The Immortal City is a 36” x 36” x 15” triptych of 3 different light sculptures and buildings merged into one large cityscape. Each piece was hand sculpted in oil base clay, molded and cast in a semi translucent resin. This floating city is a massive 3 dimensional vertical gaming board. In it’s current state it is intended to be hung on a wall but it can also be separated into 3 parts for tabletop game play. Inspired by my travels to the Astral, Ethereal, Spirit planes, dreams and nightmares, this is a cooperative role playing game, RPG. Each section of the sculpture represents different aspects of the spirit world. The game includes custom miniatures and cards designed and sculpted by Jason. In this game, players are asleep and dreaming. Their astral bodies have traveled into the spirit planes. They now assume an avatar of a past life in these realms. Scroll down and read on if you wish to know more. To find out when this is released, please sign up for our newsletter.
To see Jason’s process on how this amazing sculpture was made check out his blog post here.
Within the Immortal City countless departed souls are trying to find their way into the light and ascend into higher planes of existence. However, they linger among dark entities and unholy creatures that prey on them. As a player, your task is to find these lost souls and help their ascent. You will face terrible demonic forces, encounter beings and animals made from the fabric of dreams and occasionally get help from divine forces.
Close up detail of the right wing of the floating cityscape. This is the area more associated with chaos. To the far right of this image is a clear shot of a portal that can be moved to any square peg hole on the sculpture. Below is the card needed in order to reveal it!
One of six different characters to play as in the game. Mala-Kai is a very old character I created when I was in High school and he has been part of my soul me ever since.
Revelation cards guide your character through the realms of the astral planes.
The spheres you see floating in the above image represent a player character’s Aura. Numerous square peg holes are designed into the board allowing players to move their Aura pawns up, down, left or right.
The second tier level o f the left wall has a 10 inch HD video monitor which is connected to a small media player that plays an endless loop of souls and spirits behind each passageway.
Above, a 2.5” Glow In The Dark, Sooth Slayer Spider and a 1.5” lost soul trapped in it’s web. Players must destroy the spider to free the trapped soul. For every 5 souls a player saves they ascend to higher level unlocking new abilities and powers. When battling the spider, players will track aura and fear levels. Gain too much fear and wake up in bed and restart your journey the next turn. Lose too much aura and potentially lose your life!
Original 3D Zbrush sculpt of the Sooth Slayer Spider. The was printed on a Peopoly Phenom 3D printer.
Close up of a Glow in the Dark soul eating entity called a Belphoger. This was also sculpted in Zbrush and printed on a Form 2. It is designed with a face on the back in a defensive posture. The front face is offensive. The cityscape has small square peg holes throughout which allowed me to support this small miniature creature without a base. I created a floating peg base that enables the creature to be rotated while plugged into the walls of the city.
Players will also encounter creatures in the various card decks. Some entities may be helpful some malevolent. When a creature is pulled by a player all that will be seen is the image, no name or description on the front of the card. The back side of the card has all the stats including a random table for what the creature can do to the players. The person who drew the card must not see the back. Instead, the player to his or her right must become a “spirit guide” and read what the card, and operate the entity for better or worse for the players.
Red Death
Precious Whore
Belphoger
Tree of Woe
I have quite a bit more content for this in various stages of completion but the finish line is approaching….
One of the more sinister monsters in the game, a Deathbed entity feeding off a captive soul.