Thessaly – Buffed Up (Patreon)

Thessaly Thornblush has been in the adventuring business long enough to know a thing or two about buffs. When she senses a situation is about to become sticky, she prepares for a fight by slathering herself with a compliment of oils and tinctures to enhance her strength and stamina in battle, quaffs an elixir or two to sharpen her reactions and provide a burst of extra speed, and that's not taking into account the enhancements provided by unseen magical trinkets she has sequestered about her person.

All of her buffs stack up to add a considerable amount of muscle size and density to Thessaly's already powerful frame, but she can only sustain the heightened state for a few minutes before she needs to cool down. Still, a few minutes is more than enough time to end a fight, with time to spare to enjoy her "buffed" state while it lasts...

It seems Patreon recently changed their image processing system with this latest update to add multi-image galleries to posts (which is great, but...) I'm noticing all images embedded into posts are now displaying in lower quality, especially noticeable on the Patreon mobile app. Hopefully that will be fixed in a future update, but as a reminder you can download the full quality jpg as an attachment to each post. As a test I'm trying all three ways on this post: the new gallery feature, images embedded into the post text (so you see it in email), and attached to the post as downloadable jpgs.