Has V ever grinned like that, before or since?
The first of the wallpapers is up: No Encounters Today!
I came here to post about it. It looks great.
Dagnabbit. You got my hopes up. 
At the Oots forum, someone tried to ID all the creatures. I combined the comments from a couple of posts.
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Here’s the list of creatures I managed to see so far for all who are interested.
From top left to bottom right:
- A tail of some lizard-or-dragonlike creature, probably legless since the tree isn’t that huge.
- An acid-breathing (green head) chimera standing on hill.
- Two orcs hiding in the bushes.
- Some kind of evil-glaring rock, probably either small or medium earth elemental.
“Or galeb duhr.” - A huge worm moving underground.
“A huge, purple, worm, yes. Whether it’s a huge purple worm or not is still up for debate, apparently.” - A pair of evil red eyes in the cave near chimera, which look as same as MitD’s here (23 Meanwhile... - Giant in the Playground Games), except red.
- On the next tree: some type of impish creature (probably air mephit) and some kind of 6-legged lizard, which I fail to identify, but probably it isn’t a basilisk (or it’s a baby basilisk which developed a habit of sitting on trees).
“…or a basilisk, because that’s what six legs on a lizard tend to signify in D&D.” - Two large shapes on background near the tree, one holding a club and one holding a stone, probably ogres.
“Or more likely hill giants, since ogres don’t canonically hurl boulders. Could also be two ettins that have both been in terrible accidents.” - A party of 7 goblins hiding behind the tree, two of them are riding worgs. Goblin hunter on the left has a tiny pet spider which has a bow too.
- Some kind of buried skeleton underground, which has a dweomer around his hands, so I’d say it’s a lich regenerating near his buried phylactery.
- A dragon soaring in the sky above the party.
- Company of 12 or more lizardfolks in the cave under the party.
“Or troglodytes, which fits with their subterraneanity.”
“Looks more like the Lizardfolk from 413 to me.” - Orc hiding behind the stone which Roy is about to pass by.
- Another orc and some kind of evil koala creature on
ear the next tree. - Leprechaun and some non-worg-like wolf creature sleeping behind the next bushes.
“Does that “wolf” have more than four legs? Sure looks like that to me. Could make it an aurumvorax, though it’s fur isn’t golden.” - A troll hiding behind the tree
- Same tree has two harpies on it and either brass, copper or dirty black wyrmling.
“That’s a pseudodragon. You can tell by the scorpion sting.” - Carnivorous plant near the base of a tree.
- Two more orcs hiding behind another tree.
- An ankheg underground in the bottom right corner.
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The evil Koala in #14 looks like a Drop Bear to me.
Note that D&D has an evil koala bear creature called the zorbo (cleverly named because it ab-zorbs the properties of whatever material it touches).
[spoiler]I laughed out loud at how Nale broke free. He’s genre-savvy enough to know that if you monologue, the hero will break free.
And it was oddly touching that dream-Sabine got a crown too.[/spoiler]
I wonder how many doors that room has. It seems like it should have four.
So Team Evil should arrive through door 3, and someone else ?? through door 4.
It looks like a hexagon or octagon; if there’s a door in each wall, it could have 6-8.
V, obviously.
V would be preferable to Tarquin and whatever he’s cooking up.
Also, that structure in the middle is an octagon. I’m assuming its doors line up with the ones on the outer wall.
I’m not sure I would put my defense hopes in an illusion created by an idiot, when whatever is coming through the door has clearly broken through the well prepared defenses of an Epic illusionist.
Are vampires immune to phantasms or something? ETA: or maybe any vampire is already in their happy-ever-after?
Yes. All undead are immune to all mind-affecting effects. You can create a picture of a wall and they can’t see through it, you can create a wall out of shadow-stuff and they can’t see through it, but you can’t make them think they can see a wall.
Or to put it more succinctly, you can mess with the light itself, but you can’t mess directly with their senses.
Grumman mentions that you can’t trap undead in some mind-bending fantasy but, also, sometimes simple is best. Throwing up an illusion of a wall in front of a wall is probably less attention-grabbing or suspicious than building an elaborate fantasy or even creating an illusion that relies on sounds, movement, smell, etc for realism.
Hard to screw up making a wall.
Tarquin has a ring of true seeing which will probably see through Elans illusion.
Tarquin’s not with them though. Remember? He left Nale in charge.
Well that’s convienant.