After grasping some further concepts with Maya, I made a sketch and blockout of my design:
While not perfect, I believe it serves its purpose, and I’m sure I’ll be able to add details to it moving forward. I had some difficulties, and some problems that I’m still not sure on how to solve, but I’ll get there.
I also wrote a couple of paragraphs of story, to set the scene for my invention:
It’s silly and cheesy, but I had decent fun writing it.