Price: $3.99 USD
Publisher: DramasScape
Ruined Tortoise Temple
DramaScape Fantasy Volume 76
This product is a 48 x 30-inch, full-color battlemap of a Ruined Tortoise Temple. The Product comes with the Square, Hex and No Overlay versions, the Virtual Tabletop Maps (VTT), and a 360-degree view from the center of the map.
There are all these corpses with bite marks, but I don't see any predators…
– Stranded Survivor
Ruined Tortoise Temple is a single-level exterior map of a ruined temple on a high cliff deep in the jungle with tortoise images embedded into columns, half of them toppled, and a giant tortoise statue.
Ruined Tortoise Temple is intended for fantasy, pulp, horror, modern, or post-apocalyptic games. This could also be used as a location in a science-fiction game. Perhaps this is on a planet with a sophont evolved from tortoises. A slow-moving, long-lived, highly-armored tortoise species with omnivorous tendencies, perhaps.
Adventure Hook for Use With This Map:
The Secret of the Tortoise Temple: The player characters are either stranded on an island after a ship crash or are exploring an island (for treasure or for survival reasons such as a need for food, fresh water, timber to repair their wounded ship, ship beached for careening and not much else to do, etc.).
Eventually, the group finds their way to the ruined tortoise temple. The group finds a lot of corpses with teeth marks as they explore near the temple. Many tortoises inhabit the island but there are no natural predators. As they approach, the tortoises which had held their distance get closer and closer. If the group enters the temple, they surround the giant center statue, trying to bar their way with a shield made of their armored bodies.
If the group makes it past the tortoises on the outside, they find tortoises inside the shield wall perfectly willing to bite them to prevent them from reaching the statue.
If anyone in the group reaches and touches the statue, the island shakes and sways and the tortoises simply stop fighting them, staring at the one who touched the statue blankly. The rumbling continues to intensify until the island itself seems to rise when a giant tortoise head comes into view staring blankly at the person touching the statue as well. The group is on an island formed on the back of a giant tortoise shell! The person who touched the giant tortoise statue can give orders to the tortoises, even the giant one. The tortoises tried to prevent this mind control from happening again and the awakening of the slumbering tortoise god.
The player character can only maintain control as long as he or she is touching the statue. And everyone has to sleep eventually…
