<div style="margin: auto; max-width: 600px; background: #17252e; border: 3px solid #17252e; border-radius: 10px"><div style="margin: auto; max-width: 600px; max-height: 200px; background: #17252e; border: 3px solid #17252e; padding-top: 5px; font-family: Allura; color: #587875; font-size: 26px; text-align: center; line-height: 24px"><i class="fad fa-moon-stars"></i> The Moonlit Coast <i class="fad fa-moon-stars"></i></div><div style="margin: auto; overflow: auto; max-width: 600px; max-height: 200px; background: #587875 url(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/806557305659326505/938302573222457414/moonlitcoast.png); background-position: center bottom; background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 3px solid #17252e; padding: 5px; font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; color: #17252e; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify; border-radius: 10px">Welcome to the <s>sunny</s> Moonlit Coast, allegedly named for the first shred of guiding moonlight the area's original European settlers found the coast by at last after weeks lost to endless seas and cloudy skies. A small but scenic stretch of mostly rocky beachfront, the Moonlit Coast is known as a picturesque tourist destination in the calmer seasons, and a beacon of exceptionally hazardous weather during the least savory months of the year. The region boasts four major areas of varying interests, steeped in early Colonial history, and myriad strange tales of the mystic and supernatural.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-stars"></i> <b>Moonlight Bay</b><br/>
Of all the fjords and inlets that dot the Moonlit Coast, Moonlight Bay is the largest and least perilous to seafaring vessels, offering a natural crescent of coastal properties that house the best (and, for the most part, <i>only</i>) amenities in the region, including the town that shares its name.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-house-night"></i> <b>Dusk Falls</b><br/>
While not the only out-of-the-way town nestled within the mountainous and woodland terrain of the area, Dusk Falls is the longest established (and may well be the most insular), boasting a well documented pre-colonial history that is nevertheless obscure to most.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-water"></i> <b>The Seven Sisters Isles</b><br/>
A chain of islands skirting the coast, each with its own unique topography and storied history, catering toward a variety of curious and private amenities that attract but do not welcome locals or tourists alike.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-sunset"></i> <b>The Sunset Ridge</b><br/>
A general name for the various and fecund wilderness that surrounds the area, the Sunset Ridge and the surrounding woods and other natural formations contribute to the airs of seclusion and mystery that have long kept the Moonlit Coast both safe and insulated.</div></div><br/><div style="margin: auto; max-width: 600px; background: #17252e; border: 3px solid #17252e; border-radius: 10px"><div style="margin: auto; max-width: 600px; max-height: 200px; background: #17252e; border: 3px solid #17252e; padding-top: 5px; font-family: Allura; color: #587875; font-size: 26px; text-align: center; line-height: 24px"><i class="fad fa-stars"></i> Moonlight Bay <i class="fad fa-stars"></i></div><div style="margin: auto; overflow: auto; max-width: 600px; max-height: 200px; background: #587875 url(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/806557305659326505/938301175088943114/moonlightbay.png); background-position: center bottom; background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 3px solid #17252e; padding: 5px; font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; color: #17252e; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify; border-radius: 10px;">A bustling tourist town, Moonlight Bay boasts at least most of the amenities that were considered state-of-the-art in the early 90s. Many of the businesses and events cater to one of two things: vacationers looking to partake in some idyllic, coastal New England charm, and the year-round and regularly itinerant locals who work the rough and tumble trades of fishing, logging, and various other manual labors of the land and sea.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-moon"></i> <b>Moonlight Bay</b><br/>
Moonlight Bay's very own Moonlight Bay, the bay upon which the town of Moonlight Bay is situated, the crescent shape of the land surrounding the bay offers natural protection from many of the region's worst storms.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-ship"></i> <b>The Constellation Fleet</b><br/>
An impressive name for what essentially amounts to a ramshackle collection of sea-(or at least bay-)faring crafts, its conscripts range from the antique to the more modern, including a massive paddleboat for fine dining and tours of the bay, a dry-docked and decommissioned military vessel housing a museum of the area's martial history, a charterable submarine that caters to both private tours when the weather is nice and scientific expeditions even when it isn't, the ferries that run the gamut of the Bay itself as well as less regularly to the various sealocked settlements along the coast, and a host of other excursionary or service craft.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-eclipse"></i> <b>Moonlight High</b><br/>
The local high school in a way that the local primary school isn't, Moonlight High sees students not only from the town of Moonlight Bay, but from the surrounding smaller towns and villages as well, as it is the only real high school in the area. As such, locals are exceptionally unified in their pride, often bleeding silver and blue in ways that tourists find both startling and full of charm. Any <i>true</i> local was educated in her not-so-hallowed halls for at least a year or two, after all.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-sunrise"></i> <b>The House of the Rising Sun</b><br/>
