Asking here cause its PnP related. Was reading the Monster Island book and I believe Qwyjibo was mentioned as one of the monsters in the previous Qularr invasion in the past. Though when playing the Monster Island Crisis arc; the players are involved in the origin of Qwyjibo which differs from the PnP material. Is there any backstory to this? Was the MMO's Qwyjibo named after the original?
Also the post-crisis zone is littered with Qwyjibo carvings in Echinocos Shores, which makes me think at some point in development, Qwyjibo's story got retconned.
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No big deal, the original version was a Giant Monster from a Old Qularr invasion.
When designing the Mon Crisis, someone who wasn't familiar with the lore thought "Wouldn't it be cool if we could involved the players into the lore, and show them, even let them be a catalyst for certain past events?"
And so a new origin that was as players get to wtiness was created for Q, and we even power up the old Mega-Terak ourselves in the Mon Crisis.
Great story elements, but completely misses the fact that Q had supposedly been on Mon all along.
Now that's a great idea! I haven't actually ran into the Qwyjibo spawn in Echinocos yet, (he's not showing up for some reason) but It would be neat to have a cult of Manimals worshiping him in the area, and maybe a whole King Kong inspired story where they take him to MC and he climbs up one of the Ren Center buildings . Now I've said it, it might not happen .
Qwyjibo is ona timer. And, after sometime him and the Teleiosaurs will go fight and most often because the Teliosaurus is either overpwoered or bugged on how much damage it does, and will wipe the floor with Qwyjibo quickly. Then of course, there seems to be a gorup of people that go upa nd fight both on a regular basis I believe.
Which makes me wonder how all the statues and that giant mountainside got created so quickly.
I don't for even a second think that UNTIL isn't keeping tabs on every single super human that they can behind the scenes.
And so while you were out the manimals were building that giant gorilla statue into the mountain to honor his noble sacrifice!
That or the worms did it. Hoping to attract Qwyj over to em for battle training.
Yeah...perhaps they were carved as part of an ancient prophecy from the island's earliest inhabitants: One day the great ape will come.
Sounds like a fun scenario...a time travel adventure pack going back to the early days of Monster Island!
Even with that uh. "theory". there are statues of the ape in museums way before you get to the crisis.
I mean the ape is everywhere!
Of course, we are trying to apply logic to comic book world logic where super sciene is so powerful people can fire a laser at a rock face, without doing any actual manipulation or moving the damn thing,a nd make a Michaelangelo style sculpture in a matter of seconds, so believing there was something there, like oh, the Worms that never bother Qwyjibo, and in many isntances seemt o escort the great ape, could of possibly did something that intricate in short order
Another possibility, time travel. I don't know how. But... Time travel!
When I wrote the Monster Island supplement, some details about Monster Island hadn't been entirely finalized. I had to create some background for Qwijybo, so I went with what seemed most dramatic and logical at the time.
Cryptic later added the event where Qwijybo, well, becomes Qwijybo, thus making my original backstory incorrect.
When I write the description of Monster Island for the forthcoming Champions Universe supplement (possibly later today, in fact), the story that appears in the MMO event will be used, if I need to provide any background for any of the giant monsters.
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A wizard did it.
That or Juryrig caused a weird space time thingymagig with his machine.
Or in millennium city. There are tons of museums with the monkey in them as well.
Nah, it was really done by....the enigmatic Cult of Qwyjibo (formally known as the Fire Mountain Tribe).
See Qwyjibo was part of a prophecy passed around between a small group of manimals captured & hunted by Argent. It was foretold that the god of the fire mountain would manifest on the island in the manimal's image; and that he would lay waste to any who would threaten his chosen peoples. The few that escaped lay in hiding within the Echinocos Shores and did their best to escape the notice of the Elder Worm. It was there that they would build effigies and large rock formations in praise of their ape-god. Little did they know that both science and fate would bring these prophecies to life and the god now known as Qwyjibo would come to claim the throne that had been waiting for him.
Oh, and thanks coming on and clarifying the orignal question Steve, much appriciated!
Qwyjibo may have known this, but hoped that being a manimal would allow him to control his behavior better than the previous test subject.
TELEIOS has NO need Qularr SCIENCE!!!! TELEIOS IS PERFECT and SUPERIOR to Qularr in every WAY!!
This, of course, is true. Then again, Telios would never use so many caps to make his point. Shouting is for less perfect people.
*smirk*
How do you know it wasn't just a Teleioclone talking? Huh?!! Ya know them Mark III's are kinda full of themselves
Nothing says Q is the First giant monkey on the island. For all we know Jack Black showed up 90 years ago and carted the old one off
Hahaha! Nice! Okay, I'll start being a little more serious again as it was I that asked the silly question in the first place. Thanks to Lucid and Steve for adding your 2 cents in this thread. Much appricated.
Aren't the Teliosaures' based off of creatures brought by the Qularr?
Yes, I was only just joking! Jeez.
How the hell do you pronounce Qwi...Qwe...Qwijobooboo?
<---in favor of renaming him "Carl".
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