Fortress of Doors, Week 3

 

Veli Nyström

15: Kitchens

• Warm light leaks from a high and greasy window. An industrial-scale kitchen, with black ovens, stained benches, crumbling herbs hanging from walls, every kind of pot, pan, knife, and spoon. Stone basin fed by a thick pipe with a brass tap handle.
• (?) Tap water is clean and cool.
• (??) Metal grate in the floor leads to the cloaca crawlspace. Corroded and brittle.​​​​​
• (??) Dumb waiter chute leads up scores of feet into darkness, to the banquet hall on level 3. The waiter itself is gone. Chute is stone, maybe 2 feet across, and goes straight up.

16: Cloaca: Crawlspace

• The sewer pipes are dark and crawl-height only. Narrow enough that turning back is difficult. Mostly dry, but reek of blood and filth.
• Many small pipes lead in from various places.
• (!) Occasional skittering bonerats. They may swarm , especially if nest is threatened.

17: Cloaca: Exit Shaft

• Long crawlspace, mostly 45 degree slope. Just wet enough to be slippery.
• Joins to the city sewer.

18: Cloaca: Bonerat Lair

• (!) a collapsed section of pipe, dug out into an egg nursery for a swam of eyeless, hairless, pale, clicking bonerats. Rats will swarm from the sewers to defend eggs or grab an easy meal. They eat pretty much anything.

19: Cloaca: Pit Trap

• 10’ pit, floor bursting with the points of long rusty nails.
• (?) The roof of the pit has a tangible seam that can be pried open with a tool, but will close on its own unless held. Connects to the outside of the green door.

20: Spore Hive

• (!) Lair of the sponge-like, fleshy nest of the spore hive. Kill with fire only.
• (!) Air thick with spore haze that spreads to nearby areas.
• (!) Disturb hive = bad time. Rapid spore deployment, assault of confusion -> madness -> direct control.
• (?) An exposed bit of pipe leaks water into a puddle below. Healing grubs swim in the puddle.
• (?) Water, d6: 1 = tastes bad, but OK; 2 = saline; 3 = entheogens (trip); 4 = toxins (poisoned); 5 = virus (disease); 6 = clean.

21: Ghoul Barracks

• (!) Filthy lair of the ghoul army. Broken bunks, blackened central firepit, scraps of blankets, rusted weapons, tiny black insects, evil smell. The ghouls sleep piled together like corpses.
• (??) Brass keyring with two keys hangs from a nail at the back of the room. These open the blue and crimson doors. Keys are colour-coded with stones in their bases.