Was just thinking of ways to improve my citizens lives and I realized that a viable sewer system would be extremely useful. Problem is that all that waste has to go SOMEWHERE and I don't want to just pump it out back into the river. So I started to wonder if there was a way to get rid of all the organic matter (the bad stuff) and thought back to that Yahtzee book 'Jam' which got me to then think about possibly using GC's as a sewage system. My primary idea is to have all the waste flow towards a central 'pit' with a drain on the bottom, possibly with some sort of magical ward in place. All the waste goes in, things like poop get filtered out, and (relatively) clean water comes out the bottom. Find a way to clean out anything like bits of metal that accidentally make their way in and I got a cheap, effective, sewage system (and a bunch of happy and well-fed slimes... but that doesn't matter). Is this actually viable/realistic though? I can probably get my GM to allow a bit of homebrew/research to make the wards, but I need to know if this can actually work.
Well this is a fantasy setting so realistically in a fantasy setting anything will make sense, two try the spells already made in beyond like an instantaneous wall of force or glyph of warding.
I've seen gelatinous cubes used as sewer and other spaces sanitation services in games before. Don't know if I've seen it in a published adventure but it's entirely possible it was from a prior editon or third party. Anyway, it's an idea and how viable it is is ultimately up the DM.
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Was just thinking of ways to improve my citizens lives and I realized that a viable sewer system would be extremely useful. Problem is that all that waste has to go SOMEWHERE and I don't want to just pump it out back into the river. So I started to wonder if there was a way to get rid of all the organic matter (the bad stuff) and thought back to that Yahtzee book 'Jam' which got me to then think about possibly using GC's as a sewage system. My primary idea is to have all the waste flow towards a central 'pit' with a drain on the bottom, possibly with some sort of magical ward in place. All the waste goes in, things like poop get filtered out, and (relatively) clean water comes out the bottom. Find a way to clean out anything like bits of metal that accidentally make their way in and I got a cheap, effective, sewage system (and a bunch of happy and well-fed slimes... but that doesn't matter). Is this actually viable/realistic though? I can probably get my GM to allow a bit of homebrew/research to make the wards, but I need to know if this can actually work.
It can work. If you are trying to set an adventure out of it, have the local government privately contract the players to fix its sewer system. Before hand have rumors of locals gone missing, even one story where a wife found her husbands feet outside of the privy, just his feet. Have the Gelatinous cube spawning baby cubes eating people OR perhaps they are driving other sewer creatures out to eat the NPC's.
Was just thinking of ways to improve my citizens lives and I realized that a viable sewer system would be extremely useful. Problem is that all that waste has to go SOMEWHERE and I don't want to just pump it out back into the river. So I started to wonder if there was a way to get rid of all the organic matter (the bad stuff) and thought back to that Yahtzee book 'Jam' which got me to then think about possibly using GC's as a sewage system. My primary idea is to have all the waste flow towards a central 'pit' with a drain on the bottom, possibly with some sort of magical ward in place. All the waste goes in, things like poop get filtered out, and (relatively) clean water comes out the bottom. Find a way to clean out anything like bits of metal that accidentally make their way in and I got a cheap, effective, sewage system (and a bunch of happy and well-fed slimes... but that doesn't matter). Is this actually viable/realistic though? I can probably get my GM to allow a bit of homebrew/research to make the wards, but I need to know if this can actually work.
It can work. If you are trying to set an adventure out of it, have the local government privately contract the players to fix its sewer system. Before hand have rumors of locals gone missing, even one story where a wife found her husbands feet outside of the privy, just his feet. Have the Gelatinous cube spawning baby cubes eating people OR perhaps they are driving other sewer creatures out to eat the NPC's.
I am the local government in this case.
What about the slimes... byproduct? I assume the material doesn't just end up turning into nothingness, but what's the... slime refuse... and is it usable in any way?
Was just thinking of ways to improve my citizens lives and I realized that a viable sewer system would be extremely useful. Problem is that all that waste has to go SOMEWHERE and I don't want to just pump it out back into the river. So I started to wonder if there was a way to get rid of all the organic matter (the bad stuff) and thought back to that Yahtzee book 'Jam' which got me to then think about possibly using GC's as a sewage system. My primary idea is to have all the waste flow towards a central 'pit' with a drain on the bottom, possibly with some sort of magical ward in place. All the waste goes in, things like poop get filtered out, and (relatively) clean water comes out the bottom. Find a way to clean out anything like bits of metal that accidentally make their way in and I got a cheap, effective, sewage system (and a bunch of happy and well-fed slimes... but that doesn't matter). Is this actually viable/realistic though? I can probably get my GM to allow a bit of homebrew/research to make the wards, but I need to know if this can actually work.
