The first time I booted up NetKeen, my mind was blown through the back of my skull and spattered itself across the wall behind me. Lord knows how I'm still alive today. I was just so thrilled at the sight of the Janitor, Council Page, and Spot all playable characters. Only recently have I played an actual round of NetKeen, with lemm, Ceilick and fantomx. For those of you that have been following my "Guardian of Wisdom" thread, you know that my primary focus is on centering mods around characters other than Commander Keen. "The Guardian of Wisdom" was my first crack at it. It tells a story of what happened when Lt. Barker arrived on Gnosticus IV to ask for volunteers to help him in his quest to find Commander Keen, who was teleported clear across the galaxy by the evil Mortimer McMire. Volunteering was none other than Princess Lindsey. And as something of an escort, the janitor tagged along. And Spot.
Barker and his crew eventually did find Commander Keen on the planet Calidune. After stopping Mortimer once and for all, Commander Keen returned to Gnosticus IV to return his friends, Princess Lindsey and the janitor back to their homeworld. And then the Oracle blew up, due to some mishandlement of the batteries.
My little story is something of a prequel to The Eight Accumulators. It tells of how disaster strikes again on Gnosticus IV as soon as the princess and the janitor leave with Barker. It all began when the High Council received a strange message from the Oracle...
Over the past 5 months or so, I've been working on taking various characters, reshaping and resizing them to fit in the dimensions of the Keen sprites. In my "Guardian of Wisdom" thread, you'll see some progress on such characters as the Berkeloid, Smirky, Sprite, Mimrock, Wormouth, Robo Red, Blue Bird, and the Blooglet. I've also started on the Meep, (which can be seen in my banner). (Also in the banner is the Tank Robot by Dr.Colossus.)
There is one lost episode I overlooked in my modding efforts. That would be the redoubtable Keen Dreams. You see, it was quite the task shrinking Robo Red down to the size of Commander Keen. But it worked out exceedingly well. Just lucky, I guess. There is one character who stands towering over Robo Red itself. You guessed it: King Boobus Tuber. Keen Dreams has a colorful cast of characters, dash them all. If you saw one of the vegetables in NetKeen, which would you be most likely to see? It wouldn't be the Broccolash. He doesn't shoot any projectiles, and that would make him...not so effective in a round of NetKeen. Perhaps Frenchy. But then I thought of the Tater Trooper. He does, after all, have a bayonet. King Tuber does not. Oh wait, yes he does:
That is, without a doubt, King Tuber on the cover. But compare him there with him here: http://www.shikadi.net/keenwiki/King_Boobus_Tuber
But if we resized King Tuber to Keen-size, and give him that bayonet, he could be in NetKeen! Without further ado, here is the little sneak peek:
How do you like him? Does he look like a proper spud?
This, of course, opens the possibility of centering a Galaxy Mod around King Boobus Tuber. Now, I've done a lot of writing. Thank you for reading it all. Now it's your turn. What are your thoughts on this all? Have you any ideas about any kind of back-story, front or side-story on the King of Spuds? Watch out, folks. King Tuber has a shotgun with armor-piercing rounds, and eyes in the back of his head.
This has been TroublesomeKeen.
Good job. 
