Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25402021-20140927072258/@comment-192.200.149.130-20141005021824

The Underground:

Building on the Canon that Audnance left off: on the Base Plane, where all reality is anchored upon, the Mayor, Moses Brown, 62 years ago, in an attempt to cut corners to cut costs, dug into and flooded the Catacombs of Mycaelis, reasoning that if a bunch of useless tunnels where down there already, “there is no point in paying more tax money for all that shit.” He was only able to do this with his connections to the black markets and thriving underlife in Mycaelis, which allowed him to accrue massive funds in order to bypass the usually endemic deadlock between the political factions of Mycaelis. As a result, even before the fires that burned down the archives, a huge portion of the sewage system was in reality unknown. Additionally, the reports of vast underground cities below the catacombs and sewage system have some basis in reality: much like other ancient cities such as London, Paris, or Peking, there are myriad ancient ruins under Mycaelis (Note: In real life, when laborers dug out a stadium for the London Olympics, they unearthed a Roman settlement)—also, the original settlers of the city buried their dead in a massive underground cave system with it’s own complex ecosystem, which later, newer settlers then attached the Catacombs of Mycaelis to. When the Mayor flooded those catacombs, he also inadvertently flooded those ancient remains and destroyed huge amounts of the cave ecosystem and burying valuable archeological evidence, much to the consternation of the Archeological Department and Ecological departments of Mneuriske University, where one of my characters, an Intern named Isis, is currently a student, and is planning to lead an expedition to recover some ruins from the underground before it’s too late.

Still, the new subway system is pretty sweet. I wonder why there are so many security guards?

The “Old” section of the city is currently the closest to the main bulk of the sewage system, the skyscrapers of the Financial district being much too large to be on porous earth. Still, the sewage system leads everywhere, and theoretically, if one knew how to travel it, one could quite easily get anywhere in the city. Most people stick to the uppermost level of the sewers, and apparently, in the larger sections, there is a thriving black market.

(Note: For people who only will write about mundane things, these events all occur on the “Base Plane” level, where even the most egregious of supernatural acts have a completely mundane explanation. Below is a supernatural explanation which may or may not be true.)

Upon the Higher, Symbolic planes, this massive underground network has always and will always exist, and is referred to as the “Labrynth”, divided into seven great “Fathoms,” or levels. To these people, the revelation of the uppermost portion of the Labrynth was the final move of a three decades long struggle between the native, eyeless peoples that have lived in the upper caverns since time immemorial and the newer, so-called “Aristocracy of the Night,” or Vampyres, that have come with the modernizing and industrializing humans. The election of the the greatly corrupt and secular mayor was a massive triumph for the Lords of the Damned, and the destruction of the cannibal eyeless tribes have opened the way for the exploration of the this symbolically potent portion of the world. Previously, despite all the dark sorcery of the undead, they have been unable to crush the ghoulish, subhuman denizens of the deep, until now.

Soon, however, even the victorious undead will have to face the horrors in the underground.

Since the flushing of the first Fathom 62 years ago, a couple of urban legends:

At night, there is the sound of the heavy tread of thousands of metal boots, as if a massive army is on the march.

An old man on the subway screams that he has “seen white eyes staring out of the walls.”

A few years ago, a boy was taking a bath. His parents heard him scream, but by the time they broke open the door, there was only blood and gore coming from the drain.

A massive statue crushed a spelunker years ago. It was dated to be 2000 years old, and looks just like the dead man.

A woman was lost in the sewers many years ago. When she was found, she claimed she saw “thousands upon thousands of tombstones, each bearing the name of a man still living, as if in preparation.”

Theogonos is coming.

One Fathom has been opened. Six remain.What wonders or horrors will lie in the final, seventh Fathom?