It can work. If you are trying to set an adventure out of it, have the local government privately contract the players to fix its sewer system. Before hand have rumors of locals gone missing, even one story where a wife found her husbands feet outside of the privy, just his feet. Have the Gelatinous cube spawning baby cubes eating people OR perhaps they are driving other sewer creatures out to eat the NPC's.
I am the local government in this case.
What about the slimes... byproduct? I assume the material doesn't just end up turning into nothingness, but what's the... slime refuse... and is it usable in any way?
One thing I remember believe from colvile, there is this highly addictive spice on the market everyone likes it. It comes from a slime, his party never figured it out. There is a slime, probably a 3 or 3.5 that hunted by attacking the party, making them smell good to monsters and then fleeing. Its waiting for other monsters to kill them and it eats the scraps. You could put something like that in.
Just have the system go haywire and the party needs to fix it, however you want the fix to be. It could be just sprinkle this magic pixie dust to make the gelatinous cube to go back out of its reproductive cycle to eating.
In an old campaign of mine I had a city where the gelatinous cube just went through the sewers and all the citizens knew not to go in the sewers. Unfortunately the gelatinous cube grew too big to be able to move through the sewers so the local lord hired the PCs to destroy it because a new smaller one was being delivered. Once it was destroyed they were wandering through the sewers and found that without the gelatinous cube to clean up, some black pudding had moved in. That is my story about the last time my PCs went into the sewers.
I'm now picturing a variant Gelatinous Cube called the Gelatinous Tube that slides through the sewers like cranberry sauce out of a can.
Technically it would be a Gelatinous Cylinder, a Gelatinous Tube would just cling to the ends of the tubular tunnel and be hollow in the center, like a solid gelantinous slinky.
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If the ward is to keep it from leaving, you might not need it.
Although an ooze lacks the intelligence to ally itself with other creatures, others that understand an ooze’s need to feed might lure it into a location where it can be of use to them. Clever monsters keep oozes around to defend passageways or consume refuse. Likewise, an ooze can be enticed into a pit trap, where its captors feed it often enough to prevent it from coming after them. Crafty creatures place torches and flaming braziers in strategic areas to dissuade an ooze from leaving a particular tunnel or room.
so just some torches and a poor schmuck to tend them could do the trick.
Just wait until some well-meaning citizens get wind of it and protest the government enslavement of oozes. And some teenagers go down there on a dare and one of them gets eaten.
Otyughs were primarily omnivorous scavengers. They could consume almost all kinds of refuse and waste, such as carrion, offal, and many other things others would view as garbage. https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Otyugh
Because of their habits, otyughs were often viewed as a convenient means of garbage disposal by many intelligent creatures dwelling underground. They would dump their garbage and waste in otyugh lairs, which would, most of the time, not attack them. They were also employed as guardian creatures in sewers and other foul areas. For example, an amphibious otyugh was kept as a guardian for the sewer and river channel beneath the Temple of Mystra in Wheloon in the Year of Lightning Storms, 1374 DR. Instead of waste, it was fed regularly with fresh seafood: live shrimp, lobsters, and crabs. In 1357 DR, otyughs could occasionally be found in the sewers of Waterdeep.
I've seen gelatinous cubes used as sewer and other spaces sanitation services in games before. Don't know if I've seen it in a published adventure but it's entirely possible it was from a prior editon or third party. Anyway, it's an idea and how viable it is is ultimately up the DM.
Funnily enough, in the most recent Wild Beyond the Witchlight Adventure, there is a hag who needs the players to deal with a problem with her swamp-pool spa room due to the water being too fresh and clean because a gelatinous cube is living in the drain and eating all the muck as the water filters in.
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What about the slimes... byproduct? I assume the material doesn't just end up turning into nothingness, but what's the... slime refuse... and is it usable in any way?
