We swing pickaxes for twelve hours a day

Mun Name: Kith
Journal: ladybookbat
Contact Info: AIM ladybookbat
Other Characters: not_a_pickle, what_fourthwall

Name: Digger-of-Unnecessarily-Convoluted-Tunnels
From: Digger

Appearance:



Age: Good question, probably late twenties.

Gender: Female

Personality: Stubborn, practical, snarky, loyal, and blunt. Digger is much like her favorite pick-axe. (Except the pick-axe doesn’t need to make snarky comments) What you see is what you get, she doesn’t have many layers. She has a strong moral code that she will follow, even when she knows that it will lead to Adventure and Magic. Things no sane wombat wants anything to do with. She also has maternal tendencies, in a ‘Here’s your tools, and here’s how to use them, go for it’ type of way. She is not at all fond of magic and gods and things of that nature, probably because she is so experienced with them.

Backstory: Whilst digging a tunnel, Digger passed through a cavern full of poisonous gas, that made her a bit loopy. The next few hours/days were a blur, and when she finally came to her senses, she was pushing her way up through the floor of the temple of Ganesh. The statue of the god greeted her and offered the food offerings in his bowl. Both of them were surprised to find out that her tunnel was not actually there in the strictest sense. This made Digger very unhappy, as such effects meant someone deliberately magicked her tunnel, and using magic in mining is bloody irresponsible, so she couldn’t even use that tunnel to get back home.
She eventually finds out that the tunnel leads to a cavern in which beings known as the ‘Metal Servants’ are keeping the body of a god alive.

What follows is a twelve chapter long epic, told by an author who didn’t think it would last more than ten pages, and goes much more in-depth to daily goings-on then most epics.
Suffice to say that Digger meets an exiled hyena, the tribe that exiled him, a feral Shadowchild with no sense of morality, who latches onto her as a maternal figure, and the in-universe hero of the tale, a slightly crazy priest-cop named Murai.

It gets convoluted.

The main tale involves Digger, Murai, Grim Eyes (member of the hyena tribe, Digger’s adopted cousin, it’s a complicated story), and Shadowchild traveling to an abandoned monastery to find out why Digger’s tunnel leads to an undead god and how to make it dead again.
They succeed, and Digger finds a merchant to take her home, and the comic ends on its 759th page here http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=921

Moral Standing: Lawful good

Dreams: To build something that will last, and to stay out of these Epics.

Fears: Being unprepared for something she should have seen coming.

Extra: The obligatory year-and-a-day waiting period has gone by, so Digger’s old burrow isn’t hers anymore. She’ll be bringing her pickaxe and pack with some mining tools and food in. That’s it. Again.

Samples: Here

Writing Sample: Aaaand Here