Nicolas 126

Night passes. Next morning...

Nicolas 127

Nicolas tries to pretend he's just another castle resident. Then it gets worse.

Nicolas 128

A humiliating strip search

Nicolas 129

Val wakes up and waits for Nicolas. Then she gets tired of waiting.

Nicolas 130

Exploring thru brambles, Val finds an old, hidden tunnel.

Nicolas 131

Yum.

Nicolas 132

This page isn't complete. I need to do shading and texture.

Nicolas 133

This page isn't finished either. But I want to post the story. Not sure if I'll finish every drawing.

Nicolas 134

Oil from the broken lamp is still burning.

Nicolas 135

Nicolas 136

To add to the confusion, Nicolas tosses the keys to another prisoner.

Nicolas 137

I'll have to fix the perspective/proportions in the last panel some time.

Nicolas 138

No shading or texture for now. I'll do that for the print version... assuming I can get it printed.

Nicolas 139

Well, now we know why Jaques was in prison. ;-) The old guy was a political prisoner. The others were suspects in last night's robbery. Should I add a page giving those details or are they not so important?

Nicolas 140

What do you think of the narrator's text in the first panel. Should I have a page or two showing the action instead of telling it?\r\n\r\nShading and texture to come later, if there is enough interest in a printed version.

Nicolas 141

Nicolas 142

This page is pretty much finished. Maybe some more work on shading and making Val and Nicolas look wetter.

Nicolas 143

I think I need to show more digging marks where the sword was found, and maybe Val should be in the shelter already while Nicolas is unwrapping it.

Nicolas 144

In the last panel, Nicolas' head doesn't look quite right. Sigh. It bugs me that I can't seem to keep the characters looking the same from one drawing to the next.

Nicolas 145-B

Val is slurring her words because she is carrying the small bag of loot in her jaws.

I reported the situation incorrectly. She shouted for him to dodge right.\r\n\r\nUnfinished version of page 146

Nicolas 147

I couldn't show this sequence before introducing the 'troll' in the first cave story.

Nicolas 148-1

Page 148, panel one.\r\nSkipped scene: lighting the candle behind the 'troll' and hoping that Duravin's soldiers don't call their bluff.\r\n\r\nArt not finished, but mostly there.

Nicolas 148-2

Exhausted, back home. Nicolas strips off his wet clothes and Val just flops out on the mattress.\r\n\r\nNot necessarily the second panel of the page. I think I'll do two more before this one and then one after.\r\n\r\nThe characters are finished, but the background is not. Will do someday.

For ease of commenting, I'm also posting Nicolas on FurAffinity.

Val Tries Some Mint

Brush marker on paper, slightly cleaned up in GIMP.\r\n\r\nVal discovers that she dislikes mint. If Val finds some yummy beetles, will Nicolas try them?

Val interrupts Nico with a grunt, then a whine of pain.

Nico panics even before he knows what's going on.