Small Tropical Island
"Land ho!"
The coordinates you chose prove to be the location of a small tropical island, and you row ashore to investigate. It's quite a nice place -- clear blue waves roll lazily onto the pristine white beach, and lush green palm trees sway in the quiet breeze.
As you push inland through the dense undergrowth, you begin to feel... uneasy. It takes you a minute to understand why, but you soon realize: it's too quiet. No parrots squawking in the trees, no monkeys chattering in the bushes. Everything is as still as a tomb.
'Tomb' turns out to be an apt description as you emerge into a large clearing filled with the remains of an ancient village. Mouldering skeletons leer at you from where they lie underneath the trees, and the ruined huts crumble into dust just from the weight of your gaze. Looking around, however, you see no evidence of battle, or disaster, or plague. It's as though the village was drained of all its vitality and all life simply stopped.
Prize
At the center of the village, you find a large stone altar, evidently once the focus of great celebrations, from the way the ground around it has been trampled to hard packed earth, and scattered with ancient litter. Atop the altar is a finely-carved stone tiki idol, about a foot tall and engraved with a malevolently laughing visage. You hesitate to pick it up, but nobody ever got rich by being afraid of ancient tropical curses, so you cautiously lift it from the altar. For a moment it seems as though the idol vibrates slightly in your hands and the eyes flash red, but when you look more carefully, you find nothing out of the ordinary, so you tuck the carving under your arm and make your way back to the priate[sic] ship as quickly as possible.
 | You acquire an item: strange tiki idol |
No Prize
At the center of the village, you find a large stone altar, evidently once the focus of great celebrations, from the way the ground around it has been trampled to hard packed earth, and scattered with ancient litter. Booted footprints in the dust indicate that someone has been here recently, so, grumbling, you break off a piece of the altar and head back to the pirate ship.
 | You acquire an item: sinister altar fragment |
Coordinates
(30,85); (34,79); (38,70); (40,81); (41,90); (47,74); (47,83); (47,91); (51,79); (54,93); (58,77); (59,75); (62,89); (63,81); (68,88); (69,77); (69,94); (70,86); (73,81); (73,88); (77,74); (79,93); (82,83); (86,72); (89,92); (90,79); (94,86); (97,81); (98,94); (100,81); (104,76); (104,85); (107,79); (110,73); (113,94); (116,74); (119,95); (120,88); (121,82); (123,76); (125,97); (127,90); (129,83).
Notes
- Upon first discovery, dropped a strange tiki idol. All subsequent visits by any player yields a sinister altar fragment.
