[X] [ACQUIRE] Lizard Trinkets
[X] [ACQUIRE] Fleet of Hulks
[X] [ACQUIRE] The Dread Abyssal
[X] [LEVER] Prestige
The ships sound like a great center piece for an exhibit, honestly. There's varieties of ships within a faction and then differences between factions. Maritime Museums either built on ships or around ships are fantastic and we've got the harbour space afforded by the island to put a few of those to shore or dock for that purpose. I think it'd be pretty cool to highlight differences between Bretonnian, Estalian, and Imperial ships, or show case druuchi vs high elf shipbuilding. Each ship itself is like a mini-museum that allows you to talk about equipment, weapons, operations, sailors, etc. Given that a majority of visitors are expected to be undead sailors or living sailors, then something showcasing ships would be a huge selling point.
The original longboat itself is a great piece too. It is kind of wild that those Norsca stealing Luthor's coffin accidentally set into motion a series of events that resulted in vampirates haunting the oceans for thousands of years. It's honestly kind of incredible. Those poor fools. Generations of sailors washed up on Lustria's shores turned into zombies, and ultimately creating this massive problem for the entire world. That's history even non-vampires would probably find interesting.
Lizard trinkets are neat. I agree that they're local and should be interesting to people. It's also fitting for a museum that our first major exhibit is a bunch of artifacts we stole from the local natives. We've got way less context for their tools, clothing, decorations, etc. so in true antiquarian fashion we speculate and make shit up. Do we know anything about skink artisans? No, so obviously we're gonna make shit up about how skinks are clearly an enslaved race serving the saurus warriors, and that kroxigars are monsters they've tamed. Slann don't fit into this because we probably don't know about them.
Plus it'd be neat to see Boney write about lizardman artifacts. I have no doubt Boney will take inspiration from actual Mesoamerican cultures and that'll be cool.
For motivation, we're running a museum. I want to network with elf nerds! Imagine the shit someone 800+ years old can collect! That's the golden fucking goose, if I've ever heard one. Imagine interviewing a retired elven sailor that's centuries old, or rather, I guess, an elven antiquarian who interviewed sailors about far away places and bought a lot of cool stuff on their own travels or someone else's. Elves have circumnavigated the globe and have trade networks as far as Cathay that put Tilea to shame. There's so much stuff we could learn and buy.
