Oddworld Questions & Answers VII
 

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Yet another version kicks off.

I know this is unlikely, but does anyone have a bigger version of this picture http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/...W/RASW0006.jpg

I ask because I'm trying to add it to the other one similar to this but from the other games, the problem is they are half the size of Abe and everyone.

Ah, damnit. When I had a copy of the Oddworld licensing guide I’d have been able to give you a better version. But my hard drive crashed and Xav’s laptop got stolen, so I’m afraid we can’t help you with that one.

Lol, nevermind then. I'll find a way around it.

I asked in the old thread what is a Brewery to Be. Now I know what it is. A newspaper of MO tells that plans for SoulStorm Micro Brwery have been halted. So, has SoulStorm Micro Brewery been built?

The construction in ‘Brewery to Be’ is the SoulStorm Micro Brewery. ‘Brewery to Be’ is just the name of the game level. Obviously that micro brewery was never built, but there are most likely additional SoulStorm Brew breweries given the amount of the stuff that’s still available.

I don't know how a Slig become a Big Bro Slig. Must he drink SoulStorm Brew?

Good ol' fashioned steroids for them.

Oddworld’s steroids can dramatically alter bone structure to turn mature workers into biological soldiers.

Surely there are horrific side-effects?

I don’t think they have penises that can shrink. Sligs are like butterflies, anyway, short‐lived and expendable.

I think mentally, your ordinary run-of-the-mill Slig is already mentally scarred and pretty much ruined in that aspect to the point it's not going to get any worse. I'd suspect Big Bros have reduced lifespans due to increased biological activity. I'm certain the worst effects would be mental, and that isn't so much an issue for Sligs which do as ordered anyway. The effect on other Oddworldian species could be vastly different.

Plus they're so big that they can no longer take off their pants.

And growlth gormones.

@ Zerox: I think the Oddworld site says that a big bro's lifespan is 20 years, which seems the same to me. Plus I think their eyes are visible through the visors in some pictures.

Steroids are growth hormones. And what does eyes through the visors have to do with anything?

Do ordinary Sligs only live 20 years? That doesn't sound much, considering Mudokons on average live twice that.

Where does it say that Abes name is Abraham Lure. In the Art book it says that it was a name considered for Abe, alongside Monkfish and Aben etc. But it doesn't actually say (In the art book anyway) that Abraham Lure is Abes full name.

Slig Statistics on Oddworld.com

At the very least, that was originally planned to be Abe's full name, and whether it is canonically or not, that is the accepted full name by the Oddworld community.

I think it is safe to say that Abe was never named Abramham Lure, as I doubt the people who name them make up complicated ones. Espcially a last name, which kind of doesn't make a whole lot of sense in the Industerial world for Mudokons.

Note: Notice how all of the slave Mudokons we know of have three letter names. (aka Abe, Alf, and Bud)

Sam...

Notice also how they are all shortened versions of longer names. Abraham, Alfred, Buddy, Samantha.

If they were to be named such, I guess they would never know, since they would be frequently called the simplified names by Sligs and other Mudokons (since their language doesn't get very sophiscated and they probably don't want to waste time saying such long names) so often they would forget it.

I thought Sligs called them things like Scum or their Slave number rather than their name. Maybe they chose their names themselves?

Big Face is seven letters :p

Alcar...

Bill is four letters. Stumpy is six letters. Unless you shorten it to Stu, I guess.

Yes, but Bill -> Bil, no? :p

Alcar...

I think Abraham is who drawed that pic.
Anyway I think the name Abe symbolizes something for Mudokons: maybe it stand for saviour or for liberator... maybe in the ancient Mudokon language.

You think Abraham is the person who drew the Abe concept design? No, check the art book. It’s drawn by Steven Olds. From memory, I can’t recall any OWI member going by the name of Abe or Abraham.

It isn't safe to say that because we know for a fact that that was his name. If you had the art book you'd know that too.

The fact is that Abe was originally envisaged as a free mudokon fisherman (thus the 'Lure' surname). The name was dropped when OWI decided that it would feel more significant if he started the story ignorant of his spiritual heritage.

Who in Odd's mother's uncle's social worker's name are Bill and Stumpy?

Where are Oddworld's industrial's homes? Why don't wee see any?

Big Face is also a native Mudokon. :p

Bill was Slav - er, Employee of the, uh, Moment! at Necrum Mines. He likes playing hide-and-go-bump-into-walls, and his favourite album is Tommy. Stumpy is Abe’s room mate in RuptureFarms.

:fuzconf: I do have the art book.

I'm sorry I implied that Abe was never named that as in conception stage. I meant that Abe was never named Abramham Lure in the world we see in the Oddworld games. Or rather, the canon storylines that made it in the games. (This may be changed in the movies of course) I do agree (and I read, even before I got the book) that Abe was considered to be named Abramham Lure.

It is also a name that lacks much sophiscation. I imagine modern Mudokons don't have very inventive names for their people, as opposed to names like Agatha, Brint, or Sneha.

If Abe was named by enslaved Mudokons, I guess that isn't the reason why Abe was named Abe.

I could never create a reason why he was named Abe in the canon version of Oddworld.

If storming the dining hall of Molluck's estate was conductive to shutting down Rupture Farms and freeing the scrubs I'm sure we would have seen it,

Most probably live in Nolybab, if they have homes at all. I wouldn't be surprised if they spent most of their time in their offices. Certainly the Vykkers lived in their airship.

Ok.

I want to tell about Mudokons's names that Abraham was who led Jews to Palestine from Ur. So it is possible that Abe (if he was really Abraham Lure) was chosen to lead Mudokons in their Promised Land, maybe out of Mudos.

Abe is not just named by slaves. When he is 'wanted' a poster with a photo of him holding his own name up infront of him is present. Therefore we can assume that slaves are named by the industrialists for convenience as well as just by fellow workers.
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I recently realised that when Big Face 'resurrects' Abe or whatever he does, he draws the symbol for infinity in the ground. Was this done on purpose by OWI, and if so, why? A way of representing Abe's infinite lives? Though then, why would an ingame character do that, presuming that in the 'real' Oddworld universe, Abe wouldn't really have infinite lives like that.

It might be infinity. It might be a twisted circle representing the warping of the cycle of life and death that the Big Face is performing.

What does that part of text mean?

Imbalanced, it means the natural balance of the land like food cycles and things were messed up because of the deforestation and endangerment of species caused by the Maggoc Cartel.

I kept hearing "in bounds". "Imbalanced" makes much more sense.