Connects to: 22.00.
Oh, there’s more than Shuttered in Shuttered, I’ll tell you that much for free. It’s monstrous and insatiable, creeping year after year across the countryside. Already towns and villages have been engulfed, crowded first by shantytowns and then townhouses, churches and acropoli. But according to the locals, one part of the city was here before the first window ever opened.
Nothing remains of this ur-city on the surface. But occasionally, if a family decides to expand their wine cellar or a man needs a shallow grave, they will break through to the original city.
The city sprawls in miles and miles of tunnels, dead ends, storerooms, crypts, mithraeums and stranger rooms besides. The frescoes that decorate the walls are geometric and abstract; there seems to be no depiction of the original inhabitants. Of course, the fact that the tunnels are ten feet wide and 15 feet tall should give a hint to any adventurer who cannot figure out why the door handles are level with her face.
Connection:
- The artwork that can be found here resembles that of the Vale of Tirandelle (22.00).
- The Old City is part of the Undercity.
Hooks:
- Was it giants who lived here? What happened to them?
- What other settlements has Shuttered engulfed?