Museum Updates
A brave delegation of researchers took the long flight over to Rocktropia. We felt it was necessary to study the wildlife a little bit closer.
We really need to know more about how the evolution on Rocktropia has developed. To many it seems like a dream filled with creatures from pop culture mythology.
Zombies, werewolfs, psychopathic criminals, robotic skanks and horrific axe swinging monsters, who seem to just have climbed out of a hard rock convolute.
And the african big cats? How did they end up among these ghastly and ghostly living (and undead) creatures.
We really know very little about how this eco system came to be, so we thought that a closer look at some of our researchers finds would be necessary.
Blood: Motörhead Security Blood
If you get close enough with your knife and are lucky enough to survive you can get a few drops of Motörhead Security Blood from the Motörhead Security or the Motörhead Mega-Mouth.
The Rocktropian truck drivers seems to think it is cool to wear caps, hats and t-shirts made out of the Motörheads blood.
523 bottles at 1 ped each of this blood has been sold since the first Rocktropian managed to gather some.
Many thinks that Motörheads are carnivours, but we believe they are on a strict orange diet with their orange colored blood.
Another theory is that there has been soem dna infusion from the famous hard rocker Lemmy Kilmister, who was said to have toxic blood.
Blood: Vampire Blood
Recycling is on every Entropians mind these days, but the weirdest recycled item we have encountered is the Vampire Blood. They suck our blood, we kill the vampires, and reuse their blood to make
Anarchy Trucker Caps and Vampire Charm Bracelets. An abrupt stop in the trading of Vampire Blood happened in early 2017. We don't know why. It had a good 400+% markup.
We have failed finding any professional Vampire Blood collector. Maybe they are all sucked up by the nasty vampire chicks in hell.
Eye: Vampire Eye
A local trader tried to sell us what he claimed to be vampire eyes. Of course as tourists we believed him and bought a few.
One of our researchers got the brilliant idea to add them instead of the glasses on normal goggles, and went off into the dark.
He believed strongly in the night vision abilities of these eyes because as he said "Vampires are extremelly sensitive to light."
If his goggles worked we dont know, he havent come back yet.
The local thieves is said to use them to make lockpicks. Burglaries seems to have increased the last year and that coincide with the marketing stats showing an increase in trading of vampire eyes latelly.
Fang: Vampire Fangs
We bought a couple of Vampire Fangs from an anonymous trader in a dark alley on Zoomhattan. He said it was his grandma's dentures. But we later found out it was vampire fangs.
A criminal offense selling them. We asked a local police but he was to busy rambling "42 42 42" in his police radio.
We got immediatelly stunned by the weight of the fangs. They weigh half a kilo. How can such a small Vampire Chick have such heavy fangs?
Now, here comes the strangest part of all. Local crafters use the Vampire Fangs to craft trucks and sexy tops. We totally failed to see the smallest denominator between a truck and a sexy top.
The sales of Vampire Fangs also ended abruptly in early 2017. We suspect the worst have happened to the vampire hunters.
Heart: Wolf Heart
There are two wolf species on Rocktropia. The City Wolf and the Scavenger Wolf. But the heart is very hard to find.
We where lucky to find it from the well known Rocktropian citizen 'Addict' at CND Lagoon.
At a closer look there seems to be no major differences between the circulatory system of the wolf and the circulatory system of the human.
We found out in the Rocktropia Library that the ancient crafters on Rocktropia used the hearts to make Wolf Charm Bracelets. But no living being now knows why they made them.
Plasma: Vampire Plasma
Vampire Plasma is green and retrieved from the emergency center in Hell from blood donating Vampire Chicks.
It was all over the Hell News that Vampire Chicks where drying out because of the immense hunting of them.
The local environemnt organisation Hellpeace managed to create such a sympathy for the threatened species that funds was gathered to build the Vampire Emergency Center (VEC).
