From Big Andy: Some underworld questions:
Sure; I assume we're talking about Jakalla, here...
Roughly how many entrances are there? How well known are they? And how many would the average citizen of (Jakalla/whatever city) know about? Could they go oh sure go to blank and talk to so and so, they'll hook you up.
I know of about eight, and there are that many on the map that Phil did. Very few are known 'on the street', but the 'man on the street' assumes that most of the Temples - especially the Change ones - all have their own 'secret' entrances. And everybody knows that if you go to the necropolis, you can get in through the various entrances there. Yes, everybody assumes that if you go to the Tomb Police (formally, the Death Battalions of the Temple of Durritlamish) and make a gift to their Old Age Pension and Retirement Fund, they'll let you use any of the entrances in the necropolis. Otherwise, it's pretty widely held that going to a Change Temple, like Sarku or Durritlamish, and paying them will get you in - assuming, of course, that they know you. All of this is on the same order of 'sure knowledge' like in the Middle Ages, where we all knew dragons were real because my wife's second cousin's sister-in-law's uncle's nephew had a friend who got eaten by one. So it's all true.
Physically how big is Jakalla's Underworld? The city has like 45,000 citizens and we know roughly how big the city itself is. Seeing the pictures of it both gives a good indication of scale and a bad one at the same time if that makes any sense. I always assumed most were roughly the size and shape of the city above.
You know, I never sat down and counted the squares on Phil's huge map. It's 17" x 22", at ten squares to the inch, at ten foot to the square; so... 1,700' x 2,200' on the map itself, for about 3,740,000 square feet of underworld to explore. The actual underworld is more spread out then the map is; there are something like eight or nine 'sections' on the big map that he showed directly connected to each other, but which in 'real life' are separated from each other by additional tunnels and passageways - and these are also on somewhat differing levels, as well, so while there are only three map sheets, the Underworld has something like seven levels - grouped into three sets, with most of the levels / half levels on the big sheet.
All told, I guess that the whole thing is a good couple of miles on a side for the actual underworld areas, and that you could assume that the things spreads over a good five mile by five mile area. So, from what I know, your estimate is pretty much right on the money - it's about as big as the city. It may be shifted one way or the other, however; I've never really sat down and tried to match up the known entrances with the surface locations, but I think it's more or less centered on the necropolis area.
Does this help, any?
Originally Posted by Hrugga
. Well if he's not interested in the thread, then he doesn't have to read it does he? I'll never understand why some people have to poke their nose in, make f*****g stupid comments and try and stir the shit. I'm sure you know what they say about opinions.
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