Author: Asta

  • Dragon Podcasting

    You were listening to “Come here and get me, you hairless ape !” by Dracostrength.
    And
    now a special magic recipe for all our draconic auditors ! With this
    new low-level, easy-to-learn spell, you will be able to transmute steel
    to clay. So, next time you’re having a full-armored paladin for meal,
    don’t waste time to husk him and just cast this spell to prepare
    yourself a delicious meat à l’étouffée by stem cooking the whole !

    Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook
           
           

  • Orient-Express – The Maudslay Collection

    London, British Museum, January 1923

    – And now gentlemen, it’s time for our Pièce de Resistance !
    Julius
    Smith took a dramatic pause, then unveil a massive statue of a woman
    with a delicately chiseled head of a cat. The audience gasped as they
    saw the eyes of the statue shining brightly, giving life to what was
    with no doubt the pinnacle of the exposition.
    – I present you
    Bubastis ! Excavated from what we though was a simple mastaba in 1882
    during the Maudslay expedition, this was in fact the central piece of an
    ancient temple dedicated to the well-known cat goddess, also known as
    Bastet.
    The professor kept going on about the probable significance
    and datation of the statue. Choura and Cihat listened patiently but Carl
    was intrigued by the brilliance of the opal eyes. Moving around, he
    soon discovered the reason of his fascination : theses stone were not
    crimped, they were natively included into the rock the statue’s head was
    sculpted from ! Theses eyes were two polished and connected outcrops of
    one big chunk of chalcedony.

    Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook
    Excerpt from an ongoing run of Call of Cthulhu Campaign : Terror on the Orient-Express