The Sea of Dread
by Daniel BoeseAs promised, here's a sort of ASCII map of the Sea of Dread. Each "character" is a single day's worth of sailing. The "Impenetrable Storm" and "Impenetrable Reef" were devices used to keep the player from sailing off the map, and should probably be ignored.. :)
| d | s | k | |||||||||||||
| i | i | i | i | i | i | m | m | m | T | S | |||||
| i | I | i | i | m | M | t | t | S | |||||||
| R | i | i | i | i | m | m | m | m | t | p | t | t | S | ||
| R | R | i | i | m | t | p | t | S | |||||||
| R | R | 1 | S | ||||||||||||
| r | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | r | 2 | S | ||||||||||||
| r | 4 | S | |||||||||||||
| r | 5 | c | B | S | |||||||||||
| R | 6 | 7 | S | ||||||||||||
| R | R | R | W | S | S | ||||||||||
| R | d | D | a | a | a | a | a | S |
d: Fort Doom (aka Halag)
s: Specularum (aka Mirros)
k: Kerendas
i: Ierendi islands
m: Minrothad islands
T: Coast of Thyatis
S: Impenetrable Storm
I: Ierendi
M: Minrothad
t: Thyatis islands
R: impenetrable Reef
p: Thyatian peninsula
r: penetrable Reef
c: dark cloud (a dense grey cloud of dust and gases, coming from
the island to the east. Save vs poison or die from the fumes.)
W: deadly Whirlpool (your ship sinks, taking your character with
it)
a: Thanegioth archipelago
1: Termite Atoll (Salt water
termites attack any ships at anchor.
2: Insect Island (Watch your rations: worms and beetles will infest
them.)
3: Three Sisters Keys (rumoured to be magical, nobody has ever
found anything here... except those with a talking parrot called
Paco... ;) )
4: No Name Island (Little more than a sand bar that has inedible
plants growing on it.)
5: Spider Isle (An ancient building surrounded by eight standing
pillars rests in the centre of the island. The roof of the building
is shaped like the body of a spider. This is the Lost Temple of
Araknee.)
6: Skeleton Key (Thousands of bones litter the ground near the
centre of the island. This is the battlesite of the Aquapopulus
War, a legendary war against the merpeople.)
7: Pirate Rock ("As you dig up roots while harvesting rations, you
discover d100 gold pieces. This gold was buried here by pirates,
and is in the form of coins.)
d: Dread isle (actually part of the Isle of Dread)
D: Isle of Dread (Better explored in module X1. Salt water termites
attack any anchored ships.)
B: Burning Mountain (A mountain that spouts dark, grey clouds, ash
and smoke, boulders, red lava, all deadly; and also rivulets of raw
gold, if you survive to find them.)