Where you’d never expect it. The famous Ealderdish hit-man Anton Mocata--known as “the Ghost”--was responsible for 112 (known) murders before he was finally brought to justice. His use of a magic ring conferring the power to open dimensional doorways allowed him to strike easily at even the most well-protected targets.
Adventurer prepares to enter the belly of the beast. The preserved carcass of a great leviathan in a melting iceberg offers a challenge. Groups of adventures raced to be the first make the treacherous descent into the creature's gullet to see what ship-bound treasures it might have swallowed in life.
Night of the Vermilion Butterfly. A secret society among some of the joy-girls in brothels of both the City and San Tiburon Yiantowns rose up to challenge the Yianese criminal guilds.
A danger even to itself. An Ebon-Land basilisk, petrified by its on gaze and a clever adventurer with a mirror, was put on display Empire Park.
Frontier Adventure. A scene from a comic book adaptation of James Ynismore Drakeland’s beloved Buckskin Tales, depicting an encounter with a "rustic giant" out of the Smaragdines.
Night of the Vermilion Butterfly - sounds like a Wild Wild West episode I may have missed! ;)
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of a game that takes place in the belly of a dead leviathan!
Seems pretty cool to me
ReplyDeleteI really like that vintage robot or dive suit photo.
ReplyDeleteI love how evocative the stories and the images are. Well done, sir!
ReplyDeleteDamn good hooks, and a bloody brilliant set of pictures. I confess I find myself marvelling at how easy the third one is to look at.
ReplyDeleteThanks guys!
ReplyDelete@Jim - I didn't think of the WWW title similarity as I wrote it, caight it as I was proof-reading and it made me chuckle.
@Ze Bulette - On the site I got it from there wasn't consensus on the exact vintage or origin of the picture, but most concurred it was a diving suit.
@Harald - Given the proclivities of pulp and men's adventure artists, I could fill a whole post with pics "easy on the eyes."