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Eilserus
Master of Realmslore
USA
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 Posted - 21 Jan 2012 : 04:06:11
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Hello scribes,
I was wondering if this has been posted anywhere, but do most cities have a sewer system in them? I know Waterdeep does and Zhentil Keep, but what about other cities?
What would the size of a town have to be before this is built?
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 21 Jan 2012 : 04:14:16
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Ed has said in the past that most of the larger cities tend to have some degree of city-sewers and the like. Suzail was one particularly notable instance.
He also stated that less-affluent city-districts in major locales without sewer systems often make use of ""honey wagons" (in that part of the Realms [Cormyr], they're known as "nightsoil carts") that take the chamberpot-emptyings of the less wealthy neighbourhoods out of the city to middens."
I would imagine that in towns or villages without sewer systems, similar "honey wagons" are used instead -- transporting the collected "business" of each town's inhabitants to surrounding middens [perhaps located far enough away to avoid contamination, disease, smell, or either dumped above ground and/or buried underneath].
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Edited by - The Sage on 21 Jan 2012 04:17:57 |
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Eilserus
Master of Realmslore
USA
1446 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jan 2012 : 04:51:04
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 21 Jan 2012 : 14:34:36
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Reminds me of a scene from Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail:
Character 1: "Look he's a king!"
Character 2: "How can you tell?"
Character 1: "Because he doesn't have sh%$ all over him!"
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