Place of Meerkats

At a high point in the marsh is a warren built into the bole of the largest tree in the country. It is a massive mangrove whose root structure has grown so dense and strong, it has continued to lift its offensively thick trunk nearly 20' in the air.

Deeper: The comb of the tree's rootball hosts the meerkats, and they are endemic within a square mile. It is their only home in Corrhéo, and it is forever besieged by outside interest.

• 2 - What's Due have begun to use the lowest branches to hang the unjust.
• 3 - A spiritual host, pilgrims [6d100] pray and drink, defecate, besiege, encamp around the tree. Among the host of penitent and harmless are [2d12] Clinchin Fold host-seekers who periodically cull the weakest for faraway masters.
• 4 - Insect life. Meerkats stand in defense of the root structure, as for miles the mangroves have been consumed by elliot weavers*
• 5 - The player, visitor. Every foot that touches down in the fragile ecosystem is a sin and younger meerkats will harangue players well in advance of a visit to the tree itself with rock, scat, and other meerkat logic.
• 6 - Actual cats. the meerkats being so small and warm has drawn predatory tribes of four-footers who hunt for sleeping meercats among the root structure during dusk hours
• 7 - The hissing gas coming up from underneath. The meerkats dig tunnels to vent it but there are always breakdowns in the mud-daub structures and the gas is choking the tree's mineral intake and output.
• 8 - Pierce Pushin, an overweight purveyor of cultural artifacts wants to cast the rootball in silver and make an art object of it. 1 on a d4 says he's onsite.
• 9 - As a prelude to their recongealing, the fire slime merge here in an effort to learn from the tree, but damage it meanwhile
• 10 - The historian golems have begun an initial foray into understanding the tree and its particular importance to Corrhéonic past and set up a squat watchtower of cement and canvas nearby. Meerkats are cautious and frustrated by the invasion
• 11 - The tree itself would be free of the meerkats
• 12 - The tree has begun to move

*a type of bilateral invertebrate that tops foliage and mulches greenery leaving bushlands looking like fields of stalagmites