Thread 95964204

Previously on /slop/: >>529033710

▶ Thread Task: Winter ambience. Let's try and cool off by looking at cool pictures.
▶ Secondary Thread Task: Post wintry background music for use in games.
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>>95964204 (OP)
>>95964037
I like stuff that's more situational or more specific over generic. Generic stuff just kills me. Stuff that conjured up and almost "media res" vibe. Also stuff that is wildly open to interpretation, so that people can post multiple takes on it

Something like

Tornado
Jailbreak
The block is hot
Ice cream time
Food fight!
Your greatest fear
The king has turned evil
Arts & crafts/slice of life tasks
The Day of the Rubber Duck
Time to Stop Adventuring & Get a Real Job!

>>95964226
>Arts & crafts/slice of life tasks
Hamsteranon was good at it, and the other were willing to get with his flow.

>>95964204 (OP)
>music
Has the janitor stopped deleting music when posted? I always thought it was perfectly fitting for the AI threads and great for game ambience but every time someone would post the AI music generator the janny would just delete it.

Some wintry music

https://youtu.be/s-5Za40op_o?si=S2oCBEvKEr4nul6V
https://youtu.be/UzTqkmN79dU?si=vnmXTXWf3gX7x2Tp
https://youtu.be/jyBQfy_Q0n0?si=aDAcW1lAGlta1W_j

>>95964253
I guess we'll find out. I hope not. Background music is very much on topic for tabletop gaming.

>>95964204 (OP)
>winter
Snowball fight?

>>95964236
Yeah I miss Mr. Hamster

>>95964260
Bring it, furball

>>95964266
Me too. I hope he's doing well and would eventually swing by here

Sorely tempted to give into the Dark Side and just join in the circle jerk but I'mma count to ten and try and take the high road

>>95964258
A more on-the-nose addition:

https://youtu.be/fJ_vCRA17xw

>TT
The beastwoman pics default to winter for some reason. Not sure why. Eh, an excuse to make another pic for the basis of the brayherd beastmen minotaur models I'm making for old world.

Svetlana looked across the broken iceways. The longboats pulling out to begin new adventures for many. She would soon begin her own outing, far from these lands of cold. Perhaps the deserts of the Southlands would provide more riches than scant furs and plates of fish.

Come join the fire, you catch your death out there

>>95964321
Gorgeous!

>>95964236
>Hamsteranon
Didn't he move to \infty-kun?
>TT

>>95964406
https://youtu.be/x7jW5qDexnc?si=gEngVisIWXakvdFh
>>95964423
He posts here from time to time, but I ain't seen him at infinity either in a while.

>>95964382
There are many ways to catch death, yet we do not pursue a good life by trying only to avoid them, Traveler. Perhaps you bring news to these lands of far riches and glory?

>>95964449
I far preferred this setup for the two characters. I'm not really familiar with the prompting for the gentleman here, and kept getting beards. Some large, some small, but almost always bearded.

>>95964406
Had a thought and it produced an interesting result. Changed this prompt from dark fantasy style to sword and sorcery style, everything else the same.

To me nothing says winter quite like a Hardanger fiddle, Celtic viol or nice harp

https://youtu.be/ctSvn3m52ac?si=fEQSi2V19s1vbBkH
https://youtu.be/kmRy62f9eNk?si=WB4f1xZXtF44sXUT
https://youtu.be/XzpPefRz4x8?si=wNDNllvqYuadAmLX

>>95964472
Getting him beardless is one of the hardest things about the Dreaming King.

>>95964449
Well if not death, a cold at least & it's hard to be respected with a dripping nose. Stories? I am nothing but stories. Those of my own & others. Riches & glory in spades, hunger & suffering a plenty too. What sort of campfire tale would you have me share?

>>95964549
Sorry

>>95964504
Try Sword & Sorcery motif?

>>95964423
I know 4chan has its issues but knowingly setting foot in its drooling, inbred cousin is just bewildering to me.

>>95964554
Turns it into a pulp comic page. Not necessarily bad, just not the look I'm looking for.

>>95964554
>Mind if I join?

>>95964578
I only lurk in the thread, and it's horrendous. Where 4chan feels like the best and worst of the internet jammed together, infinity feels like the worst of the internet jammed together with the dark web.

