Hey look... it's a lost scene from the Mythlands!

“Finally…” Visionary sighed, taking her in his arms. “We’re alone.”

“Why?” Hallie asked in mock innocence, raising an eyebrow. “What might you have in mind, Mr. Pantless Barbarian?”

“Well…” He leaned in and whispered in her ear with a sly smirk.

“Ooooh” the AI responded, fanning herself as she blushed.

“And then maybe…” he continued, his lips brushing up to her earlobe.

“Mmmmmmm…” she approved.

“And afterwards…”

“Oh” the green woman’s eyes grew wide and a smile played at the corner of her mouth. “My.”

He pulled back to grin at her. “So what do you say?”

She sighed. “I say none of that will be happening, since you’re not Visionary.”

“I… wait, what?”

“You’re not Vizh. Oh, you have the basics down pretty good… Dark, confused eyes, mussed brown hair, completely baffled look… but your specular is way off for this lighting. Your muscle structure isn’t stretching and shifting correctly with your movements… It’s more like an animated photograph of a person. See how your irises aren’t contracting as you face the sun? And have you given any thought to subdermal scattering of light? Human skin is partially translucent, you see, so to get it to refract properly you need to allow for light to penetrate layers and blood vessels beneath the surface… And don’t even get me started on the self-shadowing…”

“Hey, wait a minute…” the apparition complained grumpily. “It’s not like I had a lot of time to work on this…”

“Well, it’s just a shoddy effect all around” Hallie sniffed. “I mean, you shouldn’t go showing work unless you’re confident in it. And never make excuses for a portfolio piece like this… They need to speak for themselves.”

Visionary blinked out of sight, only to be replaced by a twisted little gnome who glared up at her through bristly eyebrows. “Yeah, well… you might have seen through my illusions, missy, but to get your companions back you’ll have to speak my…”

“Tom Tit Grigrigredinmenufretin Repelsteeltje Tittelintuure Praseidimio the third” she recited instantly. “You want it backwards, sideways… what?”

The gnome stared at her, mouth agape.

“Photographic memory” she shrugged. “And, um… I may have poked around that tiny cabin I happened upon back in the woods there. Nice engravings album, by the way” she added, with the courtesy to look slightly embarrassed. “So, do you think you could round up the others now? We’re in a terrible rush…”

Post By Visionary found this on his hard drive Tue Sep 26, 2006 at 10:05:22 pm EDT	Subject Hey look... it's a lost scene from the Mythlands!

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