#sergach

The walls of Gorodzuba were created in an early era of elevated magic, by stone-melder Duerrgar, not long after the initial dwarven immigration into Zhuttsgraad. The interior of the wall is its own complex of rooms, ventilation, utility and storage.

After widespread flooding in the area triggered the unveiling of the unreflecting mirror and its resonance with the waking elemental temples, the countryside of Sergach was ravaged, and led to refugees setting up camps within small towns outside the wall. As a result, entrances into the higher part of Gorodzuba were choked with these camps, with a hastily organized lottery system to determine who gets rations.

I was going to have a combat here, but I had a headache day off so I settled for a tense interrogation, and the interior of the wall citadel was left unexplored.

Using Foundry features it's possible to draw roofs on buildings. I had a hard time getting this to work, though.

Muskraag was the first elaborate map I made for Skies of Walltestia and it went unused. The players had multiple vectors for ending up here. Getting captured by the Prince in particular, would cause the players to wake up in the prison at the center of the facility. Additionally, if the players had followed a branch of the main quest, it would have led them here to extract stores of Anastasia's venom extract, so they could formulate an anti-dote.

Muskraag is a floating island chained to the continent of Zhuttsgraad via large chains. A chain lift is how supplies make their way to the island and the motor house for it can be found in the bottom right. The facility is powered by guzzle grit, which powers many of the industrialized airships.

The island features a guest room, a visitor area, a security checkpoint, an exercise area, a kitchen, a torture room, a barracks, a venomtorium (small closet for storing extracts of wyverns, for th purpose of making individual-specific antidotes) a small pen to contain cows (the preferred food of the wyverns), a number of voice tubes, alarm stations. See if you can spot them all!

This Forest Grove is where the players found an eye leech in the eye of a spear deer. Using speak with animals, they were able to get consent to remove the leech from the eye, and put it into a jar. Much of the local fauna in Zhuttsgraad and infiltrated with such parasitic additions, all a part of how the Zhuttskulak, the secret police, gather their info.

Used in a Valve style steam pipe puzzle on the cliff pump facility.

This map was a test of two different things, one is mechanical related to the map, and one is sitrep related. This map was a test of verticality, featuring walls with top/bottom heights, stairs that automatically adjust token height, and tiles placed at certain heights using Foundry's wall height module. The main thing this experiment convinced me is that it would be difficult to implement it at a larger scale: Maneuvering between different heights was awkward as the GM, and I was left with questions as to how I would keep track of situations with players on different layers. Also, it became clear that the art would need a new pass -- players didn't even realize the building was two stories. (Some sort of drop shadow would probably necessary)

Sitrep-wise, I think this map was a lot of fun. The players are woken up by an npc and told the secret police (the Zhuttskulak) are planning an ambush, and the best way to move would be to escape to the undercity using the well system. However, there are two wells on the map: the left well is more obscured, but the sight lines are a lot tighter. The right way is more straightforward and closer, but it's the obvious ambush direction. Being one step ahead of the Zhuttskulak means that they can have more resources and personnel than the players and still be out-manuvered as they are less flexible to change from their original strategy. And if the battle takes too long you can start depositing tallboys.

Another part of setting of this sitrep is making the players have a way of planning their route, even if they can't see the map. Therefore I had the npc who initiated the sitrep (Stasya) hand them a handdrawn map.

CW: instant telefragging of domestic animal

Gorodzuba is the town the players went to after their sojourn through the shattered archipelago. It is the home of the parents of Alcinia the lodestone merchant. It is also a place of strife: rapid industrialization has beckoned forth many of the hill giants that made the mountains their home; untrusted but necessary, their homes are restricted to the muddy districts near the dock, where the filth from sky whale processing chokes the streets, and the smell is inescapable. This industrialization was bankrolled by the struggling bourgeoisie, but they have yet to see significant returns; the products they make are licensed from Venercian merchants, who are unwilling to grant their entire process, leaving Zhuttsgraad with second order work -- forming of raw materials for basic purposes. It is Zhuttsgraad's center for tall boys, though they are already out of date compared to Venercian automechs. As indicated earlier, Gorodzuba is also a regional hub for nooceti processing.

Here's a version with out labels:

Here's a secondary view, showing the prototypes for some of the buildings/airships

This map took place as the pirate party left the Shattered Archipelago and were heading towards Gorodzuba. Upon this bridge, they met the shady merchant Alik Aliksvich, and nervously spent the night near him.