Water Roads, Week 4

 New Area: The lost path

The Air in this section is much better, aside from the Mole Midden. Only real danger is the Bone Eater. Molerats avoid this place unless lured here for some reason.

22: Mole Midden

• A reeking pit, 30’ down, filled with detritus. The walls are sheer and slippery. Fungi cluster in the bottom walls like pale blue balloons. Smells like death.
• (!) Fungi are bluefruit. Explode on collision, making a loud sound and releasing toxic spores.

23: Singing Cavern

• Wind whistles through this craggy cave tunnel.
• (?) humans can squeeze through. Too narrow for the Bone Eater.

24: Lair of the Bone Eater

• Smells like wet dog. Floor is littered with tiny fragments of bone.
• (!) The great shaggy shambler nests here. Only eats dead bones, but not averse to speeding up the process.

25: The Secret Garden

• Dimly lit – natural light shines from sinkhole high above.
• A large cavern filled with pale, purple-leafed foliage. A little spring trickles into a small pond. Alarmingly large frogs luxuriate in the cool air.
• (?) The frogs are peaceable.
• (?) The water is cold, clean, refreshing, and completely safe.
• (?) The pond is deep – a sinkhole that leads to the Sunken Passage.

27: Sunken Passage

• Completely submerged, dark natural cavern. 20’ ascent to the Secret Garden on one end, and Lotus Garden on the other.
• (?) The faintest of lights from the direction of the Secret Garden.
• (??) A skeleton is huddled on the floor, clutching something that glimmers – Headtaker, a demon-possessed two-handed sword of bronze.

28: Secret Garden Skylight

• Forty-five degree climb through a narrow, craggy passage leads to the base of the cliffs in the city’s side, beneath the storm water drain.

29: Narrow Caves

• Winding passages of craggy stone. Crawlspace only.

Surprise Twist: Back to the Sunken Passages

30: Temple Treasury

• A bare cellar of smoothly fitted stones. There is a hole in one wall where the masonry has collapsed, large enough to crawl through (leads to narrow caves). A stone chest sits against the opposite wall, with a cat-sized gargoyle carved from the same stone as its flat lid.
• (!) The gargoyle will animate and bite the hands of anyone who tries to move the lid, naturally.
• (?) Inside the chest: 4d6 silver ingots.

31: Secret  Sanctuary

• A circular room with a circle of nine cracked clay vessels within.
• (?) Each vessel holds a fistful of lapis lazuli beads worth 10 coins.
• (!) The beads are cursed – the  New God of the deep will know the thieves.
• (??) A secret door connects to the Leaky Valve room – just push on the wall.