The story continues from my previous render... Kenta, wolf and I came to where Miho was looking at the machinery. She was deep in thought. She looked towards and said we need to get answers from him, pointing to the temporarily paralyzed bad guy still seated on the chair. She had a mischievous look and that meant this poor guy was not going to like what was going to happen one bit. She told Kenta in orc tongue what she planned to do and what Kenta would have to do. So we walked over to the bad guy on the chair and I tied his hands behind his back with a rope I had found. Then I climb onto the container and lifted the guy by his feet until he was dangling upside down (I could do so because of the special suit Miho had created for me). The guy still could not move a muscle and could not open his eyes.... and I could only imagine the terror he was feeling now having been dangled upside down without a clue as to who or what was doing this to him and what was about to come next. We could hear his heart pounding very fast. He then felt a huge hand on the back of his head as Kenta grabbed his head and his heartbeat grew even more faster and louder. Miho told Kenta where to press to de-paralyze the guy and he did do. And immediately the guys eyes popped open and focused on this ferocious and ugly green face with huge teeth looking down straight at him... he tried to scream in terror but no sound came out... His eyes darted everywhere... He then noticed Miho, the wolf and me but his mind was still struggling to comprehend this ugly green brute of a creature who was staring down at him. He just could not take his eyes of Kenta. I was translating for Kenta as Miho spoke to the bad guy. I had forgotten to pack extra universal language translators that Miho had created and well, that was not the only thing I had forgotten to pack on this hurried trip. And I cursed himself for missing out on small details like this that Miho would have never missed. Miho - "You have invaded his home and he and his kind are not happy." Bad Guy - "I.... I.... I...." Miho - "In fact here they cook and eat their enemies they capture. He says he specially likes to snack on muscular, fat free enemies like you." The bad guy's eyes almost popped out of their sockets and in a hoarse voice he screamed "Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"... On queue Kenta, grinned at him and licked his lips... Kenta to Miho (in orc tongue) - "My queen, do you think we will be able to stop these 'humans' from destroying this place and killing my kind ?" Miho to Kenta - "Yes, I believe that. I will put an end to this and make sure it never happens again." Miho to the bad guy - "He is describing to me how he will garnish you". Kenta to Miho - "My queen, I am really worried about the others reaching the villages." Miho to Kenta - "I understand. Why don't you go back to them and gather all of them in the most remote village ? That way it will buy us time." Miho to the bad guy - "He is describing to me how they love to slow cook their enemies alive... according to him that given the best taste". The bad guy's eyes got even bigger... I thought to myself it was not possible.... I have never seen eyes get this big.... The bad guy to Miho stammering - "I.... I... I.... wi....ll d....o anything... any.....thing... Don't le... le... let hi....m coooo.... oook and eeeeeeeeeat me" Kenta brought his face right next to the guy's and started to smell him.. The bad guy to Miho stammering - "W.... wha.... what is he do... do.. ing ?" Miho to Kenta - "Go now. I, Rajib and the wolf will handle things here. We will find the other groups and take care of them". Kenta to Miho - "Thank you my queen." Miho to the bad guy - "He thinks you smell yummy and will taste yummy too." The bad guy to Miho stammering - "I... I... I..." Kenta let go of the bad guy's head, turned around and left. Once he disappeared into the woods, he broke into a run. The bad guy to Miho stammering - "Wh... wh... whe... where... i... i.... is... he... go.... go.... going... ???" Miho to the guy - "To bring the ingredients and the utensils to cook you." The guy to Miho stammering - "I ... I... wi... wi... will... do... do... do.... a...a....aaaaaaanything... a...ny....thing... P...l...e...a...s...e... s...a...v..e.. me..." Miho turned towards me and signaled. I lowered the guy to the ground.... "Talk" she said "or I will help him cook you !". The guy started talking immediately... He did not need to be asked any question, he knew exactly what was expected.... It turned out they were from a company called "T2 Mining Company" which Miho knew from her hacks of The Corporation's systems that it indirectly owned this company. They were on their way to the Antarctic. One of their competitors had found huge mineral and ore deposits. Their spies in that company had managed to get the closely guarded secret and hence they were being sent there to extract the minerals and ores before their competitor could. On the way they were caught in a storm that seemed to be coming in from all sides.... Miho knew that matched her first experience with this mysterious island. The storm had gotten closer and closer until they were all thrown around mercilessly as though they were inside a spinning washing machine. When it stopped, they found their ship beached in the shallow waters near this island. They could not figure out where they were as none of the navigation equipment seemed to work. Also their satellite and radio communications were not working. The ship had suffered some major damages which would take them days if not a week or two to repair. The boss on the ship was a no nonsense guy and he did not like to waste any time. So he divided the crew of 30 into 2 parties of 15 each. One to explore the island and look for minerals and ores on the island and the other to fix and repair the ship. Luckily for them all the machinery and equipment had been tied down very well to handle the rough seas they were expected to face and had survived the storm more of less intact. So they off loaded the mining equipment and the armored personnel carriers into mini inflatable barges to take them ashore. The boss told the off-shore party to break up into 3 groups of 5 each and go and explore the island and scan for minerals and ores. They all had heard rumors of what had happened to people who disobeyed commands given by bosses in this company. So no one said anything and they simply obeyed him. They had bulldozed through the jungle killing anything and everything they encountered. They were all shocked to see animals and birds they had never seen before and just did not want to take any chance.... Miho's vein in her forehead started to throb when she heard that... Her anger was building up. She looked at me and that told me we needed to find the other 2 teams ASAP. At least following them will not be hard as they had left a trail of destruction behind them to follow. Miho again touched the bad guy in his head and this time he slid into blackness as he lost his consciousness. We carried him and the other 3 unconscious men to the armored personnel carrier and locked them in. They all would be unconscious until Miho woke them up again. Miho said we needed to split up. She asked me to go back to the hyper plane and protect the orc villages from air while she and the wolf followed the trail of destruction to the other 2 teams. I regretted that I had forgotten to pack the drones too that we could have easily used to locate the 2 groups and I cursed myself again. Miho said it was okay and not to worry about it. We parted ways with me running towards the hyper plane and Miho and the wolf running towards the other 2 groups. The story will continue form the next render...

