The Flooded Docks

Once, the Flooded Docks was Beacon’s End’s busiest district—warehouses, shipyards, and merchant stalls lined the shore. Then the sea began to rise in strange, unpredictable ways. Some days it floods the entire district; other days it recedes so far that ships can’t dock at all.

The locals blame the curse. They might be right.

Now the docks are half-abandoned, with only the bravest (or most desperate) merchants working there. The warehouses are dark, filled with water that reaches waist-height. Strange things move in that water sometimes—or so the rumors suggest. Fish that glow with sickly light. Shapes that might be creatures, or might be the water itself taking form.

This is where the party was washed ashore, and where Aldus found them. The docks seem to be a nexus point for the corruption—the black crystals are beginning to form here as well, growing from the sea floor beneath the brackish water.