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The Drudanae Duo

A large, smoking hookah flanked by two bipedal lizards, one wielding a pair of daggers and the other with a flaming wand and shield. Yellow desert and red sky spans the horizon.

A friend and I recently managed to finish a playthrough of Divinity: Original Sin 2 as a lone-wolf lizard-wizard drudanae-doping duo. He was a rogueish polymorph with the horribly-underleveled vulture armour, and I was an elementalist conjurer with the delightful devourer armour.

Lizards are obviously the most meta choice because they can dig without a shovel. Undead lizards are even more optimal because they can dig without a shovel and pick locks without lockpicks, but lacking lungs lamentably leaves little leeway to definitively dream on drudanae, which is unambiguously a fate exceeding death and proceeding all the way into undeath …

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Limulus lotus

It’s no secret that I like and respect horseshoe crabs – for reasons that deserve to elaborated on some time. So when someone shared this CRABTCHA, I had no choice but to respond “Front and centre where it belongs 🧘‍♂️”

Happy World Ocean Day now prove you are not a robot.

(This CRABTCHA is brought to you by @jopabinia.bsky.social and yours truly.)

spoof captcha telling people to click on images containing crabs, but the images are of various true crabs and false crabs

—franz

To which came the response “I'd like to see a horseshoe crab attempt a lotus position.”

Well, challenge accepted.

A horseshoe crab on a sandy surface, with its body upright. Unless someone told you, you wouldn’t notice the lowest pair of legs are crossed.

Pointy stick

Some sort of draconic biped wielding a three-pointed polearm in a somewhat threatening manner, rendered in greyscale

An attempt to focus on texture, tone and shading without fussing with colour. A rather successful one, I believe!

I did later try to apply colour but the various blending modes just don’t seem to work in the right way. No matter.