Well this one was the render after which I had to give up rendering last year because of the computer issues. But this time it rendered without any issues. The Orc's and Miho's textures have been modified plus their costume textures, in fact for Miho this is the latest texture I was working on that I mentioned in my last render (still have some tweaks pending). Something different than what I used in the last 2 renders. The highlights on this one is very much controlled.Looks more natural I think. I will probably re-render the other 2 with this new skin texture and replace the images. The lighting has changed a bit to better light Miho's skin texture. I also removed the hair from the guy's head as in the previous render he did not have hair under the cap. Added a fallen chair and the boots to show where the 3 men Miho had knocked out were lying on the ground, moved the fallen cap of the guy hanging upside down and added the orc's axe on the chair where the bad guy was napping. Other than that it is some or less the same as the previous version of it. The next render for this story I will probably make a multi panel one like I wanted to do last year. This render even though is supposed to be heavier than the last one because of the wolf and it's fur plus the texture I am using on the wolf's fur, it rendered in 15 minutes. I think something went wrong with the skin textures of one of the 3 guys I had added to the previous render. Generally Octane and IRAY are not compatible as far as the materials go as IRAY uses MDL and Octane uses OSL or it's own proprietary shader. So the conversions from DAZ IRAY MDL to Octane materials always have problems. Hence my habit of doing all material modification within Octane (which is also the reason why if Octane fails for me, I cannot switch to a IRAY render) which I had not done for the 3 guy's skin materials. Hopefully as nvidia has recently open sourced MDL, Otoy will add support for it in Octane. Then DAZ IRAY materials will work as is in Octane. Well, for now that is a pipe dream..... If you would like to compare this with the earlier render, here is the url : https://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/fat-free-snacks/2844581/?p&ca PS: Just re-rendered it and uploaded it again. Had been working on Miho's skin material and was getting better results.

Shavonne Hair for Genesis 3 Female(s) and Male(s) @ Daz - Miho's hair Wise Sensei for Genesis 3 Male(s) - Miho's scandal Orc HD for Genesis 8 Male @ Daz - Kenta Wild Wind for Genesis 3 Female(s) @ Daz - Miho's outfit Kadis - Ancient Legendary Armor, Weapons and Poses for Genesis 3 Female(s) @ Daz - Miho's jewelry Vinnuth Kriegor Battle Mega Armor for Genesis 8 Male(s) @ Daz - Orc's outfit Leviathan Suit for Genesis 8 Male(s) @ Daz - My Sci-fi suit Wolf 2.0 by AM @ Daz Sci-fi Rover trailer @ Daz SciFi Crates and Containers Vol 1 @ Daz Stargazer Props @ Daz - Chair Army Uniform for Genesis 3 Male(s) and Genesis 2 Male(s) @ Daz - Mercenary's outfit and cap Tied Up! Genesis 3 @ Daz - Rope Poseable Trees with Ivy @ Daz - Trees EM - Aspen Billboards And Forests @ Daz - Forest billboard used to cover the background. EArkham's ZWorld Broken Road @ Daz - Ground Soil_Dirt_pjExP0 @ quixel.com/megascans - Ground texture HDRI @ www.hyperfocaldesign.com

I just updated this with the following changes : - My latest version of Miho (V2019.05) with my latest improved custom skin shader. - Miho's hair with my latest improved custom hair shader. - Orc's skin - added SSS - Orc's outfit - some material changes to his outfit. - 'My' sci-fi suit. I changed it to blue instead of the original red texture and changed the metallic finish. - Added more DOF effect by using a bigger aperture on the camera. - Added custom material to the trees. - Added a sweat effect on the mercenary's Tee Shirt by using a ridge fractal node as power for the diffuse texture in Octane and also used an invert of that as the specular power. - Changed his skin to make it look like he is sweating. - Better HDRI lighting.