I can easily say this.... screwed! I always knew that snake was a cheater!

Hey now! I don't cheat! Those extra cards are... Uh... Hmmm... My rules are just slightly different!

Oh yes I totally believe you... NOT

His chances were never high, but hey who wouldn't use his extra limbs if you got a pair to get an advantage

A literal definition of "winner takes all" >.>
Lovely work as usual, the prospect of a follow-up pleases me to say the least :3

Wonder what becomes of the losers Once the game is over? XD Seriously XD

And Epic work on this. XD

He's oddly confident for a guy who is surrounded by the squirming peers who lost o.o'...awesome work abet very eerie.

Very nice; love the way this came out. I've got to thank skiefire for getting the commissions and, of course, you for the way this came out. It seems like Skie and Aeto are beginning to have a bit of a running conflict. Luckily (for me, at least), the outcomes tend to always lean the same way. :)

Oh my! Quite the New Years pic there. >:3 sly snakes are always cheaters but then again that's the best part.

now thats a nice way to use a pair of extra arms and a snake dont cheat the just have different! rules , and its a very nive pic

YESSSSSSS

this hand will beat all the rest (slaps it on table).......looks at yours...... O-o oh crums

Awesome idea :D

I really love the bulges of the other losers, very awesome take on winner takes all hehe

Yeah, I noticed that. Totally makes the pic and sets up for the next page. :o

Semms like just like the other competitors this one is... *Puts on sunglasses* .... Going all in~
YEEEEAAAHHHH~!

OOoooomf... Very, -very- lovely job on colors and bulges and -everything-. :)

Great pic.
Hope it doesn't mean a permanent residence for the losers though.

"i`m going all in!"
"Yes you are..... "

Well, I can figure out where the lion dragon is going, anyway.

Do the other players get to eat the snake if they somehow win? If not, what prize is being offered that makes them risk their lives in a poker game?

They get to live, maybe? Implying that they didn't know about this little wrinkle, going in. Also, they'd get the money.

Well, the lion dragon definitely knows what's going on, as he's seen two people get eaten. "I get to eat you if you lose" means there must be a heck of a reward if they do win. Of course, if this is a setting where prey reform, getting eaten isn't as bad.

It's funny... Just the other night, I was thinking to myself, "why would someone enter that game?"

I figured, even in a non-reforming universe (which I admit to preferring for my characters), "I'll cover all your buy-ins. Total pot is five million, and nobody's allowed to cash out as long as I'm playing. If you are eliminated, you are, of course, Eliminated" just might you get a few players every month, knowing they can "Beat The System."

And like everyone else, each of his hands gets a card! It's only fair, right? :)

I'm sure you would get a good crop of homeless people and the like with that offer, but the lion dragon looks like an upper class sort. Similarly, I don't see him as a condemned criminal who has to win or die. It's still a nice picture, but one has to wonder what the rationale behind the game is.

Very true... That being said, it's not uncommon for people of means to end up with gambling addictions, winding up in debt way over their heads, because they are well enough off to get the credit. Perhaps that's a rationale: "Mr. Skie... You owe us a lot of money. I'll be glad to excuse the debt, let you go on your way, IF you win a game of poker against me." It's at least a possibility.

It's always tricky trying to explain why vore can happen in a civilized setting. If there's no law against it society can easily descend into anarchy. If there is a law then you have to explain the exceptions that allow it to happen. Is it a secretive predator who has yet to be caught? Is it criminals being fed to preds as punishment or for the entertainment of the masses? It does make writing vore stories in civilized settings a bit trickier. 83

Yeah. I love those sorts of thought games. Blood sport certainly is a viable option in the writing, as are "above the law" sorts of options (the predators are a minority who end up in power, and regardless of what the law says, what's enforced is rather one-sided). Another one which I think works is that people can voluntarily put themselves "in jeopardy," into a situation where they know a predator is just waiting to take them. For example... a high-stakes poker game. :)

I'm reminded of a Tales from the Crypt episode where two poker players played a game of chop-poker. They so wanted to beat the other that even after one player had won a hand he passed on the option to get a finger sewed back on just so he could take one of the opposing player's fingers :P

Skie is, lets say, unable to die. Or at least stay dead. His presence at the game attracts other patrons to the backroom game, as they see him enter and leave and assume not everyone loses.

He genuinely tries to win, as the winner keeps the pot which the naga re-plays each time (as he plays the game not for monetary gain), but the odds are stacked towards the snake so heavily that only sheer random chance allows that to happen. But when it does, it pays handsomely, so he keeps playing his part in the charade.

Aeto and Skiefire in a commission together.. and NOT as giant serpent-types, in some kind of battle?!?!? D:

Seriously though, this is totally awesome. :}===<

Actually, this isn't the first time they've appeared together... Or even the second. Well, it's the second time Aeto and Skie have, but Skie also got to play with the demon once, or was that what you were referring to in your comment?

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/6716978/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/6818326/

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/6932712/

Alas, Skie's snake and Aeto have never met. I do have something in mind with his dragon and the snake, though, that may come into existence soon enough....

I was mostly kidding, but within that joke, I meant that I was disappointed that there still wasn't a picture of SnakeSkie and Aeto together (as you said in the last line of your comment).

This probably does need to happen at some point!

Not probably, totally! >:}===<

I am intrigued!

Missed one! Though I can't remember this either, heh!

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/9280777/

Hmmm. I've never actually seen that one before. :)

And the think I was commenting on ended up being the one with Skie, the snake, and the boar. The original concept had the dragon, but it morphed a bit. Hopefully, it will be done soon, too!

Hmmmm one would say you cheat to have meals...so why is it people still join you at the table.

Looks like the final two after a long competition. Wonder if it's always the snake who gets to cash in the winnings after each person is eliminated or if there's some other way to determine who gets... who :)

I love every detail of this picture! Amazing detail and shading, it's just spot on!

I just realized this picture reminds me of the poker scene from the movie In Time (I'm sure there are plenty of other references that could also be made). The main character in that movie was playing for years of life, he was from the lower class so he knew what it was like to be close to death and this in turn made him appreciate life more - this also allowed him to take what would be considered insane risks by the rest of the cast. The wealthy gentleman he was playing against was never really risking his own life, the years he lost in the poker match were really nothing so what brought him to the table? Boredom. He didn't need the winnings but it was exciting to get it that way and made life more fun.

Here you've got the snake who could probably just as easily hunt his prey, he looks so large and powerful that he probably wouldn't have a problem keeping himself fed. But playing for it with willing victims and giving them an actual chance to succeed and thwart him? That must seem intriguing, exciting, different from a more natural hunt. The dragon/lion probably sees this as a challenge, exciting - like so many young adventurers do who have little experience and thus little fear of failure/death. It's what this has brought the two of them together both thinking they'll succeed but maybe a little part of both secretly hoping for or fearing failure - and that gives the game its flavor :D

Although I'm behind on the posting of this I just had to comment. I love the image, as well as the little bit of lore that was added in the comments.

Glad you enjoyed!

Is there a link to part 2 that works? The link currently being used is broken :/

It's not broken, I guess you just have your mature filter on.

Look at all those lumps...
This Naga has been challenged a lot.