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Terror Island

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Mucklands Sandbox Campaign Setting · p.321

Open source p.321
Scalawag Strand

So named for its abundance of TERRORSAURS—ferocious flying predator lizards—Terror Island is an inhospitable, otherworldly landscape of jagged cliffs and dense jungle, filled with vicious beasts and perilous dangers. An ancient volcano, said to have emerged from the seas after a cataclysmic eruption, looms over the island like a dark tower.

Legends tell of volcanic creatures that live within the molten heat at the island's boiling core, awaiting the time when the mountain will erupt again and free them. These days, Terror Island is only traveled by bold adventurers in search of a tremendous treasure that was hidden some years ago by a PIRATE. The treasure is rumored to rival "the shimmer of a king's coffer” or so the buccaneers of Scalawag Strand say. Yet, despite many attempts, few sailors ever return from Terror Island, and those that do? Well, they often carry with them a harrowing tale of monsters, magma, and an angry island that just wants to be left alone.

modifiers
  • Travel Checks
  • Wandering Intruder Chance
wandering intruders

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  • 1. Terrorsaur
  • 2. Volcanoids
  • 3. Troggles
  • 4. Skeeters
  • 5. Dracopillars
  • 6. Terrorpins
what's there

THE JUNGLE OF TERROR

A dense, hot jungle with little visibility, difficult terrain, incessant insects, and terrible predators. So many pirates and hapless explorers have perished in the jungle that there's a saying among the pirates of the Strand: “Ye could raise a mast to the moon with all the blood, sweat and tears in that jungle.”

THE TERROR MOUNTAINS

Home of some of the deadliest creatures in Eem: the dreaded TERRORSAURS. Their nests riddle the entire mountain range, and their bloodcurdling screeches can be heard for miles. Mount Terror is the highest peak, an active volcano where VOLCANOIDS dwell (p327).

perilous encounters

Terror Island has its own Perilous Encounter table. All encounters are hostile.

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  • 1. Troggles
  • 2. Terrorpins
  • 3. Bogsnaps
  • 4. Volcanoids
  • 5. Dracopillars
  • 6. Skeeters
  • 7. Blynx
  • 8. Terrorsaur
  • 9. Felmog Knights
  • 10. Blood Reef Nyads
  • 11. Daggerheart Pirates
  • 12. Gamoranc the Megasaur A unique creature (as wyrm DRAGON L10-C), roaming Terror Island. The ultimate apex predator, Gamoranc resembles a massive, bipedal dragon.
rumors
  • Lord Ulfrex the Cruel sailed his ship, Scimitar, to the Scalawag Strand looking for what remains of his stolen treasure.
  • Magma falls are erupting from the southside of the mountain, releasing lava beasts onto the surface world.
  • TERRORSAURS fly in murderous flocks, demolishing ships throughout Scalawag Strand.
  • A scarred SEA CHIMERA named Old Sinker patrols the shores of Terror Island, looking to capsize ships.

LORD ULFREX THE CRUEL

A Felmog noble who serves the Order of the Black Candle. Lord Ulfrex is a seafaring conqueror that has been searching for a treasure stolen from him by Wally Dunkwhiffle. For years, Ulfrex scoured the Scalawag Strand, until he finally learned that the lion's share of the treasure was stashed away on Terror Island.

  • Traits: Pitiless, frightening presence, speaks in a growl.
  • Motivation: Stop at nothing to reclaim his stolen treasure hoard and return to his home in the city of Kreeth, far in the northwest of Eem.

MARBLES GUTTERBY

A young boggle dungeoneer working on her final thesis at Dungeoneer Academy. Marbles is studying the VOLCANOIDS and their unique magma structures. She really thinks if she can pull this off, she's totally going to get an A, maybe even an A+.

  • Traits: Nerdy, risk-taking, has a lisp.
  • Motivation: Discover the secrets of the volcanoid society as well as their motivations for creating magma structures.
quests

BEASTS OF FIRE AND STONE

On the southside of the island, where the magma falls hiss into the saltwater, a mass of volcanic rock arches over the ocean like a bridge. It curves around the island for nearly a mile. At the end of the partially built rock bridge, a boggle student-scientist named Marbles Gutterby, studies this remarkable structure from a small boat.

She observes VOLCANOIDS as part of her graduate thesis at Dungeoneer Academy, discovering that they are slowly assembling a bridge made of hardened magma, under the supervision of a massive VOLCANOID that she dubs the Prime Mordial. Marbles suspects the VOLCANOIDS are migrating from Terror Island, but is not sure to what ends. After all, if their bodies touch the water, they solidify to the point of being inert. Since she doesn't have a proper team, would you help her discover what the VOLCANOIDS are doing? She bought a 6-pack of lava proof suits, so there's extra.

  • Venturing into Mount Terror is treacherous and dangerously hot (p327). The lava proof suits provide Block against lava, and Advantage against resisting lava effects.

THE TREASURE OF ULFREX THE CRUEL

The search is on for Lord Ulfrex's lost treasure, hidden on Terror Island by Wally Dunkwhiffle (owner of Wally's Waffles and Weorgs) before he left the pirate life. But not only Ulfrex is after the hoard, Daggerhearts, Blood REEF NYADS, and maybe even Keef and Judy Lavendar (p286), want in on the action too. Find the treasure and bring it back to Wally.

  • The journey to either of the volcano's entrances is harrowing. TERRORSAUR attacks are frequent, stirred up by the factions' efforts to sabotage each other.
  • The treasure is in Area 4 of Mount Terror (p327), hidden within the labyrinthine Lava Tunnels. Search Check with Disadvantage to locate the treasure: three heavy chests filled to the brim with a Mythic Hoard (), Ancient Hoard (), and Old Hoard (), respectively.
  • The trove was so heavy that Wally opted to hide it and come back for it later. He never expected he would settle down and lose the spark for adventure.
  • Unless dealt with, there's a 6-in chance that Lord Ulfrex finds the treasure first, or else finds the PCs with the treasure in tow during their Travel Checks.
  • Lord Ulfrex the Cruel (FELMOG KNIGHT L10-C), wields a Magic sword called Woehand. Grants +3 Dread. On a 9+ Hit, the target becomes WEAKENED (Vitality Check to resist).
  • Ulfrex is flanked by two FELMOG KNIGHTS (L7-B): Bagra the Blanched, and The Risen.
  • HEROIC TITLE ACHIEVEMENT: Recover the lost treasure of Ulfrex the Cruel.
  • Freebooter of Terror Island•. FELMOG KNIGHTS detest the PC, but the PC gains Advantage on Attacks against them.