We got to the bridge first thing in the morning, but the Crusaders blew it up! All was not lost, Caelar herself showed up to parlay. I’m not sure how much we really learned, her apparent goal involves invading Avernus to free the dead of the last two Dragonspear Wars? Given that both of those Wars involved some trying to open a gate to that layer of the Abyss, I’m not sure how she thinks she can get a better outcome. We’ve had enough battles against demon hordes in this part of the world. But I’m not at all clear on what she wants with me, or why she insists we’re “on the same side”. I try to keep an open mind, but this is seriously stretching what I’m willing to believe. Most likely out come seems to be another War, hopefully we can do it without the demons this time.

No bridge means we’re breaking camp and trying to get to the next crossing, the massive Boereskyr Bridge which has ominous ties to my heritage. We set a new camp several hours march from the crossing. My team scouted the area and found a lot of trolls. We also found our friend Jaheira. She reports Crusaders have besieged the bridge area, but her husband and small force still hold the defending keep. We need to find some sort of ward stone to be transported in, but she thinks its now located in an old ruined temple. Sounds like fun (!). I guess we know what my crew is up to tomorrow.

Diomedes and Moya charge another group of trolls.
“Minsc can you show me how to look more fierce?” …
… “Miss Psyche, Boo says you don’t look fierce when you keep laughing”.

5 responses to “Psyche: Update 14”

  1. Zeno Avatar
    Zeno

    There’s Minsc! That’s a nice set of him and Psyches. One still has a beard, but you can’t entirely eliminate that. At least it’s not Psyche with the beard…. Still gotta look up my final descriptors to see what I used, but as you noted earlier – style influences that sort of thing as well.

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    1. atcDave Avatar
      atcDave

      No doubt about the bearded Psyche, I’ve seen a few of those! Of course the bearded Minsc came with my favorite Psyche, so that’s why its here.

      I think it was the body builder cue that helped the overall shape. But yeah, *most* of them are still bearded. I also added “clean shaven”, its just amazing how stubborn it is.

      I was talking with a buddy at church this morning who uses AI for medical/molecular modeling and he was amused by my misadventures. None of it really surprised him either though, which concerns me a little for what’s going on in the development of medicines!

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  2. Zeno Avatar

    Description of Minsc in my action scenes:
    “large bald cherokee man,bodybuilder,smooth skin,purple half-face tattoo,bald,heavy leather armor,barrel chested,muscular,age 30,brown eyes”

    Description of Jaheira in my action scenes:

    “czech half-elf warrior woman,age 40,honey blonde hair curtained with rows of short braids with small beads,athletic,sarcastic,tanned,brown eyes,leather scale armor”

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    1. atcDave Avatar
      atcDave

      Oh I’d also added “hairless” to Minsc. Maybe it helped a little, I’m up to about 1 in 4 being right in that regard! But I’m wasting a lot of my word count just trying to fix one thing!

      I did notice on Jaheira I changed her to 30. I thought in the photos she was looking much too old for the potential romance path with a 20 year old in BG2! Which is always sort of a weird thing anyway. I haven’t played played anyone pursuing her for many years, maybe I shouldn’t have worried about it.
      It may be one one of those things I need to stay fluid on. Like how I change Diomedes between “Muscular” and “Fit” depending on how I want his size to look.

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      1. Zeno Avatar

        Order matters a lot too. You can change things by simply re-ordering terms. If he’s not beardless often enough, move “smooth skin” earlier in the prompt. Or even repeat it. Its all playing a numbers game with percentages. Make things too long – particularly in action scenes – and it gets muddled. That’s why the descriptions above are relatively small compared to the descriptions I use in portraits.

        But yes, you do have to stay fluid. In a given scene or character combo I watch what it gets wrong, and the first thing I do is move terms around and repeat a few before I fall back to actually changing the descriptive terms.

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