The island for the month is...
[Distance from Isla Empieza]: About a week's journey.
[Terrain]: The entire island is covered with coarse yellow sand, from the shores to what eventually dries out into a desert only broken up by flat platforms of rock. On the largest of these in the center of the island is the only notable silhouette: a tall, dark stone building that stands out against the sky as a thick rectangle. This building is "the library", and contains the island's only community and a huge collection of books, leaflets, brochures, and newspapers of entirely random subjects.
[Weather]: Stiflingly hot and dry. Rains only happen a few times a year, with otherwise clear skies and still seas, causing challenges to maneuvering ships.
[Is the island inhabited?]: Living in the library is an entire population of intelligent moths which vary in color, patterns, and size (with wingspans ranging from duck-sized to "could make a horse lift off"). The moths and their larvae (also within the building) eat paper, motivating them to collect books and documents from around the world.
[If so, what is the culture like here?]: The moths keep to their own lives and don't mind strangers entering or looking through their stuff. Their language involves vibrating their wings and moving their antennae. If anyone were figure out how to communicate, more complex negotiations could be made (such as asking for specific books), but regardless the moths are smart enough to recognize generic gestures.
[Island peculiarities]: The library's catalog is vast but constantly changing, due to the books being eaten and replaced. Trying to take any book outside of the library/off the island will cause the moths to go hostile. They have no teeth, stingers, or claws, so the most they can give is a hard whack by ramming people. This hostility will continue till the thieves leave the island and will resume should they ever appear again for any reason that is not an apology. Properly "checking out" books requires paying the book's weight in paper.
[Terrain]: The entire island is covered with coarse yellow sand, from the shores to what eventually dries out into a desert only broken up by flat platforms of rock. On the largest of these in the center of the island is the only notable silhouette: a tall, dark stone building that stands out against the sky as a thick rectangle. This building is "the library", and contains the island's only community and a huge collection of books, leaflets, brochures, and newspapers of entirely random subjects.
[Weather]: Stiflingly hot and dry. Rains only happen a few times a year, with otherwise clear skies and still seas, causing challenges to maneuvering ships.
[Is the island inhabited?]: Living in the library is an entire population of intelligent moths which vary in color, patterns, and size (with wingspans ranging from duck-sized to "could make a horse lift off"). The moths and their larvae (also within the building) eat paper, motivating them to collect books and documents from around the world.
[If so, what is the culture like here?]: The moths keep to their own lives and don't mind strangers entering or looking through their stuff. Their language involves vibrating their wings and moving their antennae. If anyone were figure out how to communicate, more complex negotiations could be made (such as asking for specific books), but regardless the moths are smart enough to recognize generic gestures.
[Island peculiarities]: The library's catalog is vast but constantly changing, due to the books being eaten and replaced. Trying to take any book outside of the library/off the island will cause the moths to go hostile. They have no teeth, stingers, or claws, so the most they can give is a hard whack by ramming people. This hostility will continue till the thieves leave the island and will resume should they ever appear again for any reason that is not an apology. Properly "checking out" books requires paying the book's weight in paper.
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