Image of a mauler

[phiwum]

I have this recollection that I've seen an image of a mauler, but I can't find it in ITL or elsewhere. I'd like to make a counter for personal use, so any help would be appreciated.

Totally possible that this is just a false memory, substituting my imagination for a printed image. Or maybe there is a counter that I'm overlooking?

[Axly Suregrip]

Originally Posted by phiwum

I have this recollection that I've seen an image of a mauler,

Could you describe the image more?
- Is a mauler a human fighter, monster or a weapon?
- Where was the image: in a rule book, online, on counters, game catalog, etc?
- What year do you think it was from?
- A detailed description would be helpful (eg. dual wielding fighter with spiked maces and no helmet) The more the detail the more likely someone will recall it. Was it in color or black/white. How as the image framed: Was it a head shot or full body. Other figures in the image (eg. woman laying at his feet or zombies being beat back, etc).
- Also, maybe the reason the image stuck with you. That will likely be why others remember it too.

Good luck.

[phiwum]

Originally Posted by Axly Suregrip

Could you describe the image more? Is a mauler a human fighter, monster or a weapon? Where was the image: in a rule book, online, on counters, game catalog, etc? What year do you think it was from? And a detailed description would be helpful (eg. dual wielding fighter with spiked maces and no helmet... the more the detail the more likely someone will recall it). Also, maybe the reason the image stuck with you. That will likely be why others remember it too.

Good luck.

Sorry. The mauler is a weird monster in the plants section of ITL (p. 98). I could've sworn there was an image in ITL, but I must be mistaken.

The mauler is a cylinder with three arms, two which hit and one for balance. Pretty clear why that image stuck with me.

I'm thinking maybe I just made up the image in my addled noggin and misremember seeing it.

[Axly Suregrip]

Originally Posted by phiwum

Sorry. The mauler is a weird monster in the plants section of ITL (p. 98). I could've sworn there was an image in ITL, but I must be mistaken.

The mauler is a cylinder with three arms, two which hit and one for balance. Pretty clear why that image stuck with me.

I'm thinking maybe I just made up the image in my addled noggin and misremember seeing it.

That monster is new in the legacy ITL. So, any image would have to be a new one. It does sound a lot like an old myth of a man eating plant image I have seen. Well, somewhat like it. Let me find those.

[Axly Suregrip]

Try doing a google image search for the following:

ya te veo tree
yateveo tree
Madagascar Tree man eating
The Death Flower of el banoor

None are a perfect match for the mauler but maybe one of these is the image you recall.

[hcobb]

See the Mauler card in Decks of Destiny.

[phiwum]

Brilliant, Henry. That's the one. Not quite as I remember it (it's not leaning on the third limb), but that's it.

Should've thought of the deck.

Thanks very much for all the help, folks.

[phiwum]

Nice, Axly. From an 1888 book "Sea and land : an illustrated history of the wonderful and curious things of nature existing before and since the deluge".

Dr. Antonio Jose Marquez, a distinguished gentleman of the city
of Barranguilla, in the United States of Colombia, in describing this
wonderful plant to the author, affirms that when excited it violently
agitates its long, tentacle-like stems, the edges of which., rasping upon
each other, produce a hissing noise which resembles the Spanish ex-
pression, ya-te-veo, the literal translation of which is " I see you."
The plant is therefore known, in South America, by the name Yateveo.
He further asserts that so poisonous are the stems that if the flesh of
any animal be punctured by the sharp barbs, a rapidly-eating ulcer
immediately forms, for which there is no known antidote, and death
speedily ensues.

It is a singular thing, and much to be deplored, if such a voracious
plant exists, that we can find no description of it in the most elaborate
works on botany ; and yet hundreds of responsible travelers declare
they have frequently seen it, and not only watched it when in a nor-
mal condition, but one African explorer declares he once witnessed
the destruction of a native who was accidentally caught by one. It
has also been asserted that in the Fan country of Africa, criminals
and those convicted of practicing witchcraft, are sometimes fed alive
to this man-eating plant. All of which, however, I am inclined to
doubt ; not that there is no foundation for such statements as trav-
elers sometimes make about this astonishing growth, but that the
facts are greatly exaggerated.

That book is chock full of stuff like sea monsters and krakens, though the author is not overly credulous. He seems to buy the Yateveo while dismissing the more outlandish features and I checked krakens and he seems skeptical there, too.

There goes my afternoon. Must be some good pre-diluvean stuff.

EDIT: I am ashamed I used the term "pre-diluvean" rather than the hoitier proper term, "antediluvean".

[Jeff Lord]

Also in TFT Adventures in the counter section (Pg. 12 of the PDF) of "The Curse of Katiki-Mu."

[phiwum]

That's one I don't have. I don't run a lot of adventures written by other folks. I tend to use sandbox play more, though I do have a few adventures for ideas and such.

Thanks.