The Story So Far (in images), continued:
Ancient Pictoglyphs (the story in images ll)
Ancient Pictoglyphs (the story in images ll)
"Only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear – the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness." – H.P. Lovecraft
The Story So Far (in images), continued:
The Story So Far (in images), continued:
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A towering door upon which is inscribed the curse of the pharaohs.
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The explorers fearlessly unseal the tomb and discover, at last, the fabled lost treasure of Xuthalhotep!
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Golden riches beyond imagining.
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Golden coins...
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...and sarcophagi.
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Deceived by a false tomb...
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...and wooden sarcophagi.
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Bitter despair gives way to hope.
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Stepping past countless duplicitous riches...
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... to examine the suspect wall in the false tomb.
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The explorers break through the wall...
...and find a low-ceilinged passageway hidden behind it...
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- Attachments
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...leading to a magnificent stone door depicting an eternal embrace.
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Suddenly, impossibly, a shimmering, translucent, ghost-like figure appears before them!
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Regal, striking, beautiful; it is Ankhara, ancient queen of lost Verulia...
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...or is it?!
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