Was just thinking of ways to improve my citizens lives and I realized that a viable sewer system would be extremely useful. Problem is that all that waste has to go SOMEWHERE and I don't want to just pump it out back into the river. So I started to wonder if there was a way to get rid of all the organic matter (the bad stuff) and thought back to that Yahtzee book 'Jam' which got me to then think about possibly using GC's as a sewage system. My primary idea is to have all the waste flow towards a central 'pit' with a drain on the bottom, possibly with some sort of magical ward in place. All the waste goes in, things like poop get filtered out, and (relatively) clean water comes out the bottom. Find a way to clean out anything like bits of metal that accidentally make their way in and I got a cheap, effective, sewage system (and a bunch of happy and well-fed slimes... but that doesn't matter). Is this actually viable/realistic though? I can probably get my GM to allow a bit of homebrew/research to make the wards, but I need to know if this can actually work.
Well this is a fantasy setting so realistically in a fantasy setting anything will make sense, two try the spells already made in beyond like an instantaneous wall of force or glyph of warding.
I've seen gelatinous cubes used as sewer and other spaces sanitation services in games before. Don't know if I've seen it in a published adventure but it's entirely possible it was from a prior editon or third party. Anyway, it's an idea and how viable it is is ultimately up the DM.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
It can work. If you are trying to set an adventure out of it, have the local government privately contract the players to fix its sewer system. Before hand have rumors of locals gone missing, even one story where a wife found her husbands feet outside of the privy, just his feet. Have the Gelatinous cube spawning baby cubes eating people OR perhaps they are driving other sewer creatures out to eat the NPC's.
I am the local government in this case.
What about the slimes... byproduct? I assume the material doesn't just end up turning into nothingness, but what's the... slime refuse... and is it usable in any way?
One thing I remember believe from colvile, there is this highly addictive spice on the market everyone likes it. It comes from a slime, his party never figured it out. There is a slime, probably a 3 or 3.5 that hunted by attacking the party, making them smell good to monsters and then fleeing. Its waiting for other monsters to kill them and it eats the scraps. You could put something like that in.
Just have the system go haywire and the party needs to fix it, however you want the fix to be. It could be just sprinkle this magic pixie dust to make the gelatinous cube to go back out of its reproductive cycle to eating.
In an old campaign of mine I had a city where the gelatinous cube just went through the sewers and all the citizens knew not to go in the sewers. Unfortunately the gelatinous cube grew too big to be able to move through the sewers so the local lord hired the PCs to destroy it because a new smaller one was being delivered. Once it was destroyed they were wandering through the sewers and found that without the gelatinous cube to clean up, some black pudding had moved in. That is my story about the last time my PCs went into the sewers.
I'm pretty sure the byproduct from a slime is more slime. They eat, they get big, they split into more slimes.
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I'm now picturing a variant Gelatinous Cube called the Gelatinous Tube that slides through the sewers like cranberry sauce out of a can.
Technically it would be a Gelatinous Cylinder, a Gelatinous Tube would just cling to the ends of the tubular tunnel and be hollow in the center, like a solid gelantinous slinky.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Yeah, but that doesn't rhyme.
If the ward is to keep it from leaving, you might not need it.
Although an ooze lacks the intelligence to ally itself with other creatures, others that understand an ooze’s need to feed might lure it into a location where it can be of use to them. Clever monsters keep oozes around to defend passageways or consume refuse. Likewise, an ooze can be enticed into a pit trap, where its captors feed it often enough to prevent it from coming after them. Crafty creatures place torches and flaming braziers in strategic areas to dissuade an ooze from leaving a particular tunnel or room.
so just some torches and a poor schmuck to tend them could do the trick.
Just wait until some well-meaning citizens get wind of it and protest the government enslavement of oozes. And some teenagers go down there on a dare and one of them gets eaten.
Where does it say that they're afraid of torches or whatever? It would be much cheaper for certain, but it needs to actually work in the first place.
Gelatinous Cube would work fine, so are Otyughs
Funnily enough, in the most recent Wild Beyond the Witchlight Adventure, there is a hag who needs the players to deal with a problem with her swamp-pool spa room due to the water being too fresh and clean because a gelatinous cube is living in the drain and eating all the muck as the water filters in.
Crafty creatures place torches and flaming braziers in strategic areas to dissuade an ooze from leaving a particular tunnel or room.
IIRC, slime refuse is just more slimes. [Vid about Gelatinous Cube Lore]
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Also this is a great idea and I love it, I'm going to definitely use it for my campaign(s).
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