Into Languard’s Redolent Sewers (Patreon)

This week, in Dungeon Backdrop: Undercity Chapel by Bart Wynants, we descend into Languard’s sewers in search of certain answers to certain questions.

Undercity Chapel is available in 5e, OSR, Pathfinder 1 and Pathfinder 2 editions and is the second Dungeon Backdrop in the Sacred Blood storyline. You can download the Storyline document free from the Raging Swan Press store here.

About Undercity Chapel

Nameless things slither against your legs as you wade through the foetid waters of Languard’s sewers. The nauseating stench is thick enough to cut with a blade, causing your eyes to water and your stomach to heave. Even your torch-flame seems affected, flaring and sputtering wildly like a wet candle. There’s no turning back, however. The chittering, squeaking echoes drawing near herald the arrival of a writhing tide of vermin. Behind you, a thousand eyes full of amber malice glow like angry cinders in the dark. Holding aloft your flickering torch, you continue pushing against the sludge’s current in a desperate attempt to stay ahead of the ravening horde. Having reached a crumbling walkway, you hoist yourself up just before the wriggling tide of rats reaches you. A dark doorway looms ahead, and you swiftly duck inside, slamming the door shut behind you. It won’t hold them back forever; you’ve seen them gnaw through stronger doors before, but at least you’ve bought yourself some time. Your relief soon turns to horror as your torch suddenly flares up for the final time. “Sewer gas”. It’s all you can think before the deafening roar erupts inside the room, singing your lungs with blistering hot air...

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The Gameatory

This week on the Gameatory, my first game of Call of Cthulhu did not go well for the investigators, I reveal details of a certain blasphemous tome and I realise there is a book for that.

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Have an epic weekend, and remember: Everything is Better with Tentacles—particularly noisome sewers and subterranean temples.