Rough Guides

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Contents 1 City Guides 2 Popular Attractions Around the Four Cities 3 Popular Attractions Under the Four Cities 4 Separated by a Desert 5 The Islands 6 The Frozen North 7 The Deep South (Oz) 8 The Frozen South 9 Places Not On This Earth 10 Other maps 11 The Quasi-Official Cities Annals

City Guides

Looking for a new rusty sword? Don't know where to get a good mug of coffee? Want to sample the nightlife of the Four Cities? Why not consult one of our city guides?

• The Rough Guide to Earth City
• The Rough Guide to Windy City
• The Rough Guide to Fire City
• The Rough Guide to Water City

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Fire City	Water City
Windy City	Earth City

Popular Attractions Around the Four Cities

We're also in the process of supplementing our range with guides to the following popular destinations in the vicinity of the Four Cities, and will gladly accept contributions from adventurers.

• Darth Mall
  • Darth Mall Floor Plan
• Markets
• Festival
• Harvey Farm
• K.O.T. Keep
• Night Shrine
• Nightfall Shrine
• Royal Palace
• Shrine of the Light
• Interior
• Stone Hoppers Club's Guide to the Standing Stones
• Thieves Forest
• Dungeons
  • The Vents
  • Taxing Cellar

Popular Attractions Under the Four Cities

• The Tube
• The Tunnels
  • The Labyrinth (SW Tunnels)
  • The Catacombs (NW Tunnels)
  • The Sewers (NE Tunnels)
  • The Mines (SE Tunnels)
• Understuff
• Tokyo 4

Separated by a Desert

Once you have crossed the Great Desert in the South, you can visit these enchanting attractions.

• Bentnob - this is on the Isle of Fright, but you don't need your own boat to get there
• Brighthelm
• The Forbidden City around 11E 31S DSSGCM
• The School of Hard Knocks 9E 44S DSSGCM
• The Betty Fnord Clinic 25E 38S DSSGCM
• Jon's Kraken Shack 51E 48S DSSGCM
• Ignatz's Retreat - a peninsula located at 81E 48S DSSGCM
• Monster Island - a peninsula on the main south coast at 13E 49S DSSGCM
• Oasis Locations - extremely useful when you are wandering around the desert looking for apple pips
• University of Southampton

The Islands

Once you have a boat you can cross the Ocean and land on the Islands! (Not to be outdone by JMB, Another view of the islands!)

A note on sea travel: you may travel through bridges on a boat, but you may not board a boat while on a bridge. Boats can land at any beach. If you wish to land at a place which is not a beach, you will need a pair of daedalus wings, two winged boots, an airship, or a skip <direction> spell in order to climb up the cliff.

To help you travel between the islands a groups of adventurers are maintaining a network of bridges

• Bombardier Island and its Caverns (around 45E 65S DSSGCM)
• Cigar Island 44E 72S DSSGCM - 85E 72S DSSGCM)
• The Cursed Island (East of Cigar Island, around 92E 72S DSSGCM)
• Eigh-Bay Island (around 27E 64S DSSGCM)
• Holiday Island (around 61E 58S DSSGCM)
• The Isle of the Gorgan (Western beach 27E 72S DSSGCM; Northern beach 36E 68S DSSGCM)
• Ninja Island (NW tip is at 54E 65S DSSGCM)
• The Lost Island 21E 72S DSSGCM
• Moo Moo 13E 79S DSSGCM
• The Isle of Kaos (around 69E 87S DSSGCM)
• Bunny Island 33E 335S DSSGCM

The Frozen North

On the north of the Four cities, there is a land of ice called The Frozen North. So far, the following attractions within this frozen land have been found:

• Bognor
• Asgard
• 'King Elseware's Fortress of Solitude 90E 190N DSSGCM
• The Lost World. Cradled within The High Plateau, its entrance can be found at 21E 128N DSSGCM
• Rockall at 52E 187N DSSGCM

The Deep South (Oz)

Far in the south, below 200S, you will find the land of Oz. There is a Coral Reef separating Oz from the Southern Ocean.

There are four cities:

• Los Laputas - Air
• Crimson City - Fire
• Emerald City - Earth
• Atlantish - Water

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Atlantish	Crimson City
Emerald City	Los Laputas

Notable Islands include:

• To the North-West: Bleak Island
• To the South-East: Phw's Island Home

Hidden deep within the interior on a tall mountain lies the:

• Mysterious City of Gold and Lead

To the south of Oz lies a vast ocean full of Plankton which has now been dubbed:

• The Crill Sea

The Frozen South

Beyond The Crill Sea the Farsi continues until you reach The Frozen South.

Islands:

• The main island in the Farsi: Dragon 29E 510S DSSGCM
• A small atoll off of Dragon: Tortuga, Isle of Scurvy 38E 505S DSSGCM
• Caroline Island 88E 480S DSSGCM
• Fredericia - Radio Caroline. More of a boat then an island. 80E 476S DSSGCM

Beyond the freeze-line are two small communities:

• The town of Northwich 51E 550S DSSGCM
• The frozen village of Tresoddit 80E 575S DSSGCM

Places Not On This Earth

Out of this earth and exist in ethereal (or not so ethereal) space. These places can only be reached by not so normal means (special talisman, etc).

• The Alternate Ocean
• The Ancient Castle
• The Arena
• Astral Plane
• Barbelith
• Cloud Land
• Kansas
• Limbo
• Marwell Zoo
• Neutral Zone
• R'1yeh
• Sniffleheim
• Space
• Valhalla
• The Vaults
• Wizard's Retreat

Other maps

Other maps with greater coverage:

• The Darksatanic Survey Online
• Loog's Auto-mapper
• MrFoo's interactive city map (needs Java)
  • Now there's a version with least AP route finding: Route Finder
• Cthu1hu's World Map
• Solune's map including Oz, the desert and the great north
• coast-to-coast map - very cool.
• The Great Cities Mapping Project

The Quasi-Official Cities Annals