25EP
2EP-Large Tanning Bed
5EP-Barracks
4EP-Temple
5EP-Large Den Room
3EP-Den Complexes
2EP-Staircases*2
2EP-Connecting*4
1.5EP-Food Storage*5
0.5 Left (random Tunnel crossing the river?)
The legendary Issith Den Mother Zapha was forced out of Danas-te-Rah after she gained the traditional ten son-brood grew up. Forced down river, she decided not to fight one of the Lizardmen families west of Veskopes for land and room for her colony. Instead, she decided to expand beyond the humans of Toravorpes. After a highly publicized incident where she violated the No-Female rule at Nolkis-na-Taren, she nearly became the first victim of Ship-Wreak Falls, so captivated she was by the beauty of Zanomar Bay.
Safely on land, she founded the Issith village of Zapha-nav (naming it after herself). The common name of this village is lost to history.
Her brood quickly grew by the river, rising from ten to dozens, then to over a hundred. Zapha ruled like a typical Den Mother, ruthless, cunning, and strangely attractive.
When you enter Zapha-nav from the north side, you enter the center of the town, a Large Den Room. Large Den Rooms are great, slighty squashed and irregular sac-like caves, whose walls are covered with many “bunks”, where males slept in groups. The center is raised slighty, so the meager light falling through the entrance can shine on the Den Mother or her Guards Male if any of them wished to directly communicate with speeches or commands.
All along the walls of the Large Den Room are three storage pits, cut off from sight with clever bends and made both easily accessible for usage and restocking, as well as easily hidden if raised.
To the south east and west two connecting tunnels emerged. To the south west, a Den Complex forms. A Den Complex is much smaller and more compact than a Large Den Room., consisting of narrow, scattered halls lined with bunks forming a hand-shaped floorplan. Although it fits nearly as many as the Large Den Room, it is much more uncomfortable and diseases can easily proliferate. New and elder broods, their caretakers, wounded and sick tend to dwell in the Den Room along with favored workers while the rest made do with the Den Complex.. The Den Complex also held a food supply at the center of the room, to the southeast and opposite of the exit to the Den Room to the northwest. Another tunnel led westward.
Both tunnels lead to the Barracks. The center of the barracks is a large training hall where active Issith warriors sparred, drilled, practiced and planned. To the sides are Den Complex-like halls, except much shorter and more comfortable. At any given time, a third of the Issith Warriors are resting, a quarter preparing to rest or to leave, and a the rest on patrol or raid.
Behind the barracks is the Temple of the Den Mother, the scions of Zapha. There is a serpentine hall growing out of the tunnel, leading to the altars of the strange beings the Issith venerate and the throne of the Den Mother herself. There is also a private room behind the Temple, where a private food-storage held the best morsels of scavenged, raided, hunted, or gathered food. It also is where the Den Mother enacts procreation rituals with blessed (both ritually and physically) males, usually from nearby villages as mutually exchanged tribute, but sometimes among her own brood from desperation.
Leading up from this private room is a private tanning stone, polished to a high shine and hidden in a pit on the island at the center of the Toravorpes river. There, she, her chosen males, and her priests tan and admire the great mists rising off of Ship-Wreak falls. The rare times they manage to import coal from Danas-te-rah, the Queens sometimes invites all the appropriate males at the same time for an orgy. Usually, however, it is a much more intimate affair.
The other Issith, other than those blessed of course, barely know anything about this private luxury other than from rumors. They must rely on the river-bank stones outside of the main entrance during their breaks for their daily dose of solar energy.
And so life of Zapha-nev continued onward, the dens growing slighty larger each year, and more and more Princesses born each and every generation to be expulsed... until just before the reign of Den Mother Kalizahj, when a Sweich band under (Named by Player with most EP) set their greedy eyes on the great waterfall.
OOC: I'm guessing Eltain wants to draw this so I just wrote a semi-historical description.
The individual rooms can be marked Zpn-whatever. The Zpn district. :3
Anyway, the next turn will/should/might happen during a den-conflict between Kalizahj and another princess who refuses to leave after the old Den Mother, and so while they are busy fighting the Sweich ready their claws and dug in...
EDIT: The actual directions are unimportant and added merely to give a sense of... direction. The only sure thing is that the tanning bed is at the island at the center of the river, and the temple is directly under it.
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