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The Blurry Sketch of the Island is a readable lore item in Windrose. It records the final, paranoid scrawlings of a pirate captain who murdered his own crew to keep a buried hoard for himself, then found himself trapped on the island by foul weather and slowly unravelling. The note doubles as flavour for the game’s wider Buried Treasure hunts.

In-Game Text

Bloody weather. It's got me well and truly stuck, but that's no matter. The chest is buried, and that's what counts. Those filthy bums want to split the loot equally! They can go to hell! Now they will guard my gold forever.

Once the rain lets up, I'll make it to Tortuga and hire a new crew. Or buy myself some land, house and servants included. I should also thank the apothecary. He recommended a fine remedy. Very effective.

The gold can stay put for now, gives me time to come up with a suitably tear-soaked tale for the Brethren of the Coast. Spaniards attacked us. Or the English. Makes no difference.

If only this wind would die down. It howls and bends the palms so fiercely that I start seeing… things. If I hadn't killed my own men, I might think they were still here. Watching me. Alive.

How To Obtain

The sketch is found as loot rather than crafted. It turns up among readable documents recovered from chests and points of interest while exploring the islands, in the same pool as other Treasure Maps and lore notes. It stacks up to 10 and has no combat or crafting use.

Lore Significance

The writer admits to killing his crew rather than splitting the loot, planning to spin the Brethren of the Coast a "tear-soaked tale" about a Spanish or English attack to explain the missing men. He mentions a remedy from an apothecary and, by the end, is seeing the ghosts of the very crew he murdered watching him from the bent palms. Whether the apparitions are guilt, fever, or something genuinely supernatural is left to the reader, fitting the cursed, haunted tone of the islands.

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