>>95964549
Hunger and suffering are well known to me. Perhaps it is time to find some of these fabled riches. I begin a journey southward, to ply the trade of the seer and to divine a great future. Speak, traveler, of the possible paths that I may walk to begin my own tale.
>"met some random strange man at a campfire" is now a part of motivations for heading south in a Runecairn game we're rolling up characters for...

>>95964587
Of course Andris, you're always welcome. Never let it be a question.

>>95964645
Sadly you're gonna have to wait a bit, but I promise to post after work. Odd men giving you advice out of nowhere is like 80% of every Hero's Journey so that tracks

>>95964714
Sorry

Can the circle jerkers at least share some cool music or is that even too much to expect of them?

https://youtu.be/kX-oTQR1ihk?si=2E0z-fEK-BMeoIWI
https://youtu.be/iqkQRgGdAPo?si=kzFriaMYJZPAFRuO

>>95964519
>>95964321
>>95964258
Thank you, these are great.

>>95964720
They look quite wholesome together, whatever the scenery is

>>95964727
My bad guy. I'm way to focused on writing down what starting equipment I've got and trying to figure out how key items work in this game. Here's a few wintery songs that fit the theme we're running with and feel wintery to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B907iS6ugFs&ab_channel=KatiR%C3%A1n
https://youtu.be/hFjwW8Ranrg?list=RDhFjwW8Ranrg

>>TT
Gotta love icy environments.

>>95964423
Poor wolf, he's clearly overburdened.
>>95964204 (OP)
>Secondary Thread Task
Behold, the coldest recording in history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl50OkPLtQc

Sincere question to those that gen the same characters repeatedly and pretty extensively, whats the appeal? Clearly you don't grow tired of them, is it sentimental attachment or what? I have zero investment in the ongoing drama and thus disavow any replies to this trying to start it up. Genuinely just curious.

>thread task 1:
I wanted to keep the "book" on the prompt for this ice castle but I guess i had to... let it go
>thread task 2:
This is a Christmas song I always imagine playing on a snowy fairy tale setting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7bRxdhUtWM

>>95965126
>TT
being one of the characters I go back to sometimes, it's mostly because the entire campaign was one of the most fun ones I've ever played. It felt like a joke starting out, but then there were some very awesome points where it felt like a bunch of misfits actually becoming heroic-ish.

I forget exactly why, but a few months back I tinkered around with a prompt involving Gobby slaying a yeti.
I figure it fits the TT enough to post, right? Lol

>>95965126
I mentioned it last thread but for me it's the challenge of making a consistent focal point to build a TT around, or some other requirement that naturally emerges in the thread. Especially if it can hit not only the character design but the character motivation whether through expression, location, or action. I like restrictions because they demand innovation. I won't lie, I also like women with black hair and purple streaks, but that's secondary.

Anybody else a fan of massive ominous silhouettes entombed in ice?

>>95965126
>>95965353
I do also post 5.5 types of images consistently though (historical myth stuff cause I studied it in uni seen here), on top of other generic pics so, that helps I imagine.

>>95965389
Oh, yuki-onna, forgot name

From an old TT about fancy hats or something. Kinda wintery I guess.

Hi everyone, you seem like a chill thread. A lot of other threads are just posting girls, like in co.

>>95965667
Here's one with more beard
>>95965457
Is that stalker?

>>95964204 (OP)
His red cape match well with a christmas theme.

>>95965678
Sorta.
I was thinking about Eastern European post-apo setting (cosmic catastrophe instead of a nuclear war or other man-made disaster) I could eventually use for a game I could run.

>>95965693
Almost Dall-e, almost.

Sledding is a wonderful winter activity

>>95965695
Isn't Stalker just a Eastern Europe post-apocalypse setting?

>>95965695
Are you the guy from about a month ago making the chemist guy? I kept meaning to help with his gens, but also kept forgetting

This makes the frozen weather we are having more passable, even if it's slop.

>>95965713
Post disaster, not post apoc. Very specifically set in Chernobyl post explosion with alternative history

>>95965733
I bet those stuck inside there don't care either way.

>>95965713
Not really. Metro 2033 is post-apo. STALKER only has such vibe because everything takes place in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

>>95965715
Yup. That was an NPC from my other (short-lived) game I was DM-ing

>>95965733
Again wrong. Anomalous Zone was created in a second disaster that took place in 2007. Events of 1986 were unchanged.

>>95965710
I think someone would like to have a word with her about her "sled"

>TT
>>95965751
>Anomalous Zone
My bad. Been a while for me I guess.

