Life of the Lees
Not only the Sunken live on the bottom. Read a Silt Ray, a Bubbleback, Murk Fry or a Silt Delver.
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The Lees
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The life of the bottom tells you where it is clean and where it is dangerous: Murk Fry leave a clean camp, the Bubbleback gives air, the Silt Ray silts. The fry swim in shoals through the depth as if through water: they glow with murk, gather where there is more of it and scatter from light. A Silt Ray lies in the Bedsilt with only its eyes showing; whoever steps close, it leaps at in an arc, and its barb silts.
The Bubbleback is big and peaceful: it grazes on the mire, eating Mire Threads, and breathes out bubbles — whoever stands in them can breathe even above the basins. It follows Clearwort held in hand. The Sunken hunt Bubblebacks.
A Ray Barb can be woven into a weapon by Confluence: two barbs and Silt on the plinths, Murk and Bane in the vessels. Sting — a hit brings Silting, and a hit on one already silted deepens it. Mire creatures are untouched by the Sting: silting heals them.
The Silt Delver, a big crayfish of the bottom, plows the Bedsilt with its claws and every few minutes turns up a find: a concentrate, a bone, an Antimony Flake, a Lees Shell, now and then Niello or a Flux Pebble; on the Still Bed, Still Grains. It never digs the same spot twice — follow it, and the finds are yours. It never attacks first, but touch it, and it pinches.