Built for the RebelLUG Telephone Game 2025!

This MOC is inspired by a prompt given to me by Eli Wilsea, after he was given a build to describe.

"Life rips through ancient stones. Peaceful, holy, bright. Cryptic vibes."

To me this decpicts an incredibly, peaceful and calm scene. Something exists of an ancient world, something that isn't quite clear what it is, yet it cannot disrupt the peaceful setting. "Bright" also gives me this sense of a serene setting. Whatever cryptic object is here cannot be one of dark nature.

"Life rips through ancient stones," is a line I chose to take literally. Adding creatures for life to the scene including two frogs, two butterflies, a bird, an owl, a snail, and a squirrel show that this calm scene is one of life. All are peaceful creatures, not taking away from the peaceful nature of the scene.

The cross in the center of the scene incorporates that of "holy" within the description. Adding what could appear as some torn cloth or banners draped over it as well as changing the center to a circle, is intended to bring back some of the "cryptic vibes" back to the scene.

This build was built on a fairly quick timeline.

The buried head is actually a repurposed totem of Mata Nui submerged in a much larger base that is not photographed. Added in rock piles were placed around the landscape following the same color scheme to look as if a larger structure or other totems had crumbled around.

Once the rocks were placed and foliage was draped around the stones to appear as if they had been overgrown, adding flower elements to them helped reinforce the tone that life is ripping through this scene. But it also became a focus of how can life exist in a build without telling an active story? This scene was meant to be a story that had already happened long ago, and now was sitting quiet and still.

Adding animals in different spots so that they could be photographed individually within the scene was the next fun task of this project, moreso to just add storytellin detail. Well "storytelling," that is, to the already told story that is unknown to the viewer.