Thanks, thrashing mad, Dewirix, Avindian and Prince of Savoy! Mountains will be my friends, tamius23, but also the desert on the Chinese side of the border. That artwork was less impressive than it seems, Malurous - just a matter of resizing one dimension of the map, rotating it, and copying the table with a transparent hole in the middle on to it. I hope that my overall ability in drawing comics will improve in subsequent updates, though; gradually.