Hijuyo: Hey readers, this is “Steamworks in Sketch”, starring our special guest speaker – Hades from the Poptropica Creators’ Blog!
Hades: Look, I saw what you guys did to Captain Crawfish. And anyone who dares touch me now will be sent to the Underworld… forever!
(A loud gasp comes from the audience and several scared kids try to run away.)
Hades: Not so fast! I haven’t even begun! *zaps finger in your direction* CHARON!
(Hades’ ferryman, Charon, scoops up the now dead kids and carries them away.)
Hijuyo: O_O
Hades: Okay, I think you guys get the point. Captain Crawfish may have been a weakling, but not me. There’ll be no messing around with ME, the great Hades!
Hijuyo: Uh…
Hades: ARE YOU CHALLENGING ME?! Yes? No? Well, the show must go on. As I was saying, I, the great Hades, mightier than all you midgets, will be presenting you “Steamworks in Sketch” – amazing, never-before-seen sketches of the upcoming STEAMWORKS ISLAND, where I will be RULING ALL OF POPTROPICA!!
Hijuyo: Ahem.
Hades: Oh right, here it is:
Evolution of a Steamworks Island monster
For Steamworks Island, the we’ll pit you against a variety of mutated plant monsters. But how did we make the creepiest, crawliest, ickiest plant monsters around?
We started by brainstorming.
These are just some of the sketches we drew to help us visualize what our monstrous creations would look like. Not all of the sketches will make it into the final product — in fact, most won’t — but this allows us to try out different ideas. Then we’ll take the very best concepts and work them into Poptropica.
Hijuyo: This island sounds… dangerous? Full of evils and deaths and all things scary? 
Those poor plants! Innocent life turned to killers! D:
Hades: Yeah! This is the perfect island to take over, to cause fear and death and destruction and…
(One day later…)
Hades: …oh, when this island’s ready, it’ll be MINE! Mine to take over, to rule, every inch will belong to ME! Those plants are my minions! I…
Hijuyo: You were saying…?
Hades: …Right. Anyway. You probably need to see more of the Steamworks stuff that I’ll be colonizing:
Steamworks monster sketch
Yesterday, you saw some of the earliest ideas for the plant monsters that will appear on the next Poptropica island, Steamworks Island. This one seemed appropriately icky.
It’s still no more than a sketch — just an outline of an idea. But we’re already thinking about how the plant will look when it’s colored and detailed, and how it will move. The next step is to take this sketch and Poptropica-ize it!
Hades: Got that? This enhanced plant monster is gonna be colored and detailed! It’ll move! It’ll be Poptropica-ized! Oh yeah, and just look at that pic’s name – BolasSketch! Its name is Bolas! And it’ll be all mine to control! MUAHAHAHAHAHEhehehe…
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*gasp* Hades killed kids! LOL. Cool post
Awesome evil plants! Evil is awwweeesome >:)
Do we get to nom Hades too? Well anyways, cool posts!
awesome!!!! š
Wasn’t this one of the plants we had to vote for? I didn’t vote for this one, I voted for the scarier one. š
yeah, the scary one is the Mr. Snuffles, and the not- so- scary one is the bola. All the rest are spore flowers and tools and a nice “brute”
funny new struff with Hades!!! š
Ok fine Hades, I’ll leave you alone. No need to zap me dead and have Charon haul me away. :S Besides, I thought your brother, Zeus, was the evil one?
Yay!!!
AWESOME POST, HIJUYO! I love the way you write those.
Great post! Really really funny!
Hades’ nuts. Cool plants!
The creators blog post has a typo in the first sentence.
Hades won’t be able to zap me dead, Im his brother ( Zeus ). š
Wow, and I though Crawfish was bad for you…
Anyway, the post is hilarious! The pics look cool, too.
Nice job writing Hijuyo!
If Hades thinks he can take over poptropica, maybe he forgot he gave me his CROWN! š *brings poor dead kids back to life* š Hades is mean… ROFL
Hades: Okay, I think you guys get the point. Captain Crawfish may have been a weakling,
ROFL at italic part. š
LOL! This almost made me fall out of my chair!
You guys ROCK!
PART 2!
Hijuyo:Well, since you’re evil like Zeus, I’ll attack you with the spinning tree!
Hades:Oh, no, no, no! You’re not going to get away with this! I’ll zap you to the Underworld!
Hijuyo:Oh, yeah? Well Steamworks Island must be protected!
Hades: NO! It will never be protected! I’ll put it in the Underworld!
Hijuyo:Oh, yeah? Like, see if you can zap these plant monsters!
(puts plant monsters near Hades)
Hades:Wha-?!
(Plant monsters attack Hades)
Hades:NO! DON’T EAT ME! I’M THE GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD! WITHOUT ME, THE UNDERWORLD WILL COLLAPSE! NO! DON’T HIT ME! HEY! DON’T WHACK OFF MY CROWN! FOOLISH PLANTS! STOP IT! HEY! NO! DON’T! AAAAAAH!
(Hades gets whacked offstage.)
(huge crash)
Hijuyo:Hehe. Now that Hades got whacked, Steamworks Island will now come together. Bye now. (audience claps)
(TV turns off)
Backstage Post
Charon: Yikes, Hades! What happened to you?
Hades: I was…gonna zap…Hijuyo into the Underworld with my crown, but some…plant monsters….kinda carried me away.
Charon: Whoa! You sound kinda weak.
Hades:Well, I…tried, but…I just…got attacked.
Charon:I know. It does look like that. However, I smell a bribe, we’re never going to be in that stupid show again. Come, Hades back to the Underworld we go.
(Portal appears)
(Hades sighs)
(Hades and Charon go into the portal)
(Hijuyo laughs)
Hijuyo: So long, Underworld suckers!
(Hijuyo keeps on laughing.)
Hijuyo: Oh, man am I good or what.