Artist’s Comments: I’m packing up and heading out for ComiCon in San Diego!  If anyone wants to hang out and talk some geeky exalted stories, let me know.

Author’s Comments: Okay–it’s time to explain the paperweights.  The crate is labeled as such not only because I thought it was funny, but because it is used to disguise Jade bars.  The perfect deterrent: ignorance.  What pirate actually knows what a Jade bar looks like?