The Map that broke the blog, behold the city of Mesiquitar

 I’ve been wanting to start posting again for a long time, but for years, I felt that I had to have a big project that I could post as a series of entries. I started three such projects last summer. One is something I will return to, but on the first try I realized after a few weeks that it was going in the wrong direction. The second is a mega dungeon, which I’m still working on and will eventually begin to post. 

The third project, pictured below, started more or less by accident. I wanted to do a city and decided to draw some of the individual neighborhoods. So I drew the first one- and I just kept on going. As you can well imagine, it’s an extremely labor intensive project. It’s grueling and full of a soul crushing amount of drudgery. This had led me to take months off from it at time. I haven’t touched it since early June. So instead of kicking back into gear last August, as was my original intent, I got sucked into this hell of my own making.

When I finish the entirety of the project, including the setting in which it is nested, illustrations and all that, I will probably kickstart it, there's no other way to recoup the time investment. In retrospect i should have done Kickstarter for B/X Mars. That way the naked people wouldn't have fucked my sales. I managed a silver bestseller, which is pretty good for something locked behind the adult wall on DTRPG, but I could have done much better).

Whatever.

Behold in all its broken mediocrity, the great, unfinished city of Mesiquitar:

Oh, how I loathe it. 

For what it's worth I'm not a Discworld fan and I had no idea that "Turtles all the way down" (upper left of the map) was so wired into it, so I may have to change the religion, which is okay, because I'm thinking of basing the setting on Western Asia/ North Africa prior to the Bronze Age Collapse. In those days, most every city had its own god, writing was limited to elites and a whole bunch of other shit. 

Post edit addendum: It seems I spell with a level of competence just below what one might expect from a college athlete.