Some warnings are learned through experience. Others through immediate consequences.

There are countless ways to investigate an enormous, visibly angry creature. Unfortunately, somebody always chooses the finger.

POKE captures the precise moment curiosity defeats self-preservation: a battered traveler standing within biting distance of a massive snarling bear-cryptid and giving it one completely unnecessary poke on the nose. The surrounding claw marks, pointing hands, thorns, and watchful eyes suggest this may not be the first time someone has attempted the experiment.

It’s a tribute to curiosity, terrible decisions, and that deeply human need to touch the thing everyone specifically told us not to touch.

Part of the Hard Mode IRL DARKLORE™, this design combines antique bestiary illustration, distressed engraving, ominous ornament, and absurd visual storytelling. Dark enough to look like an ancient warning. Stupid enough to feel completely modern.

Details

• Original Hard Mode IRL artwork
• Monumental distressed POKE typography
• Enormous bear-like folklore beast with one dangerously curious traveler
• Ornamental frame of pointing hands, thorns, claw marks, and watchful eyes
• Weathered bone, black, deep red, and earthy brown palette
• Antique woodcut and dark folklore engraving aesthetic
• Part of the Hard Mode IRL DARKLORE™ style
• Made for cryptid fans, fantasy adventurers, compulsive button-pushers, and anyone who has ever ignored an extremely obvious warning

You were specifically told not to do that.