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Castle Ruins [60x44]
🕑 Added 2023-04-24 16:07:04 +0000 UTC
Welcome and welcome back new and old Fellow Darkish!
We are at the third chapter of the fable we are telling you and we hope you are eager to find out more.
Just out of the Sea Cave we are in front of the wonder of the Castle Ruins.
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THE CURSED CHANT
Chapter 3: The Castle Ruins
A small rocky beach takes us to the rear structures, once a large castle’s elegant terrace suspended over the sea.
The area appears a ruin, ravaged by storms. Long footbridges lead to castle, and unite the whole structure, in a succession of ups and downs. Rubble and destruction have created impassable paths, constricting adventures to dive into the water to get to the castle.
Once the castle was supposed to be full of life and activities, but the collapse of the cliff has turned it into an empty fortress, unapproachable unless you go through the Sea Cave.
To the west, untouched by time and the sea, shines a beautiful white marble statue of a young mermaid.
The statue can only be reached by crossing a partially sunken footbridge and seen up close it appears clean and well-groomed, in contrast to the rest of the ruins. Many shells, pearls, sea-flowers decorate the base.
NOTES
- The extensive ruins, played outside of The Cursed Chant’ Lore, makes for a very versatile map.
- The height differences, the areas with obstacles, the water and the areas accessible only by climbing allow a great variety of action in fighting, offering very different situations in the same map.
- Enemies that can attack The Party at long range, can really put the players in hard situations, also thanks to the numerous points that can be used as hiding places.
- The protected, hidden and uncrowded area makes the place very suitable for becoming the den of gangs of criminals or monster nest.
NOTES FOR MASTER
In the previous chapters of the tale we had begun to investigate a series of mysterious disappearance. Th investigation led us to the Sea Cave, where we met a huge Giant Grab.
At this point there was the possibility of having a lot of informations. How many adventures have instead kept going straight and now don’t know what they will find?
If the Party is in this situation, with no informations, will explore the ancient castle, famous for the mysteries and the legends surrounding it. Many such of them are about meirmaids and ghosts.
THE SIX SISTERS
N.B. This meeting is absolutely conditional.
You can set the conditions you want by managing everything at your pleasure, in the moment and in the way that best adapts to your play. What follows is just an example, an hint to the Master and to give you an idea of the behaviour of the characters we have created.
Here are the two possible paths of the story, depending on the behaviour of the Party in the previous map. Did you choose the dialogue with The Giant Crab or did you kill it?
THE MERMAID TALES
Reaching the map and singing by the sea calling them in the name of Æret, the mermaids will emerge peacefully from the water. They’ll introduce themselves singing the story of six sisters sadly forced in those waters to pay for their sins.
They will apologize for the harm done to the inhabitants of those shores, remembering however that it is the fault of the ancestors of those men if they are forced to remain there.
The meirmaids, weeping, will sing of the tragic story of their younger sister.
The young mermaid had her voice torn off in exchange for two human legs.
She had done everything for the love of the young prince of the castle, after having saved his life. He was grateful to her, and had even had the statue built for her, showering her with honors and attentions, …but finally he married a noble human girl.
The will sing you how they traded their hair with a magical dagger, with the same sea witch who gave the legs to their young sister. Killing the prince with that dagger, the little mermaid would be released from the curse. But her love was so deep, she preferred to die herself instead of killing him.
After a moment’hesitation, how they were ashamed, the will sing how they condemned their little sister themselves, killing the prince as he boarded the wedding ship. They will sing about how she turned into a mermaid again, into a crowd. They will sing her desperation at being caught and dragged away, in front of them. They never saw her again.
They will tell how, a few tides later, they heard the terrible screams of the inhabitants of the castle, and how terrible storms swept through the area for weeks, until all were dead or fled and the building destroyed.
The sweet and young meirmaid killed in the castle after suffering atrocious pains, had transformed into an evil and vengeful spirit, which destroyed the lineage of those who had killed her.
Now, the six sisters watched over her and her sad rest, protecting the marble statue.
THE CURSE OF THE MERMAID
The six mermaids will ask you now to help them to free their sister’s spirit.
They will give you a dagger hidden among the flowers and corals at the base of the statue.
They will explaine you that if you recover their’sister bones and burn them with the dagger, scattering the ashes in the sea, you can free her.
Their gratitude would be enormous, and no marine creature would ever again do damage in those waters, protected by them six for ever and ever.
Now the adventures who have chosen the dialogue can finally release the meirmaid’ spirit in the last chapter of our fable.
Who chosed to kill the Giant Grab will jump in a more boss rush version of our tale.
Approaching the water you you will still meet the six meirmaids, but they will attack you ferociously to keep you from getting close to the statue and to the castle.
Fighting hard with the six creatures, if you win, you can either kill them or make them escape. At the point you are free to investigate the statue.
Among the corals you will find a misterious and precious dagger. Is it magical? You have to discover it.
Now the Party will use all the informations to go ahead.
The two approaches to this story are very different and extreme. One is totally based on dialogue, the either is one fight after another. You are free to mix informations to create your own fable.
We are really curious to discover how you’ll develop our plot. Let us know how you use this and other maps!
Thank you for your support, it is really precious for us 🖤
Have fun fellow Darkish
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Darkest Maps
HI :)! Yes, we took a little break in the week that was dedicated to “Classic”, so we will publish three times this month. Right now we are completing the Poll Winner which will be published tomorrow
SmoochyLover
Excuse me. This month was only two maps or my Patreon is failing?
