I was watching some ancient Oddworld video clips tonight, and I stumbled across this tour of Oddworld Inhabitants, circa
Munch's Oddysee's release:
It's not a bad watch. Lorne Lanning is taking the press on a tour of the studio, and it's very guerilla. I didn't expect to learn anything from the tour, as Lorne is merely rattling off names of characters and species. There's a nice bust of Sam in there that I hadn't seen before though.
At 3:37, however, something caught my attention. Lorne mentions "Lulu and Sask", and you get a brief glimpse of two artworks depicting two glukkons, one of whom is strikingly familiar, one of whom is not. According to the video, Sask is Lulu's boss.
I did some digging and came across a post from Wil, dated January 7th, 2002:
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Lulu's first prick at employment took place in an unimportant abatoir, under the fiercely supervising Sask, only one promotion above Lulu.
One day, Sask was out of options, and ordered Lulu to slaughter the Scrabs himself. Then Abe and Munch came along, and made Lulu slaughter the Sligs instead. Not only was the demand for meat met, but scrap metal was left over and sold for extra profit. The Cartel was so impressed, they promoted Lulu to the head of the FlubCo Fat Fuels Facility.
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I added all this information to the Wikia, which you can see
here.
Case closed, right? Wrong. I couldn't shake the feeling that I'd seen Sask somewhere before, and after some personal deliberation, I remembered the many additions to the RuptureFarms Annual Board Meeting in the opening of
New 'n' Tasty. There are two glukkons on the opening panel. One of them is Lulu, also referred to as "Lil Lacky". The other appears to be called "I Brown Lackey" or "Capt Wanky", but the glukkon's full-body portrait is undeniably Sask. Interesting!
As Lulu and Sask were the petty managers of an unimportant abattoir—likely a small RuptureFarms branch—in the original iteration of
Munch's Oddysee, it seems that the new Quintology has already been embracing the forgotten storylines, we just didn't know it yet.
EDIT: Courtesy of TOGG and Xavier's divine archival skills, I bring you ...
DA BOSS!