SQUEEZE
A
cave of cat-flap escapes.
A
normal passable cave with 2d6 exits. Every escape is a squeeze.
Shoulder-high
passage. Push a candle ahead of you. Trail one arm behind have one
ahead. Pressed in on every side by rock. No turning around. You kiss
the rock. Emerge with bleeding temples and crown from the close
touch. Each squeeze is d4 miles long
BLOCKAGE
Building
blocks. City blocks. Archeo-city foundation collapse.
Open
with the roar of wind, the noise and dust-cloud. An ancient city fell
five seconds ago and its foundation stones are in your way. To get
through dig the cracks. Whistling wind pipes indicate passage. Claw
the stone-soil, Ware the ebon glyphs. Past the 1st dig the
endless tilting roof is the flat foundation of cyclopean size, seen
from below. (Getting past is easy, worm like a rat below the blocks,
getting into the city above is months of work.)
VERTICAL
SQUEEZE (PIZZA CHEESE)
Two
cave linked only by vertical narrows.
The
1st cave curves like the first letter of your name, the 2nd
like the last. They are waist-bend-low. The only place to stand
are these irregular holes leaping up (or down) that can barely be
navigated. They are drawn out and thin like the cheese linking lifted
pizza bits just before the cheese-thread snaps. Some mid-point
lateral gaps.
METAMORPHIC
TUBE
A
train sized tube of altered stone.
Starts
wide and smooth, the end may
spindle out like a tree branch. Rock change tunnel spilling
from the blood splatter of a dead gigabeing. The flowing fingers of
its alteration intermixing on the walls in madly painted webs. The
bloodsplatter sprays every direction. Divine ichor melts the rock,
leaves bus-sized blood chunnels in a mighty web*. The god-corpse
sinks to slowly orbit the iron heart. Leaves scattered frags of
twisting tube. Spooky in there, dreams of a dying pulse.
*If
you found them all and mapped them en-mass, accounting for tectonic
time, you'd know what kind of weapon killed the god, and solve the
crime.
WALK
IN THE PARK
There
is nothing strange about this cave at all. Do not tell the players
this.
MAGNETIC
SPRING (CARBONIC ACID)
Violence
bleeds the air.
The
water crawls up fennite runnels iron rails and spikes. Like a milky
fizzy drink. It fucks your compass. when blades come out the water
springs alive and dances with the knives. Any miss with a metal
weapon catches, beads and pearls of water roll across the blade
shining like forgotten mercury. Each clash leaves misty furrows
curling in the air. The more you fight, the more you are coated with
the pearly viscous acidic slime.
ROCKLUNG
Lung-shaped
caves. Full of poison, gales, and fire.
Wind-heart
air valve with a rhythmic beat, may be made in ancient times to send
gusty flows about the underground. Climb around the jewelled alveoli.
Bronchial paths, air loops through. Numerous Oxide helictites with
Highly flammable pure O2 wscreaming through the tips. Azathoth pipes.
Don't light them or bring flame near. Can become a death-oven very
quickly. Other lung can suffocate you, you turn blue inside. They
switch. Leap back and forth to survive. May pulsate.
WAITOMO
WORMS
Cave
lit by glowing green predatory ceiling grubs
The
cave is clear and greenly lit. Wormlight hides the sticky fishing
strands. Dex test to move above slow speed. Fat green alien stars
winking. Strands will wrap you up. Drift invisibly around you, curl
you like stinging fog, slowing you and stuttering your limbs. If
caught they hoist you up. Fight and you may pull down a pile of
curled-cat sized angry glowing bugs wrapped around like biting fairy
lights.
DOG
JAWS
Tunnel
through a groaning micro-fault.
One
cake-cut of the earth moves counter-wise. Like waves crashing on
opposite tracks, converging tsunamis. The entry cave, like dogs jaws
fighting, locked together, gripping and growling from the broken
stones. Look through the 'teeth' and see a deep abyss. The exit like
the toilet roll tube unravelling, pulled from each end, spirals of
stone with nothing in-between. The faults may twitch and shatter as
you pass.
I don't know what I just read, but I'm feeling claustrophobic and a bit sticky
ReplyDeleteGoooood, good.
DeleteThe first one, SQUEEZE, sounds horrible.
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