03857, Townsfolk: Milkmaid.

[Rigel]

"This is the maiden all forlorn

That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
That tossed the dog
that worried the cat
that chased the rat

that ate the malt

that lay in the house that Jack built."

 

 

 

A nice crisp sculpt by Bobby Jackson! This lovely young lady served as an NPC in an All Of Them VVitches game I finished recently.

The game was based on the nursery rhyme "The House that Jack Built" coupled with an ergotism infection plot. Our PCs were called to investigate into incidents of violence and madness in the town of Millsbach, home of Jock Jocksson's brewery and famous Red Rye Ale. There are rumors of witchcraft, or Devil curses, or the displeasure of the Good Folk. The PCs need to solve this without giving traction to any of these rumors.

 

 

Beccah Burns here is a fine milkmaid, but the cow up and gored her in the arm last week after getting out of the fence and into the millet and rye fields nearby. She is at the age where everything bad is a catastrophic disaster. Drinking ergotized milk is doing nothing for her emotional state.

 

She is also deeply infatuated with Angus, a local farmer (and he with her) whose chickens have been eating leftover infected grain from the brewery, causing the chickens to savage him whenever possible.

(This is the man all tattered and torn in the rhyme.)

 

Fortunately, after several violently hallucinatory episodes, our PCs managed to figure out what was going on and destroy the stocks of tainted rye as well as several giant rat-men who may or may not have actually existed. Angus wound up a bit of a local hero after blowing up a grain mill, and the PCs got invitations to the young lovers' wedding! Fun times. 

 

More pix, you know the drill.

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[Darcstaar]

Nice story.  Lovely bright painting,

[Glitterwolf]

A beautiful girl!

 

[BadgersinMeadows]

Nice work! 

[jdizzy001]

Love the free hand. Well done!

[Chaoswolf]

She looks great!

 

Interesting adventure/story, too.

[Rigel]

Thanks, everyone! The sculpt is doing a lot of the heavy lifting; she's a beautiful design. 
I've been basing all my 'All Of Them VVitches' adventures on Mother Goose rhymes. For Free Rpg Day I did one based on "There Was a Crooked Man..." and let me tell you figuring out the four-dimensional geometry of a symmetrical hypertetrahedron wasn't easy! (But if you have a bunch of D4's and stick them together such that each vertex joins a 1, 2, 3, and 4 together, it is an instructive model.)

The milk jugs, as you may have guessed, are yet another style of ruined headphone earpieces. 

[Iridil]

I love this sculpt and your painting of her is lovely - nice colors, freehand, and her lovely rosy skin!

[Rigel]

3 hours ago, Iridil said:

I love this sculpt and your painting of her is lovely - nice colors, freehand, and her lovely rosy skin!

Thank you! I understand it's a good job for the complexion, and wanted a pleasant contrast from my usual warped and crusty grotesques in this setting.

[Gantrell]

wonderful! great colors.