After a short hiatus separating the first and second volume of the Dragonlance modules, we get the first module which came out in 1985. Coming out a month after the Dragons of Winter Night novel, this pretty much coincides with the first section of that novel. By this time the novels had overtaken the modules in the publication schedule, and this could create spoiler problems if you had a party of players who were also avid readers.

So what we get here is the party arriving in Tarsis the Beautiful, a mythical ancient port city, which is by now not a port at all as the sea has retreated as a consequence of the Cataclysm that happened some centuries earlier and crashed a meteor in the ocean on the city of Istar creating a huger hole and whirlpool that pulled the water in and made the seas retreat from the coast of Tarsis. 

Our party arrives with the objective of obtaining a boat out, and in the meanwhile meet Alhana Starbreeze of the Silvanesti elves. As usual, and this is what made the Dragonlance modules unique, there’s a really fun and engrossing story here where the players are right at the centre of the tale. The strong point of the module being the story is what makes the possibility of spoilage through the novels particularly unfortunate, if I was a DM I would have been a bit miffed by this.