Dyson's Inktober & Mapvember

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Ahhhhh!

Falling behind... still working on Mummy... several levels left to ink!

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#Mapvember2017 - Map 13 - Mummy

The Great Pyramid of Tauneskalis III, grand emperor of azure beacon.

Why stop at "mummy" when you can go to "grand emperor mummy who rules the lands through magic and minions"?

This one took too long for an endurance run like this. It is spread across four pages. Sorry for the low photo quality, my workspace isn't all that well lit in the middle of the night.

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#Mapvember2017 - Map 14 - Lich

Tzog'vogudh Thrice Returned maintains a number of hiding places for her phylactery - some are quite "visible" like this one. She figures the more sages that "know" where her phylactery is hidden, the less likely anyone will find its true hiding place.

Not one of my better isometric maps - this one just didn't want to "pull together" properly, and I lost the perspective in a few places as I was drawing.

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#Mapvember2017 - Map 15 - Rust Monster

Duke Dorian (although our party always called him Duke Eyebrows because... well... it looks like he has a pair of dire caterpillars arguing over which one gets to eat his eyeballs)...

Let me start over.

Duke Dorian isn't really a "duke", more of a "guy who has a small private mercenary force, a lot of skill with a blade, and enough underground contacts to buy a real title if he wanted one". He handles most business at his "cottage" - a squat and well defended stone structure back on Iron Chimes Lane. In front of his dais where he holds audiences is a pit trap that slides the unwary down into his fight pit where he keeps a quartet of rust monsters and a naked and violent hill giant with some serious brain damage.

There's even a little room set aside to watch the festivities in the pit below, with wall made transparent through some strange alchemy or magic.

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#Mapvember2017 - Map 16 - Phase Spider

The Skittering Caves? Really folks? The only way from here to there is through the Skittering Caves? You know I'm arachnophobic, right? Yeah, we're going to take a break out here and prep every fire spell known to man and god alike.

This was a fun little gridless cavern set to draw. A bunch of giant spiders live here, but the scariest are the Phase Spiders who actually live in that small cave on the left, unconnected to the rest of the complex...

I also experimented a bit with the hatching.

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Oh yeah !!!

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Great work and a consistently high standard. I applaud you!

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#Mapvember2017 - Map 17 - "Two Tribes"

The "Magmin" prompt was throwing me off (I swore off lava based maps after a drunken evening drawing magma filled caves - true story!), and I noted that there is no "Orc" on the prompt list.

So I finally broke my magmin block by drawing the two orc tribe caves from the Caves of Chaos. The tribe on the right certainly have a much roomier home than the tribe on the left.

The tribe on the right are known as the Sharks because they all sharpen their teeth. The tribe on the left are known as the Jets because their leader's sword has a 100gp chunk of jet as the pommel.

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#Mapvember2017 - Map 18 - "Giant"

As in... "Giant Hole in the Ground"

Seriously folks, wasn't there a castle here last time we adventured out this way?

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#Mapvember2017 - Map 19 - The Golem Crypt of Ul-Vir the Mad

Somewhere beneath the Machineries, Ul-Vir built a crypt where he keeps his failed golem and automaton designs. This is of course the perfect place to find he MacGuffin that will reanimate the old warforged paladin the party is trying to work with.