Serrica's Sketches

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Impressive as hell!

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(I'm still doodling up more ideas, too. Gotta find ways to spend all these gold pitchers, leathers, silk bundles and candlesticks that Serrica keeps saving up.... ;D )

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// Also, I went back to those first four doodles, nixed the sepia toning (which wasn't really doing it for me) and fixed a few details...shortening Serrica's left upper arm in the third pic to bring it more in line with human proportions, adding some more kelpy hair to the fourth pic so it looks like Umberlee actually has a posterior cranium now, doing a few line touch-ups here and there and whatnot. I could probably stand to shrink the pics by another 20% or so, though. And then I went back to the other thread and fixed Serrica's face and right hand in that pic with Podarge. Too bad I can't give her a whiter smile. Friggin' useless erasers....

// So I guess I got a little busy last night. How was your night?

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*jots some tally marks between merrow slayings, amending her work above*

*jots some more*

*scratches the tally marks out and simply jots "16" instead*

*goes to Uarhold and hands 16 merrow heads to Lord Dert Marshall*

*"forgets" to inform Lord Dert that those first 16 heads came from Ilthan Island instead of the vicinity of Uarhold, but Lord Dert doesn't need to know that minor detail, now does he?*

*with three sets of camping supplies, 50 healer's kits, 41 Cure Moderate Wounds potions, 17 Spring Waters and various other necessities on her back, finally goes to the Plain of Lakes and the Dark Murky Depths*

*kills considerably more than 95 merrow, but only collects 95 heads due to a few retreats and withdrawals, merrow dying in inaccessible locations, etc.*

*kills seven sea hags inside and in the vicinity of Malfalaga's Lair, taking all of their heads*

// *ends up doing the appropriate beheading-and-collecting emotes for most of those heads, with the occasional single- or double-emote small-group-harvesting, and all while trying to remember where each merrow or hag fell and died after their corpses vanish*

*is forced to concede the battle and return to Uarhold, leaving Malfalaga--alive and intact--and several wasted traps behind, an acceptable price for getting out alive*

*leaves the 95 merrow heads (111 heads total thus far) and 7 hag heads with Lord Dert, with the promise that next time, Serrica will return with Malfalaga's head; after all, one of the merrow heads in the sacks was that of Malfalaga's personal bodyguard, and Serrica now has the key to Malfalaga's inner sanctum....*

*Lord Dert is pleased*

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*scratches, scribbles more numbers, scratches again, scribbles more numbers, adds tally marks, vows to catch Lord Dert at an opportune moment and give him the good news...*

// • ...fixed the size of Serrica's head, fixed the merrow's left elbow and put the elbow dimples on top where they're supposed to go, changed Serrica's focus and gave her direct eye contact with her Drowned pet as if to tip him the wink and the nod that signals him to chop off the merrow's head, cleaned up a few lines and erasures.

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*takes up a quill and adds 65 merrow heads to the tally; yesterday's harvest was quite successful, despite the occasional setback*

"I truly must find Lord Dert at a good time. These heads are getting quite bloody heavy and they're starting to smell...worse than they usually do, rather."

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*and adds 28 more merrow heads to the tally, though more than a little disappointed with yesterday's hunt*

"If only there were bounties for all of those blasted umplebies and Damarans...."

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Her errand done with the hag queen's death, and her scourge against the merrow come to pause, Serrica parts company with Lord Dert and begins her swift return to Palaggar. One day remains, and much remains to be done within it....