A 3-mile plateau of bones, 500' high. It is glued together by bones melted by cave solutions. Its edges are marked by streaks of slimy blood-earth mudslides.
Bone Plateau Map
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Bone Plateau Landmarks
1 chalk dunes
one tiger is here
2 harvester chapel
contains 4 harvesters and 3 human warriors who use javelins, daggers, and large shields
3 hot geysers
4 ice boulder
5 20' pit; 100' deep
6 slimy pipes
7 abandoned mining camp
four crawling claws are here
there are sledgehammers, shovels, rope, and mattocks scattered around
there is a broken ingot stamper
some burlap wisps on the ground mark where there were once hammocks
there is a firepit with a streak of rust inside it
8 ravine with hole-riddled walls
there is a rotten half-cabin on the bottom (sideways)
9 intact wooden longship
a wyvern is here
10 stone hut
a one-room stone box with one front door and one side door, and no windows
three vengers are inside, four followers ('laborers') are outside
it is furnished with bedrolls and 52 seal furs
on a plain altar is a divine scroll: (venger) Mind Reading (8)
11 natural gnarled statue of a giant headless horse
12 bone bungalow
a hut made of bones
inside is uneven bone flooring with big ribs and humeruses sticking out
the floor has a few sunken pits
there is a bare table inside full of knots and knicks
Bone Plateau Intermediate terrain (d8)
1 skull-heavy
2 conjoined femurs standing vertically like reeds
3 zone of flyin bones
4 desert of bone dust
5 salty playa
6 gluey mire
7 bone-chip-filled wadi
8 trampoline-like springy bone area
A stony 8x8 mile field, hemmed into an irregular hexagon shape by massive cavern walls. All over the field are small rocks that are 1 or 2 feet tall, and small dunes made of gravel.
There are two types of terrain here. The first is long 2-mile stretches only featuring pebbles. The second is natural "sparse walls" made of man-sized boulders, all close or far apart, with a herd of yak-types stomping about it. (1d4 yaks will be strong enough to roll-over any boulder here).
The yak field is entirely enclosed by cavern walls. In the south wall is a twisting, ascending tunnel (going to the fire-smoke cave). In the north wall, there is a mile-wide ramp, going downwards (to the field of slain hostages).
Every 2 miles there are areas with a possible mix of boulders and yak herd. Characters can scope out what is in an upcoming boulder-wall with an unmodified observation check. Or they can simply walk into one. Waiting too long in one spot will eventually "attract" one of the close-by herds.
There is a 1-in-6 chance that an upcoming yak-field landmark will have loot (determined randomly):
A 50x30 mile lake (6x4 hexes). Its water is contaminated with arsenic and fluoride. It is trawled by skiffs crewed by militant hedge wizards cursed into elephantine forms.
Most of the water is shallow, less than 5' deep. Waterlogged zombies infest the water.
Elephant Sorcerer Lake Map
Bone Sky
Plateau Jungle
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01: Sludge Churning Current
02: Bone-filled shallows
03: Gristle-slurry Eddies
04: Poison Mangrove
05: Metallic Sump
06: Windy Zone
07: Northeast Island (below)
08: Cloudy Bog
09: Green Crust Beach
10: Lead Stake Reef
11: Fly Swarm Harbor
12: Blighted Silt Hook
13: Rat Corpse Reef
14: West Island (below)
15: Stalagmite-filled Concourse
16: Fluorite Pillars
17: Flammable Region
18: Hag Minion Alley
19: Putrid Bubble Bay
20: Rocky Rapid
21: Turbid Slop
22: Dead Horsenet
23: Wraith Corner
24: Semi-gravel-filled creek
25: Carrion-filled Tidepools
26: Slick-muck lagoon
27: Charnel Rocks
NE Island
Northeast Island Encounters
2d4 brittle skeletons (half-hp hob skeletons)
1 gargoyle (hob)
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Northeast Island Landmarks
1 thicket of tin pillars
2 12'-diameter petrified brain
3 crater of tar
there is a loom on the shore of the tar lake
4 abandoned wagon
wedged between planks of the wagon:
divine scroll (eternal lantern)
7: Cure Middling Wound
8: Treat Disease
9: Mend Muscle Tear
5 giant flat polished stone slab
Northeast Island Intermediate Terrain
1 sand dunes
2 rock salt field
3 tumbleweed brush-field made of rusty wires
4 5'x10' rusty steel plates mixed with 5'x10' rusty steel spiked plates
5 chert oolites
6 mudstone conglomerate
7 polished urtite
8 a giant old gridiron
9 field of soot and broken blades
0 stalagmites, most 1 foot tall, a few up to 8' tall
W Island (8x8 miles)
West Island Encounters
wandering mucor (hob2)
deceased fish slop
birdmen (1d4 hob harpies)
hawks
buzzards
33 geese
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West Island Landmarks
1 blood-sogged garbage piles
2 wrecked shacks
a few javelins are on the ground. most are burned but 14 are not.
