For this edition of “Odd Piece of the Week”, I think it would be fun to investigate and speculate about Molluck’s Vault. Recently, OWI released a few pieces of conceptual art that appear to originate from the original iteration of Munch’s Oddysee, as evidenced by the appearance of Munch in a wheelchair.
The art appears to depict Molluck’s Vault in RuptureFarms, a secret location from the original Abe’s Oddysee, that was also revisited in New ’n’ Tasty. This would explain why there appears to be an inaccessable doorway and catwork leading to the vault, and why an alarm siren blares incessently once you start causing havoc in the area.
For a long time it had been understood that one of the original story threads dropped from Munch’s Oddysee was a return to RuptureFarms. However, for the longest time, it was unknown why Abe would have needed to return to the derelict and defunct meat processing plant. With the release of this concept art, indicating that Molluck held his deep reservoir of funds in a personal vault secured in the heart of his factory, it appears that perhaps this cache would have been used to help in Lulu’s venture of becoming a wealthy and exploitable glukkon.
Besides a lot of moolah, what do you think would have been inside the vault? What are some of Molluck’s most treasured possessions? How much moolah do you think Molluck was worth? How pissed do you think Molluck would have been once he discovered that Abe, the terrorist mastermind who single-handedly rendered both of his franchises inert, had also robbed him blind?