💀 Skull Island 💀

Post-March 1942

Sumatra has fallen to the Japanese! Allied forces have been driven before the Imperial invaders. With its western flank threatened, the US, British, Australian, and Dutch militaries desperately search for an island stronghold from which to launch a counter-offensive. After months of exploration, scouts have located an island at the center of an area of magnetic anomalies and violent storms. High Command has given the party orders to conduct a reconnaissance survey of the island to determine the feasibility of establishing an airfield and supply depot in support of a bomber squadron and its fighter escorts.

The party boards a submarine and sails to the island. They are sent ashore and soon find ancient ruins. Chief among them is a mighty wall that divides a lone settlement from a thickly forested jungle. Enormous stone buildings, their original builders lost to antiquity, dwarf the crude mud and stick homes of the hostile, cannibalistic natives.

Beyond the wall, a mountainous knoll resembling a human skull rises from the center of the island. As the adventurers move to explore the interior, they discover living prehistoric creatures. After a few harrowing encounters they come face-to-face with a massive 25' tall ape known as KONG by the natives. 

There are six distinct regions on the island: the crumbling coast area and village, the lowlands, the swamp and river system, pits and chasms, and the uplands. Each of these places are in constant flux due to rising sea levels, competition amongst the fauna, and collapsing sections of the cavernous tunnels beneath the surface.

Creatures living on the island include all manner of giant insects, leeches, and arachnids, enormous snakes and lizards, bats large enough to carry a male adult human in their claws, pterasaurs, bronotosaurus, stegasaurus, brachiosaurus, triceratops, velociraptors, tyrannosaurus, and the aforementioned giant ape, Kong.

Skull Island
Capital: Not Applicable
Population: 584 (estimated)
Government: Tribal
Religion: Ancestor and Animal worship, specifically Kong
Imports: None
Exports: None
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Major Cities: None, there is a single small village on the island

Possible Encounters:
• Aside from the aforementioned fauna, explorers could run afoul of giant carnivorous plants, environmental hazards like sinkholes, geysers, and quicksand, or even a pair of pilots - one Japanese and one American who crash-landed on the island a short while ago.