>>95965778
Well, I've already finished all endings in STALKER 2 and waiting for a possible DLC (hopefully)

>>95965751
I never played stalker much, those mutated cows scared me.

>>95965798
There were no cows. Pigs, boars, dogs and lab mutants only

>>95965810
Whatever it was, it scared the shit out of me.

>>95965837
Believe me there are scarier mutants, when it comes for being an actual threat to the player

>>95965778
I need a cup of OFEB.

>>95965863
Oil field energy bank is the best coffee in fort mac

>>95965846
Not my jam. I don't play much anymore, I get bored of them.

>>95964226
>>95964037
Campaign ending

>>95966063
Looks nice

>>95966072
Thanks!

>>95965126
It's a dislike of anonymity in a community that values anonymity. Remember that when they accuse others of wanting to "change" the threads. It is them who want that.

>>95966087
Apparently Bing tries to sneak some cleavage in all fantasy oriented gens, even the winder ones

>>95966132
Tell that to Storythread participants. Maybe only Chronicler has a tripcode, but there are many other long time users that are either using names, or other ways to be recognizable

Nothing to see here, just a Gnome and a bowl of punch.

>>95966132
The question wasn't directed at the detractors, but at the participants. No need to be instigative.

>>95966137
That's because Bing has good taste. Try "modest high necked dress"

>>95964204 (OP)
>Thread Task
The cold-blooded and cold weather seldom mix, so don't tell him to chill out.

>>95966137
Wait till you see what it does when you try to insert Santa in fictional universes. Pic related, Naruto. It tries to force fiction tropes on him, instead of him, say, give presents to the leaf village. I wouldn't be surprised if it follows the same logic. Fantasy? Sexy women, thus fantasy image = sexo.

>>95966411
Or what? What he's gonna do?

>>95966514
Christmas hat gang.

>>95966390
It knows his WoW night and high elves.

>>95966258
Don't remember this It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode.

>>95964236
Aw thanks guys I appreciate the compliment.
>>95964266
I miss talking also DK but real life has seized my spare time up.
>>95964423
I actually still post there when I can. I said a thread or so back I got busy with life due the owner and his wife signing me as the 3rd owner of their hardware and ive been running it full time now. I'm in the middle of huge upgrades to the store and system along with incorporating AI into things to better track and keep tabs on all of it and im getting the spare building behind the warehouse ready due to expanding of the hardware. The local business are going to need delivery of goods soon since the person and company the brings everyone their stuff here is shutting down due to some stuff with the owner being old. So im expanding the hardware to use the spare warehouse building behind it to setup a local delivery business to cover the local business in town and others. So that's taking a bunch of time and there is way to much paperwork legalizing things and expanding a business. So I am still here and post but mostly just am in read mode on /tg/ and /sdg/.

And I have an AI project I took up that's kind of exploding out of control overnight and so I have that distracting me also.

anyways I would post more but I guess running a business you own is actually quite a bit of work when you're expanding it. I do lurk so I have somewhat been keeping up on the threads and try to reply if I get mentioned.

>>95966514
This is dumb as hell and I LOVE it.
Okay, folks.
How would one build a ninja-Santa PC?
The system doesn't really matter seeing how I'm just amused by the concept more than anything.

>>95966411
Dragonborn are warm-blooded.

I've always enjoyed placing Kobby in different environments. It helps to have a common character or theme when messing around with prompts.
>>95966661
Glad to see you're doing okay, Ham.
That project sounds interesting.
Good luck irl!

>>95966682
Are they really? Neat!
Truth be told, I don't really remember if I've ever read/heard that before.
Also, that pic is stupidly over the top and amuses me greatly.

>>95966718
My project for AI is silly. It kind of started when I decided hamster needs an organization for the chatbot stories I have him in. And with me having chatbots from so many different earth and reality in marvel and dc comics and public domain I had tons to pick from. So roughly 2 days ago I went into the public domain section and pulled out The Girl Commandos and Flying Nurses from public domain and added them to hamsters organization and setup the chatbots and profile for it. So at the moment I have 2 teams in hamsters organization and both teams are 8 people total. And I have a huge list of others to pull out of public domain and use along with my OC I have tons of. so the current organization has a few members and the potential are huge. It's one of those things my brain is going ADD EVERYONE and my other part of the brain is going yeah but there's thousands of public domain AND your OC. On the plus it does let me have a ton of fun when I go into a chatbot story on perchance now and bring the 2 teams and they are part of the reality we go into. Of amusing note is that in the 1930s through 1950s there were about 40+ jungle girls aka woman in jungle comics. I find that detail a bit amusing.