one shack has 40 lbs of peas
another has 3 wolf furs (w 5sp ea) and an amethyst on a silver chain (w 90 sp)
3 giant broken mirror
4 hill spewing acidic smoke
5 abandoned garden
there are 37 pumpkins on the vine
West Island Intermediate terrain
1 field of water-filled holes 3d6ft deep
2 loose brick cobblestones
3 irregular small mounds of sand
4 field of fungus-rings
5 4' tall silky grasses
6 6' sedges
7 sphagnum
8 massive hematite vein
9 fossilized carbuncles on gigantic, flat rocks
0 white sand
A foggy jungle of dead trees that were once stout. The most enormous of them are hollowed or doubly-gnarled.
Sky-jungle map
1 dot = 2 miles
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Sky-jungle key
1 blizzard crag
inside an ice cave:
soccer-ball shaped turquoise the size of a fist (w 1200SP) ; held in the beak of a 108lb obsidian ostrich sculpture, which is glittered with sapphire dust (w 333SP)
2 stone roundhouse on a bronze platform
house has a table, stools, and some stuff on a counter
medium shield with an image of a skull wrapped in flames (w 150sp)
a suit of ringmail: 65 SP
6lbs grapes
there's also heaps of dirty linen
there are three asps under the house
3 gigantic salty beehive
home of five giant weasels
4 micorhizzal spire
territory of the red wyrm
long viney wooden ledge up the inside to the top
one room at the top
large shield: 60 SP
die-sized topaz (w 285sp)
clouded garnet (w 415sp)
77lbs oatmeal
buckler +2
chainmail +2; sized for 160lb human
5 four terraces of houses on a hillside
each house has a cauldron; a loom; a bare workbench; a down mattress
6 lava geyser
7 dome-shaped rock
8 triangular lake
an elephant drinks here
9 thorn thicket
0 small cubical brick shack
this is locked;
inside is 20 handaxes hanging on thin hooks on the wall
When navigating point-to-point in the sky-jungle roll the intermediate terrain (d12)
01 storm fog
02 poison bushes
03 old riverbed
04 foamy old solid cloud
05 rotten bio-slop
06 fungal undergrowth
07 weedy shallow water
08 wide brook
09 straw-covered dead rock
10 ravine tangled with dead roots
11 grove of petrified [palm] trees: (subesequent groves will be:) kapok, shorea, coconut, cashew, rubber, banana, magnolia
12 ferny undergrowth, the consistency of : dead twigs, fluorescent lightbulbs, icicles, lint, stacks of glitter, felt, sidewalk chalk, plastic houseplants
The southwest of the sky jungle is the shore of the elephant sorcerer lake. The southeast has an entrance to the cubical Poison Maze (sulfur end).
A moss-covered flat meadow, full of corpses that are mostly unclothed humans. Many have had the majority of their parts eaten off. There is one fresh body within every forty feet. A few bodies are in green wool outfits. Most of the field is without cover and is wide-open. A few exceptions are some 5' burrows in the dirt, a couple stone pillars that hold up nothing, and some fallen-over hollow towers.
1 dot = 1 mile
Bone
Plateau
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Bouldery Yak
Field
Field of Slain Hostages Key
1 Old square siege tower with its wheels broken off - hurrkling house
they have looms inside for making robes and ropes
one room has large tents and bedrolls packed up
a bedroll has a book titled "by the banks of the vohven" (worth ~250sp only near the vohven or to sea travellers)
2 Ivy-coiled Tower - lair of the blue wyrm
has a spiral staircase:
2F: unsanded cabinets with
12 daggers
blue jade armlet with engravings of centipedes (w 150sp)
(leaning) voulge whose blade is embossed with 89 eyes (w 150sp)
3F:
black glass urn depicting a plague victim in a field (worth 250sp)
polished wooden bench without a scratch (w 15SP)
huge smoky quartz (w 375sp)
4F/roof:
Blue Wyrm
3 40' pillars stacked into a pyramid of sideways cylinders
one corpse is clutching: a divine (sagacity) scroll of Mass Influence
4 40' broken pillars laying about randomly
5 Cueyatl Camp
2d12 cueyatls; with throwing axes and clubs
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10lbs smoked venison
6 Merman Camp
2d12 mermen; armed with javelins and knives
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roasted goose full of hardboiled eggs
7 Troll Camp
1d4 trolls with 1 battle axe and 1 javelin each
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bucket with 20lbs of butter
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(Each camp has a firepit, a thatch or burlap shelter, and a cauldron)
The intermediate terrain is heaps of bodies in varying volumes.