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| You'd better believe the spider man has candystripe legs. |
8: Hedge Maze
Thick with overgrowth, thorns and flowers, but the original stone maze paths are still (just) viable. Visibility poor due to darkness from overhanging foliage and wayward branches.
(?) Hacking through the maze walls is possible but difficult.
9: Courtroom Boxes
(!) A forest knight guards the door to the box.
A heavy, stuck door of brass seals the box off from the forest.
Each box overlooks the courtroom from high above.
10: Sluice Gates
The canals end in closed sluices – slabs of blackened metal submerged in water.
Slabs can be raised and lowered by chains that pass through loops high on the wall and back down to brass wheels caked in verdigris.
(?) The wheels are stuck fast.
(?) The slabs can be pried open, but will need to be held.
(?) The sluices exit via the water mouths in the city (East and West). As soon as a sluice starts to open, it will pour water through the mouth.
11: Emperor Fig
(!) The Spider Man lairs high in its boughs, sly and peckish. He is a shapeless mass of rags until his legs unwind.
Wants: Lady Pinnes’ spellbook; to toy with his food
Needs: to feast on blood
Fears: magic, especially Lady Pinnes’
Knows: he doesn’t remember how it all started
The tree is vast, with snake-like roots and smooth branches strung with giant cobwebs.
(?) The fig’s fruit are not quite inedible, though they smell delicious.
12: Model Village: Lady Pinnes’ Cottage
(!) Lady Pinnes lairs in the bedroom. She is a fierce pretty face in a bundle of tattered silk and brocade until her runed wasp-limbs emerge.
Wants: the spider man dead; to toy with her food
Needs: to feast on blood
Fears: the spider man’s bite
Knows: something about the higher levels, though she’s mostly forgotten
An aristocrat’s imitation of an idyllic peasant cottage, somehow still clean, colourful and pretty.
(?) In the bedroom drawers, a gilt silver mirror and an ivory hairbrush worth 5 coins each.
13: Model Village: Abandoned Cottage
A dilapidated imitation of a peasant house.
There is a skeleton tucked into the moth-eaten covers of the bed.
(?) A pair of ruby earrings with 5 coins.
(?) The covers are fine cotton with a high thread count, now ruined.
14: Model Village: Barn
The barn is filled with old bones, human and animal. The only tool is a rusted wood axe.
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