Reefwatch

Reefwatch is the diplomatic and commercial capital of The Chitin Isles, a little over a day's easy travel east along a well-kept road from The Span. Its governor is the halfling Scotrik, and the head of its guard is Khahmed Dhistod. Its colours are orange and yellow.

The town stands on a jutting, claw-shaped knob of rock off the coast, its stone buildings set into the side of a massive outcrop of chitin. When the tide is in, a roped ferry crosses to it; when the tide is out, a road appears beneath the waves, risky for carts and goods but easy enough on foot. A small tower on the far point looks east across the smaller islands, and on the larger central island a keep flies its flag over the second bailey. Seabirds circle the towers. Terraced gardens with little market stalls begin about halfway up, and the town feels rich: residents take their leisure in the sea air much of the day, and even the poor seem to have time to themselves.

• The docks curve from the east round to the tip of the northern point, mostly below the town proper. Warehouses and slums are screened from view by a high canopy of greenery in every shade from lime to deep forest green. The transport piers at the northern end feel like another world from the commerce a few yards south. The dockmaster is the gnome Venwyn Twisthold, and the ferries The Cordata and The Digitata work from here.
• Taverns: The Radiant Reprieve on the northern point; The Cat and Cup by the ramps into town; The Staff and Octopus above the docks; and The Bludgeoning Bucket, a fight club by the levee.
• The Stormpits, an open-air prison carved into the southern face of the rock.
• A small temple of Tymora, above a catacomb.

Ferries take about ten days to come round from Luggard Dror, and the archaeological dig at The Ruins of Oghma's Academy lies two days out.

In campaign 2

The party reached Reefwatch in 1034 PC and met the dockmaster Venwyn and Governor Scottrik (Scotrik), whom their notes sum up as a jerk. All sea travel was halted at the time over supplies missing from the docks. Later that year Meradana of the pirates set up a store in Reefwatch.