Shedaklah
Shedaklah, also known as the Slime Pits, is a bubbling morass of oozing, fetid sludge situated between two sluggish branches of the River Styx. Here and there, a low hillock or fungal forest peaks up from the plain of caustic, unintelligent slime. An overcast sky of mud-brown and rotten green clouds casts the layer in pallid gloom. Every few hours, a pregnant cloud bursts, spilling torrential rains of polluted water. A thin film of cloying moisture covers everything on the layer. Strange life forms form, sometimes by the will of the demons who reside here, but sometimes spontaneously.
Shedaklah is the contested Abyssal domain of the demon lords Zuggtmoy, the Demon Queen of Fungi, and Juiblex, the Faceless Lord.
All manner of plant and fungal creatures dwell upon the surface of Shedaklah, paying honor to Zuggtmoy by means of the parasitic processes that keep them alive. Phantom fungi, myconids, shambling mounds, tendriculoses, and giant sundews - many fiendish or half-fiendish - abound on the layer, reveling in its unnaturally warm dampness. These faithful servants of the Fungi Queen seek out and destroy the few alien beings of organic ooze that emerge from the lightless depths of the layer, but in the deeper caves the slime creatures of Juiblex are so numerous that one must swim through them to make progress.
The listless souls of victims claimed by Zuggtmoy's cults on the Material World wander the surface of Shedaklah, numbly seeking shelter and hopelessly fishing for food that is too infested to ear. When these constantly starving, endlessly suffering playthings grow too sparse, the demon queen turns her attention once more to the mortal realm in an effort to increase the power and influence of her cult, bringing more and more lost souls to Shedaklah.
The Slime Pits
Juilblex's principal lair is known as the Slime Pits, the underground realm of the layer of Shedaklah. The part of Shedaklah is a bubbling morass of oozing, fetid sludge. Its landscape is covered in vast expanses of caustic and unintelligent slimes, and strange organic forms rise from the oceans of molds and oozes at Juiblex's command.The Forest of Poisoned Dreams
This vast forest of tree-sized toadstools and boulder-shaped fungal growths is the feeding ground for most of the layer's fiendish inhabitants, who constantly range about the poisoned stalks and spongy ground for the rare edible morsel. The most common source of provender comes from extraplanar explorers, who flock to the Forest of Poisoned Dreams because its fungal blooms boast some of the most phantasmagoric psychotropic plants known to the Great Wheel. Shedaklah attracts the addict and the enlightenment-seeker alike, and both come looking for the same thing - escape from the terrestrial world on the calming waves of a surrealistic poison-fueled spirit journey. Zuggtmoy's principal lair is her palace in the Forest of Poisoned Dreams, the aboveground realm of the layer of Shedaklah. It consists of two dozen mushrooms of pale yellow and rancid brown. These massive fungi are some of the largest in existence. They are surrounded by a field of acidic puffballs and poisonous vapors. The mushrooms themselves are all interconnected by bridges of shelf-fungi, and countless chambers have been hollowed out from within their rubbery, fibrous stalks.
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