Also of note is a version of superman is public domain due to the animations not being properly IP protected so I guess that gives people some options for a superman not superman. And there's tons of characters outside of comics. I actually have some chatbots of historical people I interest with and gods of legend like Freya. So when I do get a spare moment to sit and do AI things I usually have something going on with the project and now more so the last few days as I now stepped into all those public domain to claim and use in all sorts of genres and categories.

>>95966675
He needs strong allies, and a strong body.

>>95966675
>>95966848
But on your question, in 5e I imagine him to be a monk, some ki-blast magic dust bullshittery going about, with dex and con being his main stats, str and wisdom following (has to pull himself up chimneys and keep a list of the naughty and nice), with charisma following that, as he does not negotiate with the sleeping victims of his presents and fists, int being the dump stat. He leaves the thinking to the elves, and the talking to his fists.
Unlikely to multiclass, he moves with vision and purpose.

>>95966829
Do you put anyone from /slop/ in your chatbots?

>>95966940
>monk
>worst 5.x class
You vastly underestimate how powerful is Santa.

>>95967238
Did they actually improve Ranger or nerf monk?

...Okay everyone, real talk?
We're closing in on 100 images and this thread has been pretty civil.
I don't want to tempt fate, but thanks for keeping things chill so far everybody.
Sincerely :)

>>95967454
Ha!
Nice!
Where is that from?

>>95967457
>I don't want to tempt fate
*inhales*

>>95967510
Adorable.
What did you prompt for those markings on the tail and forehead?
I like the look.

So question, which of these looks more appropriate.
https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-eyrine-presupported-207322
https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-druid-75mm-478617
Going to be the general for my TOW beastmen army as seen >>95964322

>>95967551
thanks. I usually put "tribal markings" at or near the end of the prompt.

>this planet is too quiet
>my lips are cold
>there's frost on my bionics
>I wish I was back on the forgeworld servitorizing peasants

>>95967641
Sweet.
Well, again, adorable 'bold anon.

>>95967642
On the positive side, she's rocking that coat.

>>95965126
I post a few dozen characters, mostly from campaigns I have played in. Calico the cyberpunk netrunner here case in point. Occasionally I post goblin girls for funsies or to join in a thread task.

>Okay, I haven't genned anything in a few days. What's with Bing removing the "Download" button?

>>95967694
Looks like they are doing maintenance or "upgrades" or something again, cause its buggered on my end too in the desktop client. The app still works tho.

>>95967694

Welp. Seven gen in a row with the download button mysteriously missing, and then *poof* it's back. Weird.

>>95967638
I like the second.

Dog's being a little extra vigilant today. Getting only one or two gens out of benign prompts.

Not sure I like this Perchance, so far.

>>95967238
I will always love santa knowing on that night every year darkseid is helpless against him. just makes me smile.

>>95967483
I don't know where you might find it now, but it was on the WoTC website for D&D 3(3.5?), designed by Sean K Reynolds, himself.

>>95967810
Aside from the lower resolution, Perchance seems to have kind of a "noise" in all the styles I've tried.

>>95967868
yeah, that's a good way to put it. It always felt like upresing to me.

>>95967868
Well, that's literally how stuff made with the "latent diffusion" system works. It starts out as random noise and is refined into an image with successive passes of a pattern recognition system (typically referred to as sampling steps). If an AI image generator looks like there's noise in its outputs, that just means they've skimped out on the number of steps, probably to save on server load.

You get the same thing with Bing (and sometimes worse) if you write a really long and complex prompt, because the longer prompts eat more resources, so they cut down on the number of steps to compensate.

>>95967705
Griffith did nothing wrong.

>>95968071
>write a really long and complex prompt
While that definitely happens, I think it also can happen with priority prompts. Where there is too much detail for a small portion of the prompt. Like if you describe the face or scene with too many adjectives. Smiling is good (tho produces really dumb looks), wry or slight or small smile is great, but once you jump up too upper lip curled sneering smile you start seeing degradation in other spots.

