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Gabrella: Update 3

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The team is really coming together nicely. We’ve been back exploring more to the east of Nashkel for now.

It makes me laugh when Bull grumbles about Ajantis’ youth. I’m pretty sure he’s older than me! They have come to work well together. But clearly something bothers Bull about the Paladin, he hasn’t been clear with me *what*.
Jaheira is a warrior priestess of sorts. The details are different, but we’ve chosen similar paths.
Dynaheir has been teaching Imoen a lot of magic basics. I’ve never doubted Imoen has the brains and curiousity to be a very good mage.

I do hate how Bull always seems to draw the most attention in a fight. No doubt he’s tough and can take it, but he’s a big target. If I could get in front of him more often I can make them miss.

“Thanks again Gabby, even if you’re not really a cleric yet, you’re my favorite healer! Seriously, Miss Jaheira scares me a little.” “I just wish you’d quit scaring *me*”
Ajantis commitment to my, uh, cause, worries me a little. I think I may not want the sort of attention he offers? Does he understand my heart is spoken for? Of course he doesn’t, I’m not even sure of that…
We were able to find some texts belonging to the old Ulcaster School, and returned them to the spirit of Ulcaster himself!
Ajantis I think the problem is we have too many of us fighting melee, we tangle each other up in tight spaces. You have served us, served *me* well. But I release you to find other service.

Ajantis was sort of a puppy I think. And no doubt he is a skilled warrior. But we don’t need four of us doing the same job at the front. And I think Bull will feel better with Ajantis gone. Still, I felt terrible sending him away.

“My team needs another archer, and Kivan, I think you will fit with us perfectly.”

A skilled archer does make sense. And Kivan is eager to get after the bandits. So that’s up next.

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First time I’ve used Ajantis at all with “NPC Project” installed. Right after I decided his time was up, he got into a talk with Jaheira about how [charname] was likely to let him go. It was funny, I’m not sure if there was a romance track getting started there? But it felt that way, and Gabby is not interested. Also, four pure melee types do get in each other’s way some in tight spaces. Usually if I have more than two, at least one will be a two-handed sword user (Minsc!) who fights from a step back. It matters.

I also wound up recruiting Kivan sooner than I’d planned, which means running up to the bandit camp sooner than I planned. But hey, that keeps it interesting.

Co-Pilot does have another new renderer available. This time I did one render (Ajantis’ dismissal) with “MAI-Image-1”. It does have a crisp realism to it. But it really struggles with ages. It is fun, especially when a render is causing fits, to switch the engine for a couple tries. It sometimes helps sort out what’s wrong. I did this on several of these, but ultimately only went with just that one. No OpenArt at all this time.

2 responses to “Gabrella: Update 3”

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    Zeno

    I haven’t really played with that new renderer yet. I haven’t liked GPT-4o at all. It always comes out dull and dreary for me, The one above with MAI-Image-1 looks much better than anything GPT-4o ever gave me. I’ll have to see if it can do anything for me better than DALL-E.

    That Kivan looks very different from mine. A different take on the description? He looks more… Spanish to me than the Sioux I went with.

    I found Kivan very hit-or-miss with BG NPC Project. He certainly interjects a lot more with Tazok and the like, which felt good. But he also becomes far more of a chatterbox in general – which felt “off” to me for someone I pictured more as the “silent stoic” type.

    Ajantis rarely fits well in my parties. He’s just so rigidly black and white and sure of himself. He comes off better in BGNPC if you give him a chance, but he just gives a lot of my characters a bad early impression. Like he doesn’t see nuance and jumps in without thinking.

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      atcDave

      I like GPT-40 for its literal take on things, very good at doing *what I said*. But yeah, it’s often with a dark and dreary feel. Not my preference for fantasy! The new one is brighter, that’s worth something. And I like the crispness of it. But it often has an extreme view on ages, with Bull and Gabby in a shot it makes him ancient and her a kid. Similarly with Dyna and Imoen it kept making Imoen a child. I’m sure it was picking up relational cues from my prompt and making them more literal? But I had the ages there specifically to avoid that. It works (better) on DALLE-3. Strange.

      Kivan is another where I’m using your prompts. It is an extreme look.
      He is also one I’ve not used much with NPC Project. I figure I’ll at least use him through the bandit camp, then we’ll see.

      Ajantis is too naive. A child’s view of a Paladin. They forget wisdom is a requirement! But specifically here, my thought is Bull was a little jealous (which he won’t admit). And Gabby is acting mostly on Bull’s discomfort. Maybe too much reading into things for everyone.

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