The Pit



The pit is named after a pit that is in the center of town. The pit in the middle of town is 200 feet across, the walls made of stone with all sorts of runes carved into the edges, and it drops into blackness. There's a town built around it and it is somewhat of a mysterious thing on this planet, no one knows what how it got there, it's always been there. Rumors are that people first found this place camped around it because they thought it was an omen of sorts. A good bad omen or bad omen, is hard to say, but it's definitely something made by the gods.

People have been throwing things in it for generations without hearing the bottom. Brazen adventurers will climb down but never climb back up, or they'll climb down for a hundred and fifty feet until the Rope runs out and then climb back up. All sorts of things have been used to try and plumb the depths of the pit, and no one has ever found the bottom. Or at least no one's ever come back from finding the bottom.

The city is walled and there's a constant patrol of slaves in the city who sweep up the sand that blows over the walls every day, keeping the city very clean. The refuse is just dumped into the pit, some people have issue with this but it's actually one of the cleanest cities in the world. There are tall buildings made of stone, and most most of the smaller buildings are also made of stone, however there is some lumber every now and then.

Balrog Blacksteel ventured into the pit during the age of mist and became cursed with undeath. Balrog met other people who were also cursed in the pit a far distance down, but he did not venture deeper down the pit than this colony.

Spoilers In Shenanigans Episode 168 the gatekeeper to hell claimed to Kenneth the Cleric that "The Pit" in Solum leads "Back To The Gods". Show/Hide Spoiler