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[hengest]

The Edge of the World

At the edge of the world, where it is always twilight, the ground grows flat and fades into a vast area of flat dirt, packed and lifeless.  As you proceed towards the night, the ground beneath your feet changes, and the dirt begins to be broken by lines and patches of glass, clear but with the texture of fairly smooth obsidian.  Many moons are reflected in these patches that grow ever larger until they finally join together in an unbroken but occasionally grooved crystalline field that holds but one moon.  Continuing to venture forward, you find after some time that this surface begins to yield and ripple. Its lone moon quakes without fear until the glass becomes wet like water and that moon is shattered into a thousand tiny lights again, not still now, but dancing as you begin to sink.

[The Semi-Retired Gamer]

I just stumbled onto this thread and I am blow away! Great job on all of the entries hengest and have an exalt!!

[hengest]

Oct 8, 2021 20:30:31 GMT -5 The Semi-Retired Gamer said:

I just stumbled onto this thread and I am blow away! Great job on all of the entries hengest and have an exalt!!

Hey, thanks for the feedback!  I really appreciate it.

[hengest]

The Crumbling Tower

The tower almost looks like a toy for a giant's child. It is simply not that high, perhaps twelve feet. The base of the tower looks like it was struck with some terrible weapon. Some of the stones are broken and you can see into the interior of the tower, or at least the lower chamber. There are many small smooth stones made of colored glass strewn about on the floor. 

[hengest]

Watergrass Valley

As you descend towards the floor of the valley, it appears to be covered with a kind of low-growing feathergrass that moves very mildly in the breeze. 

As it turns out, however, once you walk through it for more than a few feet, you are very likely to fall through it into water deeper than you are tall.  Where there is solid ground, the grass grows directly out of the ground. Where there is water, it grows directly out of the water with a very shallow set of roots that barely go beyond the surface.  

The "pattern" or arrangement of land grass and water-growing watergrass (which appear exactly the same) is up to the ref.  However, some general remarks may be made:

• standing in the water and feeling the "land" underwater, just below the land-grass, you feel strangely tough soil going downward. It gets harder as you feel deeper and deeper until it feels almost like polished stone six or seven feet down.  Beyond that...
• it is strangely difficult to see under the water, and not only because the watergrass blocks much of the light that would otherwise penetrate the surface
• the feathergrass, on land and water, on closer inspection, has tiny silver-white tufts at the tip of each blade. At your touch, the tufts break apart and fly away, but they do not do so even under a strong wind.
• once the water stops being actively disturbed, its layer of feathergrass rapidly recovers.

Almost no one is going to detect this before walking into it in reasonable still weather (ref's choice, may vary by setting and race). Very strong wind may make the watergrass move and ripple and give the game away to those who are paying attention.  

[hengest]

The Lovers' Wall

There is a section of the mortar-and-stone wall on the south side of two that is known as the Lovers' Wall.  Only a local knows the random marks that show where the Love Wall begins and ends.  They say that if a couple stands before the Lovers' Wall holding hands long enough, perhaps overnight, they will be marked in such a way that no one, not even they themselves, will stand in their way.  The details of this "marking" are not often mentioned.

[The Perilous Dreamer]

Nov 8, 2021 19:08:39 GMT -5 hengest said:

The Lovers' Wall

There is a section of the mortar-and-stone wall on the south side of two that is known as the Lovers' Wall.  Only a local knows the random marks that show where the Love Wall begins and ends.  They say that if a couple stands before the Lovers' Wall holding hands long enough, perhaps overnight, they will be marked in such a way that no one, not even they themselves, will stand in their way.  The details of this "marking" are not often mentioned.

Ooh, spooky, I like this a lot!