Tooth: Dragon Tooth
This tooth has a sad story with a happy end. Dragons often lives their peaceful lives in the southern part of Rocktropia. Peacefully flapping their wings together, and not disturbing anyone.
The normal diet for a dragon was knights and sweet and nutricious virgins that where given to them.
But in modern times the dragons got a taste for sweetstuff carried by local dragon tamers, and the supply of knights and virgins also declined. This led to some health issues.
One night an eremite at the southern shores woke up by the most terrible screaming from the dragon fields. It kept on night after night until the eremite decided to approach the dragons.
Every dragon, except one, did their usual wing flapping. But this particular Pop Dragon (later in the local news named 'Neverpie') was sitting, leaning his forehead to the ground, with closed eyes, and shivering.
No vivid flame boosts out of it's mouth, just a thick grey smoke.
The eremite, who had'nt visited a dentist for 45 years immediatelly recognized the symptoms, the Pop Dragon Neverpie suffered from severe tooth ache.
The biggest and most prestigious dental work ever attracted dentists from all over the solar system.
Neverpie was succesfully sedated and a small field clinic was setup in it's mouth. We witnessed Neverpies awakening and his return to his happy wing flapping friends. But we are even happier to have achieved the extracted
tooth. Now on display in the museum.
Horn: Motörhead Security Horn
Caps and hats are often made of animal body parts, the Motörhead Security Horn is no exception. Used to make Motorhead Ball Caps and Motorhead Trucker Caps and Hats.
But the market has declined and only 5 horns sold last year.
It is though one more evidence that the Motörhead Security is a vegetarian as most animals with horns are.
They only weigh around 0,1 kg why we suspect they are hollow and just for show off.
Wing: Lemmy Wing
To come by a dragon wing is quite hard. The reason is that dragons are said to eat their own wings before they die. We can't confirm or deny this. And we hope we will never live to see it.
What we do know is that Lil Swampymonster somehow managed to get his hand on some Lemmy Wings and put them up for sale in his shop in Tangerine.
In the belief that some foreigner would come by and wanted some souvenirs. Of course, as the good judger of the human mind he is, he was right. I instantly bought it and had big plans to decorate the museum with it.
But little did we know of the size of a dragon wing (as you can see) and we don't recommend doing this at home.
Hand: Zombie Hand
Some may argue that zombies shouldnt be part of a Biodiversity Museum. But we debated a lot and came to the conclusion that zombies are alive but closer to a turp mind rather than a human.
We also feel sorry for them and they could be an ancestor. Imagine, having a cronical bad smell of death around you, whereever you go, no matter how much aftershave you use. You are just doomed to be a party pooper.
We don't know much about zombies, not even the answer to if they are clinically dead or just brain dead.
Are they reborn after death or just very very sick?
Any attempt to research the zombie anatomy is associated with grave danger though.
The person trying to describe the Zombie Hand seems to have turned into a zombie himself halfway through the sentence:
This item is used to manufacture ...
Material: Zombie Hand.
We will maybe never know if anyone got the sick urge to craft a hat, a truck or a cap out of this plagued material.
Bone: Zombie Bone
The similarity between the vampire and the zombie bone is stunning. The differance is the green colored zombie bone.
There are no known use for the zombie bone but we imagine it can be used as a material to make a Rocktropian hat.
But what Rocktropian material is not used to make a hat we ask ourselves?
Plasma: Zombie Plasma
Zombie Plasma is also green as the vampire plasma. But we don't think zombies are blood donors.
It is used to make Zombie Charm Bracelets. Not many trades of the plasma has been done.
Maybe even the Rocktropians have some sort of ethical boundary.
Blood: Wolf Blood
Wolf Blood has some use actually. As a material for crafting BLP weapons, a luxury deed case, of course a cap and bracelets.
Wolf Blood is orange. An interesting study of wolfs color perception shows that the colors red and yellow are most interesting to a wolf.
A theory behind this is that they associate it with blood and urine.
