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panel -4: an old covered cauldron with cobwebs, with light falling on it for the first time in years. WE see a human shadow cast by the light upon the cauldron.

panel -3.5: Interior view of cauldron, looking up.

panel -3: the lid is removed, revealing Willow and Larkspur, looking down at the camera.

Larkspur: "What is it?" Willow (passive survival check success): "Looks like food"

panel -2: Lark watches as Willow, with a ladle of the cauldron substance gives it the ol' sniff test. Willow: "Doesn't even smell rotten... But I don't know if it's safe"

panel -1: The cauldron's lid rolls away, revealing the door where they came through. In this brightly lit room, Hickory is making a stew at a camp fire.

panel 0: The Cooking it up with Hickory title hovers over Larkspur, Willow and Hickory as Willow approaches with a bucket of the substance. Hickory, excited: "Elf pudding!"

panel 1: Hickory examines a dollop of the substance close in the foreground, Aster the half-elf reads in background. Hickory: You found elf pudding!? Wow! I've read recipes but I've never truly made any myself.

panel 2: Aster: "*elf* pudding?"

panel 3: Hickory, oblivious to the implications of a food called elf pudding, cheerily replies: "mhm"

panel 4: a beat panel, heightening the contrast between these two crazy characters. What's gonna happen guys?

panel 5: Aster: "Like, was it made by elves, or..."

panel 6: Hickory: "Oh, the name! Yeah! It's made by elves, but they call it Hsepa Balliem or something. The name 'elf pudding' was coined by the other races due to the association and its long shelf life." Aster: "don't interrupt me."

panel 6: Willow: "So it's safe to eat?" Hickory: "Yup!"

The first two-parter, and the first time I had to draw all the members of the Verdant Vanguard (sans Barbar). This is based off of a real elf pudding cauldron we found in a real dungeon, and why we ended up being relatively restrained with pilfering the stuff (1985).

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Verdant Vanguard Hub

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Taken by another fey mood, I drew fan art of an inter-PC relationship. I was inspired by those overburdened Light novel titles that I thought were the fashion, until I looked into it and found this was not necessarily the case? Mine was not the only heart that broke, but this feels important to state.

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A splash screen for the foundry menu I made to celebrate the first anniversary of the Verdant Vanguard. Covers the PCs, the more important NPCs, and some glup shittos.

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I haven't seen the movie, so I'll have to guess the character's names.

Chilchuck the Amazing 3 ft Man is representing Aster Silverquill (the coat felt wizardy) Smiley Deadeyes is representing Willow (long hair). Glaucus the Tosser is here representing Fig Newton (Tall). Springus the aged is here here representing Larkspur (mostly just for how it can be arranged with Hickory) Blebibba the Frightened is here representing Hickory (the anxious disposition) Rosalia looms in the back, expressionless and blue.

you can see in the bottom left corner Barbar the pack donkey.

I guess this is the first image that forces me to acknowledge -- the Rosalia Break. As you will see, Rosalia is sometimes depicted as being a blue bald figure, and sometimes as a pallid brunette. This is what we call the Rosalia break. Essentially, Rosalia's players used a blank character token and we ribbed her for it enough she eventually made an impromptu token in paint, which went on to become the most scintillating piece of art for the whole campaign. I guess there's also a Fig break too, as he goes from being depicted as brown to alabaster, but I think that one happened for absolutely no reason.

we didn't actually kill that many monsters...

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Fan art of the Verdant Vanguard + Deltarune where I drew Hickory as Spanton (troubled fellow with erratic behaviors), Larkspur as Kris (the demure protagonist with the strange cosmic curse), Aster as Susie (the emotional damage dealer) and Fig Newton as Ralsei (the support with a non-violent streak)

I was still learning to put together bodies here. Be honest though, you can't even tell.

Actually, this image contains all the members of the Verdant Vanguard! I just couldn't figure out what to do with Willow or Rosalia, so I made them into walking cars in the background. You cannot see them at all.

Though his face is obscured here, Spamton Hickory did have a face design.

Around the frame, I drew some joke character interpretations for Rosalia and Willow, because I felt bad about leaving them out.