Health Spa, Week 3

Anastasios Gionis

 

 15: Trenches: Armoury

• Rows of bizarre organisms feeding from teats in the walls.
• (??) These are bioweapons – spine launchers, acid spitters, and claw-grapnels.
• (!?) Each is a parasite that bonds to its host’s hand when touched, grabbing on and biting in (the pain fades after a minute). To remove the parasite, kill it. It increases your hunger instead of using ammunition.

16: Trenches: Sacrifice Wall

• Row of figures behind translucent membranes set into the wall. There are a few vacant orifices in the row.
• (?) Closed orifices are filled with clear viscous liquid, and can be slashed open.
• (??) Only one figure shows signs of life, feebly kicking at the membrane when someone approaches. This is Dima, a goatherd abducted from his village by shrike demons (or maybe he is someone the PCs are looking for?).

 

17: Trenches: Heart

• A vast bulbous thing, joined to huge black tubes.
• (??) It’s a lot like a heart; a pump system.
• (?) The heart operates the transporter system. All the canals join this chamber.

18: Transporter Canals

• (there are several of these, marked on the map and serving to connect the sublevels and provide shortcuts. Each is a pair, sending material from one location to another. They are all one-way, though you can ‘cheat’ by breaking the walls, which also renders the canal ineffective.)
• Irising portal of hard translucent panels. Opens when touched, spilling a residue of clear, viscous fluid that smells like blood. Floor and ceiling have closed portals that look similar. Grey walls have the texture of fingernails.
• (!?) The transporter begins to operate automatically a few seconds after some one steps in. The door slowly irises closed, then the chamber fills with fluid, the other doors open, and the contents of the chamber are flushed through arterial canals to the destination.

20: Staff Rooms

• Gloomy room filled with scattered old bones and ruined furniture. The wall screens are long rotted away.

21: Massage Rooms

• Lit by skylights. Tables and divider screens are falling apart.
• (??) Room C has a skeleton with a gold ring, earrings, and necklace worth 10 coins each.