Get ready for some action.

Intense here.

Oo, a nice bit of heavy shadows and lighting, not often seen quite that way from you?..

Couldn't they just wait until after the ceremony to sneak in...?

Nice job on the details in the pic

of course not! what gold seeking murder-hobo adventurers wait until AFTER the gigantic evil demon is summoned for world domination to loot the chamber?

Because even gold-seeking murder-hobo adventurers realize that you can't spend your ill gotten gains if the world gets destroyed.

Excellent piece totally, the characters look awesome and this all fits really well together, nice classic fantasy adventuring idea as well as the cult's statue is really nicely done too. Looks simply fitting ^^

This scene vaguely reminds me of the 'orgy' scene from Conan, where they're all sneaking around getting ready to wreck that tea party :D

She couldn't read him. Pandora looked at the large wolf-man and eventually knew why she did not like him. The concept of money seemed to be just as alien to him as the concept of honor. Those two were the usual keys to unlock the men she was dealing with; bribery or toying with their oh-so-pure honor. One of the two would always work. Well... there was a third key, too. But the outcome of using it was something she could not predict with this wolf man - and the vixen wouldn't play the sex card without being able to predict the result. The bite of the smoke from the fire below made her crinkle her nose. Of course it was foolish to partner with someone she had no control over. Then again it would have been even more foolish to try this heist without two or even better three helpers. All she had now was this "Grimm".

His dark fur shifted as he flexed his muscles. His eyes were fixed on the movements of the cultist below. For almost twenty minutes vixen and wolf had been waiting and suddenly Mr. "I lead, you follow" (Pandora almost laughed by the thought that she would not have been surprised had he forced her to expose her neck as sign of her submission to him, when they first met) was finally willing to make the move? And then she saw it. Indeed, the cultist were shifting into a formation around the giant statue that would make it impossible for them to...

Grimm did not even turn his head to check if she knew where he expected her to land after the leap down. He didn't have to and the thought crossed her mind that while she could not read him he was very capable of reading her. She didn't like him. But he sure was damn effective. And... if things should go South she could still leave him behind to cover her escape. And if everything would work accoriding to plan... there... was still the option to pull key three. She hated closed locks.


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I very much like the outcome of this YCH :)

Thank you very much.

I should add that this story are just my personal thoughts and in no way canon to how rjbartrop might or might not see Pandora.

You got a brother?

http://youtu.be/6zXDo4dL7SU

Part Indiana Jones part Jackie Chan. I assume a big fight will begin once they drop in?

Statue based on the one on the old AD&D Player's Handbook?

Oh, you mean this one here? http://goo.gl/bdkE2h

And I was thinking the whole time... damn, that statue looks familiar.

MMmhmmm

Yep a little bit AD&D, a little Conan the Barbarian, though I added more shiny stuff for our "heroes" to pry off. This is one of your more upscale death cults.

D&D senses tingling... The statue shall be picked clean first... probably after the cultists are exterminated... depends on how aware they are... Then later the location of the temple is sold for further profit after the majority of everything not bolted down is taken...

And don't forget slicing ope the bodies of the cultiests on the off chance they swallowed some gems.

Yes, I spent way too much of my youth in front of that cardboard screen.

I don't know what's worse; the fact that I thought "why didn't I think of that", or the fact that I thought it was a good idea.

How about that there were DMs who encouraged their players to mutilate the bodies of their enemies through the use of gem-swallowing monsters?

Well, in all fairness, it's not all that different in MMOs. Kill a wolf, get six gold. How? Don't ask, don't tell. Gotta keep that E rating. I had the DMs that would kill off your character if they didn't like what you were doing. Not that it worked. They sent the Tarrasque (to kill me), wound up killing the entire party (except for me), and I harvested the Tarrasque to make armor out of. Very OP, unbalanced, and game breaking armor.

Do you want to live forever?

As an ex-member of an evil cult, not to mention an appreciator of fine (and in this case furry) artwork, I thoroughly approve.

AMAZING!