Some progress made...

I created my first NPC, wrote a flavor text script, and removed some grass from that exterior area in order to reduce lag a bit. The area is designed to be "overgrown", so I'm not going to remove too much of the vegetation, but there was some excess stuff, and there's more that I will chop away in the near future. Here are a few more screenshots for your viewing enjoyment. :)

I must say that I'm a pretty big fan of the purple & white sky I designed...I'll have to mess around more with that when I have some time. The available color combinations are infinite, and funky skyboxes were something that I always wanted more of in NWN1...