The Sewers

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The Sewers run under the whole city and are dimly lit, damp and wet. Due to the treacherous nature of the quicksands surrounding it, Torch City is built on huge pillars that go deep underground. The Sewers are a buffer between the first level of the city and the everflowing muddy waters that flow under it.

Dangers
The Sewers are huge and mostly unlit, with street-level entry points at every intersection. In theory, access is restricted to all but the Technomage engineers on maintenance duty, but the vast number of ... makes actually enforcing the rules quite impossible. As such, many citizens go underground, either as childhood dares, rites of passage or to look for elusive artefacts brought by the torrenting waters. Such intrepid adventurers are known as scavangers and illegally sell anything they find on The Black Market.

Scavangers
Some of the poor of Torch City, mired by the prospect of riches and glory, delve deep underground, looking for washed up artefacts or devices either floating or stuck in the metal gratings of The Sewers. This is a difficult and often suicidal attempt, with some scavangers ending up either drowned, shattered on the metal shores or torn apart by debris. The waters run fast and dangerous and the lack of lighting doesn't help.

Not all scavangers are voluntarily entering The Sewers, many of them doing so to escape money lenders or forced by The Black Market thugs.