A modern take on one of the oldest trades known to man, the Rising Sun caters to all manner of interests and sensibilities, with a variety of "shows" and "services" available for regular and passing customers alike. Rumor has it that many more of these offerings exist off the books in less visible areas of the Rising Sun, which is far larger and many more floors than the bar and main stage area have any need to occupy.</div></div><br/><div style="margin: auto; max-width: 600px; background: #17252e; border: 3px solid #17252e; border-radius: 10px"><div style="margin: auto; max-width: 600px; max-height: 200px; background: #17252e; border: 3px solid #17252e; padding-top: 5px; font-family: Allura; color: #587875; font-size: 26px; text-align: center; line-height: 24px"><i class="fad fa-house-night"></i> Dusk Falls <i class="fad fa-house-night"></i></div><div style="margin: auto; overflow: auto; max-width: 600px; max-height: 200px; background: #587875 url(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/806557305659326505/938303397268979773/duskfalls.png); background-position: center bottom; background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 3px solid #17252e; padding: 5px; font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; color: #17252e; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify; border-radius: 10px">The original regional settlement, Dusk Falls has a well-documented but no less puzzling history ranging, or so it appears, from pre-colonial times, and many of its residents, if they cannot trace themselves back to those who first occupied and then next colonialized the land, can at least trace themselves back to the industrial revolution, which boomed particularly bright given the otherwise backwater status of the town, which was the first in the region to be fully electric. Which is to say, unlike their neighbors in Moonlight Bay, Dusk Falls is not fond of outsiders making their way by woods or quay to disturb its quiet existence. Quiet, of course, until the recent string of deaths and disappearances, which seem to be drawing ever closer in their bloody, mysterious path.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-anchor"></i> <b>The Quay</b><br/>
The only way in and out of Dusk Falls for most of the year that isn't abject wilderness, the Quay is a steep path down to the water's edge, tending to welcome locals to and from better paying jobs around the nearby Bay, higher education within the larger town, or kinder climes in the least kind months of the year, and few else. The ferry runs multiple times a day, every day, barring errant and dangerous strains of weather, at least in the warmer seasons. In winter and in storms, locals are lucky for a trip each way once a day, and then only on days weather permits. As such, they tend to be both well stocked, and well versed in surviving off the land (and the town's communal nature) when they aren't.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-heartbeat"></i> <b>The Clinic</b><br/>
Attached to the station house, the clinic is the only modern medicine in the town, with a surprising number of on-site capabilities given--or perhaps because of--its remote location, not to mention its limited clientele. Until recently, the clinic had a surprisingly excellent track record keeping the locals healthful barring a few errant illnesses and the occasional on-the-job injury, until, of course, the streak was broken by the local doctor themselves, who is but one of a few on the list of now mutilated or vanished residents.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-store"></i> <b>The Grocer</b><br/>
Joint café, bar, and grocery store depending upon the time of day and the whims of the proprietor, with a stock and menu that is more dictated by the whim of the weather and the ferryman's deliveries. Not known much for fresh (or at least varied) produce but that which can be grown and harvested locally, the Grocer is nevertheless stocked with an impressive assortment of non-perishables and other amenities necessary to survival, and has a good enough relationship with the larger shops in Moonlight Bay to meet special requests regularly, if not swiftly. The café is also known to serve a mean mug of coffee, soup, or whisky, depending on what ails you.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-book-heart"></i> <b>The Schoolhouse</b><br/>
Grades K through 8, the schoolhouse (and functional town library) has never measured more than the tens of students, spread throughout all nine grades, and even that paltry sum has dwindled in the past many years along with the rest of the town's population. Although the facilities are sufficient for educating the youngest of Dusk Fall's residents, high school students are required to take the ferry into Moonlight Bay during the academic year, and attend the larger population of Moonlight High. Though the teachers (or more often of late <i>teacher</i>) are gainfully employed when they are not in the library tends to be run through some combination of a volunteer and communal system, with violators few given how apt the de facto librarians are at hunting down any neglectful patrons.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-badge-sheriff"></i> <b>The Station House</b><br/>
