Disgustin' Junction
Disgustin' Junction
After trudging through the muck of the sewer for a few minutes, you find a point where several tunnels converge. There's a dark tunnel leading much deeper into the sewers, and there's a hole in the floor with a rusty ladder leading straight down.
There's also the ever present unending flow of filthy sewage, if that's what you're into.
| Take the tunnel |
You steel your nerves and descend into the darkened tunnel.
You come to a 3-way junction of sewer tunnels. They're identical, except for some strange-looking glyphs carved into the stone above each one. You have no idea what any of the glyphs mean, though, so you just head down a tunnel at random.
You head down a side tunnel, but your progress is blocked by a particularly beligerent C.H.U.M.
"Me Laroquette," grunts the C.H.U.M., who apparently managed to pick up some basic English somewhere. "Me Laroquette, you stranger. You pay. You pay tribute."
"What sort of tribute?" you ask.
"Jewel." he says. "Jewel made of this." He plunges his hand into the filthy water and pulls out some chunks of relatively solid refuse.
"Uh... okay," you say, "I'll come back if I run across any jewels made of sewage."
You head back the way you came.
You encounter a spot where a ladder passes through the tunnel from the ceiling to the floor. You notice some symbols scratched on the sewer wall near the ladder. You have no idea what any of the glyphs mean, though, so you head back the way you came.
As you proceed down a dark side tunnel, you pause at the sound of slurred singing. You cautiously approach the source of the sound, and find it to be an extremely drunk C. H. U. M., lurching back and forth as he staggers down the tunnel.
He notices you, and starts yelling at you incomprehensibly as he digs through your sack.
Apparently he doesn't find anything he wants, because he suddenly becomes enraged and starts wildly swinging punches at you. You manage to avoid getting hit, but you don't see any easy way to get past him, so you head back the way you came.
You reach a point in the tunnel where three ladders descend into the darkness. There's no way to tell them apart, but there are some strange glyphs scratched into the top run of each of the ladders. You have no idea what any of the glyphs mean, though, so you just pick a ladder at random and continue on your merry way.
Further into the sewer, you encounter a halfway-open grate with a crank on the opposite side. What luck -- looks like somebody else opened this grate from the other side!
You spend a few more minutes exploring the sewer on the other side of the grate before getting tired and heading back up into the basement.
You squeegee yourself off, feeling quite a bit more confident in your sewer-navigating abilities.
| Play in the water |
| Head down the ladder |
