Vermis II – Mist & Mirrors by Plastiboo — Softcover
Vermis II – Mist & Mirrors is an official guide to a game that does not exist. Published by Hollow Press, this softcover edition continues the lore-game-book form Plastiboo established in Vermis I: Lost Dungeons and Forbidden Woods: a reference artifact that borrows the grammar of dungeon crawlers — classes, creatures, implied rules — and refuses to become playable.
About the Book
The pocket format shapes how the book is handled. You read it like a manual rather than a gallery object. Pages carry the illusion of a working system: inventories of threats, fragments of geography, histories implied by layout rather than stated outright. The recurring line — "Thy flesh doth not belong to thee." — establishes a colder register, one in which identity reads more like equipment than interiority.
Compared to Vermis I: Lost Dungeons and Forbidden Woods, this volume is larger in page count and denser in its navigational logic. It is built for repeated use. The fourth printing, issued July 2025, is offset printed in full colour with stitched binding — the same production standard maintained across the series.
A variant of this title is also available: Vermis II - Mist & Mirrors (Forsaken Edition). The first volume is likewise available as the Vermis I - Lost Dungeons and Forbidden Woods (Forsaken Edition). Both Vermis titles are part of the broader Artbooks & Artist Publications catalogue at Lokator100.
About Plastiboo
Plastiboo is an illustrator and game artist whose work merges horror, surrealism, and video game logic into dense visual worlds. Their drawings frequently resemble screenshots from impossible games: menu screens without instructions, levels that never load correctly, figures caught between flesh and icon.
Through books, zines, and digital projects, Plastiboo constructs immersive universes populated by eerie creatures, derelict structures, and systems on the verge of collapse. Key works include Vermis I – Lost Dungeons and Forbidden Woods, Vermis II – Mist & Mirrors, and Godhusk – Rebirth, which together establish Plastiboo as a distinctive voice in contemporary dark-fantasy illustration and experimental game-adjacent art.
