November 2022 Sketches

For Luprand, a greedy thief goes after the wrong mark, and for Tuft, Badgerclops gets one huge upgrade. Enjoy!

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There is always a moment in a thief's career where they bite off too much, Lone Wolf thought, but the real test is how the thief responds to that dilemma. Unfortunately for him, Lone Wolf had no idea how he was going to respond to this particular dilemma. He aimed to steal a sacred relic from a pampered noble's collection, a solid gold statue of an ancient god of fertility and prosperity. He didn't expect that a standard job like this would go so sideways- of course, now he felt he had a good idea about why the local Lord was so rotund.

Some latent, but terribly potent, magic had been unleashed from the idol, and Lone Wolf was filled with a terrible, gnawing hunger, that led to him gorging himself on aetherically summoned food- by the time his feeding frenzy had passed, he was dramatically changed. Every part of his body was flabby and inflated, bursting apart his clothes. His belly, as round and deep as a huge cauldron, wobbled with each step, thick love handles pressing against the narrow hallway he was trying to sneak out of, until he was wedged in, stuck. He huffed and panted, his barrel-sized thighs and immense rear jiggling as he desperately kicked and scraped against the floor to try and dislodge himself. Lone Wolf looked down, his multiple chins mashing against his pillowy chest, and whimpered plaintively. His sausage fingers still wrapped around the idol tightly- he wasn't going to leave without his prize, but what was he to do? The idol glowed again, and the thief felt his gelatinous belly gurgle and growl. It was a gamble- if he let it happen and grow even further, maybe his sheer bulk could force the door frame apart and he could pop free. But then, that would be an awful lot of lupin to hide…

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"Haha, dude, this is awesome!" Badgerclops never thought he could be Ultraclops again, but thankfully, talking the Pure Heart Valley's magi-technicians into making him big again was incredibly easy, leaving him towering over the valley. He was just trying to prank Mao Mao- but the Ruby Pure Heart, that giant crystal brimming with magic that protected the valley, had different ideas. A pulsing energy poured into the giant badger, filling him with energy and strength. His whole body expanded in waves, muscles bulging and surging forward. His chest came first, billowing out like sails in a full wind. His arms came next, as his metal arm rebuilt and reformed itself over and over to grow into a mammoth display of strength and to match his left arm, which was burgeoning with anvil-like triceps and pumped, mountainous biceps that, given the sheer size of Badgerclops, eclipsed the biggest buildings in the valley.

The rest of his body followed suit, with chiseled, girthy abs and a back made up of grinding tectonic plates, spreading out to block out the sun. His legs surged, earth-shaking thighs and chiseled calves swelling to hold up the immense edifice of badger. Now looming over the Valley, Badgerclops plucked the Ruby Pure Heart from the top of Snugglemane's castle, the giant jewel looking about the size of an apple in the badger's hands.

"Man, I dunno…" Badgerclops flexed his huge arm until his overgrown bicep surged, the split peak growing taller than his head. "I'm starting to think maybe I should just keep the Ruby Pure Heart on me… seems like it'll be safest with this wall of beef around it. Haha, Mao Mao is gonna flip. But he can't really argue with this, can he?" He grinned as he felt another wave of energy and strength flow from the ruby into his titanic body, bouncing his huge pecs.