Saturday 14 January 2012

The inmate...



Spyglass Asylum has, or rather had, an inmate. Now you must understand that Spyglass is not your average asylum and it's denizens should not be assumed so either. We specialise in the uniquely obsessional, the not-so-borderline lunatics and curious insanities. And then, on the end of the line, is The Mad Converter...

The Mad Converter is unusual even amongst the inmates, or 'hobbyists' as we prefer to call them. There was an assumption in the early days that he perhaps didn't quite 'get' the hobby, neither concerned with gaming or even painting. There was only the conversion. A terrible obsession with modifying figures, spending countless hours upon them before casting them aside unpainted. We once spent an entire decade watching him converting figure after figure after figure without as much as a lick of paint amongst them.

Eventually we managed to persuade him to actually paint a few of them and he begrudgingly did so before flying off on a tangent of more converting madness. An extended leg here, a reposed arm there, a completely rebuilt figure around the corner. The occasional overheard mutterings about powdered Artemis or about how 'he'd show that damned bald-headed, crooked grinned head doctor a thing or two'.

The collection of converted figures grew, and grew, and grew. Always behind the closed doors of his dank little cell. The odd painted figure amongst their plastic, metal and putty brethren.

Then came the incident...

Just a few short weeks past we opened the door of his cell to deliver his morning gruel only to find the place cleaned out. The mad converter was gone, the figures were gone, his tools were gone. There was simply a note...

'I've heard that there's this wonderful thing called the internet and you can do this thing called blogging'.

Not good, not good at all. He's out there somewhere in the wilds now. He calls himself Neil and the most terrible thing has happened. He has internet access and is blogging his insanity to the masses. CALL THE INQUISITION!!!

For the purposes of your understanding, and perhaps your morbid curiosity, I offer you the link below to the beginnings of The Mad Converter's blog. I can only imagine the horrors you will see as the floodgates open...

MASTER-CRAFTED

1 comment:

  1. Another fantastic blog to add to the blogroll, thanks Mr Buddle for the linky.

    Blitz

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