Hanging Gardens

The lush greenery of the gardens rise above the City like a great green mountain above a dusty plain, in tiers and columns and terraces. Its heights are watered by clever machinery which fills the pools and waterways with a constant flow, cascading from balcony to balcony. Invitees of the King linger and picnic in the exotic heights of the garden.

Hooks

Use the gardens as a means of entering the palace complex; meet or track a noble there, flee through the gardens while escaping some other caper.

People

Armenis the Chief Gardener (Engineer 5, Secrets of the City 4, Ill-Spent Youth 3, Greedy 1; 2 Chi).

Rashaka, the tiger rumored to roam the gardens at night (Mighty Tiger 5, Hunter’s Senses 4, Stalking 3, Fire! 1; 5 Chi).

Complications

Avoid notice by workers (Challenge 5), gain entry without passing the guards (Challenge 10), guard patrol (mooks 1/5, time limit 1 round or else they raise the alarm, which increases them to 2/15).

Color

Shaded green areas; trickling waterfalls and pools; the steady creaking of bucket chains and waterwheels and archimedes’ screws; private balconies; hushed conversation and laughter; mighty stone columns and walls; hoes, shovels, wheelbarrows, ladders, or pruning hooks laid aside by gardeners.

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