Kingpin Freebies & Arnold, Claudia & Lenny
almost 3 years ago
– Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 02:03:53 PM
Hi everybody! Thank you so much for all the wonderful ideas we have gotten for the Community Miniature. There are plenty of ideas to choose from and we are already considering many of them. Remember that you still have until Thursday to pitch your idea :)
The Kingpin Pledge Freebies
We have put together a picture with a nice overview of the free stuff we have unlocked for The Kingpin Pledge so far. With Vogel recently having been unlocked, all Kingpin backers now receive 5 additional miniatures! Speaking of Vogel, Stretch Goals will be updated later today.
As the campaign progresses, we should be able to increase the numbers for all 4 groups, so expect this picture to be updated with more stuff later on!
Ragnhild the Mutant Preview
Some of you have been following along while Sonny has been doing Live Sculpting Sessions during the campaign, so you may already have seen the process of Ranghild being sculpted. She's more or less ready now and is being test printed today. We really like how she turned out and Nana can't wait to have this one on the painting table!
Sonny will continue to do Stream Sessions while the campaign is running, and Nana and myself will also be there most of the time to keep him company and talk to those of you who have any questions or just want to talk to us.
Sonny's Twitch Channel (Is it called a Channel? Sonny's Twitchy? Sonny's Twitch.) can be found here: https://www.twitch.tv/imitation_of_life - The next stream is tomorrow at 10:00 CEST. You'll also be able to catch Sonny on the stream other days working on his personal project, which is awesome Post-Apoc Miniatures!
Arnold, Claudia & Lenny
Claudia, Lenny and Arnold are the founding members of the "DB" gang, which was formed many years before Sven came into Dunkeldorf. None of them wanted to take on the leader role, but despite of that, the gang always managed to have a bit of influence in the Dunkeldorf underworld. When Sven came into Dunkeldorf and met Lenny, he was quick to seize the opportunity to become leader of the gang. With the gang becoming organized, they quickly gained control of all the areas in the harbour district.
Claudia's uncle "Günther" is abarber-surgeon and it happens now and again that the gang comes to his business "Shears & Bandages" when they need patching up. Claudia and Arnold "Nine-Toes" have been a bit of an "on-off item" since they were young, much to Günther's dismay, as he's convinced that Arnold dragged Claudia into crime and the Dunkeldorf underworld (It's sort of the other way around).
After a pretty severe injury to Arnold's arm some years ago, Günther "patched him up", but to this day, Arnold is still convinced that his arm did in fact not need to be amputated, and that Günther was finally settling the score, for Arnold "Corrupting" his niece. Claudia dismisses this as nonsense, while Günther isn't saying much on the subject. (Those of you who were part of our previous campaigns, may remember that Günther has a history of several "unnecessary amputation accusations" - So if you see a few peglegs and such in Dunkeldorf, you may know why)
Arnold grew up in the somewhat rough harbour district of Dunkeldorf, but despite of that, he rarely got into trouble, until he met Claudia at least. After she met Arnold and his older friend Lenny (Who at that time already had a bit of a drinking problem), she slowly planted the idea that Arnold and Lenny should form a group of sorts and take care of a few things in their district and maybe even earn a few coins at the same time.
Lenny used to work as a dockhand, and back then he knew everything that happened in harbour district. Right after he and Arnold had met Claudia and formed DB, this knowledge came in handy. They decided to snatch a few crates of good stuff that Lenny knew about. It had just been sitting in a warehouse for several days anyway.
To this day, the trio still can't agree on what actually went wrong, but they all remember that this was the first time Arnold was treated by Claudia' uncle and subsequently lost a toe. Lenny was quick to give Arnold the nickname "Nine-toes" and from then on it became a tradition of his to give all members of the gang a nickname.
Lenny now spends most of his time together with Sven, as he considers himself to be his most loyal worker and believes that he should always stay close to his leader, and of course the HQ/Brewery which is overflowing with Sven's Bitter. He still does plenty of jobs with Arnold though, just like the good old days, and they're often joined by Claudia who's staying in the background as she has always done. But no matter what, she rarely misses a chance to keep a very close eye on Arnold... Even after the job is done.
We'll tell a bit more about Jenny soon, but also the violent dwarf siblings Barik & Marik and the rest of the gang members. We'll also take a closer look at the Mutants, Witch Hunters & Mercenaries soon!
- Nana & Nicki