This is Hamelin, the Pied Piper. A crew I had for years, that’s why it’s mostly old metals in there. In my version of the crew all rats are replaced with toys, rat kings are toy kings and rat catchers are toy catchers. It’s the orphanage where the lost and stolen children of Malifaux find a ‘home’.
And because I have a theme song for most of my crews, this is Hamelin’s:
Hamelin’s Obedient Wretch is Candy, the Petulant Youth that came with Avatar Pandora with a few added toys.
It’s an orphanage. It doesn’t have much money. The best birthday entertainment Hamelin can afford is a drunk and pathetic excuse of a clown (think Billy Bob Thornton’s Bad Santa, and if you haven’t watched the film, do so!).
Taelor before she grew up. Already rockin’ the Relic Hammer.
My ‘rats’ are a collection of random toys. Like a doll that doesn’t care about paper, a rocking horse, …
… a teddy bear emerging from the, erm, whatever lurks beneath the floors, a porcelain doll with an axe, …
… a slinky hoarcat, Laz’ head at target practise, …
… a doll with a Viktoria’s swords, a monkey with a fez and a stash of guns, …
… a doll playing polo on a rocking horse, …
… and a porcelain doll and a teddy smashing one of Ramos’ spiders.
Now that all rats have been replaced, the original Nix, an undead dog, didn’t really fit the theme. So, having a look at Nix’s card: he is an incorporeal animal and he is a bit of a dick. Well, pretty much sums up Alice in Wonderland’s Cheshire Cat. (Tale of War does a 54mm Alice model that comes with this nice model.)
And my latest addition, the Hogfather with Rudolph, the red-nosed piglet:
The hodgepodge emissary has two recurring themes in its gameplay. Travel and trinkets. That sounds like Santa. But in Malifaux that can’t be a fat old human. It has to be a Grinch-like gremlin.