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Old 10-13-2017, 09:37 AM   #7
Apollonian
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Shoreline, WA (north of Seattle)
Default Re: Cloud Cities

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Originally Posted by sir_pudding View Post
I did this a couple of years ago:
  • The city's levitation was maintained by four cardinal towers, each having since been taken over by a faction (and thus being a separate sub-dungeon). One was taken over by demons, because there was originally a demonology lab there and they left the portals running, one was haunted and infested with undead, one was the eirie of giant eagles, and the last was the foothold of the winged elves who were trying to reclaim it.
  • The top of the city was all parkland and a village of fae folk was nestled in the forest there. There was also a herd of unicorns and a pride of karkadann.
  • In the center at the lowest level there was a village of gnomes, who were the descendants of the original engineers that maintained the place.
  • Key parts of the city were still defended by orichalcum golems.
  • The central tower was inhabited by a dragon, who had long ago swallowed the crown needed to control many of city's functions.
  • A building next to the central tower was the wheelhouse, which contained The Steersman, an ancient elf who was doing his best to keep the thing from crashing into stuff despite it being nearly out of control now, and waiting for relief that was hundreds of years late. He prompted an interesting meta-discussion about how you don't mess with guys who are called "The [Ordinary Job Title]".
  • Once a pet, now feral, a psychically invisible and unaging three-headed tiger, with a bell on its collar hunted throughout the interior of the city, though its lair was in the old residential district. The gnomes called it "Fluffy" and were terrified of it. The PCs went out of the way their way to avoid encountering it and never did.
Most of these things showed up on the random encounter tables (of which there were three: interior, surface, and sky). The only exception was The Steersman who never leaves his post.
Stealing this. It sounds awesome.
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