SHOT TOWERS.
ABANDONED MANUFACTORIES. Built to produce lead shot, the top floor has crucibles, ramps, and a grate, through which melted lead drips as uniform drops. They fall the height of the tower into a pool, where they cool into round balls. Many were built during the CRUSADES, and while some are still in operation, most are now defunct.
CURRENT OCCUPANT/S.
1 A grumpy elderly Aleph refuses to shut down his failing business.
2 A crew tries to repair their aerodyne that crashed into the tower.
3 A Patagon runs a bed and breakfast, making coleslaw in the pool.
4 A shotmaker’s ghost keeps on, even as its hands go through the lead.
5 A local militia, planning a coup, takes over shot production.
6 A gang of Oni-man bandits uses the old tower as a hideout.
7 The top floor of the graffiti-clad tower hides marked contraband.
8 A gun-mage experiments with dropping other metals, to little avail.
8 Cursed TREASURE on the top floor grows wall-coating stranglevine.
10 A blind fish-fiend from the UNDERDARK lays its brood in the pool.
LILLIPUTIAN ZONES.
MINIATURE ODDITIES. Prolonged, intense fires sometimes produce enough starlight-blocking ash to stunt animal growth. These areas, where infernos make dwarves of local fauna, are called lilliputian zones.
CAUSES AND AFFECTED POPULATIONS.
1 A mushroom-forest fire: its woodland critters.
2 A tall grass wildfire: the not-so-big-anymore cats who hunt there.
3 A volcanic eruption: the neighboring jungle’s dinosaurs.
4 A massive crop fire: local farm animals.
5 A volcano’s hot springs: its albino hippo population.
6 A radon explosion: the human population of an isolated town.
Thanks for reading, and happy gaming.
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