Rat’s Nest Tavern#

  • Type: Ruined building / Ratling warren
  • Region: Scrag Lane, northwest Drakkenheim, outside the inner city walls
  • Status: Dangerous (ratling-controlled)

An abandoned tavern now almost entirely obliterated. The first-floor walls stand only chest-high; the roof and upper levels have collapsed into a rubble-filled crater fifteen feet wide and five feet deep. A painted sign still juts from the building across the street — a smiling obese rat lying on a plate of food.

A tunnel at the back of the crater descends into an extensive sewer and warren system below, lit by a faint ochrine (yellowish) glow from a large delerium node within. The building walls appear to breathe slightly, with eyes visible in the masonry from the corner of one’s eye. At least one creature animates or inhabits the stonework — a piece broke free revealing a mouth full of teeth and eyes in unexpected places.

The sewer warren beneath contains ratling-built barricades with sharpened logs, tripwire traps (acid pail on a pipe, spiked rolling log, spike pit), and at its deepest explored point, an inner sanctum housing a Rat God shrine: a large delerium crystal dressed as a demonic obese rat idol, surrounded by skull and bone offerings.

Petra Lang and other Hooded Lanterns are believed held somewhere in the warren.

Log

  • Session 1
  • Session 3
    • First visited. Exterior explored; party avoided a wall creature by entering a sewer grate.
    • Descended into the warren. Fought through the barricade room (killed Booger and most guards) and the inner sanctum (killed the ratling warlock and 8 conjured giant rats).
    • Found the delerium node (~2 lbs) used as the Rat God idol. Extraction began but was interrupted after ~15 minutes. Node remains in place.
    • No sign of Petra Lang in the explored sections. Warren extends further.
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