The Worm Funktastic

The Worm Funktastic
Origin	Nowhere
Titles	The Worm Funktastic
Names	none
Aspects
Date of arrival	circa 1000 C.E
Owner(s)	Anaconda With Sword

The Worm Funktastic is the Twenty-Third Hour of the Fansus, created by Anaconda With Sword. It is a God-From-Nowhere, with aspects of Moth, Winter, and Heart in decreasing order of importance. The Worm Funktastic has never existed. The Worm Funktastic has always existed. It is time to get... funky.

Its tarot card is the Fool Reversed.

Description

Appearance

The Worm Funktastic appears as a pink and gold velvet worm, wearing a pair of glasses with smokey quartz lenses, and typically playing on a saxophone.

Principles

The Worm Funktastic is the Hour of Tchaikovsky, Van Gogh, and all those who attempt to create but find themselves clawing against the walls of their own shortcomings. It is the Hour of writer's block, and the opium-induced breakthrough. It is the Hour of a thousand musical notes that turn into cacophony when put to paper, and the opera written the day it is performed. It is the Hour of aspiring amateurs who feel spited and ignored by the masters of their arts, and desperate masters who find solace only in dreams. It is the spiteful muse, the unruly plot, and all things that end for their creators as they begin for those experiencing them.

Worship

Cult

The Arlesians, members of whom are called Carriers.

Mark

The Worm Funktastic has worshippers, but rarely regards them or shares its power. Those who desire to partake of its power must enter the Mansus and bargain with it in "person," an action which almost never succeeds.

Servants

After the Worm Funktastic consumes those who have died while part of its captive audience, the Spinebearers are born. These cannot be summoned. These should absolutely not be summoned.

Locations

The Fansus

The Worm Funktastic lurks within the Foundations, serenading the Unending Worm with its songs. When it desires more of an audience, it ventures into the Wood, where it tangles dreamers within its slime before dragging them back down into the Foundations. Those so entangled never awaken again, but they never have a boring moment. The Worm Funktastic always appreciates a captive audience, such as it were.

The Histories

• The Alienist's Hostel
  • The whitewashed building sprawls over the land like a misshapen tick. Flickers of motion can barely be perceived behind barred windows. Considerable fortunes have gone into the maintenance of this den of misery. The caretakers refuse to permit visitations of their patients. We will have to break in.

Items

Tools

• Whispering Whistle (4): It speaks of what could be created, with just a little more talent.
• Vivid Violin (4): Every note it makes sounds like perfection. Two together sound like cacophony.
• Broken Bell (4): Destroyed in a fit of passion; it will never play again.

Ingredients

• Castaway Claws (2, 2): Every 49 days, the Worm sheds its skin, and devours all but these hard claws. Some of the funktastic power of the Worm remains within them.
• Stunning Slime (2, 2): A shocking pink that ceases, yet does not cease.
• The Beat (2, 2): Do not drop it.

Books

FNORD

Relationships

• The Storm-Tossed:
• The Spirarch: Pump up the funk, and then we'll have a worm apocalypse.
• The Perennial:
• The Red Lady: Weaponized funk.
• The Hunter:
• The Masquerade:
• The Bright Tapestry:
• The Die-Cutter:
• The Mother Bear:
• The Maw Consuming: Doot doot, bitch.
• The Succulent Glow: Unfunky.
• The Knife's Edge:
• The Princess Prominent: Tragedy in three doots.
• The Warrior Maid:
• The Ferric Brand:
• The Fell-Feaster:
• The Monument:
• The Cub:
• The Seraph: Another funky fellow. Appreciates good sax riffs.
• Flint-and-Steel:
• Our Lady Betrayed:
• [[]]:
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• The Rotted Ox: I'm just running in the 90's, doot doot.
• [[]]:
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• Our Lady's Resolve:
• The More-Opened:
• The Unending Worm: Best audience, best friend.
• The Clavier:
• [[]]:
• The Stag: This is so sad; Worm Funktastic, play Despacito.
• The Goldsmith: This is so sad; Worm Funktastic, play Despacito.
• The World's Thane: This is so sad; Worm Funktastic, play Despacito.