

Inner Demons, Part Seven PART SEVENInner Demons, Part Seven by `Tyrin-Claw
On the morning of the third day since they left Royal Road, the wagon crested a hill and the forest fell away beneath them. Sparkling along the horizon was Lake Cascade, a massive U-shaped body of water. Evon stared at it, awestruck, as they began to descend the other side of the hill. The trees had thinned out; the forest was finally ending. The canopy soon blocked out the lake from view, though.
"I don't suppose you've ever seen a lake like this before," Frederick said. "It's the largest in Sylaxa, fed from the northern mountain streams."
"So one of the streams near my village might have made this?"

Weekly Help Desk Updates - Thanksgiving EditionWeekly Help Desk Updates - Thanksgiving Edition (Now with more gobble gobble)
Introduction :handshake:
Welcome to the weekly Help Desk news. In these weekly updates we will attempt to bring you the most up to date information, as well as provide some helpful hints for super duper deviantART fun.
Closure Dates
The :devhelp: will be closed November 22nd and 23rd for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Should you have an emergency during this time that is not Policy related, please contact help@deviantart.com and we will be happy to assist you.
Top Issues
The following issues are currently the top issues being reported to us this week. Please do no

Anthro Weekly Challenge - Nov 18-24We have new rules and new prizes listed, please scroll down to check them out. Look for the :new: icon.
:heart: THE WEEKLY ANTHRO CHALLENGE
Each week the anthro community is invited to participate in a weekly challenge designed to allow anthro artists to exercise their imaginations based on a weekly theme. Please visit the #IamAnthro chat-room, if you would like to learn more about the contest, share ideas, or meet the judges and other participants. If you are unsure of what "anthro" is, please read this article.
:heart: LAST WEEK'S WINNER
Last week's theme was "Time and Tide."
:devdarthiawolf: won first prize with her piece "Time and T

Weekly Help Desk Updates - Nov 17th,2007Weekly Help Desk Updates - November 17th,2007
Reposted - Due to accidental deletion of prior version
Introduction :handshake:
Welcome to the weekly Help Desk news. In these weekly updates we will attempt to bring you the most up to date information, as well as provide some helpful hints for super duper deviantART fun.
Hexe's Corner :hexentanz:
Please be advised that in order to fight the spam many of you have unfortunately been receiving we are currently making changes to how the notes system works.
While we make these changes you may notice some errors within the notes system, please be advised that we're working on each issue as it

Anthro Weekly Challenge - Nov 11-17:heart: THE WEEKLY ANTHRO CHALLENGE
Each week the anthro community is invited to participate in a weekly challenge designed to allow anthro artists to exercise their imaginations based on a weekly theme. Please visit the #IamAnthro chat-room, if you would like to learn more about the contest, share ideas, or meet the judges and other participants. If you are unsure of what "anthro" is, please read this article.
:heart: LAST WEEK'S WINNER
Last week's theme was "Future."
:devMalteseLizzieMcGee: won first prize with her piece "Runecasting"
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Congratulations to :devMalteseLizzieMcGee:!
To see the rest of this week's entries

The Forum Newsletter No. 12Hello, and welcome to the Forum Newsletter, the series which gets sweeties from journalism then eggs its house.
There's a lot in this issue, so let's get going! :ohnoes:
:pointr: The Forum News
:bulletred: :devShadowGamers:
holyshitwhatthefuckwhatthefuck
For those who don't know who :devshadowgamers: is, because they've been a) living under a rock or b) have a life outside of the internet, he's both a provider of lulz in the Complaints forum and a gigantic troll.
There was a lot of controversy about his banning, but I think when the dust settled on it, most people could agree he deserved to be banned whether for the reason given or his

The Dragons of deviantART - Issue 20The Dragons of deviantART is a weekly art feature showing off deviantART's many talented dragon artists! Each article features dragon art submitted during the past Friday through Thursday.
Color
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Weekly Help Desk Updates - Nov 8th,2007Weekly Help Desk Updates - November 8th,2007
Introduction :handshake:
Welcome to the weekly Help Desk news. In these weekly updates we will attempt to bring you the most up to date information, as well as provide some helpful hints for super duper deviantART fun.
Hexe's Corner :hexentanz:
This week we have released another edition to our Help Desk Guides. If you have not already given it a read, please do so by clicking here.
Over the next few weeks the next guides released will focus on the different policy categories you can submit your inquiry to, so stay tuned for those!
Ewm's Corner :frog:
This week I would like to remind every

How to: Submit a General Help Inquiry (v1.0)Introduction
Hello and welcome to the newly revised Help Desk Guides. Today we're actually going to cover a topic never covered before in previous guides. That topic is "How to: Submit a General Help Inquiry".
What falls under General Help?
In the past weeks we have gone over how to submit a Subscription Inquiry, Chat Inquiry and Bug Report. So what if your question cannot be answered by any of those? The answer is simple, in such cases you would select 'General Help' from the listing of contact categories on the Help Desk contact form.
What should not be submitted as a General Help Inquiry?
Typically you should only submit questions to