More of a desk, a phone, a chair, and a cell than anything resembling either a station or a house, the building nevertheless houses the only local authority, albeit one primarily tasked with dealing with wild animals, neighborly disputes, the occasional lost hiker, and offering a bed to the local drunk population. Or at least it <i>was</i> until very recently, its singular phone remaining answered only because it is shared with the attached clinic, given the recent, bloody demise of the last and only sheriff in town. Although the clinic has recently been re-manned, both the station and the actual house behind it, where previous sheriffs have historically lived, remain vacant, and the string of local tragedies remains subsequently unsolved.</div></div><br/><div style="margin: auto; max-width: 600px; background: #17252e; border: 3px solid #17252e; border-radius: 10px"><div style="margin: auto; max-width: 600px; max-height: 200px; background: #17252e; border: 3px solid #17252e; padding-top: 5px; font-family: Allura; color: #587875; font-size: 26px; text-align: center; line-height: 24px"><i class="fad fa-water"></i> The Seven Sisters Isles <i class="fad fa-water"></i></div><div style="margin: auto; overflow: auto; max-width: 600px; max-height: 200px; background: #587875 url(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/806557305659326505/938305067784753252/sevensisters.png); background-position: center bottom; background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 3px solid #17252e; padding: 5px; font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; color: #17252e; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify; border-radius: 10px">Known locally as the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters Isles is a chain of islands off the coast of the Moonlit shore, comprised of seven major and many minor bodies of land. Said to have been named for seven sisters not in blood but in the occult, each the matron of a coven of witches that settled along the Moonlit Coast and practiced their magic in an uncommon peace, who were to have been the protectors of Dusk Falls. The Sisters live up to their namesake even today, with the mottled island chain bearing the brunt of the many ravaging storms that hit the coast in the bleakest depths of winter, doubtlessly responsible for the small town weathering the centuries.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-broadcast-tower"></i> <b>The Lighthouse</b><br/>
The seventh sister, and that closest to the crescent ridge surrounding the Moonlight Bay. Although not the smallest island, most of its rocky terrain is unusable, the steep inclines making what land plateaus at the top ideal for a lighthouse, although the one that still stands there is old and unused, having been replaced by a larger, superior structure just at the edge of Moonlight Bay. The island is still said to be in the name of the local line that once manned it, though it remains unused now, despite the apparent dim flashes of lights claimed to emanate from its weather-beaten crest by the occasional nighttime seafarer.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-telescope"></i> <b>The Observatory</b><br/>
The sixth sister, and the second closest to the town of Moonlight Bay, the island housing the observatory is the only to be regularly visited by tourists in the region. Although not open year-round, the observatory is maintained by the local historical and scientific society, and welcomes prescheduled guests when weather permits, and a spontaneous few on unexpectedly clear nights.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-dungeon"></i> <b>The Estate</b><br/>
The fifth and largest sister, and that closest to the Dusk Falls Quay, the island is privately owned, and has been for generations, with an old but no less opulent mansion situated at its heart. The most varied island in topography, the  sister can seem a world in and of itself, often drawing the interest of tourists and locals alike. <br/>
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<i class="fad fa-campground"></i> <b>The Camp</b><br/>
The fourth and second largest sister, the island houses the most fecund and hospitable terrain of them all, likely due to its proximity to the mouth of the Milky Way. Almost entirely covered in woods, the island is privately owned by one of the oldest families of Dusk Falls, with a variety of cabins nestled between its trees.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-church"></i> <b>The Chapel</b><br/>
The third and smallest sister, the island houses only a small, weather-beaten church, that once proselytized to all the dutiful in the region--though the chapel's clergy never seemed particularly bothered by the details of any one, specific faith. A beautiful building and a testament to old-world architecture and ingenuity given its remote location, the chapel is seldom used, though it and the small cemetery upon the island are irregularly maintained when weather and memory permit.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-galaxy"></i> <b>The Fortress</b><br/>
The second sister and the furthest out to open sea houses the remnants of a colonial military base, long since decommissioned, the fortress remains the most solitary of the islands. Once open to the occasional tourist groups, the bastion proved too decrepit and costly to maintain given its regular battery by the poor weather. While the occasional boat visits, it is said to be for nothing more than the collection of data from the various meteorological and seismographic instruments set now within its crumbling walls. <br/>
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<i class="fad fa-landmark-alt"></i> <b>The Institute</b><br/>
The first sister and the furthest from the Moonlit Coast, the island is a designated preservation zone due to some rare species that dot both its foliage and tidepool-dotted shores, with the only hint of human interference the joint oceanographic and wildlife institute built just along its easternmost edge. Although abandoned much of the year (and many of the years) due to the strong weather that batters the lonely island, scientific groups of varying fields of study occasionally work the rounds when the weather is better, and it is not uncommon for them to charter any of the boats or the singular submarine belonging to the Constellation Fleet for their studies.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-island-tropical"></i> <b>The Pleiades Minor</b><br/>
