Adventure #5 - In Search of Ingredients

At the subterranean city of Waeek -

This is a massive city (again, it is built upon a stalactite of tremendous dimensions, that hangs over a yawning chasm which descends into unknowable depths. The rat-people live upon the platforms of gargantuan toadstool & within burrows & warrens cut into the stalactite itself. Their farms & groves are of mushrooms & strange herds of huge glow-worms that 'fish' bats & strange underground birds & 'fish' from the air itself. They harvest from these surrounding gardens through vast networks of rope armatures.

Mishka the shifter priestess decides to look into the city’s temples - The temples of the city are two - One to Soot, which is significant & well tended, it lies at the edge where the stalactite of Waeek hangs off the sky-of-stone. There, the Rat Folk - mainly yellow-white furred & slightly built - tend to many esoteric tasks - among the wise rats there you may make the acquaintance of Whiil - who shares your appreciation for the elemental forces of the universe itself. Whiil tells you of the 5 'towers' of the underworld - pillars inhabited by sages & godlike beings bound to the elemental essences. Whiil is quite aged for his kind & has an interest in the Shifter people- some of whom he's met before. He tells you that there were some that fled the dangers of the surface & have come to live in the great forests below.

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