Longboat Mountain – The Longboat Caves

We return to Longboat Valley (near the top of Longboat Mountain) with this small map of location D. Many of the marked locations in the valley itself lend themselves better to a quick description than a full map – but we should have maps for locations I and J (and maybe H) to finish off the set.

The caves up here are the top of the “Silver Stair” – a wide set of stairs cut into the mountain that climb from the depths of the Silver Caves to this location at the top. The Silver Stair connects to the Drop Caves via the chain from the Drop Falls map, and also to the Red Eagle tower (via a secret passage that has been long forgotten). Taking the stairs allows one to bypass most of the mountain itself, in a long dark climb that spirals up and around through the heart of the mountain itself.

The caves are home to a mutated and insular clan of goblins descended from a small expedition that discovered the secret door at Red Eagle Tower before the current inhabitants took over the site. Some fierce beast that devoured half their number chased them up the stairs. The remainder settled into these caves and the area directly outside of them, surviving on a diet of berries and roots and the occasional poached herd animal (the herders of the valley believe that the poaching is done by the goblins of goblin hill, not a group local to the valley).

Six generations later, the shallow gene pool of this group of goblins, their pastoral lifestyle, and the magical environment of the valley have changed these creatures. They are less hostile than most goblins, have a much flatter face and long drooping ears, and most of them have six fingers on each hand. They call themselves the Silver Folk in the goblin tongue. They are more likely to run away than confront intruders, but if someone does attack one of their kin, they will gather up and attack en masse to try to drive out their attackers.

There are two entrances to the Longboat Caves – a narrow cave to the west that leads into the deeper chamber, and the eastern cave that leads directly into the massive chambers and which is overlooked by a natural stone bridge shortly after entering the space. Between the two caves is a third much shallower cave that was used at some point to store foodstuffs and supplies – but that was long ago and the boxes are so old and rotten that not even the goblins were able to find anything useful within them.

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 10,200 x 13,200 pixels in size (34 x 44 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) – so resizing it to either 2,380 x 3,080 or 4,760 x 6,160 pixels, respectively.

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