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Nyara: "You're... Sorry?"

Gurval: "Mm-hmm. You're heading to the surface, right?" (picks Nyara up in his center mouth) "If so, you took a wrong turn. It's back this way to the top."

Nyara: "Woah! Wait, what? Are you... Who are you?"

Gurval: "Gurval. Say, do they still use the Julian calendar on the surface?"

Nyara: "I, uh... Well, ah, sort of. We don't, but the Gregorian calendar is just a slight improvement over the Julian."

Gurval: "Ah. So you can tell me what year it is? Does the date have a comma yet?"

Nyara: "Ah..." (nods) "Oh it -- it very much does. Just over twice that long into it.

Gurval: (stops) "So... Two thousand years in?" (sits) "Wow, I've missed a lot." (starts wagging his tail) "But you'll bring me up to speed, right Master?"

Nyara: "I... Master?"

Gurval: "Sure. Is that not why you opened my tomb? To get me out of it?"

Nyara: "I... Buh... Wait, does... Does that mean there is no Treasure of Gurval?"

Gurval: (heads tilt) "Huh?" (pause) "Oh. We'll bet we know what happened." (laughs) "You found one of our last master's journals and translated it to 'My Treasure of Gurval'." (shakes his heads) "But it's not the Treasure of Gurval. It's 'My Treasure, Gurval'." (smiles) "That's what he used to call us."

Nyara: (frowns) "Oh."

Gurval: "So..." (wags their tail)

Nyara: "Sure. I'll be your master."

Gurval: "Thank you!" (slurps her face)

Nyara: "Oi. Okay, calm down." (sigh) "I, uh... Guess you'll want me to tell you what's changed in the world? There's a lot of it."

Gurval: "Does everyone still use a great big public latrine where they all shit in front of each other?"

Nyara: "Um... No?"

Gurval: "Then it's looking good."

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A.I. is weird. First, it'll generate an absolutely amazing character reference from just a description on its first try. Then it'll fail a hundred times to put that character in a single position.

Such was the case with Nyara and Gurval. It nailed the character references, but when I thought it would be cute to have Gurval pick Nyara up in one of his mouths and use another one to lick her face... Well, then even "three heads" started to make it struggle.

Luckily,  littleraccoondemon was able to do what A.I. could not. And I reiterate my stance: A.I. art will NEVER replace artists.

Nyara and Gurval are © myself.

Original artwork by  littleraccoondemon. Please favorite the original here.