Loc: Basin Lake
The landscape dips into a depression below sea level, filled with water. The circumference of the lake is six turns of walking in total; it takes three turns to skirt around the lake to go deeper. There is a 1-in-6 chance of finding a rowboat at the entry point and per turn of walking. The lake takes two turns to row across.
The water is highly saline, causing bodies and objects of similar density to float. Additionally, the water is also:
| d12 | Detail |
|---|---|
| 1 | Warm. |
| 2 | Cool. |
| 3 | Boiling. |
| 4 | Frozen. |
| 5 | Effervescent: tiny bubbles are noticeable up close. |
| 6 | Sulfurous: can be smelled from the edge of the area. |
| 7 | Toxic, causing d6 damage per turn of contact. |
| 8 | Full of dead fish, clearly inedible. |
| 9 | Full of dead fish, seemingly edible? |
| 10 | Regenerative by contact: heals 1 point of random ability damage per turn. |
| 11 | The site of an active salt farming operation. |
| 12 | The site of an abandoned salt farming operation. |