Where is the entrance to the Catacombs of Wrath?
You get there from the basement of the Glassworks.
Maybe I should have been more specific. I'm currently running Burnt Offerings, and I cannot find in the description, or the map, where it is.
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It's in A23--your PCs need to follow the tunnel curving away:
The long tunnel leading from this room winds for some distance through the bedrock below Sandpoint. [...] what they discovered were the Catacombs of Wrath
Following it and then taking the first to the left/west leads them up to B1.
Ruyan.
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You get there from the basement of the Glassworks.Maybe I should have been more specific. I'm currently running Burnt Offerings, and I cannot find in the description, or the map, where it is.
It says just east of the basement stairs, but its not on the map.
Ah, I get what you're saying. The description is where RuyanVe describes. I posted a link to a quick map I drew in this thread. Let me know if you're having trouble seeing it.
Part of the problem here is that the description of the tunnel goes in the wrong direction first, giving a long meandering path that leads out to the coast somewhere... then backtracks a mile or so to say "oh, by the way, that other path leads to the CoW".
Take a look here--a wonderful map by Cinchbug.
Ruyan.
Cinchbug's map is great, and totally clarifies the rather confusing wording in the AP, but in my campaign I decided to avoid a lot of potential wandering around and getting distracted in dark tunnels, so I just had the Catacombs directly beneath the glassworks instead. It seemed a much more immediate threat that way. Of course, that does mean that...
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I'm wondering, isn't there another tunnel/cave that ends on the Junkyard beach? The one filled with goblin trash. I believe it's how the goblins and Tsuto entered the Catacombs and the Glass works (since all the other tunnels are dead-ends).
After re-reading that portion of AP#1 (and in the AE), it looks like Cinchbug’s map shows the tunnels as described.
There are three branches of the smuggler’s tunnels: the eastern branch collapses after about 400ft (it used to lead to the Turandarok River); the western branch goes into the Catacombs of Wrath (the smugglers/Sczarni bricked-up that entrance instanter when they realised they’d tunneled into a deep nest of trouble, instead of the garrison basement). The north-easterly branch, the main one used by the smugglers, runs for almost six hundred yards before ‘dead-ending’; a secret door opens into a cave overlooking the sea, one that slopes down to a narrow beach where the smugglers used to unload their illicit cargo. That beach is littered with goblin trash and other leavings, showing it’s where they camped before they launched the (first) raid.
Tsuto and the goblins entered the tunnels from the northern-most ending--beyond the wall and Northgate of Sandpoint. It has a cave with a small beach at this end.
Ruyan.
Ok, so my little cave and beach ended nowhere near there, lol. Well, next time I'll be reading descriptions more carefully.
Thanks, guys!!