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<blockquote data-quote="chutup" data-source="post: 5885117" data-attributes="member: 6690844"><p><strong>The Pit of the Waker Worms (25.20)</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong>Upriver from the city of Blind Midshotgatepool, the river branches off and flows on through the mountains, eventually leading to the Fanged Cliffs (27.18). Some way down the branch, one may find a deep pit of water that seems unnaturally dark and smells faintly metallic. This is the current resting-place of the waker worms.</p><p></p><p>When the founders of the five villages arrived on the shores of the Keening Sea, they found it teeming with enormous and awful worms that could swallow a man whole. Furthermore, they were known as the <em>waker worms </em>for the fact that, no matter how thoroughly they were destroyed, they would always wake and rise again at the moment of nightfall. Luckily, the Thringman Ban the Clever (future founder of Banshot) discovered that the waker worms could be permanently laid to rest if their bodies were buried under running water.</p><p></p><p>For the first few generations of the villages, it was accepted that the dead waker worms lay beneath the estuary, and once or twice a foolish fishermen even dredged one of the worms up. This eventually led to a dispute between the men of Pontgate and Banshot over who had responsibility for the slaying of such beasts. To avert further conflict, the councillors of Midton exhorted the swift sailors of Sepool to dredge up the waker worms during the day and deposit them further upriver before night fell. This worked for several years, until the people of upstream Blindsnake began to complain that their water was tainted by the blood of the worms. So the worms were relocated again, to their current resting-place where they can no longer contaminate the five villages' water supply.</p><p></p><p>The lands downstream of this pit are harsh and wild, and it is rumoured that those who drink from the dark waters develop an uncanny connection to the world of the dead. There are some reports of people emerging from these lands with black lips and a newfound disregard for danger, as if death itself held no terrors for them any longer.</p><p></p><p>Hooks:</p><p>- Have any of the waker worms escaped over the years?</p><p>- Any other tales of Ban the Clever, or his four companions?</p><p>- What wild dangers dwell downstream of the pit? (Other than the flying snakes, which we already know about.)</p><p>- What happens if you drink the dark water?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chutup, post: 5885117, member: 6690844"] [B]The Pit of the Waker Worms (25.20) [/B]Upriver from the city of Blind Midshotgatepool, the river branches off and flows on through the mountains, eventually leading to the Fanged Cliffs (27.18). Some way down the branch, one may find a deep pit of water that seems unnaturally dark and smells faintly metallic. This is the current resting-place of the waker worms. When the founders of the five villages arrived on the shores of the Keening Sea, they found it teeming with enormous and awful worms that could swallow a man whole. Furthermore, they were known as the [I]waker worms [/I]for the fact that, no matter how thoroughly they were destroyed, they would always wake and rise again at the moment of nightfall. Luckily, the Thringman Ban the Clever (future founder of Banshot) discovered that the waker worms could be permanently laid to rest if their bodies were buried under running water. For the first few generations of the villages, it was accepted that the dead waker worms lay beneath the estuary, and once or twice a foolish fishermen even dredged one of the worms up. This eventually led to a dispute between the men of Pontgate and Banshot over who had responsibility for the slaying of such beasts. To avert further conflict, the councillors of Midton exhorted the swift sailors of Sepool to dredge up the waker worms during the day and deposit them further upriver before night fell. This worked for several years, until the people of upstream Blindsnake began to complain that their water was tainted by the blood of the worms. So the worms were relocated again, to their current resting-place where they can no longer contaminate the five villages' water supply. The lands downstream of this pit are harsh and wild, and it is rumoured that those who drink from the dark waters develop an uncanny connection to the world of the dead. There are some reports of people emerging from these lands with black lips and a newfound disregard for danger, as if death itself held no terrors for them any longer. Hooks: - Have any of the waker worms escaped over the years? - Any other tales of Ban the Clever, or his four companions? - What wild dangers dwell downstream of the pit? (Other than the flying snakes, which we already know about.) - What happens if you drink the dark water? [/QUOTE]
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