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Campaign Server Proposal
ALFA 024 - The Shining Sea
Areas
The hub of ALFA 024 will be The Shining Sea. It will be built within about 25% of the size of the our other larger servers however, so that the rest of it can be devoted to far off and exotic ports of call that our players can adventure in.
ALFA 024 will start with Tharsult and two other shining sea locations. The mission of the server is not to be limited to this sea, but to provide space for DMs to build just about any place you can sail to that they might want to use for a few weeks or even as permanent campaign setting for their games.
Even for one shot adventures, rather than bogging down a larger server with the areas they can be added to ALFA 024 and used for a while before being removed. Outside the core Shining Sea areas all of the server will be removable or replaceable.
Two of the three starting areas have been decided on already. The third I want to leave open for a few weeks to see if there might be others in ALFA who see this project and want to add a place of their own. Should no ideas come up in that time my team will make a third port of call after finishing these two, before going live.
Tharsult- The island nation of Tharsult is a trade hub and melting pot for The Shining Sea and many of the worlds great nations. Once a Calishite province it still has a middle eastern flavor but the peoples mercantile and cosmopolitan nature have mixed a little of everything in the capitol city of Urbeth. The island itself will have some adventuring and static quests.
Fort Belurian- An outpost of The Flaming Fist on the north edge of the Chultan jungle. This port will be small on civilization and large on danger. Several adventure areas for characters, but no static quests planned at this time. You can see in the map below that the 024 area includes the Shining Sea and Chult, but Tharsult is in the 025 Halruaa region. I am proposing nudging the line from 024 to the east a bit to include Tharsult and the rest of the Shining Sea.
The Team
I would serve as HDM of the server and I will take on other DMs in the usual process. We have mr duncan building Tharsult and I am building Fort Belurian. Both of us will continue to build more areas as I feel the server needs them, and the server will of course be open for future DMs to add whatever locations might interest them. We have Heero on our team too, for no good reason. He dosnt build, and wont DM... but we have him on the team. Thanks Heero.
The eventual vision is a server with a wide network of port cities and adventure spots all around Faerun. Players are welcomed and encouraged to make what changes to their world they can, and player housing will be an option in any of the core areas as well as anything other DMs might want to add for their own game settings later on.
Screenshots
The capitol city of Urbeth is already being built. Mr Duncan wants you all to know these screenshots are all images of unfinished areas. They are however worth showing. There are a lot of great exotic and jungle placables we just do not get to use in ALFA and this server will make full use of our toolset and haks to give a very different feel to the city than the cities we have in ALFA currently.
An overview of the city. It will be split in to multiple areas when it is done. You can see we are getting a lot of use out of the adobe buildings.
http://www.imagebam.com/image/72502d278868225
Here are a couple of close up shots of the streets, bearing in mind they are still very rough.
http://www.imagebam.com/image/7bb29b278520925
http://www.imagebam.com/image/cfcbb6278725977
http://www.imagebam.com/image/9e7f3b278870623
This one is not finished either, but I think the sultans palace is coming along nicely and showcasing the vast wealth of the island of merchants.
http://www.imagebam.com/image/b2d358279319218
