Let's take a look over what's been happening since the last update!Patrons voted on Traps being a primary focus, so I've cooked up some!
The "Color Vessel" has the means to capture the essence of a person in a jar, rendering them into a glass statue. The target will have their colors vacuumed up directly from their avatar, which color the exterior of the bottle to reflect whose essence is contained within. One may cast this on another, or themselves! This is in Petrification/Traps.
Also in Petrification/Traps is "Golden Laurel" may seem like a harmless accessory at first, but the wearer will find themselves lumbering with a lengthy transformation, as their body turns to marble, their arms shrink into nubs, their legs transform into a plinth, and they're ultimately rendered into an inanimate bust! It can also be used on oneself or on another. Nexus36 is featured in the photo!
Another Trap is "Cement Pool", which was a project worked on by Loki, SaltyToast, and myself. Take a dip in the pool, but if you go beneath the surface, you'll be covered in cement! You'll be fine, if you stay in the pool. But if you try to wander off, you'll find you won't make it far before the cement hardens and you might as well be put for use as a stone lawn ornament!
A trap work-in-progress is the "Rubber Hood TF", which a prototype can be found of in the Grey's Works folder for Patrons. Placing this on yourself or another will cause it to fuse with you, turning you to rubber, and then forming you into a rubber hood which can be worn by others!
A nearly finished project is the "Mummy Machine", inspired by the Japanese gameshow "Tore!", where contestants in the final round will find themselves bound and wound around with wrapping, attempting to answer enough questions in time before their head is mummified. You can play with a working prototype of this in Grey's Works, but expect a fully finished project in a couple days! After that, there will be a period where it's Patron-exclusive before it's put into Petrification/Traps.
Aside from these traps, one of my main focuses has been to finish a long term project involving plastic army men transformation, which can now be found in Petrification/Games as "Plastic Soldiers"! Two or more players form two teams, with a color of their choice, to wield a plastic weapon, an optional army helmet, and be shrunk down to the size of a figurine as they do fight on a randomly generated battlefield! A few shots will turn you into a plastic toy, and if you have any respawns remaining, will be baked, and respawn you back at base. If you don't have any respawns.. well get comfy, and hope your mobile teammates can succeed before your team's respawns and mobility is depleted.There is a video featuring many wonderful Patrons here showing the game in action! https://x.com/Grey29176449/status/1896683611388321896
I've also been working with the lovely Meteion to get the Grey's Museum world hosted as a headless! A headless is a world that does not go offline (unless necessary), so 24/7 it can be visited. Many whom are statuary there have opted to have their statues act as a trap, which will recapture them into their statue should they ever be present in the world. One may find peace knowing that in the canon of that world, and thus the canon of Grey the Curator, they've found a place they can always visit to resume their decor duty~
In a few days I'll be putting up a poll/vote here for what shall be the next big project I focus on. Stay tuned!