My first attempt to use the color key effect - rough draft of a rocky area battle map, playing around with trying to create pits of bones. Not exactly there - I think the bevel effect helps, but it should have more shadows.........suggestions welcome as usual!

The Omoroca are a seafaring race, short (average 4’8” height) with broad feet (similar to halflings), and frequent tattoos. They live most of the time on the open ocean, coming to land occasionally for materials that are not available from the ocean. Easily mis-understood due to their habit of telling tall stories (always with an element of truth). 

Burt the Omoroca talks about surviving the great waves created by a monstrous whale that smacked it’s tail seven times before they were able to safely sail away. (Other Omoroca would understand that this means they survived a terrible storm for seven days.) Two Omoroca’s together will often try to out do each other with their tales.

They will meet up and tether their Catamarans together for fishing or gathering other materials from the oceans.

Meddleson’s Storage & Shipping

 Run by Cade Meddleson and his son “Roc” and owned by Dan Ger. Meddleson’s Storage includes the docks and a large stone walled warehouse. 

First Floor:

1.     Drive through for wagons

2.     Large bins storing incoming or outgoing goods for pickup.

3.     Main Office

a.      Stairs to second level

b.     Access to the “Hide-a-way” (behind the stairs)

Second Floor

1.      Long term storage bins

a.      Liquor aging barrels

b.     Farm implements & Misc Hardware

c.      Pickled vegetables, preserved fruits and meats

d.     Wench and left to 1st level

2.     Secure storage. Rosie Larson, the local Pawn Broker rents to store unclaimed goods

3.     “The Vault” is a heavily fortified (thick brick walls and steel doors) room with 8 separate secured vaults. The main door is locked and trapped, the individual vaults have two key locks and some may also be trapped.

4.     The Meddleson’s living quarters, a main room and two small bedrooms

I find this site very helpful to help get my mind around the project before starting:

Second Level

Have to leave off this project for a little bit - getting ready for neck surgery next week, been bothering me for years - compressed nerve sets off tendonitis in my right arm and hand - hopefully a successful surgery will alleviate and I will be able to use my mouse hand for more than a few minutes a day. Here's where I'm at:

Worked a little on the shipyards - need to add roads and LOD, but I think I'm making progress on "old town". What do you all think about putting a few farms inside the "new wall"?

Working on a color shift from the green/grey to a green/brown to designate "old town" buildings.