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Having just begun my Savage Tide campaign, I'm prepping details for the next several adventures. I was reading through Sea Wyvern's Wake and noticed something, well, odd.
The Sea Wyvern is heavily laden and trundling along at about 1.5 mph in a fair wind (normal speed 3 mph, but decreased because it's so heavily laden, per James Jacobs in this thread. The math for distance travelled and time taken up to around encounter C matches that speed precisely -- distance from the flotsam ooze encounter to Tamoachan is 500 miles, travelled in 14 days, for example (an average speed of 35 miles per sailing day).
Then, though, there's the Tamoachan to Brotherhood Blockade leg. On the map, C to D appears to be a much shorter distance than B to C. But under distance, the encounter states it's 500 miles from Tamoachan -- a distance which is to take 4 days. Averaging that out, it's 125 miles per day -- almost three times the previous average.
The 500-mile distance has to be a typo of some sort, right? Looking at the total distance from Sasserine, from encounter C to encounter D it only increases by 150 miles. That distance matches up with the 4-day sailing time, too.
Looks like a typo to me, someone just dropped a 1 from the latter part.... 500 miles, travelled in 14 days...
... 500 miles from Tamoachan -- a distance which is to take 4 days.
That's one possibility, yeah, but the total distance from Sasserine combined with the visual distance showing on the overall travel map is what gives me pause.
I'll probably end up having it be 4 days from the blockade, and perhaps have a Scarlet Brotherhood recon team poking around the Tamoachan ruins as well. *evil grin*