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12/02/08(Tue)22:45 No.3102781

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>>3102695

>What's with the Sadist guy? ...he's pretty unexplainable.

That's intentional. Torriq is by far the most unhinged, and his barely-contained insanity is never really explained. Nel Am Ro often comment on their own monstrous nature, remarking that "there are some things in this world that should not be borne". It's also possible he's just batshit insane and that's all there is to it.

To make it even creepier, through the course of his storytelling, it's implied he really did love the girl.



Anyway: After their narrow escape in the water tunnels, the party arrives at the Drowned City. Ages ago it was a prosperous place, but the underground is hedged on all sides with water (since it's below sea level), and that can lead to accidents. Legend holds that the underground began to flood when the wall to the ocean was breached, and the God of the Waterways was able to stem the tide of the torrents, but had to sacrifice the city to do so, and the torrent came so rapidly there was no time to react. Everyone in the city was drowned. Because he was the patron of the city, and the power of gods in this world are all basically empowered by their followers, the God died with the city.

So the party stands at the raised outer ridge of a massive flooded cavern. The tower of a chapel can be seen standing above the water line. The opposite bank has a tunnel that should lead right to the tomb. But if crossing a big, dark body of water was creepy already, crossing an even larger one with an ENTIRE CITY buried beneath the surface is even worse. Luckily, there's a rowboat at the dock of the ridge.



But of course, no sooner do two of the party members hop in the untied rowboat than it drifts out towards the middle of the lake, without oars. Already unnerved, they freak the fuck out when rotting, bloated, waterlogged and half-skeletal arms begin clawing up at the rowboat from the inky blackness of the water.