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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ancalagon" data-source="post: 7798809" data-attributes="member: 23">OOC:  I will first post what Dubi Gan related from his research on the Blue Palace and the area.  You can assume that he's discussed this with you on the way.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In general, the Old town is a place where citizens of the Yellow city don't go. There are thieves, brigands, mad men, exiles, ghosts and spirits, as well as strange beasts.  However, it is seen as dangerous, not deadly - a few stout and experienced guards will see you through ... most of the times.  Not all those who venture in return.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Easily found valuables have all been looted away long ago.  However, there are stories of people still finding old caches of coins or strange artefacts.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Artefacts (not artifacts) are experimental magical items that "never caught on" - prototypes if you will.  While some are genuinely useful, most are basically collectibles that some slug men like purchasing at auctions.  Because of their prototype nature, figuring out what they do is tricky and sometimes dangerous.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The presence of large numbers of Ophilinone (ie the spider monsters) have been noted, mostly south of the Red Road.</li> </ul>         - Sometimes, creatures building an abode in the Old Town do more than survive, and start thriving and  multiplying.  When they run out of food they start spreading, sometimes causing problems in the Yellow City itself.   Every few centuries a military expedition is mounted to deal with such a problem.  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Also south of the Red Road is located the abode of the powerful Wizardress, Lady Avala - noted socialite and trouble-maker.  (The "have an affair with young noble who was supposed to marry an other young noble of another noble family to avert a war" kinda trouble).  You are 100% sure that her abode is not the Blue Palace.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Blue Palace:  it is named thus because it is painted in blue - not just any blue, but ultramarine - the pigment made of crushed lapis lazuli.  However built this, over a millennia ago, must have been immensely wealthy.   Before it was abandoned many centuries ago, it started as a slugman palace, but also served as a temple, an infirmary, a house for the mad.  The blue has fallen off in many places, but it is said that the ceiling painting of midnight skies and stars is still intact.  This ceiling has strange magical properties, and is also useful for those wishing to know the location of stars a millennia ago...</li> </ul></blockquote>

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