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<blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 8136467" data-attributes="member: 807"><p>Look at it as an excuse to tell a story as to why the village has one.</p><p></p><p>possible explanations for small village sewers</p><p></p><p>(1) long ago a gnome wizard actually stated in the village for ten years while recording laboratory experiments on local flora. He noticed the village had a terrible flooding problem or stench problem and just to appease himself, he used magic to carve out rough sewer ways to route water and ease the problem that was otherwise going to just bother him for years. After the gnome left with the end of his research, the villagers over time would straighten up the rough sewer walls and even expand sections to cover more of the village because they found it helpful</p><p></p><p>(2) the village was beset upon by a Minotaur bandit who would return on every autumn equinox and ravage the village. They needed a trap, starting with a simple hole in the ground, and this idea morphed in to inclusion of winding tunnels and also to allow villagers to dispose of waste such that it would flush through the tunnels... and thus the next attack by the Minotaur, he was tricked in to the trap. Some say its ghost still haunts the tunnels beneath the village....</p><p></p><p>(3) ‘long ago’ the village is In a region governed by a political power that was trying different sewer designs for a big city. But rather than waste expense on prototypes beneath a big city he had his people try different designs beneath different small villages. So they could ‘beta test’ the best features to eventually be used in the city’s own design</p><p></p><p>(4) it’s tunnels from a large burrowing creature that is no longer there and the village was build above these now abandoned tunnels. When the tunnels were discovered the use as sewers was a no brainer. What no one knows is that embedded in one of these old tunnel walls are the eggs from the tunneling creature and these eggs take 500 years to hatch... and it’s about that time</p><p></p><p>(5) a race of creatures that prefer underground (dwarf, gnome, drow, etc) came to an agreement with the original village settlers. One race would live beneath the village ( developing tunnels and such for their own use) and the other would live above the surface. They had symbiotic societies, providing resources to each other. But something happened and the subterranean humanoids are no longer there. The tunnels - with only very minor modifications - were turned in to sewage ways.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fba827, post: 8136467, member: 807"] Look at it as an excuse to tell a story as to why the village has one. possible explanations for small village sewers (1) long ago a gnome wizard actually stated in the village for ten years while recording laboratory experiments on local flora. He noticed the village had a terrible flooding problem or stench problem and just to appease himself, he used magic to carve out rough sewer ways to route water and ease the problem that was otherwise going to just bother him for years. After the gnome left with the end of his research, the villagers over time would straighten up the rough sewer walls and even expand sections to cover more of the village because they found it helpful (2) the village was beset upon by a Minotaur bandit who would return on every autumn equinox and ravage the village. They needed a trap, starting with a simple hole in the ground, and this idea morphed in to inclusion of winding tunnels and also to allow villagers to dispose of waste such that it would flush through the tunnels... and thus the next attack by the Minotaur, he was tricked in to the trap. Some say its ghost still haunts the tunnels beneath the village.... (3) ‘long ago’ the village is In a region governed by a political power that was trying different sewer designs for a big city. But rather than waste expense on prototypes beneath a big city he had his people try different designs beneath different small villages. So they could ‘beta test’ the best features to eventually be used in the city’s own design (4) it’s tunnels from a large burrowing creature that is no longer there and the village was build above these now abandoned tunnels. When the tunnels were discovered the use as sewers was a no brainer. What no one knows is that embedded in one of these old tunnel walls are the eggs from the tunneling creature and these eggs take 500 years to hatch... and it’s about that time (5) a race of creatures that prefer underground (dwarf, gnome, drow, etc) came to an agreement with the original village settlers. One race would live beneath the village ( developing tunnels and such for their own use) and the other would live above the surface. They had symbiotic societies, providing resources to each other. But something happened and the subterranean humanoids are no longer there. The tunnels - with only very minor modifications - were turned in to sewage ways. [/QUOTE]
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