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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gorice" data-source="post: 9046131" data-attributes="member: 7032863">Forest Garden, Week 28: Hedge Maze<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thick with overgrowth, thorns and flowers, but the original stone maze paths are still (just) visible. Visibility poor due to darkness from overhanging foliage and wayward branches.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(?) Hacking through the maze walls is possible but difficult.</li> </ul>9: Courtroom Boxes<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(!) A forest knight guards the door to the box.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A heavy, stuck door of brass seals the box off from the forest.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Each box overlooks the courtroom from high above.</li> </ul>10: Sluice Gates<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The canals end in closed sluices – slabs of blackened metal submerged in water.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Slabs can be raised and lowered by chains that pass through loops high on the wall and back down to brass wheels caked in verdigris.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(?) The wheels are stuck fast.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(?) The slabs can be pried open, but will need to be held.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(?) The sluices exit via the water mouths in the city (East and West). As soon as a sluice starts to open, it will pour water through the mouth.</li> </ul>11: Emperor Fig<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(!) The Spider Man lairs high in its boughs, sly and peckish. He is a shapeless mass of rags until his legs unwind.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wants: Lady Pinnes’ spellbook; to toy with his food</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Needs: to feast on blood</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fears: magic, especially Lady Pinnes’</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Knows: he doesn’t remember how it all started</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The tree is vast, with snake-like roots and smooth branches strung with giant cobwebs.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(?) The fig’s fruit are not quite inedible, though they smell delicious.</li> </ul>12: Model Village: Lady Pinnes’ Cottage<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(!) Lady Pinnes lairs in the bedroom. She is a fierce pretty face in a bundle of tattered silk and brocade until her runed wasp-limbs emerge.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wants: the spider man dead; to toy with her food</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Needs: to feast on blood</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fears: the spider man’s bite</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Knows: something about the higher levels, though she’s mostly forgotten</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">An aristocrat’s imitation of an idyllic peasant cottage, somehow still clean, colourful and pretty.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(?) In the bedroom drawers, a gilt silver mirror and an ivory hairbrush worth 5 coins each.</li> </ul>13: Model Village: Abandoned Cottage<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A dilapidated imitation of a peasant house.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There is a skeleton tucked into the moth-eaten covers of the bed.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(?) A pair of ruby earrings worth 5 coins.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(?) The covers are fine cotton with a high thread count, now ruined.</li> </ul>14: Model Village: Barn<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The barn is filled with old bones, human and animal. The only tool is a rusted wood axe.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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