Lake of Shadows
So, you found yourself down by one of the many lakes of Fenfield- good for you! So, what will it be that gets you? Do you fall in and drown in the thick, contaminated, acidic waters at the bottom of the sinkholes? Is it the gooey, toxic sludge that forms around those pits and drags you down the slopes, slowly infecting your entire body and poisoning your very flesh? Or is it the poisonous gas bubbles that pop up from inside the holes and explode in your face, filling you with noxious gas that kills on sight? Perhaps it's the corrupted blight of the bramble roots that drag you down and bury you beneath the soil, absorbing you into the walls of the craters to add to its giant collection of corpses? Or maybe you'll be pierced by the looming flytrap branches of the trees above and hung like a wind chime on display over the pits? Maybe you'll just end up getting sucked dry in the blood and the brains by the giant mutant mosquitoes buzzing around like a swarm of bees?
Well, it doesn't matter too much to anybody. You're still one sorry sucker either way. Might as well be sorry for yourself now though, because when you go out in the Lake of Shadows, you disappear to the dark for good. And when you are, nobody will be able to remember that you even existed in the first place.
Geography
The Lake of Shadow is actually pretty close to the Ass-Fault Lake- only a half mile east of the much larger lake. As a matter of fact, the Lake of Shadows is actually relatively small compared to it- only a tenth of its much larger neighbor's size. The Lake itself is surrounded by rolling hills that roll down into sinkholes. The Lake has sunken down over the years into a much larger sinkhole than the rest. At the bottom of every sinkhole around the lake is a dark pit with toxic sludge, poisonous gas bubbles, and radioactive earth and stone. The small pits themselves can be anywhere from 50ft to 200ft down, but the main Lake itself is a 300ft drop to the bottom. The lake gets it's name because of the large holes and the difficulty for sun to get in to reach the bottom, where the polluted acid water sits deep in the pits.
Fauna & Flora
There is very little animal life here except for giant, mutated, brain-eating mosquitoes, but the plant life is worth noting. The mutations having taken place from the irradiated swamps and festering sinkholes has caused giant tangles of roots to grow nervous systems that allow them to rapidly spread and respond to nearby tactile sensations, usually seeing them as threats or sources of nutrients to be absorbed into the bramble. Meanwhile, branches that spread their canopies emulate the behavior of other trees in the region, piercing nearby trespassers and potential prey, lifting them into the air, and sucking the life out of them.
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