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<blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 8979811" data-attributes="member: 6750306"><p>Still Dungeon-ing, although it's been slow...</p><p></p><p>About 93 days into it? Hrmm.</p><p> I may still be caught up with where I'm supposed to be. I've actually started (<em><strong><u>finally.</u></strong></em>) mapping out parts of the dungeon complex(es)... </p><p>The Great Black Swamp transitions into a salt marsh to the west, and then a small bit of beach between it and the sea. About a mile offshore are three islands called The Blades (Longknife, Dagger, and Smallpoint), large rocky outcroppings jutting up out of the ocean like knives, the sole remains of the western side of what used to be the small mountain the Dwarven settlement was in.*</p><p>Each of the blades is about half the size of the previous one, with the largest being about a mile wide, one-and-a-half long and about something like seventy-eighty feet high. The largest two have beaches with small docks on their shore-ward sides, and the Swamptown clan of the Firstfolk use the few remaining rooms, corridors and stairs carved into the rock as the staging point for their smuggling operation - the pirates they work with drop off the goods, and the Swamptown Firstfolk take them through the swamp to the town of End-Of-The-Line where the local thieves' guild contact uses the wagon clans of the Firstfolk to move them on to the larger towns and cities.</p><p>At the moment, I've got around 2/3 of the Longknife Island "dungeon" mapped out, nine or ten rooms so far. It's split into the beach level, a lower level I haven't drawn yet that's going to have a few partially-flooded rooms below it, and a couple of long winding staircases that lead up past a couple rooms on the middle level to the lookout posts on the top of the island.</p><p>Once I get Longknife finished, Dagger should go by quicker, since I anticipate only having about six or seven rooms in it, and one staircase to a lookout point.</p><p></p><p>At some point, I <em>really</em> need to photograph all of my maps and get them cleaned up in Paint, and start doing the write-ups of the locations and NPCs.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>* (The southernmost spur of the Mistside Mountains range that run north-south parallel to the coast is a ridge of rock about a hundred miles long, around ten miles wide and around 100-150ft. tall at the end. The end of it, just south of the now-petrified forest known as the Stonelands, was called Mistside Reach by the Dwarves. When the ancient magical cataclysm turned Mistside Forest into the Stonelands it dropped a huge chunk of the coast into the sea (leaving Mistside Reach less than a mile from the shore), and a later earthquake shattered the Reach and caused everything between the Reach and End-Of-The-Line to sink wholesale into the Underdark cavern below it, allowing the Great Black Swamp to form over it. The Dwarven buildings exposed when the <em>recent</em> quake lowered the water level of the swamp were originally the few surface structures built on top of the Reach.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mad_Jack, post: 8979811, member: 6750306"] Still Dungeon-ing, although it's been slow... About 93 days into it? Hrmm. I may still be caught up with where I'm supposed to be. I've actually started ([I][B][U]finally.[/U][/B][/I]) mapping out parts of the dungeon complex(es)... The Great Black Swamp transitions into a salt marsh to the west, and then a small bit of beach between it and the sea. About a mile offshore are three islands called The Blades (Longknife, Dagger, and Smallpoint), large rocky outcroppings jutting up out of the ocean like knives, the sole remains of the western side of what used to be the small mountain the Dwarven settlement was in.* Each of the blades is about half the size of the previous one, with the largest being about a mile wide, one-and-a-half long and about something like seventy-eighty feet high. The largest two have beaches with small docks on their shore-ward sides, and the Swamptown clan of the Firstfolk use the few remaining rooms, corridors and stairs carved into the rock as the staging point for their smuggling operation - the pirates they work with drop off the goods, and the Swamptown Firstfolk take them through the swamp to the town of End-Of-The-Line where the local thieves' guild contact uses the wagon clans of the Firstfolk to move them on to the larger towns and cities. At the moment, I've got around 2/3 of the Longknife Island "dungeon" mapped out, nine or ten rooms so far. It's split into the beach level, a lower level I haven't drawn yet that's going to have a few partially-flooded rooms below it, and a couple of long winding staircases that lead up past a couple rooms on the middle level to the lookout posts on the top of the island. Once I get Longknife finished, Dagger should go by quicker, since I anticipate only having about six or seven rooms in it, and one staircase to a lookout point. At some point, I [I]really[/I] need to photograph all of my maps and get them cleaned up in Paint, and start doing the write-ups of the locations and NPCs. * (The southernmost spur of the Mistside Mountains range that run north-south parallel to the coast is a ridge of rock about a hundred miles long, around ten miles wide and around 100-150ft. tall at the end. The end of it, just south of the now-petrified forest known as the Stonelands, was called Mistside Reach by the Dwarves. When the ancient magical cataclysm turned Mistside Forest into the Stonelands it dropped a huge chunk of the coast into the sea (leaving Mistside Reach less than a mile from the shore), and a later earthquake shattered the Reach and caused everything between the Reach and End-Of-The-Line to sink wholesale into the Underdark cavern below it, allowing the Great Black Swamp to form over it. The Dwarven buildings exposed when the [I]recent[/I] quake lowered the water level of the swamp were originally the few surface structures built on top of the Reach.) [/QUOTE]
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