Evidence of the misnomer of the seven sisters, the Pleiades minor refer to any number of the much smaller or otherwise much less hospitable islands that dot the chain and the surrounding waters, ranging from a few craggy protrusions from the ocean, to land fecund or at least substantial enough to house sand, trees, or other features. Although chartered boats often make camp or picnic on the uninhabited isles, the practice is strongly advised against, given the potential for swift moving weather and the smaller islands paltry offerings at protection should that weather turn vile. Although some are charted and named, the locals claim that most seem to come and go as they please, their exact count remaining nebulous (though this is likely due to the tides). Similarly fleeting are the apparent cave systems said to dot the islands' cliffs, and, stranger still, said to <i>connect</i> in a vast network of cave systems below the ocean bed, though if anyone has ever found truth to the rumor, they have not been lucky enough to make it back to tell the tale.</div></div><br/><div style="margin: auto; max-width: 600px; background: #17252e; border: 3px solid #17252e; border-radius: 10px"><div style="margin: auto; max-width: 600px; max-height: 200px; background: #17252e; border: 3px solid #17252e; padding-top: 5px; font-family: Allura; color: #587875; font-size: 26px; text-align: center; line-height: 24px"><i class="fad fa-sunset"></i> The Sunset Ridge <i class="fad fa-sunset"></i></div><div style="margin: auto; overflow: auto; max-width: 600px; max-height: 200px; background: #587875 url(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/806557305659326505/938304185206726687/sunsetridge.png); background-position: center bottom; background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 3px solid #17252e; padding: 5px; font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; color: #17252e; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify; border-radius: 10px">An unadulterated wilderness just to the south Moonlight Bay, the Sunset Ridge acts as a natural barrier cutting off Dusk Falls from more civilized society by all but intrepid ferry or daredevils attempting the steep and winding mountain paths.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-mountain"></i> <b>Sunrise Peak</b><br/>
The highest mountain on the southern side of the range that secludes the town and bay of Moonlight Bay from the remainder of the continent, Sunrise Peak is an attractive climb for the adventurous tourist, boasting impressive vistas of the nearby region from any face of its peak, often heavy fog permitting of course.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-raindrops"></i> <b>Dusk Falls</b><br/>
Dusk Falls' very own Dusk Falls, the largest easily accessible waterfall running from the Milky Way, and the one natural wonder that puts the town of Dusk Falls on <i>any</i> map in the warmer months of the year. Beautiful and clear, the water from the Falls is jokingly rumored to have restorative properties given the suspiciously good health and long lives of those who call Dusk Falls and its surrounding woods home.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-moon"></i> <b>Half Moon Lake</b><br/>
Fed by the falls, Half Moon Lake is the last body of fresh water before the brackish water at the mouth of the Milky Way and the salt of the seas beyond. Not a true half moon, the Lake is like a smaller satellite to Moonlight Bay, offering a scenic crescent of clear water in the summer and solid ice in the winter, with few visible structures lining its shores despite the quick walk between the lake and the town at its center.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-galaxy"></i> <b>The Milky Way</b><br/>
The largest river in the region that winds through the Sunset Ridge and out into the open ocean, with many a smaller offshoot flowing out in brook, stream, or even waterfall throughout the Midnight Woods. Given the extreme nature of the weather and the imposing rainy season, its smaller branches tend to remain ephemeral and everchanging.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-trees"></i> <b>The Midnight Woods</b><br/>
An extensive forest that swathes the landscape in natural obscurity, the Midnight Woods has remained unadulterated as compared to the woods to the north of Moonlight Bay, which have historically housed a substantial logging industry that helped to build up the entire region. Beautiful, but known to suffer terrible fog, the deeper parts of the woods are suggested for only the seasoned outdoorsperson, especially of late given the mysterious deaths and vanishings that have occurred among the trees. Still, the Woods seem to hold the same allure now as they purportedly did when the land was first settled, and many stories exist of the astounding things meanderers have found within its depths, from artefacts of those long gone, to daunting and impressive caves, to towering trees bloomed red even in Spring, to all manner of unidentifiable flora and fauna that have somehow escaped capture or classification.<br/>
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<i class="fad fa-hood-cloak"></i> <b>The Catacombs</b><br/>
It is well known that various faces of the Sunset Ridge are dotted with caves, some of them as well charted by avid spelunkers as any opening into the depths of the Earth ever can be, some of them only rumored to exist. But the catacombs are something more, and stories conflict as to whether they are natural, or some product of poorly documented but nevertheless manmade attempts at mining the ridge's natural resources. Whatever their origin, they are said to bore into the earth like a complex spider web, and <i>connect</i>, with some even going so far as to say that they lead all the way out to sea, meeting with the cave systems said to exist beneath the Pleiades. All unsubstantiated rumor, of course, though that hasn't stopped people from looking, and, on occasion, never returning.</div></div>