QUOTE(Gomez' @ Nov 3 2005, 10:56 PM)
A Quarantined island to the south of Cyrodil, It should contain some abandoned towns,...
Sounds like great fun! Three things though:
- might want to take it easy on the menial questing while you wait for a fortress to built. Realistically that would take months. May I suggest that, instead, you are given a mission to lead an armed recon of the island. The fortress is already built, they just want somebody experienced with survival and travelling in hostile territory to lead a group of soldiers. You lose your squad to a trap of some kind, and have to beat feet back to the fort.. Then you can launch into your "arrive to find it eaten" scenario. Keep the player entertained

- figure out some way of preventing the player from simply flying, swimming, or water-walking their way off the island.
- instead of waiting around for a rescue ship or random fishermen, you might make it one of the quests of your campaign that you have to send a distess call. Perhaps by magic. Perhaps by lighting a signal fire. Perhaps by catching and attaching a note to a messenger bird.