Tortuga Locations

Tortuga Grand Harbor (Port): Deepwater docks, shipwrights, and loose-charter customs. Launch point for every voyage, resupply, and repairs.

The Gilded Gull Inn (Inn): Rowdy sailors’ hall with private booths and a discreet back room. Rumors, jobs, and downtime bonds flow here.

Blackpowder Bazaar Quay (Bazaar + Black Market Docks): Tide-tent market spilling onto shadowy side-piers. Fence loot, buy rare charts and munitions, hire specialists.

Imperial Blockade Line: Cutters and a sea-fort sealing key straits. Recurring obstacle for smuggling routes, diplomacy, or daring raids.

Sirenstep Atoll: Coral mazes and tidal caves haunted by beguiling songs. Clues and bargains tied to the Drowned Crown.

GM Random Vignettes: Tortuga & the Tempest Sea

How to use: Roll a die and read a line aloud; tweak names to fit the scene. Each list is system-neutral color that can seed a consequence or hook.

d12 Tortuga Harbor Color

1. Hook-scarred pilot boat flashes lantern code; a cutter answers from the dark.
2. Dock gulls erupt as a crate splits—glittering clockwork fish flop across planks.
3. Customs scribe naps on a coil of rope; ink pot spills into the tide, like smoke.
4. Shipwright argues with a mast as if it were an old friend—others nod solemnly.
5. Salt-witch blesses a hull with kelp ash; barnacles pop like faint firecrackers.
6. Hailstones the size of beans drum canvas—then stop as if a switch flipped.
7. Rumor-runner trades a map scrap for a single story you swear you told no one.
8. A buoy bell rings off-beat; pilots murmur that a reef “shifted in its sleep.”
9. Stray dog delivers a message tube to the wrong ship—inside, a half-burned writ.
10. Floating shrine drifts by, candles stubborn against the breeze.
11. Imperial pennant spotted in a fishnet; the fisherman denies seeing who cut it loose.
12. Mysterious swell lifts every hull once, like the sea taking a breath.