GAZETTEER · THE SOUTHERN FLATS
The Drover's Wreck
aka the salted caravan, the traces
A picked-over caravan half-sunk in the salt flats, the bones of its team still standing in the traces.
A merchant caravan that misjudged the flats lies where it stopped — wheels seized in the salt-crust, canvas gone to rags, the dray-beasts' bones still upright in their harness as if they only paused. Everything of obvious worth was taken long ago, but the salt preserves, and the desperate and the patient still turn over what the first scavengers missed. The Sunbleached Hold's old road runs past it, going nowhere now.
KIND
ruin
PARENT PLACE
The Sunbleached Hold
CLIMATE
hot, arid, salt-crusted
DANGER TIER
Tier III
Connected
The Sunbleached HoldPLACE · The salted caravan died on the hold's road, never re…The Salt-Pan ShrinePLACE · Drovers prayed at the shrine and still died at the w…The Salt-Pan ShrinePLACE · Whoever crewed the wreck had left their last copper …The Drover's Ledger-StoneITEM · Cured hard by the salt under the wreck's floorboards…The Drover's CrossingTEXT · The text is found in the Drover's Wreck.The Drover's Ledger-StoneITEM · The Drover's Ledger-Stone is hidden under the wreck'…
Type Fields
kindruin
parent_placeplace.sunbleached-hold
climatehot, arid, salt-crusted
danger_tier3
points_of_interestthe team's bones in the traces, the seized wheels, the cache under the floorboards the first looters missed
map_x530
map_z905
procgen_seed8202
All Relationships (8)
located_in
- →The Sunbleached Hold — The salted caravan died on the hold's road, never reaching it.
- ←The Drover's Crossing — The text is found in the Drover's Wreck.
references
- ←The Salt-Pan Shrine — Drovers prayed at the shrine and still died at the wreck a half-day on; the two mark the same doomed crossing.
- →The Salt-Pan Shrine — Whoever crewed the wreck had left their last copper in the shrine's bowl behind them.
- ←The Drover's Cache-Delve — The cache-delve is what the South Road and the Drover's Wreck were built to serve — the dead road's memory leads here.
occurred_at
- ←quest.what-the-salt-kept (unresolved) — Out past the salt-pan shrine to the wreck, prying up the floorboards the first looters missed.
hidden_in
- ←The Drover's Ledger-Stone — Cured hard by the salt under the wreck's floorboards, where the first looters never pried.
- →The Drover's Ledger-Stone — The Drover's Ledger-Stone is hidden under the wreck's floorboards.
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