Excer[ted from the fourht part of "Asheru's Journey" appearing in the last issue of Huzzah! (#49). The Old Scholar also made another discovery, through of a grimmer nature. Inside a building was a room piled with skulls. The skulls were a mixture of human and lupine. There were a lot of them, but just the heads. Some with jaws still with them, some without. They looked piled rather than stacked.

This took a lot of the enthusiasm out of the party. Asheru , especially felt sad. For her, It felt that now she was looking back towards the spirits that had been spying on her. And it seemed all very unhappy. Subdued, the rest of the party cleaned up, and left the city. {encil on paper. Scott Ruggels 5 / 2 0 0 3

The city was built along a river. Though apparently the climate had become quite a bit drier since the city had been inhabited. The bed of the river was the closest water they could find, and they camped there at night, with the pops and moans of the stone cooling in the frigid desert night making sleep a little uneasy. Pencil on paper. Scott Ruggels 5 / 2 0 0 3

The locals approached, but as they got closer, and they saw not only lupines in the party, but also the six armed symbol of the faith, the tension evaporated, and their unusually marked leader welcomed them using oddly accented formal %94Lingua Formalia%94, welcomed them to the village. Pencil on paper. Scott A. H. Ruggels 5 / 2 0 0 3

A Blacktip Reef Shark done in markers swims through a dieing reef in search of more to hunt.

A drawing for Synnabar done in markers and colored pencils. Missing half a wing, tied up in bandages, and yet still strong.

Two lions overpowered by an affectionate liger... Ink and Photoshop.

A genuinely happy family... Ink and Photoshop.

Uh... He is like that all the time. Permanently mad.

A lone wolf, having a rest during hunting, and looking quite annoyed, since he hasn't caught anything... Pencil.

Happy Birthday Thornwolf! After seeing how she eats chocolate rabbits (http://yerf.com/thornwolf/happyeaster.gif), I figured chocolate cakes got the same treatment. Bad werewolf slasher narration included free of charge.