[Region 1][Map 16] Kouver Islands

[Baziron]

I have to rescan the first sketch, the pencil drawing is not recognizable and somehow PS does not want to change anything with that... Cannot be helped, I guess. So here's some more stuff.

Message #3

»My liege, we have reached the southern settlement almost as planned. I am afraid that I have to inform you that all of its inhabitants are dead. They have been so for a long time, we only found skeletal remains. While some of the expedition inquired to leave things be and simply go on with the mapping, I insisted that the matter is looked into, since these islands and everything on them are my liege's assets.

I ordered Sir Brynwick and his team to continue with the mapping whilst the rest of us do research on the events that took place here. We will especially try to find out how the people died, and if that is connected to either or both of the magical beast I mentioned or the stone pillar found at the eastern edge of the settlement.
Viro just mentioned that the amount of bones found might easily exceed the number of people noted on the old map.

Brynwick estimates the conclusion of my liege's first new map within four to five days, afterwards we will continue to the island south of here.

Best regards,
Shinon Leoman«

[Baziron]

And booya - I finally have something to present!

One is the first sketch - pencil on paper, redrawn with black biro to see something after scanning.

The second one is the overall map in progress. It's soft pencil drawn, reinforced with harder pencil and finalized with a black ballpen. It's still very naked, but I hope you can see where I'm trying to go.

And before the story unfolds farther, I will leave you in the dark about what some of the symbols mean.

@Hans-Worst: The crosses on your coast are major cities, the other symbol is a site of any sort. You might want to know.

The things in the lower right Corner are doodles, experimental fonts I'll put on the map itself...

[ravells]

Watching with interest!

[Baziron]

I am planning to make separate maps for each island. For that reason, I am currently transferring the outline map (not the sketch) to grid paper so I can easier scale up or down by hand.

[Baziron]

Message #4

»My liege, I have dire news. Apparantly (what we can tell from the remains of the combat signs and all), somebody in Sir Brynwick's group attacked the creature, which, in a rampage, ate them all. Not having been present, I cannot provide any details. However, Sir Brynwick's demise sets us back severely. I have redirected the mapping order to Hendrick.

He's diligent and quick, my liege will soon receive a map of the island. It may not be all to pleasing for the eye, but the boys accuracy and pragmatism will make it a most useful map.

We have established a consensus about the incidents on the Island. From the records we know that long ago, trade also brought other animals here. Viro assumes that the animals over-harvested the island, leading - together with the storms - to a famine. Since they couldn't sail away, they were trapped. So it seems that one day the villagers of one settlement decided to capture and sacrifice all the people of the other village to whatever they worshipped with the aforementioned stone-pillar. It can't have helped, so they turned on each other, until they were finally all dead.

This is what the condition of the skeletons indicate. We have no clue what role the creature plays. As soon as Hendrick's map is finished, we will continue on to the second island.

Shinon Leoman«


Yay, advancing the story without providing more images. I feel great... *irony.off*

[ravells]

Hooray! I'm glad to see that in the Challenge frenzy the CWBP has not been forgotten!

[Baziron]

Actually, I think - when looking at the paper - that I'm done with most of the map. Witnessed several different handdraw styles and then tried appling or die trying it. ;-)

Okay, my shores are bad, and there are only few "graphic enhancement doodles" on the map, but that's what I tried to convey in the "plot" described. The close-up maps will look more like military maps, I guess... found my old Mil.Service notes on mapping.

Most important are the three magic words: "Not to scale" :-D