Two hexes southeast of Alakran.
Near the eastern side of the Scarp just south of the Notch, in dusk or dawn light may be glimpsed a feral adolescent boy, with intense eyes, wearing only a tattered blanket. He chooses to keep his distance from large groups, but will do what he can to survive in this region of peril.
Marsatar's den is a burrow in the hidden side of one of the Scarp's foothills. There he keeps a collection of human coin, mostly low-value copper and bronze, total worth 100 gp. He realizes they are useful to humans but has strange ideas about how they are used. His other treasures include a battered bronze breastplate, a map of trade routes in Dulsharna as they existed 20 years ago, and a sandalwood box engraved with a labyrinth, winding and crossing over all sides, which must be successful traced to open the box and reveal ... emptiness. As a magical curio the box is worth 700 gp.
I'm probably just new to the notion of hexcrawler and thus this stuff excites me more than it should, like a kid who just got sugar, but want to say I really dig these 'distantly viewable' or spread area encounters wherein jackalboy may be a speck on the horizon, may be a gibbering cackle in the night, may engage expecting tribute, aid, or food, might be pursued to where he stashes bones and boullion. All to say, been digging these little hex modules of yours. They ring true to the experience of hiking about. Provide range.
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Thanks for the appreciation! In a desert you can see a long way, but what you're seeing is not always clear ... and of course, other things can also see you.
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