy pictures of the views in Menahat.
Rallen & Jeena in Nessa-style outfits
A series of illustrations following a (kidnapped) Neal's adventures with Dyrus's goons
The goons having a chollout sesh on a Menahatian cliffside
I'm surprised I hadn't done this earlier in my life xd It's full of desert themes (any type), as well as anything that gives off the feeling of any of the locations/characters we see in Menahat. (link)
One of my brothers pointed out how this rhymes, and I now can't unread it like that
Although this is a decently drawn hand, it doesn't work with the pose, so I'm gonna re-do it :') I don't wanna lose it forever tho