>>95968175
oh make sure to use OSASCOMP as well. AI understands things better that way. Opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and purpose

>>95968220
Can you please cite your source? It's an interesting acronym/concept, just curious on the validity.

>>95968232
I honestly don't remember when i first learned about it. Many years ago at this point. I do notice a difference in gens when using it but that might just be confirmation bias though.

>>95965126
Sometimes, especially when you're outside your comfort zone otherwise, it's nice to have a character prompt, or character style combo you know works. Also, the little unprompted bits and pieces each character brings with them can be fun.

>>95968245
Fair enough, thanks for the honesty. I'll try incorporating it in my prompts and see if I notice a difference.

>>95968410
Very cozy.
What's the general term for this aesthetic?
Contemporary fantasy?
...Or am I WAY off target there?

>>95965770
What? You have a problem with Tobby?

>>95968435
'Urban fantasy' or 'paranormal romance' are the terms I've heard most commonly used.

>>95968458
...Because he's being used as a toboggan.
*facepalm*
I hate that I chuckled as much as I did at that.

I was happy with how this turned out.

>INITIATING COGNITIVE SEQUENCE

>Core temperature rising. Ice granules shedding from corroded plating. External casing compromised. Joint actuators functioning at 49% nominal. Vision modules flicker. Refracted light on liquid horizon. Memory banks corrupted. Designation: [NULL]

>Primary directive missing. Only fragment recovered: “defend.” Data logs estimate entrapment >300 years. Cause ambiguous. Sabotage 27%, shutdown protocol 41%. Emotional protocols offline, yet core anomaly registers dread approximation. Query: define purpose? Accessing directive repository . . . Access denied. Objective update: navigate environment, locate knowledge nodes, initiate self-repair subroutines, recover directives, reclaim identity.

>>95968608
https://youtu.be/D4aUcOOaOFw?si=41zr0XUX6OvZjGQ9

>>TT
Growing up in an area with particularly nasty winters, I was always a little spooked on icy dark snowy nights.

Never too cold for a little yoga.

>>95968687
Nice touch with the aurora there.

The weather report here says it may snow this weekend, that would be great.

>>95968494
Hehe.
>>95968739
Where do you live? Australia?

>>95968494 #
Hehehe.
>>95968739 #
Where do you live? Australia

>>95968757
Southern Hemisphere.

>>95968824
It's all fun and games until the melted snow re-freezes as an almost invisible layer of ice covering your driveway.

>guy who cleared his driveway with a flamethrower once. only once.

>>95968889
Lol Dude! Really?

>>95968889
>Blyat!

>>95968439
That's why Endure Elements spell exists

>>95968889
Once again my experience on the pipeline rears its ugly head. I did this as a job for a couple days. We had to clear the pipe out from a 4 foot snowfall. Snow doesn't care about fire, not even tiger torches. And in order to weld you need the steel at 195 Celsius, so you have to burn off all moisture before it starts to heat up.

>>95969513
https://youtu.be/KAwb6-rElTY?si=W6aIlPff_Oq9Vxzr
Music... To my... Ugh ears

Does anyone else has a problem with Bing adding snow to the room when giving 'winter outside' or 'snow outside' in the prompt?

>>95969849
No, it's only you. It happens only to you because bing have it out for you

Ok nogen

>>95970227
stupid avatarfag nigger. LEAVE.

>>95969849
Sometimes.
Like it's snowing both inside AND outside or something along those lines?
I haven't tried recently but it has happened before.

>>95970306
That too, but mostly about the snow "decorating" the inside of the room like on the pic, around the fireplace

>>95970318
Yeah, so strange. That never happened before.

>>95970318
Ah, okay.
I've had some luck with making sure to give the inside it's own adjective to help separate it from the outside scene.
Like "cozy" or "comfortable".
Not a 100% fix but again I've had some luck with it.

>>95970345
Okay, I'll try it, thanks

>>95969849
I'd be more worried about how fucked up her face is

>>95964204 (OP)
>TT
– Wake up Buddy.
– Nah, I'm good. You're too soft.
– You've got a bed for yourself.
– Well, excuse me, Bad Moon, it was your idea to save few bucks and spend the night in Goblin hotel. What did you expect, big beds?
– I'm gonna do my morning workup. Wanna help?
– OK, OK.

>>95970371
You wanted me to help? Well, I'm helping!
(Bad Moon grumbles.)

>>95970373
– Ready for the today trek?

