Silent Isle

Silent Isle
Zone information
Music	Unknown
Located in	Lower Underrail
Areas	Broderick's boat Cave entrance
Connections	Junkyard - Docks (Broderick's boat) Silent Isle cave (north)
NPCs	Captain Broderick
Technical Map file(s) si1, si2

A mysterious, dark island located somewhere in the waterways between the Hub and the Junkyard.

Some azuridae, rathounds can be seen around and a large amounts of mindshrooms grow on the island. Walking around in the darkess of the island gives you a Strange Feeling, but this can be avoided by staying in light. A strange monolith, Mysterious Pillars, can be found in a cave underneath the isle.

Quests

• Dockmaster Silas gives you a mission to sail to the island with captain Broderick, find and retrieve lost cargo that's believed to be washed up there.
  • The Lost Cargo can be found on the north-northwest shore inside a metal crate.

Secrets

• Underwater rock bridge in southeast shore, leading to a dead body.

Captain Broderick's story

This one time I was sailing back from the Hub when I started having problems with the engine's power converter. To fix it I had to turn off the main engine and I didn't want to do that in the middle of the river because the current was strong and I knew there were some stalagmites around I could crash into.

So I anchored at this nearby place the sailors call Silent Isle. I heard tales of it being cursed and how anyone who spends too much time there is never seen again and such nonsense. But that didn't scare me. The only thing I cared about is whether there were pirates there, and as far as I could tell there weren't any.

So I turned off the engine and main lights because I didn't want to be seen and I also didn't want them to drain the battery before I could finish the repairs. So I was working there in silence with just a flashlight on so I could see what I was doing. It took me hours to fix the converter, but I managed to do it. I powered up the engine and started to retract the anchor. And I switched on the main lights.

That's when I saw it... or should I say him. I saw me! Standing there on the shore looking back at myself.

It's not that just that I saw a guy that looked a lot like me, or even that I saw a guy that looked exactly like me... He was wearing the exact same clothes I was with exactly the same stains and tears that my clothes had. It was like I was looking into a mirror, except his pose was different.

And you know what the weirdest thing was? For a few brief moments I couldn't really tell which one of us was real. That was the creepiest feeling I ever had in my life.

I didn't know what to do. I just stood there staring at him and listening to the anchor pulling up. And as soon as the anchor was up, I pushed the throttle and raced out of there.

And nowadays I just steer clear of that island altogether.

—Captain Broderick