Nail: Otorugi Nail
The Otorugi Nail is one of the Otorugis many nails. Nails not just on its hand but also shoulders and on it's back.
The way it kills it's prey is not a sight for the faint hearted as it slashes it and let it bleed to death.
It is unknown who first discovered this nail but it showed up on the market at the beginning of 2012.
If you want a pair of IFN Combat Uniform Arctic Pants you need an Otorugi Nail to make them.
Horn: Tandardion Horn
The Tantardion horn is a very rare find. As are the tandardions. The early Calypso settlers described it as follows:
Tan is a brown - light brown colour.
Tardion is derived from Tardys, which is the opposite of the Greek word Tachys, meaning fast (Tachion is a particle which is very fast, Tardion is a particle which is very slow).
Therefore, a very slow brown thing.
The Tandardion has short legs and a huge rectangular body shape and a head covered with horns of differant sizes.
The horn can not be refined.
Pike: Combibo Pike
The combibo has several sharp pikes on the side of it's body. When attacked the combibo quickly turns the side of it's body towards the attacker and tries to stick him with the pikes.
The Calypso inhabitants don't use the pike for anything else than hanging them on the wall.
It can't be refined.
Skull: Armax Skull Complete
I was lucky to meet the hunter who saved this massive Armax Skull after one of his hunts.
I let him tell the story about the hunt of this majestic and domestic animal, the Armax Old Alpha. The hunt that rewarded him with the skull.
Darth Revan Reborn said:
Darth Revan Reborn:
- Well i happened to come across this bad boy in a field...was the only one around...thought it was strange
Loco:
- in a field? like, just lying around?
Darth Revan Reborn:
- no the creature was in a field...i think maybe it had been chasing someone and was away from the spawn
- was an old alpha armax bull level 28 i think
- didnt know how hard they could hit...found out pretty quickly
Loco:
- hehe, yea, they do, and I have never heard anyone loot that complete skull
- just 3 of them sold last year
Darth Revan Reborn:
- i think it was just luck...only one i have tried to kill and it gave a little swirl
- took repeated attempts to take it down since i was only doing 60 damage per shot and it would kill me in 2 hits
- thinking about it now...silly idea to keep going back...but it paid off
Loco:
- you revived and came back or healed?
Darth Revan Reborn:
- revivied, there was an outpost nearby, so would use a tp chip to put me just outside of its range
Loco:
- I think we all been there, some epic mob you always dreamt of taking down, not matter the costs and how long timt it takes, it just has to die
Darth Revan Reborn:
- im just glad it didnt have friends nearby
Skull: Shub Skull
The Shub Skull is a rare find and a precious decoration for any Monrian hunter.
The local xeno biologists describes it as follows:
The oddest thing about the skull of the Shub is not it's consistency, it's elongated cranial cavity, the protuberance where its horns bonds to its skull. No none of these things betray the grotesque depths
to which these caves truly reach. The skull could almost be described as ornate in that it as adorned with cryptic figures and shapes. It is speculated that it could be some form of equation or writing,
though there has yet to be a breakthrough in deciphering it.
Skull: Cultist Skull
Even scientists lose their objective eyes and almost lose their mind just by watching the reamins of some of bizarre creatures out there.
The head of the cultist is one of those things. I have decided to post a recent photo of said skull together with a kitten (to lower the scaryness factor).
Statue: Large Daikiba Stone Statue
The statue is one of the most classical statues on Calypso. Daikiba fossil remains outside of the early colonizers camp sites shows that Daikibas was early on domesticated.
Tamed it's a very loyal, social and sturdy guard dog. And probably it reminded the early settlers of their ancient home on Planet Earth and the dogs. As we all know pets wherent allowed on the long trip to the Entropia solar system.
The early crafters used what they could find to make the first statues. By carbon dating and molecular analysis we now know they used angelic flakes, caldorite ingot, daikiba leather and megan ingot as ingredients.