PREVIOUS POST AND DOWNLOADS
Check out the previous post with maps of the the Merabaha ("Caribbean") and Chult (jungle with desparate Old World colonies). Get all my images via Google Drive; available under CC by-nc-sa/4.0 (use, attribute, don't monetize w/o permission).ABOUT THE APE ARCHIPELAGO
The Ape Archipelago is a bunch of failed or corrupted colonies that the Old World powers seem to have forgotten about. They'll come in play soon enough as a stop-over between the Merabaha ("Caribbean") and the Ilse of Dread or Golden Isles.Skerples invented the Island of the Apes and God's Larder (reading about the Barque cracked me up) and added the modules Sacrebleu and Neither Man nor Beast to the archipelago; I've added the Island of Viledel from module N4 Treasure Hunt at the south-western end of the chain. It's either a great funnel for level 0 starting characters, or a cool place with factions and sites to explore.
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| The Ape Archipelago, without notes by travelers or pirates |
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| Same map, different background |
ABOUT THE APE ARCHIPELAGO MAP
My two previous maps of included a basic map with area and site names, on which some pirate had jotted down notes and drawn info about a secret treasure on a little-known island.For the Ape Archipelago, I wanted to add a more direct hook to get players interested. Again, there's the basic map with the names of islands and sites, but this time I had enough whitespace to include a desparate letter in a bottle to some explorer's sweetheart. Halfway through the voyage, there's a mutiny and the crew turn pirate! I've added the ship's route for clarity, and a final message from someone who found the map and is looking to start an expedition to the Archipelago.
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| The Ape Archipelago with the tragic story of the Sea Nymph and its mutinous crew |
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| Same map, different background |
TEXT ON THE MAP
A pirate is being fed information to explore new land:Dehavilland,
Our factor in Golden Isles came across this map in a bottle. Seems perfect for that new buccaneer captain you spoke of earlier. See that it gets to them and sneak one of ours on board their ship.
-F
A letter scribed on the map:
Dearest Ophelie,
May this letter find you in better straits than its author. How I wish I had sought your hand instead of adventure.
Our Sea Nymph was tasked to find the fabled antipodes and sailed thus from King’s Bay in the Mehabara. After five weeks at sea, a hurricane forced us to islands not on our map, and we made port in Fairmead, an obscure Wexlish colony with curious hill ceremonies. They cautioned us to ware the jungle apes. an easy mark - or a new home port?
Heading north we were in for a nasty surprise as a fort flying our own Valois flag turned cannon on us! Turning southward, we made landfall on an island with curious stone statues of kneeling giants. We set out for a monastery on the southern cliffs and met a Valois seigneur of prodigious medical skill, who treated our wounded. Alas, at night cruel natives attacked our beach encampment and forced us to abandon the seigneur’s hospitality. if we scour their villages, what will the doctor do for us?
Our supplies now run low and the crew whisper sullenly. too right As I write this letter, captain Dampier inspects two final islands through his spyglass. Instead of “angering God by landing on His Larder” he favors what he claims is the cursed Isle of the Sea King. I fear for our lives and trust this letter to the sea.
-P wanker
Assorted pirate notes:
down with the captain!
trade here for guns and trained monkeys
Larrimer shot from the jungle by muskets
a hedgehog of cannons. what does it defend?
a lot of fighting over old ruins
strange beasts always in pairs
temple means gold!
blasted tribes and their animal howls!
ripe for the picking
gods save us it came out of nowhere!
have the doctor treat our wounded
monks say they guard secret of life
-the horror!
You have to admire the kind of pirate that takes the time to jot down "the horror!" while his mates are eaten alive by ravenous wossnames.
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