Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: ADMIN: Where the #*&^$ is Low City?
Message-ID: <1992Jul14.000553.26021@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1992 00:05:53 GMT

Yeah, we all know kinda where Low City is.  It's in the southwest, or lower
left, corner of Generica.

But how >big< is it?  I find it hard to believe that it takes up a whole
quarter of Generica, as it seems to on the map.

I would like to conclude that the Low City is not really as big as it looks on
the map.  But everyone wants to put everything there, and those little numbers
on the map take up space...so Low City expands.

Lately there's been a lot of stuff "Near the Docks" as well.  On the maps, near
the docks could be in Low City, and it's almost starting to bump together.
But Merchant's Hill, for example, is near the docks.  I doubt it'd be that
close to Low City.

It's like the Thieves' World phenomenon--ever notice how many more things ended
up being set in the Maze as time went on?  And the Maze stopped being low and
depraved enough, so they had to come up with Downwind...what's this fascination
with the low end of the city?  Hmmm?

[Sorry about that.  It just came out.]

Sorry to keep bothering you like this, but I'd like to get things straight
>now<, for the benefit of my eventual successors...

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