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The Sewers of Sharn?

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#1
MrCelsius
Jan 12, 2010 2:42:55 I was contemplating some urban characters for an eventual Sharn campaign and decided I really liked the idea of a dwarven swarm druid living in the sewers. He'd generally fall into the 'homeless insane' demographic and be something of a cross between Foul Ole Ron and the Fisher King. I got all excited about it, then realized: Sharn is a city of towers. How the hell would its sewers work, anyway?

I don't think this is addressed in any of the books, so I call upon you, The Internet. How would a city of towers' sewer system work? Would it be like a regular sewer system, only with a lot more down-hill tunnels leading to cisterns at various levels, or are we looking at a lot of vertical poo shafts? The former works fine, the latter would make habitation rather difficult. If anyone has a third (or fourth, or etc) option, I'd love to hear it.
#2
Madfox11
Jan 12, 2010 3:40:08 Actually, it is somewhat addressed in the 3E campaign guide adventure. It is a mix of your two options. There is a sewer system with horizontal tubes. It is directly below the towers, merging somewhat with the lower levels. I always imagine this region to be like you see in SF movies and stories: a region filled with junk in which the poorest of the poor scrounge out a living from the junk falling down from the upper levels. The adventure mentions there to be a whole community living in and around the sewers. In the towers themselves though it is mostly vertical tubes. These tubes drain into these lower tunnels which likely lead to the Dagger or perhaps the Cogs (could way to burn waste). The 3E adventure contains an encounter were the PCs are fighting in the sewers right next to some of the drains which at irregular intervals sprout water into the sewers with an almost deadly force. I suspect that traversing these vertical tubes are going to be hard for most, but there are likely to be various entrances and ladders for maintainance, especially at the higher levels. Nobody would want a clog-up lead to breaking pipes and sewers flooding ones district ;)

In short, your idea for a character concept works fine. He is just a little bit further removed from the middle and upper classes than in a standard city ;)
#3
Sarlax
Jan 12, 2010 12:05:10 Sharn definitely has habitable sewers. They're described in Sharn on page 102. The garbage drops from the top towers down to Undersharn, where it works its way into the rivers, rots away, or gets eaten by things like gelatinous cubes.

There are a few organized groups down there, including the Grave Diggers, a band of dwarves. So you're all set!
#4
ReasonForTreason
Jan 13, 2010 18:47:32 Since my party is currently en route to Sharn, too and since I haven't made extensive use of the sewers in the past, I flipped through Dreaming Dark Pt.1, the Sharn 3.5 Sourcebook and also deviantart.com to come up with some images to display on the TV when they enter certain levels of the city.
Here's what I found for districts such as Highwall or Malleon's Gate:

farbenleere.deviantart.com/art/Sewer-Cit...

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 MrCelsius Jan 12, 2010 2:42:55	I was contemplating some urban characters for an eventual Sharn campaign and decided I really liked the idea of a dwarven swarm druid living in the sewers. He'd generally fall into the 'homeless insane' demographic and be something of a cross between Foul Ole Ron and the Fisher King. I got all excited about it, then realized: Sharn is a city of towers. How the hell would its sewers work, anyway? I don't think this is addressed in any of the books, so I call upon you, The Internet. How would a city of towers' sewer system work? Would it be like a regular sewer system, only with a lot more down-hill tunnels leading to cisterns at various levels, or are we looking at a lot of vertical poo shafts? The former works fine, the latter would make habitation rather difficult. If anyone has a third (or fourth, or etc) option, I'd love to hear it.
#2 Madfox11 Jan 12, 2010 3:40:08	Actually, it is somewhat addressed in the 3E campaign guide adventure. It is a mix of your two options. There is a sewer system with horizontal tubes. It is directly below the towers, merging somewhat with the lower levels. I always imagine this region to be like you see in SF movies and stories: a region filled with junk in which the poorest of the poor scrounge out a living from the junk falling down from the upper levels. The adventure mentions there to be a whole community living in and around the sewers. In the towers themselves though it is mostly vertical tubes. These tubes drain into these lower tunnels which likely lead to the Dagger or perhaps the Cogs (could way to burn waste). The 3E adventure contains an encounter were the PCs are fighting in the sewers right next to some of the drains which at irregular intervals sprout water into the sewers with an almost deadly force. I suspect that traversing these vertical tubes are going to be hard for most, but there are likely to be various entrances and ladders for maintainance, especially at the higher levels. Nobody would want a clog-up lead to breaking pipes and sewers flooding ones district ;) In short, your idea for a character concept works fine. He is just a little bit further removed from the middle and upper classes than in a standard city ;)
#3 Sarlax Jan 12, 2010 12:05:10	Sharn definitely has habitable sewers. They're described in Sharn on page 102. The garbage drops from the top towers down to Undersharn, where it works its way into the rivers, rots away, or gets eaten by things like gelatinous cubes. There are a few organized groups down there, including the Grave Diggers, a band of dwarves. So you're all set!
#4 ReasonForTreason Jan 13, 2010 18:47:32	Since my party is currently en route to Sharn, too and since I haven't made extensive use of the sewers in the past, I flipped through Dreaming Dark Pt.1, the Sharn 3.5 Sourcebook and also deviantart.com to come up with some images to display on the TV when they enter certain levels of the city. Here's what I found for districts such as Highwall or Malleon's Gate: farbenleere.deviantart.com/art/Sewer-Cit...