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IWD2 Winter’s Warriors: Jungle Jamboree

After stepping through the portal, they found themselves in a thick, hot jungle…
First order of business, these fur cloaks are *hot*!!
Second order of business, do a little reconnaissance and acquire some disguises.
Then they were ready to infiltrate the temple. They suspected it would end in mass-bloodshed, but Katarina was determined to investigate first and determine if there was any other way.
Their entry wasn’t quite as smooth as hoped, as the guards were a little suspicious of some of their members. “Aren’t you two a little short to be serpent cultists?”
Inside they saw lots of evil rituals and calls to enslave mammal-kind and conquer the world. A non-violent was looking increasingly unlikely.
Katarina directly conversed with the High Priest of the temple, posing as a postulant with religious questions and attempting to convince him not to send more Yuan-ti through the portal. It did not go well.
They started out in a pitched battle against the Yuan-ti priest and his guard.
But before long the numbers became to great. They were being overwhelmed!. So they fell back to a more defensible position and let magic take the lead. And if there’s one thing a bunch of jungle-dwelling snake men *don’t* like, its being flash-frozen.
But even after routing the Yuan-Ti, they still had one job left to do. Permanently closing the portal back to Kuldahar. They had learned that the Portal Guardian was worshipped/imprisoned by the Yuan-Ti. They had learned the ritual to summon him. What they had *not* learned was what, exactly, the Guardian was… When he made his appearance, they had to quickly formulate a battle plan.
It was a tough battle, many of them barely made it through alive. But in the end they defeated the mighty Guardian.
Then all they had to do was race back through the jungle to return to Kuldahar before the portal vanished…

Author’s Note: Man. Yuan-Ti are a pain-in-the-butt. Fortunately they are described as varying greatly in appearance – encompassing just about any imaginable mix of snake and human features.

6 responses to “IWD2 Winter’s Warriors: Jungle Jamboree”

  1. atcDave Avatar
    atcDave

    The yuan-ti actually look terrific. I especially like the dark ritual shot. The change of setting is fun too. It is a minor issue with the IWD setting, it gets monotonous.

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    1. Zeno Avatar
      Zeno

      The ones above are carefully curated from the all the results that looked like men with snakes around their necks. Or, more commonly, big snakes with no humanoid features whatsoever.

      That ritual scene was one of the first times I pulled out “lovecraft” in scene tags. The other being the mindflayer stalking Percy. It doesn’t come up often, but it can really add some punch when you want that effect.

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      1. atcDave Avatar
        atcDave

        I believe that! It can be maddening when the AI gets something stuck it won’t break away from! Currently, just trying to do purple hair without pointed ears. oof.

      2. Zeno Avatar
        Zeno

        Sometimes explicitly saying “human” helps. Sometime describing the color different “ lavender tinted” instead of purple. And sometime… just explicitly describe a hairstyle the covers the ears. 😉

  2. atcDave Avatar
    atcDave

    I have done all that, even saying human five times. thick hair covering ears, helmet. Doesn’t matter. If anything the ears keep getting longer and more ridiculous. That one is proving to be the hardest character!

    Okay, I haven’t tried Lavender!

    I’m sort of concluding I can’t do more than one character at a time in most cases. Why was the inn so much easier?!

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    1. Zeno Avatar
      Zeno

      Honestly character combos still feels like black magic even to me. Some combos go together easily. Some are a pain in the butt – for no apparent reason. And sometimes two characters that work well together in one setting completely do not in another. I can’t get Kordaal and Katarina together without blowing a days worth of account attempts on it. No idea why. Even Garin or Percy with Katarina – with all the height issues that involves – is easier. Almost any other combo I’ve tried can be made to work. But not those two. The one of them fighting the dragon is the best of about 100 attempts. And I still had to use an image editor to remove a third arm from Kordaal in that one.

      So I’ve taken to just experimenting with new characters to see which ones can go together and which ones can’t, and taking it into account when I plan out my images.

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