8: Qanat
A long, broad tunnel with a very slight incline down to the East. The stone floor is a little damp.
(?) Smell of must and guano from the direction of the qanat station.
9: Qanat Station
Carved stone handholds descend 20’ from the covered wellhouse to the qanat below. Smell of musk and guano from inside the tunnel.
(!) Lair of land bats. By night they pace the desert in search of game.
(?) Dead stone shells of old farmhouses cluster around the wellhouse. We are in the desert outside the city, now.
Third section: Molerat Hive.
Air
is damp and musky. Oxygen is low; mild hypoxia will eventually set in.
Molerats are generally placid, but will take easily subdued intruders to
the larder. Tunnels are low enough that humans must crawl or duck, but
the rooms are quite large.
10: Replete Hall
A broad hall, lined with something waxy and organic in shades of olive, pink and brown. A row of bulbous, pale, hairless mammalian creatures sleeps against the wall.
(?) Tapping a repletes face causes it to vomit a little sweet liquid – this serves as both food and water.
(?) Occasionally, a worker will trot by to deliver food or take nectar.
11: Foraging Tunnels
Winding, nearly identical tunnels.
(!) Navigation checks to avoid getting lost. Don’t forget the oxygen track.
12: Midden
Filled with various gnawed bones, including human ones.
13: Larder
A captive man sleeps here, apparently insensate. Various vegetable roots are piled around him.
(?) The man, Skiff, is drugged and suffering from hypoxia. He was captured on the surface after getting lost in the desert and brought down here, along with a friend, who was eaten.
14: Ventilator
A molerat with enormous webbed hands fans the air listlessly.
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