Decay Enthusiastさんのイラストまとめ

Feeling nostalgic about Android: Netrunner, now that it's going away. Deep, deep game, with some of the most amazing card art in the biz. Taught me that mechanics and visuals should work together to tell stories as you play, because all great games tell great stories.

Today, I discovered Yellow Magic Orchestra

The Tikbalang is shapeshifter, miscreant, & tobacco aficionado in Philippine folklore. It has the body of a man, head & hooves of a horse, & strangely long limbs. Tikbalang misleads victims deep into the wilds, but wearing your shirt inside out can repel it.
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Keukegen: a rare, reclusive creature that lives in damp & forgotten corners of Japanese homes. Its doglike & stubby form is covered in dirty matted black hair. The keukegen's mere presence in a house causes those living around it to get sick.
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Julie d'Aubigny, famed fencer & opera singer. She roamed France, teaching fencing and winning fights, & broke the Paris ban on duels thrice in one night, when she fought & defeated three noblemen at once after they took issue with her kissing a woman at a ball.
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Athenians built a temple for Agnostos Theos, or the Unknown God, who represented all the deities whose names were lost or never known. Offerings made here aimed to prevent these forgotten beings from becoming upset at their neglect.
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Loviatar, blind Finnish goddess of disease. Her nine children are all deadly illnesses: Colic, Pleurisy, Fever, Ulcer, Plague, Consumption, Sterility & Cancer. But even Loviatar couldn't bear the presence of the nameless ninth child, & so she banished it.
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Xingtian challenged the Supreme Deity to a duel to see who would rule, and his head was cut off & buried under a mountain. Undaunted, Xingtian turned his nipples into eyes & his navel into a mouth, & relentlessly terrorizes the Supreme Deity as a martial god.
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Vampirdzhija, Bulgarian vampire hunters, employed bonfire smoke to drop vampires from their perch between the horns of calves, where they hid after feeding. Others chased vampires into bottles, which they sealed & threw into a fire to destroy the creatures.
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U`tlun’ta, or Spearfinger, figure in Cherokee lore. Hag-like woman with skin hard as stone & a long, deadly forefinger on her right hand, lethal as a spear. Her heart, her only vulnerable spot, beats on her right palm, which she protects at all times.
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