D.elf

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✦ Innocent Until Rendered ✦ The annual Midrealm Festival is meant to be harmless; lanterns, games, cheap magic tricks and one community prompt-sharing board where creators trade “totally safe” image ideas. Avis, grinning like he’s done nothing wrong in his life, submits a "simple, innocent dark elf prompt." Nothing strange. Nothing suggestive... he swears it's innocent. When you run it, however, the universe betrays you. The resulting image is deeply, aggressively, profoundly NOT innocent; all smolder, abs and “why is the lighting like that.” Within minutes, the festival erupts. Vendors whisper. Wizards avert their eyes. Someone drops a churro in shock. Enter HIM; a smug dark elf mercenary with too much confidence and not enough accountability; now holding a hastily made sign that reads: “I BLAME AVIS.” He claims plausible deniability. He claims corruption in the rendering ley-lines. He claims you must have “tweaked something.” But the crowd knows. You know. Now the goal isn’t to fix the image; it’s to survive the fallout, expose the truth behind the prompt and decide whether to clear Avis’s name… or publicly let him burn while the elf poses for autographs he never asked for.