But you're not supposed to reveal them till the day!

And Easter's not till May 5 anyway this year (Orthodox) 😉!

Well, I'm still hunting for the connecting sewer symbols to let me create a sewer layout for Parchment City (hey, it says I can do this on page 1 of the PDF Mapping Guide for it!) 😉😁!

[At a not-so-wild guess, that's an accidental copy-over from the March Annual!]

One of the Twitch livestreams I follow more regularly runs out of New York City, and they seem to have endless problems with their Internet connectivity. I gather from what's been said that this is a particular NYC thing, where each few city blocks ends up trapped with only one available ISP, so even complaining doesn't help, as you can't threaten to switch to a different provider.

And don't get me started on those dratted "Captcha" things. Great, images so tiny I can't even guess what they might be showing, and you want me to identify a what in each of them (US terms do not always travel well, folks...)?

For the water-supply point, clay-lined dug-out ponds will work nicely as rainwater traps, if suitable hollows don't already exist. Channels from those can carry water downslope to wherever it's needed. However, the island's of a size and form that there could easily be wells dug, or even a natural spring or two (or a combination of all three) without needing to worry about more artificial means of water supply.

Helen, you can find that map, and many other illustrations, on the Pauline Baynes website. She was an amazing lady who did a huge number of illustrations, including the only ones of Middle Earth not drawn by Tolkien himself during his lifetime which he authorised.

This map, and that for Middle Earth, were available as posters at one time, as I used to have both. They are true works of art!

Plus, she also did all the maps and illustrations for all of Lewis's "Narnia" books. There is, or was, a single volume hardcover at one stage which had all the texts, maps and illustrations in, all in colour, if I recall correctly.

Unfortunately, as Sue mentioned, the appearance of the acne-pitted texture changes as you zoom in or out to the map, and you may find too that it appears different again when you prepare an exported image (resolution-dependent). This makes it difficult to rely on this appearance when drawing maps.

As the perceptive among you will have noticed, I made a further change to the locations of some of the upper level layout designs after hiding the bitmap sheet I'd been tracing, something that I find happens all the time, when things don't look quite right. And which are liable to be changed repeatedly thereafter till I'm happy (or happier...) with them!

However, to today's update. The exterior is done for now, with ground cover, some vegetation and a few tumbled smaller rocks. I've also added the new SCREEN Sheet mask to hide what's beyond the map border:

The effects on the various external ground and symbols sheets has needed a degree of amending as well to reach this point, and I've also added those three free-standing boulders/rock pillars at the mouth of the southern front cavern. Haven't done anything inside the caves as yet, although I have had to add a small polygon of one of the patchy grey dirt terrain bitmap fills (one of the "T" types) to better disguise one of the outer-inner transitional passageway ends, where (as sometimes happens), the Edge Fade, Inner effect was giving too sharp a line where the outside brown dirt bitmap fill met the grey of the cave floor.

Next will be the initial interior cavern features.

The broken-open eggs could use a more ragged broken edge. They look much too neat presently. And again, sorry Sue!

Beyond what Royal Scribe mentioned, if you've only used basic graphics manipulation programs for mapping before (such as Inkarnate), you may struggle to get to grips with CC3+ at first, because it's a true CAD software package, and works in a rather different way.

If you haven't already, I'd definitely recommend reading and working your way through the tutorials from the PDF CC3 User Manual (despite the name, it is written for CC3+ users; you'll find it in the Profantasy => CC3Plus => Documentation folder, or just click the "Help" drop-down menu in an open CC3+ window, then click "User Manual"). I can't stress enough the importance of doing this, rather than simply trying to make your own way through the program, if you have no prior experience with CAD software. Many folks (including myself) tried that, and ended up hugely frustrated until we sat down and actually learnt these basics properly.

There are other written tutorials available on the Forum and the ProFantasy Blog. This topic has a list of options, although they are mostly dealing with specific elements, not just how to map with the software.

Good luck, and if you get stuck, feel free to ask again here!

"A" looks more natural to me too, Sue.

The cross-hatched decoration (don't know what the proper term for it is, sorry!) seems undamaged despite the roof holes beneath it. As this seems to be of fairly flimsy outer surface material (compared with the depth of roof thatching), it seems unlikely it would have survived intact when the entire thatch below it has rotted away - even if it had just broken and raggedly partly fallen-in, say. I'd guess in some cases it might partly survive sort-of intact, but not always.

It does also look a little odd that none of the holes are where the greenery is; the extra weight and implication that that's where water's collecting, so mulching the thatch down into a growing medium plants can root into, might suggest that kind of area would be ripe for collapse as well.