"What happened to that brand new armor that perverted old Wizard gave you?" "Well, while exploring the Pits of Despair, those old ruins below ground, I was grabbed by this massive tentacle. I dropped my sword down the bottomless chasm and the elder being the tentacle was attached to swallowed me whole. Luckily, I had that dagger blessed by the Cleric Thanatos. I used it to cut my way out of the elder being. By the time I climbed back out of the chasm from the perch the elder being was living on, and washed myself off in a pool of water, every stitch of what I was wearing dissolved. I had to walk back to town with only the dagger, and it melted along the way. This stuff, I scrounged from my treasure vault." "*snicker* So that's why you asked me to join you in a treasure raid? What? Don't want to pay the old pervy wizard in flesh?" ***** I rendered this a few times, experimenting with light and the skydome (otherwise, I'd have cropped it out)...but darn it, I got the sky dome to work and provide light in Reality. Even if things are still noisier than I'd like, figured I'd post this one and next will be the Iray version. I'm still having fun with the silly concept of barbarian warriors in skimpy "armor" standing alongside a much more clothed woman, clad in full armor -- though let's be honest, the breast cups are pure fantasy. And my civilized woman is just as much tongue and cheek as the barbarian woman.