Midden, Week 1

1: Wound in the Earth

• An indescribable smell. Air thick with gloom, flies and rot.
• The ground is sticky black earth heaped with bones, paving stones, broken statues, roof tiles, broken weapons, tufts of hair or fur, and potshards. A widening chasm reaches 90’ up to the open sky. Gnarled bushes with purple leaves clutch the walls.
• This is the base of the midden on L1.
• Two rough, shallow sets of stairs are bored from stone and earth:
• one descends slightly, to somewhere damp. One ascends, littered with broken trinkets.

Region: Toxic Sump

(!) Radiation sickness (start a clock), centred on the Headless Judge.

2: Radiating Mire

• Descends from the wound in the earth.
• A narrow earth tunnel. Ankle-high water glows phosphorescent blue the dark. Clusters of strange plants and fungi burst from the floor and walls.
• (!) The far exit is blocked by a cluster of explosive bluefruit.
• (!) Do not, under any circumstances, drink the water.

3: Hall of Gods

• A vast stone room with phosphorescent puddles. Rows of statues of every size are stacked at every angle.
• (?) If you worship a god, you can probably find it here.

4: Drowned Ghoul Lair

• (!) Bloated husks of men, curled foetal against the walls, filthy water at their ankles. They rise hungry if disturbed.

5: Colossus Boardwalk

• A maze of rickety wooden scaffolding, chained to headless stone colossi.
• (?) The colossus sump is 100’ below. The water glows faintly.

6: Colossus Sump

• Phosphorescent blue water, opaque and 30’ deep (up to the knees of the giants?).

7: Headless Judge

• This colossus has a break in its chest. Inhuman viscera throb within. One hand holds a colossal executioner’s sword.
• (!) The colossus sleeps, but intruders will be punished if it is woken.