Captain Markus's location notes

Captain Markus's location notes are notes of places in the district of Sınır Sapı, kept in the hidden obsidian box in the house of Captain Markus, in the campaign Zincirsiz ("Unchained"). There were some ten to fifteen of them. Jonathan River copied them into his book and compared them with the map in the cellar, which he said he did not take.¹²

At first Jonathan said he would leave the original notes so as not to be traced; his later words suggested he had taken them after all. When he showed his findings to Master Otto, he said plainly that he had not taken the original papers and had only copied them. Weighing them at the inn, he and Olaf found that most of the places lay in the countryside rather than in the town, and thought they might be places the captain had been looking into.³⁴⁵

Otto's map

Otto had a map brought out of a tube and unrolled. It marked some sixteen or seventeen places, the same as those in Jonathan's copy, and was made of something that looked unlike ordinary human parchment. Otto said that his men had found it in a hidden part of a cave in the countryside where they fought drow.⁶⁷⁸

A hooded man whom Jonathan met at night held that the sixteen marks were tunnels that might lead below ground, most of them decoys, and named another store or meeting place, missing from the list, as more important. Since not every tunnel was visited, the map's purpose stayed open.⁹¹⁰