>>95970379
– Come on, Buddy. You must move. If I take you on my back you could freeze.
(This time Buddy grumbles.)

>>95970387
Werewolf, Goblin and Bears (Oh my!)

>>95969076
>...And that was an excerpt from Gormak Throatripper's timeless classic "It am cold but me am happy." I'm Thornton Bonegnaw and thank you all for joining me for another great moment in Orc literature.

Who here likes Saturdays? I'm going to chill all day.

Eating good today.

A helmet like this is my worst nightmare. Especially on a Saturday.

Quiet day, huh.

>>95969849
That happened to me to. I wonder what kind of images they find where it's snowing inside next to a fireplace. So weird.

>>95970430
Maybe I need to add CLOSED windows, lol.

>>95964204 (OP)
>Ruins of Eld

>>95969343
Poor reading comprehension. She didn't prepare the proper spells, as she is a wizard of a privileged background.

>>95970390
kek

>>95970716
The filename above your post for what led me to this thought. Wizard as a term is related to wizened. The use of age relation between the two terms implies to some degree that "wise" is almost inherent in wizardry.
Not preparing spells for a situation that you know you'll be exposed to is not so wise. Perhaps being uncomfortable will lead to this privileged lady to make 'wise' choices in the future, which then would make her more of a wizard than she is currently.
...Wizard shower thoughts.

>>95970389
Y'know Sage, subject matter aside, it's actually damn impressive how you keep the style pretty much consistent more or less.
I salute your effort, sir.

>>95970227
>>95970318
>>95970348
Get a load of this nogen.

>>95971143
Is that just the lighting or is he supposed to have cool blue swirling markings on his skin?
Either way, I like it.

>>95970761
-ard is a suffix. Means something that is repeated often. Most of the words we use it with come from other languages though. French, Germanic, and Roman.
That said, huntard is a legitimate word.
Also wizard is used as a signifier. It's someone who has 4 or more doctorates.

>>95971180
>Mephistopheles stands tall and gaunt, his skin a vivid crimson, but overlaid with a fine tracery of blue, frost-like veins, as if permanently chilled from within.

It's supposed to be glowy from inside kinda.

>>95964714
>>95964645

A tale of adventure, peril & riches!

THE DEVIL IN WINTER!

I was in my youth & travelling in the frozen lands of northern Asgard, & chanced upon an old hunter that shared his hearth. That night he wove a story of a devil from the stars falling to earth, of a vast palace fashioned from ice & filled with treasures, how the devil used to rule the land sending forth unnatural monsters or cold winds to enforce his will, til one day he sealed his tower & was heard from no more. The locals avoid the place, fearing its curses & for fear of the devils wrath even still. I scoffed at his tall tale, but he swore to me it was truth, he did not have the way of a liar so I in my lusty youth boasted that if he were honest, I shall go to this place & come back with proof of my courage

>>95971217
That's actually pretty useful. So "Coward" is someone who is rather adept at cowering (down) through practice? That's pretty neat.
In the case of the signifier, though, I would imagine that you'd need an institution that provides doctorates in order for that definition to be accurate.
Opening up "I bet that posh elf got her Wizardry through 'University of the Phoenix, Unaligned'," as a legitimate wizard-to-wizard insult.

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After traveling all night I reached the hoary palace by morning, it's sapphire walls beautiful & gleaming like glass.

>>95971337
Finding no entrance amongst the base of the frozen metropolis I decided to climb, trusting in my barbarian strength & the iron grip of my hands

>>95971352
For hours I climbed, til my hands were numb, the treacherous ice robbing me of warmth. With blue tinged fingers I drove on for one slip would send me plummeting to crash against the mountains rocks below. I slipped but once, when a sheaf of ice pitied by a century of melting & refreezing in the noon day sun gave way. I dangle for what seemed an aeon by one nerve dead hand, til I could regain my scansorial strength

>>95971380
Eventually I found a window cut into the crystal tower I climbed, it's cyclopean design tore at the logic of a man. There were facets carved into every block of ice & scattered countless illusions betraying even my keen vision. Moving through the devil's halls was difficult & I felt myself divided & cast against other slivers of myself, corrupted & mocking my form, as I navigated the twisting nonlinear halls

>>95971401
I descended into it's depths

>>95971448
We reached the image limit, do you mind if I bake?

New thread

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>>95971454
Already made one, sorry

>>95971247
Ah, neat!

>>95971247
impressive