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Longboat Mountain: Silver Vale Cave
🕑 Added 2024-04-19 14:37:07 +0000 UTCToday we explore the top level of the old silver mine that lends its name to Silver Vale (location A on the Longboat Mountain overview – posted earlier this week). The old silver mine has been long worked out, but now others have moved into it…
The upper level of the mine is mostly a cave that had some mining in the south side that were in turn converted into storage and holding areas. The main cave drops down into the lower caves, some of which are partially flooded, and the remnants of the silver mine in the depths (which will be detailed next month as we continue with the Longboat Mountain series).
A colony of Dark Creepers has taken over the mine but find these caves too “exposed” and generally avoid them. To their annoyance, this has allowed a small group of goblin refugees to move in.
The goblins maintain a watch in the northeast corner of the cave where they can monitor use of the trail up to the mountain through the small cave entrance that overlooks the trail (the entrance is well concealed, appearing just to be a shallow overhang in the hill unlike the main cave entrance to the south). Otherwise they have one “family” group living in the central chamber where they’ve secured the doors, and a second family in what appears to have been a strongroom for the silver at some point in the southwest corner of the structure.
The Dark Creepers are trying to spook the goblins out of the caves, while also trying to do the same for the prospectors in the vale (and not get eaten by the giant birds in the process).
The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 9,300 x 6,600 pixels (31 x 22 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for the recommended 10‘ squares that make sense with the design) – so resizing the image to 2,170 x 1,540 pixels or 4,340 x 3,080 pixels, respectively.
https://dysonlogos.blog/2024/04/19/longboat-mountain-silver-vale-cave/
