THE LEDGER · THE VALE
The Undertow
aka the bluff gaol's drains
The drowned drain-caves beneath House Vandahl's bluff gaol above Valenfeld — where the cells' waste and the gaol's overflow have run for longer than anyone keeping the ledger, and where a locked-up stranger's only way out is up and out through the dark.
The bluff gaol above Valenfeld holds House Vandahl's short-term prisoners in dry cells cut into the rock, and every one of them drains into the caves below — the Undertow, named by whoever first had to wade it. The House garrisons the gaol above; it does not garrison the drains, and hasn't in longer than the current warden can say. Nothing living was meant to nest down there, which is exactly why something always does: vermin thick enough to have given up fearing torchlight, and deeper in, wherever the water pools and stops moving, worse. The caves climb toward a coin of daylight on the forested bluff outside the gaol's walls, which makes the Undertow less a dungeon in its own right than the one door a desperate prisoner has ever found out.
KIND
sewer
PARENT PLACE
Valenfeld
REGION
the-vale
CONTROLLING FACTION
House Vandahl
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (11)
guards
- →House Vandahl — The Undertow drains beneath House Vandahl's bluff gaol — the House garrisons the cells above but not the drowned drains below.
located_in
- →Grave Lurker — The elite threat in the Undertow's config.enemies roster — a pale scavenger nesting deeper in than the vermin that infest the entry.
- →Silver Rat — Trash-tier vermin from the Undertow's config.enemies roster — the drain-caves' first, easiest threat.
- →Silt Crab — Trash-tier vermin from the Undertow's config.enemies roster, thriving in the drain-water.
- ←The Drownling — The Drownling dens in the Undertow's sump, where the water stops moving.
- ←Dural — He is still in the high galleries, slowly walking his own resignation out through the drains.
- ←Sela — Stalled in the high galleries, too afraid of the dark's last stretch to finish the climb out.
occurred_at
- ←quest.undertow-gaol-drop (unresolved) — The drop-point is deep in the drains, where the water pools.
- ←quest.the-drowned-courier (unresolved) — Re-sited: the courier went down into the Undertow drains and never climbed out.
references
- ←A Tally Scratched in the Drain Wall — A prisoner's tally scratched in the drain wall, pointing whoever climbs past toward the mouth.
- ←quest.the-drowned-cache (unresolved) — The strongbox is lodged in the old gaol sump.
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