Always Look Before You Open the Sarcophagus

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"The Yellow Sign" (c) Robert Chambers, as part of the broader Cthuluh Mythos originally created by H.P. Lovecraft.

Just a little bit of fan-art for .  I hadn't drawn Dusk in quite a while.  I've been busy lately, and only had time for DU and otherworld projects, but I'd had the itch for a fair bit of time.  Finally got up the gumption to do another one.  This is designed as a cover-piece for yet another short fiction that I'll have out today or tomorrow, a follow up to "Necessity", a short story I did a while ago.  I opted not to complete that particular piece beyond the delve, but I plan to run this one through possibly a couple short chapters, as Verti and I have been able to touch base.  ^-^

The setup should be pretty obvious to those of you watching my stuff here:  Heroines delve the dungeon deep hunting for clues as to the mummy that assaulted Dusk ages ago, or for clues to the ancient undead that killed Dusk's master.  In hunting, they've begun to search for signs of someone or something called "Asclepus the Lesser."  The deeper that they search, the creepier things get, and the more trouble Riese has because one of her only allies has more than a bit of a mild obsession and crush on her, something she's still struggling to deal with after being brought back from the dead by her.  Opening a sarcophagus in the hopes of finding clues, they find some tentacled trouble-maker trying to drag them in with it to get to know them better.

As before, the use of the Yellow Sign matches Asclepus' general MO.  The villain is meant to have a heavily Hastur/Mythos theme to him, serving an entity that will never be named (because I prefer to leave these nameless void-filled horrors unnamed) from beyond the stars or between time and space, or whatever recent bullplop I'm tossing at you.

Anyway.  Pic.  Girls.  Tentacles.  PG-13.  Enjoy.  Fiction up later.