This was my entry to the March 2021 Challenge, to map an alien invasion -- and it won me my first golden compass! Yayyyyyyyy!

It's a road/tourist map of a fictional town in coastal Maine. After alien craft burst down through the atmosphere and cracked into the ground, disgorging troops near major cities, blasting out EMPs to disrupt communications and computing, and exoforming the landscape around them, the people in this area dug out the old map to coordinate their resistance activity. They've had some failures...and some successes.

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This map was born out of such a weird mix of inspirations: First, a blind resolution to do the next challenge, whatever the theme was. Second, my wife's tendency to make fun of New England town names ("Everything is Whatever-bridge and Something-ford!"). Third, a desire to use Sarah Bell's BellTopo Sans font, after finding out about it from one of KMAlexander's posts here. Fourth, trying to make the most out of my inherited Draftette (see post below). And, finally, my favorite computer game: XCOM!

I'm really glad that the combination worked so well.