Hexagram #13 Discussion

[stefanj]

Agh. Darn.


I meant to provide here, and on the TFT Discord, some stuff removed from Caverns of the Carrion Judge.


But I didn't preserve the earlier version. Let this be a lesson to you.


Let's see if I can recreate it:



Outsiders are forbidden from visiting Gurrend, the vast and impressive dwarven city. Important visitors will be put up in inns set amidst the truck gardens that cluster around the approaches to the city. Less prestigious visitors must make due with hostels in a noisome caravanserai.


There is an exception to the ban on non-dwarves. Those who have committed egregious offenses against the kingdom are welcome to a long stay in Dottkar, the prison far below the grand halls and galleries of Gurrend proper. Offenders are marched through the residential areas, where residents line up to jeer and through moldy bread and rotten vegetables.

A very few dwarves will furtively approach the prisoners and hand them a sack of provisions -- fresh bread, goat cheese, dried fruit -- and a bundle of sheets and blankets. "Let my ---- know we haven't forgotten him!" they might whisper, "If he still lives, share these with him. And may the gods have mercy on you, since the guards won't."


Most of the descent to Dottkar is by a seemingly endless circuit of stairs. The last hundred feet or so are made by a sort of elevator, a large basket able to fit three or four prisoners. The guards below communicate with the crew that mans the winch via a speaking tube. Code words, changed every week or so, are required to summon a basket outside of scheduled visits.