Sneaking Into the City

“Agrakata is a well defended city. Only a fool would try any sneak into the palace of the Phoenix king. And such a fool would need these maps of the city's aquifers, hopefully such a fool has 250 gold.” - Ida Holly

The Sneaking Into the City, Rumor has it the main well connects to an underground river that flows out of the city. Guard patrols out in the dunes are infrequent, Once you're in you’ll need to creep your way to the Palace. Stay out of the light!

One little slip up in an otherwise perfectly defended city. An opening to get you behind the walls and not far from the palace where the crown, your target, is. Now here's the rub. You set off alarm bells and the whole operation is a bust, because we can't just steal the crown we need to REPLACE it with this fake and the royals can't be none-the-wiser. So this is a sneaky quest, in and out in silence, Got that, bard?

Designing the layout of this map I knew I wanted it to be a Mediterranean city, and for it to be beautiful and opulent, a city of plants and art filled with life and for the players to be sneaking in during a rare time of quiet through an otherwise very busy and lively city. For this map I wanted to pull from Turkish/Ottoman architecture like the blue mosque and the terraced houses in Mardin.