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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GrumpyOldMan" data-source="post: 3548339" data-attributes="member: 16469">You’d be surprised!I’ll try to use inoffensive language, as I don’t want a ban, but bear with me, we are talking a lot of SH-one-T here.Here’s a few real life suggestions. I know, I was there. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Laundry discharge.You’re underground, the tunnels (sewerage) and the material in them (sewage) are cool, not cold.You’re minding your own business when the local laundry discharges a few vats of hot soapy water. It hits the main flow and whoosh, instant sauna. The tunnel is filled with a white, sudsy steam. The smell is a cross between soapsuds and excrement, an interesting combination! More worrying is the fact that you can feel particles of something on your skin. You hope that it’s from the laundry; and that it hasn’t been picked up from the main flow. Breathing is uncomfortable, and suddenly you’re sweaty and sticky.Where’d it go?Its peak time, flows are heavy and fast. Drop something into the flow and it’s gone. Why?1)    You do NOT want to pick it up, 2)    If the flow is fast enough, it’s gone anyway.I lost a 3lb hammer, swept away at a speed where I was NOT going to give chase.Yeurgh!Late night. The pubs and clubs (ok, so in game it’s the inns and taverns) have recently closed. Everyone has made their way home, it’s bedtime. So what do the masses do? You guessed! All of those narrow little side pipes, the ones that are too small to walk through are suddenly working to capacity. Some of them are at floor level, but others are at waist or ‘shudder’ head height.Location, Location, LocationIt may be unpleasant, but for all the yeurgh factor, as a wise man once told me: ‘excrement is just excrement, get washed and you’ll be alright’ (I’m paraphrasing wildly here! Imagine much coarser language). However, remember where you are. You probably don’t want to be underneath the alchemists guild when they get rid of a certain substances. There are locations in the real world where ‘that stuff could rot yer boots off.’ In a fantasy city, it could dissolve your armour, or turn you into a